Better Furnaces
Image for a moment, you have just spent the better part of an hour mining in the deepest recesses of the world you know. You return to the surface, to sort and smelt your various precious ores only to realize that like me, you despise opening furnaces. Now, a simpler way of life has arrived. Just hold that gold ore and beat your fist against the furnace. BLAM, it's now inside. Forgot to leave coal in? Smash that rock against the furnace too. BLAM, it's now inside as well. Any item that can be smelted or used as fuel can now be automatically inserted. Oh, but wait, the furnace is done and sitting idle? Strike it again to shake out any completed bars. You'll never open a furnace GUI again.
Features
- All functionality is based on clicking with different items
- Right click with smeltable or burnable items to automatically add to the furnace
- Left click to eject completed items to the ground
- Automatically ejects any output that will prevent smelting of a new item
- Optionally prevents mixing of subtypes, e.g. coal, saplings, logs
- Obeys vanilla maximum stack size limits
I recently decided to cut down on most of the complexity, as such protection is hardcoded in. If LWC/Lockette/etc is enabled, this will obey it. No config, works for anything you can smelt and ONLY coal/charcoal (no burning your jukebox by accident). No configs, no permissions. Works right out of the box.

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Posted Dec 1, 2011v1.4 is out. Get it on the github early.
Built against CB1540, nothing's changed so should also work with CB1337.
Configuration has changed to make the plugin more customizable and less dependent on updates from me for new item combos.
I wonder if a BetterBrewingStand is needed..
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Posted Sep 27, 2011@BlackPandemic Fixed in 1.3.1. Config above has the proper wording for it to be added.
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/better-furnaces/files/8-1-3-1/
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Posted Sep 26, 2011I haven't had any luck adding the new raw meats to the list of smeltables. Am I typing the wrong thing in or is there an issue with BF not recognizing Raw Beef, Raw Porkchop, and Raw Chicken?
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Posted Sep 24, 2011Downgraded the requirements to java1.6, since some people had issues.
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Posted Sep 24, 2011@Stealthii
Thanks stealthii. Updated the 1.2 download to reflect 1185 compatibility.
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Posted Sep 15, 2011Confirmed working on Craftbukkit 1.8 builds.
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Posted Sep 9, 2011Ive already added an enable everything perm node, just need to get the release out
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Posted Sep 9, 2011Joymo, why would you enable Better Furnaces in one world but not in another? Wouldn't that be confusing to the users?
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Posted Sep 9, 2011Request:
Either multi-world config to enable/disable per world, or a permission node (as that will allow for the same multi-world functionality)
Thanks!
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Posted Sep 3, 2011Github pull request is now up: https://github.com/daemitus/BetterFurnaces/pull/1
The modified version is running on my server and so far it seems to be bug free.
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Posted Sep 2, 2011@RedNifre Everything I use is daemitus. email, ingame, etc. shoot me an email at gmail Ive got configs in, messing with the way things drop was a pain in the ass and I skipped doing that. Hotswaps are in, log config is in. Im tempted to grab this library I saw and use that to just stick items directly into the inventory.
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Posted Sep 2, 2011Alright, I'll change quite a bit and set it up on a test server so you can have a look at it and decide weather or not you want to pull back the changes.
Do you use XMPP by any chance? I won't publish my contact details here, but if you send me an email with your contact details to daemitus.3.e102gamma@spamgourmet.com I'll get back to you. (This would be useful since we could discuss some changes without filling this comment section. Also, I could tell you instantly when the test server goes online.)
Is your minecraft name "daemitus" or something else?
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Posted Sep 1, 2011@RedNifre
Feel free to mess with it, Ill probably work on it some today myself
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Posted Sep 1, 2011I tried it and read the source code. Here's a list of changes I would like to make: - Make the furnace eject items out the front, instead of shooting it in a random direction - Swap items on left click if necessary - Tidy up the source code - New config: Don't display chat messages - New config: Burn logs to coal instead of charcoal
Would it be fine if I did that and issued a pull request on github? If so, I'll get to it in the next days when I have more time.
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Posted Aug 31, 2011@RedNifre
Ive been waiting for mod approval for about 31 hours now. Until then, files are hidden. Let me point you towards https://github.com/daemitus/BetterFurnaces/blob/master/dist/BetterFurnaces.jar?raw=true I can add some config files that you can edit to remove messages and such. As for charcoal? Not likely, I'm not modifying what happens when the furnace burns, only how it gets into the container. Hotswaps? I suppose I can add a config option for that. Ill warn you now, if you are using lockette, go read the end of the thread or get the version off of my git. I took over that project and am in the process of getting the new posts organized. (trapdoor protection now ;)
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Posted Aug 31, 2011Sounds nice, but where is the download link? Is it possible to turn of the chat messages? Is it possible that hitting the furnace with something swaps the items? E.g. if it already contains sand and I punch it with iron ore, the iron ore goes in the furnace and the sand pops out? Could you add an option to remove charcoal from the game? Make it so that burning logs creates regular coal? If you abandoned this plugin, can I take over and make the changes by myself?