Auto Smelter Datapack, Ores Drop Ingots Without a Furnace

Auto Smelter

Iron, gold and copper ore drop finished ingots the moment you mine them.

No furnace. No fuel. No standing around waiting for a stack of raw ore to cook while you could be doing something else.

What it does

That is the whole pack. Everything else in the game stays exactly as it is.

Your enchantments still work

This is the part cheap "auto smelt" packs get wrong.

• Fortune still multiplies the drop, exactly as it does in vanilla — Fortune III on iron gives you up to four ingots.
• Silk Touch still gives you the ore block, so you can keep collecting ores for decoration or move a vein somewhere else.
• Mining speed, tool durability and required tool tier are untouched.

The pack replaces the loot tables of six ore blocks and nothing else. It does not run a single command in the background, so it costs your server no performance at all.

Installation

Server

1. Put the .zip into world/datapacks/
2. Restart, or run /reload

Singleplayer

1. Put the .zip into your world folder under datapacks/ (or drag it onto the world-creation screen)

Safe to add and remove at any time. Removing it restores the vanilla drops immediately.

Datapack or mod file?

The data pack (.zip) works everywhere — vanilla, Paper, Spigot, Fabric, NeoForge — and covers Minecraft 1.18 to 26.4.

For Minecraft 26.3 there are also two mod files, if you would rather manage this like any other mod:

It is the same pack, without extra code. Put the file into mods/; remove it to get the vanilla drops back. Both files were run on a real 26.3 server of their own loader: all six ores give ingots, Silk Touch still gives the ore block, Fortune still gives more. As a control, the same server without the file drops raw ore.

Compatibility

Minecraft 1.18 all the way to 26.4 — 36 game versions.

Minecraft changed its data format 18 times across that range, so there is one download per format, not one file pretending to fit everything. Pick the one that matches your version; the version list tells you exactly which is which.

• Vanilla, Fabric, Paper, Spigot, Purpur, Folia, NeoForge — it is a datapack
• Server-side only. Players install nothing.
• Conflicts only with other packs that replace the same ore loot tables

Every download is tested, not assumed

Each file was loaded onto a real server of its own Minecraft version, and all three promises checked there individually:

Six ores × three checks × every version. A download only ships if all of them pass.

A note on the old version 1.0.0

If you downloaded this pack before September 2026, it did not work — and this release is the fix. That version is no longer listed.

The old version put its functions in a folder Minecraft stopped reading in 1.21, it called loot tables that were never included in the file, and its logic checked whether a player was standing inside an ore block, which never happens. Loading it on a test server produced Unknown function autosmelter:tick.

The rewrite uses loot tables, which is the correct way to do this. Every drop above is verified on a real server of every supported version — normal pickaxe, Fortune and Silk Touch each checked individually.

It also claimed to work on 1.20.2 through 1.20.4, which it never did. Those versions now have proper downloads.

Sorry to anyone who downloaded the old one.

FAQ

Does this work with modded ores? No — only the six vanilla ores. Modded ores keep their own drops.

Do I lose the XP from smelting? Vanilla iron, gold and copper ore give no XP when mined, and smelting XP is granted by the furnace. So there is nothing to lose here — but you do skip the furnace XP you would have got later.

Can I still get raw ore? Yes — mine with Silk Touch and you get the ore block, which you can smelt normally.