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Minecraft: Java Edition
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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
| You mine | You get |
|---|---|
| Iron ore · Deepslate iron ore | Iron ingot |
| Gold ore · Deepslate gold ore | Gold ingot |
| Copper ore · Deepslate copper ore | Copper ingot |
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
- Put the
.zipintoworld/datapacks/ - Restart, or run
/reload
Singleplayer
- Put the
.zipinto your world folder underdatapacks/(or drag it onto the world-creation screen)
Safe to add and remove at any time. Removing it restores the vanilla drops immediately.
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.
| 1.18 – 1.19.4 | four downloads |
| 1.20 – 1.20.6 | four downloads |
| 1.21 – 1.21.11 | seven downloads |
| 26.1 – 26.4 | three downloads |
- 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:
| Plain pickaxe | gives the ingot, not the raw chunk |
| Silk Touch | still gives the ore block |
| Fortune III | still multiplies, and the amount is measured |
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.