Machine 07 / Furnaces
Iron Furnace
Iron Furnace processes every registered Better Smelters furnace recipe at 2× speed while using 100% of the baseline fuel per unit of work.
TierIronPrimary resourceSolid fuel
Technical reference
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Block Details
Minecraft block properties, mining requirements and applicable categories.
- Breaking time
- 1 s
- Required tool
- Pickaxe
MachineTechnologyFurnaces
Machine Specifications
Capacity, operating values, interfaces and machine-specific limits.
- Production type
- Item
- Input
- One registered smelting input and one supported solid fuel
- Output
- One smelted item per input, except Nether Star Furnace stack batches
- Processing speed
- 2×
- Nominal cycle
- 40 ticks · 2 s
- Fuel use
- 100% of baseline
- Coal-equivalent yield
- 8 items per coal-equivalent
- Inventory
- 1 fuel slot · 1 input slot · 1 output slot
- Automated fuel
- Pulled from the top; fuel slot is also exposed below
- Automated items
- Input from the right side and output to the left side, relative to the furnace front
- Fuel input
- Top or bottom
- Item input
- Horizontal input sides; automatic pull uses the right side
- Item output
- All exposed output sides; automatic push uses the left side
