About Better Furnaces & Chests
From ModrinthEnhance your world with tiered furnaces for lightning-fast smelting and massive tiered chests featuring a modern scrollable GUI with built-in sorting, stacking, and searching functionality. Fully configurable and performance-optimized.
🔥 Better Furnaces & Chests
Upgrade your survival experience with Better Furnaces & Chests! This mod introduces tiered storage and smelting solutions, allowing you to scale your production and organization as you progress through your world.
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Tiered Chests
Say goodbye to cluttered basements! Our custom chests offer massive storage in a single block space, featuring a smooth, scrollable GUI that handles even the largest inventories with ease.
- Iron Chest: 45 Slots (9x5)
- Gold Chest: 63 Slots (9x7)
- Diamond Chest: 81 Slots (9x9)
- Netherite Chest: 99 Slots (9x11)
Key Features:
- Scrollable Grid: View your items clearly with our modern inventory layout.
- Chest Animations: Fully animated lids for a premium feel.
- Custom Hardness: Balanced progression. Diamond chests require diamond tools!
Tiered Furnaces
Stop waiting for your ores to smelt! Our furnaces are designed for speed and efficiency.
- Copper Furnace: 1.25x Speed
- Iron Furnace: 2.0x Speed
- Gold Furnace: 3.0x Speed
- Diamond Furnace: 4.0x Speed
- Netherite Furnace: 8.0x Speed!
Key Features:
- Dynamic Lighting: furnaces emit light and particles only when active.
- Scalable Efficiency: Save time and fuel as you upgrade.
Performance Inventory Management
Managing a 99-slot chest shouldn't be a chore. We’ve added built-in tools to keep you organized:
- Sort: instantly organize your chest by item name or count.
- Stack: Merge scattered items into clean stacks.
- Transfer: Move your entire inventory into the chest with one click.
- Take: Empty the chest into your inventory in seconds.
- Search: Real-time filtering to find exactly what you need.
Advanced Filtering (v1.3.0)
Upgrade your automation with the new Filtering System (Available for Gold, Diamond, and Netherite tiers).
- Dual-Mode Filtering: Toggle between Input and Output filters.
- 3x3 Ghost Grid: Set filters without consuming items.
- Automation Ready: Hoppers and machines will respect your filter rules perfectly.
- Smart UI: Interactive panel with tooltips and real-time syncing.
Global Support
Play in your native language! Better Furnaces & Chests now supports 20 languages with fully localized tooltips and UI elements.
- Dynamic Tooltips: Upgrade kits now tell you exactly what they do in your language.
- Fully Localized UI: Every button and label in the filtering panel is translated.
Fully Configurable
Every server is different. Customize every aspect of the mod, including:
- Smelting speeds
- Inventory rows
- Block hardness
- Tool requirements (Axe/Pickaxe tiers)
- Furnace output multiplier
Found in:
v1.1.0
config/better-furnaces-and-chests.cfg.
v1.2.0+
serverconfig/better-furnaces-and-chests-server.cfg.
Made with ❤️ by BoboTweaks.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 2 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.11.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogPerformance
Makes the game or server run faster or lighter without changing how it plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Better Furnaces & Chests as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.21.11 and 1 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorBoboTweaks, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseMITFree
