Better Smelting

Better Smelting

This mod improves firepit behavior when heating and smelting items. It also makes mined coal burn longer in coal piles.

Features

• Coal pile patch: Layer burn duration depends on item burn duration and burn temperature.
• Firepit patch:
  • Item stack heating is no longer slowed down when it reaches the melting temperature.
  • Contribution of item stack temperature above melting point towards smelting progress is no longer clamped to integer multiples of melting temperature (items smelt faster).
  • Cooking pot and crucible heating speed depends on items in the slots (configurable).
  • When adding items to cooking containers, the temperature is averaged between all slots instead of taking the lowest value.

Burning time comparison (real-time minutes)

Firepit (charcoal as fuel)

<pre>| Item | Vanilla (before 1.22) | Vanilla | Better Smelting | | -----------------: | --------------------: | -----------------: | -----------------: | | 1 flint | 01:03 | 01:03 | 01:01 | | 4 flints | 02:28 | 02:23 | 02:17 | | | Heating / Smelting | Heating / Smelting | Heating / Smelting | | 20 copper nuggets | 00:58 / 00:29 | 00:57 / 00:30 | 01:05 / 00:27 | | 200 copper nuggets | 01:01 / 04:56 | 00:58 / 05:00 | 02:01 / 04:17 | | 4 meat (pot) | 00:13 / 00:40 | 00:10 / 00:40 | 00:16 / 00:30 | | 24 meat (pot) | 00:13 / 04:00 | 00:10 / 04:00 | 00:34 / 03:00 |</pre>

Coal pile (full)

<pre>| Fuel type | Vanilla | BetterSmelting |
| ---------: | ------: | --------------: |
| Charcoal | 08:00 | 08:00 |
| Coke | 08:00 | 08:15 |
| Brown coal | 08:00 | 13:02 |
| Black coal | 08:00 | 15:30 |
| Anthracite | 08:00 | 36:12 |</pre> <pre>&nbsp;</pre>