Smelting Sand In a Blast Furnace [FabricForgeNeoForge] for Minecraft

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In Minecraft, there are several types of furnaces: the regular furnace and the blast furnace. Most resources are smelted in a regular furnace, producing different types of materials. For example, early in survival mode, players often need to smelt iron ore into iron to craft their first proper armor. Later, players collect sand to smelt it into glass. Previously, you could only use a standard furnace for this, but now you can also use a blast furnace. In this guide, we will talk about a universal mod that adds this new mechanic to the game world.

The Smelting Sand in a Blast Furnace mod allows you to upgrade blast furnaces in Minecraft and smelt sand to obtain glass. Players will have an extra "incentive" to use blast furnaces: the process is significantly faster. Mojang originally designed blast furnaces only for smelting ores, making the process about twice as fast. With this mod, if you often work with sand, installing it is a must so you can use blast furnaces for that as well.

Once this mod is installed, you can use a blast furnace to process and smelt sand. In Minecraft, glass is used to craft bottles, in construction (at the very least, for making windows), and for many other purposes. This is why deserts on multiplayer servers often run out of sand quickly. To smelt sand faster, blast furnaces will be used. Players simply need to put sand into the furnace and receive glass as the output. The process is twice as fast as in regular Minecraft furnaces.

Now, any Minecraft player can install a blast furnace and use it not only for smelting ores but also for smelting sand. This makes it a universal tool, allowing you to obtain materials much faster. The mod creator has also made several similar mods that modify the standard mechanics of blast furnaces and allow smelting more types of blocks and materials, such as Smelt Clay & Terracotta in Blast Furnaces (for clay and terracotta) and Smelt All Stone Blocks in Blast Furnaces (for various building materials). As you can see, this greatly simplifies and speeds up the process without affecting vanilla survival gameplay.

The new functionality of the blast furnace will work in the game immediately after installing the mod, regardless of whether it was installed before or after world generation. You just need to put sand inside and wait for the result. No additional calculations are needed—blast furnaces officially smelt twice as fast, which is why they are used for ore smelting in the vanilla game. If you haven’t used a blast furnace in Minecraft yet, now is a great time to start, as the process is genuinely much faster. We've included some screenshots to show that this is indeed an accelerated furnace interface.

The mod developer has added a separate configuration file where you can list additional blocks to be processed into glass. If you have other mods installed that introduce similar materials that can be turned into glass, you can add them to the list so that blast furnaces recognize them. This means players will be able to smelt a variety of materials, whether they are vanilla blocks or from third-party mods. It's a very convenient system for Minecraft, allowing everything to be done in just a couple of clicks. No technical knowledge is required—just add the block names in English, whether they are from the vanilla game or mods.

In conclusion, as you can see, the Smelting Sand in a Blast Furnace mod is truly useful for processing sand in Minecraft. The process is twice as fast, and if you have limited space, you also save room by only needing one type of furnace (the blast furnace) instead of using both types. Additionally, blast furnaces are used by villagers to obtain the "Armorer" profession, so if you have NPCs in your base, they may take on this role. Let us know in the comments which type of furnace you use most often in vanilla Minecraft and which materials you typically smelt for construction or crafting!

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