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Minecraft 1.14
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Minecraft 1.21
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daenvil
Lvl 61 • High Grandmaster Creeper Hugger
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The download link above is only for Minecraft 1.21.9+, for older versions please check the table at the bottom of the page


Do you have tons of items that you will never use hanging around? This datapack adds smelting recipes (for the furnace and the blast furnace) to every item made of gold, iron, copper, diamond, or quartz (and the lodestone). Now you can recycle things you will not use for minerals. Here are the full lists:

Items smeltable to iron nuggets
  • Any rails made of iron
  • Blast furnace
  • Bucket
  • Chain
  • Compass and recovery compass
  • Crossbow
  • Flint and steel
  • Iron bars
  • Lanterns
  • Pistons
  • Shears
  • Shield
  • Smithing table
  • Stonecutter
  • Tripwire hook
  • Hanging signs
  • Saddles

Items smeltable to iron ingots
  • Anvil
  • Cauldron
  • Crafter
  • Hopper
  • Iron door and trapdoor
  • Iron pressure plate
  • Any minecart
  • Lodestone

Items smeltable to gold nuggets
  • Bell
  • Clock
  • Gold pressure plate
  • Powered Rail
  • Golden apple, carrot, and melon slice

Items smeltable to copper blocks
  • Any waxed or oxidized copper block

Items smeltable to copper ingots
  • Lightning rod
  • Any cut copper block, stair, or slab
  • Chiseled copper
  • Copper bulb
  • Copper chest
  • Copper doors and trapdoors
  • Copper golem statues
  • Copper grate

Items smeltable to copper nuggets
  • Copper bars
  • Copper chain
  • Copper lantern
  • Brush
  • Spyglass
  • Trial keys

Items smeltable to nether quartz
  • Daylight detector
  • Observer
  • Comparator

Items smeltable to diamonds
  • Jukebox
  • Enchanting table
  • Any smithing template


Supported Minecraft versions
Tested in
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1.21.9 or superior
1.21.9, 1.21.11, 26.1.1
Use the Download link on this page
1.21.7–1.21.8
1.21.7
1.21.5
1.21.5
1.21.2–1.21.4
1.21.3, 1.21.4
1.21–1.21.1
1.21
1.20.5–1.20.6
1.20.6
1.17–1.20.4
1.17.1, 1.19.4, 1.20.4
1.16.x
1.16.5
1.14–1.15.x
1.14.4, 1.15.2

14 Update Logs

v3.4 - for Minecraft 1.21.9+ : by daenvil 10/03/2025 12:52:38 pmOctober 3, 2025 @ 4:52 pm UTC

- Added smelting recipes for new copper items:
  - Copper bars / chains / lanterns -> 1 copper nugget
  - Copper chests / golem statues -> 1 copper ingot
- Spyglass, brush, and trial keys now smelt to 1 copper nugget instead of 1 ingot
- Iron pressure plates, doors, and trapdoors now smelt to 1 iron ingot instead of 1 nugget
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Uncooked_Ham
• 07/11/2025 8:04 am
He/Him • Level 17 : Journeyman Cat
how do you make the cool text on the thumbnail? i NEED this!!! also the datapack is very cool.
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daenvil
• 07/14/2025 8:25 am
• Level 61 : High Grandmaster Creeper Hugger
That's done using Blockbench. You can google "how to make minecraft titles blockbench" and you'll find a few tutorials :)
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Uncooked_Ham
• 07/14/2025 9:16 am
He/Him • Level 17 : Journeyman Cat
i found out from a yt video lol, but ty
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__WarLord_
• 07/02/2025 4:39 pm
• Level 1 : New Explorer
idea: Music Discs to resin clumb
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Finnodile
• 11/01/2024 10:00 pm
He/Him • Level 48 : Master Goblin Nerd
This is cool! If you combine it with a reusable vault datapack, you can get renewable diamonds!
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Sieglinde98
• 09/29/2024 9:00 am
They/Them • Level 1 : New Collective
You need to make arrows smeltable, I beg you.
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SirFluffyPuffs
• 05/02/2024 3:06 pm
• Level 11 : Journeyman Miner
how many are copper doors made of?
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ashevoy
• 07/31/2023 2:02 am
She/Her • Level 41 : Master Magical Girl
cut copper to copper blocks? wouldn't that just make it an infinite copper generator? since 1 copper block in a stonecutter turns into 4 cut copper. i think you might wanna fix that except if it's on purpose
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daenvil
• 01/02/2024 7:56 am
• Level 61 : High Grandmaster Creeper Hugger
(sorry for the late reply) you are right, I don't know why I did that lol. I'll fix it in the next version, thanks!
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Leandro0w0
• 06/11/2022 4:41 pm
• Level 1 : New Explorer
just a suggestion how about poisonous potatoes turn into potato
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