More Furnaces: Nomifactory Edition—Faster Smelting Without the Grind
If you have ever stood next to a vanilla furnace and wished smelting felt less like watching grass grow, More Furnaces: Nomifactory Edition is the kind of quality-of-life mod that quietly upgrades your whole early and mid game. It is a maintained continuation of Cubex2’s MoreFurnaces, now carried forward by the Nomifactory Development team. The pack is in the name, but the mod is not locked to Nomifactory—anyone who wants tiered furnaces, cleaner automation, and less time staring at progress arrows can drop it into a compatible setup.
Why This Mod Exists (and Why It Matters)
Vanilla smelting is simple on purpose: one input, one fuel, one output. That clarity is great for tutorials, yet modded Minecraft often throws ores, dusts, plates, and alloys at you in bulk. More Furnaces keeps the familiar furnace loop—crafting, fuel, and familiar UI expectations—but stretches it across multiple tiers so your base scales with your tech, not against your patience.
Because the project picks up where an older mod left off, you get bug fixes and compatibility-minded maintenance rather than hoping an abandoned file still plays nicely with modern versions and mod loaders. That matters when you are building long worlds where every block in your smeltery line needs to stay stable across updates.
The Furnace Ladder: From Iron to Netherrack
The heart of the mod is straightforward: new furnace blocks, each tier tuned to feel like a real upgrade. You will see familiar names on the progression path:
- Iron—a dependable first step up from stone, great when you are still organizing a starter base.
- Copper—handy when your world gen or modpack leans on copper as a core metal.
- Silver—a nice midpoint for players who like precious-metal flair without jumping straight to endgame speed.
- Gold—faster throughput for busier smelting corridors and early automation.
- Diamond—serious speed for players who are processing stacks, not singles.
- Obsidian—tough, high-tier smelting that feels like you invested real resources.
- Netherrack—a thematic Nether-flavored option that fits fiery builds and themed factory wings.
Across these tiers, the mod is not just reskinning a furnace. Higher tiers tend to feel faster and more efficient than vanilla, which is exactly what you want when recipes multiply and your ore doubling turns a mine trip into a backlog.
Slots, Throughput, and Parallel Smelting
Where More Furnaces really earns its place in a modded base is how it expands the mechanics around smelting. Instead of juggling a long hallway of single-slot furnaces, you can lean on furnaces that support multiple input and output slots, reducing hopper spaghetti and making filtered storage simpler to reason about. Some tiers push further into parallel processing, so you are not waiting on one recipe at a time when you have the fuel and inputs ready.
If you are planning a server base with friends, that kind of throughput also cuts down on laggy workarounds—fewer machines doing the same job usually means fewer ticking headaches, as long as your pack’s balance stays sane. Pair it with sensible fuel automation and you get a smelting core that scales like the rest of your mods expect.
Upgrades: Improve in Place Instead of Breaking Everything
Here is a small detail that saves a lot of frustration: the mod includes upgrades that let you improve a furnace in place instead of breaking the block and re-crafting it in the crafting grid. Nomifactory itself may not rely on that path, but for general play it is a huge QoL win when you mis-place a tier or when your resource flow changes and you want to bump a line without rebuilding floors and ducts.
When you are curating a personal instance, grabbing builds and keeping dependencies tidy is half the battle. If you like one-click workflows, this mod can be easily installed via the foxygame.net launcher—a convenient, flexible, and modern Minecraft launcher where you can download mods right from the menu—so you spend less time hunting files and more time placing blocks in the right biomes for your factory aesthetic.
Dependencies: CXLibrary and Version Notes
Modded versions move quickly, and dependency chains are easy to over-collect. As of 1.10.7.2, CXLibrary is no longer required for More Furnaces: Nomifactory Edition. If nothing else in your instance needs CXLibrary, you can remove it and keep your load order a little leaner—always double-check other mods first, because shared libraries often satisfy multiple projects at once.
Closing Thoughts
More Furnaces: Nomifactory Edition is a practical answer to a common modded problem: smelting is central, but vanilla furnaces do not always keep pace with complex recipes, doubled ores, and busy factories. With a clear tier ladder, extra slots, parallel processing on appropriate tiers, and in-place upgrades, it turns a basic mechanic into something you can scale. Whether you are building for Nomifactory or just want a polished furnace overhaul, it is an easy recommendation for players who value throughput, tidy automation, and fewer broken smelting lines when the next update shakes the mod list.