Melting Recipe

🔥 Melting Recipe

Type: hephaestus:melting
Machines: Melter, Smeltery

Melts a single item into a fluid. Requires a fuel fluid in the tank below the melter, or inside the smeltery.

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JSON Structure

{
  "type": "hephaestus:melting",
  "ingredient": {
    "item": "minecraft:iron_ingot"
  },
  "result": {
    "id": "hephaestus:molten_iron",
    "amount": 144
  },
  "fuel": {
    "id": "minecraft:lava",
    "amount": 100
  },
  "temperature": 600,
  "time": 200
}

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Fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
ingredient	Ingredient	✅	The item to melt. Supports item, tag
result.id	string	✅	Fluid identifier (namespace:path)
result.amount	integer	✅	Amount of fluid produced in mB
fuel.id	string	✅	Fuel fluid identifier
fuel.amount	integer	✅	Fuel consumed per recipe
temperature	integer	✅	Minimum temperature required
time	integer	✅	Ticks to complete melting

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Using Tags

You can use item tags instead of specific items:

{
  "type": "hephaestus:melting",
  "ingredient": {
    "tag": "c:ingots/iron"
  },
  "result": {
    "id": "hephaestus:molten_iron",
    "amount": 144
  },
  "fuel": {
    "id": "minecraft:lava",
    "amount": 100
  },
  "temperature": 600,
  "time": 200
}

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Examples

Iron Ingot → Molten Iron

{
  "type": "hephaestus:melting",
  "ingredient": { "item": "minecraft:iron_ingot" },
  "result": { "id": "hephaestus:molten_iron", "amount": 144 },
  "fuel": { "id": "minecraft:lava", "amount": 100 },
  "temperature": 600,
  "time": 200
}

Blaze Rod → Molten Blaze (high temperature)

{
  "type": "hephaestus:melting",
  "ingredient": { "item": "minecraft:blaze_rod" },
  "result": { "id": "hephaestus:molten_blaze", "amount": 250 },
  "fuel": { "id": "hephaestus:molten_blaze", "amount": 50 },
  "temperature": 800,
  "time": 300
}

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Notes

• time is measured in ticks (20 ticks = 1 second)
• fuel.amount is consumed once when the recipe completes, not per tick
• The melter requires the fuel tank block directly below it
• Both the Melter and Smeltery use this recipe type

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