HomeLink Furnace 0.1.0

A parallel-smelting industrial furnace powered exclusively by HomeLink Energy: no fuel slot, no conversion. Heating, production and keeping warm consume HE from an internal buffer. A power cut pauses progress exactly and resumes it when energy returns.

Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge 21.1.252 Java 21 Requires HomeCore 1.14.0+ Requires HomeLink Energy JEI / REI: optional support
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Principle#

The industrial furnace runs several cooking recipes (smelting, cooking, drying) in parallel on a single block. Each tier raises the number of simultaneous jobs, the number of input slots, the processing speed and the energy buffer capacity. The server is authoritative over progress; the XP from finished recipes is collected by hand (HomeCore CONTROL permission): automation never takes the XP.

Tiers#

The three tiers of the industrial furnace.
TierStructureParallel jobsSpeedInput slotsHE buffer
Industrial Furnace I1×1×121.0×92,000 HE
Industrial Furnace II2×1×141.5×186,000 HE
Industrial Furnace III2×2×282.0×2716,000 HE

Energy#

The furnace stores only HE (HomeLink Energy): no fuel slot. A recipe's duration changes its energy cost, not the tier's speed. When stopped, the buffer recharges and the outputs stay accessible; a finished result waits if the output is full. Link the furnace to an Energy source (panels, turbines, hydro, batteries) via copper cable.

Recipes#

Every tier is crafted at the vanilla table. Each higher tier reuses the furnace from the previous tier.

Block icons: 3D render of their model, as in the inventory. Ingredients: real textures from the mod and Minecraft.

Iron
Copper
Iron
Control Module
Furnace
Circuit Board
Iron
Redstone
Iron
IIndustrial Furnace I
Industrial Furnace I×1
Gold
Microprocessor
Gold
Control Module
Industrial Furnace I
Communication Module
Iron
Copper
Iron
IIIndustrial Furnace II
Industrial Furnace II×1
Diamond
Control Module
Copper Block
Communication Module
Industrial Furnace II
Control Module
Iron Block
Netherite Ingot
Iron Block
IIIIndustrial Furnace III
Industrial Furnace III×1

Faces and automation#

FaceRole
TopInput for items to process.
BackOutput of results.
RightEnergy input (HE).

The input/output faces allow automation with hoppers or pipes. A redstone lock (Ignore / Signal required / No signal required) and an on/off button drive the heating. The furnace exposes itself as a HomeCore device: it appears in the Dashboard and binds to a HomeNetwork with the connector.

Gallery#

In-game captures. Click to enlarge.

Production GUI — Industrial Furnace III
Settings tab
Industrial Furnace III in-game

Source code and full documentation on GitHub →