Recycle Chains, Rails, and Iron Bars

Recycling Decorative and Structural Iron

Beyond tools, this mod lets you smelt decorative and structural iron blocks back into resources. Chains, rails, and iron bars—items normally considered one-way crafts—can now be recovered.

Steps

1. Gather unwanted chains, rails, iron bars, or similar iron items from your builds

2. Place them into a furnace

3. Supply fuel and allow smelting to complete

4. Collect the nuggets or ingots produced

Practical Uses

This is especially useful when redesigning builds or removing old rail systems. Instead of losing all invested resources, you recover a portion back. The exact return depends on how many ingots were needed to craft the original item—items requiring more ingots yield ingots rather than just nuggets, making large-scale recycling economically sensible.