How to Auto-Smelt Mined Ores Without Using Furnaces

Equipping Your Mining Gear

Skipping the furnace phase when gathering ores speeds up your gameplay significantly. To achieve this, you need the Pyrolysis enchantment. This enchantment can be applied to pickaxes, axes, and shovels. You can obtain it through the enchantment table, villager trades, or random loot found while exploring the world.

Pyrolysis has a maximum level of 1. When placed on a compatible mining tool, it automatically smelts any mined blocks the moment you break them, turning raw materials into their smelted drop forms instantly without needing a traditional furnace setup.

Important Enchantment Conflicts

Before you run off to enchant your favorite pickaxe, keep in mind that Pyrolysis is completely incompatible with certain other enchantments. Specifically, you cannot combine Pyrolysis with Fortune or Silk Touch on the same tool.

If you prefer getting multiple drops from ores using Fortune, or if you want to harvest intact blocks using Silk Touch, you should use a separate tool for those tasks. Reserve your Pyrolysis tool strictly for quick, immediate smelting runs when you want to save inventory space and time on processing raw ores.