Smelting Touch Mod FAQ

Smelting Touch is an enchantment with the same rarity as Silk Touch, so you can find it on enchanted books from loot, apply it at an enchanting table, or use an anvil to combine it with a tool. Once applied to any pickaxe, axe, shovel, or hoe, the tool will automatically smelt blocks when mined.

No, Smelting Touch and Silk Touch are mutually exclusive enchantments and cannot be applied to the same tool. You'll need to choose which enchantment better suits your current mining goal.

Smelting Touch works with ores (converting them directly to ingots), clay blocks (converting to bricks), and other blocks that have a smelting recipe. If a block doesn't have a furnace recipe, Smelting Touch won't affect it.

No, the entire point of Smelting Touch is to skip the furnace step—ores and other smeltable blocks are converted instantly as you mine them, so you don't need to carry fuel or visit a furnace.

Smelting Touch and Fortune can be applied to the same tool and work together—Fortune increases the number of items dropped, and Smelting Touch automatically smelts all of them.

No, Smelting Touch Mod is built for Fabric only, and the developer has stated they will not port it to Forge. If you use Forge, you'll need to find an alternative mod.

Smelting Touch does not consume extra durability—mining a block with Smelting Touch costs the same durability as mining it normally, regardless of whether the block is smelted.

Yes, Smelting Touch can be applied to any tool, including hoes and shovels. However, it will only have an effect when mining blocks that have smelting recipes.

You receive the experience drops from mining the block itself, but not the additional experience that would normally come from smelting in a furnace.

Yes, Smelting Touch works with deepslate ores and any other ore variant that has a smelting recipe, converting them directly to ingots when mined.