ViOres

# ViOres - metallurgy, reimagined Furnaces don't do much around here anymore. Need an ingot? Go find a campfire and a cauldron. ViOres switches off vanilla smelting entirely and replaces it with its own system built around campfires and cauldrons. The furnace, blast furnace and smoker are all still in the game and still craftable, but they're furniture now: none of them have any smelting recipes left. Everything that used to go through a furnace goes through a campfire instead. ## How it actually works The core idea is that different campfire and cauldron combinations produce different results. Here are all five stations and exactly what you need to build for each one. **A plain campfire, no cauldron at all.** This handles everything that used to be a default furnace recipe: raw iron, raw copper, coal for charcoal, and so on. Drop the item into the campfire's cooking slot, wait, and you get the finished material. Nothing fancy here, the old furnace recipes just moved onto the campfire. **An empty cauldron on top of a lit campfire (either regular or soul works).** This is the basic station, used for Bronze and the Iron-Copper Composite. Place the cauldron directly above the campfire, keep the fire lit, drop your ingredients underneath, and after 10 seconds you'll get the finished alloy with a sound cue and some particles. **An empty cauldron over a lit regular campfire specifically.** This is how raw gold turns into gold ingots. A soul campfire won't trigger it. Gold specifically wants ordinary fire underneath. **An empty cauldron over a lit soul campfire.** A hotter station, used for Steel, Diamond, Amethyst Bronze, and Netherite Scrap. The only difference from the basic station is that the fire underneath has to be the blue soul variant, a regular campfire won't do. **A water-filled cauldron over a lit soul campfire.** This is the "chemical" station, meant for things that need boiling water rather than raw heat: Carbon, Brilliant, and Gilded Steel. Fill the cauldron with water before dropping anything in. **An empty cauldron placed directly above lava, no campfire involved.** The final, industrial-scale station. You need a cauldron sitting right above a lava source or block, and this is where the heaviest Titanium components go in. The process itself is the same everywhere: drop your items in, wait 10 seconds, collect the result, and get back anything extra you dropped in by mistake. Nothing just disappears, which is nice if you miscount your materials. ## The alloy system There are nine new alloys in ViOres, and they're arranged as a real progression rather than a random pile of options. At the bottom sits **Bronze** (copper and iron), a solid early upgrade with Sharpness II and Efficiency II on its tools and 2000 durability. Right alongside it is the **Iron-Copper Composite**, made from Bronze and Steel, which gives a full armor set Fire Resistance and sets its tools on fire on hit. The mid-tier is where things get interesting. **Steel** (coal and iron) is built on diamond armor visually reskinned to look like netherite, and it hits hard, but wearing a full set comes at a price: Mining Fatigue, Slowness II, and Weakness, a deliberate power-for-drawback trade. **Diamond** gives you a second route to diamond-tier gear through a Diamond Shard and amethyst, and **Amethyst Bronze** is a flashier take on regular Bronze. Above that are the specialty alloys. **Carbon** is the only edible alloy in the game, made from charcoal and resin. **Gilded Steel** turns golden armor into something actually worth wearing, a full set grants Hero of the Village. **Brilliant**, made from diamond and gold, gives full fall damage immunity across its whole armor set. And at the very top is **Titanium**, the final alloy, built from the Composite, Netherite Scrap, and a couple of rarer components. 7000 durability, and just one piece of Titanium armor, not even the full set, already cancels fall damage entirely. Every alloy comes with a complete tool and armor lineup: pickaxe, axe, shovel, hoe, sword, spear, and four armor pieces, each with its own durability numbers, built-in enchantments, and set-bonus effects. This isn't a coat of paint over vanilla gear, it's nine genuinely distinct equipment progressions. ## Beyond the alloys Diamond ore now drops a Diamond Shard instead of a regular diamond, so even mining diamonds routes through the new system. The Drill runs Haste 256 and chews through stone instantly. The Reinforced Shield, Coal Stick, Titanium Elytra, and Titanium Skeleton are all standalone unique items with their own recipes and their own niche uses. There are nine custom advancements with genuinely funny names, things like "Why is he so handsome?" or "Yum-yum!", and all of them are set to stay quiet: no toast popups, no chat announcements. That quietness runs through the whole pack, really, no beacon activation sounds, no purple particle storms, the feedback you get is deliberately restrained. --- -