Flame, Fuel, Farm, and Forge
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A Minecraft mod that adds realism, challenge, and historical flavor.
Focuses on automation and resource processing through scientific and mechanical means, utilizing systems like electricity (RF/FE/etc), air pressure, or rotation.
Includes a large focus on traversing worlds with enhanced world generation, structures, dungeons, and more for players to find unique loot.
Features machines that produce and store energy or resources.
Fabric is a mod loader for versions 1.14+ of Minecraft, particularly popular for client side and optimization mods.
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Flame, Fuel, Farm & Forge (FFFF) is a lightweight realism-focused mod inspired by a coding class project. It began as an experiment to make torches burn out — and quickly grew into a full early-game progression overhaul, adding tin, bronze, lantern fueling, animal fat, accurate ore names, and more.
This mod is great for players who enjoy:
- Survival challenge
- Base-building
- Historical immersion
- Automation experiments
- Early-game resource progression
Torches Burn Out
Regular and copper torches now behave more realistically:
Torch Lifespans
- Regular Torch: ~1 Minecraft day
- Copper Torch: ~3 Minecraft days
When a torch burns out, it becomes a Burnt Torch:
- Mining a burnt torch drops ashes (nothing)
- Mining a torch before it burns out drops Kindling
- Kindling works as a low-grade furnace fuel
Torches Cause Fire Damage
Torches are now mildly dangerous:
- Walking through a torch’s hitbox can cause small fire damage
- Mobs take the same damage
- Hitting a creature with a torch ignites it — works for all torch types
- Regular torches can ignite flammable blocks they’re placed on
- Copper torches do not ignite blocks
- Anthracite (coal ore) is flammable — place carefully!
Smarter World-Gen Lighting
Village torches and other world-generated torches are replaced with:
- Copper Torches, or
- Lanterns (preferred when placement allows)
Copper torches from world-gen can still burn out naturally.
Animals Drop Fat
Some animals now drop Animal Fat, used for:
- Furnace fuel
- Lantern fuel
- Oil production
Lantern Fueling
Lanterns now require fuel:
- All Lanterns
- Have one internal fuel slot
- Holds 16 units of fuel (Oil or Animal Fat)
- 1 Animal Fat = 1 day of light
- 1 Bottle of Oil = 3 days of light
Bronze Hoppers are included:
- 3 slots (smaller capacity)
- Slower than iron hoppers
Copper Kettle
A new container similar to a cauldron, but:
- Max capacity 2
- Cannot hold hot liquids
- Accepts Animal Fat, Oil, or Water
Placed over heat → converts Animal Fat → Oil
Bonus:
- Composters now drip Oil whenever they produce bone meal. A Copper Kettle or Cauldron placed beneath catches the oil.
Ore items have been renamed for historical realism:
- Raw Copper → Malachite
- Coal → Anthracite
The functionality is exactly the same, they are just renamed.
Tin, Bronze & Early Tools
Adds Cassiterite Ore → Tin Ingots, craftable into nuggets and blocks.
Bronze
Combining tin + copper allows crafting:
- Bronze Tools
- Bronze Weapons
- Bronze Armor
- Bronze Blocks / Ingots / Nuggets
Copper equipment is disabled (historically inaccurate). Stone swords, pickaxes, and shovels are disabled (unrealistic tools).
Brass
We have added Sphalerite Ore, which can be smelted in a Blast Furnace into Zinc Ingots.
For now you can't do much with it, but we have massive plans for the Brass Age future. Think steampunk!
If you want to support this and further development, you can donate here.
Flame, Fuel, Farm & Forge (FFFF) is a lightweight realism-focused mod inspired by a coding class project. It began as an experiment to make torches burn out — and quickly grew into a full early-game progression overhaul, adding tin, bronze, lantern fueling, animal fat, accurate ore names, and more.
This mod is great for players who enjoy:
- Survival challenge
- Base-building
- Historical immersion
- Automation experiments
- Early-game resource progression
Torches Burn Out
Regular and copper torches now behave more realistically:
Torch Lifespans
- Regular Torch: ~1 Minecraft day
- Copper Torch: ~3 Minecraft days
When a torch burns out, it becomes a Burnt Torch:
- Mining a burnt torch drops ashes (nothing)
- Mining a torch before it burns out drops Kindling
- Kindling works as a low-grade furnace fuel
Torches Cause Fire Damage
Torches are now mildly dangerous:
- Walking through a torch’s hitbox can cause small fire damage
- Mobs take the same damage
- Hitting a creature with a torch ignites it — works for all torch types
- Regular torches can ignite flammable blocks they’re placed on
- Copper torches do not ignite blocks
- Anthracite (coal ore) is flammable — place carefully!
Smarter World-Gen Lighting
Village torches and other world-generated torches are replaced with:
- Copper Torches, or
- Lanterns (preferred when placement allows)
Copper torches from world-gen can still burn out naturally.
Animals Drop Fat
Some animals now drop Animal Fat, used for:
- Furnace fuel
- Lantern fuel
- Oil production
Lantern Fueling
Lanterns now require fuel:
- All Lanterns
- Have one internal fuel slot
- Holds 16 units of fuel (Oil or Animal Fat)
- 1 Animal Fat = 1 day of light
- 1 Bottle of Oil = 3 days of light
Bronze Hoppers are included:
- 3 slots (smaller capacity)
- Slower than iron hoppers
Copper Kettle
A new container similar to a cauldron, but:
- Max capacity 2
- Cannot hold hot liquids
- Accepts Animal Fat, Oil, or Water
Placed over heat → converts Animal Fat → Oil
Bonus:
- Composters now drip Oil whenever they produce bone meal. A Copper Kettle or Cauldron placed beneath catches the oil.
Ore items have been renamed for historical realism:
- Raw Copper → Malachite
- Coal → Anthracite
The functionality is exactly the same, they are just renamed.
Tin, Bronze & Early Tools
Adds Cassiterite Ore → Tin Ingots, craftable into nuggets and blocks.
Bronze
Combining tin + copper allows crafting:
- Bronze Tools
- Bronze Weapons
- Bronze Armor
- Bronze Blocks / Ingots / Nuggets
Copper equipment is disabled (historically inaccurate). Stone swords, pickaxes, and shovels are disabled (unrealistic tools).
Brass
We have added Sphalerite Ore, which can be smelted in a Blast Furnace into Zinc Ingots.
For now you can't do much with it, but we have massive plans for the Brass Age future. Think steampunk!
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WatchOutForForestFires.jpg Regular Torches will set flammable stuff on fire if left for a few seconds. You can start a forest fire this way. -
Sphalerite_Ore-AKA_ZincOre.jpg Sphalerite, AKA Zinc Ore, about to be mined by a Bronze Pickaxe. -
CopperKettleOverCampfire.jpg Copper Kettles can be placed over Campfires to render Animal Fat into Oil. -
ComposterOverCopperKettle.jpg When Composters drop Bone Meal they also drop Oil, which can be collected by a Copper Kettle (new) or a Cauldron. -
Cassiterite_Ore-AKA_TinOre.jpg Cassiterite, AKA Tin Ore, about to be mined with a Bronze Pickaxe. -
UsedOilBottlesPersist.png Bottles get dropped when emptied, and they persist until picked up. (This image shows over 9 days have elapsed.) -
LanternOutOfFuel.png Lanterns only provide light when they have fuel (Oil or Animal Fat). -
LanternInternalStorage.png Lanterns can hold fuel, up to 16 items. -
BurntOutTorch.png Torches burn out after a while. -
BronzeItems.png There are new bronze items, tools, weapons, armor.
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Lantern has dropped some empties Glass Bottles persist when dropped. This shows at least 9 days have passed since Oil lasts 3 days in a Lantern. -
Copper Kettle rendering Fat over a campfire A copper kettle (new item) is placed on top of a campfire, heating the contents of the kettle. The Animal Fat (new item, drop from some animals) is rendered into Oil (new item). Also seen is a Bronze Lantern (new item). -
Lantern Storage All Lanterns now require fuel to light up. They have one slot that can accept up to 16 items. Glass Bottles drop when their contents are used up, and the glass bottles persist. -
Sphalerite, AKA Zinc Ore Some Zinc Ore about to be mined by a Bronze Pickaxe. -
Pillager Outpost burning Interesting tactic: burn the pillager base. The chest is still there after it got burned (mostly) down. -
Firebugs rejoice! When you place a regular torch on something flammable, it will ignite quickly. Trees (and other things) will burn up. -
Cassiterite, AKA Tin Ore A look at tin ore, about to be mined with a bronze pickaxe. -
A Copper Kettle collecting Oil from a Composter When Composters eject Bone Meal they also drop a unit of Oil which can be collected in Cauldrons and Copper Kettles (new block). -
Torches burn out The closest torch is burnt out. -
New items and blocks - Bronze! Bronze, Brass, Zinc, and Tin nuggets/ingots/blocks are added. Also, Bronze tools, weapons, and armor are also added.
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