Mazu's Furnaces

Fire is something you earn. Start with a hole in the ground and work your way up a ladder of real kilns, each with its own limits, until you can melt netherite. Mazu’s Kilns stretches the path from your first cooked brick to your first netherite ingot across the whole game.

Pit Kiln
The oldest kiln there is: a pit dug in the ground and lined with packed earth, where a smouldering fire of twigs and straw chars wood and fires the first bricks and pottery.

Clay Kiln
A brick dome with a chimney. The draft feeds the fire and the thick walls hold the heat, enough to fire stone, glass and glazed ceramics. Fired too hot, the clay starts to crack.

Bloomery
A stone and clay stack where ore and charcoal burn together.

Iron Furnace
An iron-clad furnace with bellows forcing air into the fire. More air means more heat and faster smelting, and a refractory lining lets it run hotter still.

Nether Forge
Obsidian walls around a fire fed with what burns in the Nether. The only forge hot enough to fuse ancient scrap with gold into netherite.

Every kiln operates in a temperature range. It heats up while the fuel burns and cools down when the fire goes out. Each recipe needs a minimum temperature, and the hotter the kiln, the faster it works (up to twice as fast). Each fuel has its own ceiling:

No wiki needed. Every kiln has a Recipes tab that lists what it can make, what temperature it needs and which fuel it takes. Click a recipe to load the ingredients, or shift-click to fill a whole stack. A Heating tab shows the current temperature, how hot each fuel gets and how worn the kiln is.

The pace is slow on purpose, but you’re never left guessing: the next kiln always shows up in your recipe book once you have what it takes to build it.

A tree of 20 advancements guides you from your first pit to netherite, with a few secret ones along the way.

Temperatures can be shown in °C or °F.
Mazu's Kilns is the first mod of the Mazu's series.