Furnace Arrays / Auto-Smelters
Furnace Arrays
Furnace Arrays refer to smaller auto-smelters that typically handle less items.
These are useful if you do not have shulkers upon shulkers of items to smelt, and do not want to waste time building a larger smelter that you’ll only use once or twice.
RaysWorks Smart Furnace Array
This furnace array is extremely practical, it has a carpet duper included to provide fuel, and only fires the hopper minecarts when needed, instead of having them fire on repeat.
YouTube32 Furnace Array
This slightly larger furnace array is also extremely practical, it boasts an extremely user-friendly control interface and has a low prefill requirement.
The main downside to this furnace array is that it does not include a carpet duper to fuel the furnaces.
This is an isometric render of the Furnace Array.
32 Furnace Array.litematic
Super-Smelters
Super-smelters refer to large scale smelters, typically boasting 64+ furnaces, these are especially useful for players that have several Shulkers full of items to smelt.
Kuzumai’s 128 Furnace Super Smelter
This super-smelter is extremely user friendly, it includes a simple control interface, as well as two carpet dupers attached to the smelter that automatically turn on from the main control panel.
The super-smelter also includes instant shulker box unloaders, using lava to break the shulker boxes. The only downside to this is that the shulkers are burned in the process.
This design uses a chest minecart to collect all the items, that is then destroyed by a wither skull and recycled to repeat the process over and over again, filtering the items into a water stream that then get processed by a 6x Shulker loader.
YouTubeThe schematic for the farm can be found in the video description.
It is important to note, the player must add a chest minecart to the dispensers on each side of the smelters rail systems.
Fortun8diamond’s 300 Furnace Super Smelter
This super-smelter is relatively cheap considering it boasts rates of 115,000 items per hour.
The design has a neat user interface, and can be controlled all from one area.
The design also uses hopper minecart shulker unloaders, which do not burn the shulker boxes like in the previous design.
YouTubeThe schematic for the farm can be found in the video description.