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No Smelting Iron

Mod

Slow down progression on your server by making iron ingots unobtainable from smelting and crafting.

Type

Mod

Modrinth Downloads

35

Modrinth ID

HHGcJb6I

Last Updated

Jun 5, 2026

Description

Instructions:

To disable iron from being craftable:

  1. Put the datapack in your datapack folder
  2. Run the command /datapack enable "file/NoSmeltingIron.zip" as OP.
  3. Run the command /reload as OP.

To make iron craftable again:

  1. Run the command /datapack disable "file/NoSmeltingIron.zip" as OP.
  2. Run the command /reload as OP.

You have to manually add/remove the mod version to control iron being smelted.

Purpose:

The purpose of this data pack is for progression control.

Makes iron ingots (minecraft:iron_ingot) unobtainable from the following sources:

  • Smelting any kind of iron ore (Smelting never starts)
  • Crafting ingots from iron nuggets
  • Smelting existing iron tools and armour back into nuggets

This datapack does NOT:

  • Remove iron tools or ingots from structure loot pools
  • Remove iron tools or ingots from monster loot pools
  • Remove iron tools or ingots from world generation.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Datapack Fabric Forge Neoforge Quilt

Game Versions

1.21 1.21.1 1.21.2 1.21.3 1.21.4 1.21.5 1.21.6 1.21.7 1.21.8 1.21.9 +5 more

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