This fully configurable mod allows you to smelt whole blocks of raw metals into blocks of that metal. That makes smelting large quantities of raw ores much faster after you come back from a mining session.

 

Configuration

You can configure this mod directly in-game or edit the JSON file config/blastingraw.json in your profile folder. Please note that any changes will require restarting Minecraft to take effect.

cooking_time - How many ticks it takes to smelt a raw block in a Blast Furnace

raw_metal_list - List of raw blocks, their corresponding smelted variant and the exp you get from smelting them

works_in_furnace - Should recipes for smelting raw blocks in normal furnaces be generated with double the cooking time