Hi !

I wanted to mod the vanilla furnace a bit, but it seems, unlike its Crafting Table cousin, it doesn't got much attention from the other newbies, therefore not appearing on many threads and even less on standard places of Forge documentation.

 

Basically, there is no event that could allow me to do something when an item is placed in whatever furnace slot, or when it starts to smelt. An ItemSmelted event is triggered when everything is over but no in between.

 

A concrete example would be : I want to speed up the furnace by a 2x factor. Seems equals to dividing the burning "value" of fuels by 2 and divide the burning speed of to-be-cooked items by 2 too.

We could imagine other manipulations like that.

 

Well, I reviewed many events that seems impossible to me so there is probably something I completely missed. Can you help me ?

Interestingly, the furnace uses

TileEntityFurnace#func_174904_a

to determine the cook time of the item being smelted, but this always returns 200. It doesn't look like Forge provides any hooks for changing this value, but you may be able to file a suggestion in the Suggestions forum or a pull request on GitHub to implement a hook for it.

 

Forge does provide the

IFuelHandler

interface for determining fuel values (burn times), but this isn't used for vanilla fuels and the highest value returned by any fuel handler is always used.