Flame, Fuel, Farm, and Forge

Flame, Fuel, Farm & Forge (FFFF) is a lightweight realism-focused mod inspired by a coding class project. It began as an experiment to make torches burn out — and quickly grew into a full early-game progression overhaul, adding tin, bronze, lantern fueling, animal fat, accurate ore names, and more.

This mod is great for players who enjoy:

• Survival challenge
• Base-building
• Historical immersion
• Automation experiments
• Early-game resource progression

Torches Burn Out

Regular and copper torches now behave more realistically:

Torch Lifespans

• Regular Torch: ~1 Minecraft day
• Copper Torch: ~3 Minecraft days

When a torch burns out, it becomes a Burnt Torch:

• Mining a burnt torch drops ashes (nothing)
• Mining a torch before it burns out drops Kindling
• Kindling works as a low-grade furnace fuel

Torches Cause Fire Damage

Torches are now mildly dangerous:

• Walking through a torch’s hitbox can cause small fire damage
• Mobs take the same damage
• Hitting a creature with a torch ignites it — works for all torch types
• Regular torches can ignite flammable blocks they’re placed on
• Copper torches do not ignite blocks
• Anthracite (coal ore) is flammable — place carefully!

Smarter World-Gen Lighting

Village torches and other world-generated torches are replaced with:

• Copper Torches, or
• Lanterns (preferred when placement allows)

Copper torches from world-gen can still burn out naturally.

Animals Drop Fat

Some animals now drop Animal Fat, used for:

• Furnace fuel
• Lantern fuel
• Oil production

Lantern Fueling

Lanterns now require fuel:

• All Lanterns
• Have one internal fuel slot
• Holds 16 units of fuel (Oil or Animal Fat)
• 1 Animal Fat = 1 day of light
• 1 Bottle of Oil = 3 days of light

Bronze Hoppers are included:

• 3 slots (smaller capacity)
• Slower than iron hoppers

Copper Kettle

A new container similar to a cauldron, but:

• Max capacity 2
• Cannot hold hot liquids
• Accepts Animal Fat, Oil, or Water

Placed over heat → converts Animal Fat → Oil

Bonus:

• Composters now drip Oil whenever they produce bone meal. A Copper Kettle or Cauldron placed beneath catches the oil.

Ore items have been renamed for historical realism:

• Raw Copper → Malachite
• Coal → Anthracite

The functionality is exactly the same, they are just renamed.

Tin, Bronze & Early Tools

Adds Cassiterite Ore → Tin Ingots, craftable into nuggets and blocks.

Bronze

Combining tin + copper allows crafting:

• Bronze Tools
• Bronze Weapons
• Bronze Armor
• Bronze Blocks / Ingots / Nuggets

Copper equipment is disabled (historically inaccurate).
Stone swords, pickaxes, and shovels are disabled (unrealistic tools).

Brass

We have added Sphalerite Ore, which can be smelted in a Blast Furnace into Zinc Ingots.

For now you can’t do much with it, but we have massive plans for the Brass Age future. Think steampunk!