Abandoned mines have their uses and their treasures. I would like the ability to get like an iron ingot for melting down the old minecart tracks found in the abandoned mines. I do not make or use minecarts very much if at all in my worlds. So letting them be melted down and recycled is like adding a whole new scavenging aspect to the gameplay.
I'm sure there are other parts of the strongholds and mines that can be done the same way. I want to be able to think "Oh! an abandoned mineshaft, that's a resource I can utilize for my farm/village!". Melt down iron bars, perhaps iron doors as well.
16 tracks = 1 iron bar.
Just because it takes 6 iron bars to make 16 tracks, you should lose some, if it's 1 bar per track, get 6 iron, you now have an infinite stack.
16 tracks = 1 iron bar.
Just because it takes 6 iron bars to make 16 tracks, you should lose some, if it's 1 bar per track, get 6 iron, you now have an infinite stack.
and so you see how little of track/cart knowledge I have despite playing for well over a year now ha. So this is why I want another use.
Yes, let Jeb and Notch worry about the conversion numbers, I just want an ability to melt them down
Since there is currently no way to smelt multiple items into a single item, how would you propose we do so?
A 1:1 ratio of smelted tracks:iron bars isn't right, so what would smelting one track do, exactly?
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Since there is currently no way to smelt multiple items into a single item, how would you propose we do so?
A 1:1 ratio of smelted tracks:iron bars isn't right, so what would smelting one track do, exactly?
What about smelting them down into "scrap metal". A stackable new item. Iron bars and other things could be smelted down into "scrap metal" too. Then 9 scrap metal in a crafting bench makes iron ore, like the normal sort you get by mining.
Then you can smelt that into iron.
Adding in the item costs of fuel, maybe its just enough resource waste to make it semi-useful but not a preferred way of getting iron.
What about other Iron items? Or items made from other metals. Would you be able to smelt down Iron Bars? 6 to make 4 on the return. That would be a lot of Iron to claim from a stronghold.
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I'm sure there are other parts of the strongholds and mines that can be done the same way. I want to be able to think "Oh! an abandoned mineshaft, that's a resource I can utilize for my farm/village!". Melt down iron bars, perhaps iron doors as well.
Just because it takes 6 iron bars to make 16 tracks, you should lose some, if it's 1 bar per track, get 6 iron, you now have an infinite stack.
and so you see how little of track/cart knowledge I have despite playing for well over a year now ha. So this is why I want another use.
Yes, let Jeb and Notch worry about the conversion numbers, I just want an ability to melt them down
A 1:1 ratio of smelted tracks:iron bars isn't right, so what would smelting one track do, exactly?
What about smelting them down into "scrap metal". A stackable new item. Iron bars and other things could be smelted down into "scrap metal" too. Then 9 scrap metal in a crafting bench makes iron ore, like the normal sort you get by mining.
Then you can smelt that into iron.
Adding in the item costs of fuel, maybe its just enough resource waste to make it semi-useful but not a preferred way of getting iron.
This means that crafting tracks and changing them back would yield exactly 4 out of your 6 original ingots; a 2:3 return ratio.
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