Like, you'd expect such a thing to be also able to smelt sand but no, why is that? Mojang can you please add the option for sand (and possibly other stuff) to be smeltable in a blast furnace?
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I believe this is done because they didn't want to remove all functionality from regular furnaces because then they wouldn't get used other than to craft the advanced Furnaces. Although I could see adding Sand to Blast Furnaces and keeping the basic Stone smelting in regular Furnaces. So I'll say half support. I wouldn't hate if it was moved over but it doesn't bother me keeping it as is.
Also to answer the other question a little bit more accurately, we used to be owned by Twitch, which is why we required a Twitch account for the site (the idea being to use a single login across any site owned by Twitch). However we are no longer owned by Twitch, we are now owned by Magic Find. I do not know if we are planning on moving away from requiring Twitch accounts, that kind of decision is way above my position. But if we are, that kind of thing takes a lot of time to do.
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Personally I think the best way to solve this issue would be to rename the Furnace into the Kiln. The Kiln would smelt Clay, Cobble, Sand and other "stone-like" items as fast as the Blast Furnace or Smoker smoke their respective items, in addition to being useful as a rudimentary food and metal cooker. (Alternatively, remove food-smelting abilities from the Kiln because of the existence of the Bonfire.) This would make Furnaces useful endgame while also allowing you to smelt large quantities of sand and cobble quickly.
(The reason it would be renamed into the Kiln is because... sand, clay and stone are often smelted in kilns, albeit when something like limestone is cooked in a kiln, it's actually done to create lime. This would make it somewhat easier for players to pick up on what the Kiln smelts best.)
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Support. While I initially supported a supplementary kiln along C1ff's lines, I now think that the blast furnace should cover said roles. (This inlcuudes smelting stone, sand, clay, netherrack, and recycling iron/gold equipment.
Support. While I initially supported a supplementary kiln along C1ff's lines, I now think that the blast furnace should cover said roles. (This inlcuudes smelting stone, sand, clay, netherrack, and recycling iron/gold equipment.
Before your comment, i didn't know you could recycle equipment. I feel kind of stupid, having played for 5 years and not knowing this.. kind of like how i just learned Fortune works on crops. So thanks. Now i have a use for the 5 full chests of iron armor and tools I've got from leveling up villagers.
They added blast furnaces for ores only for a reason. They made the time faster, but lowered the experience. Regular blocks usually don't give much experience, so this would be an unbalanced suggestion. I don't really think there is a very good way to get around the unbalance of this.
No support.
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I don't even play Minecraft much anymore yet here I am on the Minecraft forums for some reason...
They added blast furnaces for ores only for a reason. They made the time faster, but lowered the experience. Regular blocks usually don't give much experience, so this would be an unbalanced suggestion. I don't really think there is a very good way to get around the unbalance of this.
No support.
So you get less experience for using a blast furnace?
They added blast furnaces for ores only for a reason. They made the time faster, but lowered the experience. Regular blocks usually don't give much experience, so this would be an unbalanced suggestion. I don't really think there is a very good way to get around the unbalance of this.
No support.
What exactly is the balance problem here? That you'll earn less experience from smelting the same amount of sand, just in a faster period of time?
The Minecraft Wiki seems to say nothing about blast furnaces having XP loss, but a quick Google search shows other users saying that the blast furnace gives only half of the XP while cooking twice as fast. This seems balanced enough, you're getting the same amount of XP/unit of time, vs XP/unit smelted. (Personally though I don't see why it'd be so bad if it still rewarded the same amount of XP, unless this is what you want?)
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Like, you'd expect such a thing to be also able to smelt sand but no, why is that? Mojang can you please add the option for sand (and possibly other stuff) to be smeltable in a blast furnace?
Ps. Why does minecraftforums need me to register with my twitch
That would be a good idea!
Full Support.
Also, Twitch owns Minecraft Forum and that's why you need a Twitch account to log in here.
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I believe this is done because they didn't want to remove all functionality from regular furnaces because then they wouldn't get used other than to craft the advanced Furnaces. Although I could see adding Sand to Blast Furnaces and keeping the basic Stone smelting in regular Furnaces. So I'll say half support. I wouldn't hate if it was moved over but it doesn't bother me keeping it as is.
Also to answer the other question a little bit more accurately, we used to be owned by Twitch, which is why we required a Twitch account for the site (the idea being to use a single login across any site owned by Twitch). However we are no longer owned by Twitch, we are now owned by Magic Find. I do not know if we are planning on moving away from requiring Twitch accounts, that kind of decision is way above my position. But if we are, that kind of thing takes a lot of time to do.
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Personally I think the best way to solve this issue would be to rename the Furnace into the Kiln. The Kiln would smelt Clay, Cobble, Sand and other "stone-like" items as fast as the Blast Furnace or Smoker smoke their respective items, in addition to being useful as a rudimentary food and metal cooker. (Alternatively, remove food-smelting abilities from the Kiln because of the existence of the Bonfire.) This would make Furnaces useful endgame while also allowing you to smelt large quantities of sand and cobble quickly.
(The reason it would be renamed into the Kiln is because... sand, clay and stone are often smelted in kilns, albeit when something like limestone is cooked in a kiln, it's actually done to create lime. This would make it somewhat easier for players to pick up on what the Kiln smelts best.)
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I'm very alone in my Minecraft worlds as I don't have a very good internet connection to run a server. If you're like me, you might be interested in my Posse mod suggestion.
Support. While I initially supported a supplementary kiln along C1ff's lines, I now think that the blast furnace should cover said roles. (This inlcuudes smelting stone, sand, clay, netherrack, and recycling iron/gold equipment.
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Before your comment, i didn't know you could recycle equipment. I feel kind of stupid, having played for 5 years and not knowing this.. kind of like how i just learned Fortune works on crops. So thanks. Now i have a use for the 5 full chests of iron armor and tools I've got from leveling up villagers.
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They added blast furnaces for ores only for a reason. They made the time faster, but lowered the experience. Regular blocks usually don't give much experience, so this would be an unbalanced suggestion. I don't really think there is a very good way to get around the unbalance of this.
No support.
I don't even play Minecraft much anymore yet here I am on the Minecraft forums for some reason...
So you get less experience for using a blast furnace?
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What exactly is the balance problem here? That you'll earn less experience from smelting the same amount of sand, just in a faster period of time?
The Minecraft Wiki seems to say nothing about blast furnaces having XP loss, but a quick Google search shows other users saying that the blast furnace gives only half of the XP while cooking twice as fast. This seems balanced enough, you're getting the same amount of XP/unit of time, vs XP/unit smelted. (Personally though I don't see why it'd be so bad if it still rewarded the same amount of XP, unless this is what you want?)
My avatar is a texture from a small block game I made in Python. It's not very good and it probably won't work if you install it.
I'm very alone in my Minecraft worlds as I don't have a very good internet connection to run a server. If you're like me, you might be interested in my Posse mod suggestion.