Have you already killed tons of creepers and have multiple stacks of TNT? Or maybe your mob farm was very successful and you need something to do with all that gunpowder?
Well, here's a simple improvement to put your gunpowder to use: use it in smelting. It would only smelt one item, but it would do it instantly, and is used just like any other fuel. Place the gunpowder on the bottom, and as soon as you put a smeltable item on top, it would instantly come out on the right and the gunpowder would disappear.
Useful if you just went on a hunt and need to smelt a lot of pig meat. Or if you were mining for a long time and want to get straight to using your ores in tools.
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My problem with it is, do you really need this? Most people will never get THAT MUCH gunpowder. Those who do probably wouldn't need this anyway.
On my (legitimately earned) server, we have two chestfuls of gunpowder (our builder made an awesome mob farm). I went hunting, and got lots of pork, and was impatient to smelt them all. So that got me thinking...
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Gunpowder wouldn't smelt something, it would blow it to smithereens. Or, you know, nothing, considering there would be no fuel for making the gunpowder go off. And an instant-smelter would be too... well.... instant. If you don't even have the proper patience to let something smelt, you are playing the wrong game. In fact, with no patience, every game would be wrong for you.
Gunpowder wouldn't smelt something, it would blow it to smithereens. Or, you know, nothing, considering there would be no fuel for making the gunpowder go off. And an instant-smelter would be too... well.... instant. If you don't even have the proper patience to let something smelt, you are playing the wrong game. In fact, with no patience, every game would be wrong for you.
Well, first of all, about the exploding everything part, there's room for unrealism in a game where everything is represented bu 1-meter cubes. As for there being no fuel to ignite it, well... every other fuel doesn't really seem to need an ignition source either. And just because it's faster doesn't mean it can't be part of the game. (e.g. golden tools.) If being instant is a problem, then it doesn't really matter if it's 1 or 2.5 seconds as long as it's significantly faster than regular smelting.
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As long as there's a chance to break the furnace in the process, so you'll have to craft yourself another one, I'll agree with this.
Gunpowder needs to be compressed and packed for it to blow, otherwise it just burns in a quick flash, but it will still be an strain to the furnace. So it would have to break eventually if powder is used for too long.
That might be a good idea. But if the furnace breaks too often, it might be a turn-off to using it, and i somehow feel that having to kill creepers (or automate killing them) is enough of a balancing factor.
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Well, here's a simple improvement to put your gunpowder to use: use it in smelting. It would only smelt one item, but it would do it instantly, and is used just like any other fuel. Place the gunpowder on the bottom, and as soon as you put a smeltable item on top, it would instantly come out on the right and the gunpowder would disappear.
Useful if you just went on a hunt and need to smelt a lot of pig meat. Or if you were mining for a long time and want to get straight to using your ores in tools.
Any ideas for improvements?
My problem with it is, do you really need this? Most people will never get THAT MUCH gunpowder. Those who do probably wouldn't need this anyway.
On my (legitimately earned) server, we have two chestfuls of gunpowder (our builder made an awesome mob farm). I went hunting, and got lots of pork, and was impatient to smelt them all. So that got me thinking...
Then this obviously wouldn't be useful for them. But for the significant number of people who do, something like this would be very good.
Well, first of all, about the exploding everything part, there's room for unrealism in a game where everything is represented bu 1-meter cubes. As for there being no fuel to ignite it, well... every other fuel doesn't really seem to need an ignition source either. And just because it's faster doesn't mean it can't be part of the game. (e.g. golden tools.) If being instant is a problem, then it doesn't really matter if it's 1 or 2.5 seconds as long as it's significantly faster than regular smelting.
That might be a good idea. But if the furnace breaks too often, it might be a turn-off to using it, and i somehow feel that having to kill creepers (or automate killing them) is enough of a balancing factor.
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