I've been wondering about this one for a while now. Would it be really that useful? I mean, coal is amazingly abundant now, so much so that other types of fuel are nearly shunned on by the Minecraft community. But this is a suggestion that I think could have some use. Torches as furnace fuel. Maybe it cooks the same level as coal, but burns just a bit brighter (for lighting purposes) and cooks faster than anything else? Ex: Coal smelts or cooks each ore or item for 10 seconds each. With torches, maybe we could cut that down to, mmm, let's say, 6-7 seconds? It doesn't seem like much, but when smelting huge stacks, it could be very, very useful in cutting down the time of smelting, cooking raw beef and porkchops, etc. So, what do you think? I think it would be very useful and a good addition to the game.
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Adding a stick per 4 torches shouldn't make it smelt faster, that is ridiculously silly. If anything they should make blaze rods go back down to smelt 8 items, but do it faster.
Torches as furnace fuel. Maybe it cooks the same level as coal, but burns just a bit brighter (for lighting purposes) and cooks faster than anything else?
Making a mod that would do this would be trivial, at least if you didn't care about the furnace getting any brighter and simply wanted to use a torch as a fuel source. It is so trivial I might just make the mod to use as a tutorial on how to create a new fuel source as it uses an existing block. Since you can craft four torches from a piece of coal, I'd put the "power" of a torch to be 1/4th of what coal does, or being able to smelt just two blocks of ore.
BTW, there are other fuel sources like planks, sticks, and saplings. In fact, I love using saplings for fuel as it provides a convenient way to get rid of them in a productive manner instead of having stacks of them build up if you do a bunch of tree harvesting. As a way to perhaps "break down" a lump of coal if you only want to smelt a couple of items... using torches might not be that terrible of a thing to use as a fuel source too. There is some merit to the idea.
I don't know, there's tons of obvious choices for furnace fuel *cough* burning netherack *cough*
Funny you mention that. This mod happens to include burning Netherack as a fuel source (as well as glowstone dust and a "fire" block... if you can somehow get that into your inventory).:
I think we shouldbe able to craft a coal block with 4 coal rocks, and then use it as a fuel that lasts 4 times as more (32 items / block)
The perfect fuel for me.
Not mentioning we really need some way of making coal storaging more compact
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Making a mod that would do this would be trivial, at least if you didn't care about the furnace getting any brighter and simply wanted to use a torch as a fuel source. It is so trivial I might just make the mod to use as a tutorial on how to create a new fuel source as it uses an existing block. Since you can craft four torches from a piece of coal, I'd put the "power" of a torch to be 1/4th of what coal does, or being able to smelt just two blocks of ore.
BTW, there are other fuel sources like planks, sticks, and saplings. In fact, I love using saplings for fuel as it provides a convenient way to get rid of them in a productive manner instead of having stacks of them build up if you do a bunch of tree harvesting. As a way to perhaps "break down" a lump of coal if you only want to smelt a couple of items... using torches might not be that terrible of a thing to use as a fuel source too. There is some merit to the idea.
Version 2.1 now updated for MC 1.6.2
Funny you mention that. This mod happens to include burning Netherack as a fuel source (as well as glowstone dust and a "fire" block... if you can somehow get that into your inventory).:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1018709-123-nether-harvest-and-more-500-downloads/
Goes to show you that it isn't particularly hard to accomplish.
Version 2.1 now updated for MC 1.6.2
The perfect fuel for me.
Not mentioning we really need some way of making coal storaging more compact