Hello all you fellow minecrafterarians! Many before have suggested an enchantment that smelts something
as you mine it. With this suggestion, it'll have the same concept, but with a different way to get there!
Potion of Overheat
What is it?:
Potion of Overheat is a potion, that when ingested, gives the power to autosmelt items. It also gives a
33% chance to light a mob or player on fire when you hit them.
What is autosmelt?:
Autosmelting (Or some other name, I don't know what you'd call it), is when something that needs to
be smelted to turn into something else (iron ore, gold ore, clay, cobble) is mined by the player. What is dropped, instead of the usual, is the smelted version (iron ingot, gold ingot, bricks, stone). This could be used for more efficient mining, where you don't have to put things in a furnace.
Things affected by Autosmelt:
Logs
Stone
Iron Ore
Gold Ore
Nether Quartz Ore (?)
Cactus
Sand
Clay
Netherrack
(Let me know if I've missed anything!)
Thanks for reading this short topic, and help me think of another effect of the potion! I feel like it could have one more.
(And yes, I know the enchantment has been suggested a million times, I"m providing a different way to get there, and if I can get another effect, it will be more useful.)
Quick Note about Silk Touch: Because in silk touch, you get a clay block (pretty sure) instead of balls, and with this, you'd get bricks, you'd have a 50/50 chance for the block or the bricks. But who uses silk touch for clay anyway?
I think this is a good idea, but it should defiantly be expensive to make this potion, or else it ruins the point of ever using furnaces. Also, I think that lighting mobs on fire is pushing it a little, and should be stuck to just mining purposes. Maybe tools should deplete durability faster when using overheat? Or something else for balancing issues.
(Edit: you could add netherack to your auto-smelt list.)
I think the idea is genius, and it's in the form of a fixed-time potion and not an overpowered enchantment that everyone keeps suggesting. Though this potion should have the ingredients be rare or this could be overpowered.
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I like this, but it needs to be relatively pricey. Not that expensive though. I mean after all, all it is saving you is 8 seconds and some fuel, plus I assume it doesn't give you the XP you would get from Smelting.
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oh yeah! I completely forgot the ingredient! I was thinking something Nether related, but most of the mobs there have their drops being used for potions already.
I like this, but it needs to be relatively pricey. Not that expensive though. I mean after all, all it is saving you is 8 seconds and some fuel, plus I assume it doesn't give you the XP you would get from Smelting.
What's a mob drop that isn't currently being used for a potion?
I think this is a good idea, but it should defiantly be expensive to make this potion, or else it ruins the point of ever using furnaces. Also, I think that lighting mobs on fire is pushing it a little, and should be stuck to just mining purposes. Maybe tools should deplete durability faster when using overheat? Or something else for balancing issues.
(Edit: you could add netherack to your auto-smelt list.)
Thanks for catching that, I forgot the new netherbrick crafting recipe
And yes, you would not get the xp from smelting that you would get.
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perhaps the brewing ingredient would be a bucket of lava? Lava is a powerful fuel and it makes sense that a high-tier smelting fuel would be used for a potion of smelting. Its also expensive... in a way. While not hard to find, lava is one of the few resources minecraft players typically don't keep on-hand in any quantity, as doing so either costs 3 iron per stored lava, or requires a chamber set aside just for lava storage. Even then, filling the room is dangerous and tedious. As a result, players will usually have to go out of there way to go get lava whenever they want to make these.
Finally, to both further flesh out your idea and better balance the use of lava as the ingredient, I suggest a duration of 20 seconds, 30 when lengthened via redstone. assuming a fairly efficient player who takes out 3 blocks per second for the entire duration, a potion will grant them about 90 smelts. Lava's normal smelting potential as 100 blocks, so that's a pretty good deal. However, this assumes that the player makes excellent use of the potion,with a powerful pick and all that. What I think is more likely is that players will get around 30-50 uses in those 40 seconds. While that is still more overall smelting power than the un-processed lava (30-50 smelts times 3 potions is 90-150 smelts/batch), the extra processing makes up for it.
I like this concept. I support it, if the potion is expensive enough to be a luxury when you're at the point where all your equipment is iron, and something relatively standard by the time you're mostly gearing yourself up with Diamond. If it could be balanced that way, I would love it to pieces.
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So far I've heard several ideas on the ingredient, but I'm not sure on any of them.
Lava would make perfect sense, but it's super easy to obtain in the nether, which players go to for most of their potion stuff anyway.
How about nether quartz? I know it's already getting a lot of uses, with blocks, redstone stuff, but it would be a material in the nether
that isn't being used for potions.
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as you mine it. With this suggestion, it'll have the same concept, but with a different way to get there!
Potion of Overheat
What is it?:
Potion of Overheat is a potion, that when ingested, gives the power to autosmelt items. It also gives a
33% chance to light a mob or player on fire when you hit them.
What is autosmelt?:
Autosmelting (Or some other name, I don't know what you'd call it), is when something that needs to
be smelted to turn into something else (iron ore, gold ore, clay, cobble) is mined by the player. What is dropped, instead of the usual, is the smelted version (iron ingot, gold ingot, bricks, stone). This could be used for more efficient mining, where you don't have to put things in a furnace.
Things affected by Autosmelt:
Logs
Stone
Iron Ore
Gold Ore
Nether Quartz Ore (?)
Cactus
Sand
Clay
Netherrack
(Let me know if I've missed anything!)
Thanks for reading this short topic, and help me think of another effect of the potion! I feel like it could have one more.
(And yes, I know the enchantment has been suggested a million times, I"m providing a different way to get there, and if I can get another effect, it will be more useful.)
Quick Note about Silk Touch: Because in silk touch, you get a clay block (pretty sure) instead of balls, and with this, you'd get bricks, you'd have a 50/50 chance for the block or the bricks. But who uses silk touch for clay anyway?
(Edit: you could add netherack to your auto-smelt list.)
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What's a mob drop that isn't currently being used for a potion?
Thanks for catching that, I forgot the new netherbrick crafting recipe
And yes, you would not get the xp from smelting that you would get.
So, I feel how to make the potion should start with a weakness or a poison potion, and brew blaze powder with it.
Other then that, I like the idea, although possible elaborate with it. But it is a good idea.
Lol I forgot how many there were, I probably should have looked on the wiki.
Hmm, adding more blaze powder to an existing potion, that's actually the best that I've heard.
Finally, to both further flesh out your idea and better balance the use of lava as the ingredient, I suggest a duration of 20 seconds, 30 when lengthened via redstone. assuming a fairly efficient player who takes out 3 blocks per second for the entire duration, a potion will grant them about 90 smelts. Lava's normal smelting potential as 100 blocks, so that's a pretty good deal. However, this assumes that the player makes excellent use of the potion,with a powerful pick and all that. What I think is more likely is that players will get around 30-50 uses in those 40 seconds. While that is still more overall smelting power than the un-processed lava (30-50 smelts times 3 potions is 90-150 smelts/batch), the extra processing makes up for it.
Lava would make perfect sense, but it's super easy to obtain in the nether, which players go to for most of their potion stuff anyway.
How about nether quartz? I know it's already getting a lot of uses, with blocks, redstone stuff, but it would be a material in the nether
that isn't being used for potions.