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Improvements on Smelting Armor/Weapons/Tools

So we the players are given the ability to smelt armor, weapons, and tools and we receive 1 Nugget of that type of that item when doing so but I feel like there should be improvements. Think about it, we craft say an Iron Chestplate that needs 8 Iron Ingots while if we smelt it, we only get 1 Iron Nugget. Here’s how I think smelting armor should be improved:

 

Durability - The smelting process of armor/weapons/tools would be effective on how much durability the item has. Here are a couple examples:

 

Armor

Full durability or in the green zone: 6 Iron or Golden Ingots

Durability in yellow zone: 4 Iron or Golden Ingots

Durability in orange: 2 Iron or Golden Ingots

Durability in red: 3 Iron or Golden Nuggets

 

Now remember these were a couple examples for the but I do recommend if the armor has full or it has green durability it gives you 6 ingots. I would do the weapons and tools but it’s so cold for me that I can’t think that well but you get the idea. Mojang please make improvements to the smelting process for armor, weapons, and tools.

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    I think this could be a good idea with a little massaging. It would need to account for tool type (wouldn't want to have someone smelt an iron hoe that cost 2 ingots to make and get 6 back) as well as durability. Perhaps the blast furnace would be the appropriate workstation for this since it's more dedicated to smelting ores. In other words, you would always get a single nugget by smelting in a furnace, but smelting in a blast furnace would give better returns.

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    I think that you should receive a nugget for every ingot used to craft the item + the durability of the item. For example, full durability chestplate = 16 nuggets (8 for the iron used to craft it + 8 for the current durability of the item rounded down). Example 2: half durability axe = 5 nuggets (3 for the iron used to craft it + 1 for the current durability rounded down)

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    Smelting an tool in a furnace should give you back the ingots used to craft it multiplied by durability % remaining.

    For example: half durability iron boots (4 ingots to craft it * .5 durability = 2)

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    The formula I would suggest is:
    ceiling(8*durability_percentage*ingots_to_craft)
    In other words, you get back 8/9 of the material in proportion to the durability. This way every item will always give one nugget and will give up to 64 nuggets for a full durability chest plate. This is totally linear and pretty balanced, so if the yield feels too high you could reduce that factor from 8 to, say, 5.

    EDIT:
    I would also add that I think increasing the yield on this is game-balancing. As it is, I would rather throw away extra gear than spend the time, inventory space, and smelting materials to convert it into nuggets. I don't think it is actually worth doing. An entire shulker box of gear yields 3 ingots.

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    I was just thinking about this, glad I have found a post to upvote!