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Blast Furnace Rework for 1.16 (Two Smelting Slots, Alloys, Steel)

My idea is for the Blast furnace to have two smelting slots. This would make it clearer that it's smelting items faster than normal furnaces. Two slots would also allow the creation of 'alloys', most notably, netherite is an alloy of netherite scraps and gold. I think instead of just crafting, players should smelt the two together. The name could even be changed to 'Ancient Alloy' to reflect this.

Allowing players to create alloys also easily adds other metals and armor types to the game. For example, iron and coal creating steel would be an obvious addition. Pure iron armor and tools is strange, as even most medieval plate armor and tools were made of steel. The current iron armor/tools should be replaced  by steel, though iron would still be used in other crafting recipes (pistons, anvils, etc.). Steel would only be for armor/tools, and maybe a few unique other crafting recipes. Steel would be the lighter gray currently used for most iron items, while iron blocks and items should be a darker grey coloring more realistic to the actual material (like anvils/hoppers). The texture changes would also help fix the issue of people wanting to use the netherite block texture when it's so difficult to collect, giving the texture (or a similar one) to iron blocks instead would make it a lot more feasible to build with.

I would love to hear your thoughts and any ideas to expand on this suggestion!

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    Alloy age

    Different alloy ratios or temperatures will have different textures and strengths.
    Such as iron-carbon alloys, there are many types.

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    I agree with everything except the iron & steel looks: steel should be darker than iron because of higher carbon content. The Netherite Block's texture is so simple too, so its texture should really be given to a Block of Steel and the netherite be changed to something more lustrous and like a trophy, worthy of the painstaking effort it actually takes to make one.

    Following from @GONG BO-LIN, there should be a system for alloy ratios if this blast furnace idea is to be fully fleshed-out. Perhaps a grid-like system or just placing the items in and a ratio appearing in a dialogue box, showing for each item put in. For example:   6 iron ingots, 2 coal, 1 gold ingot shows up as 6 : 2 : 1 with the corresponding items below each number. This to me seems an intuitive way to introduce players to a complex alloy-forging system.

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    Sorry, I mean that alloy systems need not only ratios, but also temperature control and time, just like the four processes of heat treatment in engineering materials (normalizing, continuous, tempering, quenching)
    Each process is treated differently. Even if the ratio is the same, the division of the elements will be different, which will lead to different properties of the alloy.
     
    Therefore, I think that this alloy system has processing method options in addition to proportions, so it includes heat treatment (normalizing, continuous, tempering and quenching), and the value of the tool will change less. Perhaps an exclusive enchanting method of turning heat treatment into a tool is also a way of thinking.
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    I think it should be simple and more like crafting with fuel and metals

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    This is a fantastic idea.