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Smelting Gravel Into Flint

So basically, you can smelt gravel to get 1 flint for every block of gravel you smelt. This would make gravel so much more valuable, and you wouldn't have to rely on breaking it with a shovel 10000000 times just to get flint. This would make arrows easier to get, and many people would rely less on infinity.
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    I see where you are coming from, but once I had a shovel with fortune 3 I found I had more flint than I could handle.

     

    Also with piercing if your arrow does not pass through it's max number of targets, it lands & can be recovered. This makes the ability to have almost infinite arrows possible.

    Lastly there is already an option to possibly trade the Fletcher 10 gravel & an emerald for 10 flint.

     

    I am on the fence whether gravel needs further use at this time. I know bamboo grows on gravel, so having a little for a farm gives it some purpose. I don't dabble often with concrete, but that seems like an already sound use for gravel.

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    We need this, why aren't people voting for this more?

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    I think the devs purposefully made it so that in early game you cannot obtain massive amounts of flint quickly. If you need arrows in large amounts just get some villagers.

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    I agree. Making arrows in survival mode is a painstaking process because of how hard it is to collect flint. Once you do acquire a few arrows, you are extremely reluctant to use them because you don’t want to have to find more flint.
    I think that smelting gravel into flint is a great idea. Another fix could be to receive a piece of flint from 100% or 50% of the gravel blocks you mine.