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Smelt diamonds from coal

This game taught me a lot about the real world and actually helps me answer jeopardy questions. Anyone who plays minecraft gets some scientific education whether they like it or not. Adding a feature that displays how diamonds in the real world would be awesome. Heat and pressure on coal should create diamonds, both are just carbon molecules. My suggestion is that an anvil on top of a blast furnace with 64 coal in each slot should give you 32 diamonds. It's only science

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    I think instead you should use the carbon element instead

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    I would rather have it that you press 64 coal into 1 condensed coal, and then 64 condensed coal into 1 diamond (4096 coal per diamond) to not devalue diamond mining.

    Charcoal could not be used, because it's easily farmable, and we could argue, that its carbon content is of too low grade for diamond enrichment.

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    Maybe you could smelt coal ore into diamonds in the blast furnace, it just takes a lot longer than smelting anything else.

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    I like this idea but it should take lots of coal to make a diamond (possibly 64 coal per one)