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Biogas

In minecraft, we can discard excessive organic matter in composter. It's really useful feature, but what if we could, in exchange for time it takes, produce one more product - biogas! Biogas would be used as fuel in furnaces (or something else), and will sustain smelting as long as it is provided. To produce biogas we would need to make biogas reactor with 8 iron ingots and 1 gold nugget (nugget would be in the center; gold acts as anti corrosive plating, since H₂S produced due to fermentation would react with iron). Biogas would be transported in pipes and stored in tanks. It would have to be purified before used, but I'll elaborate it in comments. Biogas released in closed space would cause asphyxia - blindness + slowness + fatigue + weakness (impure biogas would also cause poisoning) and would be very flammable - torches, campfires, fire, lit furnaces and charged creepers would ignite it, spawning a lot of torch flame particles around in the air, which then will "leak" constantly out of biogas leaks. Unlit biogas would be disguised as yellow - gray particles floating around and bursting out of leaks.

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• April 25, 2021 20:37
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  • April 27, 2021 13:18
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  To purify biogas, we would need to separate CH₄ from unwanted H₂S and NH₃. To remove hydrogen sulfide, there would be two ways. First one is using quicklime obtained by smelting calcite, second way to do is obtaining sulfur oxidizing microbes from ocean ravines (found as block of course). In case of ammonia, we would have to find and mine zeolite. To make it work, we have to connect biogas reactors directly or with a pipe. Filling the first one (just like composter - by right clicking) with organic matter, and next ones with these I mentioned earlier.