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You should be able to smelt blocks of raw ore into blocks of smelted ore

When I saw there was a new snapshot. that being 21w15a and it said there were compact raw ore blocks I thought "hey I should get in game and see if it can be smelted" it turns out it cannot.
I think it would be a good idea if it could be smelted. Now if it smelted at the normal rate or uses the same amount of fuel that is completely overpowered so I have an idea... well three possibilities actually.
1. It takes longer to cook and by extension more fuel to cook.
2. It can only be cooked with coal blocks because it is also a mineral block. (this is just stupid ignore this one)
3. It can only be cooked with a blast furnace because its meant to smelt ores faster. (also kind of stupid looking back)

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    Sounds like unecessary work and complexity to try to balanced out it... They made the right choice by not making it smeltable

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    I agree but I think that the only one of the three that should be implemented is the first one

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    For the three ideas I meant like only 1 or 2 or 3 not like all three because that is just kind of ridiculous having so many rules for making it. Like imagine it takes a long time and you are forced to use coal blocks  AND you have to use a blast furnace, that is simply too many rules and just not simple at all, I think if this really was put into the game only one of these three should be used, and I do agree that the first one is the best looking back on this

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    It seemed like a good idea to me too

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    I agree with 1 and 3, but not 2. A blast furnace is meant to reach hotter temperatures faster, I think that if it took the default furnace time in a blast furnace that could be slightly more balanced.

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    I second the idea of being able to smelt blocks of raw materials, but want to alternatively propose the idea that there should be a benefit for smelting the raw ore blocks over the individual ores. For instance, following the concept of a coal block lasting for 10 coal item's worth of time despite using only 9 coal to craft, how about making it so that using the block form reduces the overall smelting time by 1 item's worth of time and produces a block of the smelted material, rather than ingots?

    Example:

    Assuming the time taken to smelt each raw gold is 1 second per item, smelting 9 of them individually would take 9 seconds total , but instead by turning the individual raw materials into blocks, you would get 9 gold ingots (in the form of a gold block) in 8 seconds, thereby speeding up production slightly.

    I feel like this is relatively balanced, and fits in nicely with the existing mechanics.