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new forge block to extract materials from lava/magma blocks

idea is to have block you feed magma block or lava with fuel (in this case coolant) to get random resources, metal nuggets or raw ore pieces, stone block variants as cobblestone, basalt, black stone and such, gravel and so on, from "loot table" with different probabilities
magma blocks are possible to farm with some effort, so is lava, each of them could be used to get different resources
since output would be random, it would have to be cleared, requiring some additional building to make it really viable
when inserted lava bucket/magma block and coolant, coolant is consumed same as fuel in furnace, starting "cooling time" same as furnace starts "smelting time" lasting depending on coolant used, then it can cool down lava or magma blocks inserted in, bucked from lava is returned when cooling of lava is done, magma block yields only output of random kind, maybe lava from lava bucket is turned only to magma block (in game is strongly implied it is much colder than lava itself)
coolants could be water (from bucket or wet sponge, returning you empty bucket or dry sponge respectively) as most basic ones cooling just single item, or even multiple of those being consumed to cool down just one, snow blocks being better followed by ice, packed ice and blue ice, possibly breeze rod be viable coolant too(?)
as potentially powerful block could be in later game progression, crafting recipe involving netherite for sure
maybe working as special villager job station, not generated in villages

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• October 20, 2025 16:05
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  • October 21, 2025 15:39
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  I like this as a source of resources, but Mojang might not like it, because lava is now renewable, so it's basically free resources for minimal work. I know there are hundreds of auto farms, but they are actual structures you have to plan out and build, whereas you only need drip stone and a cauldron for infinite lava. 

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  • October 21, 2025 17:00
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  yes, I am aware it would be free resource generator, it could also just consume only magma and nothing else, yes, it is renewable as well but closer to other "mob farms" since magma cream is dropped from magma cubes or crafted of blaze powder and slime, all being mob drops
  
  if we make only viable coolants ice blocks, then fully automatic methods arent even possible (as far I know ice cant be really farmed AFK in reasonable ways)
  
  most you would get would be also "junk" items as stone variants you may desire but also can be acquired quite easily (in regular world), and nuggets or ore should drop only rarely, so it would be slow even if processing individual blocks would be relatively fast, of course idea is also it would cool down stuff slower than furnaces do
  
  placing it intentionally behind acquiring netherite, which itself has surely uses, also justifies it feeling kind of OP, however with well balanced "loot table", I believe it could be reasonable even without netherite, feeding it coolant and magma, as well as managing outputs would be also factor, since some contraptions using existing mechanics would be needed to make it anyhow actually useful
  indeed I can see using lava directly may be too easy, despite even that setup needs some work to get (I could argue comparable or even more than many AFK mob farms), it is why one of ideas was as lava could cool only into magma blocks, adding another step, if process would be slow, it would surely make whole thing more balanced