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Make blocks of raw ore smeltable

Raw ore was introduced to the game so that the Looting enchantment would work on those minerals, it was also added so your stacks of ores saves space when you craft them into a blocks. in short, they were added to increase the amount of ore you gained.

so why would you have to go through the process of uncrafting the raw ore blocks into raw ore pieces just to smelt them into ingots and then possibly crafting them back into blocks again for storing?
i suggest that the blocks of raw ore become smeltable so we can save on time and space when smelting. also, one block of raw ore should cost 1 piece of coal. let me explain why, one piece of coal can smelt 8 items in total and a block of raw ore is 9 pieces, balancing it out decently well.

so to summarize, by doing this we:
- can smelt more ores at the same time with less space needed.
- if we have a lot of ore, we won't have to go through the process of manually uncrafting the raw ore blocks just to craft the ingot into blocks again afterwards, saving time.
- we save on fuel resources allowing us to smelt more for less.

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• August 17, 2021 20:30
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  • August 18, 2021 04:55
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  It's a nice idea, but I don't know if it's feasible. So far all items have take the same time to get smelted, and that seems to be hard-coded into the game. It would be nice to have variety, but giving different items more or less time to get smelted might be a whole long technical process that they don't really have time for in 1.18. May be in another update? Who knows.

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  • August 18, 2021 14:06
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  I think this could be balanced with the following conditions for the smelting: it'll take 6 times longer per block verse a single raw and the XP return is the same as if you smelted a single raw. This would mean you have to wait longer (but still faster than smelting an individual raw ore) and you'd get less XP in return for a full raw ore block. Fuel consumption is done per item as I recall so balancing it is going to have to based on the XP reward and how many ticks it takes to smelt the item. So while you would get more iron/gold/copper faster/ingot, it's less of an XP reward so players and prioritized based on which is more important fast iron, or getting some XP easily. 

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  • December 03, 2021 18:01
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  The obvious reason is they are too big to fit in the furnace.

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  • January 15, 2022 14:42
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  I think, that smelting raw ore blocks should become full blocks of the material.

  Short comment but ok.