Item Smelter

An idea I have is an item smelter. When you kill a mob and they drop an iron axe that is no longer an item necessary to use, make it necessary to use. That is achievable by an item smelter. Take unneeded items like an iron axe, deposit it into an item smelter, and receive an iron nugget. This allows for a more unique end game experience allowing players to utilize using tools and items that would otherwise be discarded into a lava pit and destroyed. The yield does not have to be high in return but it allows the player to have another option when trying to come up with a resource that could be received by utilizing an item smelter.