Sure, coal was easier to find, but charcoal is renewable, and I like that.
Even ignoring that, 8 logs becomes 7 charcoal, and planting is trivial, so its just faster to farm trees in the long run. Coal is for villagers that demand it, specifically, in early trades.
Now for smelting I like bamboo, you can fully automate it. Technically you can fully automate kelp now too with the crafter, but bamboo is easy. Just break it like sugarcane and funnel it to your furnace directly, done.
If you go mining or caving frequently (and don’t stay in the deepslate area the whole time) then you can build up a lot of coal, especially since with fortune III each coal block drops 2.2 coal on average
For sure but I still find it quicker to just spiral carve up a 2x2 spruce and chuck it all into a dedicated charcoal smelter that uses its own charcoal to smelt everything.
But if someone strip mines a ton, then yeah, coal as a byproduct is better, I suppose.
I always like renewables though. Even a slow or wasteful farm is better than doing it myself, when I play, so to each their own.
You can use stalactites and cauldrons to duplicate lava source blocks, then use lava buckets for heating the furnaces. It does take a lot of iron to make enough cauldrons though.
I just went back to Minecraft after probably a decade of not playing it, they made coal so effing hard to find now. I’m mostly using charcoal.
But it’s still easier than stardew
I’ve always used charcoal.
Sure, coal was easier to find, but charcoal is renewable, and I like that.
Even ignoring that, 8 logs becomes 7 charcoal, and planting is trivial, so its just faster to farm trees in the long run. Coal is for villagers that demand it, specifically, in early trades.
Now for smelting I like bamboo, you can fully automate it. Technically you can fully automate kelp now too with the crafter, but bamboo is easy. Just break it like sugarcane and funnel it to your furnace directly, done.
If you go mining or caving frequently (and don’t stay in the deepslate area the whole time) then you can build up a lot of coal, especially since with fortune III each coal block drops 2.2 coal on average
For sure but I still find it quicker to just spiral carve up a 2x2 spruce and chuck it all into a dedicated charcoal smelter that uses its own charcoal to smelt everything.
But if someone strip mines a ton, then yeah, coal as a byproduct is better, I suppose.
I always like renewables though. Even a slow or wasteful farm is better than doing it myself, when I play, so to each their own.
You can use stalactites and cauldrons to duplicate lava source blocks, then use lava buckets for heating the furnaces. It does take a lot of iron to make enough cauldrons though.
Or just go to the nether. A single lava bucket can smelt 100 items
Yeah that’s the faster solution. I like the convenience of having the drip/cauldron system right next to my smelters.
You could also make a kelp farm, but im not sure which one is easier to build