Furnace fuel?

[Kahless61]

I've noticed that I can't shift-click fuel into a furnace. I assume I'm not the only one seeing this. Anyone know what mod does that?

 

[MigukNamja]

Which fuel ? If wood (not planks), it might not know whether to put it in the top or bottom slot.

 

[Kahless61]

Coal, in particular.

And it's not an issue with not knowing which slot, because if I fill the top slot with ore, and shift-click the coal, it still won't go into the bottom slot.

You guys are seeing it too, right? I'm not just crazy.

 

[MigukNamja]

It's a long-shot, but can you check NEI to see if there is a furnace recipe for coal ? Some mod might be converting coal to coal coke or something similar.

Tested vanilla 1.6.4 and coal will shift+click into bottom slot and wood will shift+click into top slot.

What MC version and modpack are you using ?

 

[hiroshi42]

its one of the mods(open blocks maybe?), it adds a smelting recipe for coal so minecraft gets confused and it does not know where to send it. It can also be annoying if you have an autosmelting pick/hammer.

 

[Kahless61]

Horizons 1.0.7 and Monster 1.0.9

hiroshi42 is right. BigReactors adds a recipe for smelting coal into graphite.

Also today I learned you can't shift-click logs into the fuel slot in vanilla.

A workaround is to either use a Hopper, or more extreme, go ahead and disable ReactorCraft. Wonder if @Reika might consider an alternative way to make graphite so it doesn't conflict with the furnace's fuel slot or auto-smelting tools.

 

[MigukNamja]

Also today I learned you can't shift-click logs into the fuel slot in vanilla.

Ditto. It goes into the top slot, which is probably not a bad assumption for vanilla. Most common vanilla progress might be:

1. punch tree
2. crafting table
3. wooden tools
4. cobblestone tools
5. coal
6. furnace
7. charcoal

Not sure how many people are burning wood before burning coal. I do and many other people here do, but we're (obviously) not vanilla MC'ers and in modded MC, there's enough solid fuel sources that coal is just one of many.

 

[Kahless61]

I've always played vanilla such that Charcoal is kinda a last resort if I can't find enough coal. I just never burn logs as fuel because I usually burn my wooden pick first to make my first piece of charcoal. Feels kinda wasteful to burn a log for fuel when you're burning logs for charcoal to begin with!

 

[AlanEsh]

I've always played vanilla such that Charcoal is kinda a last resort if I can't find enough coal. I just never burn logs as fuel because I usually burn my wooden pick first to make my first piece of charcoal. Feels kinda wasteful to burn a log for fuel when you're burning logs for charcoal to begin with!

I'm 100% opposite!
Since coal has some uses beyond fuel, and charcoal doesn't (such as making steel with coal dust), I only use coal to make my initial batch of charcoal. Oak grows so quickly and drops so many saplings, you essentially have an immeidate and endless supply of logs.

1 coal + 8 logs = 8 charcoal... and I'm off to the races, never to burn coal in my furnaces thereafter

 

[Strikingwolf]

I'm 100% opposite!
Since coal has some uses beyond fuel, and charcoal doesn't (such as making steel with coal dust), I only use coal to make my initial batch of charcoal. Oak grows so quickly and drops so many saplings, you essentially have an immeidate and endless supply of logs.

1 coal + 8 logs = 8 charcoal... and I'm off to the races, never to burn coal in my furnaces thereafter

This

 

[Kahless61]

I said Vanilla. In FTB, I use charcoal because harvesting logs can be automated. In Vanilla, not so much, making logs a semi-valuable resource.

 

[AlanEsh]

Ah yeah I wasn't thinking vanilla where Coal has no other use. I still find it easier to walk outside and chop down 10 trees for a stack of logs than find and pick the walls for a stack of coal. The mining of coal is relegated to "only if it is in my way" in vanilla for me.

 

[Kahless61]

You can't fortune 3 logs.

 

[AlanEsh]

kah wins

 

[whd23]

I'm 100% opposite!
Since coal has some uses beyond fuel, and charcoal doesn't (such as making steel with coal dust), I only use coal to make my initial batch of charcoal. Oak grows so quickly and drops so many saplings, you essentially have an immeidate and endless supply of logs.

1 coal + 8 logs = 8 charcoal... and I'm off to the races, never to burn coal in my furnaces thereafter

How wasteful

1 plank + 1 log = 1 charcoal, 1 charcoal + 8 logs = 8 charcoal....

 

[Reika]

Horizons 1.0.7 and Monster 1.0.9

hiroshi42 is right. BigReactors adds a recipe for smelting coal into graphite.

Also today I learned you can't shift-click logs into the fuel slot in vanilla.

A workaround is to either use a Hopper, or more extreme, go ahead and disable ReactorCraft. Wonder if @Reika might consider an alternative way to make graphite so it doesn't conflict with the furnace's fuel slot or auto-smelting tools.

Graphite is not my item and BigReactors is not my mod.

 

[Kahless61]

Sorry Reika, Got it confused with ReactorCraft, my bad!
Graphite and BigReactors is Erogenous Beef's

Looks like BigReactors has a config for it:

B:registerCharcoalForSmelting=true
B:registerCoalForSmelting=true
B:registerGraphiteCharcoalCraftingRecipes=false
B:registerGraphiteCoalCraftingRecipes=false


Switching those around makes it so you combine 2 gravel and 1 coal to make Graphite. Might be more preferable so coal and charcoal can be shift-clicked into the furnace fuel again.