MCPE-42949Scaffolding as fuel burns too long
One piece of scaffolding used as fuel in a furnace burns for 60 seconds, 4 times as long as a solid wood block. As it's made from 6 bamboo, which only burns 2.5 seconds, scaffolding should burn for 15 seconds, the same as a wood block.
Steps to reproduce:
- Place a furnace.
- Put 1 block of scaffolding in the fuel slot.
- Put a stack of cobblestone in the input slot.
- Wait for the fuel to be exhausted.
Expected results:
The furnace smelts 1 cobblestone to stone. Halfway through smelting a second one, the fire goes out.
Actual results:
The furnace smelts 6 cobblestone to stone.
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Created Issue:
Scaffolding as fuel burns too long
One piece of scaffolding used as fuel in a furnace burns for 60 seconds, 4 times as long as a solid wood block. As it's made from 6 bamboo, which only burns 2.5 seconds, scaffolding should burn for 15 seconds, the same as a wood block.
One piece of scaffolding used as fuel in a furnace burns for 60 seconds, 4 times as long as a solid wood block. As it's made from 6 bamboo, which only burns 2.5 seconds, scaffolding should burn for 15 seconds, the same as a wood block.
Steps to reproduce:
- Place a furnace.
- Put 1 block of scaffolding in the fuel slot.
- Put a stack of cobblestone in the input slot.
- Wait for the fuel to be exhausted.
Expected results:
The furnace smelts 1 cobblestone to stone. Halfway through smelting a second one, the fire goes out.Actual results:
The furnace smelts 6 cobblestone to stone.
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The 1.19.40 made this incorrect. Scaffolding now smelts at same rate as bamboo! How can you get this wrong?! Please reopen and fix properly.
The issue
Six bamboo creates six scaffolding. So it makes sense that bamboo and scaffolding has the same fuel time (as it was previously). Now, scaffolding burns for 8 times as long as bamboo, meaning you get something from nothing.
It's possible this was ported from bedrock? Though bedrock has always been wrong with this: MCPE-42949
Possibly this is invalid considering the change was obviously made intentionally, but it seems like a sanity regression. All other items have fuel time preserved across crafting.
Code analysis
Code analysis by [Mod] Avoma can be found in this comment.
Six bamboo creates six scaffolding. The intended smelt time is 2.5 seconds for both bamboo and scaffolding.
This is an exploit, as you can smelt a lot of items with just 1 bamboo. This is especially true if you have a spider farm, which will be easier to build in 1.16.0.
Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been temporarily closed as Awaiting Response
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Still an issue in 1.16.210.53 Beta.
Added vanilla-parity tags as the Java version has fixed the issue.