Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27200931-20170808214234/@comment-26553378-20170812142025

Dragonovith wrote: Having to smelt cobble is not a problem, well, it is, if you prefer realism (if someone here knows a secret ancient Chinese technique of smelting rock to make bricks, please tell). All I want is to spend more time building, instead of waiting for the stuff to smelt; I like to get right into the action. By the way, why does it matter if it is a vanilla feature?

There's also a new way we can go on with this. In Terraria, mining stone gives you stone blocks, which is pretty much Minecraft's cobblestone, but you don't need to smelt it or anything, you can convert those blocks into bricks right away. But there's a difference between Terraria and my idea. In Terraria, you need 2 stone blocks to craft 1 brick, while in this suggestion you convert 4 cobblestone into 4 bricks.

So, how about we adopt Terraria's way? If the player is on a hurry, he can turn his 64 blocks of cobblestone into 32 stone bricks, or if he has a lot of coal to spend, he can wait for the 64 cobblestone blocks to smelt. it matters that it is vanilla because mevans wants to change vanilla minecraft as little as possible with the mod, hence the slogan "Bringing middle earth to minecraft" and not something about converting MC to ME. Just because some people, most servers in fact, discourage overworld and vanilla play, doesn't mean we can't play the vanilla version in addition to LotR when you have the mod.