RawOreSmelting

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 This mod adds the possibility to smelt raw block ores, giving you the respective ore block.

Raw Iron/Copper gives you 3.15 xp points and Raw Gold gives you 9 xp points on regular/blast furnace.

Time to Smelt:

Regular Furnace: 1350 ticks (67.5 sec) [that's 3/4 of the time to smelt 9 items]

Blast Furnace: 900 ticks (45 sec) [that's half of the time to blast 9 items]