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===Dimensions and Considerations=== <!--T:6--> | ===Dimensions and Considerations=== <!--T:6--> | ||
* If the charcoal pile is not sealed within 30 seconds of ignition, charcoal will not be produced. If "burning" sounds are coming from the pit, charcoal will not be created! Quickly open the shell and extinguish the flames with buckets of water before the firewood burns to ash. Fill the empty spaces with firewood and rebuild the shell to try again. | * If the charcoal pile is not sealed within 30 seconds of ignition, charcoal will not be produced. If "burning" sounds are coming from the pit, charcoal will not be created! Quickly open the shell and extinguish the flames with buckets of water before the firewood burns to ash. Fill the empty spaces with firewood and rebuild the shell to try again. | ||
* The yield for each stack of 32 firewood is between 4 and 7 charcoal, the average yield of each stack is 5.5 charcoal. | * The yield for each stack of 32 firewood is between 4 and 7 charcoal, the average yield of each stack is 5.5 charcoal. | ||
* The firepit | * The maximum size of any charcoal pit is a 13x13x13 cube. Firewood up to 6 blocks away, in any direction, from the firepit will be made into charcoal. This means that the largest volume of firewood that can be processed in one pit is 13³-1 (2,196 blocks), which will have an average yield of 12,078 charcoal. Firewood outside of the firepit's range will not be processed, nor consumed; it remains untouched at the end of the process. | ||
* As the distance to the firepit matters, that means that in order to ignite a maximum-size charcoal pit correctly, the firepit must be in the very center of the huge cube. It is technically possible to ignite the firepit there and finish building the full cube around it before the 30-second grace timer expires, but it is considered impractical and needlessly risky. Because of this, and the sheer time and effort required to procure and process nearly 9,000 [[log]] blocks, pretty much no one builds charcoal pits this large except for the novelty value of having done it once. | |||
* The firepit used to ignite the charcoal pit does not require any additional fuel apart from the 4 pieces of firewood automatically input on creation. | |||
== Usage == <!--T:7--> | == Usage == <!--T:7--> | ||
