SLA – Fuel Pellets

Have you ever encountered a situation, where you only want to smelt 7 items, but have only Coal as a fuel source? Have you ever felt the dread of wasting an eight of a piece of Coal or Charcoal, or maybe even 7 eights?

Well fear no more! Introducing:

Fuel Pellets!

This mod adds 3 new items, 7 new recipes and modifies 1 vanilla items functionality.
More specifically, it adds the Coal, Charcoal and Blaze Pellet items, that each smelt exactly 1 item. The recipes are as follows:

As you can tell the mod also adds a recipe for turning Blaze Powder back into Blaze Rods – just for completeness sake. All recipes are shapeless.
I also modified the Blaze Powder to be usable as a fuel source, smelting 6 items. This is the same per-rod efficiency as using Blaze Rods for smelting, since they smelt 12 items each. Also, this of course means you get 6 Blaze Pellets per Blaze Powder.

Why does this mod exist?

This mod is the first part in my Silly Little Additions (SLA) mod series, where I try to create very simple mods that focus around specific concepts in Minecraft Modding, gradually increasing in difficulty and complexity. This is because it’s been a while since I last touched Minecraft Modding and I wanna ease into it, while preventing myself from burning out by finishing projects faster than I’ve done in the past – my other mod on Modrinth, Very Berry, currently has 2 berries actually implemented, while 3 more are WIP in the repo, and 2 more sitting unfinished in unpushed commits. The scope on that project kept getting bigger, so I’m putting it on hold for now, so I can get back to basics and maybe return to Very Berry with a new mindset later on.