I don't remember you bringing this up, but you can smelt off gold netherrack to get a full gold ingot, as opposed to get a max of 8 nuggets with fortune.
Actually the max amount of nuggets with Fortune 3 you can get is around 24. But on average it's still way better to smelt the gold ore with Silk touch.
I didn't know you could crack bricks in a furnace. I've been playing for a while now but these guides are really informative, I've learned several things watching your videos, keep up the good work!
I'm getting back into Minecraft after a LONG break. These videos have been very useful. Last I really played before 2023 was back when rabbits were just added. Opened up to the new update, creating a brand new world. Immediately came across a rabbit, then a killer rabbit that killed me. Closed Minecraft and finally opened it again last year
@@camwyn256 don't worry they removed the killer rabbit for that reason. there are still regular rabbits. man you're gonna love it there's a lot of great stuff. welcome back my friend.
@@camwyn256 if you're looking for a java server, you're welcome to join mine. all my "friends" left. but I hope dearly that you enjoy the game again 😊😊
@@Stici205 It's a kelp farm where the output is fed into a furnace. The furnace cooks the kelp into dried kelp, which you can then turn into dried kelp blocks. It's not 100% automated (you have to turn the dried kelp into kelp blocks manually) but it's a great way of making a mostly self-sustaining fuel farm. With 1.21 and the autocrafter table, it should be possible to make a 100% self-sufficient kelp block farm
I learned 3 things: getting water from sponges, smelting nether bricks to get a cracked variant, and that furnaces store XP inside them. I thought having a hopper with a furnace just took away the XP since you're not physically grabbing the items from the furnace yourself. Now I have to go breaking some furnaces in my world lol...
Put a redstone switch under the output hopper so you can pause the hopper, take the item out to get xp then switch it back to release the items, save breaking and replacing the furnace.
@@superkev1099 Based on how I personally use furnace hoppers, I’d likely benefit more from breaking them, but that’s a good tip for probably most cases!
@@superkev1099 For my array, I have it broken into 3 sections. And each section has a switch which powers a set of repeaters that lock the hoppers under the smelters. Works great. Goes back along the glass, then down an into the repeaters. Even got a redstone lamp to remind me if it's on or not. Love it!
Love that you're starting to post more frequently... Looking forward to your 1.21 content. Appreciate the fact you called out the slab difference in bedrock. Watched a video yesterday that didn't mention that, so basically java specific but the creator didn't specify their advice was for java only.
Instead of going and breaking every furnace in your super smelters, you can attach a switch to all of them and then go and throw at least one item in each to cook, and then flip the switch down and it will lock the furnace from being able to receive anything or deposit the smelted item. When you then go to take the item out, all of the stored xp comes with it.
I actually do use blaze rods for fuel. I've never needed more than half a stack of them for other uses in my worlds, and they're an easy to acquire renewable fuel if you build a blaze farm
@@Swirl_of_StarFire if you have an iron farm (like most probably do), dripstone is so easy to come by that you can just have 20 cauldrons full of lava and as many buckets waiting as you want without even bothering with the nether.
@MGiosparky I usually dig a little ways down so you can't hear the lava on the surface (I do this with most noisy farms) but I don't know what I'd do without my 14 cauldron setup. Such a good farm for being so simple.
17:49 if you have an automatic furnace, just put a lever in front of the hopper below the furnace so that the things you smelt stay in the furnace. Then smelt even just one thing and when you pick it up from the furnace you will get all of the xp stored inside the furnace. I smelt 5 stacks of copper and then took every xp by smelting a single iron ore
I you want the experience stored in an auto-smelter set-up without mining the furnace, you can turn off any hoppers removing items from the smelter (the simplest way is a lever right next to the hopper), wait for an item to be left in the "finished" spot in the smelter, and grab that to get the stored experience. In older versions it's possible to grab items from the smelter before the hopper snags them, but at least since Cliffs and Caves hoppers grab items too quickly to do this.
Grabbing the items out of the furnace yourself defeats the purpose of having the hopper system in the first place. Also, Duh. Also also, it's not that hard to replace your furnaces, lol.
@@michaelguevara5808Here's why you might want to grab items direct from the smelter at least on occasion: "If you want the experience stored in an auto-smelter set-up..." -me 5 months ago. If you don't want the experience, don't do this. At least have intelligent criticism if you're chiming in on a months-old thread.
I learned a few things from this so it's only fair I impart some missing knowledge too. Instead of breaking your hopper furnace and interrupting its cycle, add a lever anywhere on the furnace. Flicking it will stop the furnace from outputting into the hopper, letting you wait for an item to finish smelting so you can take it and withdraw all the stored XP. Flicking it again makes it continue to output into the hopper.
You can also Shift Right-Click a furnace or its variants with lever in a auto Furnace, turning the lever off will stop it funneling the completed items and allow you to take the completed item to obtain all the stored exp without breaking it.
thank you for another great video eyecraftmc, you inspired me to finally implement a smelting system in my newest world. i hope more people watch your videos because you are very knowledgeable and a good role model imo
Returning to minecraft after 8 years, your guides are my absolute favorite to view. Extremely efficient, no time wasting, and relaxing editing. Thank you for these guides
Whenever I set up a new mine, I always build a doubled automatic blast furnace for ores and doubled automatic standard furnace to smelt cobbles for xp and stone for bricks etc. Also got a lava farm for infinite fuel.
Quick tip if you're using bamboo as your fuel source: the most efficient use of bamboo for smelting it to turn it into bamboo blocks and turn those into bamboo planks. (Feel free to check my math there)
Alternatively to the hopper campfire. Place a carpet on top of the campfire, this will prevent you from accidently stepping in it, and will prevent your items from "exploding" off it. Making them instead appear on top of the carpet
Cacti are the best. Get an autofarm, and you'll be awarded with 1 xp per item. The God Particle was created this way, just to be mentioned. Also, kelp is very convenient for fuel. I use lava sometimes, but one stack of kelp blocks is worth slightly less than 13 buckets of lava (7 buckets minus fuel for the kelp itself). Thanks for the tutorial!
I learned the one about the water from sponges way back in 1.8 when I used a lava bucket to dry my sponges. Imagine my surprise when I went back with a replacement lava bucket to find one full of water.
Early game had a zombie farm converting them to drowned , got copper, all the metal armour and weapons stored up then disenchanted anything with enchants which you get xp and then smelted them which gave more xp 😊. Also put a redstone switch under the output hopper so you could easily pause it ,take the item out to get xp and then let it continue .
Hey Eye great vid mate keep it up I never knew that you can smelt sponge and put a bucket once it's smelting and you get water totally new to me keep it up eye love you!!!
wow i didn't know that you get iron nuggets from chain armor,thatnks for the infomation,now my dubble chest full of chain armor will finally have a use
Tree pieces instad of planks used to cook more than it, 2 wood could burn/bake 3 items compared to planks wich only could burn 1 or 1 and a half if I recall correctly, but version 1.6.4
I use bamboo but I might swap to bamboo half slabs once the auto crafter is out. I've got all my bamboo being harvested and then shoved inside shulkers and then those shoulders go to shulker unloaders that feed my 100 furnace array with bamboo via water streams
Whenever I've upgraded my wooden tools to stone (+), I continue to use my wood tools until just before they break & then use them to cook something, usually wood to charcoal.
Never knew you could make cracked bricks thats neat but you dont have to vreak the furnace every time to get the xp just put a lever on it and let it keep collecting and when you want the xp flip the lever and then collect one item from it and you recieve all the xp it has stored then just flip the lever back and let it keep smelting. This is how i run my kelp farm for infinite fuel and quick xp for mending repair tools and armor
I made an auto smelter and I smelt tons and tons of netherrack and then just collect the xp once every while. I use lava buckets as fuel since its in the nether and super easy to almost infinite lava
So I occasionally play the phone version and don't always have a controller to sync with. So whenever I try to get my exp from selt items. I have to grab it one by one. Nice to know I can just brake it and get all my exp at once
Brewing stands, eyes of Ender (to find the stronghold and craft ender chests), end rods… putting them in a furnace is literally the worst thing you can do with them, unless you have a blaze farm and have ridiculous amounts.
I'm here to understand - I've always used charcoal, but should I look for lava or dried kelp block? I never would have thought that lava was a good fuel....
I'd disagree with your order of the efficiency of fuels just by their capability of how many items they smelt. Charcoal is less efficient than coal, because to produce Charcoal you have to spend fuel to get it. Same with the kelp block. It takes some fuel in the first place to get dried kelp. In both cases this reduces the efficiency. 🤔
But consider that the fuel can be anything burnable. Cut down a tree and sacrifice one log to make four planks. Use the planks for fuel to burn the rest of the logs. Start up a tree farm and you’re sacrificing a tiny bit of fuel efficiency for a large gain of time efficiency. With normal coal, you have to spend time finding it (which also means hunger), then your pickaxe durability gets eaten away (so you eventually gotta build a new one). The only real advantage of coal over charcoal, which I may be wrong about (I never actually checked if this is possible), is turning it into blocks. Coal can be turned into coal blocks, charcoal cannot. The high density and stackability of coal blocks, one stack can keep a furnace running for several real life hours
How to build Autosmelters: th-cam.com/video/Oa8YF225GDg/w-d-xo.html
Once I get done cooking this iron I’m gonna smelt this meat.
Makes sense… 😑
I don't remember you bringing this up, but you can smelt off gold netherrack to get a full gold ingot, as opposed to get a max of 8 nuggets with fortune.
You're right
Yup
Actually the max amount of nuggets with Fortune 3 you can get is around 24. But on average it's still way better to smelt the gold ore with Silk touch.
He doesn't mention it here but does in his video about how to mine different ores most efficiently.
Yes sir
Make sure you use the grindstone to take off the enchantments off tools or armor before you smelt them!
Why? Just for the exp?
@@pyroparagon8945yes
I didn't know you could crack bricks in a furnace. I've been playing for a while now but these guides are really informative, I've learned several things watching your videos, keep up the good work!
they add a lot to ancient looking builds
I'm getting back into Minecraft after a LONG break. These videos have been very useful.
Last I really played before 2023 was back when rabbits were just added.
Opened up to the new update, creating a brand new world. Immediately came across a rabbit, then a killer rabbit that killed me. Closed Minecraft and finally opened it again last year
@@camwyn256 don't worry they removed the killer rabbit for that reason. there are still regular rabbits. man you're gonna love it there's a lot of great stuff. welcome back my friend.
@@dontworry4945I really want to see the Deep Dark for myself.
And now the Nether is actually varied with biomes, instead of hardly anything there
@@camwyn256 if you're looking for a java server, you're welcome to join mine. all my "friends" left. but I hope dearly that you enjoy the game again 😊😊
7:02 « what else can you do »
Proceeds to jump in a lake of fire lol
“Now this is certainly one way to cook your items up, theyll just be a little well done.”
protip for smelting, setup a lava-cauldron-dripstone setup next to your furnaces and never have to worry about fuel ever again.
Or build a kelp exploit machine. That is how I do it.
@@dannypipewrench533what's that?
@@Stici205 It's a kelp farm where the output is fed into a furnace. The furnace cooks the kelp into dried kelp, which you can then turn into dried kelp blocks. It's not 100% automated (you have to turn the dried kelp into kelp blocks manually) but it's a great way of making a mostly self-sustaining fuel farm. With 1.21 and the autocrafter table, it should be possible to make a 100% self-sufficient kelp block farm
@@Stray7 oh okay thanks cause i needed some xp before building a golf farm 👍
what about iron to bucket it
I learned 3 things: getting water from sponges, smelting nether bricks to get a cracked variant, and that furnaces store XP inside them. I thought having a hopper with a furnace just took away the XP since you're not physically grabbing the items from the furnace yourself. Now I have to go breaking some furnaces in my world lol...
Same here :)
Put a redstone switch under the output hopper so you can pause the hopper, take the item out to get xp then switch it back to release the items, save breaking and replacing the furnace.
@@superkev1099 Based on how I personally use furnace hoppers, I’d likely benefit more from breaking them, but that’s a good tip for probably most cases!
@@superkev1099 You can also put a switch on the furnace itself to lock it from dropping into the hopper a similar effect.
@@superkev1099 For my array, I have it broken into 3 sections. And each section has a switch which powers a set of repeaters that lock the hoppers under the smelters. Works great. Goes back along the glass, then down an into the repeaters. Even got a redstone lamp to remind me if it's on or not. Love it!
Love that you're starting to post more frequently... Looking forward to your 1.21 content. Appreciate the fact you called out the slab difference in bedrock. Watched a video yesterday that didn't mention that, so basically java specific but the creator didn't specify their advice was for java only.
Instead of going and breaking every furnace in your super smelters, you can attach a switch to all of them and then go and throw at least one item in each to cook, and then flip the switch down and it will lock the furnace from being able to receive anything or deposit the smelted item. When you then go to take the item out, all of the stored xp comes with it.
good tutorial man
also very random but if you are gonna use a ton of bamboo for fuel, just convert it to sticks before so its a lot more condensed
Even better, convert it to bamboo planks for even more efficiency!
I actually do use blaze rods for fuel. I've never needed more than half a stack of them for other uses in my worlds, and they're an easy to acquire renewable fuel if you build a blaze farm
Is there much use to do that now that lava is farmable? It's a better fuel and much earlier game.
The use is that I never bother to build a lava farm, and gathering blaze rods is technically faster than waiting for lava to gather
@@Swirl_of_StarFire if you have an iron farm (like most probably do), dripstone is so easy to come by that you can just have 20 cauldrons full of lava and as many buckets waiting as you want without even bothering with the nether.
@@pyroparagon8945Agreed. I do that almost anywhere we put furnaces. Endless fuel.
@MGiosparky I usually dig a little ways down so you can't hear the lava on the surface (I do this with most noisy farms) but I don't know what I'd do without my 14 cauldron setup. Such a good farm for being so simple.
I’ve been playing Minecraft for longer than I care to think about or admit, but you always manage to teach me something new!
17:49 if you have an automatic furnace, just put a lever in front of the hopper below the furnace so that the things you smelt stay in the furnace. Then smelt even just one thing and when you pick it up from the furnace you will get all of the xp stored inside the furnace. I smelt 5 stacks of copper and then took every xp by smelting a single iron ore
Thank for the guide now I can make my base butiful and one time I was traveling 25 000 block for terrcota and I like your guide ☺️😃
Yooo another guide! Love your vids you’re the definition of quality content! Keep up the amazing work ❤
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I always use jukeboxes to smelt my silk touched diamond block!
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I ain’t glazing nothing..
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13:00, PLEASE DO NOT convert logs into planks for fuel, if you used them for fuel, make charcoal instead.
It depends on the quantity of items to be smelted, some players tend to cook 1 or 2 with a coal
I you want the experience stored in an auto-smelter set-up without mining the furnace, you can turn off any hoppers removing items from the smelter (the simplest way is a lever right next to the hopper), wait for an item to be left in the "finished" spot in the smelter, and grab that to get the stored experience. In older versions it's possible to grab items from the smelter before the hopper snags them, but at least since Cliffs and Caves hoppers grab items too quickly to do this.
Grabbing the items out of the furnace yourself defeats the purpose of having the hopper system in the first place. Also, Duh. Also also, it's not that hard to replace your furnaces, lol.
@@michaelguevara5808Here's why you might want to grab items direct from the smelter at least on occasion: "If you want the experience stored in an auto-smelter set-up..." -me 5 months ago. If you don't want the experience, don't do this. At least have intelligent criticism if you're chiming in on a months-old thread.
@@ItsMrBozToYou If you want experience, it's better to just break the furnaces as they store XP, as opposed to denying the auto-smelter it's purpose.
Because replacing the smelter after it falls into the hoppers is *totally* faster and less annoying than... a lever. I'll keep that in mind.
these guide videos have helped me so much, thank you a billion times ❤
12:20 Blaze rods are actually quite decent as a fuel source if you own a blaze farm in the Nether.
Was about to say this
I learned a few things from this so it's only fair I impart some missing knowledge too.
Instead of breaking your hopper furnace and interrupting its cycle, add a lever anywhere on the furnace. Flicking it will stop the furnace from outputting into the hopper, letting you wait for an item to finish smelting so you can take it and withdraw all the stored XP. Flicking it again makes it continue to output into the hopper.
You can also Shift Right-Click a furnace or its variants with lever in a auto Furnace, turning the lever off will stop it funneling the completed items and allow you to take the completed item to obtain all the stored exp without breaking it.
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Thank you so much for every video
Completely iconic
Like always your videos are very helpful. Thank you!
Super thorough video! Thanks!
happy to see the frequent uploads, its always chilling watching this stuff I swear
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Had no idea you could smelt bricks to crack them, especially cracked nether bricks! Sweet!
The way this dude pronounces the word "minecraft" is the main thing that keeps me watching these videos.
Great video! I’m pretty sure you can smelt a nether block to get red nether brinks instead of the dark red ones.
thank you for another great video eyecraftmc, you inspired me to finally implement a smelting system in my newest world. i hope more people watch your videos because you are very knowledgeable and a good role model imo
Didn't know about putting the bucket in the furnace under the wet sponge! Nice video
really precise and good video, keep up the good work!
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Returning to minecraft after 8 years, your guides are my absolute favorite to view. Extremely efficient, no time wasting, and relaxing editing. Thank you for these guides
They should add a kiln. The kiln will let you smelt sand, clay, terracotta, and stone twice as fast as a furnace.
Wow, this is quite a bit of research for you. THank you
Whenever I set up a new mine, I always build a doubled automatic blast furnace for ores and doubled automatic standard furnace to smelt cobbles for xp and stone for bricks etc. Also got a lava farm for infinite fuel.
Quick tip if you're using bamboo as your fuel source: the most efficient use of bamboo for smelting it to turn it into bamboo blocks and turn those into bamboo planks. (Feel free to check my math there)
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Your videos are awesome!! :) I'm learning more about Minecraft than ever before!
Alternatively to the hopper campfire. Place a carpet on top of the campfire, this will prevent you from accidently stepping in it, and will prevent your items from "exploding" off it. Making them instead appear on top of the carpet
Some future stuff with the crafter may be using the crafter to turn bamboo to sticks and use that to fuel a furnace.
Yes. And auto crafting kelp blocks as well.
Really good video keep it up 👍
Cacti are the best. Get an autofarm, and you'll be awarded with 1 xp per item. The God Particle was created this way, just to be mentioned. Also, kelp is very convenient for fuel. I use lava sometimes, but one stack of kelp blocks is worth slightly less than 13 buckets of lava (7 buckets minus fuel for the kelp itself). Thanks for the tutorial!
@acorn9134 put a lever on the furnace, turn the hopper off, take out the smelted items, get xp
This was a very helpful video even for Minecraft veterans. I sure did not know all the fuel sources
I learned the one about the water from sponges way back in 1.8 when I used a lava bucket to dry my sponges. Imagine my surprise when I went back with a replacement lava bucket to find one full of water.
the real ultimate guide
Early game had a zombie farm converting them to drowned , got copper, all the metal armour and weapons stored up then disenchanted anything with enchants which you get xp and then smelted them which gave more xp 😊. Also put a redstone switch under the output hopper so you could easily pause it ,take the item out to get xp and then let it continue .
Hey Eye great vid mate keep it up I never knew that you can smelt sponge and put a bucket once it's smelting and you get water totally new to me keep it up eye love you!!!
wow i didn't know that you get iron nuggets from chain armor,thatnks for the infomation,now my dubble chest full of chain armor will finally have a use
This just came out as I was binging your content
New eyecraft video let's goooo
Tree pieces instad of planks used to cook more than it, 2 wood could burn/bake 3 items compared to planks wich only could burn 1 or 1 and a half if I recall correctly, but version 1.6.4
I was literally about to look this up on TH-cam then your vid popped up in my sub box 😂🔥
The sponge and water bucket is insane I am shooked
There is one exception to smelting ore blocks though, you should smelt gold blocks from the nether because it will guarentee 1 gold ingot
After watching this video I''ve achived the Ph.D on smelting Item in Minecraft .
I use bamboo but I might swap to bamboo half slabs once the auto crafter is out. I've got all my bamboo being harvested and then shoved inside shulkers and then those shoulders go to shulker unloaders that feed my 100 furnace array with bamboo via water streams
You taught me how to Minecraft again
Whenever I've upgraded my wooden tools to stone (+), I continue to use my wood tools until just before they break & then use them to cook something, usually wood to charcoal.
I have always thought that using a hopper system for smelters just meant that you forfeited the XP. I had no clue that it would store the XP 🤯
With Saplings, your better off trying to bone meal them. Bamboo works awesome if you let a farm build up an auto-smelt array. 😁
I would love a video about surviving in different spawn scenarios and biomes.
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can you make a guide about all golems?
It's just 2
@@plefughiop7877 3🗿
Shulker golem🗿
@@plefughiop7877 oh i thought there were more
Never knew you could make cracked bricks thats neat but you dont have to vreak the furnace every time to get the xp just put a lever on it and let it keep collecting and when you want the xp flip the lever and then collect one item from it and you recieve all the xp it has stored then just flip the lever back and let it keep smelting. This is how i run my kelp farm for infinite fuel and quick xp for mending repair tools and armor
I made an auto smelter and I smelt tons and tons of netherrack and then just collect the xp once every while. I use lava buckets as fuel since its in the nether and super easy to almost infinite lava
So I occasionally play the phone version and don't always have a controller to sync with. So whenever I try to get my exp from selt items. I have to grab it one by one. Nice to know I can just brake it and get all my exp at once
Make a guide about commands blocks and structure blocks
We want more videos eyecraft, PLEASE...❤
I think you forgot that cactus gives 1 exp per item when smelted on java edition.
One advantage of campfires I didn't hear mentioned is the 0 fuel cost once set up.
thanku soo much
Dried kelp block, very useful information right there
These videos are so chill. Much love eyecraft
Always super-informative. Ty
I have a buddy that turns furnaces into xp dispensers. Instead of breaking them he puts a lever on them, flip the switch and xp flows out.
Don't cook with logs. Cook the logs into charcoal first.
You can use boats, wooden tools and even crafting tables as fuel for the furnace
What else should I be using blaze rods for??
Brewing stands, eyes of Ender (to find the stronghold and craft ender chests), end rods… putting them in a furnace is literally the worst thing you can do with them, unless you have a blaze farm and have ridiculous amounts.
@@mrzklein A blaze farm gives me thousands of rods. 1 rods smelts 12 items, one simple farm makes extremely easy to smelt ton of items
I'm here to understand - I've always used charcoal, but should I look for lava or dried kelp block? I never would have thought that lava was a good fuel....
it's be nice if we can smelt raw ore blocks even if it takes 9x as long to smelt you can dump alot more ores and forget about for a while
Dommage je suis français donc je comprends pas tes vidéos ( elle ont l'air cool ) 😺
Mojang should add a Type of furnace that smelts blocks fast like Glass, Smooth Stone & Cut Sandstone.
Thank you😢❤
Nice
I love lamp
I would like to see Minecraft create a kiln - a double-time smelter for stone items.
I didnt know about the cracked bricks.
I wish there was a way to load and unload the empty buckets when using lava
Can you give a guide of the new trail chambers ??😊
I will stay with my bamboo farms for now. Just too easy to build and still so good
Presumably you can also crack Red Nether Brick?
Do you ever plan to livestream again? I really miss it and I’m sure I’m not the only one :).
I'd disagree with your order of the efficiency of fuels just by their capability of how many items they smelt. Charcoal is less efficient than coal, because to produce Charcoal you have to spend fuel to get it. Same with the kelp block. It takes some fuel in the first place to get dried kelp. In both cases this reduces the efficiency. 🤔
But consider that the fuel can be anything burnable. Cut down a tree and sacrifice one log to make four planks. Use the planks for fuel to burn the rest of the logs. Start up a tree farm and you’re sacrificing a tiny bit of fuel efficiency for a large gain of time efficiency. With normal coal, you have to spend time finding it (which also means hunger), then your pickaxe durability gets eaten away (so you eventually gotta build a new one).
The only real advantage of coal over charcoal, which I may be wrong about (I never actually checked if this is possible), is turning it into blocks. Coal can be turned into coal blocks, charcoal cannot. The high density and stackability of coal blocks, one stack can keep a furnace running for several real life hours
Smelting cactus gives 1 xp, so you can make xp farm-bank from connecting cactus farm to autosmelter