Hidden Minecraft Mechanics and Efficiency

You are completely wasting your coal resources. A single block of coal smelts eighty

items, which is significantly more than the seventy-two you get from nine separate pieces.

It is literally free efficiency just for crafting a block. But the game mechanics

go deeper. Your farms might be failing simply because they cross chunk borders,

since the game processes each chunk individually. Even redstone has a hidden update order,

meaning nothing actually activates at the exact same time. Once you understand

how the code calculates pathfinding and spawn limits, you stop playing a survival game

and start running a machine.