Fast furnace interaction

Setos78

So that shift+right-click on the furnace with an item in your hands - places the item in the furnace, and vice versa - shift right-click with an empty hand on the furnace - takes items from the furnace

luveelvoom

Would this just affect the item input/output slots or the fuel slot too?

Setos78

shift+right-click on the furnace with an item in your hands, then:

If an item can only be used as a fuel (e.g. coal) - place it in the fuel slot
If an item can only be used as a smelted item (e.g. ore) - place it in the smelting slot
If an item can be used in both slots (e.g. wood log) - try to place it in the fuel slot, if the fuel slot is occupied - place it in the smelting slot
shift right-click with an empty hand on the furnace, then:
Always just get the item from the result
(Perhaps shift+LMB will be better than shift+RMB with an empty hand, because it will allow you to collect items from multiple furnace faster)

Wormbo

Considering there's absolutely no reason to ever put a log into the fuel slot, I'd say the priority should be:

If it's a smeltable item, attempt to put it into the input slot.
If it's a fuel item that is neither a smeltable item nor enchanted, attempt to put it into the fuel slot. (Don't want to accidentally burn your good bow.)
If you can't put an item into the furnace through one of the above options (i.e. not holding an appropriate item, or corresponding slot is full), attempt to take out the smelting result.

I guess Shift+Punch to allow extracting a result while holding an appropriate item also works.
Also you need to be really careful with placeable items. Shift+right-click is the key combination to place blocks against usable blocks, e.g. for waterlogging a chest or stacking droppers. That could go poorly when shift-clicking a lava bucket against a furnace.

luveelvoom

Wormbo If the fuel item is iron and the player doesn't have a diamond or better tool of the same type it also shouldn't put it into the slot, right?

Wormbo

Probably not. The "is not enchanted" part should likely match the criteria a click on a recipe in the crafting book uses to determine which items to put into the crafting grid. It won't put enchanted or damaged items into the grid, but a fully repaired item would be fine. Keep in mind the player still has 10 seconds to grab the tool from the furnace after accidentally putting it in, if there's fuel already.

luveelvoom

Wormbo ah, good point