Talk:Tungsten/@comment-212.30.220.68-20170820132653

Hi,

You might want to smelt the nether blocks into bricks and then make blocks out of those bricks.

The reason is to increase the chances of getting any elements. The chance of extracting anything from netherrack is 10%, 15% from a nether-brick but it's supposed to be 100% from a nether-brick-block. I have actually not compared the different possibilities between elements when decomposing is a success but they seem to be identical at a glance.

Actually, although the NEI does not mention any chances when decomposing nether-brick-blocks I do not get 100% hitrate. I've tried this twice with 16 block stack (64 netherracks) and 32 block stack (128 netherracks) respectively. The first time I got 12 hits (75% hitrate), the second time I got 30 hits! (94% hitrate).

Anyway, a stack of 64 netherracts is likely to give around 6 hits, 64 nether bricks around 9 hits, and finally 16 nether-brick-blocks somewhere around 12 to 15 hits. :)