by sabinati » Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:53 pm
here's the deal with ovens, kilns, smelters, and anything else you put things in and fuel:
the server has "ticks", that it uses to measure passage of time, it's server-wide so it doesn't have to calculate it for individual objects. each tick is approximately 6 minutes.
when you put something, e.g. dough, in an oven, the ticks are counted as if it was burning already, even though it's not. a unit of fuel burns for one tick. so for bread, you need to put it in, wait at least 2 ticks, add 1 tick of fuel (a branch) and light it. you can leave it more ticks, as long as you only use 1 branch. charcoal, blocks, boards are all 2 or more ticks of fuel.