[Feature Request]: The oven should qualify as a heat source for Farmer's Delight cooking pots and pans

[ClockworkCorvus]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Not necessarily a problem but rather a perfect opportunity.

This little spot on top of the oven seems like the perfect heat source when the oven is burning fuel, I'd reckon it even looks like the burner on an old stove, but it doesn't function as such

Solution(s)

By making it so when the oven counts as a Farmer's Delight heat source when it is currently burning fuel, it would allow the player to not only use the oven to cook things in it, but to use its heat to cook stuff on top of it in a pot or pan.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Being the nature of this suggestion is a compatibility request, idk what else I can put here

Mod Version

3.0.6

Mod Loader Version

1.20.1-47.1.104

Mod Loader

NeoForge

Additional context

No response

[jshipley]

This is very easy to do, but it seems weird.

The Handcrafted oven is a smoker (and even says "Smoker" in the GUI). The problem is that it is only "lit" (and thus treated as a heat source" while something is cooking inside it. So even if you load it up with fuel, you also have to load it up with food to cook or else the pot/skillet won't cook any food on top. There's a reason why Farmer's Delight didn't just use the furnace/smoker as a heat source, and why the FD stove is more like a campfire than a furnace.

You can see the branch in my fork, but it just felt wrong and I didn't want to submit a PR for it.

I do think this is a good idea and the oven certainly looks like it should be a good heat source, but I think that a better solution would be a little more involved.

Here's my suggestion: create a new GUI menu for the Oven and give it a toggle. When the toggle is enabled, it will continue burning fuel and stay lit even with no ingredients in the input slot.

Then the oven could be a nice looking/useful heat source for Farmer's Delight cooking, Create mixing, Ex Deorum crucibles, etc.