Originally posted by Raven:

when there is nothing magical about it?
no eternal flame inside it, guess the only magical thing it does is to
"spit it out in a block"

but thats not very impressive, so.. why the special ingredient?

There is "something magical" about almost every aspect of this game... animated wooden creatures, deer Boss that shoots lightning,... actually when it comes down to it ... each and every biome is filled with magically embued creatures.

Even the player is magically re-animated, because if we are paying attention, we died in battle and now been brought to this strange plane of existence.

Surtlings are fire elementals, so what's wrong with needing their fire essence or "cores" in order to make our furnaces, kilns etc.?

This game isn't for everyone, especially those who want a simple / casual type of game... It's not a game for the "lazy" players who just want to cruise around and easily defeat everything without investing the time into gathering the resources, and upgrading their equipment / food / skills.

Pretty sure the devs aren't going to "dumb it down", so best bet is either play it as-is or find a different game... *shrug*