The bar may have gone up slightly since then, im not entirely sure, but it seems to be doing the same thing 11 hours later. Ive smelted about 6 stacks of charcoal trying to bring it up. Hopefully this video is slightly helpful. It could possibly have something to do with my laptop as it has caused problems in the past, but I guess im not sure if the device could have something to do with it either. Thank you for looking into it!
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I tried my skeleton farm and it did in fact work, sorry about taking up your time. thanks for helping though!