Can repeatedly mining & smelting stone be efficient for gaining xp?

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Since 12w22, smelting yields experience orbs.

Stone, when mined with a normal pickaxe (without silk touch enchantment), yields cobblestone.

Smelting cobblestone yields stone and some experience orbs (according to the wiki it's 0.1 xp).

So if one keep smelting cobblestone to stone, then mine the stone to get cobblestone, then keep this going, could it be an efficient way for gaining experience orbs?

Don't ask me to try before seeing definite answers because I afraid it would take a lot of time.

EDIT:

I don't want anybody to try to waste their own time and give me an empirical answer. I expect seeing some sort of calculation which probably involves probability, and also taking account of something that I may have missed.

Li-aung Yip · Accepted Answer

You can indeed get experience orbs by smelting common materials, but you have to use coal or charcoal to do the smelting.

Coal is a limited resource and charcoal requires farming, so this isn't quite a game-breaking XP generation loop.

Benindaend · Answer

It would give you Much XP, But would damage your pick.
I would not recomend this

NoicTheBrave · Answer

You literally just use the lava from the nether: 1 lava=100 smelt.
And use a bunch of stone picks. Might as well with all the cobble you just mined up.

Shraman · Answer

Umm using like 7 auto bamboo or sugarcane farm will give the fuel
And stripmine for dimonds will eventually give 4 to 5 stack cobble each day so its super effective

Can repeatedly mining & smelting stone be efficient for gaining xp?

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