Feature Suggestion:

• Cooked Items will be placed on top of the furnace, instead of dropped on the ground.
• The Crafting Book (1.12) will show up, by placing a second Crafting Table next to one.
  Thanks for this Mod!!

Thanks for your suggestions! The furnace worked like that in my initial drafts, but I decided against it, since "magically" moving the items somewhere felt wrong to me.

Crafting book support is planned and I've already got some ideas for it (a "drawer" in the table that you can expand to see an in-world version of the book), but I have to flesh them out some more.

What about a Pan for upgrading the Furnace in the later Game. Early Game would be the same as now, later we can craft a Pan where the Meat will be cooked. Bread has to be baked inside the Furnace.
Would be similar to the Hammer on the Anvil.
thanks for the answers

the Idea with the Drawer sounds really nice!