gravel is useful for creating scaffolding that you want to come down easily, plus it drops flint. you know wats useless? brick. absolutely no use but looking ugly and taking up clay, which most people say is very rare altuohg not for me.
I have to disagree with all the gravel haters. I like to use gravel to make inset gravel roads between my castles. As long as It's at ground level, and not above it, it looks fine. As for the block I hate, I have to agree with the leaf people. Leaves are probably the most annoying block in the game. You can't harvest or place them, they NEVER go away any more, and I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the rate of sapling drop has gone WAY down since the boo update.
Pumpkins: They're very uncommon (I have 2 on my current world, and Cartograph claims there are a grand total of 6), and I have no use for them. I simply collect them because then I'll have them when I need them. (read: never)
Cactus: I'm fascinated by automatic cactus factories, and every world I've ever seriously played on has one. What do I do with all my cactus? I cram it in a chest. One of my worlds has three double chests full to the brim with cactus, and you know what the only thing I ever use cacti for is? Making that initial cactus factory. I get multiple stacks every time I stop by there, and I never use it. Ever.
Oh, and solid iron blocks. I have almost a stack of them, and I burn through (no pun intended) flint and steel pretty fast in the Nether. That means, every time I need a flint and steel, I have to dismantle a block, take one iron bar, and put the 8 bars in another space in the chest. I have plenty of space in that chest. Why do I care if I take up one more space? I don't know, but it bothers me.
The blocks I love (aside from the obvious things like diamond):
Bookcases: They look nifty.
Reeds: They're fun to harvest, running around punching madly. Plus they fund my bookcases.
Gravel: As I mentioned earlier, I burn through flint and steel pretty fast, and pretty soon I'll start hunting ghasts. Plus, gravel is great for a quick elevator up to that one block in the ceiling that needs fixing. If I'm successful, I can mine it on the way down and get some flint. If I die, I can just mine the bottom one and stick a torch to collapse it. Easy, right?
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Sanity is a carrot. You find it green and easy to find, but the deeper you go, it turns funny colors and narrows down to nothing.
I think gravel would be less annoying to me personally if it didnt sound so WET when i walked through it. I cant construct anything with it because I cant stand walking on it.
Gravel does not stop you from moving through it after it falls on you, if you are ever surrounded on all sidesand suffocating to death by gravel, you should stay away from deathtraps and/or be more observant.
I build just about everything out of gravel, myself, as I find gravity-using blocks to be very useful in my construction designs, and sand is more useful for TNT/Glass.
Least favorite block is slowsand, as I run into huge plains of it while under attack by numerous ghasts.
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Pumpkins: They're very uncommon (I have 2 on my current world, and Cartograph claims there are a grand total of 6), and I have no use for them. I simply collect them because then I'll have them when I need them. (read: never)
Cactus: I'm fascinated by automatic cactus factories, and every world I've ever seriously played on has one. What do I do with all my cactus? I cram it in a chest. One of my worlds has three double chests full to the brim with cactus, and you know what the only thing I ever use cacti for is? Making that initial cactus factory. I get multiple stacks every time I stop by there, and I never use it. Ever.
Oh, and solid iron blocks. I have almost a stack of them, and I burn through (no pun intended) flint and steel pretty fast in the Nether. That means, every time I need a flint and steel, I have to dismantle a block, take one iron bar, and put the 8 bars in another space in the chest. I have plenty of space in that chest. Why do I care if I take up one more space? I don't know, but it bothers me.
The blocks I love (aside from the obvious things like diamond):
Bookcases: They look nifty.
Reeds: They're fun to harvest, running around punching madly. Plus they fund my bookcases.
Gravel: As I mentioned earlier, I burn through flint and steel pretty fast, and pretty soon I'll start hunting ghasts. Plus, gravel is great for a quick elevator up to that one block in the ceiling that needs fixing. If I'm successful, I can mine it on the way down and get some flint. If I die, I can just mine the bottom one and stick a torch to collapse it. Easy, right?
I build just about everything out of gravel, myself, as I find gravity-using blocks to be very useful in my construction designs, and sand is more useful for TNT/Glass.
Least favorite block is slowsand, as I run into huge plains of it while under attack by numerous ghasts.
Venit, quessit, induravit.
2.Random water currents in caves that arent connected to oceans
i dont hate gravel,just when im mining
and to all gravel haters that say you cant build with it:
It is Perfectly possible to build with gravel
(10/5/15) If you want to have a laugh, go look at some of my posts from back in ~2010 ( i was 10/11 what can i say)
(02/12/21) cannot believe i still play this game
Not safe, but possible. If I have a wall that is 8 or more blocks wide, It is filled with gravel. :smile.gif: So much easier to make walls.
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you know you have to destroy them by hand... but IT SUCKS BALLS TO DO IT
Leaves. The only block I wish had gravity, doesn't.
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