Recently, I saw a thread in Beta - Survival talking about Mossy Cobblestone and how people use it. A few people said they use it for making cobblestone towers look older and more like ruins. I liked this idea, but one thing kinda struck me: Its a little too hard to get all that mossy stone.
Here's what my suggestion is: Make it possible for mossy cobblestone to "grow" on regular cobblestone. Now, normally, this would lead to people making gigantic fields of cobblestone to harvest mossy stone, but, say it was only possible to happen when it was raining? With weather being as rare as it is, it would only make sense if it was only possible to be "generated by the user" if it required something that can't be controlled, just like finding a dungeon, there isn't a whole ton of user input to actually find one.
As for actual percentages, it clearly wouldn't be 100%, or even 50%. Somewhere around 10-15% chance for a piece of cobblestone to become mossy would sit about right with me.
Also, just to get it out of the way, I do not build with cobblestone, regular and mossy, so this is in no way a "waaa I want moar mossy" type of idea. Just something I thought would be interesting to see included.
Here's what my suggestion is: Make it possible for mossy cobblestone to "grow" on regular cobblestone. Now, normally, this would lead to people making gigantic fields of cobblestone to harvest mossy stone, but, say it was only possible to happen when it was raining? With weather being as rare as it is, it would only make sense if it was only possible to be "generated by the user" if it required something that can't be controlled, just like finding a dungeon, there isn't a whole ton of user input to actually find one.
As for actual percentages, it clearly wouldn't be 100%, or even 50%. Somewhere around 10-15% chance for a piece of cobblestone to become mossy would sit about right with me.
Also, just to get it out of the way, I do not build with cobblestone, regular and mossy, so this is in no way a "waaa I want moar mossy" type of idea. Just something I thought would be interesting to see included.