hokay. i have no water ideas RIGHT NOW but actually i have one for sand.
sand dust.
when you break some sand, it shouldn't drop sand, it should drop sand dust. which is yellow dust like redstone dust, and when you get it, you can take it in a 4x4 grid, as the sand drops 4 dust, and when you put 4 in a cube on a crafting table, it makes a sand block.
You want sand to drop sand, but also occasionally sand? "Sand dust" doesn't exist - sand is already fine enough, if you really like, to call it "sand dust". Not brilliant.
Sand from stone is also ludicrous, considering stone is formed from magma or lava cooling (way long ago when the Earth was still a giant ball of lava). Sand - which is primarily made up of silica (tiny particles of silicon) - formed when from a few different ways; Most of the Mediterranean sand and the surrounding areas were created by parrot fish (which shows you how animals impact the environment. Most other beaches are a combination of surface rock corrosion, but is primarily silicon because "rock" is actually heavier and forms a sublayer (where sand becomes more grainy than fine) that you can find if you dig about ten or fifteen feet down. The final contribution is from crushed and eroded shells of animals over millenia. These are the primary reasons sand is how it is. You will never create sand by hitting it with a pickaxe unless you can propell your pickaxe rapidly enough to cause the entire rock to burst.
If you want to see a brilliant idea, search the forum or google "Finite Liquid." It's incredible, especially when you play it yourself (only works on new maps).
This brilliant sand-related idea is more general; if you want to make microchips (in the mods that use them) smelt sand into silicon for that purpose, which can be used for various chips, which make a block of redstone function like gates (like the default repeater).
I don't have any water-related ideas because Finite Liquid already made all of them real.
no. Stone should drop sand, since sand is tiny stone particles.
Isn't that logic backwards? "Because sand is made of stone, stone is made of sand" doesn't work, not to mention it's a horrible, counterintuitive idea to the way Minecraft is designed.
What? Please don't make a megathread for two completely different subjects. Especially not when you don't have an actual suggetion for every subject. This is not a megathread. It's a minithread.
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sand dust.
when you break some sand, it shouldn't drop sand, it should drop sand dust. which is yellow dust like redstone dust, and when you get it, you can take it in a 4x4 grid, as the sand drops 4 dust, and when you put 4 in a cube on a crafting table, it makes a sand block.
You want sand to drop sand, but also occasionally sand? "Sand dust" doesn't exist - sand is already fine enough, if you really like, to call it "sand dust". Not brilliant.
Sand from stone is also ludicrous, considering stone is formed from magma or lava cooling (way long ago when the Earth was still a giant ball of lava). Sand - which is primarily made up of silica (tiny particles of silicon) - formed when from a few different ways; Most of the Mediterranean sand and the surrounding areas were created by parrot fish (which shows you how animals impact the environment. Most other beaches are a combination of surface rock corrosion, but is primarily silicon because "rock" is actually heavier and forms a sublayer (where sand becomes more grainy than fine) that you can find if you dig about ten or fifteen feet down. The final contribution is from crushed and eroded shells of animals over millenia. These are the primary reasons sand is how it is. You will never create sand by hitting it with a pickaxe unless you can propell your pickaxe rapidly enough to cause the entire rock to burst.
If you want to see a brilliant idea, search the forum or google "Finite Liquid." It's incredible, especially when you play it yourself (only works on new maps).
This brilliant sand-related idea is more general; if you want to make microchips (in the mods that use them) smelt sand into silicon for that purpose, which can be used for various chips, which make a block of redstone function like gates (like the default repeater).
I don't have any water-related ideas because Finite Liquid already made all of them real.
Isn't that logic backwards? "Because sand is made of stone, stone is made of sand" doesn't work, not to mention it's a horrible, counterintuitive idea to the way Minecraft is designed.