When you mine diamonds, you get a diamond. When you mine stone, you get cobble. When you mine redstone, you get red dust. When you mine lapis, you get ... lapis.
The new Chisel will allow you to actually mine the diamond ore block, stone block, lapis block, and redstone ore block (and other blocks that might change when you mine) 'as is'.
It can be crafted in the 2x2 window, using a piece of iron and a diamond.
The drawback, is it takes equivalent time to mine the diamond ore block, lapis ore block, redstone ore block, or stone block, as it does to mine a block of obsidian. Thus the chisel would only be useful if you want to take redstone ore with you, or move a misplaced stone block.
However it is a utility tool, and would have some interesting uses.
Addendum:
It can even be used to harvest ice blocks from winter biomes to take with you. Think of that, movable ice! Which can stack, and then be broken for water... finally, stackable water "buckets" so to speak...
The drawback, is it takes equivalent time to mine the diamond ore block, lapis ore block, redstone ore block, or stone block, as it does to mine a block of obsidian. Thus the chisel would only be useful if you want to take redstone ore with you, or move a misplaced stone block.
I wouldn't bother getting diamond/redstone ore if it took as long as obsidian. I actually quite like the idea of having an extra way to get stone instead of smelting cobble but even for a single miplaced stone block I would just go and smelt a single cobble instead of hitting it with my chisel for 30 seconds.
It would let you lave lapis or redstone blocks to place, IE build with. It does take 9 lapis to make a cube of it, but with this one could have the block 'as is'.. It's always a treat to have this.
I'd love 'placable redstone ore blocks' or the same with lapis.
The best use is ice. I think all of us would love to harvest/place ice.
I like the idea. I want to cover the three main uses of it: Collecting smoothstone, collecting ores, collecting ice.
Obviously it's faster to just smelt vast quantities of cobblestone into smoothstone if you're building a large structure. But if you're moving one or two stone blocks you put in the wrong place, or accidentally break something, the chisel would allow a quicker fix than going back to your furnace or smoothstone storage chest.
Collecting ores has some nice decorative uses. However redstone ore has practical uses in BUD switches, which is a redstone contraption that can automatically detect a block change. Redstone ore starts glowing when struck or stepped on, and that change can be used to trigger BUDs. Right now the only way of moving redstone ore into place is to push it up from deep underground with a piston, which is a bit ridiculous.
And obviously ice collection would be really nice. I'm not sure why Notch doesn't add the ability to place ice when it's clearly in high demand.
I like the idea. I want to cover the three main uses of it: Collecting smoothstone, collecting ores, collecting ice.
Obviously it's faster to just smelt vast quantities of cobblestone into smoothstone if you're building a large structure. But if you're moving one or two stone blocks you put in the wrong place, or accidentally break something, the chisel would allow a quicker fix than going back to your furnace or smoothstone storage chest.
Collecting ores has some nice decorative uses. However redstone ore has practical uses in BUD switches, which is a redstone contraption that can automatically detect a block change. Redstone ore starts glowing when struck or stepped on, and that change can be used to trigger BUDs. Right now the only way of moving redstone ore into place is to push it up from deep underground with a piston, which is a bit ridiculous.
And obviously ice collection would be really nice. I'm not sure why Notch doesn't add the ability to place ice when it's clearly in high demand.
You've hit the idea spot-on. A chisel is an 'exacto' tool, not a mining tool. It's for delicate and/or precise harvesting, thus limited to certain things. The durability is the same as any diamond tool.
The new Chisel will allow you to actually mine the diamond ore block, stone block, lapis block, and redstone ore block (and other blocks that might change when you mine) 'as is'.
It can be crafted in the 2x2 window, using a piece of iron and a diamond.
The drawback, is it takes equivalent time to mine the diamond ore block, lapis ore block, redstone ore block, or stone block, as it does to mine a block of obsidian. Thus the chisel would only be useful if you want to take redstone ore with you, or move a misplaced stone block.
However it is a utility tool, and would have some interesting uses.
Addendum:
It can even be used to harvest ice blocks from winter biomes to take with you. Think of that, movable ice! Which can stack, and then be broken for water... finally, stackable water "buckets" so to speak...
Comments?
I wouldn't bother getting diamond/redstone ore if it took as long as obsidian. I actually quite like the idea of having an extra way to get stone instead of smelting cobble but even for a single miplaced stone block I would just go and smelt a single cobble instead of hitting it with my chisel for 30 seconds.
I'd love 'placable redstone ore blocks' or the same with lapis.
The best use is ice. I think all of us would love to harvest/place ice.
Obviously it's faster to just smelt vast quantities of cobblestone into smoothstone if you're building a large structure. But if you're moving one or two stone blocks you put in the wrong place, or accidentally break something, the chisel would allow a quicker fix than going back to your furnace or smoothstone storage chest.
Collecting ores has some nice decorative uses. However redstone ore has practical uses in BUD switches, which is a redstone contraption that can automatically detect a block change. Redstone ore starts glowing when struck or stepped on, and that change can be used to trigger BUDs. Right now the only way of moving redstone ore into place is to push it up from deep underground with a piston, which is a bit ridiculous.
And obviously ice collection would be really nice. I'm not sure why Notch doesn't add the ability to place ice when it's clearly in high demand.
You've hit the idea spot-on. A chisel is an 'exacto' tool, not a mining tool. It's for delicate and/or precise harvesting, thus limited to certain things. The durability is the same as any diamond tool.