I had a sudden realization while playing Minecraft recently that the sign recipe is, aside from the addition of a stick, very similar to the trapdoor (and to a lesser extend, the wooden door) recipe. Yet, the sign gives you only a small, not-quite-one-square-big sign to be placed on the ground or walls while the trapdoor recipe gives you two nicely squared and chunky trapdoors. So I couldn't help to think that crafting signs does result in a significant loss of planks.
I found out 2 possible solutions here; The first one would be to change the crafting recipe of signs so that it requires only one plank at the end of a stick (sort of like how you craft torches and redstone torches). This would produce a single standard sign. Of course, the original recipe could be kept to allow the creation of extra-large signs, roughly taking up a 2x2 square space, on which you could write more text (which could be useful to write all those server rules... ).
The second solution demands a less drastic change and simply requires to have the sign's crafting recipe give you more signs, like 2 or 3.
I found out 2 possible solutions here; The first one would be to change the crafting recipe of signs so that it requires only one plank at the end of a stick (sort of like how you craft torches and redstone torches). This would produce a single standard sign. Of course, the original recipe could be kept to allow the creation of extra-large signs, roughly taking up a 2x2 square space, on which you could write more text (which could be useful to write all those server rules...
The second solution demands a less drastic change and simply requires to have the sign's crafting recipe give you more signs, like 2 or 3.
So tell me what do you guys think?