Currently gravel has very few uses. Gravel can be used to get flint or fill in lava pools.
Concrete would be a new block that can be poured into place. When placing concrete the blocks would flow down like gravel but harden and turn into stone when they reach a solid block below.
A possible crafting recipe would be:
Top row: Water bucket and you get the bucket back.
Middle row: Two sand
Bottow row: Two gravel
Gives you four concrete.
Since this makes construction easier the stack size would 16.
The reason I came up with this idea is that I wanted to make realistic bridge pillars when crossing a lake and wanted the pillars to reach the bottom of the lake.
--- EDIT ----
After reading some suggestions the stack size would be 64 instead of 16. Only one bucket of water is needed no matter how much you craft at one time.
I really don't see a use for this. Crafting looks like a pain and it keeps the same basic value of gravel.
Also coding a limited liquid isn't something minecraft is used to.
I really don't see a use for this. Crafting looks like a pain and it keeps the same basic value of gravel.
Also coding a limited liquid isn't something minecraft is used to.
What's rotten flesh useful for? Sponges? End Stone? All compressed ore blocks? Lapis Lazuli only dyes wool blue. Speaking of wool, once you've made a bed, it's useless. Well, besides paintings, but those are also useless. What about dyed leather armor? That's useless too.
Aesthetics =/= useless.
As for the second part, it doesn't sound too hard.
1. Every tick, the game checks if there's a solid block below the source block of the liquid concrete.
- If there is, leave the liquid as is.
- If there isn't, make the liquid source move down one block. (Or turn it into an entity, like gravel?)
2. After 100 ticks (5 seconds on a good machine), replace the liquid with a solid concrete block.
What's rotten flesh useful for? Sponges? End Stone? All compressed ore blocks? Lapis Lazuli only dyes wool blue. Speaking of wool, once you've made a bed, it's useless. Well, besides paintings, but those are also useless. What about dyed leather armor? That's useless too.
Aesthetics =/= useless.
As for the second part, it doesn't sound too hard.
1. Every tick, the game checks if there's a solid block below the source block of the liquid concrete.
- If there is, leave the liquid as is.
- If there isn't, make the liquid source move down one block. (Or turn it into an entity, like gravel?)
2. After 100 ticks (5 seconds on a good machine), replace the liquid with a solid concrete block.
Yay, intelligent person to the rescue!
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What's rotten flesh useful for? Sponges? End Stone? All compressed ore blocks? Lapis Lazuli only dyes wool blue. Speaking of wool, once you've made a bed, it's useless. Well, besides paintings, but those are also useless. What about dyed leather armor? That's useless too.
Aesthetics =/= useless.
As for the second part, it doesn't sound too hard.
1. Every tick, the game checks if there's a solid block below the source block of the liquid concrete.
- If there is, leave the liquid as is.
- If there isn't, make the liquid source move down one block. (Or turn it into an entity, like gravel?)
2. After 100 ticks (5 seconds on a good machine), replace the liquid with a solid concrete block.
Aesthetics are fine. Never said otherwise. I simply don't see the point in a new block that would have the same or almost the same texture as Stone with the use of Gravel and reworked code taken from Water. At what point would this get used?
At least make crafting less unreasonable. Any time someone talks about 16 stacks for balance or buckets in crafting it just becomes a mess.
make the concrete a different shade of cobble (darker or lighter in the stone color) also stone is not one straight color it has some detail in it (get rid of that)
also this could be useful as not just building but a tool here is a senario
a creeper has been chasing u for a while now and ur food bar is empty u see ur mining hole (no lader and if u turn around u will die to try and close the entreance) so right as ur able to click th entrace u place the concete then run through it as it hardens behind u
make the concrete a different shade of cobble (darker or lighter in the stone color) also stone is not one straight color it has some detail in it (get rid of that)
also this could be useful as not just building but a tool here is a senario
a creeper has been chasing u for a while now and ur food bar is empty u see ur mining hole (no lader and if u turn around u will die to try and close the entreance) so right as ur able to click th entrace u place the concete then run through it as it hardens behind u
That made no sense.
1. Creepers are slow.
2. Why in the world would you be holding concrete in the off chance you'd need this?
3. Dirt still works fine.
srry i didnt make my self clear basically u have no food or in ur food bar or in invitory and the creeper is whithin blowing up distance u see ur mining area that has a 2 by 2 entance (if u turn around to block the entrance with dirt the creeper will blow up) so instead u take out u concete (in liquid state) and click on the entance. u run through the concrete while still a liqued as it hardens behind u. the creeper dies by suffocating in the wall or gets locked outside.
make the concrete a different shade of cobble (darker or lighter in the stone color) also stone is not one straight color it has some detail in it (get rid of that)
A color that is lighter than stone might look nice with a solid texture. A color more like the stone half block looks better to me but the detail could still be reduced and make the color a little bit lighter.
I could change the crafting recipe where one bucket of water with 32 sand and 32 gravel will give you a stack of 64 concrete.
The reason I came up with this idea is that I was building bridges across lakes and walls through rivers. I wanted to build realistic looking birdge pillars and extend them all the way to the bottom. This can be done by diving but that takes forever. I tried gravel pillars but they are sort of ugly.
I like the idea. Except the need a water bucket to craft part... crafting would take soooo long.
I put the water bucket in the crafting recipe since concrete in the real world uses water, sand and gravel.
Having a crating table near a source of water would work but dipping the bucket in the water for each stack of concrete would probably get tiring. Using one bucket for any amount crafted at one time might work better.
A color that is lighter than stone might look nice with a solid texture. A color more like the stone half block looks better to me but the detail could still be reduced and make the color a little bit lighter.
I could change the crafting recipe where one bucket of water with 32 sand and 32 gravel will give you a stack of 64 concrete.
The reason I came up with this idea is that I was building bridges across lakes and walls through rivers. I wanted to build realistic looking birdge pillars and extend them all the way to the bottom. This can be done by diving but that takes forever. I tried gravel pillars but they are sort of ugly.
Can't you just use gravel until you're two or three blocks below the surface, then stone the rest of the way?
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Concrete would be a new block that can be poured into place. When placing concrete the blocks would flow down like gravel but harden and turn into stone when they reach a solid block below.
A possible crafting recipe would be:
Since this makes construction easier the stack size would 16.
The reason I came up with this idea is that I wanted to make realistic bridge pillars when crossing a lake and wanted the pillars to reach the bottom of the lake.
--- EDIT ----
After reading some suggestions the stack size would be 64 instead of 16. Only one bucket of water is needed no matter how much you craft at one time.
Also coding a limited liquid isn't something minecraft is used to.
What's rotten flesh useful for? Sponges? End Stone? All compressed ore blocks? Lapis Lazuli only dyes wool blue. Speaking of wool, once you've made a bed, it's useless. Well, besides paintings, but those are also useless. What about dyed leather armor? That's useless too.
Aesthetics =/= useless.
As for the second part, it doesn't sound too hard.
1. Every tick, the game checks if there's a solid block below the source block of the liquid concrete.
- If there is, leave the liquid as is.
- If there isn't, make the liquid source move down one block. (Or turn it into an entity, like gravel?)
2. After 100 ticks (5 seconds on a good machine), replace the liquid with a solid concrete block.
Yay, intelligent person to the rescue!
Aesthetics are fine. Never said otherwise. I simply don't see the point in a new block that would have the same or almost the same texture as Stone with the use of Gravel and reworked code taken from Water. At what point would this get used?
At least make crafting less unreasonable. Any time someone talks about 16 stacks for balance or buckets in crafting it just becomes a mess.
also this could be useful as not just building but a tool here is a senario
a creeper has been chasing u for a while now and ur food bar is empty u see ur mining hole (no lader and if u turn around u will die to try and close the entreance) so right as ur able to click th entrace u place the concete then run through it as it hardens behind u
That made no sense.
1. Creepers are slow.
2. Why in the world would you be holding concrete in the off chance you'd need this?
3. Dirt still works fine.
A color that is lighter than stone might look nice with a solid texture. A color more like the stone half block looks better to me but the detail could still be reduced and make the color a little bit lighter.
I could change the crafting recipe where one bucket of water with 32 sand and 32 gravel will give you a stack of 64 concrete.
The reason I came up with this idea is that I was building bridges across lakes and walls through rivers. I wanted to build realistic looking birdge pillars and extend them all the way to the bottom. This can be done by diving but that takes forever. I tried gravel pillars but they are sort of ugly.
I put the water bucket in the crafting recipe since concrete in the real world uses water, sand and gravel.
Having a crating table near a source of water would work but dipping the bucket in the water for each stack of concrete would probably get tiring. Using one bucket for any amount crafted at one time might work better.
Can't you just use gravel until you're two or three blocks below the surface, then stone the rest of the way?