Just noticed something while messing about with the Wooden half-block (slab)
put two of them on top of each other and you get something that looks like a plank block yet it doesn't burn. Non-flammable wooden houses seem to be possible, at least temporarily. (as I don't forsee this lasting long)
Breaks apart into two slab pieces with the pickaxe.
Yeah that's cause I think it has the same properties as a stone half step. Which is why breaking it with a pickaxe is faster as well as fire not burning it. Probably will be fixed soon.
About the non-flammable houses ehh I wouldn't bother making a house out of halfsteps...
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About the non-flammable houses ehh I wouldn't bother making a house out of halfsteps...
What about if you were a "Little Person" aka midget? I don't think they would be very happy in a oversize house. A halfsteps house seams more their size :smile.gif:
Hello noname 420 I know it is 2021 but, yes even currently there is a plank like block in minecraft that doesn't burn but can only be found in creative mode. This was a misplacemnet by mojang in which they put a wrong name for a block and never bothered to remove it. It is still there and unlike other planks can be stacked with another to actually make a full block.
This was a misplacemnet by mojang in which they put a wrong name for a block and never bothered to remove it. It is still there and unlike other planks can be stacked with another to actually make a full block.
Actually, when Notch (this was back when Minecraft was essentially still a hobby project, not a commercial game) first added wooden slabs they simply made them a variant of stone slabs; back then (until 1.13) many blocks were variants of a single block ID, which shared various intrinsic properties across all variants, so the only way to get a true wooden slab was to add a new block ID but Notch decided not to do that until separate wood types were added (or rather, Mojang did since Notch was no longer working on the game at this point), at which point the original wooden slab was retained so old worlds wouldn't be ruined (they could have converted existing wooden slabs into oak wood slabs but then they could burn). Only in 1.13 was it renamed to "petrified oak slab" and made available as a proper item (it is still only obtainable in Survival if you have an old world):
You'd think they'd find some clever new crafting table to make petrified wood in survival, but nope.
For now, this remains an 'unobtainable' item in my friends' servers, where we run through old versions before arriving at the current one to get items like this in vanilla survival.
You'd think they'd find some clever new crafting table to make petrified wood in survival, but nope.
For now, this remains an 'unobtainable' item in my friends' servers, where we run through old versions before arriving at the current one to get items like this in vanilla survival.
I just made them craftable by sandwiching a stone slab between two oak wood slabs, which gives you two petrified oak wood slabs; I have no idea why a new crafting table needs to be added just for this feature (I personally highly dislike the direction newer versions have gone in with regards to "lets add 100 different crafting stations just because we can!"*):
*For example, Mojang apparently justifies "stonecutters" by making crafting blocks like stairs more efficient (a 1:1 ratio of blocks in:out) but I just made the crafting recipe yield 6 stairs instead of 4 (sure, this means you can have leftovers but generally you'll use more than a few stairs and it becomes insignificant for large projects, and technically, you'd need 8 stairs per recipe to have no loss in volume):
I just made them craftable by sandwiching a stone slab between two oak wood slabs, which gives you two petrified oak wood slabs; I have no idea why a new crafting table needs to be added just for this feature (I personally highly dislike the direction newer versions have gone in with regards to "lets add 100 different crafting stations just because we can!"*):
*For example, Mojang apparently justifies "stonecutters" by making crafting blocks like stairs more efficient (a 1:1 ratio of blocks in:out) but I just made the crafting recipe yield 6 stairs instead of 4 (sure, this means you can have leftovers but generally you'll use more than a few stairs and it becomes insignificant for large projects, and technically, you'd need 8 stairs per recipe to have no loss in volume):
I'm sure we've discussed this before, but the split off corners of each block can't so easily be recombined to give you two additional stair blocks, so 6 per 6 is reasonable enough.
As for the slab idea, sure. Just throwing out what would be typical, not what I would like.
put two of them on top of each other and you get something that looks like a plank block yet it doesn't burn. Non-flammable wooden houses seem to be possible, at least temporarily. (as I don't forsee this lasting long)
Breaks apart into two slab pieces with the pickaxe.
About the non-flammable houses ehh I wouldn't bother making a house out of halfsteps...
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What about if you were a "Little Person" aka midget? I don't think they would be very happy in a oversize house. A halfsteps house seams more their size :smile.gif:
Hello noname 420 I know it is 2021 but, yes even currently there is a plank like block in minecraft that doesn't burn but can only be found in creative mode. This was a misplacemnet by mojang in which they put a wrong name for a block and never bothered to remove it. It is still there and unlike other planks can be stacked with another to actually make a full block.
Actually, when Notch (this was back when Minecraft was essentially still a hobby project, not a commercial game) first added wooden slabs they simply made them a variant of stone slabs; back then (until 1.13) many blocks were variants of a single block ID, which shared various intrinsic properties across all variants, so the only way to get a true wooden slab was to add a new block ID but Notch decided not to do that until separate wood types were added (or rather, Mojang did since Notch was no longer working on the game at this point), at which point the original wooden slab was retained so old worlds wouldn't be ruined (they could have converted existing wooden slabs into oak wood slabs but then they could burn). Only in 1.13 was it renamed to "petrified oak slab" and made available as a proper item (it is still only obtainable in Survival if you have an old world):
See: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Slab#History
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You'd think they'd find some clever new crafting table to make petrified wood in survival, but nope.
For now, this remains an 'unobtainable' item in my friends' servers, where we run through old versions before arriving at the current one to get items like this in vanilla survival.
I just made them craftable by sandwiching a stone slab between two oak wood slabs, which gives you two petrified oak wood slabs; I have no idea why a new crafting table needs to be added just for this feature (I personally highly dislike the direction newer versions have gone in with regards to "lets add 100 different crafting stations just because we can!"*):
*For example, Mojang apparently justifies "stonecutters" by making crafting blocks like stairs more efficient (a 1:1 ratio of blocks in:out) but I just made the crafting recipe yield 6 stairs instead of 4 (sure, this means you can have leftovers but generally you'll use more than a few stairs and it becomes insignificant for large projects, and technically, you'd need 8 stairs per recipe to have no loss in volume):
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
I'm sure we've discussed this before, but the split off corners of each block can't so easily be recombined to give you two additional stair blocks, so 6 per 6 is reasonable enough.
As for the slab idea, sure. Just throwing out what would be typical, not what I would like.
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