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Quote from Ouatcheur»

I think adding specific "case by case" recipes, is not the way to go. Instead, having a common and CONSISTENT behavior for working with everything would be best. In short, all Materials, in all Styles, Variants, and Shapes.

Mainly, the following should be separated to make them applicable in a consistent fashion :

Bricks

Wether it is clay or stone or whatever, the recipe should come from 4 individual brick items to make the bricks blocks.

The get the individual bricks from « stone and wood » materials could be as simple as :

Crafting : 2 slabs side by side = 4 brick items.

This would allow flower pots to exist in many other style not just « brown clay » but anything which has an ingot bricks or gem form. Nether, gold, iron flower pots too !

Polished stone

The full smooth stone block should procude slabs of the same texture, and ANOTHER stone style would be the « polished » form we currently have for stone slabs.

Suggestion : smelting smooth stone (block or slabs or stairs) « polishes » it. The full block would not have the line at mid-height while the polished double slab would show the line.

Cracked stone could be gotten another way say through the anvil (for zero XP cost), thus we could have much more types of cracked stone not just one. For example, smooth stone stairs showing cracks.

Mossy also should be something that many blocks could have. Put anything say a slab + vines = the same thing but now mossy. this could be done either by adding texture layers to blocks, or just making a few tens of new blocks that are all just simple to make variants of existing blocks.

Granite Andesite and diorite

Frankly those look more like new types of gravels than stones. They should have been added as full stones with a rough/cobbled, smooth, and polished forms, with slabs stairs etc. all following the same pattern as normal stone.

Rough and smooth styles for more blocks

Say, End Stone looks « rough » but who’s to say smelting it shouldn’t give a « smoother » version ? maybe even a "polished" one ?

Pillars

That shouldn’t be reserved for quartz only. All kinds of blocks especially normal stone and stained clay heck even GLASS should be able to come in « pillared » versions.

Sandstone

To me Stone and Sandstone should both come in the « full cobble » on all sides, full « smooth » on all sides, AND the « cobbled on the sides but smooth on top and bottom » versions.

I call this one the « worked » style. It could be crafted by putting 2 smooth stone over 2 cobblestone (same for the sandstones or whatever which comes in both a « rough » and a « smooth » style.





In short, If I want to make an ice castle with snow and ice and packed ice, and even some chiseled packed ice, with slabs and stairs and whatever, some glass stairs too, I should be able to do that, with the behaviors of most of the new block going along the sand > rough sandstone > smooth sandstone > chiseled or cracked or pillared.

I mean there are way too many things that require Silk Touch when they should not, or that are utterly impossible to do in the first place. 4 Snow should be craftable to make 1 Ice, and then craft 4 Ice to make 1 Packed Ice (since Ice can’t be smelted), and making slabs and stairs of all of those.

When building stuff in Minecraft, I often feel like I am playing with a lego set that has yellow blue and red 2x4 base bricks, but the 1x6 bricks come only in red, the 2x12 bricks come only in blue, and the 1x1 bricks come only in yellow.

Quote from Ouatcheur»

I think adding specific "case by case" recipes, is not the way to go. Instead, having a common and CONSISTENT behavior for working with everything would be best. In short, all Materials, in all Styles, Variants, and Shapes.

Mainly, the following should be separated to make them applicable in a consistent fashion :

Bricks

Wether it is clay or stone or whatever, the recipe should come from 4 individual brick items to make the bricks blocks.

The get the individual bricks from « stone and wood » materials could be as simple as :

Crafting : 2 slabs side by side = 4 brick items.

This would allow flower pots to exist in many other style not just « brown clay » but anything which has an ingot bricks or gem form. Nether, gold, iron flower pots too !

Polished stone

The full smooth stone block should procude slabs of the same texture, and ANOTHER stone style would be the « polished » form we currently have for stone slabs.

Suggestion : smelting smooth stone (block or slabs or stairs) « polishes » it. The full block would not have the line at mid-height while the polished double slab would show the line.

Cracked stone could be gotten another way say through the anvil (for zero XP cost), thus we could have much more types of cracked stone not just one. For example, smooth stone stairs showing cracks.

Mossy also should be something that many blocks could have. Put anything say a slab + vines = the same thing but now mossy. this could be done either by adding texture layers to blocks, or just making a few tens of new blocks that are all just simple to make variants of existing blocks.

Granite Andesite and diorite

Frankly those look more like new types of gravels than stones. They should have been added as full stones with a rough/cobbled, smooth, and polished forms, with slabs stairs etc. all following the same pattern as normal stone.

Rough and smooth styles for more blocks

Say, End Stone looks « rough » but who’s to say smelting it shouldn’t give a « smoother » version ? maybe even a "polished" one ?

Pillars

That shouldn’t be reserved for quartz only. All kinds of blocks especially normal stone and stained clay heck even GLASS should be able to come in « pillared » versions.

Sandstone

To me Stone and Sandstone should both come in the « full cobble » on all sides, full « smooth » on all sides, AND the « cobbled on the sides but smooth on top and bottom » versions.

I call this one the « worked » style. It could be crafted by putting 2 smooth stone over 2 cobblestone (same for the sandstones or whatever which comes in both a « rough » and a « smooth » style.





In short, If I want to make an ice castle with snow and ice and packed ice, and even some chiseled packed ice, with slabs and stairs and whatever, some glass stairs too, I should be able to do that, with the behaviors of most of the new block going along the sand > rough sandstone > smooth sandstone > chiseled or cracked or pillared.

I mean there are way too many things that require Silk Touch when they should not, or that are utterly impossible to do in the first place. 4 Snow should be craftable to make 1 Ice, and then craft 4 Ice to make 1 Packed Ice (since Ice can’t be smelted), and making slabs and stairs of all of those.

When building stuff in Minecraft, I often feel like I am playing with a lego set that has yellow blue and red 2x4 base bricks, but the 1x6 bricks come only in red, the 2x12 bricks come only in blue, and the 1x1 bricks come only in yellow.