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[jakeman5]

I think it would make a lot of sense for sand to be input into a stonecutter and then be able to craft sandstone rather than using 4 blocks for a single sandstone block.
This would help builders a ton, especially on Garama. I have used well over 1.5 million sand blocks on building, and I have spoken to others that have ran into this problem. Building with sand is incredibly time consuming for no reason. It shouldn't be that time consuming to build with a block native to an area where your town is. People that build with stone have the luxury of stone cutters. Why not extend that to sand?

 

[Cryptite]

Are you farming sand alone?

 

[Asynchronized]

Are you really farming sand by yourself?

 

[jakeman5]

Does that fit your going outside?

No

Are you farming sand alone?

What do you mean? Like am I the only person in my town mining sand? If that’s the question, no.

 

[obuth]

Sand is already one of the easiest and fastest things you can grind. I suggest you start digging jakeboy5.

 

[kiadmowi]

Are you really farming sand by yourself?

 

[jakeman5]

Sand is already one of the easiest and fastest things you can grind. I suggest you start digging jakeboy5.

It is easy to get that is not what my argument is. My argument is that it takes 4x the resources to make sand builds and that becomes incredibly time consuming. It is a unique disadvantage that only sand builds have to deal with.

 

[Mocc1]

i wouldnt see an issue if sandstone was added as a stone cutter option

 

[Wxndernut]

why are you surprised making a megatown takes megawork...

 

[jakeman5]

why are you surprised making a megatown takes megawork...

I expect it to take tons of work. However sand builds are 4x the work. That’s the problem. I’m not asking for printer to get enabled.

 

[mimo4]

this 3 page forum thread on minecraft sand is a delightful read

 

[obuth]

I expect it to take tons of work. However sand builds are 4x the work. That’s the problem. I’m not asking for printer to get enabled.

Going into it, you knew it would be a lot of work. So why make this argument now and not before?

 

[jakeman5]

Going into it, you knew it would be a lot of work. So why make this argument now and not before?

Well after getting 1 million sand for 250k sandstone blocks it gets quite frustrating. I knew it would be a big task but only getting 1 block for every 4 that you dig doesn’t make sense.

 

[Skuhoo]

I expect it to take tons of work. However sand builds are 4x the work. That’s the problem. I’m not asking for printer to get enabled.

Saying it takes 4x the work is a weird way to frame it when sand is instantly mined. Harvesting 4 sand is quicker than the break time of plenty of other building blocks like deepslate and logs.

 

[Cryptite]

You're asking for literal block transmutation 1:1. That kind of flies in the face of how Minecraft works.

 

[jakeman5]

Saying it takes 4x the work is a weird way to frame it when sand is instantly mined. Harvesting 4 sand is quicker than the break time of plenty of other building blocks like deepslate and logs.

Don’t get me started on the fact deepslate isn’t insta break with a beacon.

 

[adawee]

how much sand u need?

 

[jakeman5]

how much sand u need?

A LOT.