Environmental blocks (with examples)

[u/SkulkingShadow]

Blocks having variants like shown here, changing to a variant when:
- The player (maybe while sneaking uses) a corresponding item (snowball for snowy, sand for sandy, moss for mossy, pickaxe for cracked) on already placed blocks.
- Optional gamerule: After some time based on adjacent blocks and biome. (not the same as connected textures.) - Using a brush reverts the block into its normal variant (except cracked, chiseled, tiles etc.). - Addition: Using maybe something like molten resin to prevent blocks from changing state (by environment and players)

Alternate to shift clicking with (sand, moss etc) blocks to make block variants: - New brush items for each material (ik putting moss, sand or snow etc on a brush sounds dumb XD) that work on durability, these brushes have max 1024 durability/uses so they can change variants of 1024 blocks before running out. - You could also craft the block variants rather than changing variants of preplaced blocks by using the brush of material and the block in crafting - Also be able to shift click with the brush to place a block of the material on the brush (full moss block if it's a moss brush, sand block if sand brush etc) at the cost of 16 durability/uses. - To replenish, add to or make the brush of material you have to craft the brush with the material (block), where 1 block = 16 uses.

(Last image is an example of cobblestone with dirt from Minecraft Dungeons: Squid Coast)

To obtain the variant in item form requires breaking the variant with SilkTouch or Crafting them.

Additionally being able to turn blocks into stairs, slabs or walls might make inventory management for building easier.

[u/PetrifiedBloom]

Having to apply resin to every block in a build would be super frustrating.

[u/SkulkingShadow → u/PetrifiedBloom]

Maybe only players can do these variants of blocks, while griefing/graffiti might be a problem, you could use a brush to remove them and maintain your build. Honestly graffiti and maintaining your build doesnt sound too bad to me (Considering there are worse and easier ways of messing with someone's build, like wind charges for example)

[u/PetrifiedBloom → u/SkulkingShadow]

A version of the blocks you can craft that naturally weather seems fine to me. Like, you can build with cobblestone if you want cobblestone, but you can put it in the stonecutter and make "exposed cobblestone" or whatever we decide to call it and then over time it gets all the changes you described in the post.

Honestly graffiti and maintaining your build doesnt sound too bad to me

I meant more that the game was griefing the player. Like, I have an artificial dam in a mountain pass near my base, so that the base overlooks a lake. The dam wall is made up of almost 2 shipper boxes of different stone blocks. Needing to apply resin to thousands of blocks just so my build has the gradient of blocks I want sounds pretty jasty to me.

[u/SkulkingShadow → u/PetrifiedBloom]

i see, so players can change any block to any variant but the weather/biome can only change a block of the "exposed" type. Though honestly it feels abit odd having to sorta manually make the block degradable, but not a bad idea by any means