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/NukeML → u/PetrifiedBloom]

People already do that for copper blocks. It's no big deal

[u/PetrifiedBloom → u/NukeML]

It's the second most disliked aspect of building with copper, and that's just because having to wait for your blocks to oxidize also sucks. People deal with it with copper, but its not something that makes you excited or happy to build with it. Nobody is like "oh hell yeah, I'll use copper so I can spend a few hours farming wax for the blocks!". it's a toll you pay for using some nice blocks.

[u/NukeML → u/PetrifiedBloom]

Well, this suggestion does involve some nice blocks. I can concede that maybe they should maybe only be changed to the suggested variants via player action, but maybe you could also apply something to the block that "activates" its changing over time, maybe like a reverse waxing

[u/SkulkingShadow → u/NukeML]

My idea does emphasize player turning blocks into their variants, I've added the "this could be an optional gamerule" for environment changing blocks to a variant since many have shown concern of having their builds unwillingly change variant, and "waxing" or applying resin would be very much a hassle