Who hasn't been in this situation: You've just built a house in survival, and when it's done it occurs to you that you'd actually prefer to use a different wood and/or stone type. So you have to break and replace dozens or hundreds of slabs, stairs, fences, walls, doors and trapdoors, many in hard to reach places. You end up having invested a lot more work than you would've liked, and with stacks of building blocks you have no use for.
What I'm proposing is a new way to change the texture of building blocks: Veneer.
There should be both wood veneers, crafted from stripped logs (and from bamboo), and stone veneers of every type, crafted from stone blocks at the stonecutter. Should have a pretty cheap exchange ratio, maybe even a full stack of veneer for a single stripped log / stone block. Use on building blocks in the world to change their texture.
When you break such a veneered block, you get back only the original block, not a new kind of block, since adding hundreds of new kinds of blocks would tend to clog up more inventory slots.
You should be able to apply stone veneer to wooden building blocks, too (maybe not to fences). Stone-veneered wooden blocks should still behave as wooden blocks.
If you wanna be really nice to builders, you could use veneer as a way to multiply door and trapdoor textures, by having veneer only change the wood color of those, but not the design.
This could also be a way to recolor the wood parts of many functional blocks, maybe including chests.
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