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Suggestion for a Petrified Wood Type

What is it?

My proposed Petrified Wood would be similar to the already-existing Petrified Oak Slabs in that it has qualities of stone (can only be mined with pickaxe, explosion-resistant, cannot be set on fire, etc.); however, it would have a new texture to differentiate it from the standard Oak. Petrified Wood in real life ranges from brown to gray, but as we already have plenty of brown wood, I suggest that it be on the grayer side.

How do you obtain it?

Petrified Wood obviously would not be directly growable, so alternate methods of obtaining must be made available. I can think of 3 fitting methods:

1. Naturally spawning in structures, possibly in fossils and possibly replacing Oak wood.

2. Spontaneous creation via a lightning strike, similar to glass with sand.

3. Crafting with 4 slimeballs/magma cream and any log.

Why is this good for the game?

There are multiple reasons which lead me to believe adding a Petrified Wood type would actively help the game feel in many areas. For one, the Petrified Oak Slab is one of the very last unused blocks from the game's earlier days that has not been removed or repurposed, and this would be giving it a proper purpose for the first time in a long time. Next, a new unique wood type allows for a lot more customization in builds; there's a reason everyone loves new wood types. I'm out of space, continuing below.

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    The unique obtainment methods reference real-life processes (ex. slimeballs and magma cream refer to the creation process for artificial petrified wood,, which involves dousing wood in multiple types of acid), and the unorthodox nature in which this wood is obtained should hopefully inspire players to think outside the box when looking to obtain a large amount of Petrified wood for building, such as making a magma cream farm or a lightning farm. With it being a unique wooden building material unlike any other in the game, it would serve as a proper reward for the required effort, somewhat like prismarine today. It also makes more thematic sense for the Oak in ancient structures like Strongholds and Mineshafts to be a Petrified variant while simultaneously giving these places more valuable loot in the form of the hard-to-obtain building blocks found there. Lastly, Petrified wood could also be used to great effect as dead trees in a theoretical future new biome or as a rare tree spawn, bringing a surprisingly absent spooky aesthetic aboveground; or as an occasional "ore" vein, which fits authentic Petrified wood's status as a fossil while simultaneously providing a somewhat consistent belowground source of wood for torches and tools.

    (I made a few sample textures, but I removed the link because imgur is banned and I don't want my post to be rejected)