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Sand Colors

There are only 2 variants of sand available, red sand and sand. I think they should add all of the colors of sand, like: Yellow sand, Red sand, Blue sand, Gray sand, Black sand etc. These types of sand probably don't exist in the real world but this is minecraft! minecraft is fictional. Maybe to be even more fancy, maybe smelting the sand in a furnace gives you the same color of glass the sand was, for example: red sand gives red glass.

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    WolveReigner is correct here; your idea is basically already in the game.

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    Yup

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    Different Colored sand is a real thing. There is pretty much every color of sand in the rainbow, though it is very rare. There is pink sand from coral, black sand from volcanoes, green sand from a mineral called olivine, orange from a type of limestone, purple, brown. It goes on and on. I think this is a great idea!

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    Concrete Powder has sixteen different dye colors, and it has a texture similar to sand, so this is really in the game already.

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    I feel like this is a gr8 idea despite those that feel like co crete powder is a supplement. The reason why is for the grainy texture of a sandstone. Concrete powder is flare and dull once it's hardened while sandstone is rather lovely and to be limited on to the white and red colors is unfortunate. In fact is love a more golden textured sandstone. Perhaps a recipe involving gold nuggets.

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    Taking into account the addition of Concrete Powder, the main issue with it is that it can't be used anywhere near water, that is why I think it is a good idea to add some new colors to Sand while also providing new ways to craft and obtain those new items.

    Using a Stonecutter, transforming Sandstone into 1/2 blocks of Sand.

    And/Or by

    Making an anvil fall onto Sandstone, transforming it into Sand.

    Those will allow us to craft the new variants.

    • White Sand, obtainable by using the methods above with Calcite.
    • Pink Sand, could be found in the ground and on beaches of Coral reefs or crafted using Brain Corals, Brain Coral blocks or Brain Coral Fans.
    • Mossy Sand blocks, a green-ish version of sand, found in Rivers and craftable using moss, vines or maybe kelp with Sand blocks on a Crafting Table.
    • Dark Red Sand, a red-ish/brown-ish version of Red Sand found in Mesa rivers.

    All of those variant could also result in White, Pink, Lime and Red Glass blocks once smelted, same for Red Sand turning into Orange Glass blocks.

    A Rooted version of those could be a great addition in the Wild Update too, not affected by gravity and craftable using Mangrove roots or Dead bushes or obtainable by growing a Mangrove tree over Sand blocks.

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    Like someone mentioned earlier, there’s plenty of different kinds of sand IRL. We need different kinds of sands that can be used near water without being converted into concrete blocks.

    Red sand could be crafted with sand and raw iron (rust)
    Regular sand could be a husk drop (yes, it should be renewable, so we don’t have to destroy deserts to make glass)
    Black sand could be made from basalt or blackstone
    Pink sand comes from coral irl but most coral sand ends up white - I say pink sand could come from granite
    Green sand is a tougher sell. Perhaps from emeralds?
    Brown sand could come from coarse dirt, or just dirt - it could be called silt. And while combining gravel and dirt makes coarse dirt, perhaps combining silt and dirt could make fine dirt, or loam, or fertile dirt? Which, when used to make farmland, could grow crops faster… and have a moderate chance of turning into regular dirt after having a mature crop harvested from it.
    I’ve never heard of natural purple sand but that can easily be made with amethyst shards.
    Other, more artificial colors could come from breaking down stained glass, or perhaps crafting sand with dye.

    Having beaches with different kinds of sands would be neat - and would help organically hint at the existence of other colors of sands in the game.
    Black volcanic sand would be right at home in the nether, seeing as there are no surface volcanoes in the overworld.