Minecraft has a lot of blocks, but what if they had more? Why do we need them? Please don't just add lists of things - these will be marked as spam and removed! Also, no furniture, guns, or vertical/"sideways"/"upright"/"standing" slabs (yes, we see you).

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Half blocks

The basic idea of this is to have something a little like chisels and bits, but that will actually fit in vanilla.  The base material is a block that is half the size of a normal Minecraft block.  Because of the way volume works, it would take eight of these half-sized blocks to make one full block.  They would be able to be placed a little like slabs, where you can place multiples of one kind in the same block space and fill the block as much as you want.  And like slabs, everything breaks down to the base components when you break it.

These would add quite a few things that builders want, from being able to build half block thick walls without the complications of specifically trying to add vertical slabs to having slabs and stairs available for all blocks.  It would be amazing for more detailed sculptures or buildings while still keeping the vanilla feel.  After all, you can already work on this scale by using slabs and stairs, just with limitations.

Ideally, these half blocks can be made from almost any material that can be obtained as a block.  There are some obvious exceptions, like ore blocks.  Although it can be argued that if you want to turn an ore block into a purely decorative block, that’s your right.

I don’t have any concrete plans about how they would be crafted, but it should be a method that is relatively easy to do.  One block should yield eight half blocks.  Maybe there is a new machine that you can feed blocks and fuel into and it cuts the blocks into eight smaller pieces.  Thus, it could be entirely automated using hoppers to input the fuel and base material and collect the results.  Another option would be a manual crafting recipe, but it should probably include a new cutting item to make sure it’s a unique recipe for every block.

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    Part of what makes Minecraft so great is the low resolution.  Raising the resolution of Minecraft lowers the greatness.  Stairs and slabs would work fine.

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    I'm not convinced that anything smaller than half slabs is suitable for vanilla Minecraft, which is how the developers appear to feel, also. However, the style of implementation here is indeed tasteful.

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    It should be called half quarter blocks then. We already have half blocks, they're called slabs

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    Bilbo Baggins, this doesn't really change the resolution available, just gives more options within the current resolution.  You can already use slabs and stairs (where available) to work at this resolution.  The issue is that they aren't available nearly as widely as they should be.  They also have relatively arbitrary limitations, like not being able to place slabs vertically.

     

    MacchuPicchu, thanks for commenting.  I did try to limit this to a very vanilla feel, which is why I specifically only allowed the same kind of material in one block space.  It's an existing mechanic with slabs, so I suspect that would be a lot easier to implement.

     

    AhmetCavus, those are just known as slabs.  They are half blocks, but only in one dimension.  These are half blocks in all dimensions (half a meter on all sides), and so the name fits.  Although if the developers want to call them something else if they choose to implement this, that is always their right.

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    I still think it raises the resolution.  Little blocks would be smaller than regular blocks.  I can just see this opening up cans of worms such as little slabs and little stairs, and then the resolution of Minecraft really starts to degrade.

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    I really don't think the slippery slope applies here.  They aren't really blocks in their own right, they're components.  It wouldn't make sense to have stair versions of these because then you couldn't use them to put together a full block.

    Remember that it's always Mojang's decision to add something to the game.  I agree that slabs and stairs that are that small wouldn't fit in the game, and I believe that they would also think so.

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    this would be interesting, but  it would completely remove any point of haveing stairs or half slabs. plus it would be SUPER difficult to add waterlogged mechanics to every single type of eighth block. allthough a good substitute could be verticle slabs and sideways stairs....

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    Stairs and slabs would still be easier to use because they involve placing one block instead of four or six.

    Would it be difficult to implement waterlogging? =(

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    It basically be the same as the missing part of a stair block

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    I like the idea of miniature blocks, but I feel that it should take four of these mini blocks to create one regular block instead of using eight. This way the blocks would not be too tiny and the creation of vertical slabs or stairs and etc, would be more simple. I think this would keep more of that low resolution feel and give many more options to builders, creators and people who just love playing Minecraft. 

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    I like the idea, but calling them half blocks is confusing since they don't take up half of a block. I'd just call them one eighth blocks instead.

    With full blocks, half slabs and stairs we already have 4/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, and 8/8 blocks (and more if you include building on the half slab level) so it's not like we aren't already kind of building on that scale. It's just that we're arbitrarily limited by how the stairs and slabs want to turn and orientate themselves, and I think that if we could have 1/8 blocks that would be a lot more user friendly.

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    I appreciate this idea. I would still prefer for us to be able to place pixel sized blocks, (like from the mod chisel and bits), but this would probably fit into vanilla Mc a bit better. It would also be cool if you could move the piece around pixel by pixel within the grid of the block you’re placing it in.

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    the sideways slabs should be a seperate block alltogether, because it would be harder to have slabs and sideways slabs as it being the one block

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    This would be OP in tnt cannons because this would allows the tnt to get real close to the tnt. I like it

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    Yes! I would completely scrap stairs and slabs and allow for half blocks. Then you can make slabs and stairs out of any material by default at the expense that it takes a bit longer to build.

    Being able to make walls that aren't a full meter thick which completely kills any "realism" you may go for. In many situations 1m feels too cramped and 2m is too wide...being able to do 1.5m would be great.

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    I know what you mean. A quarter of a slab block. Building would be much more fun!

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    Minecraft has a problem with scale : 1m for all walls ? 1m for door frames ? 1m for window frames ? 1m for all tree trunks ?
    (sure, you can use fences and walls for the last one)
    Also, 1m² to detail tree foliage and interiors in quite a pain.

    That's funny looking when you're a kid, I guess, but the community is older now, right ?
    And when we look at youtube builds, what do we see ? Every build is twice the size it should have. As if players were 4 blocks tall. Hu ! What a coincidence ! BECAUSE YOU CANNOT DETAIL AND MAKE STUFF LOOK GOOD ON SCALE WITH ONE CUBIC METER BLOCKS !!
    xD

    Well, looks like your solution is an amazing idea ! Maybe "tiny blocks" ?