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The Stone Crusher

With the stone cutter, grind stone, and all the new crafting blocks coming out I was surprised not to see a "Stone Crusher".

Simple concept, put stone blocks in and get gravel, put gravel in and get sand.  Put in granite in get granite colored gravel/ repeat and get granite colored sand (Cobble, Diorite, Andesite, Netherrack, End Stone, prismarine/dark, sandstone/red, and even Obsidian etc).

Works with hoppers; redstone. 

To craft this you would need Stone and iron ingots on the outside and a diamond in the center. (Maybe after 1024 uses they need to be repaired with a single diamond)

It seems so obvious to me given the game already has cement. It really adds a new dimension of usefulness to all of these blocks. Mining would have more value vs grinding gravel and sand from specific biomes.

Maybe even half-slabs and stairs and such could be repurposed by crushing them up. Maybe the same could be done with concrete and it goes back to be the powdered form (They already recycle concrete / cement in real life). Maybe Terracotta could be turned into clay (Building with bricks would be so much less a grind and think of al the swampland we would save)

Some thought would have to be given as to how long it would take for each block to be processed.

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    Yes please! thank you, friend. You may not be aware of this, but I posted a similar idea several months ago, and after gaining much popularity it got removed because they added the Grindstone and the Stonecutter into the game (my post was named "block grinder"). I hope this post gains sucess! I was about to re-post my idea before I saw this. Did you get the idea from the same place I did? (Logdotzip's command thing that adds new mobs and blocks)

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    I am not familiar with most mods, the idea came from wanting to make mining in vanilla more useful. 🙂

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    I agree, this would greatly reduce the destruction of biome landscapes, I hate having all my nearby deserts reduced to nothing due to my excessive use of glass, however I think that this idea needs a slight amendment

    using regular stone in the stone crusher gets you cobblestone

    using cobblestone in it gets you gravel

    using sandstone in it gets you sand

    Terracotta gets clay

    Stone crusher should use fuel (coal,charcoal,bamboo,kelp, etc) for powering the device, and should not have a durability like the anvil does

    I'd also like to see some way for us to make Granite(maybe combine gravel,sand,stone), Diorite and Andesite

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    I totally agree with this, you can already convert 4 sand to sandstone, why not backwards? I hate having to destory deserts for glass or concrete.

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    I desperately need this. I was about to make the exact same suggestion.

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    Plan to add this mechanic to my mod. Stone types, stairs slabs and walls to gravel, which can be cobbled and made into new stone types. 5 sandstone types (yellow, red, blue, soul stone and white) back to corresponding sand.

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    Definitely.  I just... I need a renewable source of sand.  (and no, wandering traders don't count!)

    I'm thinking have it be a Furnace system, maybe.  So it requires fuel, if it can do the hopper thing.  Could do it like how the Blast Furnace and Smoker are 'upgrades' of the regular furnace- this could be an 'upgrade' of the Grindstone or Stonecutter.

    But yeah.  Stone to Cobble (and deepslate to cobbled deepslate), cobble to gravel, gravel to sand.  Sandstone to sand, bricks and terracottas to clay, concrete to powder.

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    This is an awesome idea that needs more love to get attention.

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    STONE CRUSHER LETS GO!!!

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    Since we now have renewable clay via mud and dirt, I think this should be the Stone Crusher's functions:

    Any stone items (slabs, stairs, walls, stone, chiseled stone, stone bricks, etc) can be ground into Cobblestone (perhaps not slabs since it would be OP, but you could have a gauge like fuel which would require 2 slabs to grind into a single block of cobble).

    Cobble (and cobble variants and stairs/slabs/walls) could be ground into gravel.

    Gravel can be ground into sand.

    Sandstone created items could be ground back into sand.

    Red sandstone items can be ground back into red sand.

    Terra Cotta could be ground into red sand (since clay doesn't really make sense and this gives an alternate way of getting red sand).

    Concrete could be ground back into powdered concrete (or perhaps it grinds into gravel and sand).

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    Stone Crusher is such an obvious function block

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    Needs more promotion

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    Will this work in Creative Mode? Or only in Survival?  THANKS!