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Grinding cobblestone for gravel

There could be a new block where you can grind cobblestone up into gravel. This would help because every player has stacks upon stacks of cobble and gravel is now valuable because of concrete. It could also be achieved by right clicking cobblestone with a pickaxe to grind it up.

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    Maybe this could be a job for the grindstone

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    The way I envision it, a grinder could turn cobblestone into gravel, and gravel into sand.
    It should probably be powered either by redstone or fuel, and function with hoppers.

    If more uses are wanted, it could grind flowers/ink sacs/bone meal/cocoa beans into dyes. Perhaps even sugar cane into sugar, bones into bone meal, blaze rods into blaze powder.

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    This legit would actually be nice.

     

    And if it were to actually happen, it would need some iron, redstone, flint, sticks, and maybe a diamond (Diamond would be optional)as part of the recipe, and it would be powered by coal/charcoal.

     

    Honestly though, more gravel, more flint, more arrows, making grinding out cobblestone seem worth it.

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    I totally agree that Cobblestone and any stone crafted stairs/slabs/walls should be grindable into gravel (if it worked like a furnace where it could funnel stuff in and create gravel, that would be great)!  And similarly, then you could also grind gravel finer down into sand which would make sand very renewable (not sure how it is any more fun for sand NOT to be renewable nor does having a renewable source of sand seem OP other than being able to build more with Glass which again seems like it would add fun rather than the feel bad of accidentally breaking valuable Glass or losing valuable Sand).  It could require diamonds or some other rare material in order to make if it feels unbalanced but doesn't seem any more unbalanced than turning wood into charcoal...  TNT can already be duped so that also shouldn't detract and most players aren't crafting tons of TNT in their single player worlds...