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Rename Blackstone to Gabbro

The latest snapshot added the excellent new building block, blackstone, to the new basalt delta biome.  This is an excellent opportunity to complete the igneous rock classification scheme.  For a long time, we've had diorite (intrusive, intermediate), andesite (extrusive, intermediate), and granite (intrusive, felsic).  In the new Nether update, we will also now have basalt (extrusive, mafic).  Since you're already adding a new igneous rock that's dark in color, blackstone, why not give it the name of a real-world rock type, gabbro (intrusive, mafic), which has the same properties?  After that, all you would have to do is add rhyolite (extrusive, felsic) and the classification scheme would be complete, and my OCD satisfied!

Of course, if you really wanted to complete the scheme, you could also add peridotite (intrusive, ultramafic) as a lovely greenish stone variant and komatiite (extrusive, ultramafic) as a darker reddish stone variant, with corresponding stairs, slabs, and walls.  We don't really have green stairs or slabs, not counting the ones that are closer to cyan or blue than green, so peridotite in particular would be very useful.

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    I love your stone ideas, but I don't think Blackstone should be renamed. IMO it should just be implied that Blackstone is Gabbro :D

    Edit: also netherrack looks a lot like komatiite

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    Isn't komatiite greenish with a needle-like (spinifex) texture? Where did you get it's dark red-colored? Maybe there's a specific variety that is colored like that and i just don't know. 
    Anyways, i think a spinifex-like pattern would be more "recognizable" as komatiite, as Mojang tends to prioritize readability over realism.

    BTW peridotite could be named dunite, as dunite is one of the most known types of peridotite, and with it we could get Jade (as jadeite, a pyroxene) and Peridot (olivine) as we don't have those vivid blueish-green and yellowish-green hue;

    Closest colors are emerald block, prismarine and oxidized copper, and slime block, moss block and lime-dyed blocks respectively, but none of them are even similar to the exact tones I'm talking about

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    You're right, komatiites are greenish.  This is the difference between being shown the first photo on Wikipedia in an intro geology class and looking at actual specimens lol.  I agree, ultramafics would be a great way to fill out both the muted and vivid blueish-green and yellowish-green tones of the build palette that have been neglected.  They could generate in place of tuff in ocean biomes at deepslate level.

    Since the upcoming drop has strong volcanic themes, now would be a great time to do it.