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Hardness of ORES is incorrect. Make TNT more fun/usefull in mining.

According to 'Mohs scale of mineral hardness' obsidian is by far not the hardest rock there is.

The list indicates the hardness according to the Moh scale gathered from Wikipedia pages.
(which is probably not precisly correct because there is probably more to take in consideration but it is about the idea)

coal 2.5
gold 3
iron 4

obsidian 5 <-- everything below this mineral should NOT blow up by TNT according to hardness.

lapis 5.5
quartz 7
emerald 8
Redstone 9 (if compared to ruby, if not then come up with something else, it's a made up component anyway)
diamond 10

The whole thing with redstone is, I imagine it being hard as it is found at such low levels.

What will happen if implemented in the game, TNT will become more useful in actually mining.

A plugin on my server is configured according to this list and it makes mining a lot more fun to be honest.

 

OR make TNT blow away obsidian so it is a good method to clear out those stinky lava lakes, but a new kind of sponge would be more fun.

 

 

 

 

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• May 06, 2020 13:39
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  Zeffi Toto commented

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  • May 07, 2020 02:43
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  I think Moh's hardness scale is only concerned with cutting. You can still smash a diamond with a hammer. TNT causes all destroyed blocks to be dropped now anyway, so there's no worry about it destroying diamonds or other ores, if that's what this is about.

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  TH0MAS THE W0LF commented

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  • June 14, 2020 15:08
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  Having a harder time cutting something is a good assumption of having a better blast/shock resistance as well when it comes to rocks and stones. You can also destroy obsidian with a hammer, the assumption here is that TNT in minecraft is unable to do this. TNT is made as strong as one wants it to be irl.

  If someone uses a lot of TNT to make a hole or fire it horizontally to create a cave it's would make sense harder stones stay up and do not drop as items because the next blast will destroy those items anyway which would still not make sense according to hardness of those materials. Mining them with your pickaxe to obtain them would be the most logical step next this being just a more fun method to mine for materials in my honest opinion. The automatic mining options in minecraft in it's current state is a bit on the slow side which makes it a bit boring after 10 years of playing.