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Get rid of underground dirt, replace the dirt with Clay blocks

Underground dirt is when dirt appears in formations underground, similar to granite, andesite and diorite. I think that it makes caves look ugly, and I think the Mojang team should get rid of underground dirt entirely, or at least make it not generate in large caves or dripstone caves. Dirt is the most common block in Minecraft besides Stone, and it is just annoying when it generates underground, as you have to start using a shovel instead of a pickaxe, and it breaks the flow of mining, and getting dirt in your inventory is just annoying. My solution is replacing the dirt with a much rarer resource, Clay.

Here are some reasons clay would be better:

- Clay is reasonably rare, and finding it underground will incentivize players to mine to find it

- Clay can be used for bricks and terracotta, which are popular building blocks that require a ton of clay, which is hard to get, and it would be so much better if there was a reliable source of clay like caves

- Clay naturally occurs in caves, near stalactites and water, as the calcium in the cave water creates growths of clay, which become stalagmites and stalactites. Finding clay in large caves and dripstone caves will be realistic and offer a unique aesthetic in these new biomes.

- The caves now naturally generate with water, which is a fitting place to put loads of clay around and in the aquifers found near large caves.

This is why I think that clay should replace dirt underground.

  

 

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• February 11, 2021 15:20
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  • February 12, 2021 01:40
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  I totally agree on the dirt part. I would appreciate if the devs could completely remove dirt in caves, except close to the surface. Before the cave update, I think there was too much of it and I already wanted less dirt, because it's bizarre to find it close to the bedrock. But with the 21w06a snapshot, I was shocked to see big clusters of dirt in the new caves, especially in odd places like in the middle of pillars.

  About clay, I agree that it would be great to find it in caves because it's too rare in the game, and caves are a realistic place to find it. Let's agree, though, that it shouldn't exactly replace dirt, in the sense of generate in the former place of it. It should generate in more natural place, like at the bottom of pools in dripstone caves, as you say.