block states instead of block variants.

one possible way to help with the inventory problem is to replace block variants with block states.  for example, deepslate ores could just be a connected texture; if you place an ore block on any type of deepslate including other ores, it appears as a deepslate ore.  Azalea bushes and saplings could be all one block as well;  a regular azalea bush is a sapling that doesn't grow without bonemeal.  bonemealing an azalea bush would cause flowers to grow as a second growth stage.  breaking a flowering azalea bush without the use of shears would yield a regular bush.  further bonemealing a flowering bush would grow it into a full tree.  Using shears on either type of bush would turn it into a dead bush an would yield it's corresponding leaf type.  

each block state would be monitored in the debug window, and could be changed with the debug stick.