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Eco-friendly dirt source

I get that everything shouldn’t be able to be automated, and I get that everything shouldn’t be easy to get. I agree with both of these sentiments, as they ensure the game doesn’t get too boring/run out of goals. However, every time I find myself in need of dirt, I hit a wall. I never have enough for any significant project, and I never want to collect more. However! This isn’t because it’s too difficult. Dirt is obviously easy to collect, just grab a shovel and go to town. The reason I never want to collect dirt is because I hate destroying the natural terrain of the game. Even if it’s tens of thousands of blocks from my home and I never have to look at it- it doesn’t feel right to desecrate the naturally generated land. This is, though, unfortunately the only way to get dirt. I would be much happier with this aspect of the game if it were renewable/craftable somehow, say maybe as an additional output of the composter, as that would be the closest real-life parallel that already exists within the game. It would make me (and many others I’ve spoken to) very happy to have a way to collect/gather natural resources without having to permanently scar the world around us, leaving it’s beauty to be appreciated by everyone for the rest of time.
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    Actually you cant get dirt by crafting Dirt and Gravel(renewable thru Piglins) into Coarse Dirt, then use a hoe on the coarse dirt to turn all of it into regular dirt. Kind of convoluted and unintuitive, but dirt is technically renewable.

    I agree though, the composter producing dirt makes sense (more sense than bonemeal, but I guess this bones and the MC-equivalent to fertilizer then that's the logic) so it should be added, or maybe Mulch could be added on which crops could be planted and over time the mulch turns into regular dirt as crops grow. But maybe that's too complicated. Regardless, all the basic terrain blocks should still be easily renewable so the terrain doesn't have to be destroyed to build with the materials.

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    You could just dig under the surface?