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The new Grimstone Ores Should be Stackable with the Old Ones.

I think a lot of people can relate to the situation where your inventory is filled with stacks of ores while mining and that problem is just going to double because now there are 2 types of every single ore, the stone ores, and the grimstone ores.

So I think that for example, stone iron ore should be able to stack with grimstone iron ore, kind of similar to bundles, when you would right-click on the stacked ores in your inventory, you would get all the grimstone ores and leave all the stone ores. Of course, you would still be able to only hold 64 of these in a slot.

Also, you should probably be able to stack the netherack gold with all the other gold.

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    a simple way to do this is have all the Ore Blocks be the same, but the texture should change depending on the blocks around it as a block-state. Default would be the generic stone, if there's Grimstone it uses Gstne texture, Gold can do this for netherrack too.

    And when the world generates, the game can make sure that ores generating in the Grimstone layers generate with the Gstne textures, and from then on the textures only change when the Ore gets a block update (ie. when a block gets placed/removed next to it)

    this would add limits to building with the other ore variants(unless you use debug stick/commands), but it would improve inventory management a lot 

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    How would this work on mobile?

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    I think this is where bundles will play a bigger part and truthfully, its only iron and gold that will have a grimstone variant unless you have silk touch. Everything else just drops into whatever. The new caves will also have you preparing for different mining strategies. If you are going iron mining, you would be mining above Y 0 and in the mountains. If you want gold, you would go below Y 0 more than you be above it.