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TNT Duper Replacement: Sculk Gloom

Players always use TNT Duper to make farming blocks easier. Like Wood, Cobblestone, Concrete, and other blocks that can be gathered using TNT. But it all feels cheaty because it is a glitch. So I would like to suggest a new block that looks like the Conduit Block that is not a full block and hovers when placed and it has the shape of a drum that beats like a heart. The use is to break blocks just like TNT but won't damage entities, it can't be blown up like a nether star or obsidian. To activate it, it needs a sculk sensor getting signals from it, just like the sculk shrieker. It doubles the delay of the sculk sensor after getting activated, meaning if it gets activated by the first signal from the sensor, it won't read the second signal but the third one, so that it won't continuously activate every time the sensor signals.

This block can be found as loot in the new Deep Dark Ancient Cities. So it would be rewarding after successfully pillaging that scary place, avoiding the Warden as best as you can. But this is not like TNT, it works like TNT but it has a special unique perk that only this block can do. If you place crying obsidian near it, this block will be covered with its tears and glow purple. This setting will make stone into sand, and will make sand renewable. Some blocks too, like Terracotta to red sand, etc. The blast radius is 6 blocks from source and drops blocks 100%, it is movable by piston, but cant be bounced by slime for its not a gravity block.

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    This block can also be used for collecting experience from a sculk block farm. Because if a sculk block explodes from TNT, it will not give the block but gives xp. Meaning, AFK xp gathering would be a thing, without any auto clicker. 

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    It should be a rare loot because if it happens to spawn every time you found a deep dark city, it would be too overpowered. We dislike collecting a lot of sand but if you only have one, then collecting sand won't be tedious because of the unique function of turning stone into sand. It can also do this to other blocks other than stone to sand just like other stones and pulverize it into something else, or something like that, it can be whatever that fits scientifically. Wood will still drop wood, and concrete will still drop concrete though. If they add a new block maybe it would make this even more beneficial. I want a renewable way to get calcite though. And also, if you collected enough sand you can make TNT, if you have a creeper farm that is. Then supplying the rest of the farms that need TNT can be restocked infinitely without having to destroy every dessert insight.

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    About the second function, the crying obsidian need to be n the cardinal directions. Glowing purple is good for indication. It can also be waterloggable. It can also be silent, while the explosions work even when in water, this would be a first, just encase it with obsidian or crying obsidian so it would only explode the blocks near it while waterlogged. It can still blast blocks even if it is blocked. The only downside is you might get blocks land on top of the obsidian, its a fair deal for an automatic way of collecting blocks without any noise. 

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    the delay for TNT is four seconds before the explosion, and the sculk sensor is 1 tick delay after getting activated. So with the Gloom, the second sculk sensor signal is ignored but followed the third signal, then it would be three seconds before exploding, is it better that it is faster than tnt? What breaking time would it be then, if it is slow just like a conduit then it's okay, and so that they won't use it to explode a place faster and make the TNT less useful. It is quite fitting as a replacement for the TNT duper and it has a larger range, faster duration, and a unique toggle. Does it feel Minecrafty?

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    When deactivating this would be tricky unless you know how to handle it. For me, I would place the sensor near me away from the explosion and place wool or just remove it to stop the Sculk Gloom or Sculk Heart or Sculk Drum from activating.

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    RENEWAL OF DESIGN!!!

    Sculk Gloom is a block that hovers in the air just like a conduit but is bigger, it pulses and has a slight sound of beating. If activated by sensors, it will break blocks from 4 blocks away from the Gloom. It will have an animation of turning them into sculk blocks then pop out the former blocks, like stone or wood. It works per 1 tick every block within its radius. It works like explosions but won't make explosion noise. The sensor won't detect its vibration, so it won't activate if it pulses or gloom a block. The blocks won't be flying away it will appear on top of sculk veins. 

    The scenario is like a decay where if it gets closer to the source it will turn sculk then disappears. and then rise up from the sculk. You can get the item entities by placing sculk veins on a hopper. The range of which they rise out of is 8 blocks away from the Gloom and should not be near 6 blocks from the Gloom. 

    The second toggle function is activated by placing crying obsidian near it for 2 blocks away maximum. The normal stage breaks blocks that are the same as the blocks, except things that cant get without silk touch, it will drop what it should drop, if xp or items. The glowing purple toggle, turns stones into sand and other blocks into other blocks, maybe terracotta to red sand? It won't turn diorite into calcite though,, but maybe if quartz blocks then it would break into 1-2 quartz, it's like recycling blocks.