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Crafting Recipe for Renewable Ice

Ice is a useful resource for building fast boat highways, enabling efficient travel across long distances. Although it is renewable currently, waiting for water to freeze is tedious and time consuming.

A crafting recipe could be added to create one block of ice from four icicles (2x2), which would add another renewable option. This would align with the crafting recipes for dripstone blocks and sulfur. Brittle ice could be another option for the ingredient, and the recipe could be adjusted to require nine items or make packed ice if needed for balancing.

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    I think this is the way to go. Traditional ice farms have far too low efficiency and are extremely tedious to build. If we can quickly and efficiently get ice spires to craft ice using a falling-block farm, it would definitely bring much more convenience to survival gameplay.

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    Ice: requires player to mine, slow, bigger farm = more effecient (via pushing ice from wide area to players)
    Icicle: fully automated, even slower, bigger farm = more effecient
    Brittle Ice: requires player to mine, fast, bigger farm ≠ more effecient (unless more player counts for bigger farm)

    Also 1 player can only break 1 block per tick, so a huge Ice farm produces (nearly) the same amount of items between brittle ice farm produces;
    Since we probably need more Brittle Ice than Ice to craft Packed Ice, Brittle Ice farm only works more efficiently before players have materials to build a huge Ice farm. Icicle farm don't have that problem though -- it may cost more material to increase same abount of ice producing effeciency, but hey it's AFKable.

    An idea is to add both recipe into snapshot, and waiting for player feedback, then decide to (or not to) remove 1 recipe before release.