Brainstorming: Renewable Sand/Red Sand

vazkii

As it stands, many people resort to using end portal dupers for these blocks, as they can't easily be farmed at a mass scale. I'd like to avoid doing the "classic" methods for this like smashing cobble/gravel, or having husks drop it.

GameGuruGreenGryphon

I liked the solution in Crucial 2 that combined a lot of aspects of the pack to make something cool.

Completely unrelated, but what if charged creepers doubled or tripled the amount of drops blocks dropped? It'd reward actually farming charged creepers (and now it's much easier with lightning rods)

Noobulus

GameGuruGreenGryphon the charged creeper idea is interesting, there might have to be a tag for what blocks can actually get multiplied by that, both for balance and for the sake of pack dev

GameGuruGreenGryphon

GameGuruGreenGryphon Realized that this conflicts with the healing creeper holes mod in this pack.
Also, doing this in deserts doesn't yield as much sand per creeper explosion as I like.
I can't imagine a better use for charged creepers, though! They're cool and they should be good for excavation
Maybe charged creepers "cleave" out a spherical radius to make things consistent and duplicate items? Having it be limited to an explosion makes things inconsistent with block hardness.

GameGuruGreenGryphon

Noobulus FORTUNE THREE ON STONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Explodes a chest with a charged creeper, dupe everything in the chest

Noobulus

what mod was behind the bubble column renewable sand in bliss? that system was alright, if a little bit contrived. you could also take some inspiration from existing modded cobblegens and make something that creates sand? my initial thought is lava flowing into blue ice above a bubble column, a bit like vanilla's basalt gens

Noobulus

Noobulus on that note, would it be out of scope for quark to add a method for generating blackstone? it's confused me for a while why basalt is renewable but blackstone isn't outside of piglin bartering

artemis

Noobulus what mod was behind the bubble column renewable sand in bliss? that system was alright, if a little bit contrived.

upgrade aquatic, i think

RickieGamer

Flowing water could erode, cobble -> stone -> gravel -> sand

LeoBeliik

I like the creeper one
Alternately, if you go with the classic method, you could make stonelings eat cobble and shit gravel/sand

Wormbo

I saw something about placing dead coral/coral fans in a flowing water source to have them erodes away into sand items in an ilmango Skyblock video. Fire coral produced red sand in that case.

thedoctorofdoctoring

I think dripstone dripping interaction would work well, for example could be water dripping onto gravel or cobblestone eventually turns it into sand.

RickieGamer

FTB Dripper