Crushing gravel into sand with a falling anvil is a common suggestion. Any reason to have falling anvils in a farm

I think that they should make it so that large deserts occasionally have sand storms that add sand to the ground like snow layers. They could make it so that the sand will “get caught” on the side of blocks, so if you want to farm sand you would still have to grind hard and make the desert level, then build a large wall in an area, then make it so the floor around it can drop out and collect all the newly formed sand blocks after the storm is over.

Sand is tiny quartz crystals irl. So, maybe instead of crushing gravel, we should crush quartz (blocks or even items). And I personally like the idea of using anvils

Iskall, you should bring one of your allays with you on your sand mining expedition. It will collect the sand you leave behind as well as sand that you don't collect or miss out on, which will speed your collection up.

9:22 I like that the term “Arizona dads” is slowly getting spread around the other hermits lol

I find the mining fatigue a good game mechanic as it makes most players explore the structure and not just dig through it, while it doesn't force you, as you can always bring some TNT to break through walls if you really want to (since it's under water, you just have to surround the TNT with blocks).

The new mace head for smashing gravel

20:30 It might be a language barrier issue, but in case you don't know, if you take thorns damage from the guardians, you ARE doing something wrong. They only deal thorns damage when their spikes are out. If you hit them when the spikes are in, they don't damage you. Not saying that it makes the mechanic any better, just that that explanation isn't totally accurate.

Regarding reneweable sand: 1. Create a block based on the heavy core, lets name it "Crusher" 2. This "Crusher" block is affected by gravity 3. When it falls onto a block, the block is changed eg. Stone -> Cobble, Gravel -> Sand, Deepslate -> Cobbel Deepslate, Birck -> cracked bricks, Glass, grass, leaves, etc. -> air, each converison has a cost and the faster the block collides the more it can crush. This happens in place, no items involved.

TNT doesn't go against the "one block at a time" philosophy. Otherwise you could argue that pistons, moss, water spilling, or even tree growth go against it. "One block at a time" means that the player only ever interacts with one block, but that interaction is free to cause a cascade of bigger events.

You should be able to find thorns books in the monuments so that it makes it easier for people to put two and two together as to why the fishes hurt you when you hit them

About the magnet Idea, you could use allays to simulate It, if you are going to collect a lot of a material type, like wood or sand, having like 2 or 3 allays with you would be enough for you to just mine while they collect the dropped blocks and bring back to you

For Farmable sand, I would go with the Husk's having a small chance of dropping a block of sand, how Zombies can drop Iron and Drown can Drop Copper. Or Go with the Create route and have Gravel turn into sand. Another option could be how Stone turns into Cobblestone, and have Sandstone turn into sand.

As to the young old conversation. I'm an old man dad who remembers a time before Google, let alone social media, and I love your content, so your audience is also aging with you. And Minecraft content is something I can enjoy with my kids while I probably won't understand a lot of things in their lives. Keep going for us old codgers!!

I think because glass is made from sand in the game, but glass can be bought from librarians making it renewable, would be nice to have a crusher thing that you give stacks of glass and it gives back sand, probably not in the same ratio, like 1:2 or 1:4... that would be more accurate lore wise, or maybe 1 glass + 1 gravel make 1 sand, inside a machine that crushes the glass with help of the gravel. We already have gravel for concrete and coarse dirt, so why not for sand too.

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Stone to cobblestone. Cobblestone to gravel. Gravel to sand.

Technically sand is nor crushed up gravel. It is pulverised rocks shifted for the silicon parts, which makes up most of the sand. The rest becomes the gravel of the oceans

They're adding a mace, why not have you right click with it (like how you right click logs to strip them with an axe) to pulverise blocks? stone -> cobblestone -> gravel -> sand you could set up an afk cobblestone generator where you autoclick cobblestone, and after 2 observer pulses, the sand gets pushed onto a torch and collected. The only problem would be making sure your mace doesn't break lol.

I'd go and make sand kind of a counterpart to snow. Thunderstorms in the desert could turn into sandstorms and make sand layers pile up. Maybe even collect the sand in a cauldron to make quicksand (as a counterpart to powder snow). Then add a mob or mechanic that mirrors the snow golem in that it can reliably create sand layers no matter the weather. If not a mob, then that could be the crushing mechanic that many mods use. I like to imagine some piston interaction, maybe when you push sandstone next to a specific block, it grinds it a bit and causes sand particles to fall that create sand layers when they land.

Ilmango did a modded Skyblock series where everything was renewable. To get sand you had to dry out coral and then put running water over it and it would decay into sand items over time. I thought that was really clever.

I like the idea of something like a sand elemental. Thing is it doesn't drop sand. Instead it shoots an attack that when it makes contact with a player/ mob/ wall becomes sand that is on the ground. This could even be a mob that could spawn during sandstorms that we could capture and make our own farms with.

To add to the sponge discussion, I spent a whole evening looting 35+ monuments and it was always nice to get lucky and have 3 or more sponge rooms, and you never have enough of them when you need to drain a huge volume of water

21:00 Did Iskall forget about Ocean Explorer Maps there? Although I admit that they're a pain to get. Or was this specifically about the 'unraided' part? That does make me wish that there was a way to reset structures, though. Would allow you to make mini bosses repeatable and multiplayer friendly. Maybe they'll rework structures to use challenge spawners and vaults in the future. I also think that if you don't reset a structure/keep it's spawners intact, then mobs shouldn't respawn there. That way you could truly conquer structures and move into them yourself without having to deal with special spawns.

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here's a vanilla-esque way to make sand renewable: if the block above gravel is flowing water, start timer (timer resets and stops if flowing water is removed). when timer runs out, the gravel block is changed into a sand block. most flowing water is unnatural, and rarely does it ever touch gravel, cold oceans are all source blocks of water. so, it's a very controllable scenario, which you would have to build a farm for like cobble and basalt generators. it would be akin to turning mud into clay by using dripstone. even in cases of natural running water on top of gravel, it makes sense that the gravel around water erodes, so like a waterfall down to a gravel beach, it makes sense that where the water lands, there is sand rather than gravel

The one block at a time, thing with tnt and moss logic is that the player still only interacts with one block vs interacting with multiple. You light a tnt block you bonemeal a moss block. (That’s also why redstoners machines still count to because you place/break one thing or push lever or button. Theirs probably a way to have larger effects wile still using this.

The Heavy Core from the upcoming update seems like a perfect item to use for crushing sand. Why else would they make it placeable?

I think the biggest issue with a crusher, is that people would want to crush a lot of other things, which would make other features obsolete(mainly crushing stone to gravel, would make gravel from piglins obsolete). Imo, something that was theorized from a screenshot shared by a developer, which later was clarified to be nothing, but it was layers of sand, like snow layers, but sand texture. Thus people theories of this being a way to farm sand. An event like a sand storm, would pile up sand that you could dig up as sand blocks, the way snow can pile up to 8 layers, if the gamerule is set that high.

You could have a waterfall erosion mechanic, where water from falling from a certain height will change the properties of a few blocks but potentially iteratively like the way copper ages. Stone > cobble > gravel > sand

Upgrade Aquatic has it be renewable through having the sand generate from having a bubble column going into a sandstone block above the water, and it's pretty interesting to automate due to this method. They even extend it to gravel by having cobble be the generating block instead of sandstone It's a pretty cool concept, and fun to work around since there's plenty of ways of breaking the falling sand/gravel entity Also as for the One Block At a Time sentiment. TNT and Moss still fall under this mindset, as the player specifically has to interact with *one block*, setting it off of their own volition, which then proceeds to interact with more blocks. Compare that to something like a modded hammer, where the player inherently interacts with 9+ blocks at a time, unlike TNT or Moss where you interact with just one block to affect multiple others. It's mostly about the player's direct actions and intentions when it comes to block interaction (and is also why I find instamining kinda bad, cause it sorta breaks the philosophy when you can break things by accident cause of your mining speed)

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Heavy rock feels very mod-y. If wind/sand storm comes for ‘rain’ in the desert in a desert update, and either having a cauldron fill up or have a new similar sand catcher block.

I like having the mace (or anvil, sure) instamining any glass down to sand. I also think sand next to lava should turn in-world to glass, while concrete powder should turn to colored glass.

The new windcharge would be fun for farming sand. Basically you'd bombard cobblestone or gravel directly with a windcharge and it erodes it to sand.

I don't remember whose playthrough it was but there was a mod that made sand obtainable using flowing water on corals. It was skyblock playthrough. It was probably ilmango. This way it is farmable like bonemeal on coral block -> coral fan coral fan + flowing water -> sand block for red coral fan it gave red sand.

30:30 Fr, I generally have a rule of thumb that when I build a farm I build it so that in 30 mins of AFKing it will produce probably about as much as I will want for quite a while, within reason in terms of complexity ofc. I'd like to build Doc's insane wood farm he has for that very reason, since the whole idea with his setup is very quick and minimal loading. Heck he even chucks the bonemeal in from ages away to maintain the production. Also for renewable sand one of my favourite ways is a carpet mod addon that lets I think it was gravel be crushed into sand when an anvil lands on it. I think the one I used was from a non-gnembom addon that let me do cobble -> gravel -> sand or somethn I can't recall. Personally I'm not a huge fan of mob-based farms, hence I like the renewable gravel from it too. I do think husks should have a chance to drop gravel though, both to make an alternate route for sand production possible that should be generally faster since you have to go to the desert to make it, and also just to make the mob more interesting. Two ways to make materials renewable is ideal. Lotta stuff is renewable through villagers which imo basically doesn't count, and bartering is better but its still so disconnected. Technically right now sand is renewable in two ways: Through End portal duplication, and through wandering traders. Can buy 48 at a time as a trade from wandering traders.

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Crush cobble between two pistons to turn it into gravel and same for gravel to sand. The pistons could be placed perpendicular to a cobble generator, and the generated gravel could fall onto a torch for automatic collection or into another piston crusher to be turned into sand.

Iskall being the natural enemy of Anakin Skywalker. "Who doesn't like sand?"

14:54 MMX, yes! Subregister vectorization in the same clock cycle was such a boost

sponges are one of the most rewarding & and balanced blocks in the game - it break the mojang rule of "one block at a time" for sure as it voids a fair number of water source blocks, they have no ornamental use - and the fact that we talk about a stack of sponges as precious in the same way like... i memorized a shulker loader long ago for all stone and dirt etc... because it's nice to have too much than not enough. It's the perfect example. everything about the sponge is just *good*. It's a good block that still feels good to obtain like half a stack of... it's more satisfying to obtain than diamonds or netherite... and using them is just obnoxiously satisfying. In my long term survival world sponges are one of the very few blocks i'm still excited to find. I have like 18 stacks.... which.... thats sooo many monuments lol... I've had back to back to back to back 0 sponge rooms in a row... 0 sponge rooms is a possibility.. i generally drain those out of spite.

Your graphs rant brought me back to Office Space "I deal with the customers so the engineers don't have to, I'm a people person dammit!"

From clearing out a monument a couple days ago, I can confirm that sponge rooms are not guaranteed

21:40 “SaNd?” so good i love you iskall

I can't believe he pulled out the graph in the KZfaq video. Iskall really is a born jester.

“I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?” - office space lol.

Iskall claims he has no uncle traits and then casually says I might bust out the roller skates

"I do not have OCD, but I have limits!" I'm totally using this

There is already a mod called AnvilCraft that is out recently, adding numerous features involving anvils crushing, and magnets to manipulate and automation of such process.

Countertops for custom desks are brilliant. It's an easy DIY project which makes for a great weekend job and allows you to perfectly fit a desk in any kind of weird space you've got. Just a tip - an oscillating multi-tool is a great and easy way to cut into a countertop in a situation like Iskall has here. No need to detach the desk, drill anything or fiddle with a jigsaw. Just mark it out and do a nice plunge cut.

When an anvil drops onto an end rod it breaks into a “sand pile” 9 “sand piles” make a sand block. …Or just a new crafting recipes… Red sand = Redstone block surrounded by blaze powder. Reg. sand = Glowstone surrounded by blaze powder (This would make the two types of sand farmable while kind of trying to attempting at balancing… it would also add another use for blaze powder)

See, I like the idea of something we call a "Grind stone" and it can take raw ores and split them into 2 dusts, so you get ore doubling. Then Have it go from Stone to cobble, cobble to gravel, Gravel to sand, and sand is deleted. We can put it in some group of engineering stuff too. Call it the, "Create update"

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Dude made a chart (Iskall) and I'm like I been watching since he did his singleplayer pirate island skull base of doom thing lol. This season iskall85 you are doing good by doing like episode 19-20 and adding more content inside that said it being it made between 19-20 so pure Genius Content Creator move.

"graphs dont change worlds" GRAPHS RUN WORLDS!!!! lol the amount of graphs I had to put together for dev capacity smh

"I do not have OCD, but I have limits." I need that on a shirt! :D

The edited vods are really nice to have honestly

Guardian or elder guardian lasers could turn gravel or cobblestone into sand :) personally I think gravel to make it so a sand farm is super late game since you would want to also have a gold farm and bartering setup for that, although then you have some kind of needing to place the gravel block repeatedly issue but oh well :) autoclickers!

As a small addendum to the magnetized thing, I could see that maybe only being able to go on metal tools so maybe diamond can’t get magnetized, but netherite tools could incentivizing that mechanic some as well

The Origin Realms public server has an enchantment called Siphon that pulls drops directly to you. It behaves somewhat like a magnet but there’s no grabbing someone else’s items from across a room.

With the guardians' thorns feeling unsatisfying that's because when they swim their spikes retract and no longer deal damage to you. It's meant to be unsatisfying, to get the player to break line of sight and make them move, or move closer which makes them swim away and become vulnerable again

You may not have OCD, but I do. So thank you, for keeping it all sand.

If you ever feel too old to "do this" streaming minecraft thing, just remember TFC who gave us so much. I miss him.

“To make it not look like a developer tool from 1987” 😂

21:00 iskall when he discovers cartographer maps:

I've been using a self-made datapack that makes coral fan smeltable, into sand. It's meant creative farm building and renewable sand.

I think Abnormal's Upgrade Aquatic did it best: buble column produces falling sand entities if below sandstone, which then drop as items

Mojang's logic with TNT is that you only interact with the one TNT block

If you wanna convince mojang to add "pulverizing" into vanilla minecraft, the way to do it would probably be to exploit their design obsession with being "Educational". IRL, stone becomes gravel and then later sand from being eroded and weathered. Minecraft doesn't have wind, but it's had waterfalls for an absurdly long time. Water erosion from having flowing water land on a block would be possible in game as a random tick, turning smooth stone into gravel, and gravel into sand. At least that's how I'd do it.

For my own server I use tnt 'crafting'. exploding blocks crushes them, like cobble -> gravel -> sand

Add a pulverisor block to feed various types of stone into stone into, to create gravel, that can be pulverized again into sand.

It'd be cool if the desert occasionally had sandstorms, which left behind a sand equivalent of snow layers that could be mined to make sand

I think that instead of gravel, quartz could be crushed because sand is technically made by eroding quartz bearing rock

14:30 I didn't even realize that you use a shader until you turned it off and everything looked worse. Thats the best kind of shader

Moving water touching gravel could gradually turn it into sand.

The last few videos on this channel feels like they were done in reverse.

You could crush it with a heavy core from 1.21

just finished the last 3 behind the scenes from this weekend

I love this chaotic iskall!..

Im so happy when watching you stream HC, I like that you are openly expressing your opinion

I think it was a perfect graph.

I don’t remember who I got this idea from (I think it was antvenom? probably xisuma), but, enchanted shulker boxes. **Accumulation**: When you pick up an item, and a shulker box with this enchantment has more of that item in it, the item will go into the shulker box instead of your inventory. **Siphoning**: When you consume an item (eating food, placing blocks) that you have 1 stack or less of in your inventory, and a shulker box with this enchantment has some of that item in it, it will consume from the box instead of your inventory.

Hold on... a desk *6 Meters* Long?!

I feel like for sand they could implement some sort of crafting chain like how you can turn dirt + gravel into coarse dirt, and turn that into more dirt than you started with Make some sand equivalent of coarse dirt that you can then turn into more sand. fits in line with an already established mechanic and isnt just some big ass farm you can build and have a lifetime supply after an hour of AFKing. Maybe just like 1 sand + 1 gravel makes 2 of this new block which you can then use the brush on to turn back into normal sand, that kinda thing!

Once we finally get a renewable source of sand, I wonder if big servers like Hermitcraft will start to faze out TNT duping. I know that a lot of players only put up with it because sand is finite, and now that we have crafters, sand automation is the only missing piece for completely automated TNT crafting.

Crushing mechanic would be cool. For example it would be cool making a cobblestone farm, then Cobblestone crushes into gravel and gravel crushes into sand.

In regards to the shaders... Mojang wont do that because of Java and to allow the game to run on ALL platforms including the consoles. Theres another block game called Vintage Story that by default uses shaders and it looks amazing! Also by default they have a multi block chiseling system so you can chisel a block and add a few other types of blocks and mix and match them all in the single block space allowing for some amazing details. The fact that VS has a much more userfriendly voxel crafting system similar to chisel and bits that DOESNT cause a METRIC TON of lag. The game has a place called "The Resonance Archives" thats CHALK FULL of custom chiseled multi-block blocks, chiseled down to be arch ways or holey floors and broken brick walls floors and ceilings. Its an absolutely massive area and barely causes any lag on a vast majority of computers... and yet here we are with Java based Minecraft and its awful optimization and performance thank to just over a decade of spaghetti coding that they are just now straightening out and improving...

It looks like TFC was born in 1959 and joined HC in 2013, so 54 yo. He passed away in 2022 at 63 yo.

Rollerblading is very fun, hope you get some good weather

IMO for sand farming just change the husk loot table, the farms have unique restrictions (can't have a roof over them, i.e. can't do multi-platform), and the mob wanders the desert already. That's what I did for my own datapack anyway, heh. E-Z

I think if Mojang built "a machine" for crushing stone into gravel, it would end up just being a static workstation block like the grindstone. For technical reasons, unfortunately. Would be cool to be able to build more animated factories though, if it didn't cause tons of lag or duplication glitches.

Some kinds of fish create sand. Might make some sense to have some of the tropical fish occasionally turn gravel into sand kind of like a sheep eating grass.

Crush diorite to finally give it a purpose but also get rid of it 🤣

maybe a gravel piston crusher/grinder with a block of netherite, so farmable sand is not as easy to get or maybe have a crusher head covered with diamonds and the diamonds would slowly wear out and you would have to replace them so it would give another use-case to diamonds

They should let you wash the sand of husks by using splash water bottles. That way this item becomes useful.

you should bring alays with you when sand mining. They will pick up the items you miss and will probably prevent despawning.

I have a big desk, it's a dining table. I only spent £80 on it, desk of the same size is a few times more expensive. The desk is 220x84cm, this is with 2 40cm leaves in it (so the length can be 220, 180, 140cm). I've had it for 12 years now and it's been rotting off and on (can't smell it but there's one patch which gets a bit wet and green during the summer from lap heat). I have a quad 27" setup (3 wide, middle monitors are stacked), with my Corsair 680X on my desk (it's wide and can still fit and I only need to scoot my right monitor forward a tiny bit to open up the door to clean the dust filters). I want to replace it and I'm probably just going to either buy a slab of wood or glue pieces together myself (I can borrow a load of the really long clamps) and I want it deeper because while where I sit my eyes are 80-90cm away from my monitors (which is a good distance, you're meant to barely touch the screen with arms outstretched and I have a 15cm gap) but I want it to be more like 120cm because I dislike focussing so close, I also wait to raise up my monitors and I'll make something for that because I found out you can get these touch screens made for shop shelves and there's a few that would work embedded in monitor stands and I could make some apps to go there so I have a timer to hand, and to my left I can have a timeline of my day and a calendar synced with my phone. Anyway, buy a dining table if you want a big desk but also want less work.

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