Blocks: Purposes and Uses

Blocks: Purposes and Uses


I will organize these into sections for starters. In future updates, I will
detail every block, and probably interchange some stuff.

Building materials:

Wood - used to craft workbenches, pickaxes, shovels, and hoes. Also used as
fuel in forges, but doesn't last nearly as long as coal. Can be used to
make stairs.
Stone - you gain cobblestone from this. Can be made by smelting cobblestone,
but honestly I don't see the point besides some recipes. Used to craft
buttons and pressure plates.
Cobblestone - used to craft better versions of pickaxes, shovels, and hoes.
Can be used to craft swords for defence. Can be smelted to make
regular stone. Used to make stone stairs. Can be used to create
a forge and half-blocks.
Dirt - used to grow seeds into wheat. Nothing besides that really...
Glass - used for windows. Again, not much besides that.

Crafting materials:

Wood - used to craft workbenches, pickaxes, shovels, and hoes. Also used as
fuel in forges, but doesn't last nearly as long as coal. Can be used to
make stairs and doors.
Tree trunk - Used to make wood planks (wood). You gain 4 wood for every 1 tree
trunk.
Stick - used to craft ladders, fences, signs, paintings, torches, levers, and
as handles for tools (pickaxes, etc.). Used as the wood for a bow and
the shafts of arrows. Used for fishing rods and minecart tracks.
Coal - used to craft torches and as potent, longer-lasting fuel in forges.
Stone - Used to make pressure plates and buttons.
Cobblestone - used to craft all tools, plus swords and levers. Used to make
half-blocks, or 'steps'. Can be used to craft stairs.
Sand - smelted to make glass, and sandstone in the v1.2 update
Iron - used to craft high quality tools, swords, and armour. Makes flint and
steel when combined with flint. Crafts buckets, compass, minecart,
minecart tracks, and doors.
Diamond - used to craft the highest quality tools, swords, and armour
Gold - used to craft watches. Can be used to make tools, swords, and armour,
but the output is very low quality (does not last long at all).
Wool + Dyes - used to make nice looking fabric. I don't know yet if painting
recipes get affected by the colour of wool.

Kind of useless, but nice to have:

Flowers - used for some dyes (red and yellow)
Mushrooms - used in making mushroom soup to restore health.

Sorry that I don't have much right now, but I need to experiment a little more
in order to make this section any good.