Why can't stone molding be used to make loose stone brick?

[Panda]

Isn't 1 stone molding essentially just a single stone brick?
I'm aware you can chisel smooth Stone into stone bricks bit i am at the point where i made a smooth stone generator and it struck me as strange....

[FlowerChild]

Yeah, that's fair. I'll put in a conversion recipe.

[Panda]

if it matters i also couldn't figure out how to make chopping blocks while the site was down recently. i thought they were made using 8 stone corners.

[FlowerChild]

Well... looking at it further, I spoke too soon, and my answer is really more "yes and no". It's a larger issue where I would eventually like to apply the chisel idea to splitting stone on the Anvil as well.

They aren't really the same: the moulding is a perfect 1/4 block. The brick is rougher and leaves gaps. Converting from one to the other would require chiseling, and in that case, the recipe should also apply to siding as well.

So for the time being, no, I'm going to leave that alone until I decide to address stone sub-block creation and bring it more into line with other such systems.

[FlowerChild]

BTW Panda, just in case it wasn't previously clear when the stone-brick feature came out: you can place a full stone block in the crafting rid with a chisel and get bricks out of it, much like splitting wood. You don't have to just chisel placed stone blocks one at a time.

The recipe(s) you proposed would be far less efficient as you'd be damaging your chisel with each converted moulding (or siding), instead of with each full stone block. It may feel a bit weird right now, but it's also more practical to just use the recipe as is, so I suspect it would hardly ever get used on individual moulding anyways. Even more so because you'd probably never want an odd number of bricks for anything.

[Panda]

i see i see. Just to check there's no recipe for chiseled stone brick anymore also right? i only ask as using a pickaxe on chiseled stone brick drops loose stone brick now which wasnt always the case.

[ion]

yes there is, is the old one