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The Minecraft "Snowy" Paradox?
TheDiamondPlayables
ScotsMiser
- As I was planning for updates of my datapacks I found out something rather weird to think of:
As we all know:
- Digging 1 snow layer with a shovel (even if it's Fortune-enchanted) will
always give 1 snowball if said shovel has no Silk Touch.
- Digging 1 snow layer with a shovel that has Silk Touch gives 1 snow layer.
Because you're mining the same block, you can say 1 snow layer = 1 snowball.
But here's the weird part: You need 8 snow layers to build up a block that has the same size and shape as the Snow Block but you only need 4 snowballs to craft a Snow Block.
Therefore, 2 snow layers = 1 snowball?
This is what I call the Snowy Paradox and it's probably why Mojang didn't add a snow layer -> snow block recipe or vice versa. Tell me your thoughts on this in description, and what is truly the right answer here?
As we all know:
- Digging 1 snow layer with a shovel (even if it's Fortune-enchanted) will
always give 1 snowball if said shovel has no Silk Touch.
- Digging 1 snow layer with a shovel that has Silk Touch gives 1 snow layer.
Because you're mining the same block, you can say 1 snow layer = 1 snowball.
But here's the weird part: You need 8 snow layers to build up a block that has the same size and shape as the Snow Block but you only need 4 snowballs to craft a Snow Block.
Therefore, 2 snow layers = 1 snowball?
This is what I call the Snowy Paradox and it's probably why Mojang didn't add a snow layer -> snow block recipe or vice versa. Tell me your thoughts on this in description, and what is truly the right answer here?
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This was introduced in 1.13, previously one obtained two snowbalss for the first layer + one for each additional layer when brokem with any shovel. (In java, snow did not accumulate into multiple layers.)
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Minecraft 🅱roke
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This hurt my brain
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Which is why it is a paradox.
