Talk:Dirt/Archive 1

in caverns dirt is a sign of iron ore, and gravel is a sign of coal. this can be prooved by digging dirt that is inside caves. –The preceding unsigned comment was added by Coolguy3867 (Talk 00:29, 22 January 2011. Please sign your posts with   !
 * That's purely random, Dirt and Gravel are no bullet proof indicators for minerals. I dug out pockets of Gravel and found Iron, dug out Dirt and found Coal, or nothing, or Diamond. It's completely random. --Flippeh 23:34, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Sunlight for grass
"When a Dirt block is adjacent to a Grass-covered block and is exposed to sunlight, it will eventually be converted into a Grass block" I know this is incorrect as I have used torches to walk grass down into caves before. I'll run a test later to check what level the light needs to be then change it.


 * No need, the details are in the Light article. That said, the statement wasn't false, it was just misleading.  Sunlight will do it, but so will torchlight, lava, glowstone, etc.  --Theothersteve7 14:29, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Updating the Dirt page
I think we need a picture of a dirt block, converted into farmland. Isn't there any trivia about the dirt block? Like it's the icon of Minecraft on the desktop and stuff? –The preceding unsigned comment was added by Herkio (Talk 21:28, 25 August 2011. Please sign your posts with
 * We have a farmland page, you can see pics there. And the icon of Minecraft is a grass block, not dirt.--Cby 12:02, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

New Layout
In accordance with the template given here, I have completely redone this page. It can be found here. If it is alright, I'd like to copy the changes over. Let me know what you think. --Harrison (talk) 18:57, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

More information
I want to know more about how dirt is generated. How many layers of dirt are usually on the surface, above stone? Is this affected by the biome or altitude? How big, on average, are dirt lodes underground? And do they replace ores and lead to short veins? Do they signify nearby caves, or is this random? We also need some information on other ways dirt is generated, such as on the floor of the "dirt room" in abandoned mineshafts.
 * I'll try to answer as many of those as possible, but anyone feel free to correct me if I am wrong:

#trigger_hurt (I 14:50, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 1. Typically, 3 layers of dirt are present and 1 layer of grass, but on occasion 2 layers of dirt and 1 of grass (such as on default superflat worlds)
 * 2. Not by altitude, but biome does matter. I'm not sure which biomes dirt generates more or less in (except deserts which generate no dirt at all)
 * 3. If you mean the large random dirt piles located within the rock, they tend to have around 1-2.5 stacks of dirt inside
 * 4. As far as I can tell, the ores are not replaced, and instead of "pushed" to the side, which makes them likely to contain ores behind them. But I may be wrong on that.
 * 5. This is entirely random; it could or could not mean a cave.