User:Harrison/Blocks/Cobblestone

Cobblestone is a darker block, often looking like a roughly paved area. This block only occurs naturally in dungeons, villages, strongholds, or when water and flowing lava come into contact. Cobblestone is obtained by mining stone with a pickaxe. Cobblestone is slightly harder to mine than normal stone. An alternative version of the block exists, called Moss Stone.

Crafting
This block is only generated naturally and cannot be crafted. However, it can be created when water attempts to flow into a space already occupied by flowing lava. A generator can be made which takes advantage of this, resulting in an infinite amount of cobblestone.

Uses


Cobblestone is used in many recipes, being required to craft furnaces, pistons, tools, weapons, and many other objects. Stone tools and weapons are easy to craft and widely available early in the game, making them very efficient even when iron is accessible. However, they possess the lowest enchantability of all tool sets, surpassed even by wood.

It is also commonly used as a building material due to the abundance of stone as well as due to its high blast resistance, which makes it resistant to Creepers and immune to Ghast fireballs.

History


Cobblestone was one of the first blocks added to the game and could be seen in very early gameplay footage from when the game was simply a clone of Infiniminer called "Cave Game". Its textures come from another of Notch's games, called RubyDung.

Due to lack of room in the UI, Cobblestone was removed in 0.0.19a. It returned in 0.0.20a.

Cobblestone underwent a texture update in Beta 1.7. The texture was changed from to the current version which is somewhat lighter and smoother.

Bugs

 * In the 1.2.5 prerelease, looking at stone in creative mode and pressing the "Pick Block" button will give the player cobblestone.

Trivia

 * Silverfish can hide inside of cobblestone.
 * Before the addition of black wool and obsidian blocks, cobblestone was often used in pixel art to represent darker colors.
 * In the source, cobblestone is referenced as "stonebrick".
 * Although cobblestone is riddled with faults and cracks, it has a higher blast resistance this most blocks and is tied with many others. This makes it useful for blast-resistant buildings.
 * The current texture for cobblestone has the top and bottom halves swapped and brightened.