[MC-506] You can make smooth sandstone into smooth sandstone Created: 25/Oct/12  Updated: 03/May/15  Resolved: 16/Jul/14

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.4.2, Minecraft 1.4.7, Minecraft 1.5.1, Minecraft 1.5.2, Snapshot 13w19a, Snapshot 13w21a, Minecraft 1.6.1, Minecraft 1.6.2, Minecraft 13w38c, Minecraft 1.7.4, Minecraft 14w02c, Minecraft 14w03a, Minecraft 14w03b, Minecraft 14w05b, Minecraft 14w06b, Minecraft 14w07a, Minecraft 14w08a, Minecraft 1.7.5
Fix Version/s: Minecraft 14w29a

Type: Bug
Reporter: Moe Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 14
Labels: None

Attachments: PNG File 2012-10-25_17.45.53.png     PNG File 2012-10-25_17.45.55.png    
Issue Links:
Duplicate
is duplicated by MC-5439 Smooth Sandstone Crafting Bug *NOT Ma... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-10060 Smooth sandstone makes smooth sandstone Resolved
is duplicated by MC-15895 If you put 4 smooth sandstone in your... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-15920 smooth sandstone glich Resolved
is duplicated by MC-28498 Crafting Smooth Sand Stone into Smoot... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-52550 Craft 4 Smooth Stone For 4 Smooth Stone Resolved
is duplicated by MC-56344 chiseled sandstone bug Resolved
is duplicated by MC-1527 Crafting of smooth Sandstone Resolved
is duplicated by MC-3775 4 smooth sandstone = 4 stacked smooth... Resolved
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Confirmation Status: Confirmed

 Description   

You can make smooth sandstone into smooth sandstone



 Comments   
Comment by Chris [ 16/Jul/14 ]

This was a useful recipe when I wanted to consolidate my Sandstone and Smooth Sandstone into one stack, and the former wasn't a multiple of 4. Will it still work to create 4 Smooth Sandstone from 4 of a mix of both types?

Comment by Pedro M. Zamboni [ 16/Jul/14 ]

Don't worry, we still have a useless crafting recipe: Using wool and bone meal to craft wool =D

Comment by Atom clark [ 16/Jul/14 ]

NOOOO! why was this fixed! Noooo! why would anyone report this bug it's so cool why!

Comment by Itouch2 [ 09/Mar/14 ]

Still a concern in 10c

Comment by Itouch2 [ 05/Mar/14 ]

Still a concern in 1.7.5 and 14w08a

Comment by Atom clark [ 11/Aug/13 ]

can confirm but i think that's actually kind of cool

Comment by Leon [ 21/May/13 ]

Smooth Sandstone has the same ID than normal Sandstone. Same with wool.

Comment by Moe [ 22/Feb/13 ]

In that case just close it I didn't mean for it to be open this long anyway I just kind of forgot about it until I read my emails.

Comment by Markku [ 19/Feb/13 ]

Not really a bug, although sounds weird/pointless. I mean, is it really incorrect that 4 something turns into 4 same something? IMHO, that should be actually a valid case for almost any block type. It is pointless, yes, like pouring water from one bottle to another and calling it chemistry... but nothing breaks.

As Mortvert already mentioned, the recipe accepts any of the three sandstone types as source material, even any combination of them in the same process. Having 4 smooth sandstone just happens to be one acceptable combination. In the source code it is a single recipe which simply leaves the exact input sandstone type undefined. Note that this has no harmful effects, other than occasional reports in here. (Perhaps the 'fix' would be to add a note about this peculiarity in the wiki? EDIT: there already is: "Smooth Sandstone acts as regular sandstone; you can put 4 smooth sandstone in a square and make 4 of itself in a crafting table.")

The simplicity is also useful. Suppose you have 3 regular sandstone blocks and one smooth one. As it is currently, you can convert all those into 4 smooth sandstones. If this is changed, you're stuck with those 3+1 until getting one more regular sandstone block from somewhere. (Or, you can even convert 1+1+2 of all three types into 4 of smooth).

It is certainly possible to add some code to detect this particular case of 4 smooth sandstone, but is it really worth the effort? (I couldn't find any existing examples of a recipe with empty/null result defined in the code, or code that would be prepared to handle the case, so I'd say it needs a bit more coding than just adding one dummy recipe. Feel free to correct me if that is not the case.)

Comment by TorchicBlaziken [ 24/Nov/12 ]

While a trivial bug, it's still a bug. It could be fixed by making a "recipe" where four smooth sandstone into the crafting table like that gives you nothing. Any other combination would still work.

Comment by Tails [ 03/Nov/12 ]

No you never could do that, but you can always make double slabs, those look exactly like regular sandstone.

Comment by Paul Davis [ 31/Oct/12 ]

The bug is that you cannot craft smooth sandstone back into regular sandstone, which I believe you could in previous versions.

Comment by Mortvert (Mort Imert) [ 25/Oct/12 ]

The recipe works if you have any number of either sandstone, so you can craft the rough kind into smooth kind without having to make additional number of stone. Not a bug, try it.

Comment by sciguyryan [ 25/Oct/12 ]

I can confirm this.

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