79.9 Seeking clarification on change about chiseling

[Udary 20]

"Adjusted chiseling rules so that you can not chisel any block with with 2 raw stone blocks above it."

 

Is this 2 block "directly" above it? or 2 blocks ANYWHERE above it? If this means ANYWHERE above it you have basically removed the ability to harvest chiseled blocks, apart from on the surface, or a massive open cut mine.

 

Also does this stop the placement of chiseled blocks if there are raw stone blocks above it? If not it's a non-change, as you can (or maybe not) create a chiseled block and then just place it on the ceiling.

 

I use chiseled blocks for everything and I have a mine that is exclusively there for the nice stone I get from it, it is DEEP and if I can't get chiseled stone out of it now, I don't think I'll be upgrading. I really don't want to open up a huge 10x10 hole in the ground just so I can harvest "pretty" stone.

 

I'm really thankful for the indicators for familiarity, as I'm having issues with one of my cows! And that thatch blocks light (I think) as I was forever picking tree sapling out of my house! I never did understand why!? This will explain it.

[Red3Tango 10]

it is just directly above the block. you are able to break one raw stone, then chisel blocks below that one-by-one. so it only checks for raw stone, not just solid blocks.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

It is the two blocks directly above it. It does not stop the placement of chiseled blocks. If you wish to support your ceiling by chiseling and mining out the floor and walls to place blocks on the ceiling, good for you. This change was so that people cannot just click on the ceiling with the chisel and be done with it.

 

You can still chisel the floors with absolutely no issue, so you can keep your smooth stone quarries underground and hidden if you so wish.

 

If you want to chisel out the walls while creating the underground quarry as well, you'll just have to mine out a 1 block tall strip on the wall, and then start chiseling from the top down.

[Udary 20]

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

 

As for "good for you", I had a style of mining which I've used in my quarry where by I gradually excavate the bottom level 1 block wider all the time, in a dome like manner. Ladders are there to get out, which were at the side of my initial "safe room" but over time have become something odd in the middle of the cave. As a quarry it's pretty efficient and I can get a lot of stone out of it, and it looks quite nice too. I can't imagine it was "what was intended" but it's creative and matches the way a lot of tunnels are created. e.g. supporting the walls with a coating of something, normally spayed concrete, without the need for beam like supports which would get in the way of the road/train track etc.

 

That's getting off track, feel free to close the thread.