my little "Errrr..." about dirt/sand sliding

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

Before i start, be aware: I'm not against this change. I actually love it. but i just thought it should be a little imporved when i saw what i saw... Keep reading, let me show you.

So, basically, what happened is that i was boring, my chests were full with a ton of dirt, and i decided to make a dirt pyramid to kill time. I took all the dirt i had, i randomly choose a spot and started pillaring dirt for it to form the pyramid by itself. There were two things that i noticed, and i thought would need some fixing: The first one, when a dirt block had to slide where there was tall grass, it instead dropped. The second one is in this image:

You see? It's not a pyramid, it's a + ._. . It's not dicernible in the image, but the spaces between the diferent "arms" are almost perfect dirt walls.

So, yeah, i still like the change, but, shouldn't dirt:

1) Break flowers and tall grass when sliding on them?

2) Actually pile up in a pyramid shape instead of what it does right now?

I'm looking foward for this to be weaked a little so it work a little better, if possible... Not necesarily in the next update, but eventually in the future ._.

[gatts205 39]

I must say that I have observed a similar phenomina on several occasions where dirt that I would expect to colapse when dug into would not. This is especially noticable in prexisting mounds found in the world. If a hole is dug into the side one or two bocks will colapse but the ones above will often remain unchanged often in strangely illogical ways. However what is curantly implemented is certainly a vast improvement over default minecraft floating dirt blocks.

[Kandid Kandace 16]

If dirt is made a certain way it kind of gets stuck into it's shape, and it doesn't really have a problem staying like that until someone takes the dirt out, causing the rest of the dirt around it to shift and avalanche. If you try to place the dirt where it was it won't work because it doesn't have the (very) slow buildup time it originally had for it to get that way to begin with.

[LordOfWolves 514]

Dirt is still under development, I think, because Bioxx didn't say that dirt is completely finished, only that it no more acts like a rabbit.