***CAUTION: MAKE CERTAIN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MOD DOES BEFORE ADDING IT TO AN EXISTING WORLD, UNLESS YOU WANT TO SEE EVERYTHING YOU LOVE AND CHERISH POTENTIALLY COME CRASHING DOWN AROUND YOU!!!***

!!!YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!!

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A WIP: Wilderlands Block Adjustments is a project developed for a Wilderlands community server, and accomplishes the following:

• Adds "wet" version of cob and blocks that use clay as a binder (such as vanilla cobblestone). "Wet" blocks are unstable until they dry, meaning you will need to use some form of bracing to hold wet blocks in place while they dry. Once dry, they convert to normal vanilla version of the blocks and are stable.
• All dirt related building blocks are downward unstable. If you want to use them for walls, you'll need to add some other support above windows and doorways if you want to build with higher layers of dirt related building blocks. Care is needed when modifying these sorts of structures, as walls will collapse if blocks are removed without taking gravity into account.
• Cobblestone now has two recipes: The vanilla recipe that requires clay (and yields an unstable wet cobblestone block), and a new recipe that uses mortar.
• All blocks made with lime mortar as a binder are stable and do not require any drying. This includes the new cobblestone recipe that uses mortar.
• A pickaxe is now required to break all cobble and ashlar related blocks. No more raiding ruins by hand in the early game to build nifty little houses on day one. You need tools!!! Except wet cobble blocks. They can be moved by hand.
• Cobble related blocks, once dry, will yield only loose stones when broken with a pickaxe. You'll need more clay or mortar to reassemble them.
• Aged and cracked decorative cobble blocks will drop whole, but still require a pickaxe.

The purpose of this mod is to make working with stone and mortar more valuable, and more of a mid to late game technology. Early game building will be focused more on using things like wood and earth (Wattle and daub!!!), while the more determined and patient can build with stone using clay as a binder. With mortar bound blocks being more valuable and much easier to work with, mortar making will be an important task, especially on a community server where demand will be higher.

Unstable building blocks sound daunting at first, but once you get the hang of applying bracing for each layer of the wall being built, it works and progresses at a fair pace. It's also strangely satisfying.

Compatibility:

• Currently only fully compatible with Geology Addons. Other mods that add variants of blocks modified in this mod should also have wet/unstable versions right out of the box. However, their I.D. in the tool tip will be off unless/until I add compatibility to the mod's lang file.

Plans:

• Add light and dark mudbrick bricks that need to be allowed to dry before being used to craft mudbrick blocks.
• Still mulling over what other blocks could use some adjusting.

**Other modules in the Wilderlands series: Wilderlands Tweaks, Wilderlands Rustbound, Wilderlands Ethology, Wilderlands Deposit Scarcity, Wilderlands Forests, and Wilderlands Panning Overhaul

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