Talk:Cobblestone

There's a brewing stand recipe for "upcoming 1.17" and one for "until 1.17". They don't differ at all. I would remove that, but I can't figure out how to actually do that, apparently it's something with Lua scripts that I can't find. And even if they should actually differ, then it should at least be "until 1.16.4". Can someone please change one of these things? Fabian42 (talk) 07:37, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Also furnace, axe, hoe, pickaxe, shovel and sword. Fabian42 (talk) 07:42, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

If you look at their separate pages, you see why; one recipe is "blackstone or cobblestone", while the other is "any stone-tier" (which includes cobbled deepslate). The module just needs to be modified to still show the cycling options in crafting usage, and not just the original crafting. Dhranios (talk) (Join the wiki videos project!) 07:44, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

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the claim to being cobblestone is its very similar texture. Its position in terrain.png and its numeric ID all point to it being stone instead. Shouldn't stone be considered one of the first three, and cobblestone a block introduced a bit later with a texture based off of stone's first? - User-12316399 (talk) 11:40, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

• • Boldly renaming all cases of this to Stone instead and pushing Cobblestone's history forward - all in-game evidence points to it. - User-12316399 (talk) 10:27, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

In the history section, there is a paragraph that (might) wrong at grammar:

• Cobblestone is now used to craft cobblestone slabs and no longer crafts stone slabs.

So I tried to fix it: At the first attempt, it's was:

• Cobblestone is now used to craft cobblestone slabs and no longer craft stone slabs.

But this has been reverted by AD OffKilter because: "original plural was more correct". At the second attempt, it's was:

• Cobblestone is now used to crafts cobblestone slabs and no longer crafts stone slabs.

But this has been reverted by Amatulic because: "that was incorrect grammar (wrong infinitive verb form)". At this time, i'm so confused. So who is correct? 👁 Image
Brain180 "click here to talk" 16:09, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

None of them were correct. I just put them in separate sentences. BDJP ^(t|c) 16:12, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

My interpretation at the time, was to fix the verb so that the two parts of the sentence effectively read as: "Cobblestone is now used to craft cobblestone slabs" and "Cobblestone no longer crafts stone slabs". And so I kept the single sentence form but changed the verb to fit that. Another way to do it might have been "Cobblestone is now used to craft cobblestone slabs and is no longer used to craft stone slabs. But of course, splitting into two sentences also removes all ambiguity. - AD OffKilter (talk) 18:33, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

TL;DR Very useful and somewhat well-known relevant knowledge is missing from high-profile wiki page. What gives?!

There's no mention of the fact that Cobblestone is immune to Ghast fireballs. This... seems odd. It's a relatively common, very useful, and absolutely ancient piece of information (it even appeared officially in those old Schoolastic Minecraft guides!), but after how-many-years of the Minecraft wiki existing, nobody thought to add it to the Cobblestone page?

I've learnt by now that if a piece of information that seems like it should DEFINITELY be on the wiki, isn't on the wiki, there's usually some sort of silly red tape-type rule preventing it from being added, or something similar. So, to avoid the inevitable fury that would have been caused by me adding relevant and useful information to an encyclopedia article, I'll ask here instead of just going ahead and editing the Ghast Fireball Fact^TM in myself. Is there something preventing it from being added, or is there a good reason for it not to be, or what? What gives? TheOneWhoAteTheCookies (talk) 21:50, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

you're missing the fact that this isn't an interaction unique to cobblestone, just any block with above 4.5 blast resistance, which includes almost every block under the stone and metal categories. which would then beg the question: why mention this on cobblestone, specifically? usage sections on non-tutorial articles are also meant for documenting absolutely objective use cases (specifically-designed interactions, crafting recipes, etc), so a fact of this caliber wouldn't fall under the scope of a usage section mariberry-hearn! (talk) 04:27, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Ah, thank you for elaborating! You... could have stopped before the passive-aggressive part, I got the gist, but thank you. I was unaware that anything other than Cobblestone or Cobbled Deepslate had this trait.

...In my defense, people only ever talked about Cobblestone specifically having it (Probably on account of those old Schoolastic Minecraft guides...).

I mean, that was, like, 10 years ago now, but it counts for something, right? :p TheOneWhoAteTheCookies (talk) 14:06, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

The property being associated with cobblestone is simply due to it being basically the easiest to obtain among blocks that have such a property. Also, such blocks weren't that numerous when ghasts were added: only regular stone, obsidian and bricks were other realistic options, joined eventually by what is known nowadays as petrified oak slabs (aka “Alpha slabs”), but neither was as easy to get. BabylonAS 19:53, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

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What's the question of Cobblestone Old in 2009 👁 Image
?. KenzoAmrielMSM (talk) 11:45, 30 April 2026 (UTC)