Slabs should be placable on slabs

[foebits]

If you're using slabs to have a material on the bottom, and a different material on top (making a full block sized half and half), you currently cannot. This is restricting for building structures.

[ifoz]

If you chisel blocks of various materials together you can achieve the same thing as two stacked slabs of differing block types.

[ifoz]

@foebits Here is an example of just a few of the things that chiselling can do.

Edited July 15, 2024 by ifoz

[foebits]

yes, but that is both time and material intensive for what could be accomplished by just slapping two slabs together, isn't it?. I'm talking just basic slabs, no fancy designs. I only just started experimenting with the chisel.

[ifoz]

2 hours ago, foebits said:

yes, but that is both time and material intensive for what could be accomplished by just slapping two slabs together, isn't it?. I'm talking just basic slabs, no fancy designs. I only just started experimenting with the chisel.

I suppose so. Really it doesn't take all that much effort to do now that you can chisel slabs onto other slabs, but I suppose an option to have this automatically applied when placing a slab on another slab could be useful, if one was particularly taken to the practice.
I was just trying to showcase how for the time being there is already a way to achieve the same appearance as slabs on slabs already in the game.

[Thorfinn]

Shouldn't be too bad to turn merging slabs into a crafting recipe. Sounds like it would make a good mod.

[foebits]

for what i was specifically trying to do. I was trying to put a top slab on the bottom and a bottom slab on top to make a full block in a "half and half" block location. But in general, the game won't allow my to place a slab on top of another without the top on floating a slab's width above the bottom one. I have towed with chiseling a little so far, but nothing like you have showed with different materials being in the same block.

[ifoz]

50 minutes ago, foebits said:

I have towed with chiseling a little so far, but nothing like you have showed with different materials being in the same block.

Press 'F' when looking at a chiselled block, then click and place a second block from your hotbar into the big '+' icon to add more materials.
You can change materials from the chisel menu ('F'). 

Edited July 16, 2024 by ifoz

[foebits]

Well thanks for telling me that. Now I don't need to dick around to find that out on my own. Seriously you probably saved me hours.