Carbon-copy paper as a way to copy chiseled blocks.

[Andrei Panitkov]

Here is my idea for a way to natively copy and reproduce chiseled blocks:

• First player craft the (carbon) copy-paper from parchment and charcoal. In its unused forms its stackable and looks like black parchment.
• When holding copy paper in hand, and right clicking on a chiseled block a text input asks player to provide a name after which 1 piece of copy-paper turn onto a block impression.
• Impression is a unique non-stackable item that stores data of a copied block. When hovered over it is called "Impression of <name>" and in tooltip lists 1 to 4 materials that were used to create of original block, its inventory icon is the same as a copied block but in black and white. Its in-game model is a black scroll storable in scroll rack.
• To create more blocks player places impression, chisel, hammer and 1 to 4 required materials onto a crafting grid, each craft uses up some chisel and hammer durability plus one of each material. Impression is not consumed. Player can add stacks of materials and shift-click craft multiply copies of a chiseled block.

 

I think its a nice in-universe way of doing it.

Impressions can also be used as part of a puzzle in story locations. For example player may need to make a copy of a specific cog in one place, to fix similar machine in the other, or say Tobias may ask player to bring him impression of some carvings in the ruins etc.

[svhdhSEhuselh]

I agree, being able to copy blocks in survival would be nice.

[LadyWYT]

I like the idea, but it's better suited to a blueprint or schematic, and not carbon paper. Carbon paper is more used for transferring 2D designs from one surface to another, not so much making a record of a 3D design.

[Bruno Willis]

I'd love the mechanic to encourage players to build masonry workshops:

Maybe you could draw a plan of the original chiseled block by right clicking on each face with a piece of parchment in one hand and charcoal in the other to produce a chiseling plan. Then you could place that plan down (in your workshop maybe), right-click it with your hammer and chisel to "memorize" the plan, and then click each face of the new block to copy the original onto it.

To make the plans more immersive, they could roll up as scrolls if stored in a scroll holding shelf, or lie flat and open if placed on the top of a block (ready for the mason to read). That'd encourage players to build a library of chiseling plans which they can re-use. 

Edited November 23, 2025 by Bruno Willis
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