Cobblestone gets broken into Stones with Pickaxe in Crafting Grid

[Kohichi]

What the title says. Cobblestone stairs, blocks, etc. when put in a crafting grid with a pickaxe outputs stones, with some durability taken from the pickaxe.

[Emeal]

and you lose the binding clay material, sounds both realistic and fair.

[River Oak]

yay recycling 

[Facethief]

The pickaxe eats the clay

[PineReseen]

Doesn't sound like a bad idea. To add onto this, debarked and quartered logs should be able to be split into firewood like normal ones. Perhaps brick blocks should be able to be broken up into individual bricks too?

On another note, maybe it should rather be done with a hammer and chisel like it is for making ashlar blocks from polished slabs?

[Kohichi]

3 hours ago, PineReseen said:

Doesn't sound like a bad idea. To add onto this, debarked and quartered logs should be able to be split into firewood like normal ones. Perhaps brick blocks should be able to be broken up into individual bricks too?

On another note, maybe it should rather be done with a hammer and chisel like it is for making ashlar blocks from polished slabs?

I am okay with the firewood examples, however the brick blocks are a bit more questionable, I think the chisel makes it a bit more realistic, but if you were swinging at bricks with a pickaxe, my guess is most would break.

[Kohichi]

16 hours ago, Emeal said:

and you lose the binding clay material, sounds both realistic and fair.

Yes, forgot to clarify this, but exactly