Cob disappearing?

[Phillip Susi]

I swear; I keep loosing cob.  I go pillar up to break the leaves off of trees when I chop them down, and after I dig it back up, I seem to keep having less of it.  Has anyone else noticed this lately?

 

[MKMoose]

41 minutes ago, Phillip Susi said:

I swear; I keep loosing cob.  I go pillar up to break the leaves off of trees when I chop them down, and after I dig it back up, I seem to keep having less of it.  Has anyone else noticed this lately?

Cob has a 15% chance to drop nothing when broken.

If you're curious, the most useful blocks for quickly pillaring up are generally:

• hay, because it breaks very quickly by hand (several times faster than soil),
• regular soil or strewn straw for general purposes (or packed dirt if you're playing with soil instability, though it breaks a bit slower),
• cob, only if you need to quickly get a lot of blocks in the early game, but it gets annoying due to the material loss,
• ladders - regular ladders are preferable, crude can work because it currently only needs attachment at the base, but rope ladders will not do for this specific purpose - for when you need to go up and down a few times (and they also break very nicely from the base).

Edited 11 hours ago by MKMoose

[Professor Dragon]

7 hours ago, MKMoose said:

Cob has a 15% chance to drop nothing when broken.

I've always found that kind of a weird design choice. Almost like they were going to take that concept further and then thought better of it.