Item/Rank/Feature: Gravel Data Value: 13 Current Price: 0 Suggested Price: .05 Brief Description: Found in the ground while excavating or digging. Bought from the server store. Open Discussion: I was told the price of gravel was lowered to discourage gravel monsters, but it has no effect on them. People who dig gravel for money don't sell the gravel, they place it over and over so they can dig it over and over. Each time they dig it, they hope to get gunpowder, bones, music cds, etc. These items are the items they sell, not the gravel. Reducing the price of gravel slightly hurts the profitability of those who dig and mine for money, and accomplishes nothing else. Therefore, it should be changed back.
Extremely true. In fact, if you use a silk touch tool to dig gravel for money, then you always get the gravel back, so there is NEVER a need to sell gravel or buy new gravel. If you want to make it so that gravel monsters don't make money, make it so that placed gravel doesn't yield excavation xp or give a chance at excavation treasure. I'm pretty sure that this is actually the default for MCMMO because I occasionally play on a different server where they don't customize MCMMO at all and blocks that are placed do NOT give you any MCMMO xp or treasure drops. Of course if a dirt block is placed and grows grass, it becomes a natural block, but that is probably not a huge concern because then it would require a person to place dirt, wait for grass to grow and then dig up the grass, which isn't much different from waiting for pumpkins to grow. It is really frustrating that my digging yields no profit from digging new untouched gravel except the gunpowder/bones I get.
I'm all for making the gravel only drop items if it is naturally spawned and not placed. I just started making money off of digging and selling gravel not too long ago and it's sad to see yet another source of income go.
Look up mcmmo excavation. If you excavation is level 75 or above, you get gunpowder from digging gravel 10% of the time. There are other drops for grass, dirt, sand, clay, etc.
Really, regardless of whether you restore excavation xp/drops for gravel. Why can't gravel's price be set back to $.05. As it is now, when someone is clearing an area and clears gravel all gravel does is destroy your tools. You don't even get a little back for selling the gravel. For me, that isn't a huge deal, just annoying because I can repair my own tools. But, for anyone else, when you have to remove sand or gravel all you get for your effort is a damaged shovel.
I think instead of restoring gravel, having the McMmo drops transferred over to soul sand. I've already put that idea in suggestions so you could check that out as well (Link). Although, I do think that gravel should be worth at least $0.05 to sell to the server again. Same with flint and sand. It's not a viable source of income, but it would at least be nice to make some profit from them in my mining endeavors.
