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How about you move and mine other blocks of gravel while one is falling? Or mine the higher ones first so you don't have to wait for it to fall. If you're mining the bottom one and then waiting each time to mine the next one to fall then you're just playing inefficiently.
Imagine hating gravel because it falls
i don't know, maybe because you physically can't mine through falling blocks because of their hitbox, or because you can't get to the higher ones since you are 100% guaranteed to have a ceiling above you (if you didn't just break it, gravel wouldn't have fallen)?
Thought we were talking about digging out a room here.
But anyway. It doesn't matter. If you really struggle to mine gravel I wish you good luck while you learn the game.
oh, sorry. didn't know that digging out a room changed the fundamental logic of hitboxes and geometry. my bad
You brought up a situation where you would mine a 6x6 area of gravel. Why would you be doing that if you're thought we were talking about branch mining?
because i didn't think we were talking about branch mining? i was literally the person who brought up digging a room
So if you're digging out a room, you can move side to side and mine different blocks of gravel while the previous ones are still falling.
But when I bring that valid point up, you then decide that you can't possible move to the side.
cool! what do you do after you move to the side? if you keep going you'll be digging air, if you turn back you'll be digging a falling block, and if you try to move around it you'll be moving significantly slower than you can dig.
What are we even talking about here? If you struggle so much with gravel then that's a you problem. Maybe search how to deal woth them efficiently because they really aren't a big deal
my man. you're commenting on a post with 1.7k upvotes about how people hate digging through gravel. this isn't a fringe opinion you're responding to - it's been the second most common thought in the community for 15 years since "hey isn't it weird how you break wood with your hands and then the tree floats lol" you're the only person who seems to disagree with the mathematical, empirical truth that gravel is more worksome to mine through.
People are sheep, they will upvote anything they think is popular and hating gravel is the popular thing to do.
As I said, it used to make sense to hate gravel. It was annoying while mining, useless and ugly. Now it is not a big issue while mining due to much better tools, it actually has a use and it looks way better than it used to.
Just because a post has some upvotes doesn't mean it is 100% factual and people can't possibly disagree with it.