Legalise Sand (sounds crazy but it’s not)

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  1. Weiss
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    Support, there's no point of it being illegal if you can just convert it + it won't really promote island farming because each island only gives 3 sand.
     
  2. athyrix
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    Thanks everyone :)
     
  3. DarkSummoner
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    Before reading this, I probably would have not supported this, but I think I’ll support it now.

    I like the idea of being able to more freely build using sand while discouraging island farmers :)
     
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    This suggestion deserves a BUMP.

    Full support. Now that you can convert sand into red sand and trade it, there's no point in sand being illegal :eh
     
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    It was possible even before the crafting recipes via a sand conversion machine but yeah I still don’t see why it’s still illegal considering you only get 3 per island so who’s gonna waste their time island farming to get 3 each time
     
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    Thanks everyone : )
     
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    it would incredibly easy to setup bots to farm sand
     
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    red sand villager even , u can use bonemeal to convert it to plain sand and the red dye back to red sand
     
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    We can still ban them for the island farming rule.
     
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    I support the idea to have it at /warp grass. However, I feel like it could lead to some "invisible trading", such as a player placing the sand on their island, then breaking it and having a receiving player pick it up. Please let me know if there's already a work-around for this, since I imagine players do this already with sand from kits, however I feel like it would become an issue relatively quickly.
     
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    Support,

    I was trying to think if this was possible and sand is so hard to get while as skytitan.

    this suggestion would be great to add sand to villagers.
     
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    Support! It’ll be so much easier to get sand and dirt for newbies :)
     
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    Support, reasons stated above
     
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    I agree, there should be more sand available to make awesome islands. The reason why I support this.

    Farming dirt and maybe the other stuff in the starting chest? Sure, it'll stop the farming of sand, but not dirt.

    There are many ways to get around this. You can trade it by placing it in containers (chests, shulkers, hoppers, furnaces, dispensers, droppers, etc.) and removing the sand from it. You can also break it into a drop like Metal_marmott said. Also, it could implemented in redstone, such as building a vending machine to buy sand via dispensers/droppers (unless it's illegal to place sand/shulkers in it). I feel like this would increase island farming to try to beat the price of /warp grass, no? -shrugs-
     
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    But whos gonna set up a bot for 3 sand smh

    Anyways on a more serious note, support.
     
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    Originally I’d rated this no-support. I’ve rethought this, and have come to the conclusion of support instead.

    With the introduction of sand at /warp trade it could potentially reduce the threat of island farmers. The current method allowing red-sand to be crafted and traded actually intensifies the problem, it can be easily farmed and sold with little trace of it.

    If the two methods are combined, villagers at /warp trade and only trade red sand inter-player - this could work.
     
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    Thanks everyone for the supports. :)
    Players already illegal trade, and sometimes there’s nothing we can do unless it’s reported, because we simply can’t find out unless there’s a lead. Sure, this will still happen, Skyblock will never get to a point where there won’t be sand illegally traded in the community, because people decide to break our rules. If anything, selling sand at warp grass will help because if people can buy it from warp grass, then essentially people don’t see the point in wasting time for just 3 sand every island.
     
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    Support1000%
     
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    no support.
    are we forgetting the main fundamentals of skyblock?? isn't it supposed to be difficult/close to impossible to get sand?
    this thread just doesn't make any sense to me. there's supposed to be difficulty to skyblock, and i think we should respect that and keep it that way.
     
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    Then you might as well remove the donor ranks' kits? After all they make life "easier" for the donors. Same with MobArena, I suppose.
     
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