PlanetCraft and Planet of Cubes Forum

So yeah, I know that most people like this glitch because their gold and diamond mines regenerate all the ores a few times in a single day, but somebody has to report it some day.

I also know that this Ore/Stone/Dirt Regeneration glitch was originally meant as a role-back mechanic near spawnzones to make sure that there are no pit-falls right outside of spawn (sort of like an anti-greif mechanic for spawnzones), but it actually affects pretty much everywhere, ground level and below.

It's easily exploitable and cheaty once you realize that your diamonds, gold, iron, and other non-renewable blocks respawn multiple times a day, every day.

Solverlabs removed Diamond Temples for a reason, because it allowed players to consistently obtain a ridiculous amount of rare resources with minimal effort, but with the Ore/Stone/Dirt Regeneration glitch, it basically does the same thing, but with every ore, and natural resource in the ground, rather than just the diamond blocks that the diamond temples had.

In just a few days to a week, you can easily obtain as much diamond blocks as you used to be able to find from a diamond temple, but with even more than that, and not just diamonds, but other ores too.

And after all, blocks like ores, dirt, gravel, sand, and clay are meant to be non-renewable resources anyways, not a resource that consistently re-appears multiple times every day.

And the exploitable opportunities with this glitch aren't the only problems with it, it also limits and ruins building opportunities.

It ruins building opportunities because, if you want to terraform an area, flatten out an area to build, build a tunnel, build an underground base, or even have a portion of your base within where a hill used to be, in a matter of time, the surface dirt/gravel/sand/clay/stone blocks from said hills will burry your house, tunnel, flattened out feild, or structure.

This means that we have a glitch that allows players to exploit the limited, non-renewable resources in the most cheaty way, and a glitch that limits the creative abilities of players who just want to build, or shape the environment the way they want.

I have friends that quit the main Survival Multiplayer Server just because of this glitch.

Basically, it would be better if this Ore/Stone/Dirt Regeneration glitch just gets removed and stay that way, as it just makes the game a worse place with the glitch still existent in there.

This glitch only effects the Main Survival Multiplayer Server as I know of, and the glitch doesn't effect the Private Maps, and Single player modes.

Also this glitch only regenerates any of the ground level, and Underground blocks that had been mined in an area where it's exposed to air, and if most non-natural, player-made blocks such as cobblestone, and stone bricks completely surround a small area, the natural underground blocks won't regenerate until there's either an exposed block of air that's not completely surrounded by the certain player-made blocks, or a block that doesn't prevent the Ore/Stone/Dirt Regeneration glitch from happening, like glowstone blocks for example, is added to the surrounding area.

Basically in most cases, if you have a build or structure that cuts though a natural hill or though the ground, you will eventually have to deal with it being completely burried by the natural underground blocks the next day if you have even a single air block exposing to the outside world, or a block that doesn't prevent the glitch exposed to anywhere that will allow the glitch.

Also having a single natural ground block(Stone, Dirt, Dirt-with-grass, Gravel, Sand, or Clay) or an Ore in a cleared area where natural ground blocks used to be, will regenerate all of the natural ground blocks that used to be there, when it's time for the Regeneration glitch to happen muliple times a day.

The blocks that have the ability to trigger the Ore/Stone/Dirt Regeneration glitch are Stone, Dirt, Dirt-with-grass, and then any transparent blocks will risk the Regeneration glitch if exposed to the previous listed blocks such as Exposed Air, Exposed natural plants, Exposed glass, Exposed glowstone, Exposed torches, Exposed leaves, and various other transparent blocks, Also blocks such as Coarse Dirt, Grass Path, Farmland with no crops growing on it, and Snow blocks.

This glitch will only regenerate natural ground blocks that already used to be there, it won't add new ground blocks in places where they didn't exist in their terrain's natural state, so building your structure in the sky, over water, or on a naturally flat area where your structure doesn't cut through the natural terrain will make it not affected by the glitch, and only natural ground blocks that are ground level and below, will trigger the Regeneration glitch, but any natural ground blocks above ground level, even by one block, will not trigger the glitch.

Also liquid blocks such as water, and lava aren't effected by this glitch either.

Regardless on the ways to prevent the Ore/Stone/Dirt Regeneration glitch, it still limits creative building opportunities by a considerable amount, and it also allows players to exploit rare and limited resources.