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Bubberstation/code/modules/mining
Ghom c274677cfd glass ore (aka sand) is now actually made of sand (#92889)
## About The Pull Request
sand blocks existed for the only purpose of making sand available as a
material. However, the only method to get them was pretty whimsical and
the existence of the feature wasn't really conveyed to the player, which
involves rinsing regular sand in a sink... and before you ask, we also
have sandstone, which can be crafted just by using the sand in hands, no
water involved. In fact, the sand blocks use the same sprites for
regular sandstone, except they have no recipes associated to them,
nothing! Nada!

Let's address the elephant in the room: We already have sand, however
said sand already has the glass material attached to it even before
being smelted, so if you put sand into the Autolathe, you get glass,
yay. Sand blocks really only existed to make up for the shortcoming of
whoever coded the sand material at the time.

But enough ranting. As the title says, sand is now made of sand, sand
blocks are kill. I've been careful enough to give the ORM the ability to
smelt gathered sand into glass beforehand, so miners won't curse me for
making them _actually_ use the smelter for once, "I will rather die to a
goliath than have anything to do with that". However, this still means
you cannot shove sand directly into lathes and expect glass out of it.
Get a welder.

## Why It's Good For The Game


## Changelog

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balance: sand is now made of sand and not glass. Get a welder if you
plan to shove it into a protolathe.
del: Removed now useless sand blocks.
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