Talk:Tilled Dirt

Q: is this "truly" a Building Block?
The page reads in part: "Breaking a Tilled Dirt block produces Dirt, no matter what type of block it was before hoeing." &mdash; if Tilled Dirt "drops" regular Dirt how can this be a Building Block (at least in Survival mode)? &mdash;LoonWoof (talk) 06:19, 9 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Maybe we have different assumptions about what building blocks are? I can create a building made with Tilled Dirt blocks by placing dirt and then hoeing it. Tilled dirt also does not "occur naturally" in the world. Because of those two things, I put the page in Category:Building Block. I can see someone else might start with different assumptions about what counts as a building block.


 * But as far as auto-updating collections go, what matters are the wiki's assumptions about building blocks. (Assumptions, or inferences, are what make up the "semantic" part of SMW.) Right now, the wiki has different expectations for what properties will be present on a building block page versus on a terrain block page. If we choose to move a page between categories, we will have to change that page's properties, and possibly also change the pages that have queries for either the new or the old category. (If we want the auto-updating lists/tables/galleries to match the new expectations, that is.) So let's make sure to talk about all of those assumptions: yours, mine, and the wiki's.


 * –Red Agliator (talk) 17:32, 9 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I should've explicitly asked: what are your assumptions about what makes something a building block vs. a terrain block vs. something completely different? –Red Agliator (talk) 14:21, 11 October 2014 (UTC)


 * OK, after contemplating the subject, I suppose I was assuming that building blocks should be inventory items. Since how can a player build with something that can't be "picked up" and hence not be "placed"? However, I understand (now) that the two classifications are not mutually dependent, and that in this particular case there is a "work-around" in "placing" and therefore "building" with TIlled Dirt. Ultimately this question arose from my trying to simply understand the structure of the wiki and not through any desire to move pages or re-categorize items.
 * &mdash;LoonWoof (talk) 17:32, 11 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I've updated the description of Category:Building Block to try to make it less ambiguous. Could you take a peek at that and Category:Terrain Block to see whether they're better explained now? I figure that if one person has trouble understanding, lots of other people will likely have trouble, too. Said a different way, you are the first alpha tester for the wiki "documentation", so keep pointing out things that are less than clear!
 * –Red Agliator (talk) 20:30, 11 October 2014 (UTC)