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* Sponges provide an effective means of draining water from places, but are dodgy to use thanks to the way water flows and refills blocks. They also only appear in small quantities in Ocean Monuments, ''underwater'' structures that are swarming with GoddamnedBats that inflict the Mining Fatigue status ailment. Furthermore, they also need to be dried out after each use, either by cooking them or placing them in the Nether. Unless you're playing in Creative with unlimited sponges, generally a full stack of gravity-affected items like sand or gravel, which are common, will suffice for draining the water in areas.
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* Sponges provide an effective means of draining water from places, but are dodgy to use thanks to the way water flows and refills blocks. They also only appear in small quantities in Ocean Monuments, ''underwater'' structures that are swarming with GoddamnedBats that inflict the Mining Fatigue status ailment. Furthermore, they also need to be dried out after each use, either by cooking them or placing them in the Nether. Unless For small amounts of water draining, you're better off using a stack of sand or gravel, and for large amounts of water draining, you're better off building a simple redstone flying machine to displace water -- unless you're playing in Creative with unlimited sponges, generally a full stack of gravity-affected items like sand or gravel, which are common, will suffice for draining the water in areas.sponges they're just really not worth using.
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* Quartz makes for an utterly gorgeous block and has a number of versatile variants to make some great CrystalSpiresAndTogas style builds. Unfortunately it is obtained by gathering nether quartz, and combining ''four'' of these into one single block. Even with full Fortune on a Netherite Pickaxe, you can expect to spend ''hours'' strip-mining The Nether to get enough for a build, constantly burning out tools or spending Mending on them and mob-grinding to charge them back up, and you are one (1) misstep or mis-click away from a gainer into a pool of lava and losing everything. If nothing else, at least you can buy quartz and quartz pillars, one block at a time, from a master-level Stonemason, but this means faffing about with villagers and grinding for emeralds.
* Similarly, copper is a downright ''gorgeous'' block with a number of "oxidized" variants and patterns, allowing for an entire colourful build to be made of one block type. However it necessitates mining for copper, smelting it into ingots, and then combining ''nine'' into each block. Copper is incredibly common, yes, but this still necessitates hours of caving and mining and fighting mobs to get enough for even a small build. You also need a honeycomb to stop it from oxidizing, you need to wax ''every single block one by one'', and the oxidation process takes time where you need to actively wait for it to get to the state you want and then wax it, and lightning strikes can burn it off.
* Sea Lanterns are a beautiful source of light that goes with just about any block type, but the only renewable source of them are killing [[DemonicSpiders Guardians]] to get 4 prismarine shards and 5 prismarine crystals. They only have a 40% chance of dropping latter so you can expect, on average, to have to kill around 7 or 8 of them to get even a single sea lantern. If you've never been tempted to use the /give command, you've never built with sea lanterns.
* Similarly, copper is a downright ''gorgeous'' block with a number of "oxidized" variants and patterns, allowing for an entire colourful build to be made of one block type. However it necessitates mining for copper, smelting it into ingots, and then combining ''nine'' into each block. Copper is incredibly common, yes, but this still necessitates hours of caving and mining and fighting mobs to get enough for even a small build. You also need a honeycomb to stop it from oxidizing, you need to wax ''every single block one by one'', and the oxidation process takes time where you need to actively wait for it to get to the state you want and then wax it, and lightning strikes can burn it off.
* Sea Lanterns are a beautiful source of light that goes with just about any block type, but the only renewable source of them are killing [[DemonicSpiders Guardians]] to get 4 prismarine shards and 5 prismarine crystals. They only have a 40% chance of dropping latter so you can expect, on average, to have to kill around 7 or 8 of them to get even a single sea lantern. If you've never been tempted to use the /give command, you've never built with sea lanterns.
