Gravel to Sand

Gravel to Sand

This mod adds a renewable method for gathering sand in Minecraft.
It does so by adding functionality for converting gravel to sand in a cauldron.

Functionality

When gravel itemstacks are dropped in a cauldron filled with water, it will slowly convert the gravel items into sand. Each cauldron will only process one stack at a time.

The behaviour can be modified using the config, which includes:
(lower and upper bounds for the settings are shown in brackets)

# Describes how long an item should wait between conversion ticks. (1, 100000)
cauldronTicks = 5

# Describes the chance for the water level in the cauldron to decrease when an item converts. (0.0, 1.0)
waterDepleteChance = 0.1

# Describes the chance for an item in the itemstack to convert into sand. (0.0, 1.0)
conversionChance = 0.01

# Describes the amount of time the item must wait inside the cauldron before it will start converting. (1, 100000)
cauldron_time = 20

Unless the waterDepleteChance is set to 0, this mod alone does not make sand automatically farmable as cauldrons cannot be automatically interacted with. I have created and maintain a separate mod for adding dispenser functionality to cauldrons called Dispensive Cauldrons. Other mods with similar functionality will work too.