Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26897694-20170712053707/@comment-26172435-20170712072341

His point is to just make it so that this can no longer be done and I agree with him. As the mod team announced there will be some 'silk touch shovel' enhancement in the new update, I propose a new crafting recipe to turn barren dirt into normal (seeded) dirt: two barren dirt and two silk touched grass blocks make 4 normal (seeded) dirt. This would make most sense to me as it adds gameplay value to the 'silk touch shovel' and meaning to the concept of 'barren dirt', as explained by Khuzdul1.