1 Flint makes 3xSiO3 and 1xSiO3 can be turned into 1 Gravel, which can be placed and broken into Flint and now you have a loop to make infinite resources.
I don't think that exploit is supposed to happen

it doesn't really make any sense that a piece of flint has more material than the gravel it came from

if one flint can make 3 gravel, how lucky you need to be to get at least 1 flint out of 3 gravel?

not very lucky, if you have fortune 3 on a shovel you can get it probably at once

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I could be convinced otherwise, but I don't think it's particularly worse than using a sapling for "infinite resources".

I still think this should be fixed because a Sapling is designed to produce wood while with gravel you cannot just make infinite gravel as soon as you have one gravel.

@Wxrlds you don't take energy consumption into account. Also many technological mods allow to process cobblestone into gravel which makes infinite source of gravel by means cobblestone generator.

I feel that it shouldn't be removed because this would be very useful for skyblock.