Earthen Hut/New Kind of Brick

[Kubius]

Hello, forum folks. I admit, my last idea was pretty dang lame. This one may be too, but hear me out.
An earthen hut.
Requires 100x of Dirt Brick and 50x Straw.
(Straw is for the roof, it's optional - if you don't add it ALL you have to comply with 2x decay rate.)

Adds new crafting process: Dirt Brick
To make a Dirt Brick, place dirt in a "Dirt Brick Frame" (after it has been "fueled" with water) and wait for a period of time.
Dirt brick frames require 2 boards and 2 branches.
After the period of time, you get a Dirt Brick.

This also comes lumped with a possible new way to make bricks.

Possible way of working dirt bricks into normal bricks:
Perhaps you could fire them in a kiln with one clay for every five bricks to make them into a "normal" brick.

[Gromit]

wouldnt a dirt brick crumble when lifted...

[Kubius]

Thanks for reminding me of that, I need to edit the main post

[Barhandar]

An earthen hut.
Requires 100x of Dirt Brick

To make a Dirt Brick, place dirt (and straw, if you has it) in a "Dirt Brick Frame" (after it has been "fueled" with water) and wait for a period of time.

Fixed. Houses built from bricks without straw decay two times faster AKA each decay hit counts as two. For normal decay rate, you need at least 50% dirt bricks with straw used to build.

[Kubius]

Erm, the straw is for the ROOF.
The place I got the inspiration for this is the time-of-day screen in H&H.

However, you do have a point.

You could construct the house WITHOUT the straw for the roof, at the cost of 2x decay rate.

Lemme whip up some concept art in SketchUp...
Edit: Okay, done.

[Kubius]

Seriously now, I think this is an awesome idea.

[SacreDoom]

I think this is lame.

[Ervyn]

from Wikipedia:

mudbrick is a firefree brick, made of a mixture of clay, mud, sand, and water mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw. They use a stiff mixture and let them dry in the sun for 25 days.

[Ervyn]

Accidental double post, deleted this one

[DatOneGuy]

It's very lulzy overall how we have stone mansions but no stone walls and brickwalls but no stone mansions.

I'd rather live in brick than in stone.