I really don't like how difficult it is to make the pure material blocks, I do want to have things like iron buildings and streets paved with gold, but unless you cheat, it just isn't doable. Since there's no way to change crafting recipes, my plugin request is this: I'd like it so when I right click (left click works too) an ingot against a cobblestone, it turns it into that block and subtracts that ingot, effectively plating the block. After that, all I have to do is simply black list those blocks from being able to be acquired, and also have it so when they're destroyed, BlockDrops just gives you your cobblestone and ingot back.
Noone answered this? What an awesome idea! Also, what a fab way of trolling griefers! They think they're getting a valuable resource, all they get is 1 ingot. *grins*