User blog comment:Supermrman911/More Suggestions for Terraria 1.0.7 (or 1.1)/@comment-4331889-20110822141126

I've been looking for a place to talk about this (or even if it has already been suggested), but I thought of something that kinda' makes sense.

I think you should be able to "reduce" certain bricks to obtain the raw material. Example: floating islands with golden houses, mine the golden blocks, and let's just say, 2-3 gold bricks yield 1 gold ore. If you can make items from furnaces, then it makes sense that you could retrieve raw materials. Of course, I understand that in doing so, hellstone would be easier to mine, 'cause mining hellstone bricks would be easier than hellstone, but obviously the fact that you're not getting one-for-one back, it's technically more work.

I think this is perfectly doable and is pretty sweet.