Five years ago, Minecraft introduced deepslate in the Caves & Cliffs update, a new, sturdier block found in the lower depths of the Overworld. It functions much like stone, turning into cobbled deepslate when mined, and can even be used in its place when crafting items like furnaces. However, unlike cobblestone, there's no way to create a generator for renewable and more easily accessible deepslate.
Cobblestone generators work by funneling water into lava.
One fan, u/Super_Leadership_808, has a novel idea for how Mojang could remedy that, and it's all thanks to the new Chaos Cube game drop. Launching later this year, the update will add a new sulfur cave biome with red-colored cinnabar and yellow crystalline sulfur blocks, home to the new Sulfur Cube mob and, more importantly, sulfur springs.
These will generate on the surface much like how azalea trees appear above lush caves, and the idea is that "sulfur pool water meeting lava should generate deepslate instead of cobblestone, finally giving players a renewable deepslate generator." What differentiates sulfur spring water from normal water is the potent sulfur block, which produces a noxious gas when placed beneath a source, so there are already tools to bring...
