Minor Alchemy Homebrew ideas

[MasterMercury]

Hey guys. As you have maybe seen, the minor alchemy wizard ability is not the best.
Basically you spend 10 minutes to make a cubic foot of material that is either wood, stone, iron, copper, or silver into another of those materials. It takes concentration, and only lasts an hour.
That is a lot of restrictions for an ability that is vital to the flavor of your "Nicholas Flamel" transmuter. Turn lead to gold? You can't turn anything into gold, or into lead for that matter.

Removing even one of these restrictions makes it much better.

Make it an action: use it on the fly, even during combat.

Remove concentration: Make a block of silver, renew it every hour cause why not?

Remove time limit: Sell the block of silver, spend all day in town, and leave the town without worrying about being attacked by the shopkeeper you cheated.

Remove substance limitation: probably the most powerful. Turn iron bars to glass, pebbles to gemstones, iron to adamantium. Plutonium maybe?

Any thoughts about how you would change it?

P.s. Long time forum commentor, first time poster.

[poolio]

I like the on the fly thing, turn enemy armor from steel to wood, enjoy your splinters chump,

But if it would have any usefulness in combat i think it would need an amount per day limit perhaps.