as I read through the Forum the following Topic jumped into my eye
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4907MrLemon wrote:Hi, I know it’s not well looked upon to have one’s first post be a suggestion, but I’d figured I’d take a shot, especially considering that this is more of a partial idea than anything, and not a new block or what have you.
Anyway the suggestion is for a plant that, like hemp, needs to actually see the sky in order to grow, however, unlike hemp, it must be night for this plant to grow, during the day, if the plant could see the sky, the plant will actually ‘’un-grow’, possibly even completly killing itself.
This gives the plant several interesting properties, it discourages the use of beds, as it will only grow at night, and also encourages the use of the lens in order to automate. This plant would also be difficult to grow if you don’t have an automated system for it, as otherwise you would have to constantly put blocks over it during the day.
Another thing to point out is this doesn't necessarily have to be a plant, it could be anything, but a plant works well as an example.
As FC said that he actualy has no plans for a new plant or tree i was kind of sad that this cool feature is probably not going to be added.
Having this idear in mind I went on playing, and niticed that thanks to FC BTW offers options to farm most of the recources endless
- Iron -> Mobtraps or Irongolemfarms
- Gold -> Zombiepigmenfarms
- Mossystones -> Monsterspawners or water
- Redstone
- glowstone
- clay
there will be a new type of tree that works exactly in the way that MrLemon thought it. but what this plant produces is either Glowstonedust or Redstonedust (clay would be cool too but that seams illogocal even if its thought in magic ways). The production cycle of the new plant would be that it drops one Glowstonedust/Redstonedust each time the full moon reaches the middle of the night. (dont know how often that would be but i think not that often)
So well basicly this is the idear.
EDIT: there may be four wasy this plant could work:
1. Like mellons: there is the glowstoneplant-stem and each full mood cycle there is a glowstone block spawning in the location next to the stem.
2. like trees: the plant is a normal growing tree with normal wood (or even a new wod type but I gue FC does not like to add that much new bloks) and leafes, but ech full moon cycle the leafs turn into glowstone
3. like weat: so there would be needed a new seed type
4. like hemp: also a new seed type...
3+4: the harvested plant must be put in the millstone or something else to obtain the dust
I hope this idear is good enought to pull their introduction in the preamble.