SirLyle
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5 years ago Thank you for your extensive suggest; I can't guarantee that I will do all of that exactly, but some of it I might.
Maybe you could get salt by clicking on sand with a Bottle?
I like that idea, could extend the concept to water from cacti (for desert blocks), sap from logs ....
2 ingredients in case of the sea pickle)
Unlikely to use this idea as I want to keep the barrels fully automatable with hoppers and having both 1 and 2 item recipes may result in conflicts (if there is a 1 item recipe that shares its ingredient with a 2 item recipe—which one should be done?). The current pre-alpha is using water (actually any fluid) logged sieves to provide alternate recipes.
Corals can be be get by smashing a coral block with a hammer, while coral fans are get by smashing it with an anvil
Interesting idea, but I will have to think about this. I like to keep cosmetic blocks cheap, and anvils are not cheap; also corals die in air so will have to test how anvils falling in water work.
LEWeee
Hello everyone! As Forge 1.14 is becoming more and more stable, I think it would be a good time to think about how will we be able to give the player these new blocks in an Ex Nihilo fashion. In this post, I will be mainly focusing on the Corals and other sea plants added in 1.13 Update Aquatic. I don't think that these should be just another recipe for the Sieve, instead, I suggest growing them in Barrels.
1. Sea water Let's start at the beginning. To obtain all of these plants you will need Sea Water (if the dev wants he can just use regular water, but I prefer making a new liquid as it doesn't make sense to just start growing sea plants in a barrel of rain water). First, you fill a barrel of water with water, then add salt. Salt can be get from harvesting sand, with about the same chance as getting flint from gravel.
Here is my own salt texture. Feel free to use. I made it look like a salt shaker to make it more distinguishable from sugar. Maybe you could get salt by clicking on sand with a Bottle? 🤔
If you want, you could also make it so Sea water generates in all ocean biomes instead of normal Water, but this could lead to some complications.
2. Coral Blocks You make coral blocks with dyes in a barrel of Sea water. Depending on which dye you choose, you will get a different Coral block, as seen on the picture below:
Then just wait until your coral block grows in the barrel, similarly to how dirt is composted. This process consumes the Sea water. Once the coral block is fully grown, you can pick it up.
3. Corals and Coral fans Corals can be be get by smashing a coral block with a hammer, while coral fans are get by smashing it with an anvil, similarly to Inspirations:
4. Sea Grass, Kelp and Sea pickles All of these recipes are practically the same, except you put a different ingredient into the barrel of sea water (well, 2 ingredients in case of the sea pickle), as seen bellow:
Grass seeds for sea grass, for... well... ...obvious reasons, wheat seeds for kelp because they are both used for cooking and pumpkin seeds + glowstone dust for sea pickles becuase 1. Irl cucumbers (not sea pickles) belong in the same family as pumpkins and 2. In minecraft sea pickles glow.
After some time these plants will start growing around the walls of the barrel. Unlike the coral block, these recipes do not consume the sea water. Then, you once you get them you can craft them into seeds.