Nether trees.

[Tim79000]

A species of tree for the nether could make the place look more alive, maybe it could be based on coral?

[Tim79000]

Maybe it could be a fungi will multiple caps?

[Treer]

Would you make them from existing MTG nodes, or introduce new ones?

e.g. should cutting them down be a way to get wood in the nether, or something else? And if something else, what purpose could the new blocks have? (bonus if it's nether related)

[JoeEnderman]

I could provide textures if they are rocky or metallic. I am not great at plants yet, but I am getting better. Just say what you want and with what license.

[Tim79000]

Maybe the trees could be fireproof, maybe they could be thorny and require a axe to mine, maybe they sap lava as a renewable source.

[JoeEnderman]

That makes me wonder if it would be easier to recode parts of wood behavior leaving out flammability, or to make them a part of group wood and somehow make them also flammable.

[Tim79000]

They are just like wood, without the flamability, here is the shape I was thinking of: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Ramaria_formosa2.png

[Treer]

You'd want an evocative name for the wood, the fact that's fireproof could be stated on the second line, rather than being its name. The tree/growth/fungus/wort would need a name too, perhaps one that hints at some lore. Do the tips of the growth need a different block?

It looks like a difficult shape to capture in voxels

[Tim79000]

The tips of the growth should be a separate block, that could be harvested for a sapling, the sapling grows into the fungi, everything else is the stem.

[JoeEnderman]

I think it might help a lot if you could show a build of it in a world with a placeholder node.

[Tim79000]

Ok.

[Tim79000]

imma make some textures and fork this.

[JoeEnderman]

I thought of a potential name. Emberspore.

[Tim79000]

Placeholdertextures.

[Tim79000]

I thought of a potential name. Emberspore.

Brilliant!

[Tim79000]

The parts of it with lava sap could be glow in dark.

[JoeEnderman]

I don't know if specific parts of a node can glow in Minetest. I never saw anything to suggest it's possible anyway.

[Tim79000]

I mean't the node that has it. Thats impossible.

[Tim79000]

Should sap be collected with a bucket, or with a specific treetap? Technic support?

[JoeEnderman]

Probably a bucket, but compatibility with other mods can't hurt.

[Tim79000]

What do you think of a dark brown color?

[JoeEnderman]

What would be dark brown? The bucket, the sap, the mushroom itself? And gow do you make the mushroom stop growing? Does the node have a random chance of turning into a plain one that can't spawn new nodes?

[Tim79000]

The fungus itself, is not technically a mushroom. And it will function like a tree, except under certain conditions, it might be able to place a sapling near it that will not grow unless their is enough space.

[Tim79000]

Conditions could require nearby glowstone to enrich it's growth, maybe glowstone could grow out of the floor?

[Tim79000]

Or at the outsides of geodes.

[JoeEnderman]

I feel like it should be a structure like how trees are. I actually might have an idea how I would do it. I don't know which biome I'd want it in though. I would do a coral/mushroom shape. Probably thin and flat. I'd make it grow mushroom blocks upwards with a random chance they are either a normal mushroom block or one that can grow. Then you can harvest the ones that still have some growth in them and plant them wherever. Like the chorus flowers in Minecraft. I might make a prototype myself. You do your ideas, I do mine. If they are both good, they both get forked in. If only one is good, inoy one gets forked in. And finally, if both are awful, the Nether mod remains treeless.

P.s. I would potentially add a shroomlight equivalent?

[Tim79000]

Shroomlights aren't going to be in mine, since the lava that it saps already produces light.

[Tim79000]

I need some textures.

[JoeEnderman]

Feel free to color shift anything from TMS https://git.minetest.land/TheOnlyJoeEnderman/Too_Many_Stones

I can try to make something else if you have some reference images.

[Tim79000]

Something smooth looking, and the top which is like rubber bristles on a hairbrush packed together.

[JoeEnderman]

I can't quite picture that. Unless, are you saying like a Minecraft mushroom block on the sides and a Minecraft haybale on top and bottom?

[Tim79000]

not on the bottom, but a transition between the top and sides for the topmost blocks

[JoeEnderman]

I have no idea if I can do that.

[Tim79000]

Getting to work on my own nether trees currently.