The fact that flowers yield two dye per craft, and coco beans yield two dye per craft lends itself to wonder why lapis cannot be crafted into two blue dye.
Then blue dye be used in place of lapis for dye mixtures.
It's a full waste of lapis, one of the rarest item in the game next to coco beans, apples, and golden apples, to use it directly when you can craft other raw materials into dye.
I know cactus directly relates to one green dye, but cactus is so easy to obtain it's a moot point.
Allow lapis to be crafted into dye. Very simple suggestion that would go a long way.
I'd also, while we're on this topic, to consider cocoa beans be used to make '2 brown dye per bean', as well as lapis being used to make 2 blue dye.
The stone, lapis, in real life, is used (or was) to make oil based coloring for paints and dyes. You don't (or didn't) rub the stone itself against things, because it's not a 'chalky rock', it's a solid stone.
So in these terms, it seems only natural you 'grind' it into dye (and again, why not cocoa beans doing the same thing?)
I think blue dye would be a good idea. I mean, there is LIME dye, MAGENTA dye, but no blue dye? It makes no sense. I would really like to dye my leather armor blue. True, it can be used to dye sheep, but they just give u that wool, which cannot be crafted into dye.
Then blue dye be used in place of lapis for dye mixtures.
It's a full waste of lapis, one of the rarest item in the game next to coco beans, apples, and golden apples, to use it directly when you can craft other raw materials into dye.
I know cactus directly relates to one green dye, but cactus is so easy to obtain it's a moot point.
Allow lapis to be crafted into dye. Very simple suggestion that would go a long way.
It doesn't need balancing really. You say 'lapis IS blue dye', I say it's a blue powdery ore that should be refined into dye.
The stone, lapis, in real life, is used (or was) to make oil based coloring for paints and dyes. You don't (or didn't) rub the stone itself against things, because it's not a 'chalky rock', it's a solid stone.
So in these terms, it seems only natural you 'grind' it into dye (and again, why not cocoa beans doing the same thing?)
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