Hay bales will be a placeable block. They are breakable quickest using a sword, and are highly flammable. They have 3 uses:
1) More Efficient Storage
I hope I'm not the only one who seems to run out of space to hold dozens of stacks of wheat. Just like how minerals can be condensed into solid blocks to save space, so should wheat.
The crafting recipe for wheat would be 9 wheat in a square (figure 1)
Figure 1: crafting of a hay bale
2) Aesthetics
Haybales have a unique look that represents a missing piece in minecraft's block repertoire. With haybales, things like straw-hatched roofs, hay-floorings for barns, and pre-harvested fields of wheat littered with bundled hay. In any case, hay bales are much needed blocks for building.
3) Automated breeding
Am I the only one who finds it tedious to have to feed your animals one by one to get them to make babies? Well, hay bales would effectively automate the entire process (excluding actually placing them).
Each haybale would function as a sort of beacon. When a hayblock is placed, it automatically generates an invisible sphere with a radius of 9. (figure 2)
Figure 2: Radius of a hayblock's beacon
When a pig, cow, sheep, chicken, or mooshroom enters this zone, it becomes "bound" to the specific hayblock. Each hayblock can have up to 5 animals "bound" to it at any one time.
When an animal is bound to a hayblock, it will periodically (every 1-3 ingame days) enter love mode as if it was given wheat. It will stay in love mode indefinitely, or until it is killed or until it breeds. Thus, the cycle repeats, as its offspring become bound to the same hayblock, or adjacent hayblocks.
In esscence, this means that animals stay close to hayblocks and will automatically breed when near them.
Once 9 love-modes have been activated from a single haybale, the block disappears. This means that haybales are only really useful if you have a lot of wheat, and thus have a lot of haybales piled in a pen for animals to keep on breeding. If Notch wants to, he could actually make hayblock decay like cake (only vertical), where the block decreases in size when it is used.
I hope you like the suggestion, guys. Any support, comments, ideas, or criticism is appreciated.
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Hay bales will be a placeable block. They are breakable quickest using a sword, and are highly flammable. They have 3 uses:
1) More Efficient Storage
I hope I'm not the only one who seems to run out of space to hold dozens of stacks of wheat. Just like how minerals can be condensed into solid blocks to save space, so should wheat.
The crafting recipe for wheat would be 9 wheat in a square (figure 1)
Figure 1: crafting of a hay bale
2) Aesthetics
Haybales have a unique look that represents a missing piece in minecraft's block repertoire. With haybales, things like straw-hatched roofs, hay-floorings for barns, and pre-harvested fields of wheat littered with bundled hay. In any case, hay bales are much needed blocks for building.
3) Automated breeding
Am I the only one who finds it tedious to have to feed your animals one by one to get them to make babies? Well, hay bales would effectively automate the entire process (excluding actually placing them).
Each haybale would function as a sort of beacon. When a hayblock is placed, it automatically generates an invisible sphere with a radius of 9. (figure 2)
Figure 2: Radius of a hayblock's beacon
When a pig, cow, sheep, chicken, or mooshroom enters this zone, it becomes "bound" to the specific hayblock. Each hayblock can have up to 5 animals "bound" to it at any one time.
When an animal is bound to a hayblock, it will periodically (every 1-3 ingame days) enter love mode as if it was given wheat. It will stay in love mode indefinitely, or until it is killed or until it breeds. Thus, the cycle repeats, as its offspring become bound to the same hayblock, or adjacent hayblocks.
In esscence, this means that animals stay close to hayblocks and will automatically breed when near them.
Once 9 love-modes have been activated from a single haybale, the block disappears. This means that haybales are only really useful if you have a lot of wheat, and thus have a lot of haybales piled in a pen for animals to keep on breeding. If Notch wants to, he could actually make hayblock decay like cake (only vertical), where the block decreases in size when it is used.
I hope you like the suggestion, guys. Any support, comments, ideas, or criticism is appreciated.
I saw a mod for hay-bales a while ago and it fit in the game perfectly, this adds to that idea even more with the automatic breeding concept
It would be cool if these fell down like sand or gravel, so I could just drop them through a hole into my barn as need, eliminating the chance that my animals escape.
Nice idea, but I've got two more uses for the hayblock:
1. Breaking fall damage(maybe 50% or something)
2. Scarecrows, they are built just like the snow golem, only with a fence, hayblock and a lit pumpkin. I don't really know what the use for it would be though.
Nice idea, but I've got two more uses for the hayblock:
1. Breaking fall damage(maybe 50% or something)
2. Scarecrows, they are built just like the snow golem, only with a fence, hayblock and a lit pumpkin. I don't really know what the use for it would be though.
Breaking fall damage is a stupid, frequently suggested idea. I mean, what are you going to use it for? You gonna use an ugly hay block in your house just so you don't have to climb down the ladder?
Also, scarecrows without uses... Yeah, no. Gimmie uses. Even I could think up like three already.
On topic, this is a very good idea, best hay suggestion I've seen in awhile.
Breaking fall damage is a stupid, frequently suggested idea. I mean, what are you going to use it for? You gonna use an ugly hay block in your house just so you don't have to climb down the ladder?
Also, scarecrows without uses... Yeah, no. Gimmie uses. Even I could think up like three already.
They SHOULD have a use, I just said that I didn't have any good idea for what it should be at the moment. They could be used for atracting enemies, making them walk straight into your traps, or for scaring animals away from your wheat field.
They SHOULD have a use, I just said that I didn't have any good idea for what it should be at the moment.
I'll come up with a few:
Mobs won't come within 6 blocks of it, to keep your crops safe
Decoration
It could be an entity like the snow golem. Wherever it walks becomes farmland, when it dies blocks around it turn into farmland with seeds. Hostile mobs wont attack it and flee from it but passive mobs will attack it (Eating the hay). It will throw clumps of hay at passive mobs, healing them half a heart when it hits (Possibly too OP, but it wouldn't attack the player).
It could be crafted
PUMKIN
HAYBLOCK
STICK
I just made a small suggestion. Why did I do that.
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RL hungry cows (like the one on the left) and sheep will follow you if you have hay. Having them follow you in game if you have hay currently selected could be a handy way of bringing a herd within your fence.
Also, chickens (RL again) love to lay eggs in hay.
For one, I've always been advocating for a craftable scarecrow. I doubt Notch will add it after the addition of the snow golem, but it seems to fit in better than the golem.
The scarecrow would ward off mobs, instead of provoking them to come closer. It would be a double-size block (like the bed) which places itself 2 blocks tall when placed. It wouldn't actually be a mob, but it would make a small particle effect; maybe sparkles or smoke. It would be crafted like this:
(where the orange block is a jack-o-lantern)
It could also have the negative side effect of also scaring off chickens (scarechicken, I guess?)
I agree that chickens should have increased egg-laying while in the zone of effect of a haybale,
In response to the fact that hay is made from barley or something like that...
Hay may be made from barley, but straw is made from wheat. Since the term "straw-bale" isn't really a legitimate word, I use the word "hay-bale" instead. Plus, since when has wheat been realistic in minecraft? you craft bread by mashing together a few bundles of freshly harvested wheat! Hay bales IN MINECRAFT would be made of wheat.
Edit: sorry, I meant alfalfa. Above point still stands.
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About hay: Hay is just greens (usually grasses) cut then tied into a tight bundle
You can have a hay bale of fescue, timothy, alfalfa, rye or even wheat - though it would be expensive.
Straw is what you have left once you harvest the seed/grain from a grass. It has more value as bedding or kindling than food.
About hay: Hay is just greens (usually grasses) cut then tied into a tight bundle
You can have a hay bale of fescue, timothy, alfalfa, rye or even wheat - though it would be expensive.
Straw is what you have left once you harvest the seed/grain from a grass. It has more value as bedding or kindling than food.
carry on :smile.gif:
Right. But I'm pretty sure that most gamers won't tell the difference. Call it a straw-bale, a hay-bale, a wheat bundle, I don't care. It's still the same block.
Thanks for the clarification though. You learn something new every day, I guess :biggrin.gif:
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I think this fits perfectly in with Minecraft. Even the scarecrow, because it is basically the opposite of a snow golem, so he could still add it. I think it would be a fencepost at the bottom, a haybale/wheatbale middle and pumpkin on top, as someone suggested. Very cool idea.
1) More Efficient Storage
I hope I'm not the only one who seems to run out of space to hold dozens of stacks of wheat. Just like how minerals can be condensed into solid blocks to save space, so should wheat.
The crafting recipe for wheat would be 9 wheat in a square (figure 1)
Figure 1: crafting of a hay bale
2) Aesthetics
Haybales have a unique look that represents a missing piece in minecraft's block repertoire. With haybales, things like straw-hatched roofs, hay-floorings for barns, and pre-harvested fields of wheat littered with bundled hay. In any case, hay bales are much needed blocks for building.
3) Automated breeding
Am I the only one who finds it tedious to have to feed your animals one by one to get them to make babies? Well, hay bales would effectively automate the entire process (excluding actually placing them).
Each haybale would function as a sort of beacon. When a hayblock is placed, it automatically generates an invisible sphere with a radius of 9. (figure 2)
Figure 2: Radius of a hayblock's beacon
When a pig, cow, sheep, chicken, or mooshroom enters this zone, it becomes "bound" to the specific hayblock. Each hayblock can have up to 5 animals "bound" to it at any one time.
When an animal is bound to a hayblock, it will periodically (every 1-3 ingame days) enter love mode as if it was given wheat. It will stay in love mode indefinitely, or until it is killed or until it breeds. Thus, the cycle repeats, as its offspring become bound to the same hayblock, or adjacent hayblocks.
In esscence, this means that animals stay close to hayblocks and will automatically breed when near them.
Once 9 love-modes have been activated from a single haybale, the block disappears. This means that haybales are only really useful if you have a lot of wheat, and thus have a lot of haybales piled in a pen for animals to keep on breeding. If Notch wants to, he could actually make hayblock decay like cake (only vertical), where the block decreases in size when it is used.
I hope you like the suggestion, guys. Any support, comments, ideas, or criticism is appreciated.
I saw a mod for hay-bales a while ago and it fit in the game perfectly, this adds to that idea even more with the automatic breeding concept
I hope notch adds this! +1 support power!
I like waffles though. :3
1. Breaking fall damage(maybe 50% or something)
2. Scarecrows, they are built just like the snow golem, only with a fence, hayblock and a lit pumpkin. I don't really know what the use for it would be though.
Breaking fall damage is a stupid, frequently suggested idea. I mean, what are you going to use it for? You gonna use an ugly hay block in your house just so you don't have to climb down the ladder?
Also, scarecrows without uses... Yeah, no. Gimmie uses. Even I could think up like three already.
On topic, this is a very good idea, best hay suggestion I've seen in awhile.
What's wrong with having the option?
They SHOULD have a use, I just said that I didn't have any good idea for what it should be at the moment. They could be used for atracting enemies, making them walk straight into your traps, or for scaring animals away from your wheat field.
Not to mention it being OP.
I'll come up with a few:
Mobs won't come within 6 blocks of it, to keep your crops safe
Decoration
It could be an entity like the snow golem. Wherever it walks becomes farmland, when it dies blocks around it turn into farmland with seeds. Hostile mobs wont attack it and flee from it but passive mobs will attack it (Eating the hay). It will throw clumps of hay at passive mobs, healing them half a heart when it hits (Possibly too OP, but it wouldn't attack the player).
It could be crafted
PUMKIN
HAYBLOCK
STICK
I just made a small suggestion. Why did I do that.
Also, chickens (RL again) love to lay eggs in hay.
For one, I've always been advocating for a craftable scarecrow. I doubt Notch will add it after the addition of the snow golem, but it seems to fit in better than the golem.
The scarecrow would ward off mobs, instead of provoking them to come closer. It would be a double-size block (like the bed) which places itself 2 blocks tall when placed. It wouldn't actually be a mob, but it would make a small particle effect; maybe sparkles or smoke. It would be crafted like this:
(where the orange block is a jack-o-lantern)
It could also have the negative side effect of also scaring off chickens (scarechicken, I guess?)
I agree that chickens should have increased egg-laying while in the zone of effect of a haybale,
In response to the fact that hay is made from barley or something like that...
Hay may be made from barley, but straw is made from wheat. Since the term "straw-bale" isn't really a legitimate word, I use the word "hay-bale" instead. Plus, since when has wheat been realistic in minecraft? you craft bread by mashing together a few bundles of freshly harvested wheat! Hay bales IN MINECRAFT would be made of wheat.
Edit: sorry, I meant alfalfa. Above point still stands.
You can have a hay bale of fescue, timothy, alfalfa, rye or even wheat - though it would be expensive.
Straw is what you have left once you harvest the seed/grain from a grass. It has more value as bedding or kindling than food.
carry on :smile.gif:
Right. But I'm pretty sure that most gamers won't tell the difference. Call it a straw-bale, a hay-bale, a wheat bundle, I don't care. It's still the same block.
Thanks for the clarification though. You learn something new every day, I guess :biggrin.gif:
People do not generally may weapons and armor from diamond either.
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