Earlier I was thinking of a way to just make something out of dirt. No grass on top just dirt. Well what can stop plants from growing and is plausible in a mining environment? Salt! I imagine the block would just look like any other ore but with white flakes of color. It would drop a couple mounds of salt in the same way Redstone falls. I suppose you could use it for de-icing but torches already do a good enough job. Also if you wanted the soil to become fertile again just dig it up and replace it or perhaps just make it a permanently barren block not sure which works better. It's not like dirt is the rarest thing in the game. The biggest problem I can see with this is in multiplayer. The grief-ability is massive. Someone could salt your farmland or destroy your nicely mowed quad. Maybe just not allow it like fire or lava. Another stretch of the whole salt idea would be for curing meats. If some kind of intense survival mode was used then meat could spoil but not if salt was used. Any feedback would be appreciated. This idea came out of nowhere and I had to write about it before I forgot. I tried to lay out as many positive and negatives as I could.
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I like this idea, but its actual usability is minimal with the current game features. I'm all for a hardcore survival type of gamemode, and if/when it's implemented, the meat salting is a great idea, and I have a rather novel idea for how to do that. In addition to just combining salt with your meat in the crafting menu, I would suggest that you could make a salt block, affected by gravity but capable of holding saltable foods like a chest, and giving you more bang for your buck than one salt per meat. Plus, we could always use another thing to mine that's actually useful beyond being purely aesthetic.
You may want to edit your post a bit, though, as it's kind of hard to read.
Yeah, I figured as much. I can get a little too excited when I get an idea that I just throw everything out at once. I'll revise this once I can get on my laptop. I like the salt-chest idea.
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That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
You may want to edit your post a bit, though, as it's kind of hard to read.
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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