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Over the years I felt like the farming side of the game is lacking. I have come up with a couple of ideas to make farming more enjoyable and fun.

1. Corn

2. Rice

You will find this crop in jungle edges and swampland's in large patches around water sources. This crop you plant in one block of water and will grow 1 block out from the surface. You can make 2 sashimi from it by crafting 1 rice 1 dried kelp and 1 fish (salmon or cod only) in the crafting grid which will give you 4 hunger points. You can also make rice sheets which is crafted from two rice which will give you 1 hunger point. Chickens can be bred with rice as well.

3. Fruit Trees

These will spawn in the new orchard biome. You can find 6 types of fruit trees orange, apple, apricot, peach, pear, and cherry. Each tree will spawn up to 6 pieces of fruit every day and a half. Each tree has its own sapling and will take 1.5x longer to grow than regular trees. They are mainly used as a food source and each one will fill 2 food points. Bees have a higher chance to spawn in fruit trees as well.

4. Garlic

Found in birch forests, regular forests, and dark forests this can be used to make garlic bread (1 garlic and 1 bread) and will give you 6 food points. You can also hang them up outside your house and will fend off zombies who try to bust down your door. And will be useful in villager protection.

5. Blueberries and Strawberries.

These can be found in flower forests in bunches. When crafted with 1 sweet berry 1 blueberry and 1 strawberry and a bowl you can make a berry salad and will restore 8.5 hunger points.

While I think on their own some of these would be nice to plant in a giant field such as the corn, I don't think Minecraft really needs new food in its current state. The game does not encourage eating new foods, and in fact, it instead encourages eating the most powerful food item you can craft if possible.

Going through this list:

Corn is a food item I could see being very useful. The mod you stole a screenshot of actually makes those corn plants difficult to walk through like cobwebs, which makes them actually useful for corn mazes. I think it'd also be interesting if corn brewed a Thick Potion, which would then be used in brewing certain types of potions. (This would be in reference to Corn's use in High Fructose Corn Syrup)

Rice, while it might be nice for the Chinese audience that wanted the Panda, would not be as useful as a food item. We already have one grain crop, and while the idea of sashimi sounds nice, I don't know that it's enough to justify a new crop at this moment in time.

Fruit Trees are very unnecessary. While I like the idea of taking Apples off Oak Trees and having fruit tree leaves that could be reused as "leaves with Christmas Ornaments", I don't think we need 5 new kinds of fruit.

Using Garlic to fend off zombies sounds like an interesting idea, but crops need a consumable use and this isn't one.

We don't really need new berries, although it's worth noting that Strawberries grow on vines which might at least make it an interesting crop to farm.

I don't see a particularly good need for pineapples. Maybe if you could place them they might make a nice tropical decoration, but I think that's still a stretch.

Pumpkin Variants sound interesting, and I like the idea of the new torches, but I don't really see the point in purple melons or white pumpkins. At most I could see how a white pumpkin might be useful as a skull-like decoration in conjunction with some bone blocks, but I still don't know that I'd get a lot of use out of it.

I don't have a problem with new flowers. I do think it'd be nice if the game placed them nicely though. It might be nice if Minecraft would generate fields of flowers on plains out of complimentary colors.

I don't like having to use scarecrows to keep my crops safe. I think they might make a nice decoration, but I don't want to have to either find and grow corn or put my crops in a greenhouse in order to keep them safe, that seems like a dumb requirement.

I don't have a problem with cheese, but it needs to be more useful than you've presented.

I like palm trees, but I don't think the game needs coconuts at the moment.

I like the idea of candles, though I think it'd be more interesting if you made candles out of tallow dropped from pigs. This would give pigs an alternative use as right now their sole use is to provide meat when you can't find any nearby cows.

To conclude, I like some of the ideas presented, but I think you need to show that some of these new foods can be more useful than just sprites we shove in our face, whether this be by making the crop itself useful or by making the food item useful in things like potions or non-food crafting recipes.

Maybe the recipes could be improved a bit, as cornbread in real life contains no actual yeast or flour, and as such is not really bread in the normal sense. Although it doesn't seem viable, perhaps there could be some way of grinding the corn to make cornmeal, the recipe could also involve milk and egg, almost like cake but more simple. Just a thought.

Also, sashimi is just thinly sliced raw fish, while it can have rice on the side it doesn't usually contain it.

Perhaps there could be a few new crops added to minecraft, althought there as lots already... wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroot, trees (oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, dark oak and the two new additions), brown mushrooms, red mushrooms, cocoa beans, sugar cane, cactus, kelp, nether whart and so much more. There are so many options for food already but I admit, the idea of adding a few extras could be interesting although, colourful items such as pumpkins and melons seem cool, although, they don't really suit the vanilla feel of Minecraft. Fruit trees are an interesting concept but these would require specific trees depending on what each fruit grows on. What should be added, is new nether crops. As the only farmable nether crop is, well nether wart and now the new trees.

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s I felt like the farming side of the game is lacking. I have come up with a couple of ideas to make farming more enjoyable and fun.Ok, a good concept and it seems good so far.
1. CornCornbread seems like a good alternative to Steak, but I don't really think Corn has much of a use. It could be good in building, though.

2. RiceYou will find this crop in jungle edges and swampland's in large patches around water sources. This crop you plant in one block of water and will grow 1 block out from the surface. You can make 2 sashimi from it by crafting 1 rice 1 dried kelp and 1 fish (salmon or cod only) I think Sashimi should require Tropical Fish, so we can have more of a use for it. in the crafting grid which will give you 4 hunger points. You can also make rice sheets which is crafted from two rice which will give you 1 hunger point. Chickens can be bred with rice as well. Ehh... I don't really think it's useful, in fact it's pretty useless. Even Sashimi doesn't have a use apart from being another food (and for the steps required).

3. Fruit TreesThese will spawn in the new orchard biome. You can find 6 types of fruit trees orange, apple, apricot, peach, pear, and cherry. Each tree will spawn up to 6 pieces of fruit every day and a half. Each tree has its own sapling and will take 1.5x longer to grow than regular trees. They are mainly used as a food source and each one will fill 2 food points. Bees have a higher chance to spawn in fruit trees as well.Fruit trees also seem pretty useless. Although this could potentially be a cool concept, there's not really anything distinguishing them from other trees apart from the Bees and Fruit, and the number you suggested is also useless, as there's plenty of other food sources.

4. GarlicFound in birch forests, regular forests, and dark forests this can be used to make garlic bread (1 garlic and 1 bread) and will give you 6 food points. You can also hang them up outside your house and will fend off zombies who try to bust down your door. And will be useful in villager protection. Garlic seems like it become a really useful item!

5. Blueberries and Strawberries.These can be found in flower forests in bunches. When crafted with 1 sweet berry 1 blueberry and 1 strawberry and a bowl you can make a berry salad and will restore 8.5 hunger points. That is a lot of hunger for such little of a price, this could be a bit OP.
This is pretty useless.

I think unique Pumpkin variants should be really rare. White Pumpkins should be unique to the Nether.

New flowers seem like a great cosmetic touch and ambient item!

This is missing details. What biomes do Crows spawn in? What health do they have? Are they hostile?

Another useless new food item.

What are Desert Lakes?This is also a useless food item.

Wax Blocks and Candles seem like a great idea!