Now that 1.8 is here and we have to eat, we have to farm. Not only that, but start farming right out of the gate. So there should be a few updates to make it a little easier to get it started.
First, Rotten Meat from zombies could be cooked in a furnace to give 3 Zombie Meal, which is a fertilizer like bone meal. Dead bodies have lots of nutrients. This would also allow a better hunger return on Rotten Meat than eating it straight; one rotten meat gives 2 hunger back, but takes around 1.5 away from poisoning. 3 Zombie Meal used on wheat gives enough for at least one Bread, which is a healthy 2.5 hunger restored. Original Post: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/514119-zombie-meat-and-zombie-meal/page__p__6776541__hl__zombie meal__fromsearch__1#entry6776541
Second, Cows, Sheep and Pigs should occasionally drop Manure, which can also be used as fertilizer. This is a similar mechanic to chickens making eggs.
If this is too much fertilizer for you, realize that with food and farming no longer being optional, much more farming will need to be done. This is also important early in the game when you don't have much to work with and will need to get food quickly.
This all comes from my experience playing 1.8, where I nearly starved when only Sheep spawned near me and my farm was still growing.
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... Eh. farming is Fine as it is, with tall grass being easy seed's. Besides, killed a few cow's pigs or chickens will get you though until your wheat grows. (This is mah 100th post. Yippy!)
In the world I started, there were NO cows, pigs, or chickens, only sheep. And sheep don't drop meat, because the entire culinary history of mutton has been ignored. That's why sheep need to drop Mutton too.
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Why the heck should we need to cook zombie meat to get the fertilizer from it? Just have it as a contextual action; if you hold right click, you'll eat the meat, if you just press right click, and are aiming at a block that can be grown with bonemeal, it will function as bonemeal.
First, Rotten Meat from zombies could be cooked in a furnace to give 3 Zombie Meal, which is a fertilizer like bone meal. Dead bodies have lots of nutrients. This would also allow a better hunger return on Rotten Meat than eating it straight; one rotten meat gives 2 hunger back, but takes around 1.5 away from poisoning. 3 Zombie Meal used on wheat gives enough for at least one Bread, which is a healthy 2.5 hunger restored. Original Post: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/514119-zombie-meat-and-zombie-meal/page__p__6776541__hl__zombie meal__fromsearch__1#entry6776541
Second, Cows, Sheep and Pigs should occasionally drop Manure, which can also be used as fertilizer. This is a similar mechanic to chickens making eggs.
Third, Sheep should drop Mutton. Cows drop beef, why don't sheep drop any meat? All that meat going to waste... Original Post: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/398554-meatcraft/page__p__8233278__hl__meatcraft__fromsearch__1#entry8233278
If this is too much fertilizer for you, realize that with food and farming no longer being optional, much more farming will need to be done. This is also important early in the game when you don't have much to work with and will need to get food quickly.
This all comes from my experience playing 1.8, where I nearly starved when only Sheep spawned near me and my farm was still growing.
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