Falling on a melon or pumpkin block with enough speed to take damage will break the block and reduce the damage taken by some amount.
EDIT: I'm not saying they should prevent meaningful amounts of damage, just something like one or half a heart. It's more in the spirit of introducing fun "trivia" facts than adding real functionality.
It sounds like a good idea initially, but wouldn't it make more sense to use an item using feathers? A pillow perhaps? It could also serve as an addition to making beds.
Nah man, it shouldn't reduce fall damage. If you are falling at a velocity to break a pumpkin or melon outright, you are going to keep falling, hit the ground, break your ankle/leg/knee/back/neck and be seriously wounded.
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Edited main post. I want to make it clear they're not meant to be functional fall cushion blocks, but instead just represent a fun interaction for the player to discover.
Edited main post. I want to make it clear they're not meant to be functional fall cushion blocks, but instead just represent a fun interaction for the player to discover.
I still don't like it. Why would falling at a high speed break through melons and pumpkins, but not Ice or leaves?
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Pumpkins and melons? If you were to land on a fruit like that, it would give way and not absorb any of the kinetic energy.
A more logical solution would be wool or, as previouslly stated by ReneSwiegers, a pillow.
Wool/Pillows would absorb "fall damage" by compressing as you hit them, thus increasing the distance needed to diffuse the momentum, blah blah physics talk, but basically more distance to slow down = less impact force.
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I'm not seeing any true correlation between pumpkins/melons and fall cushioning, as they could be crushed by the average person by just hopping on top of them from 2 feet high.
I still don't like it. Why would falling at a high speed break through melons and pumpkins, but not Ice or leaves?
Well, if we want a realistic explanation for this you should probably remember that leaves must have branches inside to support them, so it would be a rather tightly knit net of branches that is flexible enough to not break on impact. Ice can be very hard as well, specially so if you consider that it's half a person thick!
EDIT: I'm not saying they should prevent meaningful amounts of damage, just something like one or half a heart. It's more in the spirit of introducing fun "trivia" facts than adding real functionality.
A more logical solution would be wool or, as previouslly stated by ReneSwiegers, a pillow.
Wool/Pillows would absorb "fall damage" by compressing as you hit them, thus increasing the distance needed to diffuse the momentum, blah blah physics talk, but basically more distance to slow down = less impact force.
Well, if we want a realistic explanation for this you should probably remember that leaves must have branches inside to support them, so it would be a rather tightly knit net of branches that is flexible enough to not break on impact. Ice can be very hard as well, specially so if you consider that it's half a person thick!
I just don't think of melons and pumpkins of taking fall damage.
Needs a bit more information.
Till then, my friend, No Support.