Spruce trees are coniferous, which means they grow pine cones and needles instead of fruit, flowers, and leaves. They also have the property of staying green all year long, thus the term evergreen.
Anyway, as oak trees have a chance of dropping apples, spruce trees could have a chance of dropping pine cones. These pine cones would not be a food, obviously, but would serve a few purposes.
1st, the coolest idea I have for them, as a crafting ingredient in a weather forecasting item. Pine cones in real life can actually be used as a method for predicting whether or not it will rain. The item crafted would look like a geiger meter, and would have 3 stages. The first stage is normal weather, when it is all nice and sunny (or moony) with no rain at all. The second stage is light rain, when it is just raining, but not a thunderstorm. The third stage is when it is stormy, with lightning, thunder, and mobs being able to spawn during daytime. It would be crafted using redstone, surrounded by 4 pine cones, keeping with the traditional crafting pattern used by clocks and compasses. For simplicity, this item would work in any biome, including taigas, where it snows, and deserts, where it doesn't rain at all.
2nd, as a crafting ingredient in an item used to distract mobs when in the heat of battle. I have not really thought this one through, but the basic concept would be to throw the object and have mobs run to it, ignoring you for a short period of time. This may not work on certain mobs, to make things balanced.
3rd, as a brewing ingredient in a potion of repelling. When under the effects of this potion, all mobs, whether hostile, neutral, or passive, will try to avoid you. this can be beneficial when trying to escape a swarm of zombies, but could prove a bad idea when trying to hunt or tame animals. To make things balanced, certain mobs, more than likely the boss mobs, should be immune to this effect.
Please note that this is NOT a wish list. This is a compiled list of suggestions that would be possible with the inclusion of the primary suggestion, pine cones.
The weather meter would help you determine if it is raining or storming outside. This could be helpful in caves, where you may be far too underground to tell whether or not it is actually raining, or in desert or taiga biomes, where it is harder to tell the difference between normal rain and a thunderstorm.
I know this topic wasn't stolen or inspired by any other topic as far as I know, but I have a very old thread suggesting Pinecones. In my suggestion they are used as weather-predicting items. Your suggestion provides multiple uses for pinecones and a different way of predicting the weather; crafting a weather-predicting item with the pinecone.
Still, I do not think you have seen my topic. My topic is old anyway and reviving it would be dumb.
If you don't mind, I would like the link below to my Pinecones topic to stay in case you or anyone wants to see an example of another (old) Pinecones suggestion. If you do mind I will remove the link below and just keep this post as really only a notification of great minds thinking alike.
Once again, it's 100% OK that this topic is here. No one's posted in my topic for a long time now and it's considered old. This topic is a lot different and newer, and I'd much rather see people discuss this one just as it as right now instead of necro-posting a dead topic. ^^
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It's OK, it only strengthens this suggestion. As for the method of using it, I decided since the pinecone alone was not moderately difficult to get, it alone should not be able to predict the weather, but rather as an ingredient in a crafted item. Likewise, I gave the pine cone other uses, specifically the repelling and distraction of mobs. This would make the pine cone a more versatile ingredient, not just as a weather detector.
As for actual prediction of the weather, to make things simple, it should probably only tell you what the weather currently is. This would make coding such an item much easier, as the weather wouldn't have to change for the implementation of predicting it.
These pine cones would not be a food, obviously, but would serve a few purposes.
Well, if you wanted to give pinecones yet another use, I'd suggest placing them alone in a crafting grid would yield Pine Nuts. Pine Nuts would be edible, but would only restore 1 - 2 food points (1/2 - 1 "shanks"). Not a lot, but say you're far from home without enough food. The little boost from gathering pine nuts might be enough to stop you from starving to death. Or it might allow you to get your hunger bar full enough so you can keep sprinting, or so you can regenerate health.
Sort of an "emergency ration" you could gather if you're lost in a pine forest.
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Anyway, as oak trees have a chance of dropping apples, spruce trees could have a chance of dropping pine cones. These pine cones would not be a food, obviously, but would serve a few purposes.
1st, the coolest idea I have for them, as a crafting ingredient in a weather forecasting item. Pine cones in real life can actually be used as a method for predicting whether or not it will rain. The item crafted would look like a geiger meter, and would have 3 stages. The first stage is normal weather, when it is all nice and sunny (or moony) with no rain at all. The second stage is light rain, when it is just raining, but not a thunderstorm. The third stage is when it is stormy, with lightning, thunder, and mobs being able to spawn during daytime. It would be crafted using redstone, surrounded by 4 pine cones, keeping with the traditional crafting pattern used by clocks and compasses. For simplicity, this item would work in any biome, including taigas, where it snows, and deserts, where it doesn't rain at all.
2nd, as a crafting ingredient in an item used to distract mobs when in the heat of battle. I have not really thought this one through, but the basic concept would be to throw the object and have mobs run to it, ignoring you for a short period of time. This may not work on certain mobs, to make things balanced.
3rd, as a brewing ingredient in a potion of repelling. When under the effects of this potion, all mobs, whether hostile, neutral, or passive, will try to avoid you. this can be beneficial when trying to escape a swarm of zombies, but could prove a bad idea when trying to hunt or tame animals. To make things balanced, certain mobs, more than likely the boss mobs, should be immune to this effect.
Please note that this is NOT a wish list. This is a compiled list of suggestions that would be possible with the inclusion of the primary suggestion, pine cones.
Still, I do not think you have seen my topic. My topic is old anyway and reviving it would be dumb.
If you don't mind, I would like the link below to my Pinecones topic to stay in case you or anyone wants to see an example of another (old) Pinecones suggestion. If you do mind I will remove the link below and just keep this post as really only a notification of great minds thinking alike.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/487833-pinecones/page__hl__+pinecone#entry6423481
Once again, it's 100% OK that this topic is here. No one's posted in my topic for a long time now and it's considered old. This topic is a lot different and newer, and I'd much rather see people discuss this one just as it as right now instead of necro-posting a dead topic. ^^
As for actual prediction of the weather, to make things simple, it should probably only tell you what the weather currently is. This would make coding such an item much easier, as the weather wouldn't have to change for the implementation of predicting it.
Well, if you wanted to give pinecones yet another use, I'd suggest placing them alone in a crafting grid would yield Pine Nuts. Pine Nuts would be edible, but would only restore 1 - 2 food points (1/2 - 1 "shanks"). Not a lot, but say you're far from home without enough food. The little boost from gathering pine nuts might be enough to stop you from starving to death. Or it might allow you to get your hunger bar full enough so you can keep sprinting, or so you can regenerate health.
Sort of an "emergency ration" you could gather if you're lost in a pine forest.