Hello!
May i introduce my long thought suggestion that could prove possibly interesting.
Fruit bats!
Since bats are pratically useless, maybe they could be changed to fruit bats and drop chunks of fruits when killed. Their skins will remain the same.
Like pumpkins and melons, they could also be crafted into seeds.
Then slowly over time, they will grow into small fruit saplings.
Then lastly, they will grow into fruit trees and we will be able to harvest the fruits the trees bear!
PROS
-Able to get a source of food with easier ways.
-More varieties of fruits and trees!
-Naturally generated trees might be able to have a small chance( 1%) to spawn fruit-leaves block ; easy food source!
-Realistic, as real life fruit bats indeed eat fruits and ingest the seeds along with it.
-Bats are not useless anymore.
CONS
-Easier food source makes the game less challenging , although it can be tweaked that bats have a very small chance of dropping fruit chunks and trees have an even smaller chance to spawn fruit-leaves block.
I know that out of the 8 million players, a small amount of people would surely disagree with the idea. However, the balance in difficulty does not change due to the rarity of the drops. Since bats are already implemented, it would be even better to make good use of them.
I hope mojang will consider adding this into the game!
I would think instead of fruit trees, make it so that every saplings has a very small chance to turn into a fruit tree. For instance, apple trees would just use apple/leaf blocks, and drop lots of apples when cut down.
Man, I was thinking this was a weird suggestion, but I actually did some research on fruit bats and it all makes a lot of sense. Mojang didn't want to make another "farmable" mob so they said the bats are only atmospheric. But with this idea you wouldn't have to farm them, just use them as the initial source for the seeds.
Of course, there couldn't be a way to farm bats as they only spawn in a huge dark place. However, you may be thinking ,"Since they spawn in a huge dark place, I could just built a big unlit house! Though they can possible spawn in an unlit house or structure, there is no possible way to collect the entitles , kill them, and collect the drops.
Q. Suffocation?
A. Hmm... Possible. only when you build a huge structure with a 16 block tall piston controlled sand falling from the ceiling and another set of pistons returning the sand to the roof.
Unless you do this , which is , with a piston that can extend its hand a long way up , they are impossible to farm using suffocation.
Q. Drowning?
A. Bats can fly, remember? Unless they really feel like going for a swim.
Q.Lava-ing?
A. That puts the flying entity into ashes within seconds. That is, along with the drops.
Q. Arrows?
A. That can possibly happen if you have 94 stacks of redstone , a few million handful of arrows and a dispenser with a bat-tracking device and super high accuracy.
Q. Kill them by hand?
A. Probably , when you persuade them not to fly away from you.
Q. TNT!
A. More than half of the drops will be blown up along with the bats.
As always, i hope mojang will consider this idea and be aware that bats cannot be possibly farmed.
I would think instead of fruit trees, make it so that every saplings has a very small chance to turn into a fruit tree. For instance, apple trees would just use apple/leaf blocks, and drop lots of apples when cut down.
I kind of like the idea of seed/sapling/tree.
Support!
Great idea! But lets hope mojang would implement this.
Unless I'm mistaken, the only Minecraft fruit that can grow on a tree is an apple. Pumpkins, Melons, Carrots, and Potatoes all grown in the ground! The fruit-sapling idea I do not support as it is still overpowered, whether or not its still rare. The idea that bats may drop seeds is a cool one, however I don't like the idea of fruit chunks. You might as well get rid of them unless they have some other sort of use, and go straight to seeds!
Of course the chance would have to be very low, but dropping melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, or cocoa beans could work out really well! It could be about the same chance as finding those same seeds in a chest in an abandoned mine shaft.
2/5 support.
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May i introduce my long thought suggestion that could prove possibly interesting.
Fruit bats!
Since bats are pratically useless, maybe they could be changed to fruit bats and drop chunks of fruits when killed. Their skins will remain the same.
Like pumpkins and melons, they could also be crafted into seeds.
Then slowly over time, they will grow into small fruit saplings.
Then lastly, they will grow into fruit trees and we will be able to harvest the fruits the trees bear!
PROS
-Able to get a source of food with easier ways.
-More varieties of fruits and trees!
-Naturally generated trees might be able to have a small chance( 1%) to spawn fruit-leaves block ; easy food source!
-Realistic, as real life fruit bats indeed eat fruits and ingest the seeds along with it.
-Bats are not useless anymore.
CONS
-Easier food source makes the game less challenging , although it can be tweaked that bats have a very small chance of dropping fruit chunks and trees have an even smaller chance to spawn fruit-leaves block.
I know that out of the 8 million players, a small amount of people would surely disagree with the idea. However, the balance in difficulty does not change due to the rarity of the drops. Since bats are already implemented, it would be even better to make good use of them.
I hope mojang will consider adding this into the game!
I kind of like the idea of seed/sapling/tree.
Support!
People have been constantly suggesting stuff for bats but they were added for aesthetic reasons and they should stay that way
Of course, there couldn't be a way to farm bats as they only spawn in a huge dark place. However, you may be thinking ,"Since they spawn in a huge dark place, I could just built a big unlit house! Though they can possible spawn in an unlit house or structure, there is no possible way to collect the entitles , kill them, and collect the drops.
Q. Suffocation?
A. Hmm... Possible. only when you build a huge structure with a 16 block tall piston controlled sand falling from the ceiling and another set of pistons returning the sand to the roof.
Unless you do this , which is , with a piston that can extend its hand a long way up , they are impossible to farm using suffocation.
Q. Drowning?
A. Bats can fly, remember? Unless they really feel like going for a swim.
Q.Lava-ing?
A. That puts the flying entity into ashes within seconds. That is, along with the drops.
Q. Arrows?
A. That can possibly happen if you have 94 stacks of redstone , a few million handful of arrows and a dispenser with a bat-tracking device and super high accuracy.
Q. Kill them by hand?
A. Probably , when you persuade them not to fly away from you.
Q. TNT!
A. More than half of the drops will be blown up along with the bats.
As always, i hope mojang will consider this idea and be aware that bats cannot be possibly farmed.
You will do anything to survive.
Nope. I don't even know whats that...
Great idea! But lets hope mojang would implement this.
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Curse PremiumOf course the chance would have to be very low, but dropping melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, or cocoa beans could work out really well! It could be about the same chance as finding those same seeds in a chest in an abandoned mine shaft.
2/5 support.
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