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All of the non-food uses you mention sound excellent to me.

Another possibility could be that it deters phantoms. Trying to dive into them would result in some very soggy and tangled wings. And holy crap, I just want a better defense against these things. They're horrifying.

Rice is also very absorbent when dried. We already have sponges, so that function is out of the question, but there might be some use in the way it expands as it absorbs water. Maybe it could be crafted into a block that, when placed in water, expands into more blocks of varying moisture until they reach a maximum. Not sure what it would be useful for, but it would certainly be interesting.

EDIT: I'm updating the original post as we go.

I like the idea for defense focus mobs, but I feel like their great rewards should be balanced, and what exactly are their Great Rewards? I'm currently thinking diamond shards would be a cool addition to the game that could be a drop to them with a slightly lower drop rate than that of Gold Nuggets from Zombie Pigmen, and function the same way. I also think, due to the way ice works in your world idea, that if they teleported after they lose too much health, travelling to them to get them would create more work for the potential reward! I really do like the extra challenge of absolute ice, it reminds me of gym and enemy hideout puzzles from the Pokemon games, which I loved solving--plus outside of the Fold, it would be a really cool mechanic for all sorts of minigames and other stuff. I do feel as though Absolute Ice is cool enough for simply its movement mechanics. I don't feel as though turning all nearby lava and extinguishing nearby flames would be interesting, however, and a bit overpowered for a block. Being immune to flames and explosion is good, however.

Overall, I really like this suggestion, and I would also hope there would be a lot of super rare but extremely rewarding structures for one thing: it's Hypospatial. You could make a portal in the Overworld, explore around one area, come back, then make another portal a few hundred blocks away in the Overworld and see an entirely new section, and I would LOVE that. Minecraft has been wanting to encourage exploration, and a world like this would be perfect: rewarding exploration with an easy way to access new areas. Where the Nether feels claustrophobic, I would love to see the Fold be very open, with less height, more of an arctic sprawl with big icycles hanging down from a roof you can't see from the ground due to a heavy white.

Also, in one last note, I don't think all mobs should be defense based: there should be, scattered among the high reward, high defense mobs, be protector mobs, with about the difficulty of Endermen in their health and attack power, that don't have as good of drops and become hostile alone, or with a slight compromise to their health and attack power if this concept is used instead, in groups, when a defending mob is attacked.

Hope this helps you brainstorm a bit more! It's a great idea, just needs some tweaking.

First time poster here! Id like to start off with a suggestion. I would like to submit an idea for 2 new items for minecraft. I feel like the inclusion of these will go a long way to help out explorers like minded people.

Sextant - reveals to the player their x,y,z coordinates in real time (same as hitting F3 in Java) this would allow an ingame way of seeing where you are (without having to resort to hitting F3 all the time)

Astrolabe - allows the player to input x,y,z coordinates and have the pointer direct them to said coordinates. Basically a "programmable" compass.

Hopefully, someone at Mojang will read this and consider.

Thank you

Cartography Table: Cropping Maps

In the slot where the paper currently is, you can add shears to crop the map. A crop box will appear on the map displayed after the arrow of the cartography table for the player to drag and select what they want to keep. Regardless of how much is cropped, the shears loose 1 durability. Players are only able to crop maps to the nearest block (you can't exclude half of a block)

Cartography Table: Rotating Maps

When right clicking an empty map, the rotation will the way the player is facing (if the player is facing south, the maps north will be at the bottom). However, a player can add an item frame in the slot below the plus sign on the cartography table with a map to rotate the map. A rotate button will appear on the bottom middle of the map displayed on the cartography table. A player can rotate the map as much as they want in a cycle of 4 rotations until they retrieve the map. Compasses now face north naturally so the player can make sure if a map is facing the right direction because the non-reduced debug screen will be removed and only accessible through cheats.

Cartography Table: Placing Waypoints

Right clicking banners with maps in 1.13 adds a waypoint to the map. Players should be able to place a banner in the slot below the plus sign of the cartography table to add a waypoint to the map. When hovering over the map displayed in the cartography table, a transparent banner will appear. When the player clicks, the banner will placed (has to be placed on 1 block, not in between 2). Banners cannot be placed on parts of the map that aren't discovered. Considering the lack of uses the cartography table has currently, this feature seems appropriate for the cartography table.

Cartographer: Completing Maps

Players are able to trade 1 incomplete map and 2-4 emeralds with a cartographer to complete a map.This trade is unlocked when a villager becomes a journeyman (level 3).

Maps: Viewing Maps

Maps will no longer appear as a note in the players inventory but rather as the map itself. However, a player can only map new land when holding a map in one of their hands. Now, when a player has another item besides a map in their main or offhand, the map appears like the picture on the left. However, when there is no item besides 1 map in the players off and main hand, the item appears like the picture on the right. If a player picks up an item while holding a map in both hands, the item will not go into the slot which is highlighted unless it is the only slot available.

Maps: Central Start

When right clicking an empty map, the block the player is on will be the center of the map. I don't understand the technical limitations of this feature, but I would appreciate feedback from someone who does. A player will still have the ability to make maps have the default boundaries to make it easier to map adjacent maps. All they need to do is add a stone block to the map via a cartography table.

Compasses: Locating Waypoints

Compasses now have 238 durability. First of all, coordinates are removed and can only be accessible through cheats. See my functions thread in the signature for more information. When only a waypoint is on a map, a player can hold a compass in one hand and a map in the other and the compass will lead to the waypoint. The player will need to right click for the compass to point to the waypoint consuming 1 durability. If there are multiple, the compass will chose the closest waypoint. Right clicking the compass will change the waypoint to the closest clockwise from the first way point and consume 1 durability. A player can keep right clicking to cycle through way points. The arrow on the map that moves around as the player moves around is removed so the player is dependent on the compass to easily locate places.

Compasses: Locating the End Portal

If a player is near the end, the needle on the compass will start crazily going back and forth and in circles. The level of craziness gets higher the closer the player is to the the end portal.

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Another possibility could be that it deters phantoms. Trying to dive into them would result in some very soggy and tangled wings. And holy crap, I just want a better defense against these things. They're horrifying.

I'd rather fix MobB (eg one proposal).

Growing 'pots' of rice (water source in floating cage) in an array might be helpful meantime however.

(Tried to come up with a way to make this work myself, but didn't think of "tangled wings"… good job)

Rice is also very absorbent when dried. We already have sponges, so that function is out of the question, but there might be some use in the way it expands as it absorbs water. Maybe it could be crafted into a block that, when placed in water, expands into more blocks of varying moisture until they reach a maximum. Not sure what it would be useful for, but it would certainly be interesting.

I would not rule out using dried rice (smelted and crafted into an absorbant to limit complaints about being overpowered) to remove water, although I think giving it lower effectiveness than sponges might be in order. (Something like 4 taxicab range with a 33 block limit vs 7 and 65 for sponges.)

[Adding a less effective, less convenient, but potentially more available alternative does not strike me as overly disruptive…]

Given the historical use of dry wood pegs that swelled when wetted to quarry stone, using dried rice blocks as an omnidirectional piston equivalent with a lower (3?) block push limit doesn't seem too much of a stretch [particularly to Hornblower fans].

The lower push limit, need to apply water, (and requiring that the blocks be dried before reuse, as are sponges) ought keep these from supplanting pistons.

Firstly, congratulations on including far more detail than is typical for new food suggestions. Huzzah!

I see two basic areas of concern with the new foods:

The first is quite 'meta-': adding specific regional/national/ethnic foods could be a start down a slippery slope that leads to a super abundance of nearly identical items (most of which will rarely be used). [As example: most cultures with agriculture have some sort of unleavened flatbread (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatbread for a list).]

The second is in no way specific to this proposal & can be compressed to "All the standard arguments against new foods apply." ie.:

With regards to the Rice suggestion:

A nice job has been done with making the growth conditions both different from any extant MC crop/plant and reasonable accurate to the IRL version of the addition.

That rice requires a water source block (but does not remove that block when planted as does cane) wil also be pleasing to the anti-farming set as planting on untilled dirt (a full block) would require a hopper minecart collection system. [Given MS/Mj's apparent recent attitude toward player resource gathering, this might enhance the chace of the OP being adopted…]

The return when harvesting is not stated, but using the wheat model seems reasonable ie. "from 0 to 3 seeds per crop harvested (about 1 5⁄7 seeds/crop harvested on average)".

Aside from being player food – as in the OP – (and, logocally, another chicken feed), rice might be made into rice crackers that could become a substitute for taming/breeding parrots. [The rushed response by MS/Mj to the parrot/cookie kerfluffle that resulted in seeds replacing the offending cookies missed a golden opportunity to add something interesting to the game.]

Some further differentiation may, however be desirable; having rice grow only in moonlight (ie. the growth rate would be affected by the moon phase) could be used to sufficiently distance the MC plant from its IRL eponym that its properties could be freely manipulated.

One such property that might be usefully added is to construe mature rice (the two high, half out of the water stage) as dense enough to block sightlines. (Potentially also projectiles…)

This might be extended by giving drownded an aversion to moving through mature rice allowing plantings to be used as an effective means of protecting shorelines. [This may be seen as illogical, but data on IRL water zombie behavior is thin enough that it can pass… ]

The other main product of IRL rice farming is rice straw; this ought not be treated as a hay equivalent (both as a matter of logic, and to avoid excessive substitutabiliy).

Looking through various IRL uses for various straws ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw ) the uses as a construction material (either strawblocks or as a way of toughening bricks/concrete) would seem to require the least work to add to the game.

Thatch is another obvious use, but the flamability would make it useful only for decorative or creative mode builds outside of the few biomes 'naturally' free from lightning.

Short version:

I like what you've done with the rice plant, but don't see sufficient utility to the foods to justify adding them. Adding some non-food functionality to the rice fields (and/or the products) so that the foods additions become merely logical sidebars rather than the main point seems easier to justify.

In the real world, a sledgehammer is a kind of large hammer you use to break or move things.

In Minecraft, when used on the side of a block, it would have the exact same effect that if that block was pushed by a piston (including all restrictions or side effects). Implementation shouldn't be too difficult since the code handling block move triggered by pistons could be reused.

For ad-hoc use cases, using pistons is an overkill, so having a tool to produce a similar effect may improve gameplay. Here are a few examples:

1. Finding nearby caverns
You hear zombies when exploring the underground. But where are they? No need to dig randomly to find the cavern where they stand: just hit a few wall blocks around you, and if the block moves, there is a nearby cavern at <= 12 blocks distance

2. Moving walls
Your house is too small? No need to demolish a wall to rebuild one block further: just hit on the walls from the inside to move the blocks one by one.

3. Moving structures
Damn! If I've built that house one block further it would have looked better! Once again, no need to demolish the entire thing: fill the structure with dirt, then hit on the walls from the outside to move it one "row" at a time.
As a variation, hitting on the top could be used to descend a structure into the water (or into lava!).

4. Removing water
Well, I've built that underwater tunnel to access my hidden base. But how to remove the water that still fills the tunnel? Simple: build a wall covering the tunnel section, then hit on each block of the wall to make it progress into the tunnel, clearing water blocks as it goes.

5. Build a bridge over lava pool/ravine
I would like to cross that ravine that blocks my path but I don't feel very confident in sneaking over a lava pool. Put a block on the border of the ravine, the hit it on the side to make it move one block further. Ther repeat the process until the bridge deck reaches the other side.

Preface:

I’m gonna be honest with everyone. The readability and good quality of suggestions on this forum has dropped in the past few years, especially since the loss of the original Suggestions Guide. This isn’t entirely the fault of the suggesters: some people aren’t fluent in English and some people don’t or don’t want to read or write as much as others.

I think the best way to learn how to do something is by example, though. And while I’m often content with most of what Mojang throws at us, I think there are some pieces of gameplay that are objectively mediocre or bad. (Example: Even though I think the 1.9 combat is an improvement over the old combat, I still think the combat is meh and could still be replaced with something better.)

The Hunger System is one of these systems that’s not really satisfactory and deserves refinement. And while I don’t expect to write down the be-all end-all to hunger system improvement for Minecraft, I hope to make a system that's somewhat more fun and engaging than the current system.



Food Overhaul


Before I get on to the new stuff, let’s look at why we need change in the first place.

The food system isn’t that great right now. We have two variables, Saturation and Hunger, but rather than some foods filling up more Saturation and some filling up more Hunger, we have easy-to-get foods (Namely: ALL THE MEATS) that will fill up both of those variables very well, and there isn’t even that much progression required to get them, it just takes a little bit of effort to make them easily replenish-able.

This means that there is no real reward for finding and trying new food sources and no punishment for eating only one kind of food. As long as you have a supply of food that fills up both saturation and hunger very well, you won’t have to worry about making any more food and there is no real reward for farming crops that have no uses besides food.


(Potatoes and Beetroot are practically useless if the player has a never-ending supply of Cooked Chicken.)

However, there’s a decent reason for the current state of things: you have to balance making the food system an important, balanced part of Minecraft but you also have to make sure food and farming doesn’t take up all of your playtime. This is why the game doesn’t require you to water your crops on a daily basis or protect them from diseases.

So when overhauling food, we need to also make sure that this new food system doesn’t take up too much of the player’s time that could be spent building, mining or exploring.


Experience Benefits

As you’ll see in the next few minutes, I’ve come up with a system that makes it worth farming and making all kinds of food, but there are still food items the player might never use after all that time.

That’s why, in addition to filling up your hunger, some food will now give experience when eaten. Raw vegetables, fruits or meats will not give you any XP though. You have to cook them in some way.

In the Statistics menu, there’s a new tab for Food. You will see the food item with it’s name, and how long it’s been since you ate that food in Minecraft days and how many times you’ve eaten it. Eating a food for the first time will give you twice as much XP as it’s normal XP Refill value.

Now, before you find the food with the most XP Refill and start preparing to farm it, there’s a catch: you have to wait 10 full days before it gives the full refill value again. Otherwise, it will give you (XP Refill * (Days Since last eaten / 10)) XP rounded down.

This means it’s better to find multiple foods that refill XP in order to maximize the amount of XP you get. This requires the player to find foreign ingredients, and to try cooking new kinds of food.

Nutrition

The nutrition system needs to be improved before I start talking about any food at all. I’ll keep it simple, though.

Rather than two variables, Saturation and Hunger, there are now three: Vitamins, Proteins and Energy, which is the most similar to the Hunger bar.

The Vitamin and Protein values can be seen as red and yellow bars in the inventory, under the main inventory section. Meanwhile your Energy is displayed as your Hunger currently is, as the hunger shanks on your hotbar.

You cannot eat any food while your Energy is full. This means if you’ve been eating food with High Energy and High Vitamins but very little Protein, you’ll have to wait until you can refill your proteins again, and vice versa.

Your Energy Bar has a max value of 20 and will decrease at a constant rate of one full Energy Bar per Minecraft Day or 20 minutes. When it reaches half of it’s full value, you can no longer sprint. When it reaches it’s minimum, you will start experiencing slightly slower movement speed and mining speed.

Your Vitamin Bar has a max value of 100 and will decrease slowly while you mine, build, attack, sprint, etc. However, the Vitamin bar starts out at 50, rather than the full 100. If you do reach 100, you can experience slightly improved movement, mining speed and attack damage. When it reaches zero, you will get an effect called “Starving” and you will start taking damage similarly to the current hunger damage.

Your Protein Bar (Hee Hee… Protein Bar…) has a max value of 100 and decreases when healing damage. Like the Vitamin Bar, it starts out at 50. When it reaches zero, you will not heal any health. When the Protein Bar reaches 100, however, your health will recharge at twice it’s normal rate.

The Protein Bar works a bit differently, though. If a food is not a “Meat” item, it will not add to the protein bar if the bar’s value is 50 or above. This means that if you eat a food that heals 4 protein but is not a Meat item, and your protein value is 48, the value will not change to 52, it will change to 50.

You cannot be healed by Protein if you have the Starving effect.

While your energy bar will decrease relatively quickly, the other two bars decrease rather slowly. If you start with a full Vitamin Bar of 100, it'll be gone by about a Minecraft Season. (We'll get to that later.) Your Protein Bar will decrease by about 1 point per heart lost. If you lose a lot of health early-game, you might be at risk, so a good diet may be just as important in battle as armor or weapons if you like charging in and attacking without thought.

A Fourth Bar???

Now let’s move on to the first type of food: crops. But first...

Seasons

WOAH WOAH WOAH C1ff, SEASONS??? ARE YOU GONNA MAKE IT SNOW IN MY NICE FOREST BIOME? WISHLIST WISHLIST WISHLIST NOOO SUPPOOO… Hold on there!

First, seasons are very important when we’re dealing with farming. If you’ve ever stepped outside, I imagine you’ll find that most plants will die off in Fall and Winter and most trees won’t have fruit or leaves on them. Meanwhile plants tend to grow flowers and blossom in the Spring and Summer.

A lot of people suggest seasons, and a lot of people suggest a lot of changes that would make the game a lot laggier because of all the block updates (such as turning water into ice) and the weather griefing. (snow all over the place)

I think it’s possible to get results that show what season it is rather nicely, and without requiring the player to have a powerful computer or to clean up afterwards.


The way to do that is simple: Rather than doing any kind of block updates, only the textures certain blocks render will change depending on the season. (And whether or not snow covers form in the biomes they already form in. Snow will not disappear for any non-player reason or appear in places it shouldn’t.)

(Also, just for the sake of immersion, the stems of flowers will now change color depending on the season and biome. Flowers in colder biomes will have browner, deader stems, while having alive, but dry and yellow stems in hot biomes.)


In Summer: It will rain in temperate and cold biomes. Snow will not spawn on the ground in cold biomes during this time. The colors of grass, flowers and leaves look the same as always. The game starts on the first day of summer.

This is a picture of both Summer and Spring in a temperate biome. Other biomes change too, but in hot and cold biomes you won't see any texture changes at all.

In Fall: It will rain in temperate biomes. It will snow in cold biomes and snow will spawn on the ground in cold biomes. The colors of grass will turn slightly more blue in temperate biomes, but will not yet match the color of cold biome grass. Flowers remain the same, but the leaves of trees will change color depending on tree:

- Oak Leaves will turn Brown.
- Birch Leaves will turn Yellow.
- Spruce Leaves are Evergreens, and will only change with grass color.
- Jungle Leaves will turn bright Red.
- Acacia Leaves will only change with grass color.
- Dark Oak Leaves will turn Orange.

Yes, I do realize I said that Oak Trees would turn brown. This is for effect.

The leaves in hot biomes will not change color depending on the season. The main reason for this is that I've never actually seen a picture of a Jungle with multicolored fall leaves, and I doubt one exists because I don't think this is a real occurrence.

In Winter: It will snow in temperate and cold biomes. It will rain in hot biomes too. Snow will form on the ground in cold biomes, but not in temperate ones. The color of grass in temperate biomes becomes blueish, similar to cold biomes. Flower Stems turn brown and dry, implying that they’ve died and wilted. All leaves will turn Brown in Winter except Spruce and Acacia.

I don't actually have a good caption for this picture, but I wanted to have some consistency.

In Spring: It will rain in temperate biomes again, and remain dry in hot biomes. Snow still falls and forms on the ground in cold biomes, though. The color of grass and flowers returns to normal and leaves become green again.


How long do these seasons last, though? Well, in order to make sure the player isn’t stuck in one season for the entire time they play on a world, I’m going to assume that the player is playing the game for about 2 hours every play session. That’s six Minecraft days. For the moment, let’s make one season last 20 Minecraft days, or 6⅔ hours.

This means that the player has about three and a half average play sessions to take care of any seasonal changes. Even people that play for 6 hours a day will easily have enough time to get their farming done early on in the season and then get back to mining.

As you’ll see in a moment, you’ll want to react to these seasons when they happen.


Crops

Before I talk about each crop individually, let’s get some information about crops out of the way so I don’t have to reexplain for each one.

(WARNING: This is very detailed, and you may have to read this over a couple of times to fully understand how crops work.)

Crops, the block, will have 16 possible block states like other blocks in 1.13. Because of this, we can have two variables assigned to one block with 4 possible values. These values are:

GrowthStage (1,2,3 or 4. Sadly, crops are limited to 4 stages of growth rather than 8 now.)
Planted Season (1,2,3 or 4.)

The Planted Season variable is set as soon as the crop is planted. 1 for Winter, 2 for Spring, etc. The GrowthStage has a 5% chance of increasing every 60 seconds under the following conditions:

- The crop must be planted on wet soil.
- The crop must have a light level of 9 or over.
- The GrowthStage is less than (Current Season - Planted Season) + 1.
- The GrowthStage is less than its maximum growth.

If the GrowthStage variable does not increase because it’s equal to it’s maximum growth, the crop block will turn into a rotten crop block instead. It might also turn into a rotten crop if the GrowthStage is greater than 1 during the crop’s Death Season or Planting Season. (Which may be the same season.)

The rotten crop block looks like a withered, brown version of the first growth stage of a crop. It has a 85% chance of dropping a crop’s seed item, meaning that you’ll lose crops if they get too old. During the season after a plant’s Death Season a crop has a 50% chance to grow back into a healthy crop with a GrowthStage of 1, but also a 50% chance of being deleted from the world forever.

Bottom line: Know your crops, and tend your crops!


Summer Crops

Carrot:
Maximum Growth: 3
Planting Season: Winter
Death Season: Fall
Seed Item: Carrot
Energy Refill: 3
Vitamin Refill: 12
Protein Refill: 5

Can feed pigs, rabbits and Villagers. Used in Potions. Carrots are dropped by Zombies and frequently found growing in Villages.

Tomato:
Maximum Growth: 2
Planting Season: Spring
Death Season: Fall
Seed Item: Tomato Seeds
Energy Refill: 1
Vitamin Refill: 10
Protein Refill: 7

Can feed pigs and Villagers. Used in making Chili. Tomato seeds are found in Mineshaft Chests and very rarely Villages will have Tomatoes growing in them.

Melon:
Maximum Growth: 3
Planting Season: Winter
Death Season: Fall
Seed Item: Melon Seeds
Energy Refill: 2
Vitamin Refill: 15
Protein Refill: 0

Used in potions, and for making the melon block. Melon seeds are found in Mineshaft, Dungeon and Mansion chests. Clumps of Melon Blocks generate in Jungles.


Fall Crops

Pumpkin:
Maximum Growth: 4
Planting Season: Winter
Death Season: Winter
Seed Item: Pumpkin Seeds
Item does not directly feed player.

Used as a Helmet, in pies and in golems, besides being a decoration. Pumpkins are found in clusters around the world. Pumpkin Seeds are found in Dungeon, Mineshaft and Mansion chests.

Rice:
Maximum Growth: 2
Planting Season: Summer
Death Season: Winter
Seed Item: Rice
Item does not directly feed player.

I wasn’t originally going to include this one, but I decided it was necessary considering I had a lot of other cultural foods and I can’t think of a single Asian dish without rice. Used in Bowl of Rice and Stir Fry. Rice can also be used to feed Chickens and Parrots.

Rice is grown a bit differently from all other plants. It takes advantage of the new 1.14 1.13 water physics and grows in one-block deep water rather than on land. It can be found in Swamps as a “Wild Plant” block. This Wild Plant looks like a fully grown rice crop, but will never rot and drops Rice.

Corn:
Maximum Growth: 3
Planting Season: Spring
Death Season: Winter
Seed Item: Corn/Corn Kernels
Energy Refill: 2
Vitamin Refill: 14
Protein Refill: 7

Can be cooked into Cooked Corn and feed pigs and be used in potions. The crop itself grows to be two blocks tall, although all data is stored in the bottom block. The crop also slows down players traveling through it, though not quite as dramatically as cobwebs. This makes it useful for corn mazes in the Fall.

Corn Kernels can be found in Mineshaft and Village chests. They aren’t dropped by the actual plants, but planting them will still result in a corn plant. You also can’t eat them.

Wheat:
Maximum Growth: 3
Planting Season: Spring
Death Season: Winter
Seed Item: Wheat Seed
This item does not directly feed the player.

Can be made into Flour, Bread, Cake, Cookies and Hay Bales. Used to feed Sheep and Cows. The seeds can be used to feed Chickens, Parrots and Villagers. Only found in Villages. The seeds can no longer be found by breaking tall grass. (This is to make it more valuable when you get into feeding animals later.)

Winter Crops

Potato:
Maximum Growth: 4
Planting Season: Spring
Death Season: Spring
Seed Item: Potato
Energy Refill: 1
Vitamin Refill: 10
Protein Refill: 8

Can be cooked into Baked Potatoes and feed pigs.

Beans:
Maximum Growth: 3
Planting Season: Summer
Death Season: Spring
Seed Item: Beans
This item does not directly feed the player.

Can be used in Chili and Baked Beans. Used to feed Chickens and Parrots. Beans will drop from Zombies, and can also be found in Mineshaft and Dungeon chests.

Beetroot:
Maximum Growth: 2
Planting Season: Fall
Death Season: Spring
Seed Item: Beetroot Seeds
Energy Refill: 2
Vitamin Refill: 12
Protein Refill: 9

Can be used in Beetroot Soup, and to craft red dye. Beetroot Seeds are found in Dungeon, Mineshaft, Mansion and End City chests. They can be used to feed Pigs and Sheep, but not cows.

Sugar Cane, Nether Wart and Cactus still grow as they currently do.


Potions

I wanted to make some small changes to potions as well. Currently Nether Wart is required for almost every single potion, and this shouldn’t be the case. The only thing that comes close to this is wood… but I doubt there’s any real need for wood to have crafting alternatives.

Instead of this, the Thick Potion can be brewed with a bottle of water and Corn and is no longer brewed with Glowstone. (Alluding to High Fructose Corn Syrup.) The Thick Potion can be used instead of the Awkward Potion to brew the Slowness and Harming potions without the need of a Fermented Spider Eye.

(Example: Brewing a Thick Potion with Sugar will give you a potion of Slowness, because brewing it with an Awkward Potion would give you Speed, and brewing a Speed potion with a Fermented Spider Eye would give you Slowness.)

The Fermented Spider Eye is still needed for the Invisibility Potion and the Weakness Potion, and Nether Wart is still required for any positive potion effects.


In addition to this, the Golden Carrot will refill 5E, 12V, 10P, the Golden Apple will refill 6E, 16V, 6P and the Golden Melon will refill 4E, 17V, 9P. While they shouldn’t really have protein values considering they’re just vegetables coated in magic edible gold, I decided to give them a higher protein value in order to keep their value since Saturation is no longer a thing. (None of them are meat items, though.)

Brewing a water bottle with sugar will make Yeast. This looks like a regular glass bottle with a very small amount of brown liquid on the bottom.


Rotten Flesh / Hunger Effect

Before I get into revamping the meat system, let’s talk Rotten Flesh and the Hunger effect.

The Hunger effect is split into three effects: Exhaustion which depletes Energy, Deficiency which depletes Vitamins, and Injury which depletes Proteins.

Injury isn’t used in this suggestion. But Rotten Flesh has an 85% chance of inflicting Deficiency on a player now. However, it replenishes the player’s Energy by 4 points, and gives the player 15 Protein, although it does not count as a Meat item.

Husks inflict Exhaustion rather than Hunger now.

The Spider Eye can still be eaten for 1 Energy and 5 Protein, but it still poisons the player. (Not related to the Hunger effect, but I thought this factoid belonged with the Rotten Flesh when organizing this suggestion.)

And now, we segue to meats and husbandry.


Meats

Meat is already pretty difficult to get manually, but not difficult enough. Plus, there is a way to farm chickens in such a way that you’ll have infinite amounts of meat.

Meats will let you better heal your Protein bar and will make healing from injuries much easier. However, as you can imagine, I don’t want the player to get an eternally full protein bar mid-game by building an auto-chicken farm, or just by owning several thousand cows.

Thus, I’m making some changes to the breeding and animal system.


First, all farm animals that drop meat (Pigs, Cows, Sheep, Rabbits and Chickens) have a “Fat” value from 1 to a maximum that varies between animals. (I called it “Fat” because I didn’t want to get it confused with the boolean “Meat” value that food items have.)

Animals will drop an amount of meat equal to half of their fat value. They spawn by default with a value equal to half of their maximum fat value. Animals spawned by default in the world will not lose or gain fat for any reason.

However, an animal that the player breeds from spawned animals will start out with a Fat level of 1. In order to increase this value, the player can either feed the animal directly or find a troth in dungeons or crafted from iron and wood. (Sure, you could make it craftable from just wood, but I want to add some progression here.)



If the animal is fed directly, it’s fat level will increase by 1 and it cannot eat for another 10 minutes. (½ of a Minecraft day.) It also has a 25% chance of going into Love Mode when fed by hand.

Love mode works a bit differently now. Rather than two animals needing to simultaneously be in Love mode, an animal in Love mode will seek out the nearest non-baby partner animal and mate with it. (Otherwise you would never get any breeding done since it takes forever for animals to become hungry again.)

If you find a troth or craft one, you can fill it up with up to 1 stack of food. Hoppers cannot fill the troth, thus preventing the player from leaving animals entirely unattended. Animals will walk towards the nearest troth and eat one item from it as soon as their “Full” timer is up.

It is possible for an bred animal to lose it’s fat, though. If the animal’s 10 minute “Full” timer is up, and 30 more minutes go by without it eating again, it will lose fat. This means an unattended animal will not give you as much meat as one that’s been taken good care of.

You may notice that earlier on I mentioned that Wheat seeds can no longer be found in long grass. You have to find them in a Village, instead. Until you find a Village, however, you can farm beans to feed chickens for meat, since beans can be found by killing zombies. You can also eat Pigs and Rabbits if you get Carrots or Potatoes, and Sheep if you find Beetroot.

Let’s move on to the individual Animals.

Chicken:
Maximum Fat Value: 4
Raw Refill: 3E, 5V, 15P
Cooked Refill: 4E, 1V, 17P, 4XP

Fed with Beans and Wheat Seeds. Lays Eggs on occasion if it’s Fat Level is above 2. May also drop Feathers along with meat.

Rabbit:
Maximum Fat Value: 4
Raw Refill: 2E, 4V, 17P
Cooked Refill: 3E, 0V, 20P, 5XP

Fed with Carrots and Dandelions. May also drop Rabbits’ foot along with meat.

Pig:
Maximum Fat Value: 6
Raw Refill: 5E, 3V, 17P
Cooked Refill: 7E, 1V, 21P, 8XP

Fed with Potatoes, Carrots, Beetroot, Corn and Tomatoes. Can also be fed Poisonous Potatoes as a way of recycling. A pig may also drop 1 or 2 bones along with their other drops, in order to make them a bit more useful late-game.

Sheep:
Maximum Fat Value: 6
Raw Refill: 5E, 6V, 12P
Cooked Refill: 7E, 2V, 16P, 6XP

Fed with Beetroot and Wheat. While it delivers the least Protein of any animal, feeding the animal more will require the animal to grow a larger wool coat. When sheared or killed, a sheep will drop 2-3 wool if the fat level is less than 4, but 4-6 if it’s above 4.

Cow:
Maximum Fat Value: 8
Raw Refill: 6E, 8V, 20P
Cooked Refill: 9E, 5V, 25P, 12XP

Fed with Wheat. When fed by hand, the cow only has a 20% chance of going into Love Mode rather than a 25% chance. When killed, the cow will drop as many pieces of leather as it drops meat.

A Cow has a 5 minute timer between each time you milk it, now. This is to prevent people from getting a million buckets and spamming the right-click button. The same rule applies to Mooshrooms and Mushroom Soup.

Horse:
Maximum Fat Value: 6
Raw Refill: 6E, 8V, 20P
Cooked Refill: 9E, 5V, 25P, 12XP

Feeding Horses with Golden Carrots/Apples will make them enter Love Mode 100% of the time and will heal them. Feeding it Sugar, Wheat or Apples will heal it slightly, and Hay Bales will fatten the animal.

However, much like sheep, it may be more valuable keeping the horse alive for transportation when a Nether Portal or Minecart is not appropriate for the situation. It can jump taller heights and run faster than a player.


Fruit

There is one fruit in the entire game: the Apple. (Technically with the addition of the Tomato, this will be two, but that’s not really something you’d eat as a fruit.)

As you imagine, this suggestion is going to change this too.

Around the world, you’ll find fruit trees that look something like this:



(Yes, this is an apple tree, and yes, Oak will no longer drop Apples. It’s sad, I know.)

Upon mining the trunk, which is only as thick as a cobblestone wall, you’ll receive a Fruit Trunk block, which can be crafted into two Oak Plank blocks. When you mine the leaves, you have a 40% chance of getting a sapling for that fruit tree. If the tree is in it’s Blooming Season, you will also have a 40% chance of getting a fruit from that tree.

Fruit is a good way of getting a lot of Vitamins, but will return even fewer Proteins than vegetables.


Apple Tree:



Energy Refill: 3
Vitamin Refill: 12
Protein Refill: 2
Blooming Season: Fall

Used in Golden Apples, and is also found in Dungeons. This tree can be found in forests and sometimes in Savanas.

Cranberry Bush:



Energy Refill: 1
Vitamin Refill: 10
Protein Refill: 1
Blooming Season: Winter

Used in Cranberry Sauce. This tree bush can be found in Cold Taigas and rarely on Ice Plains.

Banana Tree:



Energy Refill: 3
Vitamin Refill: 12
Protein Refill: 0
Blooming Season: Spring

Used in Banana Smoothie. This tree can be found near and in jungles and beaches.

The Banana Smoothie is crafted with Sugar, a bucket of Milk, a Glass Bottle and a Banana in the Crafting grid and it refills 4E, 16V, 6P and 7XP.

Orange Tree:



Energy Refill: 4
Vitamin Refill: 17
Protein Refill: 0
Blooming Season: Summer

Used in Hearty Breakfast. This tree can be found in forests and near beaches.

Olive Tree:



Energy Refill: 1
Vitamin Refill: 8
Protein Refill: 0
Blooming Season: Summer

Used in Tortillas. This tree can rarely be found in acacia biomes and even desert biomes. The Olives can act as an oil for your cooking although they don’t do much by themselves.

Chorus Plant:



Energy Refill: 4
Vitamin Refill: 9
Protein Refill: 0

Not really a fruit or a tree, but I needed to put this somewhere. The plant and item work the same way as before, but now the item will replenish certain amounts of Energy and Vitamins rather than Hunger and Saturation.

Flour
Yes, flour.

Grindstones can be found in village blacksmith chests and in the backyard of Butcher’s houses. Grindstones have a GUI similar to the Furnace, but without a fuel slot. Instead, when something is inserted into the input slot, you only have to wait until it comes out.

You can grind corn and wheat into Flour, but Grindstones can also be used to turn Cobblestone into Gravel, and Gravel into Sand. This means you can make both Gravel and Sand when playing Skyblock or in the event that you don’t want to dig up large quantities of sand and you have plenty of cobblestone.

In addition, grinding bones will result in 4 bonemeal, making it more efficient to use the grindstone for bonemeal crafting. You can also recycle glass back into sand, although you will not get dye back from stained glass. (And glass panes can’t be recycled at all.)

Hoppers can put items into the Grindstone and may take items out.

Flour is very useful when cooking...


Cooking Food

Currently Mojang has to avoid “sandwich” or “salad” items. I.E. combining already edible foods into one meal.

The thing is, they’ve already done this with the soups, and the only useful one is mushroom soup in the event that you’ve decided to colonize a mushroom island. Otherwise, you can just eat each Beetroot or Rabbit Stew ingredient on their own.

So… Let’s fix this. Certain foods will now count as a “meal”. Meals cannot stack, and because of that they aren’t really meant for battle situations. In addition to not stacking, they will give you Slowness and Weakness for a short period of 30 seconds. But for all that, they give you a very useful buff, “Well Fed”, for 10 minutes and they will fill your Energy, Protein and Vitamin bars by 50% of their full value. (Though not all of them are Meat items.)

Whilst you are affected by the Well Fed buff, your Energy, Protein and Vitamin bars cannot decrease no matter how much you are injured or how much you exercise. This means after eating a meal you can go about your day for a long time without having to worry about eating.

So how do we get started? First, you’ll need a Cooking Fire. (It’s a bit cleaner to cook in something that isn’t coated in dust, coal and bits of metal.)



The Cooking Fire block looks like a Pot sitting over a bonfire. (I decided to use the Bucket in the crafting recipe since it was similar enough to a pot, rather than making a new item just to craft into this specific recipe.)

The GUI for the pot looks very similar to the furnace GUI, but with four input slots and four output slots. It works about the same when doing basic cooking, though. Put in Fuel, put in food, and it will cook. However, when you aren’t cooking individual bits of meat or vegetables, it’s a different story.

(Fair Warning: I may have had a bit too much fun when thinking of foods you can make from other foods, feel free to tell me if something has way too long of a crafting chain. I mean, you were already free to do that but I acknowledge that I probably went overboard now that individual foods have more value.)

Tier 1 Foods

Meat of any kind will only take five seconds to cook. Easy.

I mentioned the other meats elsewhere, but here’s the stats for fish:

Raw Fish:
E: 2
V: 5
P: 8

Cooked Fish:
E: 5
V: 9
P: 11
XP: 2

Raw Salmon:
E: 3
V: 3
P: 8

Cooked Salmon:
E: 5
V: 6
P: 12
XP: 4

Clownfish:
E: 5
V: 2
P: 8
XP: 20 (The only raw food that grants XP, because of it’s rarity.)

Pufferfish:
E: 9
V: 0
P: 2

Vegetables will take four seconds to cook.

Baked Potato:
E: 2
V: 13
P: 9
XP: 3

Cooked Corn:
E: 5
V: 16
P: 7
XP: 4

Tier 2 Foods

When cooking more advanced foods, you’ll need to watch what’s happening more closely. There will be a 10 second timer that appears as a red bar next to the food in the output slot. If the food is left in there, it will burn and be deleted. Fire and Smoke particles will appear above the Cooking Fire when this happens.

In addition, this is where the four input slots become more important. If all of the slots are filled with identical items, it will cook them into a simple cooked version without question. But if two different items are in the pot, it will see if they can be cooked into one single food. (And if they can’t, it will stop burning fuel and wait for the player to put food in the pot in such a way that it can be cooked.)

These next few foods are not meals, but they can be much better for you than just cooking food. It takes 10 seconds to cook any of them, and all of them can only be stacked to 16:

Bread:
E: 4
V: 10
P: 5
XP: 1

Bread can be made from 1 Flour and 1 Yeast. Simple.

Tortilla:
E: 3
V: 12
P: 4
XP: 2

Tortillas can be made from 1 Flour, 1 Yeast and 1 Olive. They’re used in making the Taco.

Cheese:
E: 6
V: 0
P: 14
XP: 2

Cheese is useful in meals, and is made with 1 Milk Bucket and 1 Yeast. It’s not super healthy on it’s own, although it has Milk’s effect clearing ability… kindof. For each effect the player has, Cheese has a 25% chance of removing it. It’s also useful if all you have it milk and you’re running low on vegetables to feed yourself or your cows.

Fried Chicken:
E: 5
V: 6
P: 17
XP: 4

Made with 1 Raw Chicken and 1 Olive. While it’s not breaded like everyone’s classic idea of Fried Chicken, it is a nice early-game use for Olives before you can get Flour.

Cookies:
E: 10
V: 9
P: 6
XP: 12

Two Cookies can be made with 1 Flour, 1 Cocoa Bean and 1 Sugar. They aren’t very healthy, but they do give a lot of XP if you haven’t eaten them in a while, and you can use them to boost your energy if you’re on the go. (Though vegetables are preferable.)

Baked Beans:
E: 4
V: 8
P: 14
XP: 4
This is a Meat item.

Baked Beans can be made with 1 Sugar, 1 Beans and 1 Bowl. This is a good food item if you want to play the game vegan style for some reason and you still want protein.

Bowl of Rice:
E: 4
V: 11
P: 9
XP: 2

Bowls of Rice are made with 1 Rice and 1 Bowl. It’s used in Stir Fry, but makes a nice dish by itself as well.

Mushroom Soup:
E: 4
V: 10
P: 10
XP: 10

Mushroom Soup is made with 1 Bowl, 1 Red Mushroom and 1 Brown Mushroom.

Cake:
Per Bite:
E: 2
V: 4
P: 6
XP: 5

Cake is made from 1 Cake Dough, which is crafted shapelessly in a normal crafting table with 3 flour, 1 egg, 2 sugar and 3 milk. Unlike other foods, you only have to wait to eat another Cake for the full XP refill after you’ve already eaten six slices of cake.

(So you can eat a full cake and get 30 XP before having to wait to get the full XP from a Cake.)

Pumpkin Pie:
E: 7
V: 11
P: 7
XP: 16

Pumpkin Pie is healthier than some of the other candy items, which don’t fill up your vegetable bar as fast as they fill up your energy. It’s made from 1 Pumpkin, 1 Flour, 1 Egg and 1 Sugar.

Beetroot Stew:
E: 6
V: 25
P: 6
XP: 3

Made from 3 Beetroots and 1 Bowl. The meal gives you lots of Vitamins, but relatively little Protein and little XP. So it’s almost as useless as it is in the current game!

Cranberry Sauce:
E: 8
V: 17
P: 2
XP: 17

Cranberry sauce is made from a Glass Bottle, 2 Cranberries and 1 Sugar. It’s a nice festive food.


Tier 3 Foods (Meals):

With the Tier 2 foods out of the way, let’s move on to the meals. These take 20 seconds to cook, and as mentioned before they cannot be stacked. As a reminder, they give you “Well Fed”, for 10 minutes and refill your Energy, Protein and Vitamin bars by 50% of their full value.

You have to pull these out pretty quick, because you only get 5 seconds after they’re done before they burn.

Hearty Breakfast:
Gives 30 XP when eaten.

Made with an Orange, Bread, an Egg and a raw Porkchop. This is a meat item.

Chicken Sandwich:
Gives 40 XP when eaten.

Made with Bread, Raw Chicken, a Tomato and Cheese. This item is a meat item.

Chili:
Gives 40 XP when eaten.

Made with a Bowl, Raw Mutton, a Tomato and Beans. I would have used Beef, but beef is already used in most of the other foods. This is a meat item.

Taco:
Gives 40 XP when eaten.

Made with 1 Tortilla, 1 Cheese, 1 Beans and 1 Olive. I was going to use Quesadilla instead, since Tacos are kinda meme-ish, but on the other hand I decided it was better to put as few hard to pronounce words in the game as possible. This is a meat item.

Rabbit Stew:
Gives 25 XP when eaten.

Made with 1 Raw Rabbit, 1 Carrot, 1 Potato and 1 Bowl. This is a meat item.

Stir Fry:
Gives 50 XP when eaten.

Made with 1 Bowl of Rice, 1 Carrot, 1 Raw Steak and 1 Beetroot. I didn’t want to add Rice, but at least this gives another use for the Beetroot. This is a meat item.

Chorus Chowder:
Gives 55 XP when eaten.

Made with 1 Corn, 1 Chorus Fruit, 1 Tomato and 1 Bowl. This is one of the most rewarding out of all the foods, but it’s also incredibly late-game. The meal does not retain the Chorus Fruit’s teleport effect.


Villages

The crops in villages are actually not crops, but crop-like blocks that, much like Wild Rice, do not rot in their Death Season.

The first reason for this being that Villagers are often too stupid to take proper care of their crops, and the second reason being that a player might enter a Village in the crop’s death season which would mean the crops instantly rot.

Farmer Villagers can now grow Tomatoes as well as the crops they could grow before, and a Villager can breed if they have at least 10 Tomatoes. (2 less than Carrots or Potatoes because they’re rarer.)


Conclusion

So in the end, while I probably went overboard with food choices, I think this is a definite improvement over the current system. This also means people can suggest a plethora of new kinds of foods within reasonable boundaries, and it’s not just another sprite with a similar function to other foods.

I’ll be the first to admit that my own suggestion might be a little complicated for young Minecrafters. It’s probably best to rename the Vitamin bar to the Vegetable Bar and the Protein Bar to the Meat bar, but I’m sticking with those names for now unless this is a bigger issue than I imagine it to be.

But I also want to show how much fun you can have making a suggestion, and how you can improve your suggestions and presentation. This was actually a multiple day project that I started in LibreOffice Writer rather than directly in the BBCode editor. I used GIMP to help me make some of the images and CubeUpload to upload the images.

(I also had to convert the LibreOffice text into BBCode format manually, though, and that’s not fun. If you know a tool that can help me do this automatically, please tell me!)

With that, I hope you all can improve your own suggestions, and make them great!
(I’m sorry if that sounded condescending… I have no idea how to phrase advice...)

(TELL ME IF ANY FORMATTING LOOKS WRONG, MY BBCODE REFORMATTING JOB WASN'T PERFECT.)