Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25981649-20170528113209

Hello there!

I do realize there is another suggestion that covers this matter already- but I believe it does so in an unrealistic and incorrect way.

Items
 Truffle would be added as a block variant and an item- the truffle block would look identical to short grass, and when broken will drop the truffle item that it corresponds to.

 There would be 4 types of truffles- being white, black and 2 summer variants

 The Black Summer Truffle's price would range from 30-75 silver coins a piece, and would have a spawning rate similair to gold in warm regions- namely Dorwinion, Rhun, and Enedwaith but can be found in other places such as Umbar, Gondor and Rohan rarely (50% rarer)

 The White Summer Truffle's price would range from 100-250 silver coins a piece, and have a diamond rae chance to be found in warm regions- namely Dorwinion, Rhun and Enedwaith but can be found in other places such as Umbar, Rohan and Lindon (Not Gondor) rarely, (50% rarer)

 The Black Winter Truffle's price would range from 100-250 silver coins a piece and have a diamon rare chance to be found in cold regions, namely Dunland, Ettenmoors, Angmar, and Taiga. There's a rare chance (30% rarer) to be found in any Mountain Foothills

 The White Winter Truffle's price would range from 480-860 silver coins a piece and have the same rarity as mithril, and would be found primairly in cold regions Dunland, Ettenmoors, Taiga, Angmar and a much rarer (30% rarer) chance to be found in any mountain foothills. It cannot be found any other region.

 Of course- once season are added it will be dependent on the season and not the location.

Uses
To make it have some use, placing a truffle in a crafting table will give you 9 truffle shavings and would give 1 hunger point (black) and 2 hunger points (white) each, and 3 saturation points. Truffle shavings can not be sold.

It would be bought by all types of Bartenders, Harad Merchants, Wandering Traders and Orc Chefs (if a food-merchant is added for Orcish factions) They would be very rarely sold by Dunlending Bartenders.

Truffle can NOT be cooked.

Finding Truffles
Truffles can be found purely by luck, but this would be extremely difficult and involve breaking millions of pieces of grass.

Instead, you can use a tamed pig or wolf (or boar) to find truffles.

Pigs and Boars would naturally run towards any nearby truffles and stand on top of it. They have a detection range of 15 blocks. However, if they stay on top of it for 7 (5 for the boar) seconds, the Truffle block will break and be consumed by the pig-

Wolves (or dogs once added) must be trained, and must be given a truffle (of any kind) to consume before it's even able to find a truffle at all. They would have a starting detection range of 8 blocks, and would have difficulties detecting them and have a chance to not detect a truffle (50%). Any truffle shavings would remove 2% of the difficulty (3% if a white truffle and + 2% if it's a winter variant)  They would never consume the truffle itself and simply stand ontop. If you feed a dog that already has maxed out detection some more truffle shavings, it will have a larger detection range, to a max of 18 blocks. (1 block per 2 shavings) 