Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26119768-20161010204502

(I am aware this sort of thing has been suggested before, but I hope my take on it is original)

Currently, the LOTR Mod has one type of barrel. It is very cool and very useful, and can brew all manner of drinks. However, I ask you, what sort of fortress is content with 16 mugs of alcoholic drink? That is why I suggest big barrels.

Big Barrels
These are multiblock, 2x2x2 structures, crafted the same as a barrel, but with iron in the top and bottom middle slots, which yields 4 of the pieces (recipe tentative). When you place them in the correct shape, it becomes what the name implies, a big barrel. There would be 2 major differences between this and the regular barrel. 1, it will hold 134 mugs of drink (16x8 + 6 for incentive to use them). It will also change brewing slightly. In the big barrel GUI, you will have a small bar which fills up by 1/8 when you but brewing ingredients in the barrel. When it is filled, the barrel starts brewing. Instead of brewing, you can also fill the barrel up using small barrels. This barrel provides a way for medium size fortresses to store and brew drink with less hassle. However, as an anonymous (and probably fictitious) dwarf said, "There is no such thing as enough ale". What if there were bigger barrels?

Great Barrels
This part of the suggestion is inspired by the Great Barrel of Heidelberg Castle, in Germany, which is something like 15 feet tall. This is a 4x3x3 multiblock structure.peices are crafted with 3 wood logs in the top row, 2 iron blocks on either end of the middle row, and 3 more wood logs on the bottom row, which yields 6 pieces. It would hold 582 mugs of drink (16x36 + 6 for incentive to use it). It will also have a small bar in its GUI, which fills up by 1/36 each time you put ingredients into it, and would start brewing when this bar is full. Again, you can also fill it with regular barrels.

Filling
in order to improve the speed of filling big and great barrels, I think all barrels, the suggested ones included, shuold have a bar which shows water level, and that the bucket slots in the barrel GUI be removed. Instead, barrels will be filled by right clicking the barrel with a filled water bucket. One bucket of water will increase the water level by 1/3 in a small barrel., scaling proportionately with the bigger barrels.

Pails
Pails would be crafted by putting it in the center of a crafting table and making a v (like the one for making a bucket) of iron ingots around the bucket. It would hold the equivalent of 4 buckets of water (or lava), and can be used for filling all barrels. When you put your first bucket of liquid in it, a bar like the durability bars will appear on its item sprite, 1/4 full, increasing with each bucketful. It will decrease by 1 bar each time a water block is put down. It will also empty as much of its contents as possible into a barrel when used to fill one.

Carrying Poles
Carrying poles would be crafted with 3 sticks placed horizontally and 2 pails below, on either end. It would carry 8 buckets of water, and function similarly to the pail, dumping all contents into barrels, durability-like bar, etc. However, when filled more than halfway, it will give the user a small amount of Slowness.

Water Buckets
Water buckets would be crafted with 3 wood planks in a v shape, and a stick in the space above the center of the v. It would be able to carry 1 bucket of water. When it is used to pick up lava though, it will be destroyed and the player will be set on fire for several seconds. 