Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-38964304-20190517140825

The millstone is utterly worthless right now, I think we could seriously change that and it would be quite easy with a little tweaks and a new item or two.

Here's the inspiration, I was working with a millstone to grind gravel into flint, when I thought "why don't we need to do this for something like bread?" So I was thinking, why not change the way we make certain foods like breads?

So, let's say millstones are now used to grind up wheat. What would this produce? Flour (new item 1), which could be mixed in a crafting table with water, and then voila, you've got bread dough (new item 2) which you could then shove in a hobbit oven, furnace, or other cooking apparatus to produce bread! But, to compensate for the added effort required to make bread, olive bread, banana bread, and so forth, they'd have to restore more hunger. Currently, bread restores 5 hunger points, (2.5 hunger symbols). If this change were to be made, the new bread hunger restoration rate could be changed to, say, 6, 7 or 8 hunger points (3-4 symbols) to be a little less than or equal to steak. This would change cram as well, which could be boosted to 8, 9, or 10 hunger points (4-5 symbols), which wouldn't be unreasonable for what you put into it! Meat seems to get such an good rap because it's both easy and restores more hunger, which seems to way overpower the other cool foods we have in the mod, and vanilla both.

The effects: Well, this would put some competition into the food choices we have. There's a meta of kebab and other meats for the most part, while other foods tend to be neglected due to their lesser nutrition and having to farm crops for them. This would make folk reconsider, make us farmers a little more appreciated, and it'd make that millstone a little more worth the space in your home!

Thank you for reading my thoughts on the millstone, if I have any afterthoughts I'll throw them in as they come up. 