Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-33154602-20171024192905

Jam and marmalade making.

Purpose

Hi there. This suggestion is about adding more bushes and trees in the game and give them more uses as well as using the plants that are already in the game. Giving them a purpose would give plants greater uses and make more people use them.

Bushes and more plants

I love the amount of bushes there are in the game but would make them more useful because at the moment they aren't used for anything more than to eat, they are useful to eat because they are renewable and can be acquired in bulk, but they only fill up a single hunger bar.

I think they should add more plants such as strawberry bushes/plants that would grow in The Shire and more trees apricot trees. Perhaps there should nut trees and bushes. For instance almonds and cashews should grow on trees but there would also be flowers that, when right clicked, would drop peanuts as they grow underground. Trees should drop there fruit. Every however so often trees should drop fruit on the ground, most of the apples or whatever fruit dropped should be ok to eat but some should be ruined/rotten and would poison you if they are eaten.

Fruit should be able to be dried, this would give two and a half hunger bars instead of just the one. Tolkien clearly states this in the hobbit as Beorn gives the dwarves lots of dried fruits and nuts before they enter Mirkwood. This is the line: 'and packed so as to be easy as possible to carry-nuts ,flour, sealed jars of dried fruits'. To dry fruit you would put it on any block in direct sunlight( I do not think this would be hard to implement because they did this in minecraft where you have a higher chance of catching fish if the water you are fishing in is open to the sky when it is raining). You would leave it there for 5 minutes(IRL)and when you picked it up again you would have dried fruit.

To make jam and marmalade

To make jam and marmalade you would use a hobbit oven to combine them as if you where combining ores in a dwarves forge. You would need 2 pieces of fruit and 2 pieces of sugar. You could use different types of fruit: Mangos, blueberry, elderberry, strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, apricot and cranberry. This would give you jam. If you combined jam and a jam jar in a crafting grid it you give you a jam jar. Making jam would give you the achievement, [sticky fingers]. Marmalade would be be the same but you could only make it with oranges.

To make jars you need 1 glass pane and a carpet on top of the pane, this would give 9 jars. These can be placed on any block.

Kudos and constructive criticism is appreciated. Thanks! If this gets 5 kudos I'll try making some textures Apologies that this probably isn't the best post but I'm quite new to all this stuff 