Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-209.0.138.91-20190419142352

Rant: As many of us know, when you place sand under dirt, your farmhands will not till it. This is useful, when you actually do not want to see it tilled. However, it is annoying when you have to break all of the sand when you plan to farm near the coasts. There is also sand underground, so you basically need to rip the whole floor up, remove the sand, and then put the floor back, just to set up a coastal farm. Oh, and do not tell me to bridge in the water, because in the shallow parts the sand at the bottom stops my farmhands from tilling.

''Now that you have survived my rant, you can see the actual suggestion. ''

Suggestion: How about using a different block? I find that maybe even a new block could do. Maybe we can add "defertilizer" (It is called that in the suggestion, but please, please do not call it that if it is added. I am just not creative, lol.), which makes the ground visibly unable to support plants. Maybe we can add some sort of sign that you can put nearby and it will tell slaves not to hoe there. Here are my suggestions:

"Defertilizer" is bad for your soil! This will make your soil look sickly, but will tell farmhands that nothing is going to be planted there any time soon. The only way to reverse it would be to simply break the block and put it back. If a farmhand tries to plant a crop there, the crop would instantly "die", or break and give back the seeds. After around two or three tries, farmhands will know that it is unhealthy soil and will not plant there. If the soil is restored, the farmhands will farm there again.

Orders Orders look like a piece of paper with sketches on it. Basically, they look like blueprints that are the color of aged paper, unless they are Elven or Orcish. Elven orders will be on paper made from Mallorn wood, and Orcish orders will have blackened paper. Of course, they do not have the cool grid pattern, because that would look weird. They are faction specific.To use it, right click on soil you do not want to see tilled, and then "show" it to all of your farmhands by right-clicking them with your farming orders. When you hold it, you see a red pillar of particles that is two blocks high on soil that is not to be tilled. You can easily update how your farm should be tilled, but after every change, you must show it to your farmhands again.

Another Possibility Maybe, these both could be added. The "defertilizer" seems like an Orcish way of doing things. It seems like any civilized community of men would use orders. Elves could use orders, but with a whiter texture. Should Orcs actually use orders, they would use black colored orders. 