Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27190044-20160424223517

Berry bushes- great snack providers and possibly meal providers for wanderers and rogues, and quite realistic. I am here to suggest how to make them seem even more like the ones we encounter in today's world. This may seem minor, but it indeed will add realism.

Concerning Blackberry and Raspberry Bushes​​ | ​As many of you surely know, raspberry and blackberry bushes have rather pointy thorns whose purpose is to deter those striving to eat the berries off of the bush. Like the already-implimented thistles and stalagtites in the mod, if one should decide to sprint over or jump upon raspberry or blackberry bushes, they should be dealt 1 HP (half heart) of damage. If one should decide to pick raspberries or blackberries, they would occasionally take damage. To prevent this, they could craft leather, warg fur, or gemsbok hide gloves with the following recipe (L = animal hide, X = nothing) and put them on a new glove slot:

X X X

L X L

X X X

Or, one could shear the bush of its thorns with shears (go figure) by simply right-clicking the bush whilst holding them. Note that there should be a texture change in the bush to separate de-thorned and normal bushes.

Birds versus Berries | In today's world, most herbivorous and omnivorous birds love a good berry meal. I suggest, similarly to rabbits, birds should be able to eat the berries off of bushes. Annoying as this may be, one could also prevent birds from getting to their bushes with two techniques. The first is to hire a Dorwinion vinehand, hobbit farmhand, or slave of Nurn, and these would chase away the birds as they would rabbits. The second technique is to take string and craft string mesh, which one could apply to a bush by shift+right-clicking on a bush to cover it, preventing birds from getting to it. This would change the texture of the bush so that it would seem to have a white net over it. To craft string mesh, you would use the following recipe (S = string, X = nothing):

S S S

S S S

X X X

This would yield eight string mesh items.

What do you think? As always, constructive criticism, kudos, and further suggestions are welcomed. Thank you for your time, and go climb a pickled mulberry tree. 