Thread:LOTRMod/@comment-29680750-20160908145057/@comment-25101089-20160922025111

Hello! If you still want to hear my answers in addition to those others, here they are.

1. It has happened as I said it would. But I was referring only to the actual "drinks" creative tab. In the search creative tab, all the items are displayed. This is exactly how it should be, in my opinion; it follows the conventions of vanilla with enchanted books, it's a nice easy way of finding any item in the game for people who want that, and if you're concerned about cluttered items in the search tab, you're in the wrong tab.

2. This is because, way back when I added Mountain Trolls, I couldn't be bothered / didn't have the time / etc. to code a separate texture, item, model, entity, etc. for stone troll variants of the Mountain Troll, which is a different entity with a different texture and name. And since then. I still haven't had time, and/or it was never deemed important enough. The stone particle explosion is just a token gesture towards this, if you will.

In fact, another reason I now remember is that the "stone-trolls" in the hobbit are a different sub-breed of Trolls from Mountain Trolls and Hill-trolls. So it's entirely possible that Tolkien intended only those stone-trolls to become statues, and no others.

3. More time than you may think, or not as much time as you may think. The truth is that I just do it in my spare time. Where other people might play video games or watch TV, I make this mod instead. Don't worry, I do have a real life as well, which is quite interesting, and plenty of friends. I'm not just some guy sat in a basement coding all day and night long.

or am I?