Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25376906-20170722104714

Right now, rope is like elven rope minus the right-click function. So why not add more functionality?

Rope bridges

Rope bridges would come handy in forest biomes like the Redwood forest or the Cloud forest. Especially in the latter, scorpions really keep you on the trees and of course you would want a way to come around in your amazing treehouse village... That is where rope bridges come in as alternative to regular, boring slab bridges. Rope could be placed like string, but actually supporting the player. For example, one rope could serve as path and two ropes on either side and one block above would keep anyone not that surefooted from falling of.

With the addition of one custom arrow, another one seems possible, the rope arrow. This would simply be used to quickly fire a rope from one tree to the other and establish the base of the rope bridge. However, this is rather an extension on the rope bridge idea, as this would probably involve the coremod and be more complicated to code.

Functional decoration

The second suggestions deals with suspending things from the ceiling. "Things" on the one hand would be chandeliers or bird cages, which I currently suspend using fences. In smaller builds, this tends to look rather clumsy.

On the other hand items like wheat, flax, sugarcane or pipeweed could be attached to the rope. This would make for great decoration possibilities and come in handy with clusters of three of each material that can be attached. This way, one could easily make bread, string or paper without going through storage chests before, especially when these are not placed near the crafting table.

I hope you enjoy this suggestion and please comment your ideas below. 