Four end rods are currently crafted with a blaze rod on top of a popped chorus fruit. They emit white particles. Meanwhile, Education Edition, among its chemistry features, has sparklers: these, when lit, emit particles with colors based on the flame test experiment.
Why not try to add sparklers to normal Minecraft by expanding on the existing end rod?
A popped chorus fruit and a blaze rod would still be needed, but you would also have to add one of many options of new ingredients now. Each item would result in a different color of end rod: another popped chorus fruit gives the one we have currently; a copper ingot gives green ones; a magma block, bright yellow rods; and so on.
Next, we change their names to end sparklers. Also, end sparklers would have a new feature: when used, both in item and block form, they would start to produce a lot of the particles they do today, always matching the sparkler's color (always emmiting a sound, and, if an item, changing texture and doing a shaking animation). Use it again to revert it to normal. Redstone pulses can also switch between this effect and its absence for placed sparklers.
Visualize this concept in my homonymous post in r/minecraftsuggestions.
How should end sparklers behave underwater? I think of two possibilities: just as in air (setting their sparks to differ from normal ones); producing colored bubbles that float and damage entities at a slow rate.
Feedback is appreciated!
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