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Increasing customisability and functionality of Decorated Pots

With the introduction of Decorated Pots, this is a perfect opportunity to place two block high plants inside of them, allowing for more customisability, decoration and expression inside of player's worlds. This feature should extend to:

• Sunflowers
• Rose Bushes
• Peony
• Lilac
• Large Ferns
• Bamboo
• The new Pitcher Plant.

With the 1.20 update focusing on "creativity and self-expression", and the inclusion of the Sniffer and Ancient plants, this seems too good of an opportunity to pass up.

 

Furthermore, it would be interesting to play with the idea of being able to fill Decorated Pots with water. Along with a water animated texture in the hole of the pot, this might allow the player to place other plants such as: Small Dripleaf, or Sugar Cane within the Decorated Pot.

 

Decorated Pots drop the pots intact when mined empty-handed or with a Silk Touch tool, but when mined with other tools the pots shatter, dropping the components used to craft it. I suggest that Water Filled Decorated Pots should retain their water when mined empty handed or with a Silk Touch tool. However, when broken, Water filled pots should break into their components and release a water source block in it's place, much like the Waterlogged Mangrove Roots.

 

Perhaps Water Filled Pots will have other functionalities as well, such as being able to store multiple small aquatic mobs within them, such as Fish and Tadpoles, allowing players to transport larger amounts of these mobs at a time rather than using a bucket per mob.

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• March 24, 2023 06:40
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  • March 26, 2023 14:24
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  Some super cool ideas here! On the topic of storing things in pots, I have some other ideas.
  
  Perhaps, as well as liquids, a couple stacks of a dust item like sugar, redstone, blaze powder, and gunpowder, and maybe even blocks like sand, concrete powder and gravel could be stored? Edit: I also forgot to mention, these would be interacted with similarly to the cauldron, only with stacks of items rather than bottles/buckets of water. Just makes them a little more interesting than a regular inventory UI like others have suggested.
  
  There could also be some special behaviour depending on the items stored: for pots which have gunpowder stored, they could explode when mined with tools or shot with a radius and power proportional to the amount of gunpowder inside. For pots that have a bucket of water, adding sand could perhaps make balls of clay which can only be accessed by breaking the pot. For pots which store blaze powder, they could set fire to the surroundings when mined or shot.
  
  I do also like your idea of pots keeping their stored water when picked up, which could also extend to these dust items, almost like a primitive form of Shulker Box. Their relative lack of rarity would of course be balanced by only being able to store two or three stacks of an item instead of 27, and the limited item types which can be stored.