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Lumber enchantment

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This is a simple one. An enchantment for axes that causes all log blocks above and to the side of the one that was chopped in trees also break. This is just a faster way to chop trees, but yo would have to be careful not to use it on, say, a log pillar in your house or the entire pillar would disappear. 

[EDIT] I'm looking through the comments, and a recurring concern is the durability used. I posted a comment a while back addressing this, but I have since changed my mind. I instead think it should use as many durability points as logs chopped, but to avoid underestimating tree sizes and accidentally breaking your axe, I think that if chop a tree with too many logs, the axe only chops as many logs as it can before stopping at 1 durability. It would also make a sound similar to the one for breaking tools. 

Another common(-ish) concern is griefing potential. To solve this, I begin by reminding you about leaves, and how player placed leaves have an nbt tag that prevents them from decaying. Logs should get one too, saying whether or not it is a natural log (from natural trees and saplings). The enchantment only affects natural logs. 

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    Enchant Timber, 3 levels:
    1. Only a tree is cut down.
    2. Cut down a tree with leaves.
    3. Items immediately go to your inventory.
    One block of a tree is one ax strength point.
    Works only on grown trees, not on erected blocks.

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    i like this but i think it should be a treasure enchantment.

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    Something like this should have been in the game ages ago. It's ridiculous that they haven't done anything about it.

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    Maybe and advancement to go with it: "Timber!" This is in the Husbandry tab and its parent is Husbandry. It is obtained by fully chopping down a tree with this enchant. 

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    I personally would love this but i feel like it would have to be very rare or very high level. This enchant would make chopping wood like 5x faster so if done incorrectly it has potential to be extremely over powered

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    what would it do to acacia trees?

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    Idea: higher levels of this enchantment cut bigger percentages of the wood,

    lvl 1- 20%

    lvl 2- 40%

    lvl 3- 60%

    lvl 4- 80%

    lvl 5 100%

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     I think there are some other ways to improve this. Make the enchantment tiered and make the base tier pretty slow (being scaled to the amount of blocks being broken) and go through the same amount of durability it'd take to break the blocks. Then make the higher tiers break the blocks faster and burn less durability (like tier 1 would be 100% of the durability it'd normally take, tier 2 being 50%, and tier 3 being 25%) I think this should co-exist with the vein miner enchantment linked earlier in this comment thread as they could each have their own drawback (one being hunger while the other is durability). 

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    maybe, if u try to break 1 log from the tree it takes as long to break as it would take to mine the hole tree but the entire tree gets mined?

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    yes but make I so you cant have Efficiency if you have this on it 

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    Just my tough but I would say that it would work like this: Lumber I= Chopp 3 logo at the same time... etc.

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    Another variation I'd like to propose is inspired by a mod, where instead of the Insta-mine the tree "shifts/shrinks" down as each log is cut, this would make a great enchant as it reduces the risks of tree harvesting (climbing up) and makes it feel a bit more like a quick cobblestone generator for 5ish blocks at least, which is very Minecraft vibe. 

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    You I would have never thought of your solution for griefing

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    Ok but it must only works on "Naturally generated logs", so, logs placed by players will have an extra hidden-data (such as banners: once you place it it has an extra NBT).
    Then, you can't destroy your house with 1 click, you can't super-grief others houses, even if you built your house next to a Naturraly generated log. :-)

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    no

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    An Achievement when you do cut down a tree should be called "Timmmmber"

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    There are many mods for Java that achieve this, but Bedrock Edition is sadly lacking in mods. I would love to see this feature added to the game, and I think if it were implemented carefully it wouldn't be overpowered at all.

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    The Cleaving enchantment from combat snapshots should do it.

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    Wow, great idea! Love it! However, for the durability thing... maybe that's not the best idea to have full durability damage? You see, if you have an axe, you are going to be very fast at destroying logs. If you're going to be applying enchants to it, it's at least iron or diamond, which is quite fast already. So, simply making it faster might not the worth the xp, lapis, and your enchant on the axe. So maybe instead have the durability damage be # of logs chopped down, divided by 2, rounded up.

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    Maybe the enchantment should make trees turn into giant creepers that explode into more creepers that explode into cats

    This is a troll post for giggles to light up someone's day pls don't hurt me mojang

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    I love the idea!

    But it should be 

    Lumber I  ( You loose the same durability of mining all the logs 1 by 1 )

    Lumber II ( You loose the same durability as if you mined half of the wood but it all gets mined) 

    Lumber III ( You loose the same durability as if you mined a quarter of the wood but of it all gets mined) 

    If you mine a tree that has 10 or more logs in it while using the Lumber enchantment you get an achievement and advancement (For Java and Bedrock) called Local LumberJack

    Great Idea!

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    • COOL IDEA BUT THE AXE'S ENCHANTMENTS WOLD NOT BE BALANCED  AS NO ONE WILL ENCHANT THEIR AXES WITH EFFICIENCY WHEN THEY CAN CUT THE ENTIRE TREE BY CUTTING JUST 1 LOG 
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    I think how it should work is it should destroy a 1x1 log and any log blocks that are above it, but not next to it, and also drain 1.5x or 2x the durability for each log block destroyed

    It should also be a treasure enchantment

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    I feel like this would be best for both axes and pickaxes, and I think it would be best to be able to turn it on/off when you need it. I dont know what way would be best to do that but maybe crouching to use it

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    I think that maybe if cutting the single log down took as long as cutting down the entire tree, then players might start to think that since it's taking 2 minutes to chop this log, then is it really possible to cut it? Am I using the wrong tool?
    Another solution would be to make all of the blocks appear as if they were breaking all at once- because they are.