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Crying Obsidian & Weather

Originally Crying Obsidian was supposed to change your spawnpoint. Since beds are responsible for that now, I would like to suggest another (quite interesting in my opinion) idea for them:

CRAFTING

Let's begin with the basics. I would suggest using one regular Obsidian and 4-8 Ghast Tears to make one Crying Obsidian.

WHAT WOULD IT DO?

There would be two things this block would do:

  1. When put in specifically created environment it would change the weather to rain or thunderstorm for short period of time (half of one Minecraft day or less)
  2. As a decoration if the requirements aren't fulfilled

ACTIVATION MECHANISM

I'm suggesting another 2 options:

  1. It would be placed on top of the new, player-made simple structure (similar to Nether Reactors, Iron Golems or Withers)
  2. It would be placed surrounded by 8 water blocks (similar to Conduits) with its top being exposed to sky (similar to Beacons):

LIMITATIONS

  • Like I mentioned earlier this block/structure would change the weather only for short period of time
  • If it is possible it should only change the weather in certain radius
  • Its function could be potentially blocked by commands

OTHER INFORMATIONS

  • The texture would be animated and as the time passes, the "tears" on them would dissapear
  • Upon finishing its purpose it would revert back to regular Obsidian
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    I like the Idea but I could see how this could be a problem on servers. And I definitely think that this could have a huge negative impact on server communities. What if it only changed the weather within a radius of the structure (I hate player built structures BTW Just keep it a block IMO ) but if it must go the player built structure rout I suggest building it like a beacon stack and the more layers you build the bigger the radius up to a hard limit.  Back to using this on servers this item should be able to be turned off in server.properties.

     

    If I might Expand on this Idea a bit further Could we also make a block that prevents rain / melts snow with in a defined radius too?

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    Four to eight ghast tears is a bit much for a temporary effect. I would suggest the effect be permanent, for short radius.

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    If it is possible to change the weather locally then I'll absolutely approve that suggestion. I didn't write anything like that because I wasn't sure if such limitation to the weather can be made.