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Vines need an age value

If you spend lots of time inside a jungle or swamp biome, you will notice that the vines hanging from the canopy of trees will not stop growing until they reach the ground. This makes the trees appear quite ugly and crowded after a while. This is most problematic in the jungle biome since vines also slow you down when you are inside them, and it's likely lots of vines will be on the ground level after you've spent lots of time living in the jungle.

Therefore, I suggest that vines get an age value, similar to the nether vines and kelp. How it can work is when a vine is generated or placed, it is given a random age between 0 and 24, just like kelp. Any vines that grow from that vine has their age increased by 1, then any growing from those increase their age by 1, and so on. This keeps going until age 25, when it stops growing, just like the nether vines and kelp. When vines are generated in the world, they are given a random age around 15 so the vines don't grow incredibly long after a while inside the jungle and swamp.

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    Yeah this is pretty important, and natural bamboo needs this too. It gets more and more laggy the taller they grow, and I'm not gonna spend 3 hours cutting them short again x)

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    would be cool if we could bone meal it, too.
    sort of like glow lichen, but.. being able to hang

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    I think that this would be great, mirroring more of the behavior that glow berry cave vines follow, which sounds like what the kelp follows.

    This further entails:
    + being able to stop their growth by using shears on the end pieces instead of needing to use string below them-- a pre-caves and cliffs technique.
    + being able to manually place vines to the bottom to override and have full control over how long you want them to be, just like cave vines, when building.

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    Agreed! Vines are a fairly old vegetation, which never got updated with the modern mechanics behind recent plants such as Kelp, Bamboo, Cave Vines etc.

    Bringing them to "modern" parity would allow both decorative use and world generation to look even better!