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Potion Creams / Applying potion effects to weapons

What is a potion cream? By adding a slimeball into a brewing stand as an ingredient for potions, it would turn the potions into potion creams. This cream would be held in the left hand while a melee weapon is held in the right. When used, the player will coat the weapon in their right hand with the cream, causing their weapon to inflict the cream's effect on a successful hit.

Specifics of this item

  • Applying the cream to the weapon would take a certain amount of time, just like a potion
  • This cream can be applied to any melee tool (Sword, Axe, Pick, Shovel, and Hoe) as well as the fishing rod (allowing the rod to become a makeshift flail!).
  • Like potions, creams would not stack
  • Instantaneous effect potions will disappear off of the weapon after one successful hit (instant damage and instant health)
  • Effect potions that inflict a status effect (such as poison, strength, regeneration, or Weakness) will remain on the weapon for a certain period of time, this time possibly increased with another ingredient.

What will this add to the game? 

  • Gives players a new way to express themselves and develop unique playstyles in both PvE and PvP.
  • Provides creators with an easier method of creating weapons that inflict effects.
  • Adds more options to how the left hand is used.
  • Allows for the opportunity to bring back effects that were once inaccessible by potions (Nausea, Blindness, Haste, Mining Fatigue, Levitation, etc.) as well as create new effects. Enemy AI would need new responses to these effects.

 

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    Just a brief continuation, but I wanted to further develop the last point on the effects it would bring back. Making items that don't have many uses currently into potion ingredients is an easy way to make them feel more valuable. Some of the items I think would work for these missing effects are:

    • Ink Sac > Blindness (ink sac's 1 use currently is to be made into Black Dye. Keeping it as the organ for a potion recipe fits the theme of brewing nicely. As for mobs, their line of sight would be dropped to 0-2 blocks for the duration of the effect)
    • Rotten Flesh > Nausea (Rotten Flesh becomes useless the moment you have any other food and just takes up space. This at least takes the gross concept of ingesting flesh a comical context. When used on a mob, the mob will generally act dizzy and confused. Skeletons may miss their shots completely and creepers may accidentally explode.).
    • Bottle of Honey > Haste (Currently, Honey is only used as a food and a block ingredient. Making honey the key ingredient for Haste potions, mimicking being as busy as a bee, would make bee farms much more valuable. On mobs, this would increase their attack speed. With fermented spider eyes, this would become a mining fatigue potion, having the same effect on mobs.)

    As for the ingredient I mentioned earlier in the post that would increase the duration the cream remains on the weapon, I think it should be Nether Quartz. On instantaneous effects, it would add an extra usage before disappearing.

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    coll idea i dont understand how this post has only 2 votes

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    What about being able to anvil some effects directly to tools and weapons like slime or red slime ? While retaining simplicity it would also allow for temporary unique effects like ghast tears for mining stone with explosions or maybe extra knockback in a fight, red slime for faster mining and sulfur for fortune. Every one could be balanced with a unique duration(uses) and effect strength.  
    Ink could be applied for blindness and maybe some other purpose on tools. And also, some other thick components could be used like magma cream, for fire aspect on weapons and some other peculiar effects on tools like an axe which burns leaves (low propagation), or a shovel which cooks clay into bricks, a pickaxe that evaporates water but does not smelts ores, with cooldowns, so we'd need a couple picks in rotation.
    Hoes on the other hand could benefit from a more complicated use of magma cream like applying it with skulk onto the tool to be able to turn sand into soul sand and dirt into soul soil.
    Would allow for early players to get silktouch from slimes and honey, with slight accent colors on the edges , smudged slime ;)
    Glow ink for glow effect,
    resin could be an alternative to slime & honey. 
    The choice would be wide without adding new items to the game.
    The red slime would be a bonus tho.
    Red slime blocks maybe could conduct redstone.