I think it'd be fun if barrels floated in water. They arent gravity-affected in air, but when waterlogged, they'd be buoyancy-affected
As a buoyant block
In water, barrels will float to the top but if you stand on it, it'll sink. You could ride it all the way down, or step off and it'll start floating again. Gravity-affected mobs or blocks like sand or anvils will sink it too. Also downward flowing water so it could go down waterfalls
- They are NOT free floating like boats, they're solid blocks that stay in the grid
- They wont move through eachother like minecarts
- Theyre not pistons and wont push eachother or other blocks out of the way
Bubble columns suck it down or push it up. If its being pushed from both ways at once it wont move
As a moving storage block
Waterlogged barrels can be filled and used to transport items up and down like a dumbwaiter. A hopper at the top or bottom could automatically fill or empty its contents
Flowing water push barrels in that direction until it ends (they stay waterlogged, water wont push it into air). You could build flumes, basically water-based conveyor belts. They can get sophisticated and have hoppers filling barrels, hoppers emptying them elsewhere, and redstone controlling the currents to control where they stop and go
As a naturally generated block
They can generate as flotsam adrift in the ocean containing loot, food, or a message in a barrel, or inside shipwrecks. If there's nothing in the way, it would float out of the shipwreck to the surface
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