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Use glow sacs to craft a neon block.

Ever since the glow-squid was announced, I've been dreaming about the possibilities of a neon block.

I know many people were disappointed about glow-squid and their derivative items not being true light sources, but what if we were instead able to put that phosphorescence to good use? In many ways, a range of blocks that "glow" without emitting light could be a much more unique and interesting addition. There isn't anything in the game like it currently - the closest we have is putting a solid-colored map on a backlit item frame, and I don't think I need to tell you how laggy that can get on a large scale. Entities,  man.

Combined with the new tinted glass, neon blocks could be used to create mob farms where the inner workings are completely visible at all times! Used in fantasy or futuristic builds, they would be AMAZING for detailwork. Imagine the cyberpunk builds!

It would probably come in all dyeable colors, except maybe black? Given that you can't really give black that light-level ignoring quality the others have. I'd imagine the texture would be fairly flat, too, something along the lines of concrete. I was thinking it could be crafted either by combining a concrete block with a glow sac, or maybe surrounding one dye with 8 glow sacs?

Thanks for reading!

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• January 22, 2021 02:20
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  • January 24, 2021 05:39
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  great idea!

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  • July 06, 2021 06:51
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  I was going to post my own idea for glow squid neon blocks but it seems like you've already beaten me to the punch! Since I'm here though, I might as well put out some of my own thoughts in.

  - Instead of a flat texture like you suggested, my idea would be have tubes going through the blocks that shine a lighter color than the rest of the block thus making them lighter than other color blocks of the same color while essentially looking like a sea lantern but divided. This would subsequently solve the problem of black neon blocks you brought up with the lighter colors. As a bonus, these textures would be placed like logs and basalt, and thus would have both a top and side texture to play with.

  - Perhaps extending on my texture idea you'd be able to craft individual tubes and place them like end rods and chains? Maybe you'd craft 16 of them at a time similar to panes and bars and then you'd be able to craft four of them together into a single neon block? Your suggestion for crafting seems rather hefty on the glow ink cost and I think if a single craft of 16 individual tubes only costed one ink I think that would be pretty reasonable.

  Thank you for listening and I hope you have a good day and night.