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Rotten Wood (Structures)

Rotten Structures can generate on mountain tops aswell in caves.

Those structures are left alone a very long time by humans. It's been so long that the wood has been rotten.

The structures can vary a lot;

• An old broken abandoned bridge crossing a cave river. (caves)
• Old abandoned miner cabins. (caves)
• Old abandoned hunter cabins. (mountain tops)
• Mineshaft variant instead of normal wood, it's replaced with rotten wood. (caves)

Properties of the Rotten Wood;

• The wood has a 50% chance to break by hand, 35% by axe and 0% with silk touch.
• It has a chance of breaking when walking or standing on it if there's not a solid block below it.
• If you fall on it from 5 or more blocks it will break.
• When placing down the block it has a 20% chance of breaking.

Obtained how;

• Rotten Wood can only be obtained through abandoned structures.

Crafting;
Just like regular wood, you can craft almost everything wood related with it.

What new you can craft;

• Rotten Wood Stair
• Rotten Wood Slab
• etc...

What new you can craft, but has a 0.5% change to break when; (Pressing, standing or opening it)

• Rotten Wooden Button (pressing)
• Rotten Wooden Pressure Plate (standing)
• Rotten Wooden Trapdoor (opening, standing)
• Rotten Wood Door (opening)
• Rotten Wood Fence (opening)
• Rotten Shield (Maybe? Has 5% break chance on hit.)

What you can't craft;

• Sticks
• Wooden tools

Potentially you could use honeycombs to make the rotten wood not break anymore when placing, mining, falling or standing on it. Cannot be used on shields.

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• February 18, 2021 22:47
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  • January 27, 2021 02:19
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  That could be really fun for parkour. And that honeycomb idea would really give more of a use for the item. It'd also be hilarious to imagine someone crafting a shield made of rotted wood, let alone tools. I give this my vote. :)

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  • January 29, 2021 16:16
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  I like this idea quite a bit, but I have 2 suggestions:

  1) Change the title to "Add new Rotting Wood Block" or something similar. I feel like this would attract more people to this article.

  2) Rotting wood should not have a chance to break upon placing it, as that will frustrate people who collect it to use for traps and are unable to get enough material to finish it.

  3) When talking about the Rotten Wood's properties, say that it has an "x% chance to not drop as an item" instead of an "x% chance to break". It's confusing in its current form since you're already breaking the block.

  I wish you the best of luck in getting this noticed!