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Tap birch trees to collect birch sap

Måste man dricka märg i benen
You must drink marrow into your bones

That is an old saying from Sweden, to stay strong and healthy after a long winter. In the spring, people went to the woods to tap birch trees to do just that, collect birch sap to drink. It looks like water, its clear but it taste sweet and contains the nutrients the tree stored during the winter.

Drinking birch sap wasn't unique to Sweden though, its a traditional beverage in other parts of northern Europe, Asia, and North America as well. Since Minecraft is from Sweden, I thought it'd be nice to add birch sap harvesting, like when they added their tradition of berry picking with the taiga update.

The Spile

To tap a birch tree, craft a spile at a crafting table with an iron ingot and nugget. You can place the spile on the side of a birch log and birch sap will start dripping from it. If you place a cauldron under the spile, it will eventually fill up, as it would if you placed a cauldron under dripstone. If you place a spile on all 4 sides, sap will only come out of one side.

The spile itself can have unrelated uses, such as dripping water or lava, or simply as decoration like a leaky faucet.

The Birch Sap

Once you have birch sap in a cauldron, you can use a glass bottle to collect a Bottle of Birch Sap. Drinking it restores 6 hunger like honey.

Since honey already clears Poison, birch sap clears Slowness because it is inflected by Strays and the idea is you drink birch sap to ward off the effects of the frost.

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    I have a second idea on how the birch sap could be collected, you put a bamboo stick in the birch tree (not place it there sideways, like in there a little smaller and tilted a little lower) and then attach a bottle under it with string,

    so you use it like, put the bamboo stick, put the string and then put the bottle, and wait it to collect there.