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Farming Update / Overhaul

  • Give more utilities for existing animals, instead of just the items they give. For example, for more utility for horses: add carriages. cows / pigs: add manure that are similar to bone meal. Cows could be used to pull plows. Add troughs for pigs.
  • I feel like there should be a better way to farm animals, instead of putting hundreds of animals in a small enclosure, adding something to incentivize not having too many animals next to each other, or something similar. Maybe placing certain blocks around the animals makes them act differently, like mud blocks around pigs would make them play in the mud. Hay around horses would let them eat said hay.
  • Having animals in enclosures for long enough should change skins and become "domesticated" and they won't despawn, or automatically follow you, etc.
  • Add windmills or irrigation to power certain actions that could be added into something like this.
  • Also more crops that have different purposes than just eating them, like some magical purpose or something similar.
  • Overhaul how we farm crops, instead of putting crops in some automatic redstone design, maybe crops grow better in certain soils, or with certain blocks near them, maybe not being near certain crops, etc. Maybe you can't place crops in the same dirt over and over again like in real life, you have to change what crops you are farming in certain places to refill the nutrients in the crops.

This would be perfect, in my opinion, with a seasons update someone else mentioned in this forum.

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    If anyone else has any other ideas for a possible farming overhaul, feel free to post them here.

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    Expounding on how crops are grown. Carrots and potatoes for example really couldn't care less about how many nutrients are in the soil they grow in. In fact, they like it sandy and sad. So, firstly, you shouldn't be able to bonemeal them, and secondly, with the different soils idea, maybe they grow better in course dirt or something of that sort. We have the blocks to make growing crops more realistic/educational *wink*, just need to make them plowable.

    And also, working how plants reproduce irl into the game a little more would be cool. For example, carrots are diurnal crops, they grow the first year, and then flower. So, while they are harvestable the first year, and you can replant the tops after you eat them to have them grow again (and then I think they flower, even if it's the same year)
    But when you replant them, you only get as many carrots as tops as you replant, so you can't get more carrots that way.

    So, easy solution, made better with a seasons update (perhaps in the same update) is to add another growth stage to plants that reproduce by flowering like carrots. If you want to increase how many carrots (or similar plant) you have, you have to wait the additional time for it to flower, and then you use, say shears, to get seeds, in this case, carrot seeds.

    Of course, with potatoes, you can cut up one potato into wedges and replant it, getting more potatoes, so the current reproduction methods for some plants is perfectly fine

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    I upvote this