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Bark and Gills from stripping logs, wood, stems, hyphae

This idea is to add eight new items to the game, six types of bark and two types of gills.

When the player uses his axe on a log or wood block, it turns into a stripped log or stripped wood block, and drops up to four or up to six "bark" items of the same variety as the log or wood block.  That is, stripping oak logs yields up to four oak bark, stripping oak wood yields up to six bark, stripping jungle logs yields up to four jungle bark, etc.

Similarly, when the player uses his axe to strip crimson or warped hyphae, or crimson or warped stem, crimson or warped gill items drop, up to four from a stem and up to six from a hyphae.

Bark and gill items have a square texture, which looks like one side of their corresponding log or hyphae, before said block was stripped.  The grain runs from the bottom of the item texture to the top.

Bark and gills can be placed in the world, on floors, walls, or ceilings, similarly to glowing lichen.  Multiple bark or gills of the same type can be placed in a single block space, just as multiple glow lichen can be placed in a single block space.

The player can craft two oak bark and one oak log into to one oak wood; the other five wood variants can be crafted similarly.  Also, two crimson gills and one crimson stem can be crafted into one crimson hyphae.  Warped hyphae can be similarly crafted.

Bark or gills can be crafted with stripped logs or stripped wood or stripped stems or stripped hyphae, to produce the un-stripped version.

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    This would add a whole new 3d aspect to building and make it cheaper!

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    Bark should also be able to be used in the construction of boats. While stripping logs this morning, I realized how wasteful it seems that we can’t use the bark for anything. I agree with this post in that it could provide multiple decorative uses, but I think it could just as easily be a method of crafting boats. Likely more bark would be needed than planks to build one boat, but regardless it should be able to be used that way. This is not only practical, but also more realistic; the people living in the Great Lakes region of North America have been stripping logs and using bark to build canoes for centuries. It’s a common practice. It only makes sense for us to be able to in Minecraft.