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Sniffer Should Dig Up new crop seeds

With the Sniffer being voted into Minecraft, I think it should dig up 2 ancient crop seeds, that have been used for thousands of years here on earth... Corn, and Rice! These are 2 crops that have been around historically for a long-time, so it would be a great education piece in the game... but in terms of gameplay... it would give players a different method of progression to get good food-types in the game! These food types don't necessarily need to have any special characteristics to them... sometimes just having a variety of things to choose from is good enough. Corn and Rice would instantly fit into different styles of builds that people do, becoming instantly insanely popular for landscaping for those that like to build or terraform... and would be 2 new things for players that like the more technical side of Minecraft to figure out how to automatically farm.

If the development team wants to... they could come up with new conditions for these crops... such as rice doing better with extra hydration around... or corn growing faster when it's in larger groups, so it can "cross pollinate", like it does in real-life. Maybe, to make the "cooked" form of both of these, you had to boil them, which would be done in a cauldron, when it sits over top of a fire, camp fire, magma block, or lava! After a short period, it would boil, and a player could pick it out, or you could use a dispenser to get it out (and to place it in, for automation)

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    Not only will this put more food in the game, but it might give the cauldron a good use so that people might make one to use.

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    New foods have to offer something unique, giving players an incentive to use them more.

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    I think this is a great idea. This would also fit into the context of inclusion and representation. As many cultures have entirely different eating and farming habits, as currently represented within the game. 

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    The idea of affecting corn's growth speed has me thinking about the "3 Sisters" crops. What if they also added beans as a crop and growing beans, corn, and pumpkin within a few blocks of each other greatly increased either their growth speed or yield (similar to the fortune enchantment)? Alternatively, maybe just having a pumpkin block nearby the corn crops could have the same effect. This would give players another reason to farm pumpkins.

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    Oh yes and then we could make Sushi using

    Dried Kelp + Rice + (Cod, Salmon, Tropical Fish, or Pufferfish)

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    Love it, will totally fit in with the theme of representation of the update

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    Fine concept but honestly would rather have something more interesting as the sniffer crop. Since it is a make believe creature it should not give real plants.

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    Love this idea, and the Corn and Rice could add a bunch of new opportunities for players!