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Let's talk about the Bamboo Wood Set!

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Ever dreamed of making a beautiful bamboo build? Now's your chance! We're introducing a full bamboo wood set in update 1.20, complete with everything from stairs, mosaic blocks a unique new look for boats.

Features

  • Added new base blocks for Bamboo Wood types 
  • Added recipes for Bamboo Wood types
  • Added Bamboo Flooring block variants 
  • Added Bamboo Raft and Raft with Chest  

Let us know your feedback, ideas and suggestions for this feature in the comments!

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    We should get two bamboo block variants: Fresh and Dried. We started crafting these bamboo blocks with four green bamboo sticks so we should first get the green variant first. Same with the copper oxidation mechanic, unwaxed bamboo should slowly turn dry and yellow. That is all, thank you for this amazing feature.

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    Green variation of bamboo wood set.

  • 45
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    Maybe stand on rafts, and with one long paddle.

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    If bamboo is going to be a woodset, it might make sense to have breaking bamboo give a chance of dropping a bamboo shoot (to be used kind of like a sapling except it works the same as current bamboo instead of like a tree).

    This could also play into having fresh and dried bamboo wood types like someone else suggested, if you only got the normal fresh bamboo by breaking down the plant with shears or a sword, and got the dried version if you broke it with something else. The shoots and the fresh bamboo could always be planted, but the dry bamboo could only be used to craft sticks and wood.

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    Please add variety of fence gates just like doors/trapdoors, the bamboo fence gate is kinda weird for me, (I'm in a province with many bamboo houses) and can you also please try to make it darker "if it looks better in that way"

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    Crafting 2x2 bamboo is very small for one block. 3x3 is much better. Especially considering that bamboo is quickly and conveniently mined even without automatic farms.

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    I strongly agree that there needs to be a green variant for bamboo building blocks! We don't have any green slabs, stairs, fences etc in Minecraft. It's a missing color option, and unfortunately terracota and concrete can't be cut into these. A green bamboo raft would be nice too.

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    Change bamboo blocks. The top and bottom parts should be with a cut of these stems, but so that we can set the direction of these stems, similar to how we can direct the position of logs.

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    The texture of bamboo feels unpolished and not as good as the other woods. Should definitely have its texture changed, IMO.

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    We should be able to buy bamboo from the wandering trader.

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    A bamboo log or giant bamboo crafted with 9 bamboo can be crafted back to 9 bamboo
    It has two variants normal Green one and a stripped one

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    it might make sense for the bamboo fence and fence gate recipes to use the bamboo item instead of sticks

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    The same bamboo texture on all sides of a block is a bit weird. Two sides should have the cut ends of the bamboo, like you can see on the raft and fences. Making it a direction block would be nice, too, so we can pick which texture to show when building.

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    For educational purposes, do not call Bamboo wood. It's not wood, it's grass.

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    I think slightly desaturating the texture would make bamboo a bit more useable among other colors. Also, green bamboo blocks would be great. Could be fresh and dry bamboo as completely separate blocks, or have a drying process similar to oxidation on copper.

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    Bamboo blocks should have a higher blast resistance than other wood blocks. Perhaps similar to cobblestone. Maybe most projectiles could bounce off of them as well. Tridents and arrows fired from a Piercing Crossbow shouldn't bounce off of them.

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    I think bamboo is too OP. I feel this another witch farm to raid farm. With 1.20 in its current state bamboo will be the easiest crafting wood. It grows super fast and the bamboo farms are super easy. If you just want to crafting a crap ton of chests you would just build a bamboo farm instead of like a dark oak or 2x2 spruce tree farm. I think the recipe for bamboo planks needs to be made more expensive.

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    Can we have a more green version please?

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    Bamboo could be more yellow and slightly brownish.

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    A green variation of the wood set. Maybe you craft the green bamboo planks how regular bamboo planks is crafted right now. To make the yellow bamboo or stripped planks, you would have to strip the green planks just like how you would strip logs.

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    Remove the "traps" function for boats and especially rafts. It's extremely stupid when a smart monster just doesn't get out of the boat.

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    Make the bamboo wood set less yellow and more brown and woody. And the strap of the raft more green like jungle leaves

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    raft crafting recipe should be listed differently to avoid confusion, since it has a different name 

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    Bamboo wood is really cool but the texture is a bit too yellow for my liking, so I'm probably gonna use birch more, but a new wood type is always welcome. I'm not gonna complain about two updates with a new wood type in a row.

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    I'd have to heavily agree with some of the other users, a green version of this bamboo block set would be amazing. It would add more color variation to the current arsenal of wood types (which all are mostly warm tones apart from the warped stem and its block variants). The bamboo set would be a perfect way to include a green variant of the current wood types, another potential way to implement this green variant while also retaining the current yellow variant if desired could be to utilize the stripping wood mechanic applied to the bamboo sticks to get peeled bamboo. Maybe unpeeled natural bamboo could make the green variant and peeled bamboo could make the yellow variant of the bamboo wood type?

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    Bamboo Blocks should be smeltable into charcoal.

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    a smoked bamboo with a mahogany color made from putting bamboo planks into smoker.

     

    idea I got this from:

    https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/9954632009997-Smoked-Bamboo

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    Honestly I believe that the bamboo should have an oxidation phase like Copper because how fresh Bamboo changes color slightly thru drying out. And with this could also add this mechanic to wood too because dead wood also becomes lighter over time from Sunlight

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    Green Bamboo set can be added. Like copper oxidation bamboo can turn dry and yellow. We can use honeycomb to stop the drying process to keep it green.
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    Appeal to Mojang's educational ambitions: Bamboo charcoal is a thing in real life. 

    So is bundling bamboo and then later unbundling.

    Please make the bamboo block recipe reversible and add smelting bamboo blocks to charcoal.