can we give vines some love please?

[steve g]

its a shame that every time I make a tree farm with jungle trees, all those vines harvested get voided. in unleashed, ultimate, dw20 packs...no use whatsoever for vines.

scaffolds? really? how bout fuel? plantball? mfr bioreactor? vines *are* a plant, right?

vines is actually below rotten flesh in terms of uselessness in these packs...lets give it some purpose without cheating in something with a recipe mod. and enough with the recipes to make vines...thats even more useless than getting stacks of it and voiding it

 

[Hoff]

But my tropical bees already use dem :3

Also inb4 @Pokefenn

 

[EnzymeA113]

I don't get people's obsession with vines. They're like those brown dead bushes you find in deserts: a nearly useless piece of scenery. If there was a use for them, then it would be extremely low tech. Look outside in the real world. Do people base their civilization on a lowly creeping plant? No, because it's useless apart from crappy ropes that break when swung from.

IMO if there should be a use for vines it, should be binding together basic tools in the early game, as there's no logical explanation as to why you can put a stick on a pile of rocks and have it turn into an axe.

 

[Mevansuto]

I don't get people's obsession with vines. They're like those brown dead bushes you find in deserts: a nearly useless piece of scenery. If there was a use for them, then it would be extremely low tech. Look outside in the real world. Do people base their civilization on a lowly creeping plant? No, because it's useless apart from crappy ropes that break when swung from.

IMO if there should be a use for vines it, should be binding together basic tools in the early game, as there's no logical explanation as to why you can put a stick on a pile of rocks and have it turn into an axe.

Too tricky. If you don't find a Jungle or Swamp biome ASAP, you're gonna spend a long time looking for one.

 

[rhn]

there's no logical explanation as to why you can put a stick on a pile of rocks and have it turn into an axe.

Well... There is the bark from the stick. That makes for quite capable string. Or you could split the stick and wedge the stone in between.
And perhaps you need to sift through 3 cubic meters of cobble stones to find the perfectly shaped stone But that would mean that shovel head shaped rocks are 3 times more common then axe shaped ones.. Hmmm

More OT, vines are great for decoration, which is pretty much what we commonly use it for in the modern world too.

 

[SonOfABirch]

Pokefenn would agree with OP

 

[Yusunoha]

its a shame that every time I make a tree farm with jungle trees, all those vines harvested get voided. in unleashed, ultimate, dw20 packs...no use whatsoever for vines.

scaffolds? really? how bout fuel? plantball? mfr bioreactor? vines *are* a plant, right?

vines is actually below rotten flesh in terms of uselessness in these packs...lets give it some purpose without cheating in something with a recipe mod. and enough with the recipes to make vines...thats even more useless than getting stacks of it and voiding it

Minefactory Reloaded has vine scaffolding... just saying...

 

[Celestialphoenix]

Mob grinders.

 

[Pokefenn]

o/
So umm... this topic comes around a lot more than you think.
I was creating a mod specificity to add uses to vines, but that is being phased out.
I'm now creating a magic'y mod called totemic, and lets just say, vines will be VERY useful.
And that is one of my main goals
(Btw, they will have uses from creating chlorophyll, powering totems to allowing you to climb walls with armour!)

Here's a little pic' of what's to come
http://puu.sh/65vAW.jpg

Edit: There is some discussion in #totemic on Esper.net

 

[twisto51]

its a shame that every time I make a tree farm with jungle trees, all those vines harvested get voided. in unleashed, ultimate, dw20 packs...no use whatsoever for vines.

Not true. Turn them into scaffolding, then throw them in a recycler.

If you have rotarycraft you can use vines as the vegetable matter in your ethanol crystal production. MFR would certainly make lots of rotarycraft easier.