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NoElement

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The official Minecraft forum? Reddit? In this Subforum? Or in the Mod Discussion Subforum? Or all of them?

Basically i have an idea for @Vazkii and Botania, but i dunno where to put it. I tried to put it in the official minecraft forums 2 days ago, but i get the feeling no one looks at that besides for downloading the mod... I'll put the idea (aka the original post, though i removed some additional empty space) in the Spoilers below.

@Vazkii I have an Idea for you. I don't know if it was already added in the newer versions (Mostly playing regrowth atm) or if someone else gave that idea to you or you are already working on it.

Basically, it is about the generating flowers and how to make them more interesting.

As it stands, you try to make new and interesting ways to generate mana. However, most practical individuals simply use the endoflame a dozen times over with an timed dropper and call it a day.

Which made me think on how a practical player like me would actually make more then one generating flower. Making other flowers better in mana generation would simply make me get that flower instead, and you probably know that. But, what if there was an benefit in using multiple generating flowers?

I call my idea Yggdrasil's heart. Just imagine an manaspreader that only has an range of 1 (aka, you need an normal manaspreader (or multiple) nearby to transfer the mana). This "heart" gives an bonus the more different flowers it is connected to.

Of course, the question is: How great is that bonus? Personally, among all the flowers that the "heart" is connected to, the most complex get's the largest bonus (say 15%, numbers may be balanced later) and every subsequent, less complex flower gets less and less. Obviously, that bonus is only for something like an narslimmus. If the most complex flower is an endoflame, the bonus would be only 5% or so.

Sadly, it can be abused. Just make multiple hearts with different sets of flowers. My solution to that however is that multiple existing hearts interfer with each other, like the dayblooms of old.

Taking the idea to it's final step, why not make an full-blown Yggdrasil?! Let the player connect the heart to some special logs, then make the player make an giant tree (aka yggdrasil). The logs need to be connected to the heart, but the greater the area they stretch (x+y+z), the more efficent the heart becomes.

I hope this is good enough as an idea, Vazkii! And thanks for reading.
 
Ha! I was wondering if there was an thread, but when i did put in "botania" in the search bar yesterday, the first page didn't say anything about the botania thread, it only showed me some misc threads.