Me personally, I don't, when I eat/drink my mushroom soup, I toss the bowl on the floor, and forget about it.
Mushroom soup is practically useless now compared to pretty much any other type of food.
So, if no-one really re-uses their bowls, why doesn't notch just have Mushroom Soup be stack-able, and it deletes the bowl when you drink/eat it?
Any thoughts?
Sorry if this was the wrong selection, only one that made sense to put it in ;P
I reuse my bowls. Normally carry a stack of each mushroom and one bowl with me. I've got mushrooms running out of my ears, so it's pretty much the only thing I eat.
So when you have to eat you get your crafting table out, put it on the ground, craft a soup, destroy the crafting table and then eat the soup? Sounds like a very tedious thing to do every time your food bar drops.
I keep bread with me because it fills less so I don't waste it even if I keep my food always over 80% (for regeneration). Could use melon too or something. And yes, I reuse my bowls but I don't use soup anymore so it doesn't matter really.
For me, I usually just eat pork chops,
I have over 5 chests full of cooked ones from my mob system, so I won't run out anytime soon ;D
So when you have to eat you get your crafting table out, put it on the ground, craft a soup, destroy the crafting table and then eat the soup? Sounds like a very tedious thing to do every time your food bar drops.
Ah, but my food bar very rarely ever drops. I dunno why, walking must not take much energy, so it's not an issue at all. I always set up base and leave it for my return journey. Exploring isn't exploring to me if I don't leave my mark there, heh. I wish we had a flag pole to plant down.
Yes and no. I have a single chest full of mushroom stew in my abode. I reuse the bowls from that to make more stew, but I never take them with me. I have stacks of bread I take with me if I'm going out afar.
I reuse my bowls. Normally carry a stack of each mushroom and one bowl with me. I've got mushrooms running out of my ears, so it's pretty much the only thing I eat.
Mushrooms are still an efficient food source. I'd rather have a large automated shroomery than having to manually feed animals all the time.
I find dealing with the bowls and non-stacking nature of Mushroom Soup too bothersome to ever use it... With the breeding update, my coffers are filled with all kinds of delicious cooked meats, whereas I used to subsist solely on bread.
I do, but I also stack the mushroom stew(and signs, boats, buckets, and carts, and lots of other stuff). There's a mod for that. Stacks of bowls and buckets don't work correctly when they're used, so I drag a single one off the stack to my hotbar.
I usually only make 4 bowls and reuse them the entire game.
pretty much this. Using more than 4 is kind of pointless, because by the point you need more (for say, a long mining trip), you should already have plenty of other food that is more efficient and stackable at that point.
Pretty much useless!?
It heals four hearts and is so replenishable to the point of being ridiculous.
Hardly what I would call useless (although, I admit it's more useful in the Nether).
There is one advantage to mushroom soup over most other foods. The hidden saturation bar. If you don't count Golden Apples, Mushroom soup is the second highest source of saturation (Under cooked beef/pork).
If you want to see just how big a difference it makes, wait till you see your hunger bar drop to 1 less then full then eat a piece of bread. Now run until you see your hunger bar drop again. Do the same thing with mushroom soup or cooked meat and see how much further you can travel before it starts to drop. The difference is massive.
Because of this cooked meat or mushroom soup is a must for me. Even if I am at full health, if I see my hunger bar drop 1/2 a bar I will eat 3 pieces of bread. Because that is how much it takes to top up the saturation bar. It only takes 2 soups or 2 cooked meat to do the same, so you need to consume 30% more food when using bread than you do for soup or cooked meat. As a note, it takes 16 piece of melon to max your saturation bar so melon is terrible unless your in a tight situation and have nothing else.
So when you have to eat you get your crafting table out, put it on the ground, craft a soup, destroy the crafting table and then eat the soup? Sounds like a very tedious thing to do every time your food bar drops.
I think you have it backwards. We already have a bowl of soup ready, we eat it when we need to and at some point in the near future we prep a new bowl. Not usually right then and there, but preferably before we exit regeneration levels just in case or when we need to craft something else anyway.
I keep bread with me because it fills less so I don't waste it even if I keep my food always over 80% (for regeneration). Could use melon too or something. And yes, I reuse my bowls but I don't use soup anymore so it doesn't matter really.
At the start of the game I prefer mushrooms because it takes very little time to get mushroom soup up and running. Also, to actually max out the hidden saturation bar (which you should be doing every time you eat), 3 pieces of bread nets you less saturation than 2 soups. So your spending more time eating to get your hidden bar maxed.
I have only spawned nowhere near a swamp twice so far, but generally my 1st goal is a small house with a mine to bedrock asap. So grabbing a bucket making a portal to the Nether (using the water/lava moulding method if I don't find enough diamond on the way down) to grab a few mushrooms still feels like it takes less time to do then to get a decent wheat farm up and running.
And personally I go straight from mushroom soup to cooked meat. In the past I would do so using an animal grinder, but with the new breading mechanics I will replace the torches and grass with a fenced in farm where I can breed the animals, and still use the fire based grinder so I don't have to manually cook the meat after the slaughter.
For bowls, mushroom stew should be stackable, but the bowl should be put in a free inventory slot upon eating, if theres no free inventory slots, it will drop the bowl.
I do, but I also stack the mushroom stew(and signs, boats, buckets, and carts, and lots of other stuff). There's a mod for that. Stacks of bowls and buckets don't work correctly when they're used, so I drag a single one off the stack to my hotbar.
That is one great mod. It is based on Spout(buckit) and requires that you use the spoutcraft client.
It also lets you automatically sort your inventory and chests.
Pretty convenient for messy "dump everything in it" chests.
If you are using bowls in the first place, there is no reason not to reuse them. mushroom stew is great for at-base eating, since the no-stacking limit does not matter, since you don't need to carry it around. It is bountiful, and is one of the best hunger sources. Cooked pork or steak(but not chicken) is better, but by not eating it at base, you can save more of it for your journeys.
Mushroom soup is practically useless now compared to pretty much any other type of food.
So, if no-one really re-uses their bowls, why doesn't notch just have Mushroom Soup be stack-able, and it deletes the bowl when you drink/eat it?
Any thoughts?
Sorry if this was the wrong selection, only one that made sense to put it in ;P
The laws of physics in minecraft, my boy!
Great for the base, but I take bread with me on journeys.
For me, I usually just eat pork chops,
I have over 5 chests full of cooked ones from my mob system, so I won't run out anytime soon ;D
Ah, but my food bar very rarely ever drops. I dunno why, walking must not take much energy, so it's not an issue at all. I always set up base and leave it for my return journey. Exploring isn't exploring to me if I don't leave my mark there, heh. I wish we had a flag pole to plant down.
Mushrooms are still an efficient food source. I'd rather have a large automated shroomery than having to manually feed animals all the time.
pretty much this. Using more than 4 is kind of pointless, because by the point you need more (for say, a long mining trip), you should already have plenty of other food that is more efficient and stackable at that point.
It heals four hearts and is so replenishable to the point of being ridiculous.
Hardly what I would call useless (although, I admit it's more useful in the Nether).
Learn about the saturation mechanic.
And check how much each food provides.
If you want to see just how big a difference it makes, wait till you see your hunger bar drop to 1 less then full then eat a piece of bread. Now run until you see your hunger bar drop again. Do the same thing with mushroom soup or cooked meat and see how much further you can travel before it starts to drop. The difference is massive.
Because of this cooked meat or mushroom soup is a must for me. Even if I am at full health, if I see my hunger bar drop 1/2 a bar I will eat 3 pieces of bread. Because that is how much it takes to top up the saturation bar. It only takes 2 soups or 2 cooked meat to do the same, so you need to consume 30% more food when using bread than you do for soup or cooked meat. As a note, it takes 16 piece of melon to max your saturation bar so melon is terrible unless your in a tight situation and have nothing else.
I think you have it backwards. We already have a bowl of soup ready, we eat it when we need to and at some point in the near future we prep a new bowl. Not usually right then and there, but preferably before we exit regeneration levels just in case or when we need to craft something else anyway.
At the start of the game I prefer mushrooms because it takes very little time to get mushroom soup up and running. Also, to actually max out the hidden saturation bar (which you should be doing every time you eat), 3 pieces of bread nets you less saturation than 2 soups. So your spending more time eating to get your hidden bar maxed.
I have only spawned nowhere near a swamp twice so far, but generally my 1st goal is a small house with a mine to bedrock asap. So grabbing a bucket making a portal to the Nether (using the water/lava moulding method if I don't find enough diamond on the way down) to grab a few mushrooms still feels like it takes less time to do then to get a decent wheat farm up and running.
And personally I go straight from mushroom soup to cooked meat. In the past I would do so using an animal grinder, but with the new breading mechanics I will replace the torches and grass with a fenced in farm where I can breed the animals, and still use the fire based grinder so I don't have to manually cook the meat after the slaughter.
Think I will be on here often? Haha no.
That is one great mod. It is based on Spout(buckit) and requires that you use the spoutcraft client.
It also lets you automatically sort your inventory and chests.
Pretty convenient for messy "dump everything in it" chests.