So with the new snapshot, bonemeal was nerfed alot, you now need 2 bonemeal for trees and giant mushrooms and instead of crops going to fully grown, it goes to the next stage. In my opinion, I think it sucks how bonemeal got nerfed. I personally hate it and wish it wasn't nerfed this much. I do like how trees now need 2 saplings now. Then again I don't have a skeleton farm.
I think it was a great idea to nerf bonemeal, though I think they overdid it a little. Hopefully they'll successfully balance it a bit better in the future, as Dinnerbone stated he would try to do on Twitter.
It's ok, but they should scale it to difficulty. IE in easy it works like always, normal it advances crops 2 stages, and hard it advances 1 stage. Personally I kind of find it annoying since it makes bones barely worth fighting for.
While I agree that bonemeal should be nerfed to some degree, I feel that this might have taken it too far. I think that the simplest and most straight-forward thing to do would be to reduce the amount of bonemeal per bone. Instead of three bonemeal per bone, it could be made into either one or two.
I kinda like it as it means larger farms are actually more desirable now.
No more tiny garden plots that could feed an army because you have a chest full of bones.
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The nerf is perfect, I get bones tons of bones and All I do with them is burn them because it takes up too much time breaking and replanting things so repetitively. Now I can use entire stacks in one visit.
I support the change. I've always set up decent sized farms and only ever used bone meal on the few slow growing crops before I harvested. Food is really not that hard to get but this does add a little more balance.
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The nerf is perfect, I get bones tons of bones and All I do with them is burn them because it takes up too much time breaking and replanting things so repetitively. Now I can use entire stacks in one visit.
Not everyone has that many, and of course it's going to only really influence gameplay towards the beginning...
The only problem is its going to be harder to feed yourself in the beginning if animals are scarce.
Just have to get enough string to make a fishing rod instead of focusing on getting bones for your insta-farm. I think fishing is probably one of the most overlooked food sources. (Mostly because farming with bonemeal was so easy.)
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But the bad thing is that it make skeleton almost useless.
its easy to get tons of these, so not any mooore !
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Praise be to Spode.
No more tiny garden plots that could feed an army because you have a chest full of bones.
Praise be to Spode.
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I'd prefer that, easy gives you three bone meal, normal 2, and hard 1.
Not everyone has that many, and of course it's going to only really influence gameplay towards the beginning...