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Wow, just wow. I sincerely hope this is a mistake. I thought when you wrote, "they look like they were [all] done in paint in 15 minutes" that this comment was an exaggeration but after looking at the pictures that appears to be an accurate statement. It's like they decided to replace the actual sprites with rough concepts. Who in their right mind would think those in 33a look better? Blind people? The difference in the detail is quite surprising. Plus there is the doors themselves being downgraded to 2D. Why? This is a 3D game, they have put work into making other objects look 3D (ex. glass panes given 2 pixel thickness). A set of 2D doors just doesn't fit, when people asked for consistency it was to give the old doors an upgrade not give the new doors a downgrade. There is still hope as 1.8 has not been released so I hope they decide to change this before then.

Quote from flaminghawk83

This is the most detailed and convincing post about crafting packed ice that I've seen. Yet, no support. At least no yet. For one, why haven't they made it craftable yet? There's a reason. I'm not claiming to know it, but there probably is. It just seems like something that shouldn't be craftable.

Now, if I was to support it, I would give some advice. If you change this, I may support. I think it should be 3x3. See, packed ice is rare. It is supposed to be. It should be cool to have. So, I think that you should at least make it hard to make.

So, for now, no support.

I had thought about making it 3x3 when I first created the topic but I used the 2x2 recipe for several reasons:

-Consistency: 3x3 blocks are in all other cases reversible storage blocks for ores and now slime blocks. To keep it consistent this recipe would have to be reversible and for this case that would be weird. How would one unpack compressed ice?

Also other building block recipes go from 4 to one: sand to sandstone, nether quartz to quartz blocks, glow stone dust to glowstone, and so on. These recipes are not reversible or in the case of glow stone do not yield all the resources that went into them. I used these examples when imagining the recipe, it seemed like it belonged to this category, not the 3x3.

-Costs: The recipe is made expensive not by the number of ice blocks used but the fact that it and it's product require silk touch to move around. If it were 3x3 it would require 9 uses of the silk touch pick to produce one block. If this recipe is not reversible it becomes one of the most expensive building blocks in the game. (uses off your pick to make one building block? People would not bother to craft them for that cost unless they had no choice, instead finding the ice spikes biome and making this whole idea pointless. 4 blocks is consistent and expensive enough.

Quote from joonatan1998

I think packed ice should remain limited and rare, they already made most other rare building blocks easily craftable.

no support

To what end? This is just a simple building block and why should building blocks be rare? Mojang seems to have reevaluated this and decided that it is pointless to make building blocks that rare because then few people will use them in survival. Look at the chiseled stone blocks, chunk per chunk they were more rare than diamond ore. It is quite pointless for a building block to be that rare. By the time you collected enough to build anything decent with it you already have a well built base and a base theme chosen, so you would probably just keep it in a chest. It is the same for packed ice, why not make it craftable so people who want to build an arctic themed base can? Other wise they must wait till they find the right biome and a silk touch tool to begin harvesting and building. Rarity just because you can make it rare is not a reason to make something rare and it appears mojang realizes that now. This block is just decorative and in no way affects progression or gives advantages/disadvantages to players. It still requires silk touch, that makes it rare enough.

Quote from Benjamin5349

Full support. But an option to preserve it's rarity while still allowing you to preserve Ice Spikes, could be to perhaps make it so any ice that forms in an Ice Spikes biome becomes packed ice instead?

I like this idea but it raises the following issue:

Say you are playing on a realm server with a relatively small world border and the world settings are for large biomes. You stand a good chance of ending up in a world that does not have this biome in it at all since the world border limits the map size. Rarity shouldn't mean that it is impossible to obtain on small servers. Being able to craft it means you just need a cold biome and silk touch, plenty rare and it means this block will be obtainable on such small servers.

As stated in the title of this suggestion this topic is about making it possible to craft the packed Ice block in survival. My reasoning is as follows:

-Allows you to produce these blocks without damaging the biome. If you have settled in the Ice spikes biome it is for the look of the ice spikes, the last thing you want to do is tear down what attracted you there in the first place. Plus if you want to expand the structures in this biome/use them in your base design you either have to damage so of the spikes or find another of these biomes.

-Players in worlds generated before 1.7 need to travel great distances to find them, sometimes even in worlds above 1.7 as it can take a really long time to locate one.

-Consistency: Most building blocks can be crafted by one method or another: Clay blocks, sandstone variants, stone variants, the new ocean monument components, ect. Why should this be an exception? I don't see balance being horribly skewed if players can craft this building block.

Crafting Recipe:

Ice blocks arranged by 2x2 in the inventory or crafting table yields 1 packed ice block.

In real life I know packed ice is formed by the accumulation of snow over time, thus adding on to glaciers. This is minecraft though and it would be inconsistent to make it out of snow which can be made without silk touch when packed and regular ice require silk touch to be harvested.

To summarize: This suggestion adds a crafting recipe that uses ice to make packed ice. Nothing more, no new items or blocks.

Just thought of something, why not have glowing shelf fungi? They would be smaller than the ones you can use as platforms and be found on the sides of wooden blocks. I remember when 1.7 was in development, there was speculation about glowing mushrooms in roofed forest biomes but I was sadly disappointed when no such thing was added.

I really like this suggestion, I think both the glowstool and shelf fungi are my favorites. I think it would be interesting if you could combine glowstool with a water bottle and glowstone dust in a shapeless recipe to make glowstool essence. This is an item you use to craft a glowstool lamp which would basically be a fancier looking torch, having all the torch properties but as stated looks much better. Perhaps an iron ingot over the glowstool essence with another iron ingot underneath yields one glowstool lamp. It would be the colour of the original glowstool. It would be nice to have for one's base while cheap torches will be used to light up caves. Just a thought. Anyways Full support.

Edit: Is the reddit thread up for this suggestion yet?

I have one, in the newest world I built (built on 1.7 release) I have it connecting my main base to a stronghold. It also goes to the nearest nether fortress. The inside has a floor made of half slabs and iron doors lead to the outer nether. This keeps annoying mobs out of the way.

Poisonous potatoes. Honestly, no crafting recipe or use of any kind and is a garbage food item. Can't be fed to mobs, used for potions, absolutely nil. Toss them into lava, cacti, or the void.

I thought that the bread would allow you to make sandwiches for some reason so I spent a good few minutes trying to figure out the crafting recipe before I went online and eventually realized none existed in vanilla minecraft. Oh the newbie days.

After I read all your reasons in the past few pages for the balancing I have to say I am impressed. I quite like this suggestion as is in the OP, it feels like it fits the game and new structure well: Support.

If there is a block above sugarcane it won't grow into it. This is not a new concept, they were talking about implementing a spike block that worked like a piston, with the spikes being retracted into a block and extended by a redstone signal. Honestly the spike block you are describing sounds a little over powered. If it breaks any blocks I would figure it would be those subjected to gravity like sand and gravel, the way torches can break them but I see no reason for them to do that either. If implemented they should only affect mobs, maybe kill them faster than being crushed by a piston. Such a design I could support, but yours is too powerful. If mojang figured the design they had was too overpowered I don't see this one being implemented.

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Table of Contents:

Overview
Changes in how things work
Frequently Asked Questions
[WIP] The Cubic Chunks Mod!
Gallery
Supporting this suggestion
Special thanks

[spoiler=Tl:dr]Q: Won't this increase lag?
A: Absolutely not. The title of this suggestion and big red letters at the top of this post aren't lying. If you want to know how, then I suggest you actually read this post.

Q: Will this change terrain? Will this break existing worlds?
A: No. Terrain change is not necessary. Existing worlds can be converted fairly easily with a process described later in this post.

Q: How can sunlight or rain work with infinite vertical space?
A: I suggest you read Coping with sunlight, because it's too complex for a tl;dr.

Q: I have a different question but still don't feel like reading this post. What do I do?
A: Too bad, read the FAQ. I put way too much work into this for the entirety of it to be ignored.[/spoiler]

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Overview:

In Minecraft, the sky is the limit - literally. It doesn't matter how many thousands of blocks a player has traveled, or what dimension they're in, or even if they're playing in creative or survival, the highest they can ever build is up to a height of 256. Why is that? If Minecraft can have a world that's infinite in the north, in the south, in the east, and in the west, why can't that world be infinite up and down too?

In Minecraft's earliest days, in Classic and Indev, the world was not infinite in any direction. This was because the entire world needed to be generated at the same time, and the entire world needed to be simulated at the same time as well. This led to a conundrum - the bigger the world, the more it lagged.
Notch didn't like this. He knew his players liked to explore and build large creations, so he found a way to make the world truly infinite. When the Minecraft '' class='bbc'>Infdev came out, it brought with it truly infinite worlds. Suddenly, players could travel hundreds of thousands of blocks in any direction, and never encounter a barrier, or become too laggy.
The Infdev update brought about a very large change to Minecraft worlds to accomplish this feat. For the first time, instead every world being just a single huge piece, they were broken up into a two-dimensional grid of pieces, called chunks. Through breaking the world up into pieces, this 'chunk system' enabled infinite worlds by letting Minecraft create new pieces and simulate them only when it needs to.

Why does that not apply to the vertical axis? Because the type of 'chunk system' Minecraft uses right now is a linear one, which, by using only a two-dimensional grid to map out chunks, means that it is impossible for chunks to stack on top of one another, and by extension, meaning that a single chunk must cover the entire vertical space. This brings back the problem that the Infdev update was supposed to eradicate, now only with chunks, instead of an entire world; the bigger a chunk is, the more laggy it is. You can't just increase the height limit and make chunks taller, because it will become laggier, and laggier, and laggier to do it.
That's why, to fix this, Minecraft must change over to a cubic chunk system. Under this system, 16³ block chunks are aligned on a three-dimensional grid, completely eliminating maximum height as an aspect of lag.

The immediate benefits:
•Minecraft worlds become as virtually infinite vertically as they are horizontally: The absolute limit being Y = ±30,000,000.
•A large FPS increase: Alpha testers report an FPS increase of 100~200%.
•Increase in running capability: Computers running Minecraft on Tiny render distance will handle only 30% the blocks they do now.

The possible features:
•Spherical render/load distance: Reduce handled blocks by up to 30% by cutting corners made of unneeded chunks.
•Server chunk occlusion/exclusion: Reduce bandwidth usage and defeat hackers by only sending data for visible chunks.
•Three-dimensional biomes: Save biome data per chunk rather than per block column, create volcanoes with magma chambers, underground rivers, tropical skylands floating over icy taigas, and more.

The disadvantages:
•Unloaded gravity-pause: Falling non-player entities and fluids will be forced to pause their fall if they reach unloaded chunks, but will resume falling when those chunks are loaded.
•Slow falling-pause: Players with slower computers and smaller render distances will have falling occasionally paused as they fall into unloaded chunks, until new chunks can be loaded.

The problems:
•Current sunlight and rain calculation methods cannot work with infinite vertical space: The solution to this is described here.
•Current BiomeDecorator cannot work with multiple vertical chunks simultaneously: The BiomeDecorator code must be altered to function correctly with this, or removed.
•Current cave generation method is executed an extra time for each vertical chunk created simultaneously, leading to lag spikes on world generation: Cave generation's method must be altered to suit this system more.
•Current grass/dirt generation algorithm forces additional chunk requests when chunks are loaded, causing chunks to load slower than they should: This algorithm must be replaced with something else.

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Changes in how things work:

Obviously, the implementation of this new chunk system will change quite a few things. These changes are mostly either necessary or in the interest of increased efficiency. Such changes are categorized and explained below.

How worlds will be stored:
[spoiler]How the current storage works, and what changes:
Interestingly enough, the current method of storage, the Anvil format, is derived from the storage method that the original Cubic Chunks mod used. The Anvil format stores individual chunk as a series of 16³ quasi-cubic chunks. These 'fake' cubic chunks allow for easier reference of specific data, but they still can't be separated from each other, meaning that it fails to reap the full benefits of this system. Even so, the change allowed Mojang to double the maximum height with no performance hit. Chunks are stored in groups of 32², inside 'MCRegion' files, for a total of 1024 chunks.
By nature, cubic chunks does away with the 'quasi-cubic' nonsense. In terms of chunk grouping, instead of using groups of 32³ chunks, new "3DRegion" files would contain groups of 16³. This means each 3DRegion file contains 4096 chunks, four times as many as MCRegion files. However, each 3DRegion contains only one fourth the amount of blocks. For per-chunk positional metadata, 3DRegion files would use the same number of bits as MCRegion files, after compression. Calculations show that the same area encompassed by a single MCRegion file would consume 64 kilobytes of extra space with 4 3DRegion files, which is nothing.

Converting existing worlds:
Most people are probably wondering something like "But won't this totally destroy all existing worlds?". Absolutely not; conversion could not be simpler. When a non-cubic world is loaded after the implementation of this system, a conversion process will begin and convert the entire world at once(To avoid making chunk loading take longer during play). First, all existing MCRegion files will be divided into quarters to create 3DRegion files. Then, all existing chunks are divided into sixteenths using the quasi-cubic properties to identify boundaries. After that, conversion is done.

The "isEmpty" flag optimization:
A 1-bit flag is added to each chunk, named "isEmpty". If the chunk consists of 100% air blocks, this bit is 1, any other case makes it 0. When the bit is 1, all data for the chunk besides the isEmpty flag is deleted and ignored, which reduces filesize. Empty chunks are never loaded, and locations where they occur are merely simulated as entities reside in them. The chunk will only load when something requires saving inside it.[/spoiler]

Changes to terrain, ores, etcetera:
[spoiler]Terrain:
By default, nothing will change. Small bits of terrain generation code need to be reconfigured to work properly with Cubic Chunks.

Biomes:
By default, nothing will change.

Ore generation:
By default, nothing will change.

Structures:
By default, nothing will change.

The Void:
After conversion to Cubic Chunks, the void and bedrock layer will still exist and generate as they always have. However, the void(Not the bedrock layer!) will not exist as a hard limit and is able to be moved, but not removed, by editing an associated NBT data tag inside a world's level.dat. This feature, that allows for increasing the maximum depth, is intentionally disabled without external programs, to prevent terrain change of any sort. It is intended to be used by experienced mapmakers and world generation mods only.

Superflat settings:
Existing superflat worlds will not change. However, new superflat worlds will gain a new decoration parameter, 'void'. Inclusion of this parameter will cause the void to form below the lowest defined layer. Exclusion of it will cause all layers below the lowest defined layer to copy the settings of that layer.[/spoiler]

Coping with sunlight:
[spoiler]There used to be a solution here, but it wasn't deemed good enough by Jeb. Suggest solutions in this thread.[/spoiler]

Changes to servers:
[spoiler]Settings:
There's a setting inside the Server.properties file called 'max-build-height'. The setting makes it impossible for any player to place or remove blocks above that height.
With the implementation of Cubic Chunks, a new setting named "maximum-generation-depth" would be added. The void, bedrock layers, and magma layers will generate normally at and above the Y level designated by the value of this setting.

Chunk occlusion/exclusion:
Using the raytracing methods already available in the code and used for explosion calculations, servers can identify which chunks are visible to a player, within safe assumptions, and only send the data for those chunks. This both reduces bandwidth usage, and cripples the usefulness of X-Ray cheats.[/spoiler]

Render/Load distance alterations:
[spoiler]After the implementation of Cubic Chunks, view distances' radii will apply to the vertical axis too. This reduces handled blocks in the cases of tiny and short render distances, and increases them in the cases of normal and far render distances. This can be optimized by utilizing a spherical render distance instead of a cubic one, which would reduce handled blocks in all distances except Far.[/spoiler]

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Frequently Asked Questions:

[spoiler=FAQ]Q: This is impossible.
A: No it's not. See below.

Q: Is this available as a mod?
A: Not yet! But it will be!

Q: I like X-ray! What if I don't want it to be broken?
A: First of all, breaking X-ray hacks will only be possible to do in multiplayer. That said, the system that would break X-ray would be possible to disable by the server owner. If the owner doesn't disable the system, then they don't want you using X-ray, and you should not be doing what the server owner doesn't want in the first place.

Q: I play on a PvP/Anarchy/Raid/Faction server. Won't this system let people pillar up into the sky and create a base thousands of blocks in the air and never be found?
A: No.

Q: I like Minecraft's current height limits. What if I don't want to have an infinite sky or infinite underground?
A: If this system is added, all worlds will not automatically gain an infinite underground. As stated below, the Void will remain in all worlds, even after the conversion to Cubic Chunks. The ability to remove the Void will simply be there. As for infinite space in the sky, the current build limit is over one hundred blocks above any terrain that vanilla Minecraft can possibly generate. It is ENTIRELY your decision on whether or not you take advantage of this height. If you play on a server, like stated above, the server owner can set a maximum build height. If s/he doesn't, then don't play on their server - you don't play on servers where the server owners allow things you don't like. Why would you play on an anarchy server if you hate being stolen from and killed?

Q: Will this affect Redstone at all?
A: No. This system will simply make it possible to make larger redstone circuitry than before.

Q: Won't this break existing worlds?
A: No. Existing worlds can be easily converted by dividing each MCRegion file into 4 pieces, then slicing the existing 256 block-high chunks inside them into 16 individual chunks.

Q: Won't this affect mods? Won't mod authors have a hard time updating their mods?
A: The answer to this question depends solely on the answer to the following two questions: Do parts of the modification code rely on chunk data/metadata? Does the mod author want to take advantage of the features of the new chunk system? If the answers to the first and second question are both "No", then updating a mod to this system should be very easy and quick. If the answer to the first question is "Yes", then those parts of the code will need to be rewritten somewhat, but in most cases, the changes should be fairly quick and easy. The only time that it should be hard to update a mod to this system, is if the answer to the second question is "Yes".

Q: Won't this require a total rewrite of the mod API if that's released first?
A: No. Whether or not even a small part of the mod API needs to be rewritten depends on the way that it is implemented and whether or not there are API inclusions for chunk handling and other chunk-related behavior.

Q: Could a player fall into unloaded chunks if chunks aren't loaded fast enough?
A: No, they could not, and for several reasons. Minecraft has a terminal velocity, though it might not seem like it. This velocity is slower than it should take to load new chunks below the player. In cases with exceptionally slow computers, even if the player did manage to reach an unloaded chunk, their fall would be paused until that chunk can be loaded.

Q: What would happen when water, sand, or a mob falls into an unloaded chunk?
A: Nothing. The water/sand/mob would freeze in place until the chunk is loaded and it can continue moving. You can already see this same thing happening on the horizontal axis.

Q: What will happen to the Void?
A: It will still exist, along with all its effects. The only difference is that the Void is no longer a hard limit and it can be moved. After the conversion to Cubic Chunks, the Void's location will be stored in a world's ' class='bbc'>level.dat, and this location can be changed with NBT editing tools. When and where the Void exists, chunks will cease to generate.

Q: Will this affect terrain?
A: No. However, terrain generators will gain the ability to use infinite height.

Q: Will this affect ore generation?
A: No. Ore is a part of terrain generation. As stated above, terrain will not be changed.

Q: Won't all current terrain generators be incompatible with this system and need to be rewritten?
A: No. Terrain generators work independently of chunks. When a chunk is generated for the first time, it calls the terrain generator and receives a specific section of the resultant terrain to save inside itself. Because of this, some custom terrain generators can generate steep terrain all the way to Y256, where you can experience a large, flat cut-off. Since there are no chunks above Y256 to call the terrain generator for terrain, no terrain exists there.

Q: What would happen if there's a huge solid ceiling so far above you that it is unloaded? Wouldn't you just see the sky, just with everything being completely dark?
A: Yes. This already happens on the horizontal axis, and it is an issue with sky rendering, not this chunk system. As such, this has nothing to do with this suggestion. Please do not post about this.

Q: If you go deep underground, will your plants grow/ores smelt/animals grow?
A: No, because those chunks would be unloaded, just as if you had walked far away. This is a flaw with any chunk system, regardless of shape. It is a necessary evil that allows Minecraft to have infinite worlds. The only way to fix this would be to introduce a separate new system that works with chunks as they are loaded and unloaded. This suggestion deals with the chunk system itself, and not sister processes. Because of that, that is outside of the scope of this suggestion. Please do not post about this.[/spoiler]

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[WIP] The Cubic Chunks Mod! (Tall Worlds Mod):

Cuchaz has taken it upon himself to bring us the glorious Cubic Chunks, since Mojang refuses to do so.

Cuchaz is using a API of his own creation to help assist in the making of this mod, and he's quite far along, as seen in these two tech demo videos:
[spoiler=T-Demo 1: Vertical chunk loading][/spoiler]
[spoiler=T-Demo 2: Broken height cap and no lag!][/spoiler]
With the basic functionality in place - a complete overhaul of the basic chunk system, and height limit removed - this whole concept can already be considered proven. What remains is making sure everything else functions correctly under the new chunk system. In any case, stay tuned for future updates if it interests you(If it doesn't, then you are the weakest link - goodbye!).

You can follow the mod's development in much more depth in its very own topic!

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Gallery:

[spoiler=A mountainside with an experimental engine using Cubic Chunks designed by Nocte. 960 block view radius, and 30 FPS.][/spoiler]
[spoiler=A different view of the mountainside with the same engine by Nocte. This time, with 1600 block view radius and 15 FPS.][/spoiler]
[spoiler="A video demonstrating Nocte's engine."]

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Note: Many calculations and information can be found among the many posts of this topic. There are too many for me to cite here, but if you wish, you can search for them yourself.

I can't believe this needs to be said, but please remember to back of you levels.

Here are the milestones I use to justify a new backup:

1. Long play session, lots of changes and/or exploration
2. It has been more than a few days since the last backup
3. You found something special and don't want to lose it
4. You are getting ready to use a new version of Minecraft
5. You are getting ready to try a snapshot version

Quick manual backup a Minecraft level in Windows 7 or 8:

1. Launch Minecraft using the profile that has the world you want to back up
2. Click Options
3. Click Resource Packs...
4. Click Open resource pack folder
5. Go up one folder and then down into the saves folder
6. Right-click on the world you want to save
7. Select Send to -> Compressed (zipped) folder
8. Add the date to the folder name:
Sortable Example: World_2014-06-27.zip

To restore a Minecraft level in Windows 7 or 8:

1. Launch Minecraft using the profile that has the world you want to back up
2. Click Options
3. Click Resource Packs...
4. Click Open resource pack folder
5. Go up one folder and then down into the saves folder
6. Rename or delete the existing world folder
7. Right-click on the back up you want to restore and select Extract all...
8. Remove the world name from extraction path so it just lists your saves folder
This is necessary because the zip file contains the world folder itself, not just the files.

9. Click the Extract button

On top of all this, I also move the Zip files to a folder that is synced with Dropbox.

Is anyone willing provide similar steps for OS X and Linux?

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Mushrooms are becoming useless. Here's why:

• they are fairly hard to find
• mushroom stew is unstackable and gives less hunger points and saturation than beef or pork
• they are easily replaced for decoration by the large variety of flowers in the 1.7 update.

This is my suggestion on how mushrooms can get back in the game.

Various Improvements

• Mushroom soup will now be made with two of any edible mushrooms (this includes two of the same type). The hunger stats for the two mushrooms will combine and the soup created will replenish hunger according to those stats.


• Mushrooms will be shown off center to the block they're on, same as tall grass.
• Feeding a pig any mushroom will cause it to search for more mushrooms of that type for 30 seconds.

Better Farming and Growing

Huge Mushrooms - WIP
Only some mushrooms can become huge mushrooms through bonemeal. For now this will include: brown mushrooms, red mushroom, glowstools and bell caps although there will be more to come. Huge mushrooms will have the same drop rate as current, with each one dropping about 2-25 mushrooms of its kind.

New types of Mushrooms
*Take note that one hunger point means half of one of the hunger bar’s chops.
* Currently minor updating all mushrooms. Ones not updated have been marked.


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Brown Mushroom
This old time classic is the perfect find for a hungry first-timer. Each brown mushroom will restore 2 hunger points when made into stew.

Red Mushroom
These old time favourites top your favourite brown mushroom when it comes to eating by giving 4 hunger points. However, there’s a catch. There's a 40% chance of you becoming nauseous after eating one.


Shelf Fungus
A clear sign that are you deep within the clutches of the foreboding roofed forest is the appearance of a strange mushroom that grows on trees. The shelf fungus is however a welcome sight among many travellers. Not only can it be used as a platform to have a breath of fresh air, but smelting it will also produce a tough leather. There are reports of this mushroom also appearing in oak forests, taigas and jungles, but only rarely.

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Death Cap
Oh look, a delicious brown mushroom. Wrong! That’s no mushroom, that’s a death cap. Even pulling this deceiving but rare mushroom out of the ground will cause paralysis (slowness VI) and poison III. But don’t worry! An experienced mushroom gatherer can easily identify the death cap by its white stem and faint spots on the cap.


Orange Fungus
This easily spotted fungus can be found growing on many trees in the forest. Don't touch it though as it contains toxins that will slow down both your walking and breaking speed. Take it back home however, and you can brew it to create mining fatigue potions. It has also been recently discovered that adding a fermented spider eye to this concoction will create a potion that will hasten your mining speed!


Bell Cap
The bell cap is a very special mushroom found only in cold biomes. Many travellers have noticed an unusual sound like a faint bell ringing when nearing this mushroom, although this has been dismissed as pure hallucination by most town folk. It is quite possible though as placing the bell cap next to a noteblock will change the note sound to that of a bell.



Truffles
The truffle is well known across the lands for its extravagant taste. It is also infamous for its rarity. Each truffle will fill up 16 hunger points when added to a stew; however its saturation value is only 1.2 due to its small size. It is wise to save these delicacies though, as villagers are willing to pay quite a high price for them.


Glowstool
Glowstools can occasionally be found underground as natural light sources. These mushrooms are simply there to create ambience and can also be used for a wide range of decorations. Sometimes large forms of this mushroom can also be found.


Conical Mushroom
These small mushrooms can occasionally be found in clusters above and below ground. They are often nicknamed as ‘miner’s morsels’ since many a time has a miner been saved from starvation by these fungi. Each mushroom cluster will fill up 5 hunger points in a mushroom soup with a saturation value of 2.4.


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Chanterelle
One of the most sought after mushrooms due to its rich fruity taste as well as brilliant colour. Don’t waste this beauty straight away though. By cooking the chanterelle, it will go from restoring 3 hunger points to restoring 6. There are also rumors that if you combine this mushroom with gold, it will create a golden chanterelle, although the uses of this prize are yet to be confirmed.


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Sporebomb
More reason to watch your step in the nether! These toxic sporebombs will belch out a cloud of its foul spores right into your face if you happen to step on it. Not only does this cloud your vision for a short while, but it will also spawn fire around it and set you alight! However, take a silk touch pick to it and its yours, although I don't know what you'd want to do with it...



If anyone would like to suggest different types of mushrooms or uses for them, please feel free to as it gives me new ideas and inspiration for this suggestion.

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