Floral (Official Mod Topic)

flower golem, flower elemental, flower god and bloom?

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new flowers: anthurium, bleeding heart, hibiscus, moonflower (gives positive buffs when collided with at night)

new drinks: hibiscus tea

new mobs: bloomwalker (neutral), thorny golem (neutral), living flower (hostile and shoots flower petals at targets)

new weapons: thorn wand (shoots magical rose thorns), thorn staff (a better version of the thorn wand), calyx (a bow that shoots sepal arrows)

(i have to sleep, i'll come back tomorrow)

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new weapons pt. 2:

• floral tome - a spell tome (magic weapon) that fires magical and deadly flower petals (4 damage) on right-click. crafted from a book and 4 flowers (feel free to change the recipe)
• using thorn wand consumes 1 floral mana
• using thorn staff consumes 2 floral mana
• using floral tome consumes 4 floral mana

new item tags:

• flowers - includes all the flowers in the form of items, and can be utilized for crafting recipes

new items:

• knife - used for crafting recipes, such as removing thorns from a rose
• flower petals - includes all flower variants if possible, e.g. dandelion, poppy, rose, the new flowers you're adding,... 
• sepal - a crafting material (for crafting the sepal arrows i mentioned in my prev. comment, maybe?)
• stem - hmm idk, it's up to u now to decide what stems will be used for
• thorn - can be acquired from roses in crafting by combining a rose item w/ a knife
• floral dust - crafted by powderizing items that are tagged in "flowers" in a flower powderizer
• floral mana capsule - consumable items that are crafted by combining a glass bottle, any flower, and 3 floral dusts. right-click to permanently increase the player's floral mana capacity by 10

new blocks:

• flower powderizer - a crafting station that turns flower items into floral dust. every flower yields 1-3 floral dusts
• flower dissector - another crafting station that extracts the respective petals, sepals, stems, and other parts of flowers

new mechanics:

• floral mana - a player-persistent-variable-powered mana system that is used up by floral magic weapons in order to function. initial value is 0 (increased by consuming floral mana), maximum capacity/value is 200
• standing near sunflowers grants the player a Swiftness effect (happens only at daytime). inspired by Terraria, but just the player movement speed increases without the Happy buff :(

i'm hoping that you'll take care of these ideas and put 'em to good use. with enough effort, you can do this :)

(or if not, maybe i can help you with some of the mechanics/procedures. tbh I'm interested in this mod idea!)

@Sajevius

I think that your ideas are really great! Beside of this, I'm actually making a mod that add a dimension which is, basically, a forest, and I think that there are not enough flowers in.

Because you look interested in a mod that aim to improve fauna like MineBloom would do, would you like to help me make the one of my mod look great? Not only flowers, but also all your other ideas: mobs, floral mana, weapons, etc... Moreover, I have already some magic weapons but I couldn't find any cool mana system.

If you agree, contact me, possibly on my discord (Lyof#8741).

PS: Sorry for my bad english, I'm french.

*to improve flora

hmm, if you can't make a bar-like overlay, I think that's ok (I can't think of a good way yet to make one either lol). u can just use global variables or NBT tags for the mana count system I believe (I used the same approach for the revolvers in my new upcoming mod, Betterlands). then, to check how much current mana over max mana a player has, either they'll have to press a certain keybind, or there will be a rendered text on an overlay telling the player how much mana he/she has. it's simpler to make than mana bars imo (tho it doesn't look quite as good)

1. the rose thorns and how to obtain them from right-clicking on a rose is a neat idea!

2. I imagined floral dust's texture to look like vanilla dust in shape, but different in color and design

you should add a honeysuckle, it's a flower that has a liquid in it that's like honey. maybe you could craft honey bottles with it?