[Suggestion] Crafting containers from mixed or modded woods
Klisz opened this issue ยท 1 comments
To make a sophisticated chest or non-limited barrel, one can either:
- Craft it directly from planks and slabs with a redstone torch in the middle
- Craft a vanilla chest or barrel, and then craft that with a redstone torch
- Place a vanilla chest or barrel, and apply a Sophisticated Upgrade to it
This is all fine in itself; notably, though, the first option takes the wood type for the chest/barrel from that of the planks and slabs used to craft it, and because of this, it requires that those planks and slabs all be of the same wood, and that they be of a vanilla wood rather than a modded one. Thankfully, the other two options allow usage of mixed or modded woods, by first crafting them into a vanilla chest/barrel and then upgrading it. Unfortunately, however, limited barrels only have the first option, as there's no vanilla limited barrel item to upgrade - thus, modded woods cannot be used to craft a limited barrel at all (except, I suppose, for making the stick to make the redstone torch), nor can a group of mixed woods. This can be frustrating for me, as oftentimes I find myself with a small number of wooden slabs of various types left over from some building project or other, and if I happen to be making limited barrels at the time I'd like to use up the slabs I already have to make the barrels - but if I don't have enough full planks of the same wood, and/or if that wood is from a mod, I can't use them this way and the slabs will continue to languish inside the storage instead of becoming part of it.
My suggestion to solve this mild irritation is to allow using any minecraft:planks and minecraft:wooden_slabs to craft limited spruce barrels (the choice of spruce being because that's already what non-limited barrels use as their default, when upgrading from a vanilla barrel). For consistency's sake, this probably could be extended to allowing direct crafting of non-limited spruce barrels, and oak chests, from mixed/modded woods. In order to prevent creating spruce barrels when all the wood is of the same vanilla type, perhaps the developers could look at how Quark implements the recipes for its variant chests? In Quark, similarly to this suggestion, the variant wooden chests are made when making a chest out of eight planks of the same type; but if that type is from a different mod and thus there isn't a variant chest for it in Quark, or if multiple different types are used, you simply get the vanilla chest rather than not being able to craft anything at all.
