Hello, I was a bit dissapointed about hoes. They, right now, come only in wooden, stone and steel variants, and can't even break crops.
My suggestions to improve them:
Add more hoe variants (mese, diamond...)
Make it so they can break crops faster than by hand (right now, they can't even break them at all)
Why can't I hold left click to automatically hoe dirt like when I'm doing so to place blocks??
optionally make it so you can craft a scythe out of something else than mithril, which is in another mod which not everybody may have
Bronze, Mese and Diamond hoe's are still in the mod but can only be dropped by lucky blocks of given by admin, also the Mithril Scythe is used to fast harvest crops and replant :)
But why did you even make them unobtainable normally in the first place? A person would normally expect to be able to create e.g. a diamond hoe. Oh, and I can't even find them in the inventory (search feature, you would find it on the right in i3 or unified inventory on example) when searching for 'hoe', only the 3 basic ones appear.
You should make these hoes available for crafting, but can you also take the other improvements I told about in mind?
I just tried out the scythe, and think that you should apply some changes to it too;
it uses seeds that it creates out of thin air to replant the plants.
On example, when I harvested a bit of oats with it, I got about 30 seeds, but while harvesting the same amount manually, I got the same amount, but then, after replanting, I had 10 at the end. Similarly when I tested out cucumber, which has no additional seed item.
I think the drop of the seeds should be lowered by 1 when harvesting with the scythe.
And 1 more thing: when using the scythe, it drops the items on the ground, which may basically create the chore of manually collecting the items, which is already comparable to planting the seeds when not using the tool. Those items may even block the way when they're in the air while trying to harvest another crop in front.
The items should just go to the inventory.
That's the trade-off, you harvest a crop and it replants without a seed and drops it on the ground for you to pick-up, so extra-seed for some extra-time :)
I feel like you're just trying to play with me or something. It seems like you are just coming up with weird messages like this without even minding what I actually meant: looking at the issues.
Can you actually consider fixing these then? I think that would actually polish up the game a bit to the player's expectations, that's why I even mentioned them in the first place.
Summary of suggestions:
Make it so you can craft diamond, mese and bronze hoes.
Let the player break crops with the hoe, which should be faster than by hand.
Enable holding left click to automatically hoe blocks, because the same is already implemented with placing blocks and holding right click.
When harvesting crops with the scythe, remove 1 seed/plantable item from the harvest, because the scythe can't just generate seeds out of thin air to replant.
Don't let the crops drop on the ground when harvesting with the scythe, put them in the inventory instead.
Please understand that each tool was made to work a certain way, Hoe's dig the soil and removing the higher tier was to stay in-line with minetest_game changes, but I have re-added the Bronze Hoe recipe once more.
The Scythe only harvests crops and is created in such a way that by giving the player an extra seed during replanting, it drops the items on the ground, so quantity over speed.
Most crops however use the {snappy} group which means that any sword used to dig them will work a lot quicker than using your hands.
Oh, I see, so the thing with the scythe was intentional. I thought it wasn't because imo it's weird to have the same chore as replanting the seeds (picking up the harvest from the ground) but get 1 seed more generated out of thin air. Maybe there's even a reason why the scythe can be only made from mithril.... Is it magical?
And what do you mean that there aren't any higher tier hoes because of needing to keep up with minetest_game changes? I'm pretty sure even mese was created at the start of the game, but there's no mese hoe.
So this divides the issues to only the 3rd one, or if possible today, the 1st one too. I'm sorry I didn't know about things like the sword breaking crops faster, but there's little documentation.
Hello, I was a bit dissapointed about hoes. They, right now, come only in wooden, stone and steel variants, and can't even break crops. My suggestions to improve them:
Add more hoe variants (mese, diamond...)
Make it so they can break crops faster than by hand (right now, they can't even break them at all)
Why can't I hold left click to automatically hoe dirt like when I'm doing so to place blocks??
optionally make it so you can craft a scythe out of something else than mithril, which is in another mod which not everybody may have
Bronze, Mese and Diamond hoe's are still in the mod but can only be dropped by lucky blocks of given by admin, also the Mithril Scythe is used to fast harvest crops and replant :)
But why did you even make them unobtainable normally in the first place? A person would normally expect to be able to create e.g. a diamond hoe. Oh, and I can't even find them in the inventory (search feature, you would find it on the right in i3 or unified inventory on example) when searching for 'hoe', only the 3 basic ones appear.
You should make these hoes available for crafting, but can you also take the other improvements I told about in mind?
I just tried out the scythe, and think that you should apply some changes to it too; it uses seeds that it creates out of thin air to replant the plants.
On example, when I harvested a bit of oats with it, I got about 30 seeds, but while harvesting the same amount manually, I got the same amount, but then, after replanting, I had 10 at the end. Similarly when I tested out cucumber, which has no additional seed item. I think the drop of the seeds should be lowered by 1 when harvesting with the scythe.
And 1 more thing: when using the scythe, it drops the items on the ground, which may basically create the chore of manually collecting the items, which is already comparable to planting the seeds when not using the tool. Those items may even block the way when they're in the air while trying to harvest another crop in front. The items should just go to the inventory.
Can you consider fixing these too?
That's the trade-off, you harvest a crop and it replants without a seed and drops it on the ground for you to pick-up, so extra-seed for some extra-time :)
I feel like you're just trying to play with me or something. It seems like you are just coming up with weird messages like this without even minding what I actually meant: looking at the issues.
Can you actually consider fixing these then? I think that would actually polish up the game a bit to the player's expectations, that's why I even mentioned them in the first place.
Summary of suggestions:
Make it so you can craft diamond, mese and bronze hoes.
Let the player break crops with the hoe, which should be faster than by hand.
Enable holding left click to automatically hoe blocks, because the same is already implemented with placing blocks and holding right click.
When harvesting crops with the scythe, remove 1 seed/plantable item from the harvest, because the scythe can't just generate seeds out of thin air to replant.
Don't let the crops drop on the ground when harvesting with the scythe, put them in the inventory instead.
Please understand that each tool was made to work a certain way, Hoe's dig the soil and removing the higher tier was to stay in-line with minetest_game changes, but I have re-added the Bronze Hoe recipe once more.
The Scythe only harvests crops and is created in such a way that by giving the player an extra seed during replanting, it drops the items on the ground, so quantity over speed.
Most crops however use the {snappy} group which means that any sword used to dig them will work a lot quicker than using your hands.
Oh, I see, so the thing with the scythe was intentional. I thought it wasn't because imo it's weird to have the same chore as replanting the seeds (picking up the harvest from the ground) but get 1 seed more generated out of thin air. Maybe there's even a reason why the scythe can be only made from mithril.... Is it magical?
And what do you mean that there aren't any higher tier hoes because of needing to keep up with minetest_game changes? I'm pretty sure even mese was created at the start of the game, but there's no mese hoe.
So this divides the issues to only the 3rd one, or if possible today, the 1st one too. I'm sorry I didn't know about things like the sword breaking crops faster, but there's little documentation.