After playing Terraria for a while, I decided to screw around with slime blocks. Suddenly, an idea popped into my head: Wouldn't slime blocks be a cool addition to Minecraft? So after some thought, I came up with a few cool ideas, and I figured why not share them with the community?

My idea of slime blocks would give an actual reason to farm slimes (I'm sure people would [or have already] come up with some cool ways to do so) as they would have many different uses and properties such as:

a) Fall Damage
• One layer of slime blocks would cause 20% of fall damage to be taken away
• Two layers of slime blocks would cause 40% of fall damage to be taken away
• Three layers of slime blocks would cause 50% of fall damage to be taken away
• This essentially allows you to fall from approximately 53 blocks (and yes i know this can be done with water easily)

b) Piston extension
• Pistons can normally push only up to 12 blocks on their own
• By replacing the last block that the piston is pushing with a slime block, 12 more could be added onto the end.
• This would work both for pushing and retracting

c) Transparency
• Same transparency as ice

d) Slipperiness
• Same slipperiness as ice blocks allowing for another option for fast travel

e) Crafting
• One block can be crafted with 4 slimeballs in a 2x2 grid
• 3 blocks can be used to make 6 slime plates, using the same crafting form as snow layers

f) Slime Plates
• Slime plates would help with sliding and jumping
• Same sliding properties as the block
• Jumping of the plate would let you jump higher as if you had Jump Boost IIII on. (4 Blocks)

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