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Are you tired of building a dam or finding a source of water to grow sugarcane, turn lava into obsidian, and build mob grinders? Do you wish there was a better way to move water without needing to waste steel on buckets? How about getting certain color dyes for wool. It makes it quite a chore to create anything colorful without creative mode, so whether you like to mine, and don't want to scour the surface for materials all the time, need improved weapons/healing implements for PvP, or just want to see the world look even more beautiful, this mod idea would provide a possible solution for all these problems and many more!

My idea for this contest is a five part mod I call-





Part 1: A full spectrum of new flowers that can be grown; Red, orange, and yellow have always been the easiest dyes to get because any other dye requires killing squids and skeletons, mining Lapis Lazurai, cooking cactus, or scouring the jungles. This mod would have a flower for each primary color.
That would include Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Brown, White, and Black. Also if two primary color seeds are planted in the same spot, the flower that is grown will be the secondary color that the two primaries make.
The secondary colors would include Orange, Lime, Cyan, Light Blue, Purple, Pink, and Grey. This makes any dye a renewable, and easily accesible material, so that making colorful builds in survival mode is much more easily done.





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Part 2: The Tiki Torch of +3 Plant Growing Light; One of the main problems with growing anything is the issue of having enough light. Torches make it possible to grow stuff at night, but it's range is very limited. Glowstone has a greater range, but it's a hassle to mine. The tiki torch would be crafted by putting 1 torch above two sticks, similar to tool crafting. It's specifically designed to make gardening more efficient, and more fruitful!

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Part 3: Flower Infused Arrows> [color=rgb(0,102,0)]By Placing a picked flower below an arrow in the crafting menu, the arrow becomes a [Color] Flower Arrow. These arrows will look like they have a flower at the end of them instead of feathers, and they will have some special perk compared to regular arrows. This allows an archer to combat different situations with the perfect tool! [/color]

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[center][color=rgb(0,102,0)][b]Primary colors[/b][/color]
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[color=rgb(153,0,0)][bgcolor=rgb(255,204,204)][b]Red[/b]: Arrows are tougher, and do 2x damage to all enemies.[/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(153,0,0)]Good for strong enemies![/color]
[/right][color=rgb(153,102,51)][bgcolor=rgb(255,255,153)][b]Yellow[/b]: Arrows are more aerodynamic, and shoot 2x faster.[/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(153,102,51)]Good for targets that won't stay still![/color]
[/right][color=rgb(0,102,0)][bgcolor=rgb(153,255,153)][b]Green[/b]: Arrows are poisonier, and cause poison.[/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(0,102,0)]Good for all your poisoning needs![/color]
[/right][color=rgb(0,0,153)][bgcolor=rgb(204,204,255)][b]Blue[/b]: Arrows do negative damage, healing teammates and even puts out fire.[/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(0,0,153)] Use these to heal/put out teammates, or pets/farm animals![/color]
[/right][color=rgb(153,153,153)][b]White[/b]: Arrows are weightless, and stay in a straight path when shot until it hits something.[/color]

[right][color=rgb(153,153,153)]Good for sniping targets a vast distance away![/color]
[/right][bgcolor=rgb(187,187,187)][b]Black[/b]: Arrows are scary, and make most enemies run away.[/bgcolor]

[right]Good for ending a fight you didn't want to start!
[/right][color=rgb(153,51,0)][bgcolor=rgb(255,204,153)][b]Brown[/b]: Has 5x knockback, but does only half damage.[/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(153,51,0)]Best way to prevent unwanted creeper explosions![/color]
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[center][b][color=rgb(0,102,0)]Secondary colors[/color][/b]
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[color=rgb(255,102,0)][bgcolor=rgb(255,204,153)][b]Orange[/b]: Arrows do 1.5x damage, go 1.5x faster, and set enemies on fire![/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(255,102,0)]The perfect tool for pesky spiders![/color]
[/right][color=rgb(0,153,0)][bgcolor=rgb(153,255,153)][b]Lime[/b]: Arrow is weightless, and poisons the enemy it hits, but does no damage.[/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(0,153,0)]Good for killing like a ninja, poison damage won't make mobs agro![/color]
[/right][color=rgb(51,153,153)][bgcolor=rgb(153,255,255)][b]Cyan[/b]: Arrows heal 1 heart, and cure poison/fire.[/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(51,153,153)]Cures just about any ailment![/color]
[/right][color=rgb(51,102,255)][bgcolor=rgb(204,255,255)][b]Light Blue[/b]: Arrow is weightless, and leaves a beam of light (light level 12) in its path for 3 seconds. Arrow even glows underwater after being fired, but does no damage.[/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(51,204,255)][color=rgb(51,102,255)]Good for scouting out caves without putting yourself in danger![/color]
[/color][/right][color=rgb(204,102,204)][bgcolor=rgb(255,204,255)][b]Pink[/b]: Arrows fly 2x farther, and do 1.5x damage.[/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(204,102,204)]A strong, long range arrow is great for PvP![/color]
[/right][color=rgb(153,51,153)][bgcolor=rgb(255,153,255)][b]Purple[/b]: Arrows gradually do -3x damage in 20sec. Doesn't put out fire, or cure poison.[/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(153,51,153)]Heals thrice as much as blue arrows if you have the time to wait![/color]
[/right][color=rgb(102,102,102)][bgcolor=rgb(204,204,204)][b]Grey[/b]: Arrows do no damage, only go half distance, and looks exactly like regular arrows.[/bgcolor][/color]

[right][color=rgb(102,102,102)]Good for trolling your friends![/color][/right][/spoiler]
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[spoiler=More Flower Arrow Details][color=rgb(0,102,0)]Any arrow that can heal or cure poison can be used on yourself by holding the arrow, and holding right click for 2 seconds. When using your bow, whichever arrows are closest to the top left corner of your inventory will be used automatically, followed by the spaces next to it on the right, and then the row below it. To switch which arrows you're using, just move them in your inventory to the top left corner.[/color][/spoiler][color=rgb(0,102,0)]
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[b][color=rgb(0,102,0)][bgcolor=rgb(153,255,153)][color=rgb(51,51,51)][bgcolor=rgb(204,204,204)]Pa[/bgcolor][/color]rt 4: The Handy Dandy Garden Hos[color=rgb(51,51,51)][bgcolor=rgb(187,187,187)]e;[/bgcolor][/color][/bgcolor][/color] [/b][color=rgb(0,102,0)]Growing Sugarcane is generally pretty easy, but [s]one of the main difficulties[/s] the only difficulty of growing sugarcane is that you need a source of water. Some people might live near a body of water, but maybe you only have a bucket of water, and a body of water is so far away that trying to get to it at night would be dangerous[/color][b][color=rgb(0,102,0)]. [/color][/b][color=rgb(0,102,0)]The hose allows you to access a source of water from 32 blocks away.

This gets even better, because if you craft it into a sprinkler hose. It will create a large area that sugarcane can grow in without having to be next to a block of water, and the cane will grow twice as fast! Put THAT in your cake, and eat it!

For those of you who aren't that big on gardening, the hose has one more use. It can be crafted into a boat motor that'll turn your normal boat into a motorized speed machine! High speed water travel FTW!

[/color][spoiler=][color=rgb(0,102,0)]By placing 7 wool of any 1 color, and two iron ingots at any 2 opposite corners of a crafting table, a hose can be created that is the color of whichever color wool you used. Having different colored hoses is good if you have a lot of them, that way you can keep track of which hose goes where, and they can even overlap each other!

How the hose works is as simple as can be![/color]
[color=rgb(0,102,0)]Step 1: Grab your newly crafted hose, and right click at a source of water.[/color]
[color=rgb(0,102,0)]Step 2: Carry the other end of the hose to wherever you need some flowing water. Water will flow out of the non-source end when placed, or when carried. Reaches a max distance of 32 blocks. Should the hose be carried farther than 32 blocks, the end you're currently holding will drop automatically.[/color]
[color=rgb(0,102,0)]Step 3: To move either end, just right click it, and then move it to where you want it to be.

To create a sprinkler hose, just place 3 iron ingots in a row above a hose. It [/color][color=rgb(0,102,0)]works the same as a regular hose, except the non-source end is a sprinkler that fills a 7x7 space around it with a rain shower that won't block the sunlight, but will count as a source of water, so the entire area can be filled with sugar cane!

[/color][color=rgb(0,102,0)]A boat motor can be crafted by placing the hose with 4 steel ingots in a square above it, and 1 redstone next to it. Once you have this motor, just mount it onto a boat, and it becomes a motor boat that moves 3x faster! Vroom vroom! It also stops 2x faster, for safer porting.[/color]

[color=rgb(0,102,0)]Of course, if you're too lazy to craft a motor, you can simply hold a hose while in a boat, put one end in the water, and it'll make the boat go 2x faster, but you have to aim it behind you making you look the wrong way when sailing, so it's rather impractical to sail with unless you know where you're going very well.[/color]
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[b][color=rgb(153,51,0)][bgcolor=rgb(255,255,153)]Part 5: Banana Trees;[/bgcolor][/color][/b][/color] [color=rgb(0,102,0)]Did you know that when you're stomach hurts, eating a banana is one of the best ways to alleviate the pain? Well in this mod eating a banana would fill 3 hunger units, and cure food poisoning. That sure would be helpful if you were so desperate for food you ate rotten flesh, that way you can feed yourself with food you normally couldn't eat, and then [color=rgb(0,102,0)]the [/color]banana would fill you up after. Suddenly zombie flesh became useful!

Banana trees would look a lot like palm trees, and it's big leaves would be the source of bananas. The wood of it would be more yellow than the rest of the woods, and they would only grow on sand. Also you can walk on the leaves. This gives many new possibilities for a source of food and wood, making deserts more inhabitable.

[/color][spoiler=More Banana Detanas][color=rgb(0,102,0)]Eating a banana has two parts to the process, peeling and then actually eating it, so it takes twice as long to eat. Banans could also be placed on a crafting table as an alternative source for yellow dye.

[/color][color=rgb(0,102,0)]Banana Trees would consist of a new wood whose logs are like oak, but more yellowish, and creates a wood which is almost the same color as oak wood, but slightly brighter, and more yellowish. Each leaf of the banana tree is one big leaf that takes up 3 spaces, kind of like a palm tree. A normal sized banana tree would have 4-12 leaves on the top two logs of it, and the leaves can either go straight out of the tree, or go diagonally. Any 1 log of banana tree could have up to 8 leaves coming out of it. 4 diagonal, and 4 straight. The trees can also grow much larger like jungle trees, but in nature they are found in much less density than jungle trees, and only grows on sand. Other than that it grows just the same as any other tree.[/color]
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tldr; Part one is flowers of every dye color that can be grown, Part two is a torch which lets plant grow in a large area around it, Part 3 is arrows with special powers from added flowers, Part 4 is an awesome hose which can become a boat motor, and Part 5 is Bananas, because Bananas!

[color=rgb(0,102,0)]I hope you enjoyed my mod idea, and if it gets enough support, maybe it'll be a real mod one day! Until then, [/color][/color]this blog needs all the support it can get for the contest, so if you like this mod idea, then please [b][color=rgb(0,0,153)][bgcolor=rgb(153,255,255)]diamond[/bgcolor][/color][/b], or [b][color=rgb(153,0,0)][bgcolor=rgb(255,204,204)]favorite[/bgcolor][/color][/b] it. If you think of a way it could be even better, then please leave a [b][color=rgb(153,102,51)][bgcolor=rgb(255,255,153)]comment[/bgcolor][/color][/b] and I might include your idea with permission, and if you just like stuff I make in general then you should [b][color=rgb(51,102,102)][bgcolor=rgb(102,255,153)]Subscribe[/bgcolor][/color][/b] to me!

~Pykes