Cloud in a bottle idea I had in a dream.

[high tapir]

So basically how this works is that you can right click air blocks between Y levels 192-196 i.e. cloud level to get yourself a Cloud in a bottle item which can be stacked up to 16.

You can right click the item to place a cloud block down even in mid air with no blocks supporting it. The block itself is pretty much acts like a Non-Newtonian fluid i.e. has properties of both a solid and a liquid simultaneously, if your walking or standing still you'll sink in the block but if your running the block will add like a solid block instead.

Though the block doesn't lasts for long and will eventually decay it about 3-8 seconds.

You can make a permanent version of these by combining four bottled cloud items to get a condensed cloud block.

[distant widget]

[dark ocean]

Will you be able to dispense the cloud block from a dispenser using the cloud in a bottle?

[high tapir]

yes

[dark ocean]

excellant

[high tapir]

If it's possible I will also look into how far the block can be placed away from the dispenser's face as well

[boreal moat]

I want to have such dreams too.

[modest epoch]

I absolutely love this, this can make for such a cool block for pvp/minigames (both for placing it under you as you sprint jump as a bridge and for blocking people chasing you), the 16 stack limit balances it really well!
I think the non-permanent version should insta-break like slime blocks and the permanent version should maybe be like leaves/wool (maybe hoe as a tool?). For dispensers, I think it could place it normally, but if the block in front of it is already a cloud block it would try to place it one block further, and so on until the piston push limit, and dispensing with an empty bottle should work in reverse so it's like a (lifo) stack of clouds, that could work for parkour minigames and not hurt dispenser performance in the general case by checking a lot of additional blocks (although it's a bit of a problem that when a block in the middle is destroyed the chain breaks), also you can make it sort of a wave of blocks instead of a stack by having dispensers on both sides, one only placing and one only collecting the clouds.

[high tapir]

I like this

[spark thorn]

Is the crafting recipe supposed to leave behind empty bottles in the grid? I would recommend that.

[high tapir]

There's a vanilla item property for that

honey bottles in vanilla use the same thing for leaving behind glass bottles

[cursive fossil]

I've seen a mod which adds a block that you can put in the air for building, that could really do the trick for when you are implementing this really nice idea!

also please tell me how you did such a cool diagram! It looks so vanilla and I would like to do them for when I'm explaining my mod's progression 😭

[modest epoch]

Looks like it was made with just an image editor, I recommend aseprite it has a tilemap feature that will work for blocks, if you’re on windows and don’t want to buy/compile it yourself paint.net is also a pretty good option

[cursive fossil]

oh that would be really nice! I've been struggling mostly on getting items textures and stuff

[high tapir]

I used aseprite for the art stuff

[cursive fossil]

Great so bbb b right

[high tapir]

Btw I've made this real

https://discord.com/channels/507304429255393322/1254166264557993994

Made my first mod using multiloader

and god was it frustating

thankfully the fabric's implementation is done