What Custom Blocks would you like to see coded?

[thin gorge]

So lately I have been on a kick toward replicating vanilla behavior as much as possible within our limitations of code. It's pretty fun and can be rewarding, especially if you have seen my tutorials on farmland and crops. I was wondering though just for fun and maybe a future tutorial, are there some vanilla blocks that you would enjoy seeing recreated?💖

[frank sun]

Double block crops with my double block template?

[thin gorge]

Making a tutorial using your template? Or the general thought process behind it?

[frank sun]

You can use my template to get the base behavior for double plants, and modify it to work with crops that start with 1 block, and grows to 2 blocks?

I'm not sure

[thin gorge]

I getcha, that could be pretty fun 😊 👍

[frank sun]

Awesome:)

[thin gorge]

What do you think of vines that grow up or down like the crimson weeping vines?

[thin gorge]

You know what this reminds me of? It almost seems like a cactus 🌵

[frank sun]

That can be fun.

[thin gorge]

Yep I agree 👍 Good ideas thank you Poggy

[verbal quail]

Custom furnace without Script API haha

[thin gorge]

Oooh... Tricky, I would have to think about that one lol @verbal quail

[verbal quail]

It’s impossible with just a block actually

[thin gorge]

Yep

[verbal quail]

Without Script API you could make it but you’ll need to use entities too

And for that you would rather make the furnace directly as an entity instead, you know

[thin gorge]

Yeah the closest thing I can think of is using the crafting table component but then things would be wonky and instant

It would be neat though if Mojang gave us some new and neat components to play with though

[verbal quail]

Well that would directly be a crafting table, the fuel won’t work neither

And as you said it would be instant

We just need minecraft:furnace smh

[thin gorge]

Yep totally agree, calling all mojangsters 😉☝️

[verbal quail]

oh oh, you know what would be interesting?

[thin gorge]

What's that?

[verbal quail]

custom rails

[thin gorge]

Oh that would be a cool thing to work out, haven't thought about the possibility of rails. That is certainly a challenge but a rewarding one

[verbal quail]

Indeed

Something that would help you is knowing you can call component groups on entities from blocks

Which means you could, for example, modify the movement component on entities who step on the blocks

[thin gorge]

Oh neat! I rarely work with entities but that doesn't seem to tough

[verbal quail]

If you’re making rails you’ll need to, since they need to work with minecarts 😅

Custom pistons would be good too

One with a bigger limit of moveable blocks, that could be possible with scripts.

[serene kraken]

I would like to see vines replicated. Regular vines. I’m interested in the behavior behind the growth. I’ll request more as I think or some.

[verbal quail]

That behavior can be replicated with minecraft:random_ticking, what I would see more interesting would be the ability of entities being able to climb them

(Ivyman, if you make this, please don’t use the levitation effect 😔)

[thin gorge]

Two for vines then 😉 I will definitely have to do some research on alternative methods to levitation. The growing principal will be nice to have even if we don't make it climbable

[thin gorge]

Custom pistons are a cool idea, unfortunately I know nothing about scripting lol, maybe a different way though

[verbal quail]

You could move the blocks with commands too, using /fill in replace mode

But if you do that you would need to make it for… every single block

[thin gorge]

Oh! That's a fantastic way to do it

[verbal quail]

oh wait

/structure

That would be better, it would be able to store each block in a single command

And use execute if block as a replacement for testforblocks, which would work just like fill

[thin gorge]

Really?! That's insane, how do you do that with structures?

[verbal quail]

Well in this system you would run a structure command once the piston is activated and based on where the piston is looking at (permutations, you know this already) you would load the block 1 block to the north, south, east, west, up or down if there is an air block

It would be like
Activate > Test for block > save block > test for block in <xyz> > load block

[thin gorge]

Huh that's neat, didn't know you could save blocks like that. Can you do that with execute as well?

[verbal quail]

Well no, you cannot save blocks with execute, but if you use execute to run a structure command then yes

[thin gorge]

Nice

[verbal quail]

Custom pistons with commands are very doable now that I mention it, you could think about it.

[thin gorge]

Yep, especially since I already got some custom redstone under my belt, that definitely might be a future challenge

Do you think that you would be able to work up a tutorial for Pistons? It sounds like you have a better train of though then I do on it @verbal quail and I would love to see it

[verbal quail]

I am not sure, I think it would be better to work out with scripts rather than commands

I’ll think about it though

I am working on a few tutorials as well 🫶

[thin gorge]

Either way, if just scripts, it would still be amazing 😍 Awesome! What tutorials do you got going if you don't mind me asking?

[verbal quail]

Doors, glass panes, fences, walls, barriers (barrier slabs as well), and snow layers

[thin gorge]

Nice! Are you aiming to post them to dev resources as well? These are definitely things asked about a lot👍

[verbal quail]

I got all of them except barriers and barrier slabs for now, I need an answer of a question I asked at #1067869590400544869 to be able to finish them

Yep, is on my plans

[thin gorge]

What was your question?

[verbal quail]

#1083410307197702185 message

[thin gorge]

Oh that is a tricky question, I will have to think on that one

[verbal quail]

yeah...

Once I get that working, ill have finished the barrier anyway

[unique cedar]

Door and trapdoor

[frank sun]

There are tons of guides already

[unique cedar]

I don't have any can you show me one

[frank sun]

@ocean crag

He provided me templates.

Don't know if I may share them

[unique cedar]

You have any templates you can share

[frank sun]

It's only their template

[unique cedar]

Okay

[verbal quail]

Gravel is working on a trapdoor template and I am working on a door one 👍

[thin gorge]

That's true, lots of templates already there😉

[unique cedar]

Ok

[sage moss]

Iron bars?

[sage moss]

Perfect fluids

[verbal quail]

https://wiki.bedrock.dev/blocks/custom-fluids

[verbal quail]

They work just like glass panes, so once my glass pane tutorial is up at #1072983602821861426 that will be done 👍

Divide and conquer!

[thin gorge]

Yep these will just about do it for those, @bold kettle also has a fluid template👍

[bold kettle]

Yep its the same as the wiki

[thin gorge]

Oh cool deal 👍

[lavish valve]

will be interesting if you can make a block similiar to the cauldron

lots of permutations probably

[thin gorge]

That sounds pretty fun 😁 Permutations would be for the colored liquid, and depending on many variants that you would like, there could be quite a few. I actually really like this idea and wanted to play around with fake water anyway. When I get to feeling better I will try to work through a few of these ideas, thank you for yours as well 😉

[thorny nexus]

Custom grass and dirt blocks, grass spreads to dirt ect.

[sage moss]

Anvil?

[frank sun]

@thin gorge No need for a jukebox :p

[thin gorge]

True lol, you got that one

[thin gorge]

No anvil template that I know of, but definitely a thought 🤔 Not sure about the ui aspect of it but it will be similar to sand but more damaging other then that

https://discord.com/channels/523663022053392405/1081883254317129728 I made grass that can be bonemealed here and I have a tutorial for dirt and farmland, so this would be a good thing to work with. I will definitely add it to the list. Shouldn't be too bad though 👍

@thorny nexus

Thank you all for your awesome ideas so far!!! Keep it up and bear in mind that this is a great way to get more tutorials. If I don't make them, then someone else knows they are wanted😉

[ocean crag]

Sure thing, go ahead and share any i may of sent you 🙂