My plan for beautiful floating dye gardens foundered on three reefs of hubris and poor design:

  • 2-height flowers don’t make more flowers when hit with bone meal, they just drop a copy of themselves. This is convenient, because it means I can convert bone meal directly to dye, but I only need one flower, not a garden.
  • Cactus can apparently only be planted on white sand? That’s weird, since it grows on red sand in the wild, but whatever. The problem here is that a block of cactus drops less than one cactus object on average, so I need to leave a stump to keep growing, but then I take damage trying to pick up the drops. Maybe I can do something with fences?
  • Most tragic of all, 1-height flowers don’t produce new flowers on regular dirt blocks, only grass blocks, which are almost impossible to get directly since you either need a shovel with a specific enchantment or have to mug an enderman who’s carrying one. However, grass does spread to adjacent blocks, so maybe making trails of dirt from existing grass to the gardens will populate them with

Played: Lancer. Since this is a module, we had a fancy map for our first mech fight, and special rules and victory conditions and everything! We also had about 3 license levels extra, so we triumphed OK even without Kelsey’s character on our side, and double reinforcements on the other.

Written: FAIL.

 

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