Suggestion Planting Custom Trees

[Leasaur]

Throughout the lovely continents that have been made, there are lots of custom trees - yet, currently, planting a sapling will only grow the vanilla Minecraft trees. Ideally, we would want to be capable of planting both, which means there needs to be a different method of planting the custom map trees. Here's an idea I came up with for a method:

Crypt adds a new mob or two that spawn in densely forested areas or on top of trees.These would probably be cave spiders and/or silverfish, with a name tag or particle effect to denote them as special, custom mobs. These tree spiders or tree grubs will drop a custom item.

The Dockmasters at each continent sell recipe books that allow a special item to be crafted out of the custom item drop(s) and a sapling. When used, the resulting item will bring up a display to create a tree, similar to how industries and territory buildings are placed. The tree would then either grow gradually, and there you have it - your very own custom tree!

This might seem a bit complicated, but I think it would fit in well with how Loka's custom recipes and items work.

 

[Ajaxan]

It a bit complicated but it does seem like a rather good way to do it. Perhaps cut out the Dockmaster though. It would be easier for new players to understand and cut out a needless journey. Simply allow the custom item to be combined with saplings directly. Here are my two idea on how ti could work:

1) In doing this, you could explain how the custom item is used as lore on the item to make it easy to figure out. To be able to use the recipe though you'd have to buy the recipe in the spawn town.

2) Another idea would to place down the Sapling like normal as if you were going to grow a tree and then use the custom item on the already planted sapling as if it were bonemeal. From my own experience this option would be easier to code which is why I suggested it.

The custom item itself seems like it would be something like "Forest Essence" which when combined with a sapling produces a "Magic Sapling" in the case of the first option. This would then be planted and grown like normal except it would produce a custom tree. It seems like there are large and small versions of the custom trees so the planting pattern 1x1 and 2x2 would designate which type you get. For case two it would be the same except instead of creating magic saplings you would use the forest essence on the pattern of 1x1 or 2x2 saplings already planted.

 

[Lazuli73]

Growing the custom trees has been a huge want for me on the server, but until now it seemed no one has offered a decent solution. I like the idea of incorporating a dock master, so to speak, but I think instead of selling a recipe book he should sell a special fertilizer needed to grow the custom trees.