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Jonny, and Joel share the latest tweaks to the copper golem, their plans to cover the upcoming Minecraft Live broadcast, and listener email about mooblooms, rascals, vultures, and crabs.

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FROM: Thor_of_Asgaard
SUBJECT: Moobloom Idea

Hello Joel, and Pix,

I was just catching up on one of your recent episodes of the podcast, and an idea popped in my head. What if the moobloom was added with the additional functionality of dispersing flowers? Using bone meal on a moobloom like when you use bone meal on a regular grass block but only spreading flowers or perhaps just wildflowers, and pink petals. The argument being that the cow dung would be the perfect for the flowers on the moobloom to spread to. 

Love your show!

Thor_of_Asgaard dozed off in a foul-smelling field of flowers.

FROM: Tim S.
MEMBER: Landscape Artist
SUBJECT: Prospecting For Ores

Hi Pix and Joel,

Your discussion about the Rascal in Episode 358, specifically its potential to help find ores, reminded me of Vintage Story. I’ve been watching GeminiTay’s VODs, and one of the features she’s used is a “prospector’s pick” that can be used to triangulate ore deposits.

I think some kind of prospecting tool or mob would be more fun than strip mining. It would also be safer for folks such as myself who don’t enjoy getting snuck up on by mobs in large caverns. 

Would prospecting make the game too easy? How could players unlock the ability to prospect in Minecraft?

Tim, and his new best friend, the Rascal, ruined the economy.

FROM: Thysannia [thigh-SAN-ee-A]
MEMBER: Landscape Artist
SUBJECT: Bringing The Vulture Beyond The Badlands

Hi Pix, and Joel,

The vulture wasn’t a particularly well received idea in the 2019 Biome Vote – partly due to misconceptions about it stealing loot, and partly because I don’t think players saw much point in a death marker that only exists in a single biome. However, I think that if brought out of the badlands, vultures could actually be a really helpful gameplay mechanic.

Vultures could spawn in after a player dies anywhere on the surface of the world, circling their items to provide an easy to see death marker, and help guide players back to their items. I know a lot of players struggle to remember the exact location they died at, especially in forests or on mountains, so the aerial indicator of circling vultures would be really beneficial. As a nice touch, vultures could have different skins depending on the biome to reflect the wide variety of species of vultures and the habitats they live in in the real world.

Thysannia died; but the vultures helped her get her items back.

FROM: ParabolicNinja
SUBJECT: Crab Idea

Hi Jonny, and Joel,

I greatly enjoy the show and your perspectives on various ways to play. I also appreciate your ability to consider all sides of the ideas offered by listeners.

I was listening to an episode of the show a while back where you were talking about possibilities for the crab claw, and the frustration with chopping down mangrove trees.

I had an idea that perhaps a live crab could be enticed to hit some part of the mangrove tree and thus “shake” some of the leaves off the tree. Perhaps it would require three hits to shake all the leaves off the tree but it seems to me that it might be a possible way to add an interesting twist to chopping mangrove trees. Maybe you guys have some ideas for how to entice the crab to work for you.

Perhaps you feed the crab something, it goes into a frenzy, and runs around crashing into trees or maybe it climbs the trees, and eats the leaves off the tree. Breed up a horde of crabs and you can strip a forest of leaves in moments! It seems likely that it would need to work for all trees but maybe in this case it only works on mangrove trees.

As a Bedrock player, TNT tree farms aren’t really a thing. Pistons can be used to create blocks of wood to harvest but it still requires that I swing an axe. I would be in favor of a sort of “natural” tree farm.

It appears that there is actually such a thing as a mangrove crab, and they actually eat dead leaves, and occasionally even eat fresh mangrove leaves. (Thanks Wikipedia!)

Thanks for the show!

ParabolicNinja was chased out of the swamp by a horde of crabs.