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Actually, I'm pretty sure the developers are working on finding ways to restrict these mobs in TFC. I also read somewhere that they're planning on getting rid of creepers all together.

I like this suggestion (mostly because I'm really eager to have some kind of use for all the gems I have). The only potential issue with it that I see is that that would create a lot of item ID's. Every kind of pickaxe multiplied by every (usuable) kind of gem multiplied by each gem condition.

[Going a bit off topic] Would it be easier to code if all items were assigned weight instead of size?

I don't remember seeing one, but are you sure a thread about this hasn't already been made somewhat recently? I know light sources are often brought up in other threads, so this is a good place to condense the ideas if one hasn't already been made. Anyway, lanterns for lighthouses? Those - as far as I know - are very different from the lanterns people used to carry around when they thought their house was being raided or something (more specifically, they are much larger). Smaller lanterns seem like a much more practical idea for additional light sources. But as far as lighthouses go, in Elder Scrolls:Skyrim, the lighthouses are lit with large firepits. That's really all I know in terms of early lighthouses. As for Chandeliers, I did some quick research on Wikipedia and found that: -The earliest chandeliers (in medieval times) were often "...wooden crosses, with spikes on which candles were secured. They were hoisted to a suitable height, hooked on a rope or chain." -The chandeliers that I believe you are thinking of came later, in the 15th century, and were actually "ornate cast ormolu". Ormolu is actually bronze with a layer of gold adhered to it - not solid gold.

Okay, I think this is starting to get a bit off topic. I don't think it's the OP's goal to unravel the mysteries of Western diet. Anyway, if predators are added as new mobs (which appears to be heavily suggested), then fangs and claws could be used to make unique items. For example, one could use a bear tooth for the head of a javelin, or wear the paw of a mountain lion for a melee weapon.

Well, animals already do drop vanilla bones. But I agree, we should get more out of them. I've heard of lard being used to make torches/candles.

Are there plans (or is it even possible) to change this in the distant future?

@WintersfreundWow, that was like a suggestion within a suggestion. Suggest-ception. Some neat ideas there, but farmland spawning small animals and movable/replaceable chicken nests seem like really easy ways to get infinite food. And bone arrowheads could work, but I think arrowheads are commonly made from flint (correct me if I'm wrong).@AllenWLYeah, I can see how some players might be... offended(?) if they need to eat their best friend, patches, because they ran out of pigs to kill. Might be kind of a controversial subject, but in the end, I think anyone would do what they had to do in a survival situation.

Well, two things are clear:1. I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to mineral properties.2. Melting down the gems is out of the question.

Yeah, this part doesn't seem applicable to TFC. But the seperate tool/weapon parts, I think, could make a good addon. Bones and other rod-shaped materials could potentially be used as handles, and different metals could be used to create different parts of the same sword. As long as it was still at least somewhat believable. The modifiers like lapis and moss, however, seem like that would be a lot of work to just turn TFC into a generic T. Construct mod, disposing of 'believability' completely.

Yeah, that's a good point. I suppose we could build them up into blocks, similar to log piles. Would higher quality gems make blocks faster? I was just looking for a way to carve things like jade bowls, and such. Maybe that could even be added like knapping, but instead using the 8x8 block to create a specific shape, which would then drop the desired item (like a bowl).

I was actually just about to suggest something like this, before I found this thread.Being able to insert gems into statues would be really cool, but I was actually thinking about making entire blocks out of gems. I'm not sure how - whether they would need to be melted down and welded together, or by making a huge clay cast - but a 8x8 block of say, sapphire for example would be something cool to chisel down into a statue of some sort. If partially chiseled, and then broken, it could just turn back into a limited number of the regular gem (like 1-4 sapphires, for example) depending on how much the player removed.

Alright. I just didn't want you to think I was insulting your intelligence or anything. lol

Oh no, I just meant that Wikipedia was there as kind of a... witness to what you were saying. You seem to know a lot about alloys and smithing (certainly much more than my... limited knowledge ). xD I like this guy. Yeah, dipping the tools into the metals would be a good way to do it, although I had no idea that copper and bronze were already resistant.And as far as the tin cans, yeah, that's what I figured. But!:"Mercury has been smelted from cinnabar for thousands of years. Mercury dissolves many metals, such as gold, silver, and tin, to form amalgams (an alloy in a soft paste, or liquid form at ambient temperature). Amalgams have been used since 200 BC in China for plating objects with precious metals, called gilding, such as armor and mirrors. The ancient Romans often used mercury-tin amalgams for gilding their armor. The amalgam was applied as a paste and then heated until the mercury vaporized, leaving the gold, silver, or tin behind. Mercury was often used in mining, to extract precious metals like gold and silver from their ores."- Wikipedia (That's my go-to encyclopedia )I'm not exactly sure what it is, butsomethingin that paragraph could be applied here. Amalgams? Gilded armor? Extracting gold, silver and tin from other metals? Mercury in Cinnabar?

I'm not sure why this wasn't an obvious idea when I first posted this, but with the upcoming food overhaul, why not tin cans for food preservation? Are they beyond the time period of TFC? EDIT: By the way, I totally support the Pewter idea above. Wikipedia (as unreliable as it can be) agrees with pretty much everything starXephir wrote. I wanted to suggest adding Antimony, but like starXephir said, there aren't really any other uses for it in TFC.