A secondary use for seeds

[valkupo 17]

Something that has bothered me since farming became prevalent in vanilla minecraft is that once you have a farm going, you start developing a massive quantity of seeds in your storage. Sure, you could plant more farmland, but after a point having more wheat plots is pointless.

So I'm proposing that there should be a secondary use for seeds. Unfortunately this is all I can come up with:

1)Maybe they could be used for chicken breeding instead of wheat.

2)Maybe they can be burned as fuel at a super fast rate.

3)At the levels you can acquire them, using them as food would be unbalanced even if it only did half a hunger stick per unit of seeds. It might be balanced out if you had to combine a huge number of them in crafting to make like a bag of seeds to be eaten. You could make some kind of pouch out of wool or leather, then put it in the crafting table and surround it with 8 seeds to make an edible seed bag. Kind of like mushroom soup with the bowls.

4)Spit/throw them at enemies for non-damaging lols (I dunno I'm really reaching here)

Any other ideas?

[EternalUndeath 1,208]

Edible, but they don't fill your hunger bar, only the saturation meter

That way you can snack on them to stop from getting hungry, but they're still no substitute for a good steak when you've been out killing mobs and your hunger bar is hurtin' for it

[valkupo 17]

Edible, but they don't fill your hunger bar, only the saturation meter

That way you can snack on them to stop from getting hungry, but they're still no substitute for a good steak when you've been out killing mobs and your hunger bar is hurtin' for it

Oho! I like that idea a lot. Still makes the normal food very necessary, but gives you something like emergency rations that don't make the situation better, just delay it. I had completely forgotten about saturation.

[Lumireaver 101]

This reminds me of this one compost bin suggestion I once read back on the Minecraft Forums regarding compost bins. Organic matter tossed into the compost bin would eventually turn into fertile soil. With the upcoming agriculture update, could we use compost? Do we want compost? I don't know.

[JDCollie 66]

This reminds me of this one compost bin suggestion I once read back on the Minecraft Forums regarding compost bins. Organic matter tossed into the compost bin would eventually turn into fertile soil. With the upcoming agriculture update, could we use compost? Do we want compost? I don't know.

Big fan of this. We're going to need some form of composting eventually, and it fits into TFC very well thematically.

[Teranz 37]

This reminds me of this one compost bin suggestion I once read back on the Minecraft Forums regarding compost bins. Organic matter tossed into the compost bin would eventually turn into fertile soil. With the upcoming agriculture update, could we use compost? Do we want compost? I don't know.

Yeah compost would be quiet usefull, it could increase the speed of growing wheat and other vegetation...

[Peffern 94]

How about a compost bin constructed from planks exactly like a bloomery, you throw organic material in the top and it fills input, then after time the output would fill , then putting a bucket in would fill it with compost.

[SierraKhaar 20]

The composite should only increase the growth speed but not be a necessary thing for farming.

Sounds cool, that way we can grow farms just to upgrade them.

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

As far as i know, there are some plants that can't grow anything edible without the use of compost. Anyway, i might *ejem probably* be wrong.

Nothing else to add, except i liked the idea :3