Multi-block grapes

[Facethief]

After touring a vineyard last weekend, I’ve decided that grape bushes are NOT ENOUGH! If grapes are added, I feel that the plants should be a multi block and dynamic structure, similar to fruit trees, so that proper trellises and vines can exist in the game. If possible and not annoying, the vines should also require pruning to get optimal fruit growth, but I don’t think that would work amazingly well with the game’s pacing.

[LadyWYT]

45 minutes ago, Facethief said:

If possible and not annoying, the vines should also require pruning to get optimal fruit growth, but I don’t think that would work amazingly well with the game’s pacing.

Eh, all you'd have to do, most likely, is just make unpruned sections look rather shaggy, and have the players use the shears on those sections. The shears can already be used to prune berry bushes, though that currently does nothing aside from making the bush a neat cube. That could also be subject to change, as it seems berry bushes may potentially get a rework sometime in the (near?) future.

[Thorfinn]

@xXx_Ape_xXx has a grape mod that makes two high grapes. They are a little butch, but easy to patch to fit in with the base game. It's been a hot second, but I think it was Wildcraft that does grapes and trellises. I don't know of they grow higher than 3 blocks, as that was all I tested, and, frankly, a little OP, too, but harder to balance because a half-dozen plants will swamp you with more than you can possibly eat. I suspect the latter is what you want.

I'm not saying it should not end up in base game, I'm rather indifferent. But as a programmer, I've always found it useful for someone to say, "It should work something like X, but with bells".

[Facethief]

52 minutes ago, Thorfinn said:

@xXx_Ape_xXx has a grape mod that makes two high grapes. They are a little butch, but easy to patch to fit in with the base game. It's been a hot second, but I think it was Wildcraft that does grapes and trellises. I don't know of they grow higher than 3 blocks, as that was all I tested, and, frankly, a little OP, too, but harder to balance because a half-dozen plants will swamp you with more than you can possibly eat. I suspect the latter is what you want.

I'm not saying it should not end up in base game, I'm rather indifferent. But as a programmer, I've always found it useful for someone to say, "It should work something like X, but with bells".

I actually checked that mod out, and someone hasn’t responded to my comment yet, but I asked the developer what they think of this idea’s feasibility.