citrushook

I was just thinking that there should be bottles or something, to help with preservation of liquids like wine or honey. Maybe they could only be sealed with wax, or some sort of soft-wooded tree.

Meaning, fluid physics that obey the conservation of matter, rather than simply making an infinite water source block with any old bucket. Think Terraria. Having to manually haul water from one place to another, bucket by bucket. Might also give a new use for pipes.

I'm aware that there's probably a mod that does this, but I'm hoping it will be made native to the game. Having any ice blocks in your cellar could significantly decrease the spoil rate of food, with a bigger penalty given for direct contact with your chosen storage vessel than simply having it in the room. All ice blocks, though, would now melt and become water given time, for balancing purposes. As a trade-off, maybe you could gain the ability to harvest lake ice in a manner similar to harvesting whole stone blocks. Ergo, carving out the blocks around it to harvest the whole piece. Maybe placing an ice block or two in a cellar would also provide sort of a bonus?

The inverse of hammering out a shape from a whole block: being able to sculpt freely using soft clay, then fire the finished object in a pit kiln.