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[CENTER][B][SIZE=6]The Basic Idea (tl;dr)[/SIZE][/B]
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[SIZE=5]Similar to the Vacuum Shovel / Vacuum Axe, it would be a Vacuum Hoe tool
where the drops from harvested crops are automatically put in your inventory.[/SIZE][/CENTER]
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[CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Why Would Somebody Want One?[/SIZE][/B]
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[SIZE=5]Manually harvesting crops (wheat, carrots) is usually done by harvesting
lines of about 4 rows back and forth across a big field. It ends up being a
hassle to sprint around the farm, trying to pick up every last drop.[/SIZE][/CENTER]
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[LEFT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][B][SIZE=6]Ideas for Balancing[/SIZE][/B][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]
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[SIZE=5]Here are some balancing related things that I thought may be brought up
like it could be OP. They're things that just sorta popped into my head[/SIZE]
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[INDENT][SIZE=5]• The first idea is super obvious -- just raise the difficulty of
getting it from a crate, making it a rare and prestigious item.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=5]• The other idea is to add several variants, each of which would work
on certain types of crops. For example,  you could have three variants:[/SIZE][/INDENT]
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[INDENT][INDENT][SIZE=5]• One that vacuums only wheat and beetroot
• One that vacuums only carrots and potatoes
• One that vacuums only netherwart and cocoa beans[/SIZE][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]
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[INDENT][INDENT][SIZE=5]These are just a few hasitly thrown together ideas/suggestions. I'm sure
​​​there's dozens and dozens of different ways it could be implemented. One
​​​more neat idea I had was for a rarer variant that when harvesting crops
​​​with seeds, it would vacuum the crops, but would ignore the the seeds.[/SIZE][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/LEFT]
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[LEFT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][B][SIZE=6]What are the Pros?[/SIZE][/B][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]
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[INDENT][SIZE=5]• Additional crate rewards for donators
• Being able to utilize the existing custom Vacuum tool type
 in a way that's directly relevant to the point of the server
• Adds a solution to a QoL problem some people may have[/SIZE][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/LEFT]
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[LEFT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][B][SIZE=6]What are the Cons?[/SIZE][/B][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]
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[INDENT][SIZE=5]• Time and effort actually needed to implement it[/SIZE][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/LEFT]
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[CENTER][B][SIZE=6]In Conclusion[/SIZE][/B]
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[SIZE=5]I think it would be a neat custom tool to be put in a crate
I'd love to hear any thoughts or feedback on my suggestion.
Would this be something you would add to your harvesting
method? I've included a poll, so feel free to respond to it![/SIZE][/CENTER]
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[CENTER][B][SIZE=6]P.S: Learn from my Struggles[/SIZE][/B]
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[SIZE=4]When I started making this thread, I wanted to make it look cool with a neat design.
The probalem is... if you want to do anything percise with the forum's text editor,
you need to completely abandon the Visual Editor. You need to delve deep into the
hellscape known as BBCode. That would be fine and all, but the light BBCode editor
that this site uses doesn't allow for certain features. Say you want to put a bunch
of spaces before some text to manually space things out? The tje BBCode interpreter
doesn't like that, and pretends they just aren't there. But I have a couple sneaky
tricks up my sleeve that can (and did) decieve BBCode. They're called irregular
Unicode whitespace characters. The space that appears when you hit your spacebar
isn't the only whitespace characters around. And the best thing is that they come
in all shapes and sizes, so you can always to perfectly align stuff like the ascii
box up top. I put the BBCode it took to line it up perfectly if you're interested.[/SIZE]
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