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Blazing bamboo is a fiery bamboo species endemic to the crimson forests of the Nether, but adapts readily to a variety of stone and dry soils across all dimensions. Approach it with caution: the living plants glow with heat and deal fire damage to creatures that get too close. It quickly dies in the rain or near water, and dead bamboo plants drop gunpowder when broken.
- Peaceful renewable source of blaze rods and gunpowder
- Strong renewable fuel source that can be fully automated
- Lava rafts for safe passage across lava, like lava boats!
- An expanded set of decorative blocks
- All blocks are fire-proof, lava-proof, and ghast-proof!
- All items are fire-resistant
Blazing bamboo is fire-resistant, lava-resistant, and ghast-resistant. These properties extend to all craftable blocks and items.
Living blazing bamboo is luminescent. The shoots glow with a light level of 5, while mature stalks emit a light level of 8. Blocks of blazing bamboo, which function as storage blocks of living blazing bamboo, emit a light level of 10.
The shoots and stalks deal fire damage to nearby living entities within the same block. Stalks and blocks also deal fire damage to entities standing on top of them, and unlike magma blocks, this cannot be prevented by sneaking/crouching. Shoots and stalks deal 1 damage, while blocks deal 2 damage.
Blazing bamboo grows at the same rate as Overworld bamboo. When bone meal is used on it, it grows by 1 block. It can grow up to 8-13 blocks tall, somewhat shorter than Overworld bamboo. It has no minimum light requirement.
Blazing bamboo is sensitive to moisture. If the base of the plant is next to water or a waterlogged block, or the top is exposed to rain or snow, the entire plant dies on the next random tick. Dead bamboo shoots and stalks cannot grow, and crumble into gunpowder when broken.
Placing any form of ice block directly underneath the plant's base block will freeze its natural growth, but it can still be grown with bone meal.
Blazing bamboo generates in uncommon but highly visible patches within crimson forest biomes. The stalks range from 5 to 13 blocks tall, and can sometimes pierce through the huge fungi that dominate the vegetation.
Dead bamboo does not generate naturally.
Blazing bamboo can be mined with any tool, but axes and pickaxes are faster, and swords break it instantly. Blazing bamboo shoots and mature stalks are not broken by flowing water or lava, but can be broken with pistons.
Dead bamboo cannot be obtained, even in creative mode; it always drops gunpowder. Dead bamboo shoots and stalks break instantly with any tool or by hand, but continue to resist flowing water, lava, and ghasts.
Blazing bamboo can be planted on itself, blazing stone, and on these blocks:
- The Overworld: stone, cobblestone, diorite, granite, andesite, tuff, calcite, deepslate, cobbled deepslate, sandstone, sand, gravel, terracotta
- The Nether: netherrack, basalt, blackstone, soul sand, soul soil, crimson and warped nylium
- The End: end stone
Blazing bamboo is fireproof. However, because of its ability to produce heat, living blazing bamboo can be used as a fuel for smelting. Each blazing bamboo item smelts 4 items. Crafting 9 blazing bamboo into a block of blazing bamboo smelts 40 items, the same proportionate bonus as crafting 9 coal into a block of coal.
Crafting 2 blazing bamboo into a blaze rod is most efficient, smelting 12 items per blaze rod. This is equivalent to 6 items per blazing bamboo item, or 54 items per block of blazing bamboo.
No other craftable blocks or items are usable as fuel.
Blazing bamboo can be placed in a flower pot. As a living instance of blazing bamboo, it is luminescent and deals fire damage to entities standing within the same block or on top of it. The dirt texture in the pot changes to soul soil while it's holding blazing bamboo. Potted blazing bamboo is not sensitive to moisture and will survive exposure to rain and snow.
Use Just Enough Items (JEI) to view all crafting recipes in game. Most of the decorative blocks have similar recipes to those in Minecraft. Here are the major differences:
- 2 blazing bamboo makes 1 blaze rod instead of 1 stick
- 1 blazing bamboo makes 1 blaze powder
- 9 blazing bamboo makes 1 block of blazing bamboo, which can be crafted back into 9 blazing bamboo if it hasn't been stripped
- 9 blocks of blazing bamboo makes 1 blazing stone
- 5 stripped blocks of blazing bamboo makes 1 blazing bamboo raft (lava raft)
The stonecutter works for wooden blocks as well as stone. Try putting a block of blazing bamboo into a stonecutter!
5 stripped blocks of blazing bamboo can be crafted into a blazing bamboo raft, a.k.a. a lava raft. This can be crafted with a chest into a blazing bamboo raft with chest. All boats with chests drop their inventory when broken, so remember to empty the raft with chest before picking it up from lava!
Lava rafts float on lava, and passengers are protected from fire and lava damage as long as the raft is not sinking. Lava rafts move at the same speed on lava as boats move on water. Lava rafts also move very fast on ice blocks, like water boats and rafts.
Similar to water boats and rafts, lava rafts will sink when attempting to sail under a lavafall. A sinking raft no longer protects its passengers from lava, which can result in an unexpectedly swift death without fire resistance. However, the sinking threshold is slightly more forgiving, in order to allow lava rafts to sail up the steeper slope of slow flowing lava in the Overworld.
Lava rafts sink in water.
Unlike lava boats, lava rafts have a flat top that rises above lava level, so there's no need for lava to be rendered translucent.
Blazing bamboo can be planted in a botany pot on netherrack, basalt, blackstone, soul sand, soul soil, crimson and warped nylium, and blazing stone. It grows at the same rate and produces the same amount of drops as Overworld bamboo. Soul soil has the highest growth modifier at 1.1x speed.
One hopper botany pot with blazing bamboo growing on any soil produces enough blazing bamboo on average to fuel one furnace. Blast furnaces and smokers require two hopper botany pots.
Blazing bamboo is not edible!
Blocks of blazing bamboo can be stripped on the cutting board with an axe, which yields 1 blaze powder as a side product. The blazing bamboo door, trapdoor, sign, and hanging sign can be cut with an axe to recycle them into 1 planks, like the matching Overworld bamboo items.
Author: @PaddedShaman a.k.a. "Shaman"
The Fabric version of this mod requires Fabric API.
- Support for 1.21 is planned
- Support for other 1.20 versions may be considered based on interest
- Backports to 1.19 may be considered based on interest, but would not include the rafts and hanging signs
- Backports to versions before 1.19 will not be considered at this time
- Fabric is planned to be supported indefinitely
- Forge is planned up to and including Minecraft version 1.21
- NeoForge is planned to gain support beginning in 1.21 and indefinitely thereafter
This mod is open source and licensed under the MIT license, which permits just about any kind of use and reuse, provided that the author is given credit. You are free to use, reuse, modify, port, and distribute this mod as you wish, without requesting permission beforehand!
You may include this mod in modpacks, and distribute it on platforms such as Aternos.