Lately I was desining a China scenery. And I wanted a bamboo forest to match the biomes of China. And after building it, I found it great! So I posted as a suggestion. But I continued with the elaboration of it and finally, I created all the bases of what could be a bamboo forest biome and the uses of it. So let's start!
The bamboo is a semi-aquatic plant, like the sugar cane in minecraft. So I used it as the bamboo stamps, and I used jungles leaf for the canopea. The water cubes were obligatory for the construction, but I think it should not be there. So forget the water cubes in the pics.
The terrain:
The terrain of the bamboo forest is a grassy-semi swampy ground with mountains. The bamboo grows in pack of stamps, so the principal encounter of the biome is a four 10 high stamps pack with a small-medium canopea. It can grows everywhere, from the ground to the top of mountains. It's more concentrate around pools and lakes, and we can find 1 cube stamps packs that never grows in a total tree there.
Sometimes, we can found small concentration of bamboo that makes little forests. In these forests, the bamboo grows taller than the normal findings, and forms big patches of bamboo stamps instead of the 4 of the normal findings.
The grassy aspect of the biome is important because bamboo is itself a type of grass. It should grow everywhere it can.
The ressources:
The principal ressource of bamboo forest is of course bamboo. The bamboo is a very strong type of wood with great durability. We can craft tools, make building materials and even some weapons with it.
Mobs:
In bamboo forests, the mobs could be bears and monkeys. And in the night, the hostile encounter could be a tiger. There's the panda for the bear, but there's also other type of bears in bamboo biomes, so we could just have a traditionnal brown or black bear.
The bear could have wild state normally and hostile state if hit, so this could be a hostile source of leather and meat.
I don't have found yet a good use for the monkey. Meat probably. The cool thing is that it could run in trees to get away when hit!
The tiger could also be a source of meat, but a very difficult one to get hehe!
Uses of the terrain:
The bamboo could offer a source of stronger wood than the normal wood to make things such as:
Let's see a picture of the biome with the normal finding, the four 10 blocks high stamps:
The image of the shown bamboo could be 3 stamps instead of the 4 of the sugar cane, and be 1 pixel larger. Here's an image of the sugar cane to help you see it in your mind:
When planted, the bamboo will act as a sugar cane and grow slowly to 4 block high:
After reaching 5 blocks high, the bamboo will start to make a canopea that will change and be bigger each time the bamboo grows 1 block high, to a maximum of 9 blocks high:
The bamboo stamps can grow to 10 blocks if they grow beside another growing stamp block. But it would never be able to reach the aspect of the normal findings:
If you plant 4 stamps besides each other with a free block at it's center, it will grow to a tree-like stamps pack (forget the water cube):
Sometimes, bamboo will make little forests. In these forests, the bamboo will be taller, like 13-14 blocks high, and make big patches of bamboo stamps instead of the tree-like bamboo finding. The canopea is 2 times bigger than the normal finding. Around the forest will always be several tree-like bamboo stamps packs. In this picture, the "X" marks where the tree-like bamboo are, and the dotted line shows the aspect of the patches of bamboo stamps inside the forest:
Here's a general view of the biome, and after that there's a video:
The path will not be generated, it's the scenery construction I'm building for a race. And technically, the "trunks" should be some big sticks after farming. But we could have to break it like a tree trunk, assuming the hardiness of the bamboo.
And the leaf blocks on the trunks could be less present because it's an object of the race I'm building to slow down players.
Pensilshavings5, I think too that bamboo could occur in jungles, but I think it could have it's own biome too.
I think this bamboo forest would be better as a sub-biome. assuming you think it should grow as dense as it is in you pics. as a biome in itself it would have to be able to work as a large biome as well, and that would be insane amounts of bamboo. Other than that I like this. Support.
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Laughing_man16, you are right. I specified it too about the density of the forests. Bamboo could occur and sometimes make some little forests like the one in my pics. If not, like you said, it will be insane. Just walking in this little forest and I was a little lost after just 30 seconds in it hehe!
this is a great idea but would't lag a lot due to the bambo
ho and in the pic you use suger cane. well then aging you cant have bambo yet.
pretty much it's cool.
dannsair2, the reason is that I did'nt want to mod my Minecraft to make bamboo so I used sugar cane for the stamps of the bamboo and jungle leaves for the canopea.
"bump" I revamped from scratch all the concept to present it better, with all the little details this kind of idea shoud describe. See the first message.
I like this idea a lot, but I have to agree that it would be better as a sub-biome or a technical biome. A whole chunk of this on Large Biomes world would just be annoying.
Also, since bamboo will be different from sugar cane, what will it be used for? Can you walk through it as you can sugar cane? Is it destroyed by water? How long does it take to break with your fist? Can you mine it faster with anything else? I'd like to see more detail.
I have to agree with you with the sub-biome or technical biome. I too felt a little "overwhelmed" by bamboo in my creation. In a real bamboo forest, it could be crazy to try to get through it hehe!
So if I understand you, we could for exemple find bamboo in jungles and swamps, and sometimes in mountains?
I think we could walk through it like sugar cane because normally, in a real bamboo biome we could pass between the bamboo stamps, but i think it should slow us like the vines. Water should not destroy it, but could have a decay effect on it because it's a type of grass, or simply stop his growth if it's submerged or if running water comes in contact with it.
Breaking it with the fists could take less time than a tree trunk, but more than the sand. It could be destroy easily with a sword or an axe.
The bamboo could be used as a type of wood/stick. Here's the list of what it could be used to craft I created:
If you wan this idea to get traction you'll need to make a mod for it.
I was waiting for this comment to happen hehe! I was thinking the same thing. I'll have to learn how we make that. Do you have dome advice, link to suggest? Minecraft wiki probably?
I am in no way waving the finger or trying to undo what you have created anything stupid like that here and I deeply apologize if it ever comes across like that at all. Just giving opinions and hoping to get this topic started up again.
While I am absolutely falling in love with the cane look being demonstrated here, I just want to point out that it is actually very realistic for bamboo to grow as thick as Minecraft blocks.
Dendrocalamus bamboo species are "clumping bamboos" too so it would fit with the growth habits described and shown in your video. They are thicker than Birch trees and these species easily grow to 100+ feet.
I for one would love to build a house on and out of bamboo blocks rather than just bamboo planks, that includes building on bamboo cane style blocks.
Perhaps these could be a giant variety, like the jungle giants and the mega taiga spruces. They could be used to create larger bamboo variety biome, like comparing the smaller Taigas to the Mega Taigas.
Even if it looks cane-like the way it is being portrayed here, we are still talking about a "timber bamboo" and timber bamboo can realistically be treated the same as other wood blocks, including chopping down just the bottom half of the plant. Leaf blocks and logs hang suspended mid-air, so why should it be any easier to obtain bamboo when in real life we'd have to chop/saw through each timber? It just doesn't make much sense to me to treat the block any differently than any other tree type.
That being said I do fully support making tools and building materials out of “Hardened Bamboo”. Bamboo is heat treated to create “Heat Treated Bamboo”, also called “Hardened Bamboo”, so a furnace would be needed to heat treat bamboo to create “Hardened Bamboo”. Then the hardened bamboo could be made into “Hardened” building materials and “Hardened” sticks or “Rattan” as previously mentioned. Untreated bamboo would create normal building materials and sticks with the same durability as building materials and sticks made from trees. Another thought is that each block/stick would have to be hardened to increase durability, but that would take a lot of fuel. Rattan is traditionally used for everything from baskets and floor mats to armor and weapons, so perhaps it could be used to create a light armor and tools and weapons with greater durability.
Did you know the Eastern United States used to be partially covered in bamboo forest? Pandas could have lived here. Over 97% of it was wiped out by settlers.
I'm not so sure that a vast expanse of areas like that second, thinner forest in the video would lag the game as much as people think. I can barely play in the larger jungle biome because my computer is “slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter” , mostly do to the vine growth combined with all the jungle giants, but I've made massive cane farms and had less trouble than passing through a flower forest. If there was a fast graphics version that can't be seen through, like there currently are for the leaf blocks for slower computers, that would probably solve the problem. I'm not saying that you should make an example or change your design, just putting the idea out there.
I have been working on a Bamboo Forest Biome topic for the past few weeks and I was going to post it as a full report, but stupid me I should have performed a search before putting all that work into it. There are so many bamboo topics up it might have been deleted on sight...
I'm really loving this topic and I'm just hoping to get it going again.
And I'm posting this now before it gets any longer!
Hi,
Lately I was desining a China scenery. And I wanted a bamboo forest to match the biomes of China. And after building it, I found it great! So I posted as a suggestion. But I continued with the elaboration of it and finally, I created all the bases of what could be a bamboo forest biome and the uses of it. So let's start!
The bamboo is a semi-aquatic plant, like the sugar cane in minecraft. So I used it as the bamboo stamps, and I used jungles leaf for the canopea. The water cubes were obligatory for the construction, but I think it should not be there. So forget the water cubes in the pics.
The terrain:
The terrain of the bamboo forest is a grassy-semi swampy ground with mountains. The bamboo grows in pack of stamps, so the principal encounter of the biome is a four 10 high stamps pack with a small-medium canopea. It can grows everywhere, from the ground to the top of mountains. It's more concentrate around pools and lakes, and we can find 1 cube stamps packs that never grows in a total tree there.
Sometimes, we can found small concentration of bamboo that makes little forests. In these forests, the bamboo grows taller than the normal findings, and forms big patches of bamboo stamps instead of the 4 of the normal findings.
The grassy aspect of the biome is important because bamboo is itself a type of grass. It should grow everywhere it can.
The ressources:
The principal ressource of bamboo forest is of course bamboo. The bamboo is a very strong type of wood with great durability. We can craft tools, make building materials and even some weapons with it.
Mobs:
In bamboo forests, the mobs could be bears and monkeys. And in the night, the hostile encounter could be a tiger. There's the panda for the bear, but there's also other type of bears in bamboo biomes, so we could just have a traditionnal brown or black bear.
The bear could have wild state normally and hostile state if hit, so this could be a hostile source of leather and meat.
I don't have found yet a good use for the monkey. Meat probably. The cool thing is that it could run in trees to get away when hit!
The tiger could also be a source of meat, but a very difficult one to get hehe!
Uses of the terrain:
The bamboo could offer a source of stronger wood than the normal wood to make things such as:
- Wooden planks
- Wood slabs
- Wood stairs
- Ladders
- Fences
- Axes and pickaxe handles
- Shovels
- Hoes
- Fishing rods
- Wooden swords
The mobs could offer a source of:
- Meat
- Leather
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Behaviour of the bamboo in the biome:
Let's see a picture of the biome with the normal finding, the four 10 blocks high stamps:
The image of the shown bamboo could be 3 stamps instead of the 4 of the sugar cane, and be 1 pixel larger. Here's an image of the sugar cane to help you see it in your mind:
When planted, the bamboo will act as a sugar cane and grow slowly to 4 block high:
After reaching 5 blocks high, the bamboo will start to make a canopea that will change and be bigger each time the bamboo grows 1 block high, to a maximum of 9 blocks high:
The bamboo stamps can grow to 10 blocks if they grow beside another growing stamp block. But it would never be able to reach the aspect of the normal findings:
If you plant 4 stamps besides each other with a free block at it's center, it will grow to a tree-like stamps pack (forget the water cube):
Sometimes, bamboo will make little forests. In these forests, the bamboo will be taller, like 13-14 blocks high, and make big patches of bamboo stamps instead of the tree-like bamboo finding. The canopea is 2 times bigger than the normal finding. Around the forest will always be several tree-like bamboo stamps packs. In this picture, the "X" marks where the tree-like bamboo are, and the dotted line shows the aspect of the patches of bamboo stamps inside the forest:
Here's a general view of the biome, and after that there's a video:
So let's go! Let's think about that thing! hehe!
And the leaf blocks on the trunks could be less present because it's an object of the race I'm building to slow down players.
Pensilshavings5, I think too that bamboo could occur in jungles, but I think it could have it's own biome too.
ho and in the pic you use suger cane. well then aging you cant have bambo yet.
pretty much it's cool.
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Also, since bamboo will be different from sugar cane, what will it be used for? Can you walk through it as you can sugar cane? Is it destroyed by water? How long does it take to break with your fist? Can you mine it faster with anything else? I'd like to see more detail.
Anyways, support.
So if I understand you, we could for exemple find bamboo in jungles and swamps, and sometimes in mountains?
I think we could walk through it like sugar cane because normally, in a real bamboo biome we could pass between the bamboo stamps, but i think it should slow us like the vines. Water should not destroy it, but could have a decay effect on it because it's a type of grass, or simply stop his growth if it's submerged or if running water comes in contact with it.
Breaking it with the fists could take less time than a tree trunk, but more than the sand. It could be destroy easily with a sword or an axe.
The bamboo could be used as a type of wood/stick. Here's the list of what it could be used to craft I created:
- Wooden planks
- Wood slabs
- Wood stairs
- Ladders
- Fences
- Axes and pickaxe handles
- Shovels
- Hoes
- Fishing rods
- Wooden swords
If you mean a new object, I checked the wiki of the bamboo and I saw that it was also used to make healing medicine and flute.
Thanks for your support!
I was waiting for this comment to happen hehe! I was thinking the same thing. I'll have to learn how we make that. Do you have dome advice, link to suggest? Minecraft wiki probably?
While I am absolutely falling in love with the cane look being demonstrated here, I just want to point out that it is actually very realistic for bamboo to grow as thick as Minecraft blocks.
Just image links.
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http://www.bambooweb...charles_teh.jpg
http://nanbamboo.com...a74b2351b7f.JPG
http://www.bamboocra...430Dsinicus.jpg
http://f.ptcdn.info/...231-image-o.jpg
http://www.ynmxbambo...10715164416.jpg
Dendrocalamus bamboo species are "clumping bamboos" too so it would fit with the growth habits described and shown in your video. They are thicker than Birch trees and these species easily grow to 100+ feet.
I for one would love to build a house on and out of bamboo blocks rather than just bamboo planks, that includes building on bamboo cane style blocks.
Perhaps these could be a giant variety, like the jungle giants and the mega taiga spruces. They could be used to create larger bamboo variety biome, like comparing the smaller Taigas to the Mega Taigas.
Even if it looks cane-like the way it is being portrayed here, we are still talking about a "timber bamboo" and timber bamboo can realistically be treated the same as other wood blocks, including chopping down just the bottom half of the plant. Leaf blocks and logs hang suspended mid-air, so why should it be any easier to obtain bamboo when in real life we'd have to chop/saw through each timber? It just doesn't make much sense to me to treat the block any differently than any other tree type.
That being said I do fully support making tools and building materials out of “Hardened Bamboo”. Bamboo is heat treated to create “Heat Treated Bamboo”, also called “Hardened Bamboo”, so a furnace would be needed to heat treat bamboo to create “Hardened Bamboo”. Then the hardened bamboo could be made into “Hardened” building materials and “Hardened” sticks or “Rattan” as previously mentioned. Untreated bamboo would create normal building materials and sticks with the same durability as building materials and sticks made from trees. Another thought is that each block/stick would have to be hardened to increase durability, but that would take a lot of fuel. Rattan is traditionally used for everything from baskets and floor mats to armor and weapons, so perhaps it could be used to create a light armor and tools and weapons with greater durability.
Did you know the Eastern United States used to be partially covered in bamboo forest? Pandas could have lived here. Over 97% of it was wiped out by settlers.
I'm not so sure that a vast expanse of areas like that second, thinner forest in the video would lag the game as much as people think. I can barely play in the larger jungle biome because my computer is “slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter” , mostly do to the vine growth combined with all the jungle giants, but I've made massive cane farms and had less trouble than passing through a flower forest. If there was a fast graphics version that can't be seen through, like there currently are for the leaf blocks for slower computers, that would probably solve the problem. I'm not saying that you should make an example or change your design, just putting the idea out there.
I have been working on a Bamboo Forest Biome topic for the past few weeks and I was going to post it as a full report, but stupid me I should have performed a search before putting all that work into it. There are so many bamboo topics up it might have been deleted on sight...
I'm really loving this topic and I'm just hoping to get it going again.
And I'm posting this now before it gets any longer!
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