Flower Idea: Crystalthemum

Pookly

A functional flower which (without consuming mana) breaks nearby (10x10 area) fully grown amethyst clusters. When you give it mana it massively accelerates the growth of the clusters. Made from managlass, redstone root, purple and magenta petals.

Wormbo

I feel like being able to cover an entire geode with at most 8 of these flowers without requiring any resource input is way too powerful. Also, harvesting amethyst shards can already be done with vanilla (pistons/flying machines) or Botania (bore lens) means. The only unique part is potentially getting around player absence by simulating random ticks. Basically an Agricarnation for minerals.

The idea is valid, but the balance needs quite some work.

Pookly

Wormbo I had also originally thought that it would be unblalanced until I remembered that amethyst is only really useful for a few decorative things and spyglasses in vanilla, so nerfing it as a config option would allow for obtaining those blocks easier whilst still allowing modpack makers to easily balance it.

williewillus

vaz had a geode flower idea, it's buried in Discord somewhere but worth digging that out and putting it on the forums somewhere.

Wormbo

williewillus Found it, it's a really rough design for a generating flower:

Amethyst flower

new Amethyst Core block (or reuse another botania one idk)

place core inside geode, flower outside geode

flower must "see" the core in the same axis (not los) and only one core

every 20 ticks, flower destroys all amethyst blocks around it with no drops

if all amethyst blocks destroyed are exactly in the same relative positions as the budding amethyst in the geode, mana is produced relative to the amount

In other words, you set up a reference point within a geode and place the flower outside the geode. Then you replicate the structure of budding amethyst blocks around the reference block with regular amethyst blocks around the flower, and it eats all those amethyst blocks to generate mana. Would synergize quite well with the flower suggested here.

Pookly

Wormbo Could totally be called the Purple Gemanium. Also couldn't it be cheesed by filling the geode with amethyst? Another idea woud be a second mode for Crystalthemum which can conver amethyst block into budding amethyst.