Manually Select Multiple Flowers at Once and Bind Them All to One Block
[Apologies in advance if this idea has already been discussed, and/or implemented in any length already. This is my first time posting here and the blog post link of rejected ideas/requests on Botania's FAQ leads to a 404 page]
I would really appreciate a feature to hand select multiple Special Flowers and bind them all to a Pool or Spreader. At the current version, there are only two ways to manually bind Special Flowers to their corresponding Blocks; The first is to use the Wand of the Forest to bind Specials Flowers to the Block(s) one at a time. The seconds is the use the Floral Obedience Wand to bind multiple Special Flowers all to one Block at once that are within binding range to said Block, however if there are any in range to said Block that they player does not want bound as such, they must then use the Wand of the Forest to rebind the outlying Special Flowers to the desired Block(s).
I have had multiple scenarios where I have, for instance, several of the same Functional Flower laid out in a grid, say 20 Agricarnation, with multiple Mana Pools surrounding them, say 4. My intent here would them be to have 5 Agricarnation to a Pool, but the only way I can do this, assuming they are all close enough to where any Agricarnation could go to any pool, is to bind one Agricarnation at a time, 20 times total, OR use the Floral Obedience Wand on the first Pool, then rebind the remaining 15 Agricarnation.
In my opinion, this is exceedingly tedious.
Instead, I would prefer to select just 5 Agricarnation at once, bind them all to one Pool, then repeat 3 times. Given how Botania portrays itself and my experience with it, I don't see any reason the mod would discourage this type of interaction / building, rather it feels like a quality of life feature yet to be implemented.
I think giving this to Floral Obedience Stick would give it more, better use cases as a general tool, right now it feels somewhat limited and I find myself rarely using it. However the Wand of the Forest would also fit thematically and be a convenient feature for what is already the most common item used when setting up Special Flowers. Perhaps it could receive an upgrade via Elven Gateway, similar to the Lexica Botania? It would be an appropriate point to receive such a feature, seeing as that is when the player will unlock a large amount of Functional and Generative Flowers
As a idea for how to implement, perhaps via (shift) right clicking onto a Special Flower, the Wand and/or Rod would display "Binding Generative Flowers" or "Binding Functional Flowers", above the Hotbar (depending on what type of Flower is first selected). Then the player can select other Flowers of the same type in order to expand the selection. If they switch to selecting the other type, the previous selection is cancelled and a new one is selected. This would be so that, when they want to finish the selection, they would only click on a Pool or a Spreader, and not be managing multiple selections at once that would be going to different blocks. Perhaps also, a notice would pop up warning when some Flowers couldn't be bounded due to being out of range, and the selection box that appeared around them would turn red and stay behind for a few seconds to show which Flowers weren't bound.
Thank you for reading and for your consideration!! Botania is my favorite Minecraft Mod!! [Apologies for any typos]