generating flower idea

luveelvoom

not sure of a good name for this, but a flower that can receive potion effects and generates mana based on how many potion effects it has would be cool. the formula would be something along the lines of (anti-numerical manaists don't unspoil!!!): mana per sec= ((number of unique active effects)15)+(number of unique active effects-(number of active effect levels)3)² this way, higher-potency effects, while being harder to maintain due to having shorter duration, would provide more mana. also would not be affected by incense/beacons.
example:
strength 2
speed 2
jump boost
poison (yes negative effects count!)
equals: 60 mana per sec from number of effects plus 36 mana per sec from effect potency= 96 mana per sec when the flower has these effects

luveelvoom

these numbers are hypothetical, if this was actually implemented they would probably be tweaked

adarsh

Neat idea! Think this has been floated around on vmcord in a few forms. My question is, how would you prevent it from being cheesed? First idea that comes to mind is using a Heisei Dream on two named witches, who would continuously use offensive splash potions and stay alive by drinking health/regen pots until the heat death of the universe. Also, how would lingering potions play into this, if at all?

edit: interestingly witches seem to only use regeneration potions on each other when under the influence of a HD, maybe this is to do with how they function during raids? I guess you could still use something like a Zombie Piglin to get them to use Poison potions.

luveelvoom

adarsh
the witch setup seems hard enough to do for not enough mana to not have to be patched out, but if it had to be then I would say that either it wouldn't accept potions from witches or it would require dropped potions instead of thrown ones.
For lingering potions, it would probably consume the entire potion and generate a lot more mana than usual.

luveelvoom

I'm just going to dump a few more ideas here:
A flower that turns mana-infused materials back into their original material, which costs even more mana
A rod that lets you have some sort of spectator mode? "rod of the hollow earth"?
Totems which you can put runes in, which provide an area of effect around them that does something based on the rune. The rune would be consumed after a while.
"Edicts": sort of like claimed chunks but cooler, you would be able to protect an area from being destroyed by mobs and even other players for a hefty mana cost
Mana lodestone: Infusing a lodestone with mana and making a compass with manasteel instead of iron lets you make a mana lodestone system. The compass will tell you the exact distance to the lodestone, and sneaking will create a beam of shimmering mana a short distance away, which will appear for every manasteel compass in your inventory. Maybe you could consume the compass to teleport back, sort of like an early-game version of the Eye of the Flugel, but worse because it requires using up materials
Infusing a bottle of enchanting to create a bottle of thunder, which strikes lightning where thrown but more valuably can be given to a Teru Teru Doku to start thunder
A functional flower which halts tickspeed in a large radius around itself, letting you use blocks for builds that would otherwise change over time
A functional flower that prevents PVP in an area (only direct pvp, you can still Key of the King's Law someone and stuff like that)
A flower which clears effects nearby
A rod that can trigger redstone and interact with blocks over a long distance
Corporea crystal cube matrix: click it to request all of the items in the matrix at once, useful if there's a recipe you do a lot

luveelvoom

A upgraded version of the Manastar that has its color change based on the amount of mana flow; it would grow a deeper red/blue for each log base 1.1 of mana flowing through (the exact number of log1.1's could be viewed as a bar using a wand of the forest), allowing for more precise observation.