Bring back plant growth

[Dielan9999]

Please bring back plant growth. With out it, we will tear the landscape apart for basic needs like paper and wood. We can all live without mushroom spread. However this is far enough Healers are useless without paper!

 

[Dsawemd]

I love the lag free server that disabling growth has created. However, even if we ignore the needs of healers, trees are essential to minecraft, and I suspect many players would prefer to spend as little time cultivating them as possible if they will not grow by themselves.

Currently, without growth on, bonemeal is our only option for renewable crops. If we want to keep this awesome no lag with no cap server, could there be some sort of government sponsored free/very cheap bonemeal supply? Perhaps 5 bonemeal is awarded once per day? Perhaps a few stacks of bonemeal are awarded to townships on a regular basis? Perhaps logs are awarded daily and we skip the grow process all together?

This method could also be used to combat mushroom spread being disabled, although I believe that is a much less serious problem.

Step 1. Wake up in strange land.
Step 2. Punch Trees.
Step 3. ???
Step 4. Profit

without trees, we are all fucked.

also: turning on leaf decay would be excellent, otherwise we will see floating forests everywhere.

 

[richfish57]

I automatically assumed that it was a temp thing to see how much lag it was causing. I doubt it's been removed long term since, as you say dsawemd, new players are screwed currently. It's only been a day (I think) and I already see destroyed landscape

 

[Shadownub]

Exhausted all of my mass reed farm to make paper, got a load of paper, took a lift down into my house to go and put the paper away, lift glitched and suffocated me - all paper lost.

Go back to find that reeds refuse to grow.

F.M.L.

(Although this helps lag heaps, and it is in testing, I think, it just doesn't work for anyone. If wood becomes a valuable commodity, everyone is screwed Dx)

I believe you can still grow trees with Bonemeal, but replanting all of your forests using bones is a little toooo hardcore for me =P

 

[Kainzo]

We're still undergoing tests. until then use bonemeal - bukkit is working on a method to have growth re-enabled but still not have the lag. so be patient.