Oldschool mushroom farming

[Jammet]

Back in the earlier days of vanilla Minecraft, you would dig out underground places and plant mushrooms on dirt blocks. Under certain light conditions, they multiply, and you can harvest the new ones after a while.

That was changed at some point, and replaced with giant mushrooms. Frankly, I always thought the old method was fun, too, and I still miss those. Could oldschool mushroom farming be implemented via a plugin, alongside this while "giant mushroom" thing that it was replaced with?

[NiLSPACE]

I thought the old way was still there. They just added big mushrooms with it.

[xoft]

Hmm, and I was wondering why my mushroom farms never worked, they were already obsoleted by the giant ones.

This should be possible to do in a plugin, although with some limits. It is quite improbable that we could make it work for already-existing mushrooms everywhere in the world. Plugins scanning chunks for specific blocks would be rather slow. More likely, such a plugin would remember mushrooms placed by players and only grow those (or their offspring, transitively).

[Jammet]

I've been trying to grow them. If this was somehow supposed to still work, I believe either they broke and never fixed it, or I'm just doing it totally wrong. I've even tried it on the pocket edition to no avail. Creating ideal light caves and such. When was the last time anyone you know ever farmed mushrooms? I stopped once the big mushrooms had to be grown because it kind of feels so awkward to me, as far as game mechanics go. I've used dirt, cobblestone, stone and soulsand for them to grow on. Tried to follow quite a lot of instruction.

Maybe I should just give it one more go to make sure it's been really replaced.

I think it's alright if only new mushrooms (or newly generated ones in terrain and caves (does Cuberite ever put them in caves? They used to be there.)) are going to grow under these conditions. Back in the old days, some of them even grew nicely in the shadows of trees, but you could easily fill entire caves with them if you had enough patience.

Old mushroom tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrNhJCj2NU

Anyway, I'll try to build a "modern" mushroom farm in single player again to make sure it's not a Cuberite thing. Just to try it again -- it's been a while.

[LogicParrot]

I thought the old way was still there. They just added big mushrooms with it.

Yes. Last time I checked, the old way was still there.