Growing tentacles

[CyanBlue]

Tentacles are not a renewable resource so we can't have unlimited tentacle spikes.

My idea is to bring another use for tentacle spots. When you have them in your inventory, you can either craft a hat, drop them or plant them. You can only plant them on swampy turf and they have 4 stages of growing:

1. It's just the spots planted on ground , they grow 3 days to become a size 1 tentacle.

2. Tentacle is 1/3 of a vanilla tentacle. It has different attack sounds (yes , a small one can still attack you) but a smaller attack range. Has 1/3 Hp of a normal tentacle, doesn't drop anything when killed.

3. It's size is 1/2 of a normal tentacle. Has more range than a big one and a small one. Has 1/2 Hp of a normal tentacle, doesn't drop anything when killed.

4. The tentacle which we all love and know.

So... is it a good idea?

[TheCactusThief]

I like it, you could even use it to make traps.

[Palpetinus]

As tentacle spots are pretty rare, they would still be very finite...

[CyanBlue]

But not finite at all. It's like minimalized trees- if you will not plant the pine cones , some day you will run out of wood. So it can be used for farming them , i think. And if this would be hard to make, then people wouldn't complain that's it needs to be nerfed.

Edited February 20, 2013 by CyanBlue

[MilleniumCount]

But since you don't get spots everytime you kill a tentacle there still is a possibility, of you extinguishing our little purple friends.

[CyanBlue]

Good point. It still depends on the luck , you can get two tentacle spots in a row or get only monster meat. Increased drop rate could be added to the fully grown by you tentacles.

[Tomily]

I'm sorry, but aren't tentacles supposed to respawn?I'm sure that in the worlds I've played the tentacles used to.

[CyanBlue]

Maybe, I didn't know that. But this is more fun , isn't it

[Tomily]

Maybe, If it could be planted anywhere. I know we can move turf, but I don't like that mechanic too much the way it works.Just for aesthetics I mean.When I saw the update I thought: "Yay, now I can have reeds closer to where I live", and then the game says "nooooooo you can't".Sadness.

[Ridley]

I think it would be awesome if we could put it in a devilish flower pot.Maybe make it so it can regenerate health slowly when left alone for a minute, but then you have to keep the flower pot fertilized.

[CyanBlue]

Pot for a tentacle made of nightmare fuel , deadly fashionable for Wilson