Glow Inc.
Glow Inc. is all about giving more uses to the glow ink sacs products by glow squids, along with providing other ink-related fun.
Features
Glow Ball
Uses
When right-clicked, the glow ball can be thrown to create a luminescent splat across a full surface it hits.
The projectile ignores water and the splat it leaves behind is much brighter in water, making it a great underwater exploration tool.
In addition, when the ball hits a living entity, it will add the Glowing effect to them.
Crafting
The default recipe for the Glow Ball returns 8 of them and requires two Glow Ink sacs in shapeless crafting:
Config
glowSplatPersistent Set this option to true to make the Glow Ball splat never expire.
- Default: false
glowSplatMinutes The number of minutes the Glow Ball splat will survive before disappearing.
- Default: 20 minutes
- Range: 1 - 120 minutes
Pure Glow Bottle
Ingredients: Brewing recipe with Glow Ink Sac and Water Bottles
Uses
The Pure Glow Bottle can then be crafted into a single Glowstone Dust.
Future Plans
More ink-related shenanigans, of course, including Glow Ink Fluid and an Ink Gun.- - - -
" More ink-related shenanigans, of course, including Glow Ink Fluid and an Ink Gun.- - - -"
Soo...you're basically going to create a Splatoon mod :P
If you're going to create an ink gun, glowing ink should give the spectral effect on entities. Conversely, regular ink should give the blindness effect.
Enjoying the mod so far. Thank you for taking the time and energy to create it.
Indeed, actually! When looking up inspiration for the Ink Gun I was looking at pics of the splatoon guns, which the model does resemble. It is still a work in progress, however, so that is not out quite yet.
I do l like the ideas for the effects, the glowing/spectral effect is already in place for the Glow Balls in case you didn't notice so I am sure to carry that over for the Ink Gun as well.
Thanks for the kind words, always love to hear feedback and that you're enjoying it!
In reply to TheJDill:
I hadn't noticed the spectral effect. Thanks for pointing that out.
Look forward to future progress on this mod.
What if clicking on glazed terracotta with a bag of glowing ink makes it glow in the dark?
I do not have anything planned for glazed terracotta specifically, but I do have things in the works to make cleaner, more permanent light sources using the Pure Glow Ink, so stayed tuned for that!
maybe the glow ball could be used to make glow arrows. which would work in the same way as the glow ball. but plus damage.
In reply to rafaelwatchgamer:
There are already spectral arrows.
In reply to shade_the_darkwing:
oh ye '-'. maybe you can use glow balls to make spectral arrows too?.
I can see how it would make sense to make a recipe for those, but I will not for this mod, however. I see that as being a bit out of scope for my plans with this mod.
are you allowed to configure the amount of time the place stays lit then disappears?
I do not have that functionality in the mod at the moment, but I love the idea! I think I will start working on that.
In reply to TheJDill:
I love to have optional tweaks like that, so thank you for considering :) !
v1.2.3 has just been released, which switches the Glow Ball splats to default to lasting 20 minutes before disappearing. The time can be changed using the config file, glowinc-common.toml, to a value between 1 and 120.
Thank you for the suggestion!
In reply to TheJDill:
ty for the update! I'm guessing the integer is 1 to 120 minutes?
Yes, correct! I thought the default of 20 minutes (1 minecraft day) would be good for people exploring underwater caves, but if you find that you end up changing the time to meet your preferences just let me know. I'm always happy to hear feedback
Nice Mod. It would be great if cooking 1 glow ball gives 1 glow stone dust. Maybe configurable to turn it off if not needed.
I like the idea! I think being able to cook the blow ball into 1 glowstone dust would be a bit much, but I think I'll add a recipe to cook a glow ink sac into 2 glowstone dust.
In reply to TheJDill:
Oh yes, there are 8 balls. Great! I'm waiting for the update.
Some more ideas:
1 moss carpet + 1 ball/ink sac = x glow lichen
1 sweet berry + 1 ball/ink sac = 2 glow berries
soul sand=
g s g
s r s
g s g
(g = glow ball, s = sand, r= redstone)
I think, wither skulls and the nether trees are for other mods. A recipe for sea, wooden, copper, gold, ... lanterns, maybe.
And I will never enter the nether again.
Thank you for the suggestions! I haven't forgotten about this, I am just working on making it so that you are able to get glowstone from glow ink sacs, but there will be a bit more work involved with the brewing stand AND the furnace.
Latest update, v1.2.1, includes a new item called Pure Glow Bottle, which you can get by brewing a glow ink sac with water bottles. With this new item, you then shapeless craft it info a singular glowstone.
I know this process is rather manual and hard to automate, but that is on purpose to make it so that you can't super easily get a massive amount of glowstone. This is meant to be able to just get SOME before going to the Nether.