UUmater created dye pack / dyes

There are four items that are either needlessly rare, or impossible to come by in survival mode. It would be great if they could all be created (either directly or indirectly via a secondary yield recipe) out of UUmater.

Possibly it's just easiest to insert four new UU recipes which would create:

Red dye
Yellow dye
Cocco beans (I think they're used directly?)
Bone meal (it's used directly and a non-passive/neutral mob drop)

It would also be nice to create ink-sacks since killing squid to get them does not seem fun (and, if even possible, farming the squid adds more annoyance than fun)

Actually this is almost a requirement, as mobs are scarce and non-renewable resources in 1.8.1

Red and yellow die require a lot of effort to find and/or produce; if I spend more time to find it than to cultivate industrial diamonds I consider it rare; besides there are absolutely no balance issues I'm aware of.

The bonemeal is an issue for non-mobs worlds. (Which due to endermen being crazy in 1.8.1, which this still is, I have turned off; other's may simply prefer peaceful.)

The fact that your worlds happen to work for that or that you want to install those other mods doesn't change the basic premise or address why exchanging /uu mater/ for dye is a bad idea. It seems obvious to me that even one UU for one bone or bone-meal would still be more than balanced (look at the difference in potential energy). I don't know where the balance point would be, but it still sounds like a great idea to trade game energy for /my own time/.

Also a great idea, however the other items are still impossibly rare if mobs are turned off. Surely I am not the only one who has done so, though my anti-endermen reason needn't be the only one for doing so. Without mobs there are no bones, without bones the other listed items are still rare (and lightening the other dyes is impossible). Being able to synthesize bones would also be challenging since you'd need lots of power to do so with any kind of speed.

IIRC, uu-mater recipes are shape dependent (not shapeless), so that gives you 2^9 possibilities (512 combinations); not even considering using uu-mater to alter existing matter.

*edit, uu-mater

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Then I better get started.

Do let me know if you happen to find one. I expect you to find all the recipes that are listed by the recipe book mod, but I did not happen to see one for bone-meal or bones during a quick check this morning.

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Then you must have missed it, as bones were one of the main reasons to implement UUM. And since we C&Pd the UUM recipes from IC1...

I just checked, 1057 pages with 6 items, 1 page with 1 item: Thank you ever so much redpower2 for 6000 recipes shifting blocks around. Well, aside from those it was nice to see the various things that might be useful.

Of those pages, I saw a number of uu-mater recipes all together in a sequence. For the sake of saving anyone else who's not yet spoiled it I'll partly obscure the number. I the number of uu-mater recipes I saw involving uu-mater from 1.23 was a perfect square (eg, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 42, 64); none of them were bonemeal. Unless that recipe is removed/somehow doesn't work on peaceful it isn't in the recipe book.

If you do happen to know that recipe, maybe from IC1, please do try it out again (just to verify the result is still valid, not to actually produce the item).