Suggestion, Crop Idea: Cotton

Name: Cotton

Description: This is a new crop for the IC2 Agriculture system, the Cotton that we all know well from t-shirts, underwear, and the history of the American South. The crop is fairly low tier; III or so. When harvested, it drops wool - but only plain cotton will drop white wool! There are other varieties of cotton that can be bred that drop all the other colors of wool, which can be obtained by crossing ordinary white cotton with the appropriately colored flower or other dye plant (I know there's yellow, red, and light blue flowers, a coffee/cocoa plant that will do for brown, and I think a black one as well) for the primary colors, then crossing them with each other for the colors in between (so to get orange you breed together yellow cotton and red cotton). Will make farming colored wool for pixel art or colored floors or whatnot easy on survival and you don't have to get your hands dirty cleaning up after all those sheep.

Recipe: It's a crop. Basic crop, kinda similar to wheat or hops or one of those other flowers, so white cotton probably can be obtained from crossing wheat/wheat and will just look like a variant of wheat. Colored cotton varieties are obtained by crossing white cotton with the appropriate color dye plants and/or with each other.

Edit: Removed colored cotton. We already can farm most dyes, no reason to make it redundant. Still need Green and Blue in the system though to be able to get all the colors from IC2 Agriculture.

Quote from FenixR

Wool? No.

String? Maybe (For the nooblords, 4string = 1 wool)

Different Crops for each color? Hell no, i hate getting so many Dye crops before getting something good, lets not make it worse.

You have a point - having both dye crops and dyed wool drops would be redundant. I'll remove colored cotton in a sec.

Red, Yellow, Brown, and Black dyes are all farmable with IC2's agriculture system, plus some secondary ones. The only primary ones that aren't there are Green and Blue. Eventually we'll probably have a Cactus crop, which will solve the green. Maybe some crop could be added that drops an item that has the blue dye ability of lapis but isn't lapis - much like how charcoal is renewable, but you need real nonrenewable coal to make IC2 stuff. That way you can save your genuine Lapis for Lappacks and such.

Just because it's in another mod doesn't mean it's a bad idea for IC2. It fits so well with the agriculture system! Heck, if you have those other mods installed and planted their cotton on an IC2 cropstick, might provide the compatibility to become IC2 cotton. Kinda like how IC2 provides the silver-using glass fiber recipe for RedPower users.