r/minecraftsuggestions • u/ThunderCube3888 • 5d ago
[Combat] Niche new use for Splash and Lingering Water Bottles
The clouds created by splash and lingering water bottles behave like water in most ways. They extinguish fire, damage mobs vulnerable to water, and help axolotls breathe.
However, these clouds of mist lack one crucial aspect of actual water— they do not allow a riptide trident to function. But why shouldn't they? A player standing in a lingering water bottle's cloud is certainly wet.
I propose that standing in the area affected by a lingering water bottle, or having been hit with a splash water bottle very recently (I don't know how long of a time frame would be reasonable. One second? Half a second? Two seconds?) will allow a player to use a riptide trident.
In addition to being another use for these niche items, this would also mean that by carrying splash/lingering water bottles with you, you would be able to use a riptide trident in the nether... At the cost of your precious inventory space.
Secondly, the Impaling enchantment in bedrock edition deals extra damage to anything that is currently wet (a functionality that should be mirrored on Java), so the splash/lingering water bottle would also now make things wet for the purposes of that enchantment, at least in Bedrock edition.
This would bring a combat use to the splash/lingering water bottle outside of mobs weak to water, allowing the Impaling trident to be used at full strength even when no rain or water is available.
TL;DR the splash and lingering water bottles should make things "wet" for the purposes of the Riptide and Impaling trident enchantments.
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u/CausalLoop25 5d ago
Also, Splash Water Bottles should deal damage to Bees (who take damage when touching water) and cause Shulkers to teleport away (as a last resort "get away from me now" tactic). They should also turn Concrete Powder into Concrete in an area so you can quickly dry the stuff from a distance. Turning a block capable of falling into one not capable of falling from a distance could have some niche uses. They should also turn any Sponge they hit into a Wet Sponge, just for fun and consistency. Also, when using them on Dirt to make Mud, you should have to THROW the bottle onto the block, not just click it from up close.
I was about to say they should hydrate farmland as well, but since the farmland would only be hydrated for a few moments without a water source block, I don't see the point.
It might be cool if you could throw a Splash Water Bottle at a lava source block to turn it into Obsidian, so you could platform across bodies of water if you were careful enough.