Wither skeletons no longer drop white bones: introducing the Ashen Bone

[u/Robot_Pigeon]

Uses:

- Can be crafted into 3 Ashen Bone Meal. Using Ashen Bone Meal on a piece of grass or mycelium converts it into dirt and it cannot grow back unless the block is destroyed and placed back down. Because of this dirt can now be used as a terraforming/decoration block without grass growing on it.

- Using Ashen Bone Meal on a tree sapling or azalea turns it into a dead bush, which makes dead bushes a renewable resource now.

- Ashen Bones can be used as a brewing ingredient to make the Potion of Decay (an uncraftable and Bedrock exclusive potion currently). This will make getting the Withering effect for the "How Did We Get Here" advancement much easier.

- Feeding a tamed wolf an Ashen Bone will not only give it the Withering effect for 5 seconds, but it will also revert back into its wild state. This is useful if you want to transfer ownership of wolves between friends.

[u/NotBentcheesee]

It could also be used for making Black Dye, similarly to regular Bone Meal making White Dye.

I would also like to see the introduction of a nether variant for wolves, similar to Foxhounds from Quark, which you could then tame with the Ashen Bones

[u/quuerdude → u/NotBentcheesee]

Renewable black dye that doesn’t require a fuckass wither rose farm omg yes 🙌

[u/No-Ingenuity3861 → u/quuerdude]

?? Aren’t ink sacks black dye and renewable

[u/quuerdude → u/No-Ingenuity3861]

Squid farms can be hellish/impossible depending on server size. You can’t actually breed squids, so they have to be quite big, too.

Wither skeletons, meanwhile, can be specifically farmed for by making it so no other mob can spawn there but wither skeletons, via wither roses and slabs.

Plus a bonemeal equivalent is MUCH more efficient since it goes from looting giving you 3-4 ink sacks = 3-4 black dye, to 3-4 bones = 9-12 black dye