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Half Barrels

Description: A half barrel is a block that can hold water. It comes in 16 colors.

Details: 

Renewable: Yes

Stackable:

 Yes (64)
Tool: Pickaxe (Any)
Blast Resistance: No
Hardness: N/A
Luminant: No
Transparent: No
Flammable: No
Flammable (Lava): No

Obtaining

Crafting

The crafting recipe for half barrels is currently unavailable. You can obtain them through other means (shown below).

Half Barrels comes in all 16 base Minecraft colors.
Two Half Barrels can be crafted with 1 Barrel, 1 Shears and 1 Dye of the chosen color.

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Obtaining
You can also obtain a Half-Barrel by right-clicking a Barrel or Western Barrel with Shears. A Barrel will drop 2 Brown Half-Barrels and a Western Barrel will drop 2 White Half-Barrels which you can re-dye.

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Usage

(Dec 2022) The current needs system is broken. An improved immersive food/water feature is planned rather than 'patching' the old needs system. This will not be a quick fix and requires testing. It is planned to be incorporated to 1.16 and future 1.18 versions when it is stable.

Half Barrels can hold 3 buckets of water. Right-click a half barrel with a bucket of water in hand to empty it into the barrel. Alternatively, use a Spigot to fill your barrels easily without going back and forth between a water source or needing multiple buckets. 

The water level will gradually rise until it is near the brim, at which point the barrel contains the maximum amount of water.  SWEM Horses will drink from accessible half barrels and troughs when thirsty.

When drinking from a half barrel, horses will consume 1 bucket per use but may take multiple drinks in a short space of time, quickly depleting the contents. As they drink, the water levels will visibly decrease to reflect the current volume. If a larger container is needed for use by multiple horses, troughs can hold up to 4-16 buckets of water.

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Known Issues

  • [-] Stacking two half barrels creates a Western Barrel. 
  • [-] Half Barrels missing a crafting recipe and can only be acquired by shearing western barrels/barrels.
  • [Common] Occasionally, when there is a block or spigot above the half-barrel, it does not visually render water. The item is still functional, and removing any blocks above will usually correct the render issue.

Data values

swem:half_barrel_white
swem:half_barrel_light_gray
swem:half_barrel_gray
swem:half_barrel_black
swem:half_barrel_blue
swem:half_barrel_cyan
swem:half_barrel_light_blue
swem:half_barrel_purple
swem:half_barrel_magenta
swem:half_barrel_pink
swem:half_barrel_red
swem:half_barrel_orange
swem:half_barrel_yellow
swem:half_barrel_brown
swem:half_barrel_green
swem:half_barrel_lime
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