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Half Barrels

Description: A half barrel is a block that can hold water for Horses to drink.

Details: 

Renewable: Yes

Stackable:

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

Obtaining

Half Barrels comes in all 16 base Minecraft colors.
You can obtain a Half-Barrel by right-clicking a Barrel or Western Barrel with Shears.

Shear a Western Barrel (2 x White Half Barrels) Shear a Barrel (2 x Brown Half Barrels)
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Recoloring
You can get other color half barrels by recoloring the white or brown half barrels, or recoloring any existing half barrel to the new color. Combine 1 half barrel and one dye of the chosen color in a crafting table.

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Usage

The 1.18 thirst system is in development and will be released following testing. Some information reflects features of updates coming soon and may not work in game yet. Check the changelog (below) for more information.

Placement
Right-click a block with a half barrel in hand to place it on the ground. Unlike troughs, half barrels to not connect to adjacent water items. Half Barrels can hold 3 buckets of water and are ideal for horse stalls. If a larger container is needed for use by multiple horses, troughs can hold up to 4-16 buckets of water.

Filling & Use
Water troughs can hold four buckets of water per individual troughs. When filled the water level will gradually rise until it is near the brim, at which point the barrel contains the maximum amount of water.

  • Right-click a half barrel with a water bucket to add it to the trough
  • Right-click a spigot placed above a half barrel 
  • Rain will slowly fill an uncovered half barrel over time
 

Horses will drink from accessible half barrels and troughs when thirsty. They 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.

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Shown: All 16 color variants of half barrels.

Known Issues

  • [~] When there is a block or spigot above the half-barrel, it occasionally does not show the water level. It is still functional, and removing any blocks above usually corrects the render issue.

Changelog

PRE 1.18.2

This is not a complete list of version changes / fixes. It is a changelog of relevant wiki-related version information.

MC Version Release Notes
1.18.2
 1.18.2-1.2.3 [Beta]
 Half barrels gradually fill up when raining.

Data values

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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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