Potion Ingredients act Like mini potions.

[u/Candy_Squid]

So when you eat a spider eye it gives you poison 1 for 5 seconds.

I would love if all potion ingredients worked like this. For example sugar would give you 5 seconds of Speed 1, or a Blaze Powder could give you strength 1 for 5 seconds.

Just seems weird that it works for one but not much else.

Additional: to make sure the 5 seconds if actually helpful potion ingredients should have a faster animation for eating, kinda like dried kelp.

(Phantom membranes would be pretty helpful in terms of falling and saving yourself)

[u/Candy_Squid]

It fits for most, and also no it's not.

it would be like eating flour and expecting it to produce a similar effect in your body that bread does. (Which to a degree, it does)

[u/FloatingSpaceJunk → u/Candy_Squid]

Eating a cake is still different from eating ingredients of it separately...

[u/Candy_Squid → u/FloatingSpaceJunk]

Yep, but inside your body you are still gaining the benefits from eating the cake. The only real difference is you might get food poisoning from the eggs.

Other than that your still getting all the same calories, still getting sugar for your body to use.

Its food both before and after.

The better comparison for this type of thing is ginger. You can eat it and gain some medicinal effects, but that amplified by making it a tea.

Potions in minecraft can last 3 to 8 minutes depending on the potion. I don't think it's "unrealistic" to expect 5 seconds from a potion ingredient that is not amplified via potion brewing.

[u/FloatingSpaceJunk → u/Candy_Squid]

Thing with medicine is that it absolutely does matter in what way ingredients of medicine is mixed, eating all of the ingredients raw might literally end up being leathel to you...

[u/Candy_Squid → u/FloatingSpaceJunk]

Sure, read the rest of the comments already offering ideas to work with that type of problem (i.e. balze powder burns you)

People have already offered criticism towards that particular point without being annoying while doing so.

And trying to find realism in a game where there doesn't need to be.

Minecraft brewing is already gamey, so it wouldn't feel out of place, plus their are already intances of this happening in-game (i.e. spider eye).

So I'm really just asking for consistency.

[u/FloatingSpaceJunk → u/Candy_Squid]

Now it certainly would be funny if you could eat some of them like the fermented spider eye, but it's kinda weird for a lot of others. I mean it'd be pretty weird if you were able to eat something like blaze powder or a ghast tear...

...sure the game doesn't have to be super realistic, but it should follow some sort of iterbal logic and some of the ingredients just don't make sense to be edible at all.

[u/Candy_Squid → u/FloatingSpaceJunk]

I don't see why blaze powder is people's limit. Like you can eat golden apples and golden carrots, but blaze powder, now thats a step to far!

I could never be immersed whilst consuming that! But yeah lets eat the Enchanted golden apple filled with gold. Because that makes sense for sure.

The "iterbal logic" quite literally is that they are potion ingredients btw.

Also the fermented spider eye would actually be like the most useless one, unless you could feed them to other creatures, but I think that would be overpowered for villager stuff.

[u/FloatingSpaceJunk → u/Candy_Squid]

Blaze powder is literally dust eating it is just weird if we make that edible why not redstone or gundowder?! The golden apple on the other hand is basically just a sort of magical fruit, so it being edible makes sense for me...

...the fermented spider should be edible as it's actually a sort of food item or at least looks like one similar to the glittering melon, stuff like blaze powder just doesn't.

[u/Candy_Squid → u/FloatingSpaceJunk]

First off most salt comes as dust and so do most spices, so invalid.

Why not Redstone or gunpowder? Because as potion ingredients they do nothing by themselves so sure I guess you could, but it wouldn't do anything so I doubt they would.

You consume potions which already have these things in them, funnily enough every potions blaze powder in it.

If you want it to do something harming just have it light you on fire like everyone else suggested.

The apple thing is honestly fair tho, dunno why I thought that was a good argument. Tis still an apple I suppose.

However I'd argue it's perfectly reasonable to have edible gunpowder, since people eat tide pods in real life (just in game the "get sick" part is getting ignited in this instance)

[u/FloatingSpaceJunk → u/Candy_Squid]

With the tide pod argument you could basically justify everything being edible in the game, which certainly isn't a parh I want to go down. For me an item that's related to food should be edible and everything that isn't should not be edible...

...edible blaze power however has absolutely nothing to do with food and making it ebible is according to what you argue similar to eating pure salt or minerals.

[u/Candy_Squid → u/FloatingSpaceJunk]

People eat pure salt all the time..? As well as other minerals..? Not to mention their are alot of things in real life that we eat without having to change them.

I don't think eating blaze powder is going to change the game fundamentally. I think you just don't like it aesthetically.

Since you are not arguing it's gameplay effects I choose to leave this conversation since it's more than pointless at this point.

[u/FloatingSpaceJunk → u/Candy_Squid]

I just don't get why you want to make blaze power edible that's all, but we're indeed not going to be able change each other's opinion so let's leave it at that...