Talk:Sugar Cane/Archive 1

Papyrus it shall be
Bamboo or Papyrus? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus We have to decide what it is... --Nunuru 16:52, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Lets call it papyrussy bamboo,It looks bamboo enough but the paper is made outta it so yeah a hybrid between papyrus and bamboo(BTW papyrus would be more correct as the appearance doesnt matter,uses does)--Vibhor 17:00, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It's obviously papyrus, it's just that it's hard to make the plant actually look like papyrus in such a low resolution. Bamboo does not make practical paper. --Coldonthecob 17:11, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * They are Reeds. It grows near water for one and can be made into paper. Onemanhorde 17:14, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Which type of reed would they be?Or you could just link the wiki page since from what I saw the wiki didnt had the words reed and paper along eachother--Vibhor 17:21, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia []:  * Paper reed or papyrus (Cyperus papyrus), the source of the Ancient Egyptian writing material, also used for making boats
 * So you're agreeing it's papyrus then?
 * It papyrus. How is this even possible to question? Onemanhorde 17:57, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Let's just call it aspergagus until Notch gives it a name. --Coldonthecob 17:42, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Ehhhhhh.... NO. Papyrus seems more fitting to me. Not only does it (kinda) look like it, but it fits the purpose of making paper. --Coolpilot 17:55, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The joke went right over your head. --Coldonthecob 18:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

So yeah, bamboo
Honestly, if you people can give me a logical, understandable reason why this isn't bamboo, I'd be surprised. It grows hella tall, its got rings, and it doesn't look like papyrus. Notch is a good enough pixel artist that if he wanted to make papyrus, he'd make something more along the lines of the wheat, and I doubt it would end up growing 3 squares up either, which is more of a bamboo thing than a papyrus thing. Plus the damn stuff grows like wildfire if you get it at a good spot

I'm voting it should stay on Bamboo for the simple reason that you'd be blind to mistake those graphics for anything else Mecheon 06:00, 24 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Nuff of this stupedity,I mean come on.Bamboo doesnt require water near it to grow and bamboo doesnt even grows near water usually,Bamboo doesnt make paper and papyrus can also grow 3-5 meters so it doesnt matter how it looks.Its just like redstone.I vote for papyrussy bamboo
 * I vote you use your bloody date sign thing. And yeah, bamboo does need water. Its a plant, they kinda need water, y'know? And I reiterate my point about Notch knowing what he's doing. If he wanted papyrus, he would have made papyrus. But he clearly made bamboo because that's what it looks like and grows upwards like. The only "stupidity" is that you've apparently gone blind and cannot recognise common plants based on one simply function it accomplishes Mecheon 08:31, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * He was likely referring to the fact that bamboo does not grow next to lake/river beds, but much farther away.— Dæ dαlus Contribs 08:43, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Wheat often grows more than 4 meters from a body of water, so I fail to see the relevance of water location here. Bamboo can be used to make paper and the in-game graphic looks as much like bamboo as any graphic of that resolution can. The only point in favor of the papyrus crowd is that they got here first. -74.131.49.101 08:53, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the strawman of failing to address my point. My comment is about wheat, not bamboo, so kindly do not bring up wheat when my comment is about bamboo(redundancy aside).  Given how this plant grows in minecraft, and how it grows in real life, it is highly relevant.— Dæ dαlus Contribs 08:56, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Please don't misuse the term "straw man argument," you're embarrassing yourself and misleading others. What I was saying was that Minecraft wheat refuses to grow if it is more than 4 meters (I think) from a body of water. Real world wheat does not behave like this, but it doesn't stop us from identifying the grain grown in-game as wheat. From this it is clear that plant growth with regard to water isn't a useful way of identifying Minecraft plants. If there is anything else you would like spelled out in minute detail, please don't hesitate to ask. -74.131.49.101 09:05, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * From my perspective, you were drawing attention away from the issue at hand, which is in that case, a straw-man argument. I didn't make you post a vague argument that didn't explain things, as you have above(which makes much more sense, by the way).  If you are going to discuss, at least specify; vague waves or statements don't help much, especially when you use the resulting confusion as a means to snipe at other editors such as myself.— Dæ dαlus Contribs 09:09, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * And really, there is no need for incivility. It isn't much to ask, to act like an adult(or, from what I've learned on wikipedia), the 'model' of an adult(re, I've encountered 'adults' who behave like children).— Dæ dαlus Contribs 09:11, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I seemed uncivil there. While I was checking your edits to see if I was talking with a bona fide editor, I noticed you making a different mistaken accusation of strawmanning. That's one of my pet peeves, but I should have kept it on a shorter leash. -74.131.49.101 09:32, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and I'm sorry that I jumped to that conclusion. As to whether I'm an editor..  I'm rather 'new' 'here', but I've been editing wikipedia from 2006/07, and have close to 17k contribs there.(full disclaimer: my edits come from vandal and sock fighting.  I only edit or watch an article if there has been sock activity there.(unfortunately, this gave me a watchlist of 1800 pages.))  So.. take that as you will.— Dæ dαlus Contribs 09:36, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Please, take a look at this link and stop being silly about calling it Papyrus, bamboo makes hella fine paper, easier than papyrus, and is the direct predecessor to modern paper. Please pull your heads out of your ass and do some research. See http://www.aldokkan.com/art/papyrus.htm

So both papyrus and bamboo are used to make paper and the above point about wheat implies that plant location relative to water isn't a reliable identifier. With those shared characteristics out of the way, here are the reasons I think the Minecraft plant is certainly bamboo:

- rings around the stalk at regular intervals, which papyrus lacks.

- straight vertical growth along its entire height, while papyrus stalks are less rigid and almost always bend or lean. Notch has shown with trees that he can produce non-orthogonal plant geometry if that is what he intends.

- a thin spread of leaves along the length of the stalk, as opposed to the bushy spread of leaves at the top of a papyrus plant.

It looks like bamboo. It doesn't look like papyrus. Either one can make paper. What else is there? -74.131.49.101 09:20, 24 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you, mysterious benefactor. I could only find stuff on the bamboo slips with my search. So, with all that, and the fact it grows incredibly fast, a well-known bamboo trait, we all good to call it a day on this one? Mecheon 09:21, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm for a change regarding the findings in this thread, however I request we wait for more than you two to comment here, as well as the 24 IP, to ensure everyone's participation. I'm going to make a link to this thread from the papyrus page after this post.— Dæ <font color="Blue">dαlus <font color="Green">Contribs 09:27, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

I vote we call it "Green Stuff" - makes about as much sense as red stuff did. (Not really voting for this, just pointing out how ridiculous it was to call it red stuff when we had perfectly logical names including "cuprite" (not trying to resurrect that name, just using it as an example)) In actuality, I think Bamboo seems most logical, given appearance and use. -Phoenyx 10:01, 24 July 2010 (UTC)