DRINK CACTUS JUICE, IT'LL QUENCH YA, NOTHING QUENCHIER, IT'S THE QUENCHIEST

[True_Blue_Flare]

New cactus plant that can be grown by botany. Touching it without gloves causes mild brute damage. Putting it's product in a still or reagent extractor yields a tiny amount of a new reagent: cactus juice. When ingested it causes staggered movement and color effects similar to what LSD and space drugs cause, as while as significantly restoring the thirst motive (if on the rp servers).
Just a shameless ATLA reference, wouldn't significantly change much. I am very tired.

[Frank_Stein]

Cactus gives us tequila and peyote production. Approved

[Drunkangel]

Can we pick up and throw people into the cactus to hurt them as well?

[BadShot]

Let us stick things onto the cactus plant to decorate it

[RSOD]

something along the lines of cactus + melons to make those cacti ball plants to throw at people would be funny -- though, i really like the idea by itself. cacti are neat little plants!

[BadShot]

Oh another thing, Cactus plants grow best in low-no water, since they require very little and too much can actually be bad for them

[freedo5]

Oh another thing, Cactus plants grow best in low-no water, since they require very little and too much can actually be bad for them

compost is a water alternative too, so you just need to empty trays and fill them with that

[Skotcher]

Can the cactus act like a crappier version of nettle, too? Walking by it without a botanist suit on or something similar has a chance of you brushing up against the cactus and getting poked by a cactus needle?

[Taylorstar]

Might be a pain to code but If a cactus plant increases too much in potency/soaks up too much water it explodes before you can harvest it, kinda like the slurry pods but instead of poisoning plant trays nearby spikes like the hallucegenia from oshan burst out doing brute/bleed with damage and range increase based on potency and endurance

This way you have to manage and control your cactus plants if you want them to grow big and powerful with the safer bet being infusing seeds directly.

I feel the chance for cactus mutations could be fun too, like Balloon cactus (for exploding) style or tree styled cactus (for sticking things to)

I would love it if we could pick up the tree style cactus put it in a plant pot then stick hand held objects to it making it like a portable rack.

Since we already have a plant that allows us to sting people and inject chems I don't think it needs to takeaway from the nettles niche/lane.

We don't have many plants that offer ranged effects and I don't think it would be overpowered if a balloon cactus was to burst shoot spikes then die especially since its not something a player can directly control or time.