There are a few useless things in minecraft. If we can give them a use we wont just go throwing them in the fire. 1.Cacti
Cacti is just used for trapping animals or fending off mobs. What if:
>Cactus Juice
Right clicking the bottom right will remove all the blocks right? Then people go lazy and just click the bottom part. What if clicking the top part would make it drop a cacti block and cactus juice? This would encourage people to do from top to bottom. Cacti juice could create emotion potions? Like in the movies, drinking cactus juice makes you a little crazy. So directly drinking the juice would make psychedelic effects on your screen. Inverts controls, blocks move everywhere. Can be acquired by mobs. Mobs who got the juice would just ignore the player and roam around like it never saw the player. If the player attacks the mob it would go back to its senses and attack the player again until it is given cactus juice. Mixing it with flowers gives them a use aswell. Yellow flowers makes Confusion juice. Confusion juice would make the player jump and walk randomly, losing total control. If given to a mob it will make em spin for 5 seconds and after that temporary dizziness. The red flower would make Happiness potion. A player who drank the potion would see TNT exploding and gold, diamond and iron blocks everywhere. Plants would speedily grow in the eyes of the player. If given to a mob they would dance for a few seconds. The potions can be put into food to fool other players into eating it.
>Cactus Barbs
Cactus barbs can be acquired from 3 block tall cacti. Clicking the middle part would give a cactus block and 5 pieces of cacti barbs. The barbs can be placed in the ground like red stone. The barbs deal a quarter heart damage per second when stepped on. The barbs can combined with a stick to create barbed sticks. The sticks damage like a normal cactus would do but the sticks can go together which makes it good for traps. The barbs can also be merged with leather, making spiked armor. The armor deals a quarter heart per second.
2.Reeds
A single reed block would create dozens of reeds with enough time. Their only use is to make bookshelves. The shelves need more wood than reeds which is unfair. What if:
>Blow Darts
Reeds can be made into blow darts. The darts need sticks as ammo. The sticks can be drenched in emotion juices to to some effects on enemies. The darts themselves deal a quarter heart but they have bullet accuracy. This can be used as another ranged weapon .
>Breathing Straws
The reed can be merged together to create breathing straws. The straw is placed in the helmet slot. When equipped the player can dive and breath air for 3-6 blocks. Vision is still blurred and other effects remain. The straws offer no protection. 3.Leather
Its only use is making armor. Wow what a very wide selection of uses :/. What if:
>Blanket/Rug
A flat block that can extinguish fire. This can prevent arson and forest fire if done early. Putting it on a mob would make you lose the item and temporarily blind the mob.
>Bandanna
This can be colored using flowers and mushrooms. Red mushrooms=polka dot bandanna, brown mushroom=brown bandanna, red flower=red bandanna, yellow flower=yellow bandanna. Merging the bandanna with other stuff and would make stuff like yellow polka, orange and other colors.The bandanna would be worn for design or to symbolize a clan in SMP.
>Winter Coat
If snow blocks can freeze a person to death then this can be very useful. Winter coats will protect the player from the cold. It offers the same amount of defense as a normal leather armor would.
4.Gold
Decoration. O_O. Mining all day and you get useless gold? What if:
>Reflector
Would work like a sign except its aimed upward .Any light source it would reflect on the place its aiming at. You can write on it to make like a spotlight. Try this to make something like a batman signal.
>Golden Furnace
Merge gold with a furnace and you'll get a golden furnace. Anything can be made here except all of it will be turned gold! Make a golden cobblestone house with the same properties as a normal one would!
These are the untapped potential of "The Forgotten"!!!
This is an effort to increase stuff in MC without having to add new materials. This is the 1st part of the effort. More ideas about things like these will be posted in the future. Thank you for reading.
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I liked some ideas, mabye happiness juice would turn the mobs to your side temporarily (muhaha)
The reflector would be hard to aim and the gold blocks, they might need extra block types which there is a limit to how many there are.
I can imagine a gold cactus. :smile.gif:
I only like the reed idea. I really wouldn't mind that addition. I suppose cactus juice isn't a terrible suggestion, but the whole "emotion juice" aspect of it is horrible.
The rest of them are generally useless suggestions.
I don't like your poll. You've only included positive options. Self-glorification much?
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A man can only understand the worth of his present for all eternity once he gets to see his future and past just once.
Wow, I'm surprised, this is actually one of your best ideas ever. Now if only I could be bothered posting my miscellaneous ideas... Maybe I could just post them here, without searching at all... Ok, Imma post tons of random suggestions and ideas I have. If I seem to have copied you, I didn't, but some of these ideas are quite common:
Alpha options:
>Tool decay: Slow/normal/fast/no decay
>Invulnerability: Yes/no
>Healing speed: None/1 per minute/2 per minute/6 per minute/12 per minute/1 per second/2 per second
>Mobs: Only in darkness/only from spawners/both/day time
>Mob rarity: None/low/medium/high
>Infinite blocks: Finite/infinite/Once mined*
>Day/night cycle: Always day/slow/normal/fast/always night
>Growing speed: Slow/normal/fast
>Mob health: High/medium/low
>Mob damage: High/medium/low
>Lighting: Modern/classic**
>Winter chance: 0%/25%/50%/75%/100%
>Fall damage: High/normal/low/none
>Drowning: Slow/normal/fast/none
>Starting tools: None/wood/stone/iron/gold/diamond
>Starting armour: None/leather/wood/stone/iron/gold/diamond
*Once you collect a block, you have infinite of it.
**Only light or dark, like in minecraft classic, no intermediates.
Other ideas:
>Kitten: Would have their home in a cat bed (Crafted with 3 cloth on 3 wood). When you make a cat bed, a cat would spawn there after a certain amount of time. It would usually stay near the cat bed. If it gets attacked by mobs, it would run off and disappear. It would reappear at the cat bed later.
>Puppy: Would have a home in a dog kennel (Made like wooden boots, except with a wood block on the top middle square). They would act like a kitten, except they would bark instead of meowing and purring. They would fight mobs if attacked, and could be killed if you don't help it fight. They would stay near their kennel, and would eventually grow into a dog, which makes them a lot more capable of fighting, able to kill most mobs without help.
>Baby dragon: Mostly just for fun and bragging rights, a dragon would be obtainable by killing a dragon to get its egg, then making and obsidian furnace and putting the egg and a bucket of lava in it. It would later hatch into a baby dragon. The baby dragon would kill any mobs it came near, swim in lava, and burn your whole house down whenever it wanted to. Eventually, it would grow into a full sized dragon that would burn its way out or smash through a wall, and escape. It would probably later kill you.
>Altimeters: Made like a compass, except with no iron on the sides. Right click with it to show how high you are, in relation to sea level.
>Zombie disguise: Kill a zombie, steal its clothes, put them on, and voila! A new zombie. Works better with make-up, made out of green dye and brown mushrooms mixed together.
>Dye: A flower above a bucket of water makes dye, can be mixed by placing 2 buckets of dye next to eachother. Can be used to dye clothing and leather.
>Blue flower: Red flowers are roses, yellow flowers are daisies, blue flowers shoud be tulips.
>Clothing: Made like armour, except with cloth. Can be dyed better than leather.
>Growth potion: Made with 2 saplings over a bucket of water, place it on a sapling to grow it instantly, or over wheat, reed or cacti to grow all the plants near them immediatly.
>Strawberry milk: Heals more than normal milk, made by putting a red flower over a bucket of milk. Pink coloured.
>Mud: Moves like lava, made with a dirt block over a bucket of water. Pigs are attracted to it.
No editing to be balanced, no attempt to make it any better, because I can't be bothered. Feel free to say which ones are good, which are bad, and which ones you can think of improvements for.
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I can't stop playing Destiny. Someone raid with me damn it.
You both have some good ideas. I really like using bandana's for clans. It's really practical and helpful. But most of your ideas have no use and do not advance the game in the way it should. Also slowpoke make your own thread, those are a **** load of ideas xD. I like the mud idea.
And the batman sign. Who would not want a batman sign in minecraft. :tongue.gif:
EDIT: Oh and breathing straws are extremely helpful too, good job :biggrin.gif:
Yeah, you have no idea how slowpoke and I post a lot of stuff!
Want proof? Go at www.krylus.tk and look at the posts he does
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A man can only understand the worth of his present for all eternity once he gets to see his future and past just once.
>Golden Furnace
Merge gold with a furnace and you'll get a golden furnace. Anything can be made here except all of it will be turned gold! Make a golden cobblestone house with the same properties as a normal one would!
Nice idea about the golden furnace but is should be like the golden wrench on TF2 only 100 people can get it off a sight
this all sounds awsome but no cactus stuff could work (notch could of course change that) if a block touches a cactus it stops existing like with lava thats why people who mine cactus have to start at the bottom.
the reed dart sounds good but it can be made with diamond(2hearts),steel(1heart),flint(1 half a heart), coal (explodes a 3by3 square and damages 1 half a heart to the people in the square) and flint and steel (lights a 3by3 box of around it on fire including any players or mobs)
cactus bards sound like something we need or spike blocks made with sticks and steel surrounding a cacti makes 4 spiked bocks witch function like cacti but can be placed next to other blocks so hallways can have spiked floors do kill players who don't know the secret entrance
Some of these ideas are swell. However, I argue that reeds do have another purpose, as they can hold back water while allowing you to move through them =P
now i am totally treating this page as a random suggestion page so
flood gates if trigged by a Redstone circuit or an adjacent switch it allows water to pass though making some freaking awesome traps and chests should provide power to all adjacent blocks when right clicked so it can make awesome anti theft traps
Dudes, whether they are useless or not, we get something to do with them.
They have to fit the minecraft's overall theme. The cactus juice can be part of the overall alchemy system if Notch wants to add one.
Requiring player to harvest a different part of cactus for different material if a bit too obscure, perhaps a craft reaction (just cactus block in crafting table gives spikes, cactus with bucket gives a bucket with cactus juice).
Reed ideas are fine.
All block can put out fire already (just hitting the fire will extinguish it). Decorative rug may be doable.
Winter coat would be something more along the line of wools, not leather.
Reflector: Current lighting system does not allow reflection. A beam source that "paint" another block's surface texture may be interesting.
Golden Furnace: Potentially introduces about 50% of more blocks with no additional properties (each block needs to track if its in a golden state or not). If/when Notch added a per-block overlay (by the look of grass, Notch has per biome overlay), then this may be doable.
>Golden Furnace
Merge gold with a furnace and you'll get a golden furnace. Anything can be made here except all of it will be turned gold! Make a golden cobblestone house with the same properties as a normal one would!
Nice idea about the golden furnace but is should be like the golden wrench on TF2 only 100 people can get it off a sight
NO!! it should be made by crafting diamonds blocks all around a furnace like a golden apple craft, and then do the same the to the diamond furnace to make a gold furnace (diamond just look prettier) on other topic, the golden wrench was a stupid idea, it should just be a craft with 10 hats and southern hospitality.
1.Cacti
Cacti is just used for trapping animals or fending off mobs. What if:
>Cactus Juice
Right clicking the bottom right will remove all the blocks right? Then people go lazy and just click the bottom part. What if clicking the top part would make it drop a cacti block and cactus juice? This would encourage people to do from top to bottom. Cacti juice could create emotion potions? Like in the movies, drinking cactus juice makes you a little crazy. So directly drinking the juice would make psychedelic effects on your screen. Inverts controls, blocks move everywhere. Can be acquired by mobs. Mobs who got the juice would just ignore the player and roam around like it never saw the player. If the player attacks the mob it would go back to its senses and attack the player again until it is given cactus juice. Mixing it with flowers gives them a use aswell. Yellow flowers makes Confusion juice. Confusion juice would make the player jump and walk randomly, losing total control. If given to a mob it will make em spin for 5 seconds and after that temporary dizziness. The red flower would make Happiness potion. A player who drank the potion would see TNT exploding and gold, diamond and iron blocks everywhere. Plants would speedily grow in the eyes of the player. If given to a mob they would dance for a few seconds. The potions can be put into food to fool other players into eating it.
>Cactus Barbs
Cactus barbs can be acquired from 3 block tall cacti. Clicking the middle part would give a cactus block and 5 pieces of cacti barbs. The barbs can be placed in the ground like red stone. The barbs deal a quarter heart damage per second when stepped on. The barbs can combined with a stick to create barbed sticks. The sticks damage like a normal cactus would do but the sticks can go together which makes it good for traps. The barbs can also be merged with leather, making spiked armor. The armor deals a quarter heart per second.
2.Reeds
A single reed block would create dozens of reeds with enough time. Their only use is to make bookshelves. The shelves need more wood than reeds which is unfair. What if:
>Blow Darts
Reeds can be made into blow darts. The darts need sticks as ammo. The sticks can be drenched in emotion juices to to some effects on enemies. The darts themselves deal a quarter heart but they have bullet accuracy. This can be used as another ranged weapon .
>Breathing Straws
The reed can be merged together to create breathing straws. The straw is placed in the helmet slot. When equipped the player can dive and breath air for 3-6 blocks. Vision is still blurred and other effects remain. The straws offer no protection.
3.Leather
Its only use is making armor. Wow what a very wide selection of uses :/. What if:
>Blanket/Rug
A flat block that can extinguish fire. This can prevent arson and forest fire if done early. Putting it on a mob would make you lose the item and temporarily blind the mob.
>Bandanna
This can be colored using flowers and mushrooms. Red mushrooms=polka dot bandanna, brown mushroom=brown bandanna, red flower=red bandanna, yellow flower=yellow bandanna. Merging the bandanna with other stuff and would make stuff like yellow polka, orange and other colors.The bandanna would be worn for design or to symbolize a clan in SMP.
>Winter Coat
If snow blocks can freeze a person to death then this can be very useful. Winter coats will protect the player from the cold. It offers the same amount of defense as a normal leather armor would.
4.Gold
Decoration. O_O. Mining all day and you get useless gold? What if:
>Reflector
Would work like a sign except its aimed upward .Any light source it would reflect on the place its aiming at. You can write on it to make like a spotlight. Try this to make something like a batman signal.
>Golden Furnace
Merge gold with a furnace and you'll get a golden furnace. Anything can be made here except all of it will be turned gold! Make a golden cobblestone house with the same properties as a normal one would!
These are the untapped potential of "The Forgotten"!!!
This is an effort to increase stuff in MC without having to add new materials. This is the 1st part of the effort. More ideas about things like these will be posted in the future. Thank you for reading.
The reflector would be hard to aim and the gold blocks, they might need extra block types which there is a limit to how many there are.
I can imagine a gold cactus. :smile.gif:
Negative replies will be said in replies.
Alpha options:
>Tool decay: Slow/normal/fast/no decay
>Invulnerability: Yes/no
>Healing speed: None/1 per minute/2 per minute/6 per minute/12 per minute/1 per second/2 per second
>Mobs: Only in darkness/only from spawners/both/day time
>Mob rarity: None/low/medium/high
>Infinite blocks: Finite/infinite/Once mined*
>Day/night cycle: Always day/slow/normal/fast/always night
>Growing speed: Slow/normal/fast
>Mob health: High/medium/low
>Mob damage: High/medium/low
>Lighting: Modern/classic**
>Winter chance: 0%/25%/50%/75%/100%
>Fall damage: High/normal/low/none
>Drowning: Slow/normal/fast/none
>Starting tools: None/wood/stone/iron/gold/diamond
>Starting armour: None/leather/wood/stone/iron/gold/diamond
*Once you collect a block, you have infinite of it.
**Only light or dark, like in minecraft classic, no intermediates.
Other ideas:
>Kitten: Would have their home in a cat bed (Crafted with 3 cloth on 3 wood). When you make a cat bed, a cat would spawn there after a certain amount of time. It would usually stay near the cat bed. If it gets attacked by mobs, it would run off and disappear. It would reappear at the cat bed later.
>Puppy: Would have a home in a dog kennel (Made like wooden boots, except with a wood block on the top middle square). They would act like a kitten, except they would bark instead of meowing and purring. They would fight mobs if attacked, and could be killed if you don't help it fight. They would stay near their kennel, and would eventually grow into a dog, which makes them a lot more capable of fighting, able to kill most mobs without help.
>Baby dragon: Mostly just for fun and bragging rights, a dragon would be obtainable by killing a dragon to get its egg, then making and obsidian furnace and putting the egg and a bucket of lava in it. It would later hatch into a baby dragon. The baby dragon would kill any mobs it came near, swim in lava, and burn your whole house down whenever it wanted to. Eventually, it would grow into a full sized dragon that would burn its way out or smash through a wall, and escape. It would probably later kill you.
>Altimeters: Made like a compass, except with no iron on the sides. Right click with it to show how high you are, in relation to sea level.
>Zombie disguise: Kill a zombie, steal its clothes, put them on, and voila! A new zombie. Works better with make-up, made out of green dye and brown mushrooms mixed together.
>Dye: A flower above a bucket of water makes dye, can be mixed by placing 2 buckets of dye next to eachother. Can be used to dye clothing and leather.
>Blue flower: Red flowers are roses, yellow flowers are daisies, blue flowers shoud be tulips.
>Clothing: Made like armour, except with cloth. Can be dyed better than leather.
>Growth potion: Made with 2 saplings over a bucket of water, place it on a sapling to grow it instantly, or over wheat, reed or cacti to grow all the plants near them immediatly.
>Strawberry milk: Heals more than normal milk, made by putting a red flower over a bucket of milk. Pink coloured.
>Mud: Moves like lava, made with a dirt block over a bucket of water. Pigs are attracted to it.
No editing to be balanced, no attempt to make it any better, because I can't be bothered. Feel free to say which ones are good, which are bad, and which ones you can think of improvements for.
Yeah, you have no idea how slowpoke and I post a lot of stuff!
Want proof? Go at www.krylus.tk and look at the posts he does
Merge gold with a furnace and you'll get a golden furnace. Anything can be made here except all of it will be turned gold! Make a golden cobblestone house with the same properties as a normal one would!
Nice idea about the golden furnace but is should be like the golden wrench on TF2 only 100 people can get it off a sight
the reed dart sounds good but it can be made with diamond(2hearts),steel(1heart),flint(1 half a heart), coal (explodes a 3by3 square and damages 1 half a heart to the people in the square) and flint and steel (lights a 3by3 box of around it on fire including any players or mobs)
Yes.
flood gates if trigged by a Redstone circuit or an adjacent switch it allows water to pass though making some freaking awesome traps and chests should provide power to all adjacent blocks when right clicked so it can make awesome anti theft traps
They have to fit the minecraft's overall theme. The cactus juice can be part of the overall alchemy system if Notch wants to add one.
Requiring player to harvest a different part of cactus for different material if a bit too obscure, perhaps a craft reaction (just cactus block in crafting table gives spikes, cactus with bucket gives a bucket with cactus juice).
Reed ideas are fine.
All block can put out fire already (just hitting the fire will extinguish it). Decorative rug may be doable.
Winter coat would be something more along the line of wools, not leather.
Reflector: Current lighting system does not allow reflection. A beam source that "paint" another block's surface texture may be interesting.
Golden Furnace: Potentially introduces about 50% of more blocks with no additional properties (each block needs to track if its in a golden state or not). If/when Notch added a per-block overlay (by the look of grass, Notch has per biome overlay), then this may be doable.
NO!! it should be made by crafting diamonds blocks all around a furnace like a golden apple craft, and then do the same the to the diamond furnace to make a gold furnace (diamond just look prettier) on other topic, the golden wrench was a stupid idea, it should just be a craft with 10 hats and southern hospitality.