Have you ever been going through a cave or ravine and find a huge lava lake? Well how do you get past it? Place the water bucket you so conveniently have repeatedly until it's all obsidian. But then you have to go through the hassle of placing torches throughout that part of the cave and all of the naturally beautiful lava is gone. Well, what if there was a boat that you could use instead?
To make such a strong boat that defies lava's natural tendency to incinerate everything that comes in contact, you need a strong material. There are two that I have thought of: obsidian and diamond. The boat could be crafted just like a regular wooden boat, but obviously with different material. Obsidian makes sense because it is, for the lack of a better description, solid lava. To use diamonds is kind of a stretch to think five gems could make a boat, so perhaps they need to be diamond blocks instead.
Normally in a boat you are susceptible to a few things that could ruin your joy ride. A skeleton could shoot your boat and you're swimming. On the other hand you can accidentally bump into the shore and there goes your boat into sticks and planks. These two problems would make a lava boat extremely dangerous if it were that easy to fall out. And instead of nice cool water, it's burning lava. But taking into consideration the fact that a lava boat would be much stronger, the common boat issues shouldn't be a problem. If a skeleton shoots it, so what? If you bump the walls, so what? It makes sense that you would remain in a much stronger boat.
What would keep a player from making a lava boat and exploiting its benefits in water? Considering how reality works, lava is much denser than water. A lava boat would naturally sink in water if placed because of the extra weight whether it's obsidian or diamond blocks. So there would be no exploitation possible, or so I believe.
If a lava boat became introduced it would allow players to simply traverse through a cave even when faced with lava. Players could go along the sides of the caves and collect the precious materials easily while remaining safely in their boat. There would be no need to turn lava lakes into obsidian, which would save on torches and would leave the natural beauty in the ravines.
And you can as long as base classes aren't edited (as far as I know)
Actually, you can; the mod in my signature is proof; all you need to do is follow the instructions here (the renaming is most important or the launcher will simply overwrite the jar; this also applies to Forge, which does it by itself, same for mods that use an installer; prior to 1.6 the launcher only updated the jar if you force-updated it).
As for using a lava boat, I'd very much rather be safe and put out all exposed lava, and so what if I have to use a few extra torches out of thousands per play session (a single stack of logs makes 2,048 torches, using coal found everywhere)? This is especially true as I go along ledges in ravines (usually so narrow I place cobblestone to fill them out) to easily access ores higher up - I certainly don't want to get shot off by a skeleton and fall into lava! Covering up lava also makes it easy to know that I've been in an area before as well as track my progress (for example).
Have you ever been going through a cave or ravine and find a huge lava lake? Well how do you get past it? Place the water bucket you so conveniently have repeatedly until it's all obsidian. But then you have to go through the hassle of placing torches throughout that part of the cave and all of the naturally beautiful lava is gone. Well, what if there was a boat that you could use instead?
To make such a strong boat that defies lava's natural tendency to incinerate everything that comes in contact, you need a strong material. There are two that I have thought of: obsidian and diamond. The boat could be crafted just like a regular wooden boat, but obviously with different material. Obsidian makes sense because it is, for the lack of a better description, solid lava. To use diamonds is kind of a stretch to think five gems could make a boat, so perhaps they need to be diamond blocks instead.
Normally in a boat you are susceptible to a few things that could ruin your joy ride. A skeleton could shoot your boat and you're swimming. On the other hand you can accidentally bump into the shore and there goes your boat into sticks and planks. These two problems would make a lava boat extremely dangerous if it were that easy to fall out. And instead of nice cool water, it's burning lava. But taking into consideration the fact that a lava boat would be much stronger, the common boat issues shouldn't be a problem. If a skeleton shoots it, so what? If you bump the walls, so what? It makes sense that you would remain in a much stronger boat.
What would keep a player from making a lava boat and exploiting its benefits in water? Considering how reality works, lava is much denser than water. A lava boat would naturally sink in water if placed because of the extra weight whether it's obsidian or diamond blocks. So there would be no exploitation possible, or so I believe.
If a lava boat became introduced it would allow players to simply traverse through a cave even when faced with lava. Players could go along the sides of the caves and collect the precious materials easily while remaining safely in their boat. There would be no need to turn lava lakes into obsidian, which would save on torches and would leave the natural beauty in the ravines.
This is a suggestion thread for one in vanilla minecraft, not a mod suggestion. even though its a nice mod, but people need to start making mods for the latest version's of MC as well. I can't use 1.6.2 version as I end up having the latest and can't downgrade b/c I bought mine way later.
Mods are fine and all but you can't play on vanilla servers than and etc.
Even though I agree that this particular suggestion has been suggested dozens of times before, that rule itself is kind of ridiculous. So many things have been suggested even though there have been mods created for them, and they've made their way into vanilla. Even entire mods have ended up part of vanilla if Mojang likes them enough (example: horses).
To make such a strong boat that defies lava's natural tendency to incinerate everything that comes in contact, you need a strong material. There are two that I have thought of: obsidian and diamond. The boat could be crafted just like a regular wooden boat, but obviously with different material. Obsidian makes sense because it is, for the lack of a better description, solid lava. To use diamonds is kind of a stretch to think five gems could make a boat, so perhaps they need to be diamond blocks instead.
Normally in a boat you are susceptible to a few things that could ruin your joy ride. A skeleton could shoot your boat and you're swimming. On the other hand you can accidentally bump into the shore and there goes your boat into sticks and planks. These two problems would make a lava boat extremely dangerous if it were that easy to fall out. And instead of nice cool water, it's burning lava. But taking into consideration the fact that a lava boat would be much stronger, the common boat issues shouldn't be a problem. If a skeleton shoots it, so what? If you bump the walls, so what? It makes sense that you would remain in a much stronger boat.
What would keep a player from making a lava boat and exploiting its benefits in water? Considering how reality works, lava is much denser than water. A lava boat would naturally sink in water if placed because of the extra weight whether it's obsidian or diamond blocks. So there would be no exploitation possible, or so I believe.
If a lava boat became introduced it would allow players to simply traverse through a cave even when faced with lava. Players could go along the sides of the caves and collect the precious materials easily while remaining safely in their boat. There would be no need to turn lava lakes into obsidian, which would save on torches and would leave the natural beauty in the ravines.
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Actually, you can; the mod in my signature is proof; all you need to do is follow the instructions here (the renaming is most important or the launcher will simply overwrite the jar; this also applies to Forge, which does it by itself, same for mods that use an installer; prior to 1.6 the launcher only updated the jar if you force-updated it).
As for using a lava boat, I'd very much rather be safe and put out all exposed lava, and so what if I have to use a few extra torches out of thousands per play session (a single stack of logs makes 2,048 torches, using coal found everywhere)? This is especially true as I go along ledges in ravines (usually so narrow I place cobblestone to fill them out) to easily access ores higher up - I certainly don't want to get shot off by a skeleton and fall into lava! Covering up lava also makes it easy to know that I've been in an area before as well as track my progress (for example).
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TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
For ravines and lava lakes in caves I'll probably stick to digging tunnels along the walls since that usually works just fine.
It is against the rules to make a suggestion that already exists in a mod.
It's okay if someone makes a mod based on a suggestion, but you can't suggest something after a mod for it is already created.