I like this idea very much. However, I would change the dyeing recipe from using a red flower to dye the paper to using the dyes we currently have. 1. Because it seems more realistic to use a dye to colour paper than to use a flower the dye is made from. 2. Because it's more economical (1 red flower producing 2 red dyes). But I fully agree minecraft needs more decorational items that also have some interesting functions. You should make a poll so people can vote on the idea.
Actually, the idea was that dye would be used instead of flowers or what have you. We don't have a "rose red" icon, though, and I figured people would be able to tell what it meant.
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Unfortunately it's a lot of dye to make just one lantern if each piece of paper must be dyed individually. Too bad we can't just dye the reed to produce multiple colored paper like we can with sheep and wool. I suppose you could make it so you can dye the finished lantern, but...I dunno, that actually seems kind of cheep to me.
It wouldn't make much sense to dye sugarcane, since you can't really dye plants. I guess the logistics of dyeing a single piece of paper and a cubic meter of wool don't really add up, but I think then that would make paper lanterns a suitably expensive luxury item. And if you wanted to, you could just use plain paper anyways.
Actually, the idea was that dye would be used instead of flowers or what have you. We don't have a "rose red" icon, though, and I figured people would be able to tell what it meant.
Ahhh, sorry. Usually people use the red wool as the symbol for red dye, not the rose. But then again, you needed it to represent paper. Also, bump because this thread only has 1 page of comments.
I like it a lot, but it should be place-able on ceilings.
You could place it on ceilings just like you can place jackolanterns on the ceiling. You build a pile of dirt, leave a space between the pile and the ceiling, place lantern, remove pile and presto, lantern on ceiling.
I like this idea. I have been hanging Jackolanterns in trees to look like paper lanterns but I think this would be good, especially different colours. You could use them to create neon signage or stained glass window effects.
I was thinking for a while that maybe the different colours could do different things, i.e. yellow lantern would increase growth of trees and wheat, a green one might attract creepers, black lanterns might act as a mob spawner etc, but while I like coming up with what the different colours could do they would probably break the game and just keeping them as permanent light sources would be enough benefit for the cost in ink (especially when torches become no longer permanent).
I think perhaps to lessen the amount of dye you have to use to color the paper, you could just craft together 1 dye with a stack of paper of any size to get an equal stack of colored paper. I'll append this to the OP.
And I don't think you should have to build a tower of dirt to "hang" the lanterns from things. I'm not a big fan of having to use workarounds like that on certain blocks (see: fences, jackolanterns), and paper lanterns typically have to be hung from things regardless.
personaly its good, but all the colors/ maybe just red,blue,yellow,orange,green,purple,and white.
defenantly less light than glow stone.maybe little more light than red stone torchs but the color for decoration(or signaling something)no colored light.
This is one of those ideas that adds something quaint and tastefully artistic to the game. I like it. I have been wanting to create colored lights for quite some time.
Of course, there's a good question. Is the game capable of producing light that only affects certain colors? Would green show up black in red light?
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I could see issues if you put 2 or more lanterns of different colors near each other if they gave off a hue as far as mixture of colors to look correct and such. Something like that I would bet would take some decent coding and time, as well as memory usage. Other then that I would love to finally put lights on ceilings, chandeliers can only go so far and pumpkins just look ridiculous to me.
Paper Lanterns
I approves this.
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Ahhh, sorry. Usually people use the red wool as the symbol for red dye, not the rose. But then again, you needed it to represent paper. Also, bump because this thread only has 1 page of comments.
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You could place it on ceilings just like you can place jackolanterns on the ceiling. You build a pile of dirt, leave a space between the pile and the ceiling, place lantern, remove pile and presto, lantern on ceiling.
I like this idea. I have been hanging Jackolanterns in trees to look like paper lanterns but I think this would be good, especially different colours. You could use them to create neon signage or stained glass window effects.
I was thinking for a while that maybe the different colours could do different things, i.e. yellow lantern would increase growth of trees and wheat, a green one might attract creepers, black lanterns might act as a mob spawner etc, but while I like coming up with what the different colours could do they would probably break the game and just keeping them as permanent light sources would be enough benefit for the cost in ink (especially when torches become no longer permanent).
And I don't think you should have to build a tower of dirt to "hang" the lanterns from things. I'm not a big fan of having to use workarounds like that on certain blocks (see: fences, jackolanterns), and paper lanterns typically have to be hung from things regardless.
Paper Lanterns
defenantly less light than glow stone.maybe little more light than red stone torchs but the color for decoration(or signaling something)no colored light.
(thease are MY opinon, not an order)
i like it.
Of course, there's a good question. Is the game capable of producing light that only affects certain colors? Would green show up black in red light?
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should be able to be placed on ceilings unlike torches, and would pretty much automatically make things look nicer.