Crafting tables originally can create small objects while combining two crafting tables turn them into a more effective crafting table with a wider array of possibilities. Combining crafting tables adds new parts each time until you reach 6 crafting tables arranged in any order. The newly added parts each add another physical feature and more objects.
In addition you could take a crafting table and connect a crafting table with other objects to create special types of crafting tables. Combining a crafting table with an iron brick turns the iron brick into an anvil and the crafting table into a desk, allowing you to interact with the desk and upgrade the effectiveness of your weapons and armor or repair any tool.
Forges also should have multiple purposes. First of all is the materials you use in it and the things you can forge with it. If you put charcoal in a forge while it's outside it turns into a grill that can be used to make food better than other materials and places. The form of the forge effects the speed and effectiveness at what it can be used for. Combining 4 forges on a surface creates a fire pit and when all forges in the fire pit have more than half their supply of burnable materials you can light them with a flint to make a powerful bonfire to ward off creatures and burn nearby trees. In addition if a nether portal is nearby and open the occaisional blaze would be drawn to such a wonderous flame.
Having 9 forges instead of 4 creates the mighty and powerful flame tower which is much bigger than a bonfire and burns anything less than 5 blocks away from it when active. Each forge in a flame pillar must have an entire stack of logs and a bucket of lava as a fuel. After that is done the middle one will catch fire and signal that the flame pillar will activate shortly. As soon as all 9 forges catch fire a mighty explosion happens in the form of an expanding ring that blows away nearby weak ground such as dirt and sand as well as tree leaves. Then things catch fire around it and after all the chaos subsides the flame pillar can be seen from extremely far away and burns for 9 game days and nights and causes no monsters to spawn nearby for it's entire duration. The downside to a flame pillar but sometimes an upside is that it constantly summons blazes like a monster spawner and turns some nearby blocks into lava source bricks.
Finally the enchantment table..... Now many of you may be thinking, "we have enchantment tables, snow balls, slime balls, and ender orbs and I bet they can all be used to make some powerful mage artifacts".... Well on the xbox 360 minecraft I play this is not the case. I'm here now to say it should be! Turning an ender orb into a black magic orb I, II, III, IV or V and then later augmenting it with elements like ice or a lava bucket using a crafting table sounds like a good idea to me. With several snowballs you could create a white magic orb and with slime you can create the nature orbs. Each orb can be combined with different elements for different effects. Combining ice with a white magic orb creates a healing orb while combining ice with a nature orb causes a slowing magic orb. Combining lava with a black magic orb creates a fireball orb while with a nature orb you can make a defensive firey burst around you that sets things 3 to 5 blocks around you on fire and protecting you from fire for a few seconds.
These ideas and many to come later from techshaman.
Can I request a thread movement? I just googled "minecraft suggestion forum" and went on with posting my idea... had no time to check because the ideas were fading... Some of the ideas did fade before I could write them.
I'm not sure about the implementation and the presentation is severely lacking, but I gotta love the Flame Tower. The different orb effects are also pretty cool!
I'm honestly surprised by how much I like this suggestion, since I initially figured this was a trash thread.
In addition you could take a crafting table and connect a crafting table with other objects to create special types of crafting tables. Combining a crafting table with an iron brick turns the iron brick into an anvil and the crafting table into a desk, allowing you to interact with the desk and upgrade the effectiveness of your weapons and armor or repair any tool.
Forges also should have multiple purposes. First of all is the materials you use in it and the things you can forge with it. If you put charcoal in a forge while it's outside it turns into a grill that can be used to make food better than other materials and places. The form of the forge effects the speed and effectiveness at what it can be used for. Combining 4 forges on a surface creates a fire pit and when all forges in the fire pit have more than half their supply of burnable materials you can light them with a flint to make a powerful bonfire to ward off creatures and burn nearby trees. In addition if a nether portal is nearby and open the occaisional blaze would be drawn to such a wonderous flame.
Having 9 forges instead of 4 creates the mighty and powerful flame tower which is much bigger than a bonfire and burns anything less than 5 blocks away from it when active. Each forge in a flame pillar must have an entire stack of logs and a bucket of lava as a fuel. After that is done the middle one will catch fire and signal that the flame pillar will activate shortly. As soon as all 9 forges catch fire a mighty explosion happens in the form of an expanding ring that blows away nearby weak ground such as dirt and sand as well as tree leaves. Then things catch fire around it and after all the chaos subsides the flame pillar can be seen from extremely far away and burns for 9 game days and nights and causes no monsters to spawn nearby for it's entire duration. The downside to a flame pillar but sometimes an upside is that it constantly summons blazes like a monster spawner and turns some nearby blocks into lava source bricks.
Finally the enchantment table..... Now many of you may be thinking, "we have enchantment tables, snow balls, slime balls, and ender orbs and I bet they can all be used to make some powerful mage artifacts".... Well on the xbox 360 minecraft I play this is not the case. I'm here now to say it should be! Turning an ender orb into a black magic orb I, II, III, IV or V and then later augmenting it with elements like ice or a lava bucket using a crafting table sounds like a good idea to me. With several snowballs you could create a white magic orb and with slime you can create the nature orbs. Each orb can be combined with different elements for different effects. Combining ice with a white magic orb creates a healing orb while combining ice with a nature orb causes a slowing magic orb. Combining lava with a black magic orb creates a fireball orb while with a nature orb you can make a defensive firey burst around you that sets things 3 to 5 blocks around you on fire and protecting you from fire for a few seconds.
These ideas and many to come later from techshaman.
You had no need to make that post, because the suggestions for Xbox and phone are here and here respectively
3x3 is enough to craft with.
It's actually pretty cool.
I'm honestly surprised by how much I like this suggestion, since I initially figured this was a trash thread.