What's the point of carpet when you can't place anything on it? I get that you can just use wool for the same visual effect but seriously.. what's the point?????
This idea is pretty simple, make an option to increase the amount of minutes (in essense, ticks) per day. This includes an option to make the day a length from 20 minutes to 60 minutes, following the same progession it would in the current version. An option for eternal night has also been discussed, as well as the ability to set the options for the length of day in server.properties on multiplayer servers.
This is not, however, an option to have a slider for both day and night. Proportion is key, so if you have a 60 minute day cycle, you would have 30 minutes of daylight.
What is debateable is how much darkness you would have.
Would you have 21 minutes of night, 4.5 minutes of dawn and 4.5 minutes of dusk, or--
Would you have 27 minutes of night, 1.5 minutes of dawn and 1.5 minutes of dusk.
The first is the standard proportion, the second is keeping dawn and dusk capped at 1.5 minutes.
I can't decide!
Most of the ideas discussed are liked by me. Be sure to comment, especially if you like this or have ideas to contribute!
Here's the nitty gritty...
At present, we have 20 minute long, 24,000 tick days in minecraft. One minute is 1,200 ticks.
I thought that this would be great for creating adventure maps. Sometimes when we make adventure maps (whether for multiplayer or single player), our focus changes from survival to following a storyline, and the ability to modify the length of day would help some (not all) maps in getting the most out of their adventure.
I think the standard ratio should be static (50% sunlight, 35% darkness, 7.5% dawn and 7.5% dusk), while giving the player the ability to set the length of day (max of 72,000 ticks, one hour day cycle) at the start of the world creation. Multiplayer maps should also be set upon creation of the world...
And an alternative
Instead of keeping the standard ratio (see above), keep sunlight at 50%, set dusk and dawn to a 90 seconds each, and have night be the remainder (so the longer the day cycle, the longer the night). To be honest, I like this idea a bit more, but maybe the previous suggestion makes more sense.
I had another idea to include with this post, but it's so big, it deserves its own post. If you'd like to comment on it / read about it, click the spoiler, and use the link.
Back in the good ol' days of early minecraft, you could light a pig or cow or chicken or sheep on fire, and they would run around lighting stuff on fire. Can that be re-added?
Oh wow that sounds funny and awesome. full support.
If this has turned into a mod development thread, then the OP can request this thread be moved to one of the Mod forum sections. If a mod is being developed and has its own separate thread, please move the mod discussion to that thread and leave this thread for discussing the vanilla idea.
- sunperp
I think its just an idea, but he's thinking of making it into a mod. Please dont move this!
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Rotten flesh jerky? It's ROTTEN for a reason.
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@mega.
You sure are rude to him, it was just an idea. I didnt know you had to be some amazing author to make an idea.
Also, YOU my friend, is the vague one. From what your saying, a "wishlist" is pretty much every idea on the site.
He's just trying to make it a better game.
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It would take literally millions of years to mine all the dirt in minecraft with even a diamond shovel. What is the point of this?
"Gives us a use for easily accumulated but not very useful items."
That's pretty much what dirt is.
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Agreed.
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Nice. I'd want a forever night time one cuz I live for fighting mobs.
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Oh wow that sounds funny and awesome. full support.
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I think its just an idea, but he's thinking of making it into a mod. Please dont move this!
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That's actually pretty cool, but it doesnt really fit this. I thumbed up your comment since I liked the idea.
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2. Great cave systems that go on for a long time.
3. A desert at or very near to the village. (Within 200 blocks)
I hope this isnt too much.
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