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did we get to choose a dimension, i lost some things, if we did find the theme what is it?
from what i saw in the little post its an ice dimension with the steampunk "boss"/"villain"
maybe a suggestion for him, maybe hes big and you need to climb up on him while evading his attacks, dont know if its possible, maybe just make him out of moving blocks, just an idea tho
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This started out as a post on the What Have You Done Recently thread, but that thread is active and this is a bit long-winded, so I think it's best if I post it here. The screenshots are taken in-game (rather than a creative-mode copy for this thread) and I wrote the following post as if the reader would never have heard anything about my Minecraft survival single player world . . .
Usually, I only play Minecraft during the summer months and as such, I hadn't played Minecraft since September 23 last year. After six months of inactivity, I reinstalled it a few days ago to pass some time.
I don't plan on resuming regular game play or posts to this forum for a couple more months.
My first and main base, Castle Midgard, was founded in this vanilla, hard-difficulty, large-biome world on July 2, 2014. In the past four years, I've explored a great deal of territory both above and below the surface leaving little, if anything, left to explore around the castle. Of course, since I don't use spectator mode or anything other than what I personally consider "legit," I have had some somewhat-recent surprises, but it's safe to say the area for several hundred blocks around the castle is completely caved-out.
So, I flew to a nearby outpost where adventures can still be found within the depths: the Twilight Watchtower, erected Oct. 6, 2016.
It juts out of the surrounding Bleach Bone Forest, a large-biome birch forest a few thousand blocks square. Strangely, there's a small pocket or peninsula of regular forest hills in one area of western Bleach Bone. It had the highest hill around, so I built a tower on it. Good lookout point, but it also makes for a convenient storage and refill area, so I use it as a small outpost.
I consider it cursed.
In a way, I really, actually do. We've had our go-arounds, that tower and I. It was first called the Twilight Watchtower because it sits on the west horizon when viewed from Castle Midgard, just on the very edge of a 32-chunk render distance. I'm not going to look up the link to my thread, but I had so much trouble building it because of a lighting glitch. (I lied: here is a link to the thread.) Practically the whole south side tower was painted black. I could not get it fixed until TheMasterCaver told me I would have to cover it in something like spiderwebs or moss, which I did. So, thanks again, TMC!
During those years it stood marred, I called the tower Shadowspire, but I never talked about it and never took any screenshots of it. Really, I didn't even look at it; it just became this black spike in the sky. It became like a symbol of Minecraft's glitch-infested nature to me—but I refused to tear it down. I tried not to really even think about it until, like I say, TMC told me how to fix it. I promptly did so after two years of it standing like an evil wizard's abandoned tower or something.
It stood on prime real estate for an outpost. It's close enough to the castle that most of this area was generated in version 1.7 or sometime a little later in 1.8. However, it's just far enough away that taking materials, valuables, and junk hauled up from adventuring in the deepest layers of the world was a time-wasting annoyance. It's exactly 625 blocks away from Midgard's Old Tower as the elytra flies, but on foot or hoof, it was a lot farther than that. More like 1,500-2,000 blocks if you didn't want to go climbing mountains and swimming through sizable lakes. Again, large-biome world. From the Twilight Watchtower, it takes about one night, dusk to dawn, to walk on a road with bridges there or back from Castle Midgard.
With the "curse" lifted, I have been enjoying exploring the underworld of the farthest reaches of western Bleach Bone for more almost a year now.
Venturing into the caves beneath the Twilight Watchtower all the way from the castle on foot, underground was unlikely—not this far out. However, the outpost I call Ranch 34 wasn't too far away; a few hundred blocks through rough terrain, though. At the same time, I had mapped this area during one of my extensive cartography campaigns. I mapped more than a 4x4 area of fully zoomed-out maps mostly by foot, hoof and boat, much of that before version 1.9 added a left hand. Before elytra, let alone rocket-powered elytra, in other words. Big difference.
Anyway, a few days ago, I flew to the Twilight Watchtower, then circled, looking for a spot to land and explore.
This is what I do when I'm just passing time. I just fly out and look for anything at all that I might find interesting. It might be a rock formation. It might be a cave. It might be a ravine. It could be something as insignificant as a grove of large trees. Sometimes, I'll just look around for a little while, then fly off again, looking for something else that catches my attention. Other times, I find adventure, and that's what I'm really seeking. I don't remember every single cave and ravine and crater I've ever found, but I do have a plenty of good memories of many hours of fun playing Minecraft. You can't put that in a chest, but that's what I'm seeking. Found a whole lot of it, too!
Once again, I digress. I've played very casually for a few days now centering each short session of two or three hours around the Twilight Watchtower. I delve until I fill up a couple shulkers, then head back to the surface. I dump the stuff off back at the tower, saving a trip all the way back to the castle. It's probably only three or four first-level rockets to fly back and forth, but it adds up. Remember, I built this tower before rocket-powered elytra, too. Those made everything a whole lot closer.
I've spent most my time in caves. I don't know how many diamonds I've found, but that's what I like to do, work my way down to lava level and look around for diamonds. I just take them in ore with Silk Touch now anyway. With full max enchant armor including Mending, and even backups of it all anyway—hell, treasure vaults decorated with stands of full suits of pre-Mending enchanted armor—I'll never have to mine another diamond ever again, as far as I can tell. But, I go down looking to find a few before I head back up.
I place all my torches on the right-hand side. So, I can almost always make my way straight back, no problem. I could be hundreds of blocks from where I started and have no issues returning. At the same time, I know the underworld for more than a thousand blocks in all directions from Castle Midgard pretty well. I could give underground directions to one random location to another within 2,000 blocks of the castle. When tunnels start to intersect from one trip to another, I sometimes place signs or other markers to help me understand which path I should take. If there's something I find that's pretty special, like "Biggest cave in the world?" or "Biggest ravine in the world?" I'll put several signs and markers up. Things like double mob spawners would get marked as well. I've found a few of those. With this world being so old, there are a lot of locations that I consider interesting for a wide variety of reasons, and I know where they all all. I may forget, but it's recorded somewhere, in my in-game journal, for example (I even have a text file for horses).
Well, last night, I came upon a spot I thought was important four years ago. I have no idea why. "The Diamond Mine?" I have a thousand-block branch mine now, but according to the torches, I didn't come form below, I came from above.
I thought it was funny. I had a really good time caving in an adjacent cave to one that was far, far away from home four years ago. I must have had a really good time that day, too. Something to do with finding diamonds. Might have been some of the first I unearthed. Jan 27 is three days before I started my branch mine, so diamonds were still scarce and valuable to me. That would have been in java version 1.8, I think.
I had a great time last night caving as well. So, with a laugh, I put a sign beside it:
"I was here again!" 
Not realizing I wasn't too far from the mouth of the cave that led me down here four years ago, I walked out and was surprised to find one of my obelisks. I'm not even sure now what it was I discovered!
The above screenshot shows why and I built the tower where I did. Perfect location for high visibility. This was very, very far from the castle with no roads and iron equipment. The "castle" was really just a small fort back in January of 2015. I never, ever use F3 to find my way. Back then, I didn't even know about F3! I use it now only to make measurements when building and to mark locations for record keeping, but not to find my way between points, or even what cardinal direction I'm facing. That's a lot harder to do when you're on foot or horseback several thousand blocks from home. In-game maps certainly help then, and I mapped everything.
My screenshots folder (and sub-directories of it) is where I keep a lot of records, and I wanted to record what this obelisk is, so I snapped one in-flight. That obelisk at the very top-right of the screenshot on the horizon marks a hill that is about half way between Ranch 34 (that area to the left of the screenshot) and where the edge of Bleach Bone Forest meets the grassy plains where I found my first horse, Kitt, and my first town. Back then, horses were fantastic finds. They were new-ish features of Minecraft and by far the best modes of overland transportation in rough country, especially in a large-biome world where things are spread much farther apart. For example, I had to travel more than 25,000 blocks to find my first jungle, all by land with no idea how long it was going to take me or how far away from the castle I would be. I rode Kitt the whole way there and the whole way back. The village, I wasn't so interested in finding. I knew better than to stick around it at night and at the same time, I didn't really want anything from it. I was more into exploring than figuring out villager mechanics—and I rarely ever looked stuff up about Minecraft online. Villagers were a bit of a mystery to me, one that I didn't care to unravel at the time. Of course, now I have a villager breeder below Castle Midgard, but I've still not done much with it. I have one vendor that sells Mending, but for twice as much as one that spawned naturally in the world—it's just that he's, like, more than 10,000 blocks away. He's also in a glass bubble, so I'm even less worried about losing him than the one in a glass bubble below the castle (due to MC-2025).
I ended tonight's session by writing the above post, but I also made a creative copy of the world for the sole purpose of taking pictures for this thread.
Here they are:
(Above) The distance between the Castle of Midgard and the Twilight Watchtower is considerable by foot or hoof, but insignificant for rocket-powered elytra.
(Above) I keep an in-game journal at the Twilight Watchtower just like I do at Castle Midgard. Not every day for sure, but I'll record what I'm doing for long blocks of time. For example, "March 17: Caved below tower for a few days." Most journals are less than five pages of short notes. I call them "guestbooks" at most locations other than the castle, but there are a couple other places with journals. I find it interesting sometimes to pick up a "guestbook" for some far-flung place and see when I slept there last. I'm quite nostalgic!
(Above) From the copula, one can see Longbridge on the left (east), Rose Hill Bridge on the right (west), and Ranch 34 would be more to the right of that.
(Above) The view from Longbridge.
The view from Longbridge was a lot different before it was covered:
(Above) Taken Oct. 5, 2016 during the tower's construction.
For more about the tower's construction, see my post in the What Have You Done Recently thread from Oct. 5, 2016: https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/survival-mode/297957-what-have-you-done-recently?comment=5456
Thanks for reading!
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You know what we all want? Phantoms removed. They're a big nuisance, FORCING you to sleep (which hinders exploration).
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I see that a portable alarm is convenient and I like the simplicity of the recipe. Personally I think it is too convenient, but I since I would have the option to simply not use it, why not =)
The concept of the alarm made me think of another change I would like to see: Make the daylight sensor just a light sensor, giving the light level as an output regardless of its placement under open sky or not.
It would have to be renamed to simply 'light sensor'. I think it would open up many interesting creative options for redstone builds depending on either low or high light levels in an area. And if the daylight sensor is too treasured to be replaced, why not just add the light sensor as simpler version, crafted in a 2x2 pattern?
Some examples of uses and reasons for it
EDIT: Put the suggestion for a light sensor in a thread of its own: https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/suggestions/2952078-light-sensor
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Maybe just give it 3 states of off, flickering (when close to level 7 but still above it) and constantly lit (when at level 7 or below)?
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Padlocks and Keys: Locking and Moving Blocks with Inventories
Since the introduction of chests, there have been two constant problems in Minecraft: Thieving players and chests full of random items you don't want to move. To help with both these problems, I have a few connected suggestions, which are listed below. (For the purposes of this suggestion a block or a block's inventory being "locked" means a padlock has been applied to it, not that the inventory is necessarily completely inaccessible.)
Part 1: The Basics
1) Adding padlocks and keys for locking blocks with inventories.
2) You use the padlock and key on a block with an inventory by shift-right-clicking with a padlock, locking the inventory and giving you just the key.
3) Players without the key, droppers, and hoppers then can't access the inventory until you unlock it again by shift-right-clicking on the block with the same key, giving you the padlock and key back. You don't open the inventory this way. You can still open the inventory by holding the key in your hand and right-clicking normally without unlocking it.
4) You can break a locked block like any other block, but it doesn't drop its contents.
5) You can pick up this block and place it elsewhere, with the inventory still inside. But you can only hold it in your off-hand slot and can't place it in any other inventory.
6) Double chests need to be locked on both sides in order to stop people opening them. Locked chests won't connect to any chests they are placed next to, or which are placed beside them.
7) Locked blocks can be broken open by placing them in an anvil and paying an amount of xp levels depending on how filled the inventory is, similar to how comparators calculate their output, with the percentages of how full each slot is added up used to calculate the levels needed.
The basic idea to this isn't new, but it has always been plagued with problems, to which the solutions have always been complex, unintuitive and inelegant. When conceiving this idea I swore to make solutions that were none of those. I think I have succeeded, but judge for yourselves.
One thing to note, however, is that while I set out to help with the above problems, I don't simply want to solve them. Protecting your items from other players and cleaning up are part of the game, I feel, but the methods available are often time-consuming, frustrating and impractical for the day-to-day routine.
As you might know, Minecraft already has a locking mechanic, but only in the commands. I tried to keep my suggestion as similar to this mechanic as possible, as this would aid in keeping it simple, but some things were changed because they would have made things more complex or unworkable if I had kept them. I am not, however, suggesting this command be removed - my suggestion and this command can easily work side-by-side.
For those who are interested I'll now explain each point in more detail and explain the thought-processes behind them.
1) Padlocks
Why padlocks? Well, because, as a new feature, I decided the simplest way to add it was as an extra item, instead of overhauling the GUIs of each storage block. This, and to make locking an investment (however small). It also gives an easy way to link locked inventories to their keys and makes them reusable.
Though all of these things might apply if I had just suggested a key, having just a key would mean running into problems regarding explaining why different keys fit the same container, but the container could only be unlocked using the key it was locked with, and would circumnavigate the cost of locking a block because you could use the same key multiple times (it's either that or limiting the key to locking only one block, in which case the function would be exactly the same as the padlock and key, but you couldn't tell which key had been used already). The cost for locking each block is important, I feel, because having locking containers should be an investment, not a standard thing everybody always does.
You craft a padlock with two iron nuggets and an iron ingot, as shown here:
2) Locking an Inventory
As I said, you lock an inventory by shift-right-clicking with a padlock and key, as you would to access the inventory of a horse or llama. The padlock and key item then changes into a key item:
This change is similar to the change when you right-click with a map. However, unlike with a map, the new item is only ever called "Key". The link to the block is stored as NBT data. While the lock mechanic through commands uses renamed items in hand to let the player open locked inventories, implementing this into my suggestion would have been difficult or make little intuitive sense, since then the keys would always need to be renamed, either through randomisation, in which case you couldn't rename it again yourself to your liking (such as "Bedroom Chest Key" or "Enderpearl Dispenser Key"), the renaming would need to happen upon either crafting or applying the padlock and key (a task I would prefer to leave in the proverbial hands of the anvil, the ownership of which shouldn't be necessary for using padlocks and keys) or any not-renamed key would fit any not-renamed padlock-on-an-inventory, as well as any item renamed "Key", which would defeat the purpose of the entire operation (and preventing this would require an anvil, with the same problems as before). The part I would keep is opening the container with a left click if you have the key in hand, without formally unlocking it.
One important part to this is that if you do rename a padlock and key or a key, if you lock or unlock an inventory with it, the name remains the same.
3) Inaccessability of Inventories
I tried to limit the impact of this suggestion to just what it set out to do, to make sure it didn't infringe on other mechanics too much and become less useful. As such, while players, hoppers and droppers can't access the inventory (the latter two since otherwise other players could still mess with the inventory of locked blocks outside of how the player who locked it intended them to), the function of the block outside of that should stay the same. Dispensers should still dispense items, shoot arrows and potions and put on armour, hoppers should still push and pull items in and out of other (unlocked) inventories, and furnaces should still smelt. This means that players can't disable arrow traps by stealing the arrows, for one thing.
Regarding hoppers, this could mess with some complex redstone circuits that rely on items being pulled out of one hopper while that hopper tries to push the same item into a different inventory than the hopper that is pulling (people who care will understand that). In that case I'd suggest just not locking the top hopper. There is no workaround I can think of that is simple enough not to require a GUI of sorts, unfortunately.
4) Breaking a Locked Container
In order to prevent thieves from simply busting open a locked container, something that is far easier in Minecraft than in real life, either the container needs to be made unbreakable (or simply a lot harder to break), which allows for easy griefing by placing locked containers everywhere in someone's base, or it needs to drop without dropping the contents, something for which the shulker boxes were invented and which would be, frankly, overpowered and make shulker boxes useless. Between the pressure of this dichotomy is where these types of suggestions often break. But I think I've found an intuitive workaround: See the next section.
5) Only Holding it in your Off-hand
My workaround is to let locked containers be broken and picked up, which also lets you more easily rearrange and remove chests that are in the way without making you worry about removing and rehousing the contents.
But you can only pick it up (!) in your off-hand, and you can't place it in your or any other inventory. Think of it as jamming it under your left (or right, for you lefties) arm. This has a number of uses:
1) You can only pick up one at a time, which along with not being able to store them in other inventories helps prevent shulker boxes from becoming useless.
2) Your actions are limited until you put it down, since the off-hand right-click replaces the left hand one until the off-hand is emptied. So no torches or block-placing for you until you put it down (though you can still use buttons and such).
3) Thieves can only make off with one storage block at a time. This also means vandals need to work harder when destroying entire storage rooms, either letting each chest despawn or having to dispose of each chest one by one. This one is more in your favour.
Despite all this, if this is implemented I am positive locked chests will be used like backpacks, but this is ok, I think, because all other options for with-player item transport such as mules/donkeys, shulker boxes and ender chests are in many ways superior to carrying a locked chest around, so won't be skipped in favour of this.
One thing to note is that you can lock shulker boxes, and locking them doesn't override the fact they can be stored in any inventory slot (besides other shulker boxes). Because anything else would be silly.
Currently, this part of the suggestion is compromised because of a bug. https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-84849?jql=project = MC AND text ~ offhand This should be able to be resolved, though.
6) Locked Double Chests
I thought a great deal about how to lock double chests. Before I talk about what I decided on, let me list all the ways of solving this problem I dismissed:
1) You can't have one side locked and the other unlocked.
2) You can't have the padlock split between the chests if you break one. How on earth would that work?
3) You can't have the padlock stay on the half that isn't broken, while the other half breaks and spills its contents, or vice versa have the padlock stay on the broken half while unlocking the other half.
4) You can't have the entire chest drop as a new type of double-block/item, since that would over-complicate things dramatically (having an entirely new type of item/block, having a new mechanic to place a two block wide object).
5) You can't have the double chest be broken entirely and having it split up into two items, for the reasons for rejecting or 2) or 4).
6) You can't have the padlock just drop or break when the chest is broken, because, duh.
What I settled on was admittedly a little unsatisfactory, but the only way I could think of bar stopping double chests being lockable at all.
In order to lock a double chest, therefore, you need to padlock one half and then the other before the inventory is inaccessible. Before this, the half you padlocked is considered "locked", and will drop as a locked chest when broken, but remains accessible as long as the chest it is connected to is unlocked. Only when the other half is locked does the double chest say "chest is locked". If only one half of a double chest is locked and the unlocked half is broken, the half that is locked and hasn't been broken becomes inaccessible.
If one half of a completely locked double chest is unlocked, the inventory becomes accessible again, even though the other half is still considered "locked".
If one half of a completely locked double chest is broken, that half drops as a locked chest, while the other half stays both put and locked.
Adding to this is, if a normal chest is already locked it won't connect to a chest that's placed next to it or one it's placed next to, locked or unlocked, for the simply reason that that would make stealing its contents easy. You'd need to unlock it first, then place either chest, then lock both.
While this is the only part of my suggestion that seems unrealistic and forces you to use two padlocks and keys, I decided that it was either that or not make double chests lockable at all, which wouldn't be satisfactory either, so I went with the route that didn't limit the player's freedom ingame.
7) Breaking Locks
I decided on letting players break open locked containers for two reasons: Keys can be lost, so making entire inventories completely inaccessible might be excessively frustrating, and stealing is fun, as long as not every random schmuck with a pickaxe can do it. Rogues who plan out heists and know exactly what chest to make off with shouldn't be completely thwarted, as long as they are prepared to sacrifice some xp levels (read: time) to do it. Base protection should be for thieves as well as vandals, and, while padlocks and keys can help against greed, I don't think they should be the be all end all.
What happens to a locked block when it is unlocked is simple: It becomes unlocked, nothing else. The padlock is "removed", though there is no "broken padlock" item which the player recieves, so the key becomes useless. You receive the newly unlocked block in the rightmost slot of the anvil, while any items that were in its inventory drop to the ground around you.
I decided on the anvil because what better place to literally break a lock and what better to force a player to sacrifice than levels? Levels are relatively costly, can scale, can be spent and are already somewhat abstract with no basis in reality. Any item wouldn't scale, or make sense (you wouldn't need more lockpicks to open a full chest than for an empty one, for example, and if you did, why?), and a tool could never be expensive enough and make some modicum of sense.
Through back and forth with ScotsMiser I decided on copying a system already in the game in order to calculate the amount of levels a player would need to spend, namely, the way comparators calculate their redstone output. This was to approximate the xp cost to how valuable the inventory might be, and make sure chests full of (possibly enchanted) tools were not cheaper to open than chests full of dirt. While the system is a little complicated in how it calculates the amount, all this calculation is done by the game, and players needn't be confronted with it - only with the end result, which is why I deemed it a good idea.
How this system works is follows: The amount of xp levels a player needs to pay to open a block's inventory is determined by calculating to what percentage each slot of that inventory is filled, adding these percentages up, then rounding up to the next xp level.
A couple of examples:
1) A hopper has one slot filled with 64 blocks of cobblestone. 64 is the maximum amount blocks of cobblestone stack up to, so it is a full stack, 100% filled, or 1 stack. The rest of the slots are empty, so have 0 stacks. Since a hopper has five slots, it calculates 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 1 xp level. You need to pay 1 xp level to break open the hopper.
2) A hopper has one slot filled with 64 blocks of cobblestone (1 stack), one slot filled with 16 eggs and one slot with a hoe. The eggs only stack up to 16, so it is also a full stack (1 stack), and the hoe doesn't stack, so it also counts as 1 stack. The other two slots are empty (0 stacks). To break open this hopper you need 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 = 3 xp levels.
3) A hopper has one slot filled with 64 cobblestone (1 stack) and one slot filled with 32 cobblestone (50% filled, or 0.5 stacks). The rest of the five slots are empty (0 stacks). The xp levels are first calculated by adding 1 + 0.5 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 1.5, which is then rounded up to 2 xp levels.
4) A hopper has one slot filled with 64 cobblestone (1 stack), one slot filled with 4 eggs (25% of a stack, or 0.25 stacks) and one slot with a hoe (1 stack). The rest of the slots are empty (0 stacks). You calculate 1 + 0.25 + 1 + 0 + 0 = 2.25, which is then rounded up to 3 xp levels you would need to pay.
The maximum amount that it is possible to pay with this system is 27 xp levels, when breaking open a chest or shulker box.
This part of the suggestion is as of now not possible, because the offhand doesn't show up when accessing blocks such as anvils. This would need to be tweaked, and the suggestion for it is here: https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/suggestions/48925-small-suggestions?page=666#c13908
This was part 1 of my suggestion. Part 2 will cover all the features that could be added in addition to the above, but are not part of the core suggestion.
Part 2: Everything Else
Locking doors
Being able to lock doors (and trapdoors, and fence gates) is the natural thing to think of after being able to lock chests and inventories, however, there is less reason for it to exist than the above - after all, the schmuck with a (pick)axe can just tunnel through or around. That said, there are still a number of ideas why I think locking doors (as in, not being able to move the door from one state to the other without the key) is still a good feature to implement:
1) It would work well for adventure maps in adventure mode, since then the schmuck actually needs a pickaxe, and might not have one. Actually having a key item removes the hassle for mapmakers to program something that would be bog-standard in most adventure games.
2) You could control villagers more easily, without having to block doors with blocks. For the aesthetically minded dict- I mean, caretaker.
3) Being able to lock iron doors and trapdoors in an open or closed position gives builders more options - this would mean locking a door, trapdoor or fence gate would stop redstone opening it.
4) If nothing else, it might give you a few extra seconds to prevent someone entering... somewhere.
Locking Mobile Inventories
The next natural thing to think of after locking door is locking all the mobile inventories on minecarts and animals. This would work exactly like locking block-inventories: Shift-right-click on the minecart or animal with the padlock to lock the inventory, right-click with the key in hand to open the inventory and shift-right-click again to unlock the inventory. Killing the animal or destroying the minecart drops the still locked inventory block (chest or dispenser).
The only thing that would deviate from this is the furnace minecart. Since it doesn't technically have an inventory you can access I would be fine with just excluding it fro this suggestion, but you could technically lock it to prevent coal being added. I don't know why anyone would want that, but hey, might as well strive for completion. (Note: I don't actually want this. I just don't want to redo the image I made above.)
Keyrings
Now come the suggestions with are to do with extra convenience. You might have noticed that, since every key takes up on slot of your inventory, you wouldn't want to lock very many inventories (or doors, trapdoors and fence gates). I noticed this too. Aren't we are smart bunch of people? But I have thought of a solution: Keyrings!
Keyrings are for keys what sand and ball-pits are for kids: Places/things you can put them so you can go off and enjoy the finer things in life. (Disclaimer: Please don't abandon your kids.) Keyrings let you combine multiple keys (and their NBT data) into one item. There's no upper limit to the amount of keys you can put on it.
Keyrings are crafted using four iron nuggets, like so:
Keys are then added to it by crafting them together with the keyring:
Right-clicking on the inventory (or door, trapdoor or fence gate) with the keyring will open that inventory (or door, trap- I'll stop) as long as the key that locked that... object is on the keyring. Shift-right-clicking removes the padlock from the object and the key from the keyring, placing the combined item in another slot of your inventory. This is also the only way of removing specific keys from the keyring - no other method besides a GUI would let you specify what key to remove.
The other method of removing keys would be doing so one by one, in a crafting grid. Keys would be removed in the order they were put on the keyring, or depending on where they were on the list of keys in the NBT data:
Since every key would retain its NBT value, it would also keep the name it had, if it had been named in an anvil.
Copying keys
The second suggestion to do with convenience would be being able to make copies of keys. Just like with maps and with books, keys are things that might benefit from having copies made. From having multiple keys in case you lose one, to communal chests (or giving your friends the ability to access your chests).
As the above image shows, copying keys would be similar to how maps and books are copied. You craft your key with one to eight iron nuggets, and one to eight keys are created while the original is returned to your inventory. This can also be done using the padlock.
These copies are all named "Copy of Key", with "Key" being replaced by the name if you had renamed it. Instead of as with books, however, this can only be done with the original - none of the copies can be crafted with iron nuggets. This limits the damage that can be done by rogue copies.
What's interesting about the copies is that they can't be used to unlock stuff. You can use them to open the things their originals have locked, but shift-right-clicking with them on the locked object is no different from right-clicking. This fact means you can feel safer giving your friends these keys, and means you might want to carry around a copy of a key instead of the original, in case you die and lose it.
Keyrings would accept copies of keys, though the only way to remove them would be to painstakingly uncraft them. You could technically add multiple copies as well as the original to a keyring, but this wouldn't change its function.
This was my suggestion. Feel free to critique it! (Not that I could stop you.) And feel free to suggest additions or changes of your own.
Changelog:
05.09.18 Explicitely stated the fact you can open locked blocks with the key in hand without removing the lock.
06.09.18 Added changelog.
06.09.18 Added the problems with the current offhand.
11.09.18 Changed how to calculate how many xp levels are necessary to break open locked inventories on an anvil. Cleared up confusion on other parts.
26.02.19 Added multiple possible additions to the core idea.
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The achievements system was replaced by advancements in Java edition version 1.12. Advancements guide new players and provide challenges for the experienced ones. Here you may suggest advancements for the game.
e.g.
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Peaceful
Easy, Normal, and Hard
Insane
Bats
Livestock
Rabbits
Horses, Donkeys, Mules, and Llamas
When kicking a player off, the time the player spent riding it is saved. Horses now move less randomly when a player is riding it and isn't tamed. Players are encouraged to bring horses into their bases or stables in order to have a place to tame them.
Blaze
Creeper
Drowned
Guardians
Ender Dragon
Endermite
Enderman
Ghast
Husks, Strays, Cave Spiders, Shulkers, Wither Skeletons, Withers, and Pufferfish
Witch
Slimes (maybe magma cubes)
Zombies and Variants
Phantom
Skeleton and Variants
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Falcon
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Falcons are mobs that are passive to players, but hostile to monsters.
Spawning
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Falcons spawn in quantities of 2-4 in the over world in villages. There is a 0% chance of one of the natural spawns being a baby, meaning the only way to get a baby falcon is through spawn eggs or breeding. They also get their own nest like block which they sit in every once in a while.
Drops
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Falcons will drop when they die:
*0-2 feathers
*1-3 experience orbs, if killed by a player or tamed wolf.
*1 falcon armor if equipped.
Behavior
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Falcons move by flying around, when untamed they remain within the perimeter of the village they spawned in. If attacked by a player or wolf they will fly away, only wanting to willingly attack monsters.
Falcons will follow a player holding raw chicken, but will not leave the village's area.
Falcons cannot be attached to leads.
Falcons are a villagers natural friend, making sure to warn the village early on when they should get to safety.
Falcons will attack zombies, creepers, skeletons, and illagers.
Being Attacked
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Falcons are attacked by the following mobs:
*Pillagers
*Vindicators
Breeding
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If two falcons are fed with raw chicken, or raw rabbit they will enter love mode. They will then mate a baby falcon, which can be tamed by the player.
Mobs They Attack
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Falcons are attacked by the following mobs:
*Zombies
*Spiders
*Skeletons
*Illager
Equipment
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Tamed or happy falcons will have the following slot available:
*Falcon Armor Slot: For equipping falcon armor. Exclusive to falcons.
Falcon Armor
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Falcon armor will have a rare chance to be placed inside of a village chest, and can be traded with the Blacksmith Armorer for either:
*2 iron and 2 feathers
*2 gold and 2 feathers
*2 diamond and 2 feathers
The trade is corresponding to what the armor is made out of.
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Ambient Rework: Making Minecraft Feel Alive
One area that Minecraft is very obviously lacking is ambience. After the awe of first playing wears off, the world doesn't feel alive anymore, and that's because there's little to hear and little to see moving. With this suggestion I'm going to propose some small additions that would go together to completely revamp the Minecraft experience, and bring new life to the game.
Audio Loops
Just like there are music tracks that play, there will now be somewhat quiet audio loops that play depending on the biome you're in. These are constant and represent the animals in the biome. In biomes with birds you'll hear birds chirping. In deserts and mountains you'll hear the wind. In beaches you'll hear the seagulls. At night, depending on the biome, you would also be able to faintly hear crickets or cicadas.
Small Details
Trees now have a leaf falling animation. This only plays sometimes, and all trees will be synced up in it as if there were seasons. If seasons were ever implemented, this would be correlated with the "fall" season.
In addition to this, leaves will also now occasionally drop sticks as long as there is a block of air below them, even if they aren't decaying.
Fireflies would now spawn at night in plains and swamps. They'd look like floating XP orbs, and could be collected with an empty bottle to get a firefly in a bottle, which can be placed and emits as much light as glowstone.
At night, if near or in a spruce forest / pack of wolves, you can hear the wolves howling. This does not happen every night, but almost always happens when there is a full moon.
As suggested by Reddit user u/PieterHugo2, passive farm animal mobs (cows, sheep, etc.) should lay down at night and shut their eyes.
Dust storms can happen in deserts, which create a thick sand-colored fog.
Now I'd like to talk about mobs. I'm not asking for anything major, but having some new common mobs would definitely make the game feel more alive.
Birds
We already have the chicken and parrot, but not anything that is common, dynamic, and in a common biome. Here I propose four birds: the blue jay, the cardinal, the seagull, and the hawk.
Blue jays spawn in all forest biomes except for dark oak forests and mega taigas. They sit in trees and occasionally fly from tree to tree, or onto the ground to pick up a stick.
[Model in Progress]
Cardinals look almost identical to blue jays, but are red and 1 pixel shorter. They spawn in all forest biomes and will not spawn in areas where there are blue jays within 50 blocks. Blue jays have the spawn priority, meaning blue jays are slightly more common. Cardinals will also go to the ground to pick up or search for sticks.
[Model in Progress]
Seagulls spawn in beaches, and spend just as much time on the ground as they do in the air. They make
Hawk model courtesy of MCvinnyq
Hawks are different than the other birds I've mentioned so far. They are not common, and spawn alone. They swoop down and will pick up rabbits with their talons, taking the rabbit far away. If you get too close to a hawk, it will swoop down and attack you until you go away, dealing 4 (
) damage.
Frogs
At the moment, swamps are pretty empty during the day. There are sometimes pigs or cows in the more open spaces, but other than that, there really isn't much.
Spawning in swamps and ponds, frogs would look like retextured rabbits without ears, and would have a distinctive croaking sound. They hop around from lily pad to lily pad, and cover great distance in each leap. They will quickly stick their tongue out to attack spiders, dealing 2() damage. Frogs will follow you if you're holding spider eyes, and can be bred with the spider eyes.
Frogs are a great aesthetic mob, and can also be taken back to your base to help defend against spiders.
Larger Details
Just as in shaders (but to a lesser degree), leaves, grass, and flowers now blow in the wind. Unlike how most shaders make it look like there's a tornado nearby, this would just be a faint effect. Because this might lag lower end PCs, this has its own toggle button in the Video Settings.
Water that is in any kind of ocean biome has a similar effect, but amplified in the y-axis, making it look like there are waves. This is amplified more when it's raining, and even more when there is a thunder storm. As with the moving leaves, this has its own toggle button in the Video Settings.
Music
There are some tracks which are currently unused in Minecraft for unknown reasons. This includes C418's "Excuse" (which should play when above ground at night, as it'd create a spooky mood with the monsters about), C418's "Equinoxe" (which could play when the Ender Dragon is defeated or when in a stronghold), C418's "Door" (which could play while in a village). I think these should all be used.
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Encounter a frozen world, where both ruin and prosperity await. A world so cold blizzards frequently ravage the land- yet the local life has adapted, creating an ecosystem from snowy sentient balls to mighty dinosaurs. Underneath the icy surface lies a second ecosystem- the cavernous aquatic realm- where many deep-sea fishes await. In the skies are the Explorers of the World- the Tundran Villagers, who have set sail with their regal airships.
Yet there is an enemy lurking within this world. Hoping to destroy everything- the good and the bad- that we have just described. It is the Gear, an evil supercomputer who desires more and more resources, more and more destruction of the natural habitat. The Tundrans have formed a resistance to oppose its machine army, but it is up to you to lead them to victory. Will you save the Frist, or fall victim to its many traps? Only time will tell…
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Because C1ff's countless valid reasons regarding game balance don't seem to be working, I'll try another approach- LOGIC:
According to the Minecraft Wiki: Fishing is the process of using a fishing rod to obtain items, usually fish.
Minecraft can't code all the fish in the ocean without tremendous lag, so they resort to invisible fishes for the fishing rod to take. But in Minecraft's lore, there are lots of fish underwater which you are pulling up from the sea. This makes perfect sense in an ocean or in a pond. Treasure also must exist at the bottom of the sea.
So how are so many fishes, leather, and books chilling in a 1 x 1 x 1 cubic meter space? This is a bug in Mojang's attempt to represent fishing. It's not a playstyle it is a glitch, and should, therefore, be removed.
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Does the Aether really fit into the game?
The current two dimensions are very unique and act separate from each other. The Nether is based on the underworld and the End is based on... something. They also all serve their own main purpose- the Nether for fast travel, the End for the end dragon boss.
The Aether, on the other hand, is really just a ripoff of the Nether. Even the name isn't original, everything is an exact inverse. This might work if the only dimensions were the normal world and hell, but how does the end factor into the religious theme? Part of the reason is that the Aether was created before the End. Most of the mobs are ripoffs- flying animals or blue slimes or a ghast with a different model. And terrain gen is directly taken from Notch's skylands. And what's the main purpose of the Aether?
Don't get me wrong, I like the Aether a lot. But ultimately, it feels like a mod, not a suggestion.
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The nether desperately needs to be expanded. Half the available space is wasted.
Wouldn’t mind the End having islands vertically, making it even more complex and confusing.
But let’s be real, the real reason you’re suggesting this is to help Renbob fly his van higher into the sky.
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Thank you for your feedback!
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That's not actually a bad idea... the only issue I can think of is the technical side. Would this be reasonable? I imagine it requires converting the bed into an entity of some sort. Support.
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I agree with AaronBlader. Although I was hopefully going in, the vast majority of this suggestion is one of two things-
1. Rehashing Overworld mechanics and bringing them into the End- which poor dimension mods are notorious for.
2. Original ideas with awkward names that could be abused by griefers. If these were to be kept and revised, they could make for a high-quality suggestion.
While I don't necessarily blame you- the End's confusing theme makes it an incredibly difficult place to create a suggestion for, especially a full-fledged overhaul- I have to give you No Support.
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You know how sometimes your parkour will just fail on you, and halfway through your jump, your sprint will stop?
That happened to me in the End.
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In light of MCF's troubles, the Frist has been moved to discord. Frist Discord Link
As the final days come upon us, the finished project has been posted to the Suggestions Forum. It will continue to be expanded upon in the discord.
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It came to me that a lot of people post a quick idea of theirs on the suggestion forum, get negative replies, and then never visit the forum again. The truth of the matter is that that forum’s a very serious discussion on implementing new features into the game. Imagine it like a board meeting for a company- saying a random thought won’t get you much support. A good suggestion, while fun, take days to create- time most of the community can’t afford. I think that’s why lots of people prevalent here avoid that sub forum.
While the seriousness does provide better feedback, I feel that it allows prevents a lot of great concepts off the drawing board. The small suggestions thread is rarely reviewed, so it doesn’t help much. There’s so many people here, it’s a shame we don’t all have the time to post detailed suggestions.
With that in mind, I’d like to introduce this thread. Collaborative Suggesting, is as its name suggests- a suggestion created by the entire Minecraft community. I will help by making sure the thread’s on track and updating the OP, but the rest is up to the community. We’re all creating this together, so we all have an equal say. You can chime in by adding some feedback, posting a little idea of yours, or could recurring post your thoughts and options.
I don’t know how popular this’ll be, but hopefully it sticks. It has the potential to become a very cool thread.
Let’s Get This Started!
To the start off, I thought we’d go with the most creative option available- building a new dimension from the ground up. Dimensions have so many possibilities- world generation, relationship with other dimensions, and the inhabitants of the world; to name a few. If you have any ideas for a new block, item, mob, structure, boss, anything- please post it. It doesn’t have to follow the suggestion forum rules, so it can be a vague wishlist for all I care. Just make sure you give a basic description so we know what you’re talking about, and it should be related to the dimension.
I think if hundreds of people start pitching in little ideas of theirs, we’ll have enough to create a new dimension three times over. This can be a place where everyone can work together, from experienced suggestors to everyday posters to new members.
After the dimension have been created and agreed upon by the majority, I’ll post the final product the suggestions forum. Then we can analyze what the critics say, and revise our idea until its perfect. After we deem perfect, I’ll post it on reddit. Maybe, just maybe, someone at Mojang sees it and gets inspired. If we all team-diamond it on reddit it should make top charts pretty quick
A Message to the Lurkers
I first went onto this forum over two years ago, in August 2015. Ever since then I’ve always been drawn to this forum. It was only until a month and a half ago when I had to courage to finally create an account and start sharing my ideas with the world.
If you’re reading this as someone who hasn’t made an account yet, I highly advise that you join the forum. It’s a thousand times more fun to be part of the community than just watching it.
This thread is a great place to start out. All you need is a tiny spark to contribute. Even if you don’t have an idea, you can provide feedback on others and help make this a reality.
Rules
I don’t want there too much rules, as this is more of a casual discussion between friends rather than a professional evaluation of a new feature (the suggestions forum). Still, everything needs at least some basic rules.
As usual, all forum rules still apply.
Get Suggesting!
I don’t want to post my ideas for this yet, as I don’t want to take over the thread. Remember that there are some questions to keep in mind as we begin. The first thing we need to figure out is the overall “feel” to the dimension. The Nether is “hell”, and the End is either “space”, “corruption”, or “heaven”. So what will the fourth dimension be? I’d advise it to not be related to the Nether or End, and take a new theme we haven’t seen before.
Beyond that, we also need a catchy yet original name, and a way to get to the dimension. If you have any other ideas not related to those three topics, feel free to post; but remember that for now we really need to figure out those three questions first.
I’ll leave you with a quote from the great Albert Einstein:
“Creativity is just intelligence having fun”
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An update for those who don't want to scroll through +10 pages: We decided on a frost dimension with runic, prehistoric, and steampunk features. We are nearly settled with how to get to the dimension, the current idea is by fighting a giant in a new mountains biome. We are now suggesting new mobs, blocks, and features of the dimension. This google doc has everything we've agreed upon, so you can skip straight to where the discussion currently is:
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