Just so we are on the same page, it always helps to have the correct and same names/terminology for things. I see the wiki has the yellow stuff listed as Lightstone. Besides being a clumsy name, I believe what the game is going for is actually this:
Sulfur is yellow, flammable, and also have a look at what the crystals look like on the above Wikepedia page. Furthermore, the other name for sulfur is Brimstone. You know, as in "FIRE AND BRIMSTONE!", a more hell-ish thing than "Lightstone". They might as well have called it Twinklepoop.
So yus, that's my 2c. Brimstone when in block form, Sulfur when mined and in powder form.
My only reservation is that Sulfur smells like fart ... so yay, I'm about to decorate my house with some!
Just so we are on the same page, it always helps to have the correct and same names/terminology for things. I see the wiki has the yellow stuff listed as Lightstone. Besides being a clumsy name, I believe what the game is going for is actually this:
Sulfur is yellow, flammable, and also have a look at what the crystals look like on the above Wikepedia page. Furthermore, the other name for sulfur is Brimstone. You know, as in "FIRE AND BRIMSTONE!", a more hell-ish thing than "Lightstone". They might as well have called it Twinklepoop.
So yus, that's my 2c. Brimstone when in block form, Sulfur when mined and in powder form.
My only reservation is that Sulfur smells like fart ... so yay, I'm about to decorate my house with some!
Whats the point, dude ? Honestly ? Trying to relate minecraft to our world is like going to Mcdonalds for fine dining.
Well, the problem there is that sulfur doesn't naturally emit light. (More light than fire.)
True, but then, stone/dirt doesn't naturally hover in mid air if you remove things underneath them either. One has to allow some creative license, I guess.
Plus, it's just fun to say "brimstone". :biggrin.gif:
Whats the point, dude ? Honestly ? Trying to relate minecraft to our world is like going to Mcdonalds for fine dining.
Im not sure i follow you. It may not be realistic, but it can be referential. following what your suggesting, we should re-name the sand, the pigs, the grass, the cobblestone all to something else
Sand pigs grass and all that would OBV be named so, since its easy to tell what they are. But a gold block in hell ? Yea, lets just use lightstone and not get too smartass-y, we dont need another "Aspergite" incident.
Notch is probably planning for it to be the main ingredient in lanterns.
Logic Dictates, For obvious reasons... (as Spock goes)
But it should also be used for purposes such as making gunpowder etc.
It could be of use in making gunpowder as it seems to be pretty hard to obtain, since The Slip is an end-game location.
Therefor Craft-able Gunpowder is the same, an end-game function.
but to get back on topic, Lightstone needs to be renamed. It sounds much to "My Little Pony" for a hellish, warped dimension where unspeakable terrors lie.
I'm thinking it should be:
Slip-Sulfur (obvious approach)
Luminite (playing off of its luminous properties)
Radstone (implying radiation)
wow, first time in history anyone has liked my idea posted in someone else's thread.
I usually have to make my own thread to have it noticed.
Somebody should twitter notch and/or get permission to edit the wiki about Illumite or illumium or whatever.
http://twitter.com/#!/Iceman_B/status/29298171644
Not to rain on your parade but I came to illumium on my own. Not that it matters though :smile.gif:
Anyways, this is all contingent of course on the assumption that the yellow dust is (going) to be used for creating something that emits light.
Else I'd call them Urinium. Or something xD
Well damn, at least I nope its not for the permanent lanterns, because that would be too hard to get for something needed too early on.
That or lanterns could just emit a much larger light radius, and torches just remain permanent, but that's for the torches and lanterns Megathread.
To me, the yellow block is Australium, and the Red Stone is Brimstone.
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You need to build an exact replica of Manhattan made of diamonds and when you're done then your diamond Manhattan disappears and in its crater is one lantern.
Uranium isn't a bad idea, because correct me if im wrong, but uranium rods emit a faint glow do they not?
Uranium does not glow. If you create a situation (runaway chain reaction) where the radiation is intense and energetic enough, then you could get Cherenkov radiation - but that's the water glowing, not the metal itself.
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Sulfur is a non-metal. Non-metal = not shiny. Like those cheap science book say.
There are plenty of very shiny non-metals... though I suspect you're being sarcastic from the last part of that quote. better safe than sorry:
Sulfur crystals. Shiny.
Still doesn't explain why they glow, of course, but just sayin'. Sulfur does fit with the hell theme, though...
=Smidge=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur
Sulfur is yellow, flammable, and also have a look at what the crystals look like on the above Wikepedia page. Furthermore, the other name for sulfur is Brimstone. You know, as in "FIRE AND BRIMSTONE!", a more hell-ish thing than "Lightstone". They might as well have called it Twinklepoop.
So yus, that's my 2c. Brimstone when in block form, Sulfur when mined and in powder form.
My only reservation is that Sulfur smells like fart ... so yay, I'm about to decorate my house with some!
Whats the point, dude ? Honestly ? Trying to relate minecraft to our world is like going to Mcdonalds for fine dining.
True, but then, stone/dirt doesn't naturally hover in mid air if you remove things underneath them either. One has to allow some creative license, I guess.
Plus, it's just fun to say "brimstone". :biggrin.gif:
I do pixel art sometimes.
Sand pigs grass and all that would OBV be named so, since its easy to tell what they are. But a gold block in hell ? Yea, lets just use lightstone and not get too smartass-y, we dont need another "Aspergite" incident.
Coal, sulphur, and hmmm, where shall we get the salpetre from? Something to do with sand/gravel perhaps.
Actually, you need calcium. Which you will find in quantity in... Chicken Guano.
Now chicken have a real purpose :biggrin.gif:
They emit a lot of radiation and yeah some of it is in the visible spectrum.
Logic Dictates, For obvious reasons... (as Spock goes)
But it should also be used for purposes such as making gunpowder etc.
It could be of use in making gunpowder as it seems to be pretty hard to obtain, since The Slip is an end-game location.
Therefor Craft-able Gunpowder is the same, an end-game function.
but to get back on topic, Lightstone needs to be renamed. It sounds much to "My Little Pony" for a hellish, warped dimension where unspeakable terrors lie.
I'm thinking it should be:
Slip-Sulfur (obvious approach)
Luminite (playing off of its luminous properties)
Radstone (implying radiation)
or something similar.
I think Luminite has a better cadence to it.
I usually have to make my own thread to have it noticed.
Somebody should twitter notch and/or get permission to edit the wiki about Illumite or illumium or whatever.
Well damn, at least I nope its not for the permanent lanterns, because that would be too hard to get for something needed too early on.
That or lanterns could just emit a much larger light radius, and torches just remain permanent, but that's for the torches and lanterns Megathread.
Uranium does not glow. If you create a situation (runaway chain reaction) where the radiation is intense and energetic enough, then you could get Cherenkov radiation - but that's the water glowing, not the metal itself.
There are plenty of very shiny non-metals... though I suspect you're being sarcastic from the last part of that quote. better safe than sorry:
Sulfur crystals. Shiny.
Still doesn't explain why they glow, of course, but just sayin'. Sulfur does fit with the hell theme, though...
=Smidge=