Boats float because water is more dense than wood therefore it has buoyancy and floats. Well I figure lava is full of dense metals from deep inside the earth and should therefore be more dense than an iron minecart therefore making the minecart buoyant. So why not make minecarts act like boats in lava? It'd be fun.
How would you make tracks then? They're made of wood, and wood does light on fire... :ohmy.gif: I don't think mine carts are cut out to be lava boats. Maybe a cobble stone lava boat could be neat, but that's another suggestion entirely.
How would you make tracks then? They're made of wood, and wood does light on fire... :ohmy.gif: I don't think mine carts are cut out to be lava boats. Maybe a cobble stone lava boat could be neat, but that's another suggestion entirely.
Oh no you misunderstand. I don't mean building tracks on lava for the carts to ride on. I mean that you would just throw the cart in the lava like you would throw a boat into water, and then you ride in it just the same. And cobblestone could also be a good idea. But considering this is something that allows you to move through something that normally kills you, perhaps it should require more valuable ingredients like iron.
Oh and going up a lava fall would not be a good idea. Just like you can drown in a water fall, so can you burn in a lava fall.
Well ya but so would standing a foot away from lava or carrying it in a bucket with your bare hands. I mean, I don't want it to be done if it's stupid and doesn't make any sense, but don't be TOO realistic. I mean... it's minecraft lol. It's silly things like this that make it fun. If someone is just adventuring around and sees a lava pit and, like me, notices how much a minecart looks like an iron boat, and throws it in to find that it actually floats! Now that would just be a cool thing lol.
From a gameplay perspective, this wouldn't add much. Why would you need to sail a boat in lava? I've never come across a natural body of lava more than 30 blocks long. And when I do, there's always a walkway along it; I don't need to actually touch the lava.
Unless Notch reconfigures the map generator to naturally create OCEANS of lava, this wouldn't be a worthwhile addition. The only actual use this would have is just for showing off.
"HAY GUIZE! I'M SAILIN iN LAvA lOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!111one!"
Even then, nobody would care.
EDIT: I don't know much about the new "Hell Dimension" being added on Halloween. It just occurred to me that there could, in fact, be lava oceans there. It would be more useful then, I suppose. It still wouldn't be practical enough for me to use, though.
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Perhaps this steel can survive lava. (even though a bucket is ALSO consumed when using lava in a furnace)
But tell me this. How do you move? Oh right you have no paddle... lets paddle with our hands then.. Oh wait we cant they would disintegrate.
Lava is meant as an obstacle which kills you, not an obstacle which doesnt kill you if you use a steel boat.
Unless you have a paddle or a motor, no game.
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carbon has one of the highest melting pts of any element. the only carbon in the game is C-sub4 or coal (which is extremely brittle) and C-sub12 or crystalline carbon better known as diamond. I don't know about you but i am not building a diamond boat, period, end-of-story. then again the obsidian seems to hold up just fine. unfortunately, guess what obsidian's liquid form is: LAVA. and even if it doesn't combust or melt, it needs to insulate otherwise you're gonna be standing on the proverbial hotplate from hell.
All those super dense metals are liquified for a reason. It's because they're really hot. Metal is also a metal; therefore, It melts too
That's because it's a magic iron bucket.
Oh no you misunderstand. I don't mean building tracks on lava for the carts to ride on. I mean that you would just throw the cart in the lava like you would throw a boat into water, and then you ride in it just the same. And cobblestone could also be a good idea. But considering this is something that allows you to move through something that normally kills you, perhaps it should require more valuable ingredients like iron.
Oh and going up a lava fall would not be a good idea. Just like you can drown in a water fall, so can you burn in a lava fall.
Well ya but so would standing a foot away from lava or carrying it in a bucket with your bare hands. I mean, I don't want it to be done if it's stupid and doesn't make any sense, but don't be TOO realistic. I mean... it's minecraft lol. It's silly things like this that make it fun. If someone is just adventuring around and sees a lava pit and, like me, notices how much a minecart looks like an iron boat, and throws it in to find that it actually floats! Now that would just be a cool thing lol.
Unless Notch reconfigures the map generator to naturally create OCEANS of lava, this wouldn't be a worthwhile addition. The only actual use this would have is just for showing off.
"HAY GUIZE! I'M SAILIN iN LAvA lOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!111one!"
Even then, nobody would care.
EDIT: I don't know much about the new "Hell Dimension" being added on Halloween. It just occurred to me that there could, in fact, be lava oceans there. It would be more useful then, I suppose. It still wouldn't be practical enough for me to use, though.
But tell me this. How do you move? Oh right you have no paddle... lets paddle with our hands then.. Oh wait we cant they would disintegrate.
Lava is meant as an obstacle which kills you, not an obstacle which doesnt kill you if you use a steel boat.
Unless you have a paddle or a motor, no game.