Sounds crazy, but hear me out. My idea would require just a few simple changes:
1) Remove the ability to craft logs into planks.
2) Make logs function the same as planks in crafting.
3) If you use an axe to destroy a tree, you get 4 planks (Maybe this could vary by axe level?) instead of a log.
In reality you can't make planks out of logs with your bare hands, but you can still build things with the logs. You would have to start off by building out of logs until you got an axe.
True, but in real life you can't tear down a tree with nothing but you bare hands either. Does this improve the game in some other way? I just prefer to think of Minecraft as the manliest game ever where, YES!, you can actually tear down entire forests with your bare hands.
At least you're thinking! What I have noticed, though, is that suggestions are better received when they are expansive to gameplay, and are often not received well for adding realism. Also, when you try to change an already established concept in minecraft, people react the following, "OH NOES NOT IN MY MINECRAFTS NEVAR". Okay, thats an over-dramatization, but it generally goes down like that. Keep playing, and think of what you want to be able to do in minecraft, and make a suggestion towards that.
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I assume by let logs take the place of planks in crafting, you mean you can craft sticks out of them. If not, then you can't craft logs into planks until you get an axe. You don't get an axe until you can craft planks into sticks. No sticks, no axe, no planks.
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Turning logs into planks is a useful way to carry 4 times more planks in the same place as 1 stack. I always go into a cave with a full stack 'cause it's more useful than carrying sticks or planks.
This would probably take away from the game more than it would add to it. Plus, planks are required for sticks and ultimately for tools, so you'd have to make tools out of the solid logs when first starting, which would just be weird. It's already strange enough that wood tools cut through stone, there's no need to further complicate things. He'd need to reprogram and redesign alot of things for this, and I just don't think the effort is worth the result.
The current system adds that nice smooth step to keep gameplay consistent. There are very few blocks that give you more than one thing when broken, and these are materials that wouldn't stay in much of a block form in the first place such as clay or dust. Just about every other type of block gives you a single block in return when collected.
The process of turning logs into planks, while it might seem unnecessary at first, gives you that important step where you took one log and turned it into four of something else. Being able to do so allows you to get a lot of needed wood from just a few trees because you are multiplying the number of logs by four. Trees dropping four planks goes against the one block = one block concept, and the option of still dropping just one but making it a plank instead to remove the middle man would severely limit the most needed resource.
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I'm almost 100% positive that this have been suggested before but i'll suggest it again anyways
1) Remove the ability to craft logs into planks.
2) Make logs function the same as planks in crafting.
3) If you use an axe to destroy a tree, you get 4 planks (Maybe this could vary by axe level?) instead of a log.
In reality you can't make planks out of logs with your bare hands, but you can still build things with the logs. You would have to start off by building out of logs until you got an axe.
Lodra
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I assume by let logs take the place of planks in crafting, you mean you can craft sticks out of them. If not, then you can't craft logs into planks until you get an axe. You don't get an axe until you can craft planks into sticks. No sticks, no axe, no planks.
-Dr. Zombee
Yep, and that meant that you couldn't use logs in your constructions, which is why it was changed to the current system in the first place.
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The process of turning logs into planks, while it might seem unnecessary at first, gives you that important step where you took one log and turned it into four of something else. Being able to do so allows you to get a lot of needed wood from just a few trees because you are multiplying the number of logs by four. Trees dropping four planks goes against the one block = one block concept, and the option of still dropping just one but making it a plank instead to remove the middle man would severely limit the most needed resource.
And you're sure about that, are you now..? :biggrin.gif: