Hey dudes. I'm new to the forums but I love minecraft a lot. I've had a lot of ideas over the many hours I've been playing it and I figured I'd share 'em. Take a look!
The Frivolous
These are just cosmetic items. Nothing gamechanging. I just think the game could use 'em!
Chair
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Change the colour for a different coloured chair, of course. Placing two or three chairs beside each other would create a love seat and a couch respectively. Clicking on the couch would zoom out the camera and show your avatar sitting in the chair, with his legs bent forward!
(Arrows are strings, used for rug tassles) Again, change the fabric colour for different rugs. You could place several rugs on the ground and they could become larger rugs!
Bust
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Busts are sculpted heads - the head type is random, like a picture's image is. Busts can be created using Stone (not cobblestone), Wood (not wooden planks), Obsidian, Clay, Glass, or Coral, a new block type from below. Stacking two busts made of the same material on top of each other creates a statue. Another fun cosmetic item.
Bonsai Tree
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(The wheat is meant to be a sapling.) A bonsai tree, while a plant, does not grow and is not flammable like other plants. The plant and the pot the plant sits in, combined, is only one block. The texture of the pot changes depending on if you build the Bonsai tree in , , , , , , , , or Coral. If you use instead of for your Bonsai tree, the leaves will be brown and withered instead of green.
Pen
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Pens allow you to write in Books or pieces of paper, and leave the item in the game world for others to select and read the message. One piece of paper can hold 250 characters, while a Book can hold 1000. When a pen is made from a stick, it can write 250 characters, while a pen made from a feather can write 1000.
Fish Tank
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Building the fish tank will give you your empty bucket back. The fish tank is the largest item, being two blocks in height and width. It is a sealed tank of water, with tiny pet fishes that swim inside and small coral decorations on the bottom. It is a purely cosmetic item.
Mirror
A mirror hangs on a wall, and reflects images and light. As a cosmetic item, you can hang it in your house, and see yourself in it! Alternatively, Mirrors also reflect light, and it would be possible to set up mirrors in such way that the light from one source is focused in one specific direction and intensified via mirror placement. Which leads to:
Reflective Sphere
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The Reflective sphere is a mirror block that hangs on an angle, like the warped mirrors seen in many shops in real life that allow a person, from one vantage point, to be able to see things around corners and such that they would not normally be able to see with a regularly shaped mirror. Reflective spheres can be placed on corners or ceilings at angles and would reflect the image of what's around the corner or over the wall to you.
The Serious
These would actually add new dynamics to the game and would probably take a bit more effort to put in. But I still think they're worth it!
New Blocks
Seaweed - A plant that grows in the same fashion as the Cactus, but can stack up to 5 blocks and only grows under water. Seaweed will never grow so tall that it grows above water. If water is removed from the block the seaweed occupies, the seaweed will disappear. Seaweed can grow at any water depth. Seaweed is best harvested with the new Sickle tool suggested below.
Salt - A white block with a texture similar to sand that has a low chance of spawning within open caves, or a high chance of spawning underwater. Often found near sand, and at shallow water depths. Salt blocks will also not naturally appear within 5 blocks of any moving water source. Salt is best harvested with a pickaxe.
Coral - A pink block with a ripply texture that spawns in reefs within deep portions of the ocean. Coral is also best harvested with a pickaxe.
Tundra - A pinkish block that appears in the place of grass in biomes that are near-snowy or snowy. Its only difference is that you are unable to use a hoe on the block, making farming much more difficult.
Backpack
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(Arrows are string, for the straps, and the cooked pork is Leather). A backpack would fit into your chest slot on your equipment screen, offering no defense but doubling your inventory. Removing the backpack, or having it break, would dump out all of its contents.
Diving Helmet
A diving helmet, worn on the head, would offer no defensive bonuses like a helmet, but would allow you to breathe underwater, swim faster, walk on the ocean floor faster, and work with tools underwater faster. A helmet with a diamond in the center rather than glass would increase these bonuses even further, as well as allow you to view the ocean floor terrain without the light-obscuring qualities water normally has.
Sickle
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A sickle is a new tool that joins the class of axes, shovels, pickaxes, and hoes, and as such, it can be built with wood, stone, iron, gold, or diamond. Sickles are used for harvesting plants with ease, and works best on leaves, cactus, pumpkin, jack-o-lantern, and seaweed. Crops, sugar cane, seaweed, flowers, and mushrooms have a chance to drop two of their respective items instead of one when using a sickle on them.
Slingshot
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(The arrow is a piece of string, used for the sling.) A new weapon that functions like the bow, but is weaker - the tradeoff is that ammo for the slingshot is significantly easier to come across. Unlike arrows, there is no way to retrieve slingshot ammo once it has been fired.
Eggs - Eggs are the weakest form of ammo able to be used with a slingshot.
Stone Pebbles - Eight stone pebbles are created from one :gravel:, and are slightly better than eggs.
Flint Pebbles - Eight flint pebbles are created from one :Flint:, and are quite good.
Fireballs - Eight fireballs are created from one :Coal:, and are aflame when fired. Like flaming arrows, these projectiles do not light flammable objects on fire.
Snowballs - Snowballs, when thrown normally, deal no damage. But when fired with a slingshot, they deal damage.
Slimeballs - When firing a slimeball from a slingshot, the target is covered in a green goopy slime, immobilizing it for a short period of time.
Bomb
Bombs are created by placing TNT in a refridgerator (with the logic being that explosives, when exposed to cold, take longer to have their triggering mechanisms fire). Bombs are thrown in the same arc as an arrow from a bow with the exception that they explode upon impact! They have an explosive power of 1.
Parachute
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(Again, arrows are string and cooked pork is Leather.) The parachute item, when activated midfall, will allow you to float to safety. If activated on the land, it does nothing. If you take damage while floating with a parachute, the parachute will break, being removed from your inventory, and you will continue to fall.
Sailboat
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(the three logs are individual boats.) Sailboats are large boats with sails that are faster, more manuverable, and are able to carry multiple people at once. When you disembark from a sailboat, it will not drift away due to momentum or other things touching the boat after you have exited. If you use a compass while you are in a sailboat, your camera will shift into the third person and your minecraft character will be dressed as a pirate - this effect is temporary and cosmetic, and ends when you leave the boat.
Spyglass
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A spyglass is basically a telescope - it allows you to see far distances. A spyglass that uses diamonds instead of glass increases the magnification even further. If you use a spyglass while you are in a sailboat, your camera will shift into the third person and your minecraft character will be dressed as a pirate - this effect is temporary and cosmetic, and ends when you leave the boat.
Tramploine
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(again, cooked pork = Leather) The tramploine allows you to jump higher by walking on the block. Players, animals, and enemies are unable to actually stand on the trampoline - they will continuously jump. Landing on a trampoline block helps break your fall (but will not work from extreme heights).
Grinder
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A grinder is like a crafting table or furnace in that it is a tool that is placed in the real world. It looks like a table with a mechanical rolling pin attached to the top of it, with the pin being covered in spikes. When coal or charcoal is added to the fuel slot of the grinder, it will activate and begin grinding whatever is inside of it. Redstone dust can also be used to power a grinder, and though one redstone dust will grind many more items than one piece of coal or charcoal, this is kind of a waste of redstone!
Grinder recipes include:
or -> Woodchip Block (a block with the same strength of wood but has a texture resembling plywood) or -> -> + salt -> Mincemeat + salt -> Cooked Mincemeat (Mincemeat can be cooked and then grinded, or grinded and then cooked, the effect is the same) -> and other dye incredients -> their respective dyes at higher quantities
Egg + Milk -> Scrambled Egg (and a empty bucket)
Milk -> Butter (and a empty bucket) ->
Apple -> Applesauce
Bread + Salt -> Crackers
Cooked Fish or Raw Fish + salt -> Tuna Dip
Refridgerator
(The Red Flower is meant to be Redstone dust.) A refridgerator is another tool placed in the world, like the Grinder. It is two blocks high. When an item is left inside the refridgerator for one full day of ingame time, it changes into another item.
Water bucket -> Snowballs (Plus your empty bucket)
Milk -> Icecream
Raw Fish - Sushi
Lava Bucket -> Obsidian (Plus your empty bucket)
TNT + Egg -> Bomb
Snowballs -> Ice Block
New Foods
Most of these are fun and on a whim, I suppose. I know there's a balancing issue regarding Minecraft foods, so perhaps some of the newer once could also heal half of a heart every five seconds for a short amount of time, to help with heavier battles?
Hamburger - Created from stacking Bread, then Cooked Mincemeat, then another Bread.
Hot Dog - Created from making a v-shape with three Bread and putting a Cooked Mincemeat in the center.
Applesauce - Created by grinding apples.
Scrambled Egg - Created by grinding Eggs.
Buttered Bread - Created by putting butter on top of Bread.
Garlic Bread - Created by putting seaweed on top of buttered bread.
Cinnamon Bread - Created by putting sugar on top of buttered bread.
Tea - Created by putting a Bowl and Seaweed together.
Appetizing Plate - Mix a Bowl with Tea, Crackers and Tuna Dip to create an appetizing plate that can be laid on the ground and eaten by anybody (similar in function to a Cake)
Icecream Cake - Combine Cake and Icecream. The ultimate dish!!
Anyway that's all. Just thought I'd share. :biggrin.gif:
Aaaand I'm posting again because my roommate, who is also currently obsessed with minecraft, gave me a few more ideas and told me to add them. So, here goes!!
Goat - The goat is a non-passive mob that drops Goat horns when killed.
Bunny - Another non-passive mob, the size of a chicken, but it hops around. Bunnies have a tendancy to spawn faster if at least two other Bunnies are in the area.
Trumpet - The Trumpet tool can be carved from Coral, or made from Goat Horns, with the only difference between the two being the colour and sound effect when used. The Trumpet will blast a loud honking sound when used, and will also gather the attention of nearby mobs - passive mobs will run away, neutral mobs will be unaffected, and aggressive mobs will chase you. This can be an excellent tool in shepherding passive mobs or luring aggressive mobs into traps without getting too close.
Fur - White fur dropped from killing Bunnies. Fur can be used to build fur equipment (with defensive properties similar to leather), fur carpets, or a Lucky Rabbit's Foot.
Lucky Rabbit's Foot - Holding a Lucky Rabbit's Foot in your inventory would increase your 'luck' - You are more likely to find a dungeon, gravel is more likely to drop flint, water and flowing lava colliding now has a chance to spawn Obsidian instead of Cobblestone, and so on. It makes you luckier!
Hanglider - The Hanglider wouldn't allow true flight, as that seems to both be problematic and slightly counterintuitive to Minecraft's nature. Rather, you would glide with it. To use a Hanglider properly you would first have to find a tall place to leap off of, and then glide to the surface. You would be unable to increase your altitude, but would able to increase your rate of descent.
Hanglider's Recipe: (The Cooked Meat are leather pieces.)
Love the backpack and diving helmet ideas. There is a mod for the backpack (not sure of the name) but having a ton of mods isn't always good. I play in Technic pack launcher (more specifically yogbox) and there is something you can craft to help you breathe underwater but it doesn't allow you to do anything faster, just breathe.
I especially like the rabbits foot and grinder ideas. The grinder could be even better if you can make sandstone into sand, cobblestone into gravel, etc. There was another suggestion with that in it, but it was locked for redundancy. =) As for the rabbits foot, sometimes I have the hardest time finding certain things like dungeons and such.
The fridge idea sounds nice, but I wouldn't want a lava bucket to turn into obsidian. That would make it way too easy to obtain obsidian. Maybe if different items had different waiting periods?
The Frivolous
These are just cosmetic items. Nothing gamechanging. I just think the game could use 'em!
Chair
Change the colour for a different coloured chair, of course. Placing two or three chairs beside each other would create a love seat and a couch respectively. Clicking on the couch would zoom out the camera and show your avatar sitting in the chair, with his legs bent forward!
Rug
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(Arrows are strings, used for rug tassles) Again, change the fabric colour for different rugs. You could place several rugs on the ground and they could become larger rugs!
Bust
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Busts are sculpted heads - the head type is random, like a picture's image is. Busts can be created using Stone (not cobblestone), Wood (not wooden planks), Obsidian, Clay, Glass, or Coral, a new block type from below. Stacking two busts made of the same material on top of each other creates a statue. Another fun cosmetic item.
Bonsai Tree
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(The wheat is meant to be a sapling.) A bonsai tree, while a plant, does not grow and is not flammable like other plants. The plant and the pot the plant sits in, combined, is only one block. The texture of the pot changes depending on if you build the Bonsai tree in
Pen
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Pens allow you to write in Books or pieces of paper, and leave the item in the game world for others to select and read the message. One piece of paper can hold 250 characters, while a Book can hold 1000. When a pen is made from a stick, it can write 250 characters, while a pen made from a feather can write 1000.
Fish Tank
Building the fish tank will give you your empty bucket back. The fish tank is the largest item, being two blocks in height and width. It is a sealed tank of water, with tiny pet fishes that swim inside and small coral decorations on the bottom. It is a purely cosmetic item.
Mirror
A mirror hangs on a wall, and reflects images and light. As a cosmetic item, you can hang it in your house, and see yourself in it! Alternatively, Mirrors also reflect light, and it would be possible to set up mirrors in such way that the light from one source is focused in one specific direction and intensified via mirror placement. Which leads to:
Reflective Sphere
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The Reflective sphere is a mirror block that hangs on an angle, like the warped mirrors seen in many shops in real life that allow a person, from one vantage point, to be able to see things around corners and such that they would not normally be able to see with a regularly shaped mirror. Reflective spheres can be placed on corners or ceilings at angles and would reflect the image of what's around the corner or over the wall to you.
The Serious
These would actually add new dynamics to the game and would probably take a bit more effort to put in. But I still think they're worth it!
New Blocks
Seaweed - A plant that grows in the same fashion as the Cactus, but can stack up to 5 blocks and only grows under water. Seaweed will never grow so tall that it grows above water. If water is removed from the block the seaweed occupies, the seaweed will disappear. Seaweed can grow at any water depth. Seaweed is best harvested with the new Sickle tool suggested below.
Salt - A white block with a texture similar to sand that has a low chance of spawning within open caves, or a high chance of spawning underwater. Often found near sand, and at shallow water depths. Salt blocks will also not naturally appear within 5 blocks of any moving water source. Salt is best harvested with a pickaxe.
Coral - A pink block with a ripply texture that spawns in reefs within deep portions of the ocean. Coral is also best harvested with a pickaxe.
Tundra - A pinkish block that appears in the place of grass in biomes that are near-snowy or snowy. Its only difference is that you are unable to use a hoe on the block, making farming much more difficult.
Backpack
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(Arrows are string, for the straps, and the cooked pork is Leather). A backpack would fit into your chest slot on your equipment screen, offering no defense but doubling your inventory. Removing the backpack, or having it break, would dump out all of its contents.
Diving Helmet
A diving helmet, worn on the head, would offer no defensive bonuses like a helmet, but would allow you to breathe underwater, swim faster, walk on the ocean floor faster, and work with tools underwater faster. A helmet with a diamond in the center rather than glass would increase these bonuses even further, as well as allow you to view the ocean floor terrain without the light-obscuring qualities water normally has.
Sickle
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A sickle is a new tool that joins the class of axes, shovels, pickaxes, and hoes, and as such, it can be built with wood, stone, iron, gold, or diamond. Sickles are used for harvesting plants with ease, and works best on leaves, cactus, pumpkin, jack-o-lantern, and seaweed. Crops, sugar cane, seaweed, flowers, and mushrooms have a chance to drop two of their respective items instead of one when using a sickle on them.
Slingshot
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(The arrow is a piece of string, used for the sling.) A new weapon that functions like the bow, but is weaker - the tradeoff is that ammo for the slingshot is significantly easier to come across. Unlike arrows, there is no way to retrieve slingshot ammo once it has been fired.
Eggs - Eggs are the weakest form of ammo able to be used with a slingshot.
Stone Pebbles - Eight stone pebbles are created from one :gravel:, and are slightly better than eggs.
Flint Pebbles - Eight flint pebbles are created from one :Flint:, and are quite good.
Fireballs - Eight fireballs are created from one :Coal:, and are aflame when fired. Like flaming arrows, these projectiles do not light flammable objects on fire.
Snowballs - Snowballs, when thrown normally, deal no damage. But when fired with a slingshot, they deal damage.
Slimeballs - When firing a slimeball from a slingshot, the target is covered in a green goopy slime, immobilizing it for a short period of time.
Bomb
Bombs are created by placing TNT in a refridgerator (with the logic being that explosives, when exposed to cold, take longer to have their triggering mechanisms fire). Bombs are thrown in the same arc as an arrow from a bow with the exception that they explode upon impact! They have an explosive power of 1.
Parachute
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(Again, arrows are string and cooked pork is Leather.) The parachute item, when activated midfall, will allow you to float to safety. If activated on the land, it does nothing. If you take damage while floating with a parachute, the parachute will break, being removed from your inventory, and you will continue to fall.
Sailboat
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(the three logs are individual boats.) Sailboats are large boats with sails that are faster, more manuverable, and are able to carry multiple people at once. When you disembark from a sailboat, it will not drift away due to momentum or other things touching the boat after you have exited. If you use a compass while you are in a sailboat, your camera will shift into the third person and your minecraft character will be dressed as a pirate - this effect is temporary and cosmetic, and ends when you leave the boat.
Spyglass
A spyglass is basically a telescope - it allows you to see far distances. A spyglass that uses diamonds instead of glass increases the magnification even further. If you use a spyglass while you are in a sailboat, your camera will shift into the third person and your minecraft character will be dressed as a pirate - this effect is temporary and cosmetic, and ends when you leave the boat.
Tramploine
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(again, cooked pork = Leather) The tramploine allows you to jump higher by walking on the block. Players, animals, and enemies are unable to actually stand on the trampoline - they will continuously jump. Landing on a trampoline block helps break your fall (but will not work from extreme heights).
Grinder
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A grinder is like a crafting table or furnace in that it is a tool that is placed in the real world. It looks like a table with a mechanical rolling pin attached to the top of it, with the pin being covered in spikes. When coal or charcoal is added to the fuel slot of the grinder, it will activate and begin grinding whatever is inside of it. Redstone dust can also be used to power a grinder, and though one redstone dust will grind many more items than one piece of coal or charcoal, this is kind of a waste of redstone!
Grinder recipes include:
Egg + Milk -> Scrambled Egg (and a empty bucket)
Milk -> Butter (and a empty bucket)
Apple -> Applesauce
Bread + Salt -> Crackers
Cooked Fish or Raw Fish + salt -> Tuna Dip
Refridgerator
(The Red Flower is meant to be Redstone dust.) A refridgerator is another tool placed in the world, like the Grinder. It is two blocks high. When an item is left inside the refridgerator for one full day of ingame time, it changes into another item.
Water bucket -> Snowballs (Plus your empty bucket)
Milk -> Icecream
Raw Fish - Sushi
Lava Bucket -> Obsidian (Plus your empty bucket)
TNT + Egg -> Bomb
Snowballs -> Ice Block
New Foods
Most of these are fun and on a whim, I suppose. I know there's a balancing issue regarding Minecraft foods, so perhaps some of the newer once could also heal half of a heart every five seconds for a short amount of time, to help with heavier battles?
Hamburger - Created from stacking Bread, then Cooked Mincemeat, then another Bread.
Hot Dog - Created from making a v-shape with three Bread and putting a Cooked Mincemeat in the center.
Applesauce - Created by grinding apples.
Scrambled Egg - Created by grinding Eggs.
Buttered Bread - Created by putting butter on top of Bread.
Garlic Bread - Created by putting seaweed on top of buttered bread.
Cinnamon Bread - Created by putting sugar on top of buttered bread.
Tea - Created by putting a Bowl and Seaweed together.
Appetizing Plate - Mix a Bowl with Tea, Crackers and Tuna Dip to create an appetizing plate that can be laid on the ground and eaten by anybody (similar in function to a Cake)
Icecream Cake - Combine Cake and Icecream. The ultimate dish!!
Anyway that's all. Just thought I'd share. :biggrin.gif:
Goat - The goat is a non-passive mob that drops Goat horns when killed.
Bunny - Another non-passive mob, the size of a chicken, but it hops around. Bunnies have a tendancy to spawn faster if at least two other Bunnies are in the area.
Trumpet - The Trumpet tool can be carved from Coral, or made from Goat Horns, with the only difference between the two being the colour and sound effect when used. The Trumpet will blast a loud honking sound when used, and will also gather the attention of nearby mobs - passive mobs will run away, neutral mobs will be unaffected, and aggressive mobs will chase you. This can be an excellent tool in shepherding passive mobs or luring aggressive mobs into traps without getting too close.
Fur - White fur dropped from killing Bunnies. Fur can be used to build fur equipment (with defensive properties similar to leather), fur carpets, or a Lucky Rabbit's Foot.
Lucky Rabbit's Foot - Holding a Lucky Rabbit's Foot in your inventory would increase your 'luck' - You are more likely to find a dungeon, gravel is more likely to drop flint, water and flowing lava colliding now has a chance to spawn Obsidian instead of Cobblestone, and so on. It makes you luckier!
Hanglider - The Hanglider wouldn't allow true flight, as that seems to both be problematic and slightly counterintuitive to Minecraft's nature. Rather, you would glide with it. To use a Hanglider properly you would first have to find a tall place to leap off of, and then glide to the surface. You would be unable to increase your altitude, but would able to increase your rate of descent.
Hanglider's Recipe: (The Cooked Meat are leather pieces.)
anyway, that's it from me. Thanks for readin'!
I especially like the rabbits foot and grinder ideas. The grinder could be even better if you can make sandstone into sand, cobblestone into gravel, etc. There was another suggestion with that in it, but it was locked for redundancy. =) As for the rabbits foot, sometimes I have the hardest time finding certain things like dungeons and such.
The fridge idea sounds nice, but I wouldn't want a lava bucket to turn into obsidian. That would make it way too easy to obtain obsidian. Maybe if different items had different waiting periods?
Me too.
And what is [>>-i>] suppose to be?