1. Natural sandstone was a great idea, but there is too much of it and it is currently useless.
Solution: Instead of having sandstone occur 4 blocks under sand, make it occur 5 blocks under sand. Also, make 1 sandstone craftable into 1 sand (yes I know it takes 4 sand to create).
2. Slimeballs are still useless.
Solution: Give slimeballs the ability to spawn a small slime (small ones don't do damage) when thrown, similar to how a chicken can spawn when an egg is thrown. This would be epic fun on SMP too; raid someones town and spawn small slimes everywhere!
3. Increase the blast resistance of iron blocks to 70. Why, you ask? Currently, their blast resistance (http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Explosion) is 30, and a creeper's maximum blast force is 63.5. Raising the blast resistance of iron blocks to 70 would allow them to withstand a full force creeper assault. Then people could make -proof houses without having to make their house out of blocks that look like solidified feces :obsidian:.
So yeah, there's nothing major here. Just three small points that I believe would make minecraft that much better. Feel free to post your opinions.
Sandstone isn't useless, it's a building material composed of compressed sand, so it doesn't fall.
The point of Obsidian is to protect weaker materials from creeper explosions. Making Iron Blocks resistant to Creeper Explosions would mean that the ONLY reason to obtain obsidian is for portals, thus making it completely useless beyond that and negating it's general point of existence, when Iron Blocks are mainly storage blocks.
Sandstone isn't useless, it's a building material composed of compressed sand, so it doesn't fall.
By that logic, no block is useless. By a "use" I mean I want it to do something, craft into something, have an ability, anything. Just looking light brown isn't a use as far as I'm concerned. It's true that it is compressed sand, however there is no way to break it back down. Why compress the sand if you cannot ever get any back?
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The point of Obsidian is to protect weaker materials from creeper explosions. Making Iron Blocks resistant to Creeper Explosions would mean that the ONLY reason to obtain obsidian is for portals, thus making it completely useless beyond that and negating it's general point of existence, when Iron Blocks are mainly storage blocks.
Not exactly. Obsidian is easy to obtain, whereas 9 iron ingots per block takes a good deal of effort to find. For times when one wants a creeper-proof wall, farming 80 obsidian is reasonable; finding 720 iron is not. Obsidian would retain its use as explosion-proofing, iron would only be used in small amounts, when the player doesn't want the look of obsidian to muck the view up.
Instead of having sandstone occur 4 blocks under sand, make it occur 5 blocks under sand.
Totally insignificant difference is totally insignificant. For the rest, read Kira's post.
To Kira: What's "storage block"?
Its not as insignificant as it seems. Currently, sandstone is usually in a layer 2-3 meters thick. This would make reduce that to 1-2 meters, which is significantly smaller.
And by a "storage block", Kira means that Iron blocks are made as a way to store mass amounts of iron in a small space. 1 stack of iron blocks takes the same space as 9 stacks of iron ingots, while both hold 576 iron ingots total.
Instead of having sandstone occur 4 blocks under sand, make it occur 5 blocks under sand.
Totally insignificant difference is totally insignificant. For the rest, read Kira's post.
To Kira: What's "storage block"?
Its not as insignificant as it seems. Currently, sandstone is usually in a layer 2-3 meters thick. This would make reduce that to 1-2 meters, which is significantly smaller.
And by a "storage block", Kira means that Iron blocks are made as a way to store mass amounts of iron in a small space. 1 stack of iron blocks takes the same space as 9 stacks of iron ingots, while both hold 576 iron ingots total.
1-2 blocks worth of change is not very significant.
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The Nether is not the overworld. Leave biomes out of it. And not everything needs a crafting purpose. It's called aesthetic.
True. However, naturally-occuring blocks that occur in massive quantities should have a purpose. It just seems like sandstone should follow the precedent set by glowstone, iron/gold/diamond/lapis/snow/other blocks that compact and then can be broken down into their original material. All I really want from sandstone is 4 sand -> 1 sand stone -> 1-2 sand.
1-2 blocks is not significant when dealing with near-instantly broken sand.
Again, this is about aesthetics. I don't like the look of a thick band of sandstone, but that might just be me. The ability to deconstruct sandstone into sand is more important than reducing the levels of sandstone.
1. Natural sandstone was a great idea, but there is too much of it and it is currently useless.
Solution: Instead of having sandstone occur 4 blocks under sand, make it occur 5 blocks under sand. Also, make 1 sandstone craftable into 1 sand (yes I know it takes 4 sand to create).
2. Slimeballs are still useless.
Solution: Give slimeballs the ability to spawn a small slime (small ones don't do damage) when thrown, similar to how a chicken can spawn when an egg is thrown. This would be epic fun on SMP too; raid someones town and spawn small slimes everywhere!
3. Increase the blast resistance of iron blocks to 70. Why, you ask? Currently, their blast resistance (http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Explosion) is 30, and a creeper's maximum blast force is 63.5. Raising the blast resistance of iron blocks to 70 would allow them to withstand a full force creeper assault. Then people could make
So yeah, there's nothing major here. Just three small points that I believe would make minecraft that much better. Feel free to post your opinions.
The point of Obsidian is to protect weaker materials from creeper explosions. Making Iron Blocks resistant to Creeper Explosions would mean that the ONLY reason to obtain obsidian is for portals, thus making it completely useless beyond that and negating it's general point of existence, when Iron Blocks are mainly storage blocks.
Totally insignificant difference is totally insignificant. For the rest, read Kira's post.
To Kira: What's "storage block"?
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By that logic, no block is useless. By a "use" I mean I want it to do something, craft into something, have an ability, anything. Just looking light brown isn't a use as far as I'm concerned. It's true that it is compressed sand, however there is no way to break it back down. Why compress the sand if you cannot ever get any back?
Not exactly. Obsidian is easy to obtain, whereas 9 iron ingots per block takes a good deal of effort to find. For times when one wants a creeper-proof wall, farming 80 obsidian is reasonable; finding 720 iron is not. Obsidian would retain its use as explosion-proofing, iron would only be used in small amounts, when the player doesn't want the look of obsidian to muck the view up.
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Its not as insignificant as it seems. Currently, sandstone is usually in a layer 2-3 meters thick. This would make reduce that to 1-2 meters, which is significantly smaller.
And by a "storage block", Kira means that Iron blocks are made as a way to store mass amounts of iron in a small space. 1 stack of iron blocks takes the same space as 9 stacks of iron ingots, while both hold 576 iron ingots total.
1-2 blocks worth of change is not very significant.
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The Nether is not the overworld. Leave biomes out of it. And not everything needs a crafting purpose. It's called aesthetic.
True. However, naturally-occuring blocks that occur in massive quantities should have a purpose. It just seems like sandstone should follow the precedent set by glowstone, iron/gold/diamond/lapis/snow/other blocks that compact and then can be broken down into their original material. All I really want from sandstone is 4 sand -> 1 sand stone -> 1-2 sand.
Again, this is about aesthetics. I don't like the look of a thick band of sandstone, but that might just be me. The ability to deconstruct sandstone into sand is more important than reducing the levels of sandstone.
That's doable.
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For all your wolf suggestion needs, I present the WOLF MEGATHREAD!
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