It has recently come to my attention that 3/4 of all threads here in the suggestion forum are not true minecraft ideas.
They involve bosses, flying transporters, new block ores that do special crap, ETC. That's fine, and im not saying it's bad at all, just that there should be a thread compiling all the true minecraft ideas. Minecraft Updates add more fun, more challenge, and expand on features, so with that in mind, I have created this list.
Minecraft Feature: Lightning
Expansion Idea: Lightning Rods
Explanation: Lightning makes everything worse. It turns creepers into nukes, pigs into pigmen, and blocks into fire. Who wouldn't want to take away a bit of the burden? Well, lightning rods do just that. Place one, and every lightning-bolt that tries to hit in a 25X25 block radius gets drawn to the rod.
Pro Side: Saves you from lightning's dangerous side.
Con Side: If the path between the lightning-bolt and the rod is blocked.... well, that blocking thing will get the bolt.
Additional Info: When struck by lightning, it emits a redstone pulse, there-for probably useful for some lightning-induced trap or machine. Think about it. Lightning hits, Redstone get's charged, a minecart get's shot to a special area underground. You are mining in that special area, see the cart, know it's thundery outside, and don't go.
Recipe: Iron Staff (Iron bar on iron bar on iron bar), makes 1 per recipee.
Minecraft Feature: Arrows
Expansion Idea: TnT arrows
Explanation: An arrow that explodes on contact with any mob or none air/liquid block.
Pro Side: A freakin exploding arrow! Gives TnT range, and stays away from grenade ideas!
Con Side: Exploding Arrows do NOT stack, and if you miss your target?
Additional Info: How would you tell a bow to use a normal arrow or a tnt arrow? Easy AND minecrafty. Shoot's the arrow type that's in your hotbar. None in your hot bar? Shoot's randomly 1 arrow from your inventory. Guess it's a sort of con, taking up space in a hotbar.
Recipe: Arrow recipe with tnt as it's head instead of flint. Makes 1 per recipee.
Minecraft Feature: Achievements
Expansion Idea: More Achievements
Explanation: I know Notch is going to add more achievements, but here are a few I want.
Got Milk: Milk a cow.
To Dye For: Craft a dyed wool.
Im on a Boat: Get on a boat.
Half-Block Episode 1: Craft a wooden half block.
Half-Block Episode 2: Craft a cobble half-block.
Half-Block Episode 3: Craft a sandstone half-block.
Panic at the Disco: Play a record.
Good for You: Find diamonds.
Die, Die, DIE!!!!: Die.
Pyromaniac: Use flint-and-steel.
Grandma's Secret Recipe: Eat mushroom soup.
BedTime: Sleep in a bed.
Fine Dining: Eat a golden apple.
Sweet Revenge: Kill a creeper with TnT
America's Favorite Past-Time: Hit a ghast's fireball back at it.
Best Friends: Tame a Wolf
You Win Minecraft: Make a diamond block, then throw it in lava.
Minecraft Feature: Glass
Expansion Idea: Stained Glass
Explanation: Want to make a church more churchy, or style up your rather boring house? Well, stained glass is perfect for you! It's like glass, but tinted a certain color!
Recipee: 1 Glass block with 1 dye makes 1 stained glass
Minecraft Feature: Armor
Expansion Idea: Cloth Armor
Explanation: A cloth armor piece that can be different colors so as to represent a team or just look cool.
Pro Side: Look cool in clothing!
Con Side: No protection or space for armor.
Additional Info: Just to give it a good SP use, it halfs fall damage every additional piece of cloth armor you put on.
Recipee: Armor recipe with dyed cloth instead of mineral.
I bet they were all suggested before. This is a compillation of very minecrafty ideas, not some new breakthrough. Im no n00b, and I guaranty that all suggestions on this thread are at least slightly different from the other ones.
I bet they were all suggested before. This is a compillation of very minecrafty ideas, not some new breakthrough. Im no n00b, and I guaranty that all suggestions on this thread are at least slightly different from the other ones.
We know you're not a noob... we can all see that (which mentioning it makes you look like a noob.. .lol)
Slightly and only slightly different... not different enough.
Well, original minecraft ideas are easy to come up with. A sail for boats, new flower colors, an ore that makes super-useful weapons like a ax that gets you leaves and a pick that mines much faster, and a shovel that guarrenties a 100% flint rate. How many of those are good? 0. There are tons of suggestion threads, so obviously the great ideas are going to be repeated. If you have any original idea, feel free to give it. I had a great sachel idea. Might as well put it up on the OP.
More achievements
Tantalizing Santa: Craft X amount of cookies
Public Nuisance: Survive a fall of X Feet/Meters
Judo Chop!: Kill a mob with your hands
Hot Pants: Be set on fire
Toasted: get struck by lightning
I Didn't Do it: Cause something/someone to fall to their death.
Here Comes Mongo: Kill a sheep or cow in one hit.
Happy Little Trees: Collect 100+ Logs
Going the Distance: Walk X blocks/feet/meters
Minecraft Feature: Achievements
Expansion Idea: More Achievements
Explanation: I know Notch is going to add more achievements, but here are a few I want.
Got Milk: Milk a cow.
To Dye For: Craft a dyed wool.
Im on a Boat: Get on a boat.
Half-Block Episode 1: Craft a wooden half block.
Half-Block Episode 2: Craft a cobble half-block.
Half-Block Episode 3: Craft a sandstone half-block.
Panic at the Disco: Play a record.
Good for You: Find diamonds.
Die, Die, DIE!!!!: Die.
Pyromaniac: Use flint-and-steel.
Grandma's Secret Recipe: Eat mushroom soup.
The puns are good, and the achievements better!
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More achievements
Tantalizing Santa: Craft X amount of cookies
Public Nuisance: Survive a fall of X Feet/Meters
Judo Chop!: Kill a mob with your hands
Hot Pants: Be set on fire
Toasted: get struck by lightning
I Didn't Do it: Cause something/someone to fall to their death.
Here Comes Mongo: Kill a sheep or cow in one hit.
Happy Little Trees: Collect 100+ Logs
Going the Distance: Walk X blocks/feet/meters
Tantalizing Santa, Happy Little Trees, and Going The Distance aren't what Notch wanted in the Achievements, they're chores, not just little things or for guidance.
Im glad Im not the only person to have noticed how unfitting most of the ideas on here are.
An idea that I would like to add, is palm trees that grow in rainforest biomes. Perhaps only on beachs?
I also think it would be cool if their was an ore (mabey lapis?) that would ajust the amount of resources dropped depending on the quality of the pick being used. Such as wood:1-2 Stone:3-4 Iron:5-6 Diamond:7-8
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"He's trolling the game mechanic itself. And succeeding."
Minecraft Feature: Achievements
Expansion Idea: More Achievements
Explanation: I know Notch is going to add more achievements, but here are a few I want.
Got Milk: Milk a cow.
To Dye For: Craft a dyed wool.
Im on a Boat: Get on a boat.
Half-Block Episode 1: Craft a wooden half block.
Half-Block Episode 2: Craft a cobble half-block.
Half-Block Episode 3: Craft a sandstone half-block.
Panic at the Disco: Play a record.
Good for You: Find diamonds.
Die, Die, DIE!!!!: Die.
Pyromaniac: Use flint-and-steel.
Grandma's Secret Recipe: Eat mushroom soup.
The puns are good, and the achievements better!
Quote from hippieshopper »
More achievements
Tantalizing Santa: Craft X amount of cookies
Public Nuisance: Survive a fall of X Feet/Meters
Judo Chop!: Kill a mob with your hands
Hot Pants: Be set on fire
Toasted: get struck by lightning
I Didn't Do it: Cause something/someone to fall to their death.
Here Comes Mongo: Kill a sheep or cow in one hit.
Happy Little Trees: Collect 100+ Logs
Going the Distance: Walk X blocks/feet/meters
Tantalizing Santa, Happy Little Trees, and Going The Distance aren't what Notch wanted in the Achievements, they're chores, not just little things or for guidance.
Well until you turn into Notch...I won't shoot them down yet.
Minecraft is a game where you have to keep yourself busy, some people do that by building stuff, surviving, whatever floats their boat...some people like achievements.
When you close the game off to people, you're turning away money.
Rude people in a forum don't do much for beginners either.
I did this before and people said my ideas were already suggested.(okay that doesn't mean they suck) and that they were under-developed(which is stupid because if its a good simple idea, it doesn't need to be an essay).
my ideas:
clocks:take a watch and put a stick frame around it. Now you can place it on a wall, or place it on the ground like a sun dial/grandfather clock. Useful for public underground areas, or just for looks.
stained glass:apply color dyes to glass, get colored glass. Sure its been suggested, doesn't make it suck though.
colored wool helmets/clothes:The main purpose is to identify team colors for minigames. Many people would say just change skins. But that is pretty stupid because its more sensible to put on a hat in game than to have everyone change their skin, and then change it back again when they finish.
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So you say 1.4 is fail because you don't know how to update your server? WTF
Thats like saying all cars fail because you don't know how to put gas in them.
HippyShoper: Hm.... nice try, but no thanks.
HunterSniper1: Exactly. Thanks for liking my acheivements!
FatBaby: Good idea! And yes, most ideas here suck very badly.
Zoram: YES! Great ideas. Sorry for what happened, live your dream here, with me!
Well, original minecraft ideas are easy to come up with. A sail for boats, new flower colors, an ore that makes super-useful weapons like a ax that gets you leaves and a pick that mines much faster, and a shovel that guarrenties a 100% flint rate. How many of those are good? 0. There are tons of suggestion threads, so obviously the great ideas are going to be repeated. If you have any original idea, feel free to give it. I had a great sachel idea. Might as well put it up on the OP.
They involve bosses, flying transporters, new block ores that do special crap, ETC. That's fine, and im not saying it's bad at all, just that there should be a thread compiling all the true minecraft ideas. Minecraft Updates add more fun, more challenge, and expand on features, so with that in mind, I have created this list.
Minecraft Feature: Lightning
Expansion Idea: Lightning Rods
Explanation: Lightning makes everything worse. It turns creepers into nukes, pigs into pigmen, and blocks into fire. Who wouldn't want to take away a bit of the burden? Well, lightning rods do just that. Place one, and every lightning-bolt that tries to hit in a 25X25 block radius gets drawn to the rod.
Pro Side: Saves you from lightning's dangerous side.
Con Side: If the path between the lightning-bolt and the rod is blocked.... well, that blocking thing will get the bolt.
Additional Info: When struck by lightning, it emits a redstone pulse, there-for probably useful for some lightning-induced trap or machine. Think about it. Lightning hits, Redstone get's charged, a minecart get's shot to a special area underground. You are mining in that special area, see the cart, know it's thundery outside, and don't go.
Recipe: Iron Staff (Iron bar on iron bar on iron bar), makes 1 per recipee.
Minecraft Feature: Arrows
Expansion Idea: TnT arrows
Explanation: An arrow that explodes on contact with any mob or none air/liquid block.
Pro Side: A freakin exploding arrow! Gives TnT range, and stays away from grenade ideas!
Con Side: Exploding Arrows do NOT stack, and if you miss your target?
Additional Info: How would you tell a bow to use a normal arrow or a tnt arrow? Easy AND minecrafty. Shoot's the arrow type that's in your hotbar. None in your hot bar? Shoot's randomly 1 arrow from your inventory. Guess it's a sort of con, taking up space in a hotbar.
Recipe: Arrow recipe with tnt as it's head instead of flint. Makes 1 per recipee.
Minecraft Feature: Achievements
Expansion Idea: More Achievements
Explanation: I know Notch is going to add more achievements, but here are a few I want.
Got Milk: Milk a cow.
To Dye For: Craft a dyed wool.
Im on a Boat: Get on a boat.
Half-Block Episode 1: Craft a wooden half block.
Half-Block Episode 2: Craft a cobble half-block.
Half-Block Episode 3: Craft a sandstone half-block.
Panic at the Disco: Play a record.
Good for You: Find diamonds.
Die, Die, DIE!!!!: Die.
Pyromaniac: Use flint-and-steel.
Grandma's Secret Recipe: Eat mushroom soup.
BedTime: Sleep in a bed.
Fine Dining: Eat a golden apple.
Sweet Revenge: Kill a creeper with TnT
America's Favorite Past-Time: Hit a ghast's fireball back at it.
Best Friends: Tame a Wolf
You Win Minecraft: Make a diamond block, then throw it in lava.
Minecraft Feature: Glass
Expansion Idea: Stained Glass
Explanation: Want to make a church more churchy, or style up your rather boring house? Well, stained glass is perfect for you! It's like glass, but tinted a certain color!
Recipee: 1 Glass block with 1 dye makes 1 stained glass
Minecraft Feature: Armor
Expansion Idea: Cloth Armor
Explanation: A cloth armor piece that can be different colors so as to represent a team or just look cool.
Pro Side: Look cool in clothing!
Con Side: No protection or space for armor.
Additional Info: Just to give it a good SP use, it halfs fall damage every additional piece of cloth armor you put on.
Recipee: Armor recipe with dyed cloth instead of mineral.
Submit your own ideas and I just may add em!
We know you're not a noob... we can all see that (which mentioning it makes you look like a noob.. .lol)
Slightly and only slightly different... not different enough.
Tantalizing Santa: Craft X amount of cookies
Public Nuisance: Survive a fall of X Feet/Meters
Judo Chop!: Kill a mob with your hands
Hot Pants: Be set on fire
Toasted: get struck by lightning
I Didn't Do it: Cause something/someone to fall to their death.
Here Comes Mongo: Kill a sheep or cow in one hit.
Happy Little Trees: Collect 100+ Logs
Going the Distance: Walk X blocks/feet/meters
The puns are good, and the achievements better!
Tantalizing Santa, Happy Little Trees, and Going The Distance aren't what Notch wanted in the Achievements, they're chores, not just little things or for guidance.
An idea that I would like to add, is palm trees that grow in rainforest biomes. Perhaps only on beachs?
I also think it would be cool if their was an ore (mabey lapis?) that would ajust the amount of resources dropped depending on the quality of the pick being used. Such as wood:1-2 Stone:3-4 Iron:5-6 Diamond:7-8
Well until you turn into Notch...I won't shoot them down yet.
Minecraft is a game where you have to keep yourself busy, some people do that by building stuff, surviving, whatever floats their boat...some people like achievements.
When you close the game off to people, you're turning away money.
Rude people in a forum don't do much for beginners either.
my ideas:
clocks:take a watch and put a stick frame around it. Now you can place it on a wall, or place it on the ground like a sun dial/grandfather clock. Useful for public underground areas, or just for looks.
stained glass:apply color dyes to glass, get colored glass. Sure its been suggested, doesn't make it suck though.
colored wool helmets/clothes:The main purpose is to identify team colors for minigames. Many people would say just change skins. But that is pretty stupid because its more sensible to put on a hat in game than to have everyone change their skin, and then change it back again when they finish.
HunterSniper1: Exactly. Thanks for liking my acheivements!
FatBaby: Good idea! And yes, most ideas here suck very badly.
Zoram: YES! Great ideas. Sorry for what happened, live your dream here, with me!
OP is getting update #1
ooh, those are good ideas
This was also posted back in May.