I thought of this idea yesterday while traversing through my mine and stumbling upon a creeper that had popped out of the fog, surprised me, exploded, destroyed a lava pool i made, and made me lose some diamond.
My main reason for suggesting the telescope is because of the adventure aspect of the game. The simple exploration feel the game gives you and you asking yourself "What's over this mountain?" Well why not look before you leap. I'm not saying it should be able to see to the nether and back but from each little islet or island.
The other reason for this was because of the story i explained. Players that have slower running computers and cannot process minecraft to it's full potential really suffer when they want to travel around their world and see what it has to offer. So why not give us people with crappy computers the ability to see what we're getting ourselves into when we're stranded in the wild in the middle of the night?
I thought the idea was relatively simple and thought it would be made with a few glass blocks and the ore block of your choice for aesthetics (iron, gold, diamond).
Notch, i hope you can consider this simple idea or maybe somebody could mod this into the game.
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"it's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
My main reason for suggesting the telescope is because of the adventure aspect of the game. The simple exploration feel the game gives you and you asking yourself "What's over this mountain?" Well why not look before you leap. I'm not saying it should be able to see to the nether and back but from each little islet or island.
The other reason for this was because of the story i explained. Players that have slower running computers and cannot process minecraft to it's full potential really suffer when they want to travel around their world and see what it has to offer. So why not give us people with crappy computers the ability to see what we're getting ourselves into when we're stranded in the wild in the middle of the night?
I thought the idea was relatively simple and thought it would be made with a few glass blocks and the ore block of your choice for aesthetics (iron, gold, diamond).
Notch, i hope you can consider this simple idea or maybe somebody could mod this into the game.
2.) Stand still apart from looking around
3.) Turn fog on
4.) Continue on your way.
No point whatsoever, making it go further than you can currently see would lag.