I have been thinking about ways to make Minecraft a more enticing gaming experience. . . . . . . . And the muses of gaming called out to me in a dream last night.
My dream started like this: I exited from my mining base, and saw several pale yellow butterflies flitting around on an apparent breeze. Tiny bees made up of just a few pixels buzzed happily around several flowers, and I saw little grasshoppers bouncing through the tall grass. As the sun set on my day of peaceful wood-collecting, I heard the subtle chirps of cicadas reverberating through the air as I finally woke up.
Inspired by my dream I immediately came here to post my suggestion. Why not have some simple new mobs to give us new drops? Bees would make honey-farming possible, and who doesn't like to watch butterflies fluttering in the air? For those who are cruel enough to actually kill the butterflies, the butterflies could provide new colors of dye. The bees and butterflies could also make crops grow faster (because of pollination.) The cicadas could be caught with a net (more on nets later) and be used to make note-blocks that sound like cicada chirps. Grasshoppers could be wheat-eating pests that give us more incentive to have completely enclosed farms.
Now onto nets. Nets would be used to capture any desired insect for release later. Indoor farms could be provided with pollination by catching butterflies or bees and releasing them into the desired area. Nets are also needed for bee-farming (more on that later.) The crafting recipe for nets is fairly simple, but they loose durability at the same rate as a cobblestone tool. The crafting recipe for a net is as shown:
The recipe can be subject to change, but this is it for now. (Sorry, I don't know how to do the images for the item blocks!)
Bee-farming will be the only way to get honey in Minecraft. But before you catch any bees, you have to build a bee hive. Once you have placed the bee hive, you will have to place flowers in its vicinity. To get 1 honeycomb per day, you have to have at least eight flowers placed around the bee hive. To get 4 honeycombs every day, you need 26 flowers placed around the beehive. Each honeycomb makes four honey balls. Here is the recipe for a bee hive.
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This is all I have to say about my ideas for insects in Minecraft. Thank you for reading.
bees are in deserts but the ones i'm thinking of burrows in the ground, a lot of biomes would have bees and butterflies actually, but they are sort of the most notable
nice idea; i never thought about burrowing bees! If anyone can tweet this idea to Notch it would be great! Any modders out there could also be appreciated for this project!
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My dream started like this: I exited from my mining base, and saw several pale yellow butterflies flitting around on an apparent breeze. Tiny bees made up of just a few pixels buzzed happily around several flowers, and I saw little grasshoppers bouncing through the tall grass. As the sun set on my day of peaceful wood-collecting, I heard the subtle chirps of cicadas reverberating through the air as I finally woke up.
Inspired by my dream I immediately came here to post my suggestion. Why not have some simple new mobs to give us new drops? Bees would make honey-farming possible, and who doesn't like to watch butterflies fluttering in the air? For those who are cruel enough to actually kill the butterflies, the butterflies could provide new colors of dye. The bees and butterflies could also make crops grow faster (because of pollination.) The cicadas could be caught with a net (more on nets later) and be used to make note-blocks that sound like cicada chirps. Grasshoppers could be wheat-eating pests that give us more incentive to have completely enclosed farms.
Now onto nets. Nets would be used to capture any desired insect for release later. Indoor farms could be provided with pollination by catching butterflies or bees and releasing them into the desired area. Nets are also needed for bee-farming (more on that later.) The crafting recipe for nets is fairly simple, but they loose durability at the same rate as a cobblestone tool. The crafting recipe for a net is as shown:
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The recipe can be subject to change, but this is it for now. (Sorry, I don't know how to do the images for the item blocks!)
Bee-farming will be the only way to get honey in Minecraft. But before you catch any bees, you have to build a bee hive. Once you have placed the bee hive, you will have to place flowers in its vicinity. To get 1 honeycomb per day, you have to have at least eight flowers placed around the bee hive. To get 4 honeycombs every day, you need 26 flowers placed around the beehive. Each honeycomb makes four honey balls. Here is the recipe for a bee hive.
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This is all I have to say about my ideas for insects in Minecraft. Thank you for reading.
Edit: Really huge, creepy silverfish but silverfish nonetheless.
[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
Thanks for agreeing with me! :biggrin.gif: