I know people have talked about freezers/fridges before, but generally it's in the context of creating new food items - there's other uses too!
Recipe: ( = Snow block )
Freezers would work identical to Furnaces, where you input a fuel source and an object to freeze. The fuel sources for freezers are Snowballs, Snow Blocks, and Ice Blocks.
Here's what you'd get for freezing things.
Bucket of Lava -> Obsidian Block (Returns bucket, safe way to get Obsidian)
Bucket of Water -> Ice Block (way to get legitimate placable ice blocks)
Bucket of Milk + Wooden Bowl -> Ice Cream (food! If you enter the nether, all Ice Cream in your inventory is deleted)
Shrub -> Dead Shrub (way to get legitimate placable Dead Shrubs)
4x slimeballs -> Slime Block (A semi-transparent green block)
Glass + Red Dye -> Thermometer (A new tool that detects which biome you're in via a display)
9 lumps of salt -> Salt Block
New Blocks:
Marble - Marble is a white block with black veins in it, found at similar depths as Iron. Marble blocks can be used to create slabs, pressure plates, stairs, as well as Statues:
Marble Statue Recipe:
Marble Statues are aesthetic items and their form and size changes when placed, similar to paintings. Because they take up space, unlike paintings, Statues may fail to place if the area is too small.
Combining Marble blocks with balls of clay can create Marble Bricks, a similar texture block as red bricks, only gray.
Salt - Salt is found primarily at the bottom of deep bodies of water. Breaking a salt block produces 4-5 salt lumps. One salt lump can be added to a pork chop or fish to create a cooked pork chop/fish without using coal.
You can also place a salt lump on the ground, which will kill all vegetation within five blocks of where the salt was placed. all grass blocks will revert to dirt blocks, flowers and mushrooms will vanish, larger plants like pumpkins, crops, cactii, reeds, and watermelons (if they're added) won't disappear but will be reverted to collectible form, and all of the leaves on trees that have a trunk attached to the ground within the radius will begin to disappear despite being attached to a trunk block. After the tree has lost approximately half its leaf blocks they will begin to regrow, unless another lump of salt is placed on the ground.
Placing a full salt block on the ground will make these effects permanent - grass will not regrow as long as the block is placed, trees will never regrow their leaves, and you will be unable to plant any form of vegetation whatsoever. If you want to keep an area completely free of grass and vegetation, you can place a block of salt one block underneath the surface and cover it in dirt.
Pumpkin Pie - Lemme indulge in one more silly food item - Pumpkin + Salt + Sugar. You can place it like a cake, and it has 8 slices that are removed clockwise as people take them. However, instead of curing you like a cake, when you click on the pie, you get a slice of pie in your inventory.
Sponge - ! In real life synthetic sponges are created using wool, wood pulp, sodium sulphate, and hemp. So, for minecraft, one sponge block would be crafted using white wool, several wood sticks, a lump of salt, and wheat.
Slime Block - As described above, a semitransparent green block. Can be used as a sort of 'green glass'.
Icicle - Create 5 icicles by forming 5 ice blocks in a capital T shape in a crafting table. Icicles can only be placed on the underside of a block with at least one block of air below the icicle. It can also be formed naturally on the edges of cliffs in snow biomes. If an icicle is charged with a redstone current, it will fall and deal damage to whoever is below, making it a good choice for traps.
New Mobs
Yeti - Only spawn in the dark on snow blocks, ice blocks, or blocks with snow placed on top. They're rather slow, but they hit hard. Killing a yeti yields more leather than cows.
Snake - Only spawns in rainforests or deserts, and only at low light levels. They're very fast, but weak - they only deal a half heart of damage per strike, and wearing any armor at all prevents their strikes from hurting you. However, when attacked by a snake, there's a small chance you can be poisoned (this chance is reduced to as you wear more armor, with a full set of diamond armor = 0% chance.) When poisoned, your health will slowly tick away, and your vision will be slightly obscured. Eating any food item will cure the poison, although you can just wait it out as well.
I know people have talked about freezers/fridges before, but generally it's in the context of creating new food items - there's other uses too!
Recipe: (
Freezers would work identical to Furnaces, where you input a fuel source and an object to freeze. The fuel sources for freezers are Snowballs, Snow Blocks, and Ice Blocks.
Here's what you'd get for freezing things.
Bucket of Lava -> Obsidian Block (Returns bucket, safe way to get Obsidian)
Bucket of Water -> Ice Block (way to get legitimate placable ice blocks)
Bucket of Milk + Wooden Bowl -> Ice Cream (food! If you enter the nether, all Ice Cream in your inventory is deleted)
Shrub -> Dead Shrub (way to get legitimate placable Dead Shrubs)
4x slimeballs -> Slime Block (A semi-transparent green block)
Glass + Red Dye -> Thermometer (A new tool that detects which biome you're in via a display)
9 lumps of salt -> Salt Block
New Blocks:
Marble - Marble is a white block with black veins in it, found at similar depths as Iron. Marble blocks can be used to create slabs, pressure plates, stairs, as well as Statues:
Marble Statue Recipe:
Marble Statues are aesthetic items and their form and size changes when placed, similar to paintings. Because they take up space, unlike paintings, Statues may fail to place if the area is too small.
Combining Marble blocks with balls of clay can create Marble Bricks, a similar texture block as red bricks, only gray.
Salt - Salt is found primarily at the bottom of deep bodies of water. Breaking a salt block produces 4-5 salt lumps. One salt lump can be added to a pork chop or fish to create a cooked pork chop/fish without using coal.
You can also place a salt lump on the ground, which will kill all vegetation within five blocks of where the salt was placed. all grass blocks will revert to dirt blocks, flowers and mushrooms will vanish, larger plants like pumpkins, crops, cactii, reeds, and watermelons (if they're added) won't disappear but will be reverted to collectible form, and all of the leaves on trees that have a trunk attached to the ground within the radius will begin to disappear despite being attached to a trunk block. After the tree has lost approximately half its leaf blocks they will begin to regrow, unless another lump of salt is placed on the ground.
Placing a full salt block on the ground will make these effects permanent - grass will not regrow as long as the block is placed, trees will never regrow their leaves, and you will be unable to plant any form of vegetation whatsoever. If you want to keep an area completely free of grass and vegetation, you can place a block of salt one block underneath the surface and cover it in dirt.
Pumpkin Pie - Lemme indulge in one more silly food item - Pumpkin + Salt + Sugar. You can place it like a cake, and it has 8 slices that are removed clockwise as people take them. However, instead of curing you like a cake, when you click on the pie, you get a slice of pie in your inventory.
Sponge -
Slime Block - As described above, a semitransparent green block. Can be used as a sort of 'green glass'.
Icicle - Create 5 icicles by forming 5 ice blocks in a capital T shape in a crafting table. Icicles can only be placed on the underside of a block with at least one block of air below the icicle. It can also be formed naturally on the edges of cliffs in snow biomes. If an icicle is charged with a redstone current, it will fall and deal damage to whoever is below, making it a good choice for traps.
New Mobs
Yeti - Only spawn in the dark on snow blocks, ice blocks, or blocks with snow placed on top. They're rather slow, but they hit hard. Killing a yeti yields more leather than cows.
Snake - Only spawns in rainforests or deserts, and only at low light levels. They're very fast, but weak - they only deal a half heart of damage per strike, and wearing any armor at all prevents their strikes from hurting you. However, when attacked by a snake, there's a small chance you can be poisoned (this chance is reduced to as you wear more armor, with a full set of diamond armor = 0% chance.) When poisoned, your health will slowly tick away, and your vision will be slightly obscured. Eating any food item will cure the poison, although you can just wait it out as well.
That is deep.
Give a man a fish, and he'll be fed for a day.