Why do we need an item which has the sole purpose of being a lava boat? How often would you actually use it?
Think of the people who just like to go to the Nether and go as far as they can. So they can make another Nether portal. Just to start fresh.
For example: were on 1.7.3 but once 1.8 come we will have to leave are already generated lands, and find new area to get the new items to start generating. The Nether makes traveling easy, but making dirt and Netherack bridges is hard with ghast shooting at you. So making the boat would help you sail through the area faster. So making the Lava Boat, Useful.
but there is... Minecarts...are for rails...As Boats are for sailing...making Minecarts float is just not right.
Too bad. Notch already confirmed it (there's a link to the tweet earlier in the thread.) How is a minecart any less capable of floating than a lava boat with a heavy furnace inside?
The Nether makes traveling easy, but making dirt and Netherack bridges is hard with ghast shooting at you. So making the boat would help you sail through the area faster. So making the Lava Boat, Useful.
Protect yourself with cobblestone walls. Ghasts can't break cobblestone.
Not any more useful than having a multi-purpose minecart.
My only concern is what happens if, while riding the lava boat, you fall into lava from a high height? If it's anything like regular boats and water, you'd plummet below the water/lava level before bobbing back up. Being under water before popping back up isn't such a bad thing, but being submerged under lava without being in an enclosed object seems a tad painful...
This next part seems a bit wacky, but why not add protection, aka a bubble cart, for accidental submersion by doing this:
where represents a crafted mine cart. Give this new bubble cart a durability that diminishes when hit by fireballs, or being submerged under lava. If the durability hits 0, it turns back into a regular mine cart / lava boat.
It'll give me something to use my multiple stacks of diamond blocks on.
Please tell me you're not adding diamonds to a recipe just for the sake of adding diamonds. Glass would make more sense.
Glass (of the highest grade composition) has a melting point of 4200 F, while diamond's melting point is 6422 F. Also glass doesn't really make a good shield against projectiles, does it?
Also diamonds can be used for making windows (although the diamonds are usually synthetic and the windows are small, it still makes more sense than glass protecting against fireballs and lava submersion).
And lastly, are diamonds really so hard to find, that you can't spare five? A chest-plate alone costs eight, and I personally only have to use iron armor anyway. The only thing I've ever used diamond for is ONE set of armor, and then after that, swords and pickaxes. I've found an entire stack of diamond in one day just by vein mining. It's not that hard.
Good idea, but I think that if you would sit in a boat made out of iron on a sea of lava, you'd burn your ass pretty bad :mellow.gif:
Really just being near lava should burn your ass pretty bad, but due to the acceptable break from reality that we tend to ignore convection and most conduction, I think it can take a pass.
Really just being near lava should burn your ass pretty bad, but due to the acceptable break from reality that we tend to ignore convection and most conduction, I think it can take a pass.
Yes. It's not like lava buckets burn you.
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for the recipie?
Why do we need an item which has the sole purpose of being a lava boat? How often would you actually use it?
Mostly moved on. May check back a few times a year.
Putting a diamond in it doesn't make it balanced! Holy **** . . .
*cough* cracked version *cough*
I'm sorry you don't like my idea.
but there is... Minecarts...are for rails...As Boats are for sailing...making Minecarts float is just not right.
Think of the people who just like to go to the Nether and go as far as they can. So they can make another Nether portal. Just to start fresh.
For example: were on 1.7.3 but once 1.8 come we will have to leave are already generated lands, and find new area to get the new items to start generating. The Nether makes traveling easy, but making dirt and Netherack bridges is hard with ghast shooting at you. So making the boat would help you sail through the area faster. So making the Lava Boat, Useful.
you kidding, if this gets added, I'm making a lava river for pure riding down it in a lava boat.
Thats the spirit...The lava boat can just be for fun!
I think having stuff have multiple uses is good. More utility=Better stuff.
Minecarts are for rails....Boats are for sailing.
I just don't like the idea of Minecarts sailing...
Protect yourself with cobblestone walls. Ghasts can't break cobblestone.
Not any more useful than having a multi-purpose minecart.
Mostly moved on. May check back a few times a year.
This next part seems a bit wacky, but why not add protection, aka a bubble cart, for accidental submersion by doing this:
where represents a crafted mine cart. Give this new bubble cart a durability that diminishes when hit by fireballs, or being submerged under lava. If the durability hits 0, it turns back into a regular mine cart / lava boat.
It'll give me something to use my multiple stacks of diamond blocks on.
Please tell me you're not adding diamonds to a recipie just for the sake of adding diamonds. Glass would make more sense.
Mostly moved on. May check back a few times a year.
Glass (of the highest grade composition) has a melting point of 4200 F, while diamond's melting point is 6422 F. Also glass doesn't really make a good shield against projectiles, does it?
Also diamonds can be used for making windows (although the diamonds are usually synthetic and the windows are small, it still makes more sense than glass protecting against fireballs and lava submersion).
And lastly, are diamonds really so hard to find, that you can't spare five? A chest-plate alone costs eight, and I personally only have to use iron armor anyway. The only thing I've ever used diamond for is ONE set of armor, and then after that, swords and pickaxes. I've found an entire stack of diamond in one day just by vein mining. It's not that hard.
Really just being near lava should burn your ass pretty bad, but due to the acceptable break from reality that we tend to ignore convection and most conduction, I think it can take a pass.
Mostly moved on. May check back a few times a year.
They have a mod that does this, makes the lava boat unbreakable, and makes it cost enough that it isnt op.
http://www.curse.com/mc-mods/minecraft/lavaboat_mod
Plus you can make a 2 person boat with that mod so that you are able to bring animals/friends with you.