Torches and glowstone are nice and pretty good at lighting stuff up but we ought to have a really powerful light. One to make lighthouses/beacons with, or just to light up a huge room without putting torches on every block of the walls and floor and making blocks protrude down to put torches on it.
So I propose the "Lava Beacon" for lack of a better name--feel free to suggest a different one.
(the torch is supposed to be a redstone torch, and the lava is supposed to be a lava bucket)
I don't have a picture of what it would look like, but imagine a slightly redder than usual lava block with the glass texture overlaid on top of it on all six sides, with the top 4 corners made of iron, the bottom 4 corners made of gold, and a redstone aura.
The light it would make would be reddish-orange and almost as bright as Minecraft's daylight for, say, three times the radius of a torch's light, unless blocked of course. Then slowly dissipating but still being very bright.
There could be a glowstone version too that would make yellowish light.
Also, if a redstone block is ever added, that would be better than the redstone torch.
EDIT:
Perhaps a better way. You craft the block to hold the light like this:
And then you can craft various-colored lights to put in it with 4x4 squares of the material. 4 diamonds for a blueish-green light, 4 lava buckets for an orange light, 2 lava buckets and 2 redstone torches (or preferably blocks if those are ever added) for reddish-orange light, 4 redstone torches (or, again, blocks) for a reddish light, 4 glowstone blocks for a yellowish light, and 2 diamonds and 2 redstone torches/blocks for a purple light.
Also, I'm almost entirely certain this has been suggested before.
A large lighting beacon would be nice, but you should probably describe how the light would propagate, since the light in minecraft currently spreads in a very logical and predictable pattern.
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Well, gold ingots, and it's pretty easy to get those. Though if we go with my second variation of the idea, one will have to get 4 diamonds, 4 lava buckets, 4 glowstone blocks, etc., which would be much harder. Or if we go with llama66613's proposal (which is good for the lava beacon but it prevents the blue diamond beacon or red redstone beacon so I don't really favor it) it requires 8 glowstone blocks. Which requires you to get diamond, make a diamond pickaxe, mine obsidian, create a portal, and gather 8 glowstone. Which is not so simple.
And I suppose the gold ingots could be turned into gold blocks to make it more hard to create.
But you can already do that by spamming torches everywhere, which isn't hard because one stick and one coal makes 4 torches.
Well, gold ingots, and it's pretty easy to get those. Though if we go with my second variation of the idea, one will have to get 4 diamonds, 4 lava buckets, 4 glowstone blocks, etc., which would be much harder. Or if we go with llama66613's proposal (which is good for the lava beacon but it prevents the blue diamond beacon or red redstone beacon so I don't really favor it) it requires 8 glowstone blocks. Which requires you to get diamond, make a diamond pickaxe, mine obsidian, create a portal, and gather 8 glowstone. Which is not so simple.
And I suppose the gold ingots could be turned into gold blocks to make it more hard to create.
I'm not sure how I feel about something just to illuminate a large area, since we already have numerous options for that, but a light that can be seen for long distances is certainly something I've been craving, and for precisely the reason of a beacon or lighthouse. (I'm planning to build one with a "rotating" light based on piston-run shutters.) It could also be useful for optical telegraphy.
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I'm not sure how I feel about something just to illuminate a large area, since we already have numerous options for that, but a light that can be seen for long distances is certainly something I've been craving, and for precisely the reason of a beacon or lighthouse. (I'm planning to build one with a "rotating" light based on piston-run shutters.) It could also be useful for optical telegraphy.
Agreed. Long-distance lighting would be nice for those lucky enough to use far-rendering xD
Besides, depending upon the new lighting system in 1.8, looking how it does, any of these could easily be possible without the problem of light propagation etc etc.
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So I propose the "Lava Beacon" for lack of a better name--feel free to suggest a different one.
(the torch is supposed to be a redstone torch, and the lava is supposed to be a lava bucket)
I don't have a picture of what it would look like, but imagine a slightly redder than usual lava block with the glass texture overlaid on top of it on all six sides, with the top 4 corners made of iron, the bottom 4 corners made of gold, and a redstone aura.
The light it would make would be reddish-orange and almost as bright as Minecraft's daylight for, say, three times the radius of a torch's light, unless blocked of course. Then slowly dissipating but still being very bright.
There could be a glowstone version too that would make yellowish light.
Also, if a redstone block is ever added, that would be better than the redstone torch.
EDIT:
Perhaps a better way. You craft the block to hold the light like this:
And then you can craft various-colored lights to put in it with 4x4 squares of the material. 4 diamonds for a blueish-green light, 4 lava buckets for an orange light, 2 lava buckets and 2 redstone torches (or preferably blocks if those are ever added) for reddish-orange light, 4 redstone torches (or, again, blocks) for a reddish light, 4 glowstone blocks for a yellowish light, and 2 diamonds and 2 redstone torches/blocks for a purple light.
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This is pretty cool. I think it should work that every block within 3 blocks has a light level of 15. That would be quite bright.
Also, I'm almost entirely certain this has been suggested before.
A large lighting beacon would be nice, but you should probably describe how the light would propagate, since the light in minecraft currently spreads in a very logical and predictable pattern.
Colored light is already being added in the 1.8 update. Torches, glowstone, pumpkins, lava, and redstone will all give off different colored light.
I feel this idea is overpowered. If covers an entire region, then you essentially have never-ending day light, mean that no mobs will ever spawn.
overpowered? how? The recipe has two gold blocks!
blew me up with all my stuff
I lost my clock
I lost my gold
I lost my very special bow
Creeper Creeper blew me up,
blew me up with all my stuff
oh creeper how I hate you so,
to heck with you away you go!
But you can already do that by spamming torches everywhere, which isn't hard because one stick and one coal makes 4 torches.
Well, gold ingots, and it's pretty easy to get those. Though if we go with my second variation of the idea, one will have to get 4 diamonds, 4 lava buckets, 4 glowstone blocks, etc., which would be much harder. Or if we go with llama66613's proposal (which is good for the lava beacon but it prevents the blue diamond beacon or red redstone beacon so I don't really favor it) it requires 8 glowstone blocks. Which requires you to get diamond, make a diamond pickaxe, mine obsidian, create a portal, and gather 8 glowstone. Which is not so simple.
And I suppose the gold ingots could be turned into gold blocks to make it more hard to create.
I'm not sure how I feel about something just to illuminate a large area, since we already have numerous options for that, but a light that can be seen for long distances is certainly something I've been craving, and for precisely the reason of a beacon or lighthouse. (I'm planning to build one with a "rotating" light based on piston-run shutters.) It could also be useful for optical telegraphy.
Agreed. Long-distance lighting would be nice for those lucky enough to use far-rendering xD
Besides, depending upon the new lighting system in 1.8, looking how it does, any of these could easily be possible without the problem of light propagation etc etc.