Hi, this is my first idea, I don't think this has been suggested yet so here goes:
I suggest that Mojang adds painted markers into the game. What they are, are little sticks that you attach to a wall or the ground, and they emit a certain color of smoke (depending on how you craft them). What they do, is show up as an X on your map, and the color of that X varies depending on how it's crafted.
The X would come from here maybe-
The way they'd be crafted would be a torch with a dye of the desired color above. For the sake of saving space, it might be a good idea to restrict the markers to a few different colors (like green red and blue, maybe more?)
The use of this would be for something like telling the difference between building/towns in one of your worlds, or something like marking buildings or opponents castles in SMP, but it's a searching convenience, although I'm not sure how it'd affect the lighting, since there's only 2 kinds, maybe make it so dim that you can;t tell the difference in color? :smile.gif:
I'm not a big fan of the coloring blocks idea, but maybe crafting a canvas or something would be a good idea, and then putting multiple canvases in a crafting square would allow u to make different sized canvases that u could then paint each individual pixel
It would work much better if, like FailedWizard said, they were dots on the map, why? because then you wouldn't have stupid markers laying around and enemies couldn't take them, and it's much simpler.
I suggest that Mojang adds painted markers into the game. What they are, are little sticks that you attach to a wall or the ground, and they emit a certain color of smoke (depending on how you craft them). What they do, is show up as an X on your map, and the color of that X varies depending on how it's crafted.
The X would come from here maybe-
The way they'd be crafted would be a torch with a dye of the desired color above. For the sake of saving space, it might be a good idea to restrict the markers to a few different colors (like green red and blue, maybe more?)
The use of this would be for something like telling the difference between building/towns in one of your worlds, or something like marking buildings or opponents castles in SMP, but it's a searching convenience, although I'm not sure how it'd affect the lighting, since there's only 2 kinds, maybe make it so dim that you can;t tell the difference in color? :smile.gif:
Anyway, I hope you like the idea.
You wouldn't need to add new one use items to the game.
How?
It makes more sense.
where did you get those ideas