So, I've been thinking a little bit, and Minecraft seems very static. You can create homes, buildings, cities, rollercoasters, and a plethora of objects with and without practical use, but that's it. Unless it's something like a rollercoaster on a multiplayer server with great anti-griefing, it's not gonna see much use (feel free to disagree). But what if Minecraft was even more customizable?
So a few ideas:
1) Minecraft place-able NPC's. These could serve a variety of purposes. Everything from simply miners in a long mine you built simply to add some liveliness to the place, to shop keepers selling items you choose (this could start a basic minecraft in game economy without having to download mods for it, probably controlled by the server mods), to sailors on a boat you built or even ferrymen that can actually take you from place to place on a ferry (or raft) on a path you custom set (would work GREAT with the new oceans and rivers in 1.8), to bankers to manage money in a server wide bank!
2) Along the lines of point 1, add cars, roads, ferry's, boats, heck, even cranes showing construction. Just stuff that can move around and give the game a lively feel to it. You can customize everything so that boats will travel certain paths, stop at ports until someone gets on, just float by as decoration, have people driving on roads on a designated path, create taxi's that can take a player to certain way points. It's all extremely possible!
3) Towns. I know villages are in the making so this is definitely plausible, but the ability to do something as simple as set parameters to a town that you want to found would be amazing. You build structures, homes, docks, farms, people move in, maybe even have businesses pop up like a general store or a blacksmith. The game would become SOOO much more customizable and with ferry services, general stores, and towns, we could add quests, build things like we do now, and make the world much smaller. You could create the ultimate minecraft world, and it wouldn't just be you alone on a server building static objects being lonely all the time. You could literally interact with the world around you.
Of course, you could make this a new mode, have it an option for the new creative mode in 1.8, and even an option on multiplayer servers if you like, but I think this would be an awesome addition to minecraft.
Please leave me comments, suggestions, criticism (positive and negative), and let me know what you think. :smile.gif:
well all of this is amazing, but if you want minecraft to be less lonely, join a server.
I do play on multiplayer servers with some friends of mine, which is always fun. I just feel this would give more of an incentive to play single player. I feel like with single player, no matter what I build, who is gonna see it other than well, myself. So what's the point in building it if there's nothing to do to keep me busy and keep the game fun? I don't know, just my opinion, some people may find single player more fun as it is.
It is a fairly good idea, considering people could have shifts and go to sleep at night to the Villages that spawn.
It is a very good idea, although, I can only see it being posted in a mod.
For Minecraft itself, it could change the genre. And put it to a MMO State.
It could be a mod, but I feel like it might be just as easy to be a mode on Minecraft itself. Single player now has Survival and Creative. I personally like creative mode, but I feel that creating these large cities and structures and things becomes boring if I can't either share them with someone, or keep myself busy with them. That's where the interactive part of the city and NPC's comes in. You could even go as far as to do something like a "City Connect," where you can connect your city to someone else's, and travel between the two simply by getting on a ferry.
In response to the genre change, I hadn't thought about that. It depends if genre matters. Lots of people I think love minecraft for minecraft. The implementation of more optional features would only make people more loyal and enjoy the game more in my opinion. However I could see how people who don't enjoy MMO's wouldn't like the addition, even if it's made optional.
I think that this should be an expansion or something, since Notch did say that for all the players who came after beta-release would have to pay for new content after the full game came out. That would give a reason for them to code it.
I love the idea to be able to just share single player worlds with friends, maybe npc's that will walk in a designated path and that you can talk to, but to use them as transportation or anything i think would be too extensive. I wouldn't make npc's "move in" but instead, you can just create them, in creative mode of course, and place them where you like, they have no real brain processes, they just follow paths and talk, like mobile signs xb
I love the idea to be able to just share single player worlds with friends, maybe npc's that will walk in a designated path and that you can talk to, but to use them as transportation or anything i think would be too extensive. I wouldn't make npc's "move in" but instead, you can just create them, in creative mode of course, and place them where you like, they have no real brain processes, they just follow paths and talk, like mobile signs xb
yeah, that was essentially the idea. Not to have them move in really, but to create them. Having them move in would be an interesting spin off, and would be kind of fun to see what kind of stuff pops up in the town. But it may be a little too much, or based on luck to get the right stuff to move in.
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So a few ideas:
1) Minecraft place-able NPC's. These could serve a variety of purposes. Everything from simply miners in a long mine you built simply to add some liveliness to the place, to shop keepers selling items you choose (this could start a basic minecraft in game economy without having to download mods for it, probably controlled by the server mods), to sailors on a boat you built or even ferrymen that can actually take you from place to place on a ferry (or raft) on a path you custom set (would work GREAT with the new oceans and rivers in 1.8), to bankers to manage money in a server wide bank!
2) Along the lines of point 1, add cars, roads, ferry's, boats, heck, even cranes showing construction. Just stuff that can move around and give the game a lively feel to it. You can customize everything so that boats will travel certain paths, stop at ports until someone gets on, just float by as decoration, have people driving on roads on a designated path, create taxi's that can take a player to certain way points. It's all extremely possible!
3) Towns. I know villages are in the making so this is definitely plausible, but the ability to do something as simple as set parameters to a town that you want to found would be amazing. You build structures, homes, docks, farms, people move in, maybe even have businesses pop up like a general store or a blacksmith. The game would become SOOO much more customizable and with ferry services, general stores, and towns, we could add quests, build things like we do now, and make the world much smaller. You could create the ultimate minecraft world, and it wouldn't just be you alone on a server building static objects being lonely all the time. You could literally interact with the world around you.
Of course, you could make this a new mode, have it an option for the new creative mode in 1.8, and even an option on multiplayer servers if you like, but I think this would be an awesome addition to minecraft.
Please leave me comments, suggestions, criticism (positive and negative), and let me know what you think. :smile.gif:
I do play on multiplayer servers with some friends of mine, which is always fun. I just feel this would give more of an incentive to play single player. I feel like with single player, no matter what I build, who is gonna see it other than well, myself. So what's the point in building it if there's nothing to do to keep me busy and keep the game fun? I don't know, just my opinion, some people may find single player more fun as it is.
It could be a mod, but I feel like it might be just as easy to be a mode on Minecraft itself. Single player now has Survival and Creative. I personally like creative mode, but I feel that creating these large cities and structures and things becomes boring if I can't either share them with someone, or keep myself busy with them. That's where the interactive part of the city and NPC's comes in. You could even go as far as to do something like a "City Connect," where you can connect your city to someone else's, and travel between the two simply by getting on a ferry.
In response to the genre change, I hadn't thought about that. It depends if genre matters. Lots of people I think love minecraft for minecraft. The implementation of more optional features would only make people more loyal and enjoy the game more in my opinion. However I could see how people who don't enjoy MMO's wouldn't like the addition, even if it's made optional.
yeah, that was essentially the idea. Not to have them move in really, but to create them. Having them move in would be an interesting spin off, and would be kind of fun to see what kind of stuff pops up in the town. But it may be a little too much, or based on luck to get the right stuff to move in.