Ok don't take this as a bashing post. Its just my opinion.
I played this game to death the past few months and found my self incredibly bored waiting for updates and things to keep us occupied. From the beginning although this is brilliant, I find it is just missing so much.
Mainly this is a game about MINING and CRAFTING Right? Well there's barely anything you can CRAFT that is small sized. Almost everything you have to craft is with blocks and needs to be huge. Some of us want to be able to craft all sorts of 1 - 5 block items.
Here are some examples of small items I'd like to be able to craft. I know some of them you can do at a larger scale but still...
Chairs
Sofas
Bathtubs
Flower Pots
Tire Swing (would be a cool idea)
Desk
Television ?
Window Panes
Lanterns / Hanging lamps
Banners / more paintings
Archery Targets (for practice)
Trophies
Shelves
Dressers
Lawnmower ( to keep the grass down from growing)
A LOOM to make more cloth products and clothing
Alchemy station for potions
A wheelbarrow or cart for loot instead of a minecart
More weapon types
Spear
Xbow
Mace (for skeletons)
Whip ( know the fishing rod can do that)
Secondly.. there's barely anything you can mine!! I hate to bring up terraria but I WISH minecraft had half the things terraria had!
Silver
Ruby
Emerald
Aquamarine
Tin (to make bronze)
Copper (can make wires with redstone)
Fools Gold (would be a fun joke to throw in)
Quartz (use to make the clocks or timers for TNT etc)
Theres SO many different types of geology out there it would be so fun to run into different and rare deposits.
I could go on and on and on with all sorts of great ideas and a lot of these simple simple objects could be made as mere decorations that take up one block. Even if there is no use for some of them yet. The lack of ability to craft objects and lack of rare substances makes it kidna boring digging.
Oooh look more coal... oooh look more steel.. Its just getting really boring.
Mind you the newest additions like towns, abandoned mines, etc are all awesome. I just think they need to add more MINING and more CRAFTING in the game. Screw all the adventure stuff. If I wanted adventure I'd go play WOW or something like that.
I think I saw a tweet somewhere from Jeb or Notch about "potions" and with the addition of the spider poison I think it's a safe assumption that they are already working on it.
We don't need 100's of recipes for useless **** like tables and dressers. We don't need useless ores either.
I agree in that we don't need 100's of redundant recipes but a variety of choice is nice. ie. Grey brick stairs vs red brick stairs. Also his suggestion for quartz as a timer for TNT is interesting though since we already use gold/redstone to make a clock I suspect it would make more sense for a similar recipe for a TNT timer.
Yes, a variety of choice is nice, but 100 recipes for dressers and tables are not.
Yes, on that we agree and a lot of what he said is in the game even if it doesn't have a 'recipe' for it. Also like Turiko said some of his suggestions just wouldn't fit in with the 'feel' of Minecraft.
I just think there needs to be more MINING and more CRAFTING.
The excuse that its still "beta" is nonsense. Its supposed to be released in November right? They are a far cry away from release. I just think they work at a complete snails pace. I mean with the amount of millions of copies they have sold, that means they have done a good job so far with what they've created - but is also means they should be hiring people to get this done.
If this is a fantasy setting, I agree but we should be able to craft and fashion anything we want from any sort of material. But there needs to be more material.
Should be an oven for food, maybe a different type of forge you'll need for more higher quality and grade weapons and tools.
There needs to be more types of minerals. Also to make other sorts of things more rare. I've noticed there is more coal, less diamonds recently.
Redstone needs to be more rare, lapis is insane.. and useless there is so much of it.
Could put silver in to make silver weapons to kill maybe a special type of monster maybe a werewolf?
Could add "bats" as well as vampires? I mean with all the caves...
As for "useless stuff" I'm all for it. It isn't useless if it creates an "ambiance" and a feeling of "home". Some people like to make nice big homes and decorate them. Maybe make their fantasy landscape and paradise like in "What dreams may come" etc..
I'm for all sorts of useless decorative objects. They are soooo easy to make programming wise, and would allow for all sorts of extra uses for different substances out there. Just need to make the recipes. Like a grandfather clock or a grandmother clock you can hang on the wall. Some wood and steel.. Trophy cases.. A Hammock..
A ROCKING CHAIR for your porch.. I mean come on.. simple little stuff like this.. geesh.
Cooking Pots - more different types of herbs and flowers need to be made that can be used to make simple flavored meals.
There literally needs to be thousands of crafting items to keep people interested. The farming I'm glad they've improved that. I'd like to farm all sorts of food and animals.
Quartz is something that would open up timers that could add a whole new element to the game. Timing pistons etc, redstone circuits. Timed explosives. Timed traps.
In my opinion we need at least these sorts of minerals added at a minimum.. before the game is released.
I played this game to death the past few months and found my self incredibly bored waiting for updates and things to keep us occupied. From the beginning although this is brilliant, I find it is just missing so much.
Mainly this is a game about MINING and CRAFTING Right? Well there's barely anything you can CRAFT that is small sized. Almost everything you have to craft is with blocks and needs to be huge. Some of us want to be able to craft all sorts of 1 - 5 block items.
Here are some examples of small items I'd like to be able to craft. I know some of them you can do at a larger scale but still...
Chairs
Sofas
Bathtubs
Flower Pots
Tire Swing (would be a cool idea)
Desk
Television ?
Window Panes
Lanterns / Hanging lamps
Banners / more paintings
Archery Targets (for practice)
Trophies
Shelves
Dressers
Lawnmower ( to keep the grass down from growing)
A LOOM to make more cloth products and clothing
Alchemy station for potions
A wheelbarrow or cart for loot instead of a minecart
More weapon types
Spear
Xbow
Mace (for skeletons)
Whip ( know the fishing rod can do that)
Secondly.. there's barely anything you can mine!! I hate to bring up terraria but I WISH minecraft had half the things terraria had!
Silver
Ruby
Emerald
Aquamarine
Tin (to make bronze)
Copper (can make wires with redstone)
Fools Gold (would be a fun joke to throw in)
Quartz (use to make the clocks or timers for TNT etc)
Theres SO many different types of geology out there it would be so fun to run into different and rare deposits.
I could go on and on and on with all sorts of great ideas and a lot of these simple simple objects could be made as mere decorations that take up one block. Even if there is no use for some of them yet. The lack of ability to craft objects and lack of rare substances makes it kidna boring digging.
Oooh look more coal... oooh look more steel.. Its just getting really boring.
Mind you the newest additions like towns, abandoned mines, etc are all awesome. I just think they need to add more MINING and more CRAFTING in the game. Screw all the adventure stuff. If I wanted adventure I'd go play WOW or something like that.
Minecraft is in beta, it is not a 'complete' game so yes a lot is still missing.
I think I saw a tweet somewhere from Jeb or Notch about "potions" and with the addition of the spider poison I think it's a safe assumption that they are already working on it.
Again a complete game vs one in beta.
I agree in that we don't need 100's of redundant recipes but a variety of choice is nice. ie. Grey brick stairs vs red brick stairs. Also his suggestion for quartz as a timer for TNT is interesting though since we already use gold/redstone to make a clock I suspect it would make more sense for a similar recipe for a TNT timer.
Yes, on that we agree and a lot of what he said is in the game even if it doesn't have a 'recipe' for it. Also like Turiko said some of his suggestions just wouldn't fit in with the 'feel' of Minecraft.
The lawnmower thing was a joke.
I just think there needs to be more MINING and more CRAFTING.
The excuse that its still "beta" is nonsense. Its supposed to be released in November right? They are a far cry away from release. I just think they work at a complete snails pace. I mean with the amount of millions of copies they have sold, that means they have done a good job so far with what they've created - but is also means they should be hiring people to get this done.
If this is a fantasy setting, I agree but we should be able to craft and fashion anything we want from any sort of material. But there needs to be more material.
Should be an oven for food, maybe a different type of forge you'll need for more higher quality and grade weapons and tools.
There needs to be more types of minerals. Also to make other sorts of things more rare. I've noticed there is more coal, less diamonds recently.
Redstone needs to be more rare, lapis is insane.. and useless there is so much of it.
Could put silver in to make silver weapons to kill maybe a special type of monster maybe a werewolf?
Could add "bats" as well as vampires? I mean with all the caves...
As for "useless stuff" I'm all for it. It isn't useless if it creates an "ambiance" and a feeling of "home". Some people like to make nice big homes and decorate them. Maybe make their fantasy landscape and paradise like in "What dreams may come" etc..
I'm for all sorts of useless decorative objects. They are soooo easy to make programming wise, and would allow for all sorts of extra uses for different substances out there. Just need to make the recipes. Like a grandfather clock or a grandmother clock you can hang on the wall. Some wood and steel.. Trophy cases.. A Hammock..
A ROCKING CHAIR for your porch.. I mean come on.. simple little stuff like this.. geesh.
Cooking Pots - more different types of herbs and flowers need to be made that can be used to make simple flavored meals.
There literally needs to be thousands of crafting items to keep people interested. The farming I'm glad they've improved that. I'd like to farm all sorts of food and animals.
Quartz is something that would open up timers that could add a whole new element to the game. Timing pistons etc, redstone circuits. Timed explosives. Timed traps.
In my opinion we need at least these sorts of minerals added at a minimum.. before the game is released.
TIN
COPPER
SILVER
LEAD
RUBY
EMERALD
TOPAZ
QUARTZ
Etc
Then go make it
"Don't believe every quote on the internet."- Abraham Lincoln
But maybe sitting on a chair could turn day to night?
Playing MInecraft since February 22, 2011