In Minecraft, people have already made extremely intricate and ornate castles/palaces/houses/bunkers/etc. But I don't think wool and the available block variety is enough.
One small thing that could be implemented to improve the creative experience is marble.
Unlike wool, marble could be streaked with colors (red = red/pink, blue = blue/teal, etc.)
Most people are familiar with valleys that have stone already showing right? Marble could spawn like that, but with much more.
When you mine a marble block, it would drop 1 - 4 pieces, taking 4 pieces to craft a marble block.
Dying would be the same as wool.
You could craft upside-down stairs (1/2 block on top 1/4 block on bottom) and normal stairs with it, which would allow for better-looking arches.
Wow. I'll have to admit, I hate most aesthetic block addition ideas, but this one is quite interesting, and the spawning mechanics would fit well with MC.
Some ideas:
-Marble slab
-(Marble) Pillar slab (with a more lined texture)
-A possible idea would be to be able to combine marble and marble column slabs
-Colored marble is an admittedly good idea after thinking about it for a while
-This could be used as an extra buffer for some new technology (higher-level enchantment table? some new redstone circuitry compacter? light sensor? Rotating block sort of like pistons? I'm just spitting out a bunch of random ideas.)
I actually love this idea, I'd personally love to have marble flooring, but maybe it should drop 2 pieces instead of 4. Kinda like how clay turns to bricks, then brick stones. Perhaps each colour drops those shards. So it would be White marble fragments mixed with blue marble fragments, X like.
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Sounds like a really good idea, and I hope its implemented! I'd love to have some more variety in building, and this would be perfect:D
I would think though that it should be fairly rare usually, but more common in a specific biome or area (like in stone next to water, say). The reason I'd prefer it rare is that I see marble as something more exotic, and if everyone easily had a house made from marble blocks it would ruin the fun a bit (at least for me).
I agree with you Porcelain, and it's somewhat like the ordeal with bricks. In concept they were awesome, but eventually you realized they looked hideous...
If they redid the brick graphic, I'd love brick all over again... If they did a quality marble graphic, it would be awesome.
I actually love this idea, I'd personally love to have marble flooring, but maybe it should drop 2 pieces instead of 4. Kinda like how clay turns to bricks, then brick stones. Perhaps each colour drops those shards. So it would be White marble fragments mixed with blue marble fragments, X like.
[W][B]
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B = Blue
W = White
That'd take up a lot of coding just to get all of the possible color orientations. I was just thinking of having the independent colors naturally streaked with different shades
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One small thing that could be implemented to improve the creative experience is marble.
Unlike wool, marble could be streaked with colors (red = red/pink, blue = blue/teal, etc.)
Most people are familiar with valleys that have stone already showing right? Marble could spawn like that, but with much more.
When you mine a marble block, it would drop 1 - 4 pieces, taking 4 pieces to craft a marble block.
Dying would be the same as wool.
You could craft upside-down stairs (1/2 block on top 1/4 block on bottom) and normal stairs with it, which would allow for better-looking arches.
Thoughts, additions, criticisms?
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Some ideas:
-Marble slab
-(Marble) Pillar slab (with a more lined texture)
-A possible idea would be to be able to combine marble and marble column slabs
-Colored marble is an admittedly good idea after thinking about it for a while
-This could be used as an extra buffer for some new technology (higher-level enchantment table? some new redstone circuitry compacter? light sensor? Rotating block sort of like pistons? I'm just spitting out a bunch of random ideas.)
Why not just have it drop a whole marble piece, instead of adding another item?
Because marble in real life would shatter. I see no reason why it shouldn't act the same as glowstone, anyway.
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[W][B]
[B][W]
B = Blue
W = White
I would think though that it should be fairly rare usually, but more common in a specific biome or area (like in stone next to water, say). The reason I'd prefer it rare is that I see marble as something more exotic, and if everyone easily had a house made from marble blocks it would ruin the fun a bit (at least for me).
If they redid the brick graphic, I'd love brick all over again... If they did a quality marble graphic, it would be awesome.
That'd take up a lot of coding just to get all of the possible color orientations. I was just thinking of having the independent colors naturally streaked with different shades