About a half-hour ago, I finished taking a tour of the Rushmore Caves, which I, as a Minecraft player, found even cooler than the actual Mount Rushmore. But while I was in there, imaging a creeper hiding in every dark cornr, I saw something that would fit perfectly in Minecraft.
Imagine this: You've been tunneling all day, and finally come upon an opening to a cave. You travel along the tunnels, mining ores and occasionally fighting creatures lurking in the darkness, until you finally come to an opening in the cave system, walking into a large room. You look in wonder as you see them through the light of your torches, the stalactites and stalagmites!
Think of this as feature in the game, a slowly growing (or fixed, randomly sized) rock formation either in the ceiling or floor or caves which can be either mined for a certain resource, or left alone to gawk at. These formations can be of different types, different colors, and different uses, such as red, iron oxide(rusty) stalactites/mites, mabye usable for a weaponized items. Others may be used for potions or special decoration, like a blue stalactite/mites for invisibility or other unusd potion effect, or a beautiful crystal one that can be used as an amazing castle decoration.
These items could be a creative and non-redundant way of expanding the mining and ore system, adding different types and forms of these amazing formations, and adding a more exciting thing to search fore underground. Some might be biome specific, while others may only form deep under pools of water, and the list could go on. Notch, do a bit of research on these amazing things, and this simple but great addition could greatly improve the game.
Would be nice, but could ruin the blocky atmosphere of the game.
You could have them be pillars of the material in block form, hanging from the ceiling or growing from he floor. they might not be easily recognizable as them though... You could also do something like vines though, that might work better.
As long as they are polygons it wouldn't break the block rule, even though snowballs already have! This would be a fantastic addition to Minecraft, I super approve
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Imagine this: You've been tunneling all day, and finally come upon an opening to a cave. You travel along the tunnels, mining ores and occasionally fighting creatures lurking in the darkness, until you finally come to an opening in the cave system, walking into a large room. You look in wonder as you see them through the light of your torches, the stalactites and stalagmites!
Think of this as feature in the game, a slowly growing (or fixed, randomly sized) rock formation either in the ceiling or floor or caves which can be either mined for a certain resource, or left alone to gawk at. These formations can be of different types, different colors, and different uses, such as red, iron oxide(rusty) stalactites/mites, mabye usable for a weaponized items. Others may be used for potions or special decoration, like a blue stalactite/mites for invisibility or other unusd potion effect, or a beautiful crystal one that can be used as an amazing castle decoration.
These items could be a creative and non-redundant way of expanding the mining and ore system, adding different types and forms of these amazing formations, and adding a more exciting thing to search fore underground. Some might be biome specific, while others may only form deep under pools of water, and the list could go on. Notch, do a bit of research on these amazing things, and this simple but great addition could greatly improve the game.
I also believe we need glowing lichens/mushrooms/other fungi at about half the light level of a RStone torch.
Anyway, I think slowly growing is better than fixed.
You could have them be pillars of the material in block form, hanging from the ceiling or growing from he floor. they might not be easily recognizable as them though... You could also do something like vines though, that might work better.