First off I'd like to say that the recent updates have been awesome, I like what Jeb is doing to the game and I think MC is headed in the right direction..
However.
Being that the game is called Minecraft shouldn't it revolve more around mining and crafting instead of exploring new biomes and finding new animal things?
I think that in the near future (1.3 perhaps?) Jeb should try to add more ores and metals that you can forge into the game.
For example:
Change the furnace GUI to something where the player can combine two or more blocks. Heating 2 Iron Ore at the same time will give you a Steel Ingot, with which you can craft steel items.
With that changed GUI you can also make totally new metals.
Tin Ore: (ore with light blueish gray color) Fairly common to find, just below ground level.
Copper Ore: (burnt orange color) A little bit rarer than tin but not much. Just below ground level as well.
These two combine to get Bronze Ingots, which are slightly better than Stone but not better than Iron tools.
Alternatively, you can just smelt copper ore in the furnace by itself to get Copper Ingots.
When you go to a crafting table and set two copper ingots on top of eachother (in torch fashion) you can create 8 Copper Wire, which will be more less conducive than redstone dust (for balancing it out) but in return, can travel up walls.
There's a million things that we can do with more ores and stuff in the ground. This is just 1 small idea.
Anybody else agree that Jeb should try and add more ores to the game?
There's already many mods that add more ores and copper and such. Just because a game is called something doesn't mean the entire game is doing that one thing.
Copper not being conductive? Copper is one of the most conductive metals in the world, I think the only metals more conductive are gold and silver. Copper should carry the charge maybe twice the normal distance, but maybe you might need to combine redstone with it in the crafting recipe.
There's already many mods that add more ores and copper and such. Just because a game is called something doesn't mean the entire game is doing that one thing.
And I never said we had to limit it to one thing. I just said I'd like to see more updates to one aspect of the game.
Edit- Oh and saying "there's a mod for that suggestion" is a terrible argument. Not everyone wants to have to download mods to their game just to have more ores added in.
I made this thread for discussion and I like what everyone has suggested.
About the copper, I only said less conducive because it would be (at least in my suggestion) much much easier to find than redstone so, with copper at your disposal so easily, redstone would be obsolete.
First off I'd like to say that the recent updates have been awesome, I like what Jeb is doing to the game and I think MC is headed in the right direction..
However.
Being that the game is called Minecraft shouldn't it revolve more around mining and crafting instead of exploring new biomes and finding new animal things?
I think that in the near future (1.3 perhaps?) Jeb should try to add more ores and metals that you can forge into the game.
For example:
Change the furnace GUI to something where the player can combine two or more blocks. Heating 2 Iron Ore at the same time will give you a Steel Ingot, with which you can craft steel items.
With that changed GUI you can also make totally new metals.
Tin Ore: (ore with light blueish gray color) Fairly common to find, just below ground level.
Copper Ore: (burnt orange color) A little bit rarer than tin but not much. Just below ground level as well.
These two combine to get Bronze Ingots, which are slightly better than Stone but not better than Iron tools.
Alternatively, you can just smelt copper ore in the furnace by itself to get Copper Ingots.
When you go to a crafting table and set two copper ingots on top of eachother (in torch fashion) you can create 8 Copper Wire, which will be more less conducive than redstone dust (for balancing it out) but in return, can travel up walls.
There's a million things that we can do with more ores and stuff in the ground. This is just 1 small idea.
Anybody else agree that Jeb should try and add more ores to the game?
It would be better if you had to go through the process of making Pig Iron and stuff.
And I never said we had to limit it to one thing. I just said I'd like to see more updates to one aspect of the game.
Edit- Oh and saying "there's a mod for that suggestion" is a terrible argument. Not everyone wants to have to download mods to their game just to have more ores added in.
I made this thread for discussion and I like what everyone has suggested.
About the copper, I only said less conducive because it would be (at least in my suggestion) much much easier to find than redstone so, with copper at your disposal so easily, redstone would be obsolete.
There is a mod for that. terria fermma craft. Look it up. If you think It should be a game mode in minecraft. that makes two of us.
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