I see a lot of elaborate setups with redstone and pistons for making secret entrances and automatic doors. My idea would simplify that and as far as I can tell the mechanics are already in place in the game.
Create a block that does not block player movement, and that will take on the texture of a block that surrounds it on 2 opposite sides. Similar to the way glass panes change their look based on other glass panes around themselves. Or you could just have it take on the texture of whatever block the player hits it with.
Basic uses would be setting it to look like just another block in that wall, hiding the entrance to your base, or hide your chests and treasure rooms inside your base.
Trickier players might set it in the ground for a hidden pitfall trap, or make it look like diamond ore, tempting would-be looters to their doom!
It would also be a great tool for those recreating old game worlds in minecraft, or making puzzle worlds.
No defense in itself, just camoflage, but nice and compact and great for a first line of defense. Maybe players would make it with the new magic system or maybe craft it out of glass and wool or somesuch for a reflective curtain (its all done with mirrors!)
Its not supposed to be an automatic door, simpler or otherwise, but an alternative, or perhaps addition. Its supposed to simplify the creation of a secret passage without having to set up elaborate machinery. I have seen other suggestions for a secret door but they involve solid blocks, essentially doors with a different texture. This is a similar appraoch but instead of having to add in a new item and crafting recipe for every possible surface to blend into, make one new block that can change its texture. Simpler for the programmer, and from the players perspective it does more with less.
I honestly dont know what materials should go into crafting it, should probably be fairly rare as this could be a very powerful tool in the right, or wrong hands. Perhaps a diamond as a lens and call it a hologram projector. Have it attach to a block face like a torch and take on that blocks textures, looking like its taking up the spot its in but not blocking movement. In effect "projecting" a non-solid copy of the block its on into the space it faces. You could see and remove it like a torch, but only when standing inside the hologram.
I see. A very interesting concept, certainly. It should involve redstone, I think. Though personally, I love the mechanical nature of piston mechanisms, I can see great uses in this.
Minecraft is programmed in Java. I do not know Java: Took one look at a tutorial and determined it was stupidly over-complicated in light of simpler languages to learn. So I cannot say for certain if coding such a thing would be a problem...But it would pose some difficulty, I think.
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Create a block that does not block player movement, and that will take on the texture of a block that surrounds it on 2 opposite sides. Similar to the way glass panes change their look based on other glass panes around themselves. Or you could just have it take on the texture of whatever block the player hits it with.
Basic uses would be setting it to look like just another block in that wall, hiding the entrance to your base, or hide your chests and treasure rooms inside your base.
Trickier players might set it in the ground for a hidden pitfall trap, or make it look like diamond ore, tempting would-be looters to their doom!
It would also be a great tool for those recreating old game worlds in minecraft, or making puzzle worlds.
No defense in itself, just camoflage, but nice and compact and great for a first line of defense. Maybe players would make it with the new magic system or maybe craft it out of glass and wool or somesuch for a reflective curtain (its all done with mirrors!)
But this wouldn't simplify the making of automatic doors. There is no door involved here.
One chants out between two worlds: "Fire - Walk with me."
I honestly dont know what materials should go into crafting it, should probably be fairly rare as this could be a very powerful tool in the right, or wrong hands. Perhaps a diamond as a lens and call it a hologram projector. Have it attach to a block face like a torch and take on that blocks textures, looking like its taking up the spot its in but not blocking movement. In effect "projecting" a non-solid copy of the block its on into the space it faces. You could see and remove it like a torch, but only when standing inside the hologram.
Minecraft is programmed in Java. I do not know Java: Took one look at a tutorial and determined it was stupidly over-complicated in light of simpler languages to learn. So I cannot say for certain if coding such a thing would be a problem...But it would pose some difficulty, I think.
One chants out between two worlds: "Fire - Walk with me."