Why This is Needed: Potion effects add a lot to the game, and create many variations of it. The problem is that until you get to the nether, you cannot access any of these effects. Adding the ability for some items to give you small amounts of the potion effects would allow more variation to your gameplay pre-nether making the earlier gameplay a lot funner. This already exists partly, as the golden apple gives the regeneration bonus.
What I'm Proposing:
I want some new items and an extension of some current items.
Cookies Give Speed Boasts:
Right now, they are hardly useful for being a rare item. I picture a change in the crafting recipy to involve coco beans, wheat, and sugar. The sugar makes you hiper and gives you a level 1 speed boast for 10 seconds. This may seem overpowered, so the recipy will also be changed so that it produces only 3 cookies.
Spider Eyes can Apply Poison to Weapons:
Right now, spider eyes are only used to respore hunger at the cost of health. Eating one poisons you, so logically it must be poisonous. I picture being able to craft the spider eye with your sword (shapeless recipy) to make your sword tipped with poison. The next mob or player you hit with that sword will get a level 1 poison debuff long enough to deal 2 hearts of damage. After you hit that mob or player the poison on your sword goes away, causing you to have to craft a poisonous sword again (making it very inconvient in constant battle).
Ink Sacks can be Crafted into Ink Bombs:
Right now, ink sacks are only used for dying wool, so your not all too thrilled when you find a squid. Ink sacks contain the ink the squid uses to blind its enemies and make a hasty retreat. I picture having the ability of you to craft an Ink Bomb using 2 ink sacks and a gunpowder (yielding 1 ink bomb). An ink bomb is throw in a similar fashson to a splash potion, but with a smaller radius and the ability to apply the blindness effect on its targets. The blindness would have an optinal time of 15 seconds (decreasing as the target is further away from the imact point). If not defined already: Blindness on a hostile mob would decrease the distance he can see making the distance in which he can track you go down drasticly. Like squids, you could use this to retreat. You could also use it with a bow.
A Bone Meal and Gold Nugget Concoction that Strengthens your Bones:
Right now, both these items are useful. Golden Nuggets I feel are assosiated with positive and magical effects like glisennign melons that make instant health potions. Bone Meal is used to make plants grow most likely becuase it is full of positive nutreints. I picture a combantion of the two that will strengthen your bones resulting in the potion effect Strength. This effect would be level 1 and last 30 seconds or so. This may seem overpowered, but it does come with a debuff. It would also give you Nausia for an equal amount of time. The logic behind this is that gold and bone extract aren't the best tasting resulting in you almost wanting to throw up when you eat it. This also balances things out so your not a total power house.
Adding to the List and Conclusion:
This is just a small amount of items that could be added to provide potion effects before you go to the trouble of getting blaze rods and nether wart. I think that adding even a few of these would add a lot to the game and make the early stages of minecraft even less liner than it already is (if such a degree of non-linerness is even possible). If you have any ideas for additional items, please post them as replies and I might add them to the list (designated as a suggestion from you). I also want to hear any comments or concerns regaurding anything! If this thread becomes popular, I will put my pixel combining skills to the test and conjuer up some picture of the new items.
Potion effects add a lot to the game, and create many variations of it. The problem is that until you get to the nether, you cannot access any of these effects. Adding the ability for some items to give you small amounts of the potion effects would allow more variation to your gameplay pre-nether making the earlier gameplay a lot funner. This already exists partly, as the golden apple gives the regeneration bonus.
What I'm Proposing:
I want some new items and an extension of some current items.
Cookies Give Speed Boasts:
Right now, they are hardly useful for being a rare item. I picture a change in the crafting recipy to involve coco beans, wheat, and sugar. The sugar makes you hiper and gives you a level 1 speed boast for 10 seconds. This may seem overpowered, so the recipy will also be changed so that it produces only 3 cookies.
Spider Eyes can Apply Poison to Weapons:
Right now, spider eyes are only used to respore hunger at the cost of health. Eating one poisons you, so logically it must be poisonous. I picture being able to craft the spider eye with your sword (shapeless recipy) to make your sword tipped with poison. The next mob or player you hit with that sword will get a level 1 poison debuff long enough to deal 2 hearts of damage. After you hit that mob or player the poison on your sword goes away, causing you to have to craft a poisonous sword again (making it very inconvient in constant battle).
Ink Sacks can be Crafted into Ink Bombs:
Right now, ink sacks are only used for dying wool, so your not all too thrilled when you find a squid. Ink sacks contain the ink the squid uses to blind its enemies and make a hasty retreat. I picture having the ability of you to craft an Ink Bomb using 2 ink sacks and a gunpowder (yielding 1 ink bomb). An ink bomb is throw in a similar fashson to a splash potion, but with a smaller radius and the ability to apply the blindness effect on its targets. The blindness would have an optinal time of 15 seconds (decreasing as the target is further away from the imact point). If not defined already: Blindness on a hostile mob would decrease the distance he can see making the distance in which he can track you go down drasticly. Like squids, you could use this to retreat. You could also use it with a bow.
A Bone Meal and Gold Nugget Concoction that Strengthens your Bones:
Right now, both these items are useful. Golden Nuggets I feel are assosiated with positive and magical effects like glisennign melons that make instant health potions. Bone Meal is used to make plants grow most likely becuase it is full of positive nutreints. I picture a combantion of the two that will strengthen your bones resulting in the potion effect Strength. This effect would be level 1 and last 30 seconds or so. This may seem overpowered, but it does come with a debuff. It would also give you Nausia for an equal amount of time. The logic behind this is that gold and bone extract aren't the best tasting resulting in you almost wanting to throw up when you eat it. This also balances things out so your not a total power house.
Adding to the List and Conclusion:
This is just a small amount of items that could be added to provide potion effects before you go to the trouble of getting blaze rods and nether wart. I think that adding even a few of these would add a lot to the game and make the early stages of minecraft even less liner than it already is (if such a degree of non-linerness is even possible). If you have any ideas for additional items, please post them as replies and I might add them to the list (designated as a suggestion from you). I also want to hear any comments or concerns regaurding anything! If this thread becomes popular, I will put my pixel combining skills to the test and conjuer up some picture of the new items.
-This has been a BanjoPlayingHorse Suggestion