Clay, as it is, has only one use, and that is to make useless bricks that can only be crafted into brick blocks. It needs another use, in my opinion.
How about concrete? Now before you all complain "BAWWW ITS 2 MODERN 4 MINCARFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!" remember, concrete was used by the Romans, so it's not as modern as lightbulbs or computers. A bucket of concrete can be crafted by placing a block of sand, a block of clay, a block of gravel (finally it has a real use) and a bucket of water anywhere on a crafting grid. Concrete buckets can either be used to place concrete as a liquid which hardens into stone after 3 minutes and flows like lava or smelted into seamless double slabs which can be crafted into seamless slabs, making them obtainable in vanilla survival.
Now if you've already turned all your clay into bricks, don't worry. Bricks also now have another use: as ammunition. Right clicking with a brick throws it. A brick causes anywhere between 1/2-2 hearts of damage, depending on the angle. Bricks can fly up to 15 blocks away from the player. It flies through glass panes, destroying the panes in the process. When a brick lands it turns into the brick item which can be picked up and thrown again. Bricks dispensed from dispensers are not fired, just dropped as usual, making brick launchers impossible.
Just for fun, a brick can be crafted with a piece of paper to make a message brick. The game prompts you to write a message on the paper when you throw it, then when it is picked up (either by you or another player) before entering your inventory it displays the message. Except for this behavior it acts exactly like a normal thrown brick.
Clay can be crafted with netherrack to make netherclay, which can also be found naturally in the same kinds of formations as soul sand or gravel. When broken, it drops the full block instead of items, saving some inventory space. Netherclay can be smelted into nether brick.
Clay, as it is, has only one use, and that is to make useless bricks that can only be crafted into brick blocks. It needs another use, in my opinion.
How about concrete? Now before you all complain "BAWWW ITS 2 MODERN 4 MINCARFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!" remember, concrete was used by the Romans, so it's not as modern as lightbulbs or compu-
Yeah. We already have stone. Why do we need to add in concrete?
Now if you've already turned all your clay into bricks, don't worry. Bricks also now have another use: as ammunition. Right clicking with a brick throws it.
We already got arrows, splash potions, fire charges and harmless snowballs. We don't need to be throwing bricks around. Let's just keep them for building.
A brick causes anywhere between 1/2-2 hearts of damage, depending on the angle. Bricks can fly up to 15 blocks away from the player. It flies through glass panes, destroying the panes in the process.
Gee, this would sure be fun and anger-inducing in multiplayer! Also, I don't think Mojang would break the simplicity of weapon damage and program damage ramps/falls in accordance of the angles they land at.
When a brick lands it turns into the brick item which can be picked up and thrown again. Bricks dispensed from dispensers are not fired, just dropped as usual, making brick launchers impossible.
It's the same as an arrow, but without the "charge" ability and without the dispenser launch ability. It's essentially a nerfed arrow.
Just for fun, a brick can be crafted with a piece of paper to make a message brick. The game prompts you to write a message on the paper when you throw it, then when it is picked up (either by you or another player) before entering your inventory it displays the message. Except for this behavior it acts exactly like a normal thrown brick.
A "message brick", really? Multiplayer would into a message brick throwing frenzy. I think signs and using the actual chatbox will suffice.
Clay can be crafted with netherrack to make netherclay, which can also be found naturally in the same kinds of formations as soul sand or gravel. When broken, it drops the full block instead of items, saving some inventory space. Netherclay can be smelted into nether brick.
That would hurt the integrity of Netherrack greatly. It would be like finding diamonds and gold ingots in trees, or finding Nether Warts randomly sitting in deserts. It just makes things too easy. Netherclay sounds a bit cheesy, although I would enjoy having a way to make Nether Bricks, just not with "Netherclay". Having clay in the hellish Nether doesn't really go with... a hellish Nether.
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Yeah. We already have stone. Why do we need to add in concrete?
The point is to make seamless double slabs available in vanilla. Concrete as a liquid is just so nobody complains about "Y I CANT PORE CONCERTE?".
We already got arrows, splash potions, fire charges and harmless snowballs. We don't need to be throwing bricks around. Let's just keep them for building.
Let's say that bricks are more effective against skeletons. A ranged weapon that is effective against skeletons without doing OP-level amounts of damage, is easy to get, and requires you to be close to the enemy. You can't snipe from 748972957138758917598312 chunks away with a brick.
Gee, this would sure be fun and anger-inducing in multiplayer! Also, I don't think Mojang would break the simplicity of weapon damage and program damage ramps/falls in accordance of the angles they land at.
Then let's add a command to disable brickthrowing in SMP. The game could just calculate how fast the brick is moving, and deal damage based on that instead of using the angle of impact.
It's the same as an arrow, but without the "charge" ability and without the dispenser launch ability. It's essentially a nerfed arrow.
But they don't need a bow and you don't need to have chickens/skeletons nearby constantly.
A "message brick", really? Multiplayer would into a message brick throwing frenzy. I think signs and using the actual chatbox will suffice.
Again, bricks can be disabled by the admin. Message bricks are more for angry messages like "That was my tree farm you burned down" or "Quit taking my stuff". You can throw them at someone for private messages without using a command.
That would hurt the integrity of Netherrack greatly. It would be like finding diamonds and gold ingots in trees, or finding Nether Warts randomly sitting in deserts. It just makes things too easy. Netherclay sounds a bit cheesy, although I would enjoy having a way to make Nether Bricks, just not with "Netherclay". Having clay in the hellish Nether doesn't really go with... a hellish Nether.
Then let's remove the netherclay from the Nether. Making it purely a crafted material. Maybe replace the netherrack with soul sand. Is it that bad now?
The point is to make seamless double slabs available in vanilla. Concrete as a liquid is just so nobody complains about "Y I CANT PORE CONCERTE?".
It doesn't seem very fun to pour some liquid concrete somewhere, and then wait 3 minutes for it to harden just for the sole purpose of making aesthetically seamless slabs.
Let's say that bricks are more effective against skeletons. A ranged weapon that is effective against skeletons without doing OP-level amounts of damage, is easy to get, and requires you to be close to the enemy. You can't snipe from 748972957138758917598312 chunks away with a brick.
You can't snipe from 748972957138758917598312 chunks away with any weapon. Standing in a specifc spot and distance from a mob just to throw a brick and hope it hits at the right angle is kind of a chore. At least with the Bow & Arrow, you'll know for a fact that you'll do max damage because of how long you charge the bow, and the damage of arrows doesn't change just because of its angle of landing, but only just by charging it.
Then let's add a command to disable brickthrowing in SMP. The game could just calculate how fast the brick is moving, and deal damage based on that instead of using the angle of impact.
Don't you need a mod to do SMP commands? Even then, that option wouldn't be much use, because if a player just didn't want to have brick throwing in this own SMP game, he'll just refuse to throw bricks altogether.
But they don't need a bow and you don't need to have chickens/skeletons nearby constantly.
Alright, good point.
Again, bricks can be disabled by the admin. Message bricks are more for angry messages like "That was my tree farm you burned down" or "Quit taking my stuff". You can throw them at someone for private messages without using a command.
This could still go unstoppable if an admin rarely checks in his own server.
Then let's remove the netherclay from the Nether. Making it purely a crafted material. Maybe replace the netherrack with soul sand. Is it that bad now?
It's quite good now, actually. I wouldn't mind a way to create Nether Bricks just in case my seed doesn't feel like generating any nearby Nether Fortresses.
I think we should just be able to color it and thus we can have a new type of colored block that is not made from wool (which burns fast) since I use it for roof tops (the wool) to get nice colors, and this way we also get a colored "stair" block that we can use as furniture maybe.
now I just use bricks for chimneys and sometimes buildings, which is cool and dandy but colored clay is not so outrageous I think.
It doesn't seem very fun to pour some liquid concrete somewhere, and then wait 3 minutes for it to harden just for the sole purpose of making aesthetically seamless slabs.
Pouring concrete makes it harden into stone blocks. Smelting it turns it into seamless double slabs.
Don't you need a mod to do SMP commands? Even then, that option wouldn't be much use, because if a player just didn't want to have brick throwing in this own SMP game, he'll just refuse to throw bricks altogether.
I think you mean SSP. SMP is multiplayer.
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If anyone wants to port/remake this, feel free to do that! Or don't. It's up to you, really.
Personally, I'd like to see Brick Ovens. Making my food in a furnace hot enough to smelt metal is silly for one, and for two a brick oven could have a GUI better suited to cooking, allowing things like proper cakes, soups, and pies.
Yeah. We already have stone. Why do we need to add in concrete?
I'll just address this one thing...
First off, so it makes stone if you pour it...like concrete. Is that a problem? Snow golems are redundant to snow storms, in that both make snow on the ground, and no one seems to mind. It might have something to do with them having another use besides, which concrete would have...the seamless double-slab, or "concrete block". If you object to that, though, why have four kinds of wood, or sandstone, or multiple colours of wool, or any other purely decorative block?
Actually...I think this needs to be addressed too, "This could still go unstoppable if an admin rarely checks in his own server."
Umm, yes. That's true. However, if an admin rarely checks their server, then it's their own fault in the first place, and I'm more worried about rampant lava and TNT use in the second. Quite a lot of bad things happen "if an admin rarely checks" and it has nothing to do with this suggestion or any other. An admin, an administrator, has a responsibility to administrate. That's the job title. They don't do it, and it's nobody's fault but their own. Neither Mojang nor anyone here on the forums can be held accountable for them not keeping their own players in line.
Personally, I wouldn't mind concrete in the game. Perhaps it could have a higher blast resistance than stone. Plus, maybe there could be a slightly more complex drying system, ie, if it's touching air, it solidifies twice as fast as if it's not. If it's touching only solid concrete or other blocks, it solidifies after a minecraft day. If it's touching liquid concrete, it takes twice as long to solidify. If it's touching water, it will not solidify. If it's touching lava or in the nether, it will immediately solidify. This might make it difficult to use in the nether because of the fact that it will solidify before it can even spread out.
Concrete would add a new use for clay, sand, and gravel. Plus it would add a new way to make large structures, somewhat quickly (dump the bucket, watch it flow and harden) and would make a material that would be harder to destroy. With a higher blast resistance, it might make it an important material on SMP servers so that people will be able to protect their bases better.
How about concrete? Now before you all complain "BAWWW ITS 2 MODERN 4 MINCARFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!" remember, concrete was used by the Romans, so it's not as modern as lightbulbs or computers. A bucket of concrete can be crafted by placing a block of sand, a block of clay, a block of gravel (finally it has a real use) and a bucket of water anywhere on a crafting grid. Concrete buckets can either be used to place concrete as a liquid which hardens into stone after 3 minutes and flows like lava or smelted into seamless double slabs which can be crafted into seamless slabs, making them obtainable in vanilla survival.
Now if you've already turned all your clay into bricks, don't worry. Bricks also now have another use: as ammunition. Right clicking with a brick throws it. A brick causes anywhere between 1/2-2 hearts of damage, depending on the angle. Bricks can fly up to 15 blocks away from the player. It flies through glass panes, destroying the panes in the process. When a brick lands it turns into the brick item which can be picked up and thrown again. Bricks dispensed from dispensers are not fired, just dropped as usual, making brick launchers impossible.
Just for fun, a brick can be crafted with a piece of paper to make a message brick. The game prompts you to write a message on the paper when you throw it, then when it is picked up (either by you or another player) before entering your inventory it displays the message. Except for this behavior it acts exactly like a normal thrown brick.
Clay can be crafted with netherrack to make netherclay, which can also be found naturally in the same kinds of formations as soul sand or gravel. When broken, it drops the full block instead of items, saving some inventory space. Netherclay can be smelted into nether brick.
inb4 "Lol no wishlists B&"
If anyone wants to port/remake this, feel free to do that! Or don't. It's up to you, really.
Yeah. We already have stone. Why do we need to add in concrete?
We already got arrows, splash potions, fire charges and harmless snowballs. We don't need to be throwing bricks around. Let's just keep them for building.
Gee, this would sure be fun and anger-inducing in multiplayer! Also, I don't think Mojang would break the simplicity of weapon damage and program damage ramps/falls in accordance of the angles they land at.
It's the same as an arrow, but without the "charge" ability and without the dispenser launch ability. It's essentially a nerfed arrow.
A "message brick", really? Multiplayer would into a message brick throwing frenzy. I think signs and using the actual chatbox will suffice.
That would hurt the integrity of Netherrack greatly. It would be like finding diamonds and gold ingots in trees, or finding Nether Warts randomly sitting in deserts. It just makes things too easy. Netherclay sounds a bit cheesy, although I would enjoy having a way to make Nether Bricks, just not with "Netherclay". Having clay in the hellish Nether doesn't really go with... a hellish Nether.
The point is to make seamless double slabs available in vanilla. Concrete as a liquid is just so nobody complains about "Y I CANT PORE CONCERTE?".
Let's say that bricks are more effective against skeletons. A ranged weapon that is effective against skeletons without doing OP-level amounts of damage, is easy to get, and requires you to be close to the enemy. You can't snipe from 748972957138758917598312 chunks away with a brick.
Then let's add a command to disable brickthrowing in SMP. The game could just calculate how fast the brick is moving, and deal damage based on that instead of using the angle of impact.
But they don't need a bow and you don't need to have chickens/skeletons nearby constantly.
Again, bricks can be disabled by the admin. Message bricks are more for angry messages like "That was my tree farm you burned down" or "Quit taking my stuff". You can throw them at someone for private messages without using a command.
Then let's remove the netherclay from the Nether. Making it purely a crafted material. Maybe replace the netherrack with soul sand. Is it that bad now?
If anyone wants to port/remake this, feel free to do that! Or don't. It's up to you, really.
It doesn't seem very fun to pour some liquid concrete somewhere, and then wait 3 minutes for it to harden just for the sole purpose of making aesthetically seamless slabs.
You can't snipe from 748972957138758917598312 chunks away with any weapon. Standing in a specifc spot and distance from a mob just to throw a brick and hope it hits at the right angle is kind of a chore. At least with the Bow & Arrow, you'll know for a fact that you'll do max damage because of how long you charge the bow, and the damage of arrows doesn't change just because of its angle of landing, but only just by charging it.
Don't you need a mod to do SMP commands? Even then, that option wouldn't be much use, because if a player just didn't want to have brick throwing in this own SMP game, he'll just refuse to throw bricks altogether.
Alright, good point.
This could still go unstoppable if an admin rarely checks in his own server.
It's quite good now, actually. I wouldn't mind a way to create Nether Bricks just in case my seed doesn't feel like generating any nearby Nether Fortresses.
now I just use bricks for chimneys and sometimes buildings, which is cool and dandy
Pouring concrete makes it harden into stone blocks. Smelting it turns it into seamless double slabs.
I think you mean SSP.
If anyone wants to port/remake this, feel free to do that! Or don't. It's up to you, really.
I'll just address this one thing...
First off, so it makes stone if you pour it...like concrete. Is that a problem? Snow golems are redundant to snow storms, in that both make snow on the ground, and no one seems to mind. It might have something to do with them having another use besides, which concrete would have...the seamless double-slab, or "concrete block". If you object to that, though, why have four kinds of wood, or sandstone, or multiple colours of wool, or any other purely decorative block?
Actually...I think this needs to be addressed too, "This could still go unstoppable if an admin rarely checks in his own server."
Umm, yes. That's true. However, if an admin rarely checks their server, then it's their own fault in the first place, and I'm more worried about rampant lava and TNT use in the second. Quite a lot of bad things happen "if an admin rarely checks" and it has nothing to do with this suggestion or any other. An admin, an administrator, has a responsibility to administrate. That's the job title. They don't do it, and it's nobody's fault but their own. Neither Mojang nor anyone here on the forums can be held accountable for them not keeping their own players in line.
Concrete would add a new use for clay, sand, and gravel. Plus it would add a new way to make large structures, somewhat quickly (dump the bucket, watch it flow and harden) and would make a material that would be harder to destroy. With a higher blast resistance, it might make it an important material on SMP servers so that people will be able to protect their bases better.