Okay. I recently posted Bluestone (http://www.minecraft...9159-bluestone/)- my main theory to Bluestone was a way to automatically transport Water without the laborious task of using many Buckets, Cauldrons and Water Bottles. Now, the main idea of this post may seem a little overpowered to many of you, and I'm sure a huge portion of the population of Minerafters will be completely opposed to the idea; I would know because I myself am one of those Minerafters. But I have read many, many great ideas by many imaginative people, and I saw a solution if they were all implemented and used in a collaborative way. I will not tell you the overall subject of this post just yet, because I know many will dismiss it automatically, but you shall begin to understand as you read on.
All of the remaining parts of the suggestion reside inside the following spoiler tag - feel free to read one bit and then comment with your thoughts, and then leave or continue onto the next bit.
Part I; The Nether Rift;
Idea I - The Nether Rift/Allocator Compatability Oppertunity
The first suggestion I would like to recognise now is the Gravity Well ([http://www.minecraft...e-nether-rift/] it has recently been renamed to the Nether Rift, I believe). As soon as I saw that brilliant suggestion, it took me to the Allocator (http://www.minecraft...-the-allocator/) for a second. I believed that someday, both of these things will have to be implemented. i just knew it. But, soon after realising a connection between the Allocator and the Nether Rift, I thought of something. The Allocator doesn't have many useful legal inputs - and then I read about the Nether Rift's item-sucking capabilities. It struck me - the Nether Rift would be a perfect legal input device for the Allocator. It made so much sense.
Idea II - The Nether Well + The Nether Rift + (Shovel + Hoe) = Well of Souls
Now, quite a while back, I'm not sure if I've already suggested it, I thought of a few things. They were quite simple;
1) The Shovels is really useless. Do something!!!
2) The Hoes are almost useless. Do something!!!
3) The Hoe looks nothing like a Hoe. Do something!!!
4) Wouldn't it be cool if we had a Scythe? It would open up the possibilities of Crop-Block Farming, a deeper Weapon system, and Soul Farming!
All these ideas seemed to fit somehow. And then I got it - Hoes are practically used for digging, too! We could scrap the Shovel and put all of it's uses with the Hoe... And Scythes were used for farming, too! We could replace the Hoe with the Scythe and get two Chickens with one Cobblestone Block - not only would we be opening up the option of Soul Farming, a deeper Weapon system and Soul farming, but we'd be fixing the problem that Hoes look nothing like Hoes - they already look like Scythes!
Now, you're probably wondering what this has to do with the Nether Rift. Well, I've been thinking. Soul Farming was one of the major things I wanted to see in the Scythe, but it would require alot of implementations to complete. One of the major things it would require would be some sort of 'Well of Souls'. And then a thought came to me like an Animob comes to a piece of Wheat. Has anyone ever seen the New Structures Project (http://www.minecraft...ctures-project/)? Well it contains a structure called the Nether Well. This, I thought, was my only hope at getting anywhere close to a Well of Souls. And then, you guessed it - I saw the Nether Rift. Now, I'm suggesting two things here;
1) That the Nether Rift spawns in Nether Wells,
2) That both the Nether Rift and Nether Well should both be renamed 'Well of Souls'.
Now, the Well of Souls would be used for two purposes - the first being as a Mob Trap or Allocator input, and the second being as a Soul Farming utility. Now, to understand the basic principles of Soul Farming, I'll need to give you some background information on how to use the Scythe, apart from for digging up Snowballs and Plots for Farming;
The Scythe is used as a weapon alongside the Sword - though it has a much smaller average damage, it has a much higher Critical Hit Chance. This is simply because it's easier to cut off one's head with a Scythe. it is simply used by left-clicking Mobs, exactly like the Sword. But when you right-click a Villager with it, the Villager would become a Zombie and the Scythe would become a Charged Scythe. The Charged Scythe would be exactly the same except it has a slightly cyan-tinged toolhead, and the in-game item would produce cyan particles. Now, when someone right-clicks on a Well of Souls with a Charged Scythe, the Well of Souls would drop a Soul. This Soul could be planted in Sand to make Soul Sand, but as to other uses I am as yet unsure. Any suggestions are very welcome! There's also a poll to get the ideas flowing, and you can see the news on Soul Farming in this following spoiler;
Soul Farming Status; Current Votes on Poll; 1 Current Votes Status; Potion Ingredient Growing - 100% / 1 Vote Current Majority of Votes; Potion Ingredient Growing - 100% / 1 Vote Potion-Making Idea;
Notes; If the votes continue towards the growth of some potion ingredient, there are several options I might consider for the Soul Potion. It could be; 1) Another Healing Potion 2) An Invisibility/Camoflauge Potion 3) An Armour Potion
Golem/Mercenary/Pet-Making Idea;
Updated! Necro-Galvanism/Necromany Idea!
If the votes begin to lean towards the Golem/Mercenary/Pet side of things, however, then I have an idea as to how it could be done. First, the Player must put the Soul into a Cauldron. They must then dip a Golden Sword into it, which will then become enchanted with the Necromancy enchantment, which can only be put on Golden Swords and only via dipping it into a Cauldron of Souls.
Once the Player has obtained a Necromancy Blade, they must put six Rotten Flesh and three Bones inside the Cauldron. They must then mix these together with the Necromancy Blade and then the Cauldron will drop a Flesh Block. The Player must obtain four of these and make a T-shape out of them, similar to when making an Iron Golem.
The Player must then place a single Jack'o'Lantern into the Cauldron and add in eight Rotten Flesh. After stirring this with the Necromancy Blade, the Cauldron will drop a Rotten Head.
Placing this on top of the T-shape of Flesh Blocks, the Player must then attach a Redstone Current to the statue and wait for a few seconds. The cross-shape of Blocks will become a Flesh Golem, which is the same size as and Iron Golem, but resembles Frankenstien's Monster.
Now, I'm done with Gravity Well ideas, so let's continue on to the Allocator Extensions.
Part II; The Allocator
Idea I; Allocator Extensions 1 – the Processing Allocator
My main idea with the Allocator was an extension to it (akin to the Minecart extensions) that makes it craft and smelt. You would craft it shapelessly with an Allocator, a Furnace and a Crafting Table, and it would have two inventory space rather than one. If any inventory space contained Wood, it would convert it to Planks. If it had Planks, it would convert it to Sticks. It could also Smelt! If one of the slots was filled with Coal and the other an Ore, it would Smelt it, and would Cook if the other slot was filled with Raw Meat. It would also be able to Dye if one slot had Dye and the other Wool, and could make Glass if there was sand and Coal present. it could also make Obsidian if it contained a Lava Bucket and a Water Bucket, and could create a Furnace if it contained eight Cobblestone, and a Crafting Table if it contained four Planks. It could make Tools if it contained sufficient Sticks in one slot and sufficient Toolhead Resources in the other. If it had enough materials to make one Tool, but therefore enough materials to make a lesser Tool, however, it would choose one of the Tools through a list of Tool Priorities. The order of Tool Priority is as follows; 1) Pickaxe 2) Sword 3) Axe 4) Hoe 5) Shovel
Or, with the addition of the Scythe;
Pickaxe
Sword
Scythe
Axe
Also, it could create Bows or Fishing Rods (with Bow having a priority superiority over Fishing Rod) if it contained String and would also be able to create Resource Blocks if filled with the appropriate amount of the Resource.
Idea II; Allocator Extensions 2 – The Allocator with Cauldron and the Water Tank
Okay, this idea has been fully explained in the Bluestone (http://www.minecraft...9159-bluestone/) thread. It’s basically an Allocator/Cauldron, and connects to either side of a Bluestone circuit, a Sponge Plate/Sponge Block or a Bluestone utility, and could also be filled in with a Bottle of Water or a Bucket of Water – but I failed to mention that it should also be able to transport Lava.
The second and most important part of his idea is the Water Tank. The Water—Wait. It might be useful, before I go on, to list my simple Minecraft Water-measuring system; 1 Bottle (w) = 1/3 of a Cauldron (W)
It’s simple, but important to this topic. But there is one more measurement that needs to be mentioned; 1 Bucket (bW) = 1 Block
The Bucket measurement is used for Liquid-Solid conversions. Of course, once Bucket is also worth one Cauldron – I’ve simply taken real Minecraft Water measurements and turned them into a simple system that can be used in texts. Feel free to use it in your suggestions!
Anyway, I was saying... The Water Tank would be able to receive and produce Bluestone power. It would have 1W of capacity, and would emit 1w/sec. 1w would be enough to power one piece of Bluestone for one second. Got that?
The Allocator with Cauldron would be able to connect directly to a Water Tank as well as via a Bluestone path. Okay? That wasn’t that hard, was it?
Let’s get serious; Part III; The Technician’s Table
Now, let’s get straight to the point. I realise that many of you are going to automatically dismiss some of my ideas because of how incredibly easy they are to craft and obtain, so, before I suggest any such ideas, I’m going to tell you about the Technician’s Table. The Technician’s Table would be crafted of four parts, including the ever-lasting fuel. The first three parts are the Technician’s Table Top, Middle, and Bottom, imaginatively, and the final part, the ever-lasting fuel, is the Eye of the Storm Dragon, which, as you might have guessed, involves the use of the Dragon’s Egg. To show you how rare the entire Technician’s Table is to get, I will list every single component the utility requires.
Gold Ingots
Glowstone
Diamonds
Redstone
Iron Blocks
Obsidian
Blaze Rods
Ender Pearls
Dragon’s Egg
Lapis Lazuli
Rare, eh? So, in case you didn’t get the point, the Technician’s Table needs; some semi-rare Ingots, some Nether-dwelling roof-growing Minables, some rare Jewels, a rare Minable, some semi-uncommon Blocks, some Lava-spawned Diamond-mined Glass, some Nether-dwelling hard-to-defeat Mob Drops, some rare-spawning hard-to-defeat Mob Drop, an End-of-the-Game hard-to-defeat Boss drop, and a rare Jewel. Rare enough for ya?
Now, the first component is simply made with a Glowstone Dust surrounded by Gold Ingots. The next part is made by Redstone surrounded by Diamonds, and the third piece is made by surrounding some Obsidian with Iron Blocks. Who cares which piece is which? Just shapelessly craft the Top, Bottom and Middle pieces into the Technician’s Table. But your crafting quest ain’t over yet, mate. Next you’ll need to get an Eye of Ender, some Lapis Lazuli, and the Dragon’s Egg, craft’em together into the Eye of the Storm Dragon, and place’em into your Technician’s Table. This will be totally fine if you plan to keep your brilliant new Redstoning to your own single-player World... but what about PvP?
The Dragon’s Egg lasts forever, despite being a fuel. When you enter a Technician’s Table, you will place the Eye of the Storm Dragon into the fuel section and craft whatever Redstone Utility you want, and then – here’s the good bit – you just take it out again and place it back into your inventory. That way, everyone on a PvP server who wants to use a Technician’s Table requires the fuel (I think in the case of the Technician’s Table, it would be more of a ‘key’), so that enemy factioners can’t just come in and use your technology against you. However, I’ve been thinking, there should be a way that people who have the Eye of the Storm Dragon should be able to somehow multiply their Keys so that they can give them to their friends – similar to the fact that you can use Wood to multiply Coal, but much more balanced. So, you can multiply the Technician’s Table (let’s call it the TT – it’s saves a lot of typing) key by crafting this in the TT;
Redstone | Coal | Redstone
Coal | Redstone| Coal
Redstone | Coal | Redstone
And you get another key. But make sure you never leave your key inside the TT; soon your enemies will be raiding your house, backpacks full of Redstone and Coal, and getting themselves an Eye of the Storm Dragon (let’s call it the EotSD) each. The multiplication technique is simply so you can let your friends use your TT, and so that you can leave an EotSD in each of your TTs in your single-player World. Please give me any feedback you can think of as to whether this multiplication crafting is game-breaking or not!
A few hours after typing the above paragraphs, I came to think of the obvious problems one could have. Imagine you’ve just defeated the Ender Dragon and grabbed the Egg, only to find you drop it after being ambushed by creepers on arriving back into the Overworld?
So I came up with the Egg Pouch. It’s simply crafted by surrounding a piece of Wool with Letaher, and doesn’t even need a TT, and can simply be crafted in the Crafting Table. Basically, as soon as you Crfat it, instead of going into your Inventory, your Hotbar is extended by one and that new space is automatically filled with the Egg Pouch. You cannot take the Egg Pouch out of the new space. The Egg Pouch has three textures – one for an empty Egg Pouch, and one for an Egg Pouch with a Dragon’s Egg in it, and one for the Egg Pouch with an EotSD in it.
The aim of the Egg Pouch is simple – when you die, if your Dragon’s Egg/EotSD is in the Pouch, it is not dropped from your Inventory. That way, you can keep your TT key safely in your Egg Pouch without having to worry about doing the entire game again to have to regain your lost Dragon’s Egg or EotSD.
I also came up with another idea to save people from having to gather tons and tons of resources to make a second TT – so I came up with a multiplication trick similar to that of the EotSD. In your TT, you place your ingredients like so;
Gold Ingot | Glowstone Dust | Gold Ingot
Diamond | Redstone | Diamond
Iron Block | Obsidian | Iron Block
And you get another TT. That way, those who already have a TT and a EotSD can make another one with two thirds of the ingredients usually needed stripped away.
Part IV; Eye Spy with my Little Ender Eye – Detectors, Cameras and Whatnot.
Idea I; The Detector Camera, and a new Ore to match
I have seen many suggestions over time about a Redstone activator that activates when it senses the addition/removal of a Block in front of it, or the passing-by of an Entity such as a Vehicle or Mob. Now, there have been a wide range of these suggestions, and I hope to generalise these with possibly the simplest version yet – the Security Camera.
Using the TT, you would craft it like so;
Obsidian | Obsidian | Obsidian
Obsidian | Redstone | Glass Pane
Obsidian | Obsidian | Obsidian
And then you would place it. It would have a range that’s one Block wide and high, but goes as far as 10 Blocks when not interrupted by a wall. Simple! But then there’s the new Ore, and the two extensions to it, that make it interesting.
The new Ore I’m proposing is Ruby Ore. Woah, woah – don’t go away! I’m not talking about your average jewellery Rubies – for once, I believe, someone is suggesting a new gem alongside it’s actual real-life industrial uses.
In real life, Rubies are used to create lasers. Woah, I said stay there! I’m not talking about turning Minecraft into Starcraft, buddy! In real life, if a Ruby rod is hit with exactly the right frequency of energy, then it begins emitting light, commonly known as a laser. I’m simply thinking of a detector laser – I’m sick of not being able to have an airborne pressure plate. Well, your problems are solved with the Ruby! Simply smelt the Ore and stick a Ruby Jewel onto the back of the Security Camera by right-clicking (or by crafting with the TT), and you now have a Laser Sight Camera. Basically, it’s exactly the same as the regular Security Camera only it has a range extended to 25 Blocks, and looks totally badass. X3 Woah, i almost forgot one very important thing. It does have one major advantage – it can see around corners. Not on its own, of course! It uses a new item called the Mirror.
There are two kinds of Mirror – the Mirror Block, which reflects Lasers straight back to where they came from, and the Diagonal Mirror, which lets Lasers detect stuff around a corner. The Mirror Blcok is crafted like so;
Iron Ingot | Glass Pane
Iron Ingot | Glass Pane
Iron Ingot | Glass Pane
These would be used to reflect Lasers straight back at the Laser Sight Camera and make use of the Laser Sight Camera’s main weakness – it is deactivated if it is touched at the front by another – or its own – laser. You have to unplug the Camera and turn it back on to reactivate it.
The second kind of Mirror, the Diagonal Mirror, is crafted like so;
Nothing | Iron Ingot | Glass Pane
Nothing | Iron Ingot | Glass Pane
Wooden Planks | Iron Ingot | Glass Pane
This Mirror takes up half a Block, and reflects the Laser 90 degrees.
Now, I said two extensions, didn’t I? Well I’m still saying that. If you right-click (or craft in a TT) some Glowstone Dust onto the Camera, it becomes a Spotlight Camera. A regular Security Camera has a lower chance of detecting a movement/change depending on how low the light level is, with a 100% chance at full daylight. The Spotlight Camera, however, has at least a 90% chance of detecting anything, any light level.
Idea II; The Hidden Camera
In the TT, you can craft a Jack’o Lantern with a Security Camera to make a Hidden Camera. The Hidden Cameras is simple; though its range has been dropped to 8 Blocks due to tampering, it cannot be seen, and simply looks like a Jack’o Lantern. When it is destroyed, it drops Pumpkin Seeds and a Camera, but only has the strength of a Pumpkin, so, once somehow discovered, it is easily compromised.
Idea III; The Arts Extended
For years, people have been wishing we had custom paintings, custom records, a way to declare that we completely own something, and writable books. Well, a while ago, someone combined all of these ideas into one suggestion called The Arts, which you can find here; http://www.minecraft...1-the-arts-mod/ .
Now, the Arts suggestion (which is now implemented into its own Mod, I believe) reminded us of the two arts that we do currently have – Sculpture and Architecture. It then told us about three Arts we need to improve on – Literature, Painting and Music – and told us how they could be improved. Here, however, I will introduce you to two new Arts which are poorly, or not at all, represented in Minecraft. These Arts are Photography and Cinematography. So I’m suggesting we add a Photo Camera, a Video Camera, Video Discs (custom and pre-implemented), a Video Player, an Editing Table and a TV Broadcaster.
First up is the Photo Camera, crafted like so;
Security Camera | Ink Sac | Ink Sac
Paper | Paper | Paper
Paper | Paper | Paper
The Photo Camera is hand-held. You right-click on a Block, Mob or other Entity, and you get 3 weak, fake versions of that Block – but you can’t use it unless you have the Developing Box, crafted like this;
Stone | Redstone Torch | Stone
Paper | Paper | Paper
Stone | Stone | Stone
The Developing Box is a Placable Utility. When you right-click on it, it opens up an Inventory/Utility screen that lets you gain access to your fake Blocks and Entities. Firstly, you must place your Photo Camera in the Camera section, and then all of your saved Photos will appear in the bar next to it (you can store a maximum of 10 Photos in your Camera at once, and Photos of the same thing can stack to a limit of 10). You can now drag these into your Inventory/Hotbar and place them! This would be useful for scaring away griefers, because you could make a house out of fake Diamond Blocks and then not put a door in, and the griefer would completely lose hope – and you could just bash your way in/out! The Camera would have durability, but wouldn’t break when it has no durability left – you’d just have to re-craft the Camera with some more Ink Sacs and Paper. Now, these Photos would also be useful for making Movie Sets without having to gather all of the real materials.
What in Minecraftia is a Movie Set?
Oops, now I have to tell you about Movie Cameras.
Well. Movie Cameras would be crafted out of a Photo Camera and a Movie Disc – whoops, there I go again. A Movie Disc would be crafted out of the ‘The Arts’ Custom Record and some Iron, like so;
Nothing | Iron Ingot |
Iron Ingot | Custom Record | Iron Ingot
Nothing | Iron Ingot
And you’d get a Custom Movie Disc. Craft this shapelessly with a Photo Camera and you get a Movie Camera, which is a Placable Utility. It has a filming width of 15 Blocks, and has a filming height of ten Blocks up from the Camera. It only films while turned on, and must have a Custom Movie Disc inside it to record anything. The Custom Movie Disc records 3 minutes of film, and only shows the chat log of those who are being filmed by the Camera. Movie discs do not record sound, however, so you must place a Recorder next to your Camera if you wish to record the sound of the film as well.
To show the Movie Disc, you must connect it to a TV, which is crafted like so;
Iron Ingot | Jukebox | Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot | Glass Pane | Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot | Iron Ingot | Iron Ingot
You can either create a live broadcast by connecting a Camera directly to the TV via Redstone, which doesn’t require a Disc, or you can just film onto the Custom Film Disc and then place the Disc into the TV to watch later. But if you want to make a large-scale broadcast channel, then you’ll definitely want to read this before plus-one-ing;
Behold the Set-Top Box (temporary name). This Utility lets you place both a Movie Disc and a Sound Disc into the top and then connect it to a TV with Redstone. You could have a huge broadcast system by connecting a Camera and a Recorder to a Set-Top Box with an Allocator and then connecting that Set-Top Box to every TV set in the entire World/Server. And the imagine having several film sets, connected to several Set-Top Boxes, connected to every TV... Server owners would go crazy over the possibilities of world-wide news broadcasts. What’s that you ask? “How can you connect multiple Set-Top Boxes to a single TV Set and be able to watch them all?”
Oh, good question! You’d need the TV Remote;
Nothing | Iron Ingot | Nothing
Iron Ingot | Redstone Dust | Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot | Iron Ingot | Iron Ingot
The TV Remote is a Tool that you hold. Whilst holding down the right-click button when aiming at a TV Set, the TV Remote will be held up to your face akin to a Map. You can then press the number keys to choose between 10 different channels, or you could simply press the ‘-‘ key to change to the next channel if you have more than 10 boxes connected to your set.
Update History;
24/04/2012;
* Seperated the sections of the page into spoilers - no more overwhelming wall of text. 25/04/2012;
+ Soul uses spoiler added in the Scythe section. 5/05/2012
+ Added Necro-Galvanism/Necromany to the Soul Uses section.
This is how my Redstone Revolution suggestion is going along so far. It would be awesome if you could give me any feedback!
Okay, I know now that bumping is bad - but this thing has been up here for a day now and I haven't even got a single comment.
I mean, I think it's a pretty decent suggestion.
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Excuse me, but that was my comment you just read there, bub.
Updated (24/04/2012 - Late); Now has a more user-friendly interface, rather than an overwhelming wall of text. Updated (25/04/2012); Now has a small spoiler near the bottom of the Well of Souls section that shows the status of Soul Farming.
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Excuse me, but that was my comment you just read there, bub.
However, I can't support the removal of spades. I can understand using a hoe for digging, but digging with a hoe is far inferior to using a spade. Considering you actually want to replace the hoe with a scythe, of which would be useless for digging, I hate this idea even more.
Replacing hoes with scythes is fine, but replacing spades with scythes is inexcusable.
However, I can't support the removal of spades. I can understand using a hoe for digging, but digging with a hoe is far inferior to using a spade. Considering you actually want to replace the hoe with a scythe, of which would be useless for digging, I hate this idea even more.
Replacing hoes with scythes is fine, but replacing spades with scythes is inexcusable.
I can see your point... But this is Minecraft we're talking about here.
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Excuse me, but that was my comment you just read there, bub.
Updated (5/05/2012); OP now includes a suggestion for Necromancy, or Necro-Galvanism, through the use of Souls, a Golden Sword, a Cauldron and some Redstone.
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Excuse me, but that was my comment you just read there, bub.
This is how my Redstone Revolution suggestion is going along so far. It would be awesome if you could give me any feedback!
I mean, I think it's a pretty decent suggestion.
What? A comment?
AND THEY LIKED IT?!
Dude, chur one of my new best friends!!! Accept my friend request or die XD
Updated (25/04/2012); Now has a small spoiler near the bottom of the Well of Souls section that shows the status of Soul Farming.
However, I can't support the removal of spades. I can understand using a hoe for digging, but digging with a hoe is far inferior to using a spade. Considering you actually want to replace the hoe with a scythe, of which would be useless for digging, I hate this idea even more.
Replacing hoes with scythes is fine, but replacing spades with scythes is inexcusable.
I can see your point... But this is Minecraft we're talking about here.
Minecraft still needs to make sense within itself. If scythes are used to mine soil, I might as well use a sword.
Heheh. Mine soil.
Anywya, as I said, it's a good point, and I'll consider it.