I got the thinking, an interesting idea for an item someone could craft using (maybe redstone circuts?) would be a digital thermometer. It could stay on your item bar at the bottom and run in the background like the compass and measure ambient/air temperature. It could be very useful to tell if lava is nearby. In real life, you would obviously be able to feel heat to a degree from lava below or beside you. As a side note, this would be kind of a stretch, but so is mining near lava underground in real life (not possible). Anyway, it may take away some of the mystery out of "is there lava behind the next block?" But it would be an interesting and optional invention. Just a thought...
I think this would be a pretty good idea. However, would it react only to lava, or maybe show a drop in temperature when in a snow/taiga biome, or when standing next to a fire?
I like this idea, but heat should be measured from many sources (snow, snow biomes, and ice all lower temperature, fire, lava, and the Nether all raise temperature).
Heat should flow 2 blocks, and then go 1 degree toward 0. The range is -15 to +15. Lava and the Nether make +15, fire makes +14, snow and ice make -6, and snow biomes subtract 5 (so next to lava in a snow biome is only 10, and being next to ice or snow in a snow biome is -11).
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I dunno. It would be useful, but...
A: it doesn't fit into a medieval setting unless you somehow acquired mercury to use in a thermometer.
B: It seems too overpowered. It needs to have some drawbacks, but honestly I can't think of any drawbacks.
I don't really see a point to adding this just for convenience.
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Really, the only time lava would be a dangerous issue when digging is if it were over head. The new lava drip particles already give us that heads up warning. Furthermore, lava now has very distinct gurgling and bubbling sound effects. Like moving water under ground, you'll hear it before you see it. Finally, besides some rare surface lava flows, lava is only really found below a certain elevation in the normal world and, well, everywhere in the nether, so in the regular wold you only need to be alert at low elevation and in the nether lava is the least of your worries. Between these three lava properties, I'm not sure we need a dedicated thermometer for finding lava.
I dunno. It would be useful, but...
A: it doesn't fit into a medieval setting unless you somehow acquired mercury to use in a thermometer.
B: It seems too overpowered. It needs to have some drawbacks, but honestly I can't think of any drawbacks.
I don't really see a point to adding this just for convenience.
A: Circuitry doesn't fit into a medieval setting either, but we have it. What about clocks or record players? Minecraft may feel like it's set in a medieval fantasy, but the reality is that it's in its own setting and anything that is added to the game belongs.
B: How is it overpowered? It tells you when you're near lava. It's hardly useful, but just useful enough to warrant adding it to the game. I don't really understand why you think it needs a drawback. Clocks don't have a drawback, nor do compasses.
EDIT: Also, what Chad said. It's really not anything that needs to be added, but following Mojang's pattern of adding useless features I wouldn't be too surprised.
EDIT: Also, what Chad said. It's really not anything that needs to be added, but following Mojang's pattern of adding useless features I wouldn't be too surprised.
That last quibble was really unnecessary and unfair. The only thing Mojang has added recently that I thought was useless was dispensers dispensing buckets of lava and water.
And while a thermometer could fit into the Minecraft theme if done right, Gaia Cow is right that there are some things that shouldn't be added because there are no parallels to support them. Like adding lasers without adding advanced circuitry or other components first.
I support, but thermometers should explode and hurt you when you go to the Nether. Because water instantly evaporates in there. It would make you check your inventory before going somewhere different, that's enough drawback for me.
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Heat should flow 2 blocks, and then go 1 degree toward 0. The range is -15 to +15. Lava and the Nether make +15, fire makes +14, snow and ice make -6, and snow biomes subtract 5 (so next to lava in a snow biome is only 10, and being next to ice or snow in a snow biome is -11).
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I support.
A: it doesn't fit into a medieval setting unless you somehow acquired mercury to use in a thermometer.
B: It seems too overpowered. It needs to have some drawbacks, but honestly I can't think of any drawbacks.
I don't really see a point to adding this just for convenience.
A: Circuitry doesn't fit into a medieval setting either, but we have it. What about clocks or record players? Minecraft may feel like it's set in a medieval fantasy, but the reality is that it's in its own setting and anything that is added to the game belongs.
B: How is it overpowered? It tells you when you're near lava. It's hardly useful, but just useful enough to warrant adding it to the game. I don't really understand why you think it needs a drawback. Clocks don't have a drawback, nor do compasses.
EDIT: Also, what Chad said. It's really not anything that needs to be added, but following Mojang's pattern of adding useless features I wouldn't be too surprised.
That last quibble was really unnecessary and unfair. The only thing Mojang has added recently that I thought was useless was dispensers dispensing buckets of lava and water.
And while a thermometer could fit into the Minecraft theme if done right, Gaia Cow is right that there are some things that shouldn't be added because there are no parallels to support them. Like adding lasers without adding advanced circuitry or other components first.