Due to the flammability of wool, its impracticable use as a building material, its relative scarcity for large-scale survival builds, and the fact that there is no other viable colored wall option I propose plaster blocks.
The respective recipes for plaster blocks. Essentially, Clay+sand would give you a basic white block. An added dye would give you a colored block.
This would give an additional use for dyes. Plaster blocks would be more explosion resistant, non-flammable, and easier to obtain, which would be beneficial across the board in survival.
No support. Your basically re-hashing the paint concept that's been proposed a few times now by adding a specific block to paint. What confuses me is your proposing this as a survival item when plaster by it's very definition is a very weak aesthetic material used in architecture to create fake facades that look pretty but would crumble if subjected to any sort of abuse. Go support one of the paint mods, because asides from making a use for clay, this idea has no real function that can't be filled by other blocks.
You already made a thread about this, and posted that same image in it. Keep it in one thread.
Actually, the rules said to post each idea in a different thread. Yes, I had one imgur album because I used the same one that I used to post my ideas on reddit...
No support. Your basically re-hashing the paint concept that's been proposed a few times now by adding a specific block to paint. What confuses me is your proposing this as a survival item when plaster by it's very definition is a very weak aesthetic material used in architecture to create fake facades that look pretty but would crumble if subjected to any sort of abuse. Go support one of the paint mods, because asides from making a use for clay, this idea has no real function that can't be filled by other blocks.
This isn't the same idea as paint. I was proposing an idea for a nonflammable wall. Color is an added bonus. My current wall choices are wool, wood, stone, brick, and sandstone. Wood and wool and flammable, brick just looks terrible, and there is only so much you can do with stone and sandstone. Yes, it's weaker than brick but I wasn't suggesting the end-all-be-all for explosive proof building material.
If it helps add some cobble or gravel and call it concrete, not plaster.
No support. Your basically re-hashing the paint concept that's been proposed a few times now by adding a specific block to paint. What confuses me is your proposing this as a survival item when plaster by it's very definition is a very weak aesthetic material used in architecture to create fake facades that look pretty but would crumble if subjected to any sort of abuse. Go support one of the paint mods, because asides from making a use for clay, this idea has no real function that can't be filled by other blocks.
Why are you always so harsh? But I admit I have to agree.
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No support. Your basically re-hashing the paint concept that's been proposed a few times now by adding a specific block to paint. What confuses me is your proposing this as a survival item when plaster by it's very definition is a very weak aesthetic material used in architecture to create fake facades that look pretty but would crumble if subjected to any sort of abuse. Go support one of the paint mods, because asides from making a use for clay, this idea has no real function that can't be filled by other blocks.
I gave this some thought. Knowing some about computer programming I feel like I need to make something clear. There will never be a paint bucket type system added to Minecraft by Mojang and this is why:
Currently there are 16 dyes available to the player. Multiply this by everything you could reasonably paint, like wood, stone, cobble , bricks, logs, etc, and you easily end up with 80 additional blocks to add to the game. Even if Mojang were to make ONLY these 5 blocks paintable it would almost double the amount of blocks (and item numbers) in Minecraft.
A second way painting in Minecraft could be accomplished is with gradient shaders similar to leaves and grass. The texture would be a grey scale block that was tinted to whatever paint was chosen from a select pallete. With this method you would lose a lot of definition to the textures and it would royally screw up how custom texture packs are created. Essentially, blocks would become much more monochromatic (there is only so much you can do with a grey scale) and dichromatic blocks like brick would be impossible (much like how you can't make a tree texture with blossoms.)
The final way of "painting" blocks in minecraft would be a simple blocks swap. You would have a palette of 16 solid color blocks and if you painted a block it would just be swapped for your solid color block of choice. However, a painted wood block and a painted cobble block would look identical. To not be a total game breaker this method would make for even bigger Minecraft saves as well, as the game would have to display one block but remember the info for the original, unpainted, block (like which blocks are stone vs wood vs cobble) to maintain its traits (flammability, breakability, etc). The alternative is that the painted block lost its traits entirely.
As I said before, I was proposing an idea for a colored, nonflammable block, preferably in a similar strength as wood. I came up with a SIMPLE solution, rather than the complexity of a paint mod. I picked plaster, but the idea could be mended to lath and plaster, concrete, adobe, dried cow dung, etc. I honestly don't care about that, in particular, but was trying to fill the need for a colored, nonflammable, relatively easy to obtain materials that can be crafted in survival. That's it.
Now, I've looked at the paint mod by hippoplatimus and while it's an awesome mod it's much more a graffiti mod than a texture-tinting paint mod.
Also, to your argument that plaster is weak, perhaps plaster wasn't the strongest choice (adobe probably would have been better), but just how many real life houses do you see built out of wool? Survival really needs an alternative.
You keep using the term "survival", which keeps warping your argument because survival is about survival, not aesthetics and making things look nice. Yes you can do that and it's a fun goal, but there is nothing survivable, functional or utility about adding plaster to the game.Take a new plant for example, like bamboo or palm trees. They have functional, tangible uses in the game (coconuts and wood source for palm trees, scaffolding and punji stakes for bamboo). You can't make the same argument for plaster. There are blocks that already provide the utility of not being flammable, that fits a survival scenario. The fact that you want colored blocks to be non-flamable is a purely aesthetic issue and has no real survival purpose.
Basically your argument is shooting itself in the foot; you don't need a non-flamable colored block in a survival situation. It could serve a purpose in a creative one, but not in survival.
Actually, the rules said to post each idea in a different thread. Yes, I had one imgur album because I used the same one that I used to post my ideas on reddit...
You're right. Fair enough.
Anyway, your idea does have some small splashes of originality in them, but in a general sense, plaster and paint are things that have been suggested like it's going out of style. There is no sense in using "survival" in your arguments at all, because we're discussing simple plaster blocks that look pretty.
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You keep using the term "survival", which keeps warping your argument because survival is about survival, not aesthetics and making things look nice. Yes you can do that and it's a fun goal, but there is nothing survivable, functional or utility about adding plaster to the game.Take a new plant for example, like bambooor palm trees. They have functional, tangible uses in the game (coconuts and wood source for palm trees, scaffolding and punji stakes for bamboo). You can't make the same argument for plaster. There are blocks that already provide the utility of not being flammable, that fits a survival scenario. The fact that you want colored blocks to be non-flamable is a purely aesthetic issue and has no real survival purpose.
Basically your argument is shooting itself in the foot; you don't need a non-flamable colored block in a survival situation. It could serve a purpose in a creative one, but not in survival.
What about the players that strive to create awesome builds in a survival setting? Yes, survival is survival, but creativity in survival is a much greater challenge than creative in creative.
Seriously. WOOL was made dyable for these exact decorative purposes.
"Waaah, it's flammable!" - Yeah? Don't set it on fire. Home Decoration 101.
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The respective recipes for plaster blocks. Essentially, Clay+sand would give you a basic white block. An added dye would give you a colored block.
This would give an additional use for dyes. Plaster blocks would be more explosion resistant, non-flammable, and easier to obtain, which would be beneficial across the board in survival.
Actually, the rules said to post each idea in a different thread. Yes, I had one imgur album because I used the same one that I used to post my ideas on reddit...
This isn't the same idea as paint. I was proposing an idea for a nonflammable wall. Color is an added bonus. My current wall choices are wool, wood, stone, brick, and sandstone. Wood and wool and flammable, brick just looks terrible, and there is only so much you can do with stone and sandstone. Yes, it's weaker than brick but I wasn't suggesting the end-all-be-all for explosive proof building material.
If it helps add some cobble or gravel and call it concrete, not plaster.
Why are you always so harsh? But I admit I have to agree.
I gave this some thought. Knowing some about computer programming I feel like I need to make something clear. There will never be a paint bucket type system added to Minecraft by Mojang and this is why:
Currently there are 16 dyes available to the player. Multiply this by everything you could reasonably paint, like wood, stone, cobble , bricks, logs, etc, and you easily end up with 80 additional blocks to add to the game. Even if Mojang were to make ONLY these 5 blocks paintable it would almost double the amount of blocks (and item numbers) in Minecraft.
A second way painting in Minecraft could be accomplished is with gradient shaders similar to leaves and grass. The texture would be a grey scale block that was tinted to whatever paint was chosen from a select pallete. With this method you would lose a lot of definition to the textures and it would royally screw up how custom texture packs are created. Essentially, blocks would become much more monochromatic (there is only so much you can do with a grey scale) and dichromatic blocks like brick would be impossible (much like how you can't make a tree texture with blossoms.)
The final way of "painting" blocks in minecraft would be a simple blocks swap. You would have a palette of 16 solid color blocks and if you painted a block it would just be swapped for your solid color block of choice. However, a painted wood block and a painted cobble block would look identical. To not be a total game breaker this method would make for even bigger Minecraft saves as well, as the game would have to display one block but remember the info for the original, unpainted, block (like which blocks are stone vs wood vs cobble) to maintain its traits (flammability, breakability, etc). The alternative is that the painted block lost its traits entirely.
As I said before, I was proposing an idea for a colored, nonflammable block, preferably in a similar strength as wood. I came up with a SIMPLE solution, rather than the complexity of a paint mod. I picked plaster, but the idea could be mended to lath and plaster, concrete, adobe, dried cow dung, etc. I honestly don't care about that, in particular, but was trying to fill the need for a colored, nonflammable, relatively easy to obtain materials that can be crafted in survival. That's it.
Now, I've looked at the paint mod by hippoplatimus and while it's an awesome mod it's much more a graffiti mod than a texture-tinting paint mod.
Also, to your argument that plaster is weak, perhaps plaster wasn't the strongest choice (adobe probably would have been better), but just how many real life houses do you see built out of wool? Survival really needs an alternative.
You keep using the term "survival", which keeps warping your argument because survival is about survival, not aesthetics and making things look nice. Yes you can do that and it's a fun goal, but there is nothing survivable, functional or utility about adding plaster to the game.Take a new plant for example, like bamboo or palm trees. They have functional, tangible uses in the game (coconuts and wood source for palm trees, scaffolding and punji stakes for bamboo). You can't make the same argument for plaster. There are blocks that already provide the utility of not being flammable, that fits a survival scenario. The fact that you want colored blocks to be non-flamable is a purely aesthetic issue and has no real survival purpose.
Basically your argument is shooting itself in the foot; you don't need a non-flamable colored block in a survival situation. It could serve a purpose in a creative one, but not in survival.
You're right. Fair enough.
Anyway, your idea does have some small splashes of originality in them, but in a general sense, plaster and paint are things that have been suggested like it's going out of style. There is no sense in using "survival" in your arguments at all, because we're discussing simple plaster blocks that look pretty.
What about the players that strive to create awesome builds in a survival setting? Yes, survival is survival, but creativity in survival is a much greater challenge than creative in creative.
Yes. Yes it is.
"Waaah, it's flammable!" - Yeah? Don't set it on fire. Home Decoration 101.