What the Mojangsters need to do is to add little effects to the nearly barren world. Sure, vegetation and occasional mobs give the world some feel, but things get boring. My idea (which I had inspiration from a topic a few months back) is to add a few new particle effects in to minecraft, such as bugs, small fish, and other small things. Note these are not mobs, and you can not interact with them.
Fireflies & Mosquitoes Basically these are little particles that gather at certain times in certain places. Fireflies would show up rarely in forest biomes at night. They would just float around aimlessly in a group of 15-25. They would give off no light, as they are so small. Fireflies would almost always be red, sometimes other colors. Mosquitoes would gather around ponds at sunset. They would float around aimlessly in massive groups of 50-60. These are just little grey dots flying around, so it wouldn't be too crowded.
Small Fish & Tadpoles
If you've ever made a glass window in an underwater base, you can see the view kind of sucks. It's just all blue. This would add little effects depending on location. In ocean biomes, tiny particle effects of schools of fish swimming around would be present quite commonly. In ponds, little tadpole particles would float around. And in rivers, singular tiny fish would swim around.
That does sound like a good idea though I would fear for the lag that comes with it. Each firefly would be an entity and having them surrounding you would really bump up the entity count!
That does sound like a good idea though I would fear for the lag that comes with it. Each firefly would be an entity and having them surrounding you would really bump up the entity count!
These would be particle effects, kind of like smoke and potion effects.
You could turn them off by turning particles off. But if there are too many at once, I guess it could get pretty laggy.
Fireflies & Mosquitoes
Basically these are little particles that gather at certain times in certain places. Fireflies would show up rarely in forest biomes at night. They would just float around aimlessly in a group of 15-25. They would give off no light, as they are so small. Fireflies would almost always be red, sometimes other colors. Mosquitoes would gather around ponds at sunset. They would float around aimlessly in massive groups of 50-60. These are just little grey dots flying around, so it wouldn't be too crowded.
Small Fish & Tadpoles
If you've ever made a glass window in an underwater base, you can see the view kind of sucks. It's just all blue. This would add little effects depending on location. In ocean biomes, tiny particle effects of schools of fish swimming around would be present quite commonly. In ponds, little tadpole particles would float around. And in rivers, singular tiny fish would swim around.
Suggestions welcome.
These would be particle effects, kind of like smoke and potion effects.
You could turn them off by turning particles off. But if there are too many at once, I guess it could get pretty laggy.