Want to make a roof? We get to choose between wood and stone and the pre-made colors of the wood and stone. Why not make a recipe that combines gravel, water, and reeds and gives you balls of tar? The tar could then be crafted in a 2x2 pattern to get... shingles! Take the shingles and craft them in the style of stairs, half slabs, and perhaps even a slanted block. We would finally have shingle roofs! But why stop there? If you can dye your armor all those different colors, why not the shingle block? This would give us a huge stylistic change to our houses instead of the typical 6 or so colors of stairs we're stuck with. It also uses blocks we already have (and that need more uses).
Tar could also be used to create roads of some sort. You may think it pointless, especially since we don't have cars in game, but what if the tar roads made horses travel 1.5x as fast as normal? It would give purpose to the road! It would also provide another small goal. Making roads instead of just running through the wilderness.
I actually had a cool idea for how to make tar: you "milk" a lit furnace with a bucket. This makes sense because tar comes from burning or heating wood to extreme temperatures, and is often a byproduct of making other things, like charcoal.
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Tar could also be used to create roads of some sort. You may think it pointless, especially since we don't have cars in game, but what if the tar roads made horses travel 1.5x as fast as normal? It would give purpose to the road! It would also provide another small goal. Making roads instead of just running through the wilderness.
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Then you melt the "Sludge rock" Into a tar ball. It makes a bit more sense.
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Retired StaffTar: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/111716-mob-concept-tar-beast/page__hl__%20tar
Shingles: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1328654-roof-tiles/page__hl__%2Bshingles
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/71344-roof-tilesshingles-for-sloped-roofs/page__hl__+shingles#entry6211718
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/385856-roof-shingles/page__hl__+shingles#entry5504532