Minecarts are plain gray metal, as a minecart should be. But minecarts aren't just used for mining. They're also trains and rollercoasters and so much more. So why should they be limited to boring old gray?
I suggest allowing players to paint minecarts, using dyes, with the exact same system as dyeing leather armor. That means you'd be able to combine dyes in millions of different combinations, for 12,326,391 possible colors! Like leather armor, minecarts are entities, so I see no technical reason why dyeing them shouldn't be possible.
Imagine how awesome it would be to have a spiffy red cars in your train system, or a psychadelic rollercoaster with minecarts in a rainbow pattern.
Colored minecarts would function exactly like regular minecarts, and could be combined with furnaces/hoppers/TNT/etc. Their only difference is their appearance.
And if you ever want to wipe a minecart's color, you'd be able to use cauldrons to clean the paint off and restore it to classic gray.
"Colder than the snow that blankets the earth" "Colder than the ice that cover the stones and freezes the rivers" "Colder than the north wind blowing through a winter-bound forest" "Colder than all these is the smile of a Shade of the Dark"
It's not necessary, but painting cars and trains in real life isn't necessary either. People prefer having colored vehicles. It'd just be prettier, and give aesthetic options besides industrial gray. If I'm making a scenic train route I'd prefer a pretty color like green or red.
It could also be useful for keeping track of who owns a minecart, or what cargo it's carrying. You could put wood in a brown chest minecart, coal in a black chest minecart, etc.
Seems like a nice idea.
I could ride around in a nice blue minecart to and from my village...
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Seems like a nice idea.
I could ride around in a nice blue minecart to and from my village...
The nice thing about using the armor dyeing system is that you aren't limited to one or two shades of blue. You'd literally have millions of different blues to choose from. Cobalt blue? Periwinkle? Ultramarine? Cyan? You'd be able to paint your cart any of those colors, and all the shades of blue in between.
The nice thing about using the armor dyeing system is that you aren't limited to one or two shades of blue. You'd literally have millions of different blues to choose from. Cobalt blue? Periwinkle? Ultramarine? Cyan? You'd be able to paint your cart any of those colors, and all the shades of blue in between.
Cobalt Minecart?
This would make my strange minecraft-related dreams come true...
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Sure, why not? It would actually be neat if they added this to Boats as well, possibly even some tile entities like Chests.
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Yeah, boats would be great too. Not sure if dyed Tile entities are possible, but I'd love color coded chests.
Well, to my knowledge the only difference between a tile entity and a regular one is they can only exist within a voxel, rather than a regular entity that can technically exist anywhere provided physics allow for it. Any other differences only exist due to them having different functions.
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It's the same concept as dyed leather armor and just as necessary--or unnecessary, depending on how you look at it. This means necessity shouldn't play a factor in the approval process. I see only one way to say yes or no to a suggestion like this: do we want it or not?
It's the same concept as dyed leather armor and just as necessary--or unnecessary, depending on how you look at it. This means necessity shouldn't play a factor in the approval process. I see only one way to say yes or no to a suggestion like this: do we want it or not?
That's a yes from me. !
Besides being aesthetically pleasing, color is also useful for conveying information. So even though just being pretty is useful enough (like clay blocks) this also has benefits beyond that.
I suggest allowing players to paint minecarts, using dyes, with the exact same system as dyeing leather armor. That means you'd be able to combine dyes in millions of different combinations, for 12,326,391 possible colors! Like leather armor, minecarts are entities, so I see no technical reason why dyeing them shouldn't be possible.
Imagine how awesome it would be to have a spiffy red cars in your train system, or a psychadelic rollercoaster with minecarts in a rainbow pattern.
Colored minecarts would function exactly like regular minecarts, and could be combined with furnaces/hoppers/TNT/etc. Their only difference is their appearance.
And if you ever want to wipe a minecart's color, you'd be able to use cauldrons to clean the paint off and restore it to classic gray.
Great idea, support, good for minecart related creations.
"Colder than the ice that cover the stones and freezes the rivers"
"Colder than the north wind blowing through a winter-bound forest"
"Colder than all these is the smile of a Shade of the Dark"
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It's not necessary, but painting cars and trains in real life isn't necessary either. People prefer having colored vehicles. It'd just be prettier, and give aesthetic options besides industrial gray. If I'm making a scenic train route I'd prefer a pretty color like green or red.
It could also be useful for keeping track of who owns a minecart, or what cargo it's carrying. You could put wood in a brown chest minecart, coal in a black chest minecart, etc.
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I could ride around in a nice blue minecart to and from my village...
The nice thing about using the armor dyeing system is that you aren't limited to one or two shades of blue. You'd literally have millions of different blues to choose from. Cobalt blue? Periwinkle? Ultramarine? Cyan? You'd be able to paint your cart any of those colors, and all the shades of blue in between.
Cobalt Minecart?
This would make my strange minecraft-related dreams come true...
What's kind of awesome is that you could now make minecarts that might be unique not only on your server, but in the entire real world.
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Yeah, boats would be great too. Not sure if dyed Tile entities are possible, but I'd love color coded chests.
Well, to my knowledge the only difference between a tile entity and a regular one is they can only exist within a voxel, rather than a regular entity that can technically exist anywhere provided physics allow for it. Any other differences only exist due to them having different functions.
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It's the same concept as dyed leather armor and just as necessary--or unnecessary, depending on how you look at it. This means necessity shouldn't play a factor in the approval process. I see only one way to say yes or no to a suggestion like this: do we want it or not?
That's a yes from me. !
Side note: English - Just made up a word "paintable" but it makes perfect sense
Besides being aesthetically pleasing, color is also useful for conveying information. So even though just being pretty is useful enough (like clay blocks) this also has benefits beyond that.
All foolishness aside, I support this!
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