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I was considering creating another boat just for nitrogen, but I decided against it because I didn't know what it could be made out of and I feared it would just be tedious. As for the name, I think just "nitrogen" would work, as liquid nitrogen might be complicated for little kids to understand.
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I realize I've not been on this thread for a little while now and missed the conversation on the villagers. Matchlocks or guns would not be the way to go for this suggestion. If there is one thing you don't include in your suggestion to prevent it from being unpopular, it's guns. Instead there could maybe be a steampunk-style bow or crossbow.
Question: What would the gear biome look like?
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I see. Maybe instead of outright humans, the villagers could be of some other civilized race inspired by their frosty surroundings. I don't imagine the Gear Biome being that large compared to others, so instead of resistance camps how about the villagers spawn in cells inside the gear? I imagine the Gear dungeon would be under complete control. The player can find 1-3 prison in each gear and after fighting a bunch of Automations the villagers will be freed, arm themselves, and join you on the quest to the defeat the Controller.
I like the Shocker being a scout. Perhaps they spawn throughout the outdoor gear sections, (which is the regular frost dimension but polluted and stripped of resources) while Automations become more common inside. Tendrils sound very similar to the abandoned steampunk ships, so they should either be combined or one replaced by the other.
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The villagers are there to flavor it up a bit and make the brutal difficulty (seriously, 5 man squads of machines that have armor, set you on fire with each shot, and deal bonus damage when hitting flaming enemies, spread throughout a LOAD of corridors, and with a final boss that fires enormous death lasers and summons reinforcements) slightly less biting if you go out of your way to help these rebelling slaves.
I see. Maybe instead of outright humans, the villagers could be of some other civilized race inspired by their frosty surroundings. I don't imagine the Gear Biome being that large compared to others, so instead of resistance camps how about the villagers spawn in cells inside the gear? I imagine the Gear dungeon would be under complete control. The player can find 1-3 prison in each gear and after fighting a bunch of Automations the villagers will be freed, arm themselves, and join you on the quest to the defeat the Controller.
I like the Shocker being a scout. Perhaps they spawn throughout the outdoor gear sections, (which is the regular frost dimension but polluted and stripped of resources) while Automations become more common inside. Tendrils sound very similar to the abandoned steampunk ships, so they should either be combined or one replaced by the other.
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I notice that villages try to have some furniture made out of other objects like carpet on a fence post for a table. As the game already attempts to create furniture in buildings, it might not be so bad to have some real tables and chairs for example. Stick a flowerpot on a table. There are things like pictures available, and carpet. I tend to put things like crafting tables and chests besides beds to have a bit of a bed side table feel.
Nice necropost. This topic is almost a year old.
There are a few different furniture items already in Minecraft, so why not tables and chairs? Well... As it turns out, there's a good reason.
Let's take the first four "furniture" items in Minecraft that I can think of: The Bookshelf, the Plant Pot, the Item Frame and the Painting. None of these items have to be exactly what they are. Paintings can be used for monitors and screens, or even tapestries. Item Frames can be used for any situation where putting an item in a chest wouldn't fit. (A tool hung on a wall, etc.) OR it can be used to display items that you are proud to have found, like your first Clownfish or your first-ever Diamond Pickaxe.
The Plant Pot is another use for the slightly useless clay. (It's hard for me to get enough to build a house with, but easy enough that I can get a few stacks to sit in my chest forever.) It's also a nice way to display saplings without them growing into trees, or putting plants in places they otherwise wouldn't grow. (Caves, Mushroom Islands, etc.)
If you got rid of the bookshelf, there aren't a lot of other blocks that look like "a shelf full of books", much less a shelf full of anything. Heck, there's not a single alternative to the bookshelf I can think of that would be more practical. Plus books have been around since forever, so it almost goes hand-in-hand with the last 500 to 1500 years of civilization that Minecraft portrays. Bookshelves can also look like shelves of cereal or other food boxes, which are also bright and colorful because of the designs that marketing teams print on them.
Meanwhile, chairs and tables are hard to morph into anything but chairs and tables. They also wouldn't have much of a practical purpose unlike the bookshelf. Plus, if you add chairs and tables, where do you stop with furniture? What about armchairs or couches? There are many designs for chairs and tables, like different numbers of legs, different color designs, etc. Should you include chairs with one basic design, or with many different designs?
(Not to mention a nicely detailed chair isn't going to fit in the same house with a lawn chair made of slabs and stairs. So do you include every piece of furniture conceived from the beginning of time? Obviously not.)
The stairs, fences and pressure plates we have can work in their practical situations and in their own decorative situations, as well as for furniture. That's good enough for me.
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Minecraft have a "Medieval" style.
Putting advanced tecnology in the game would be bad as it would take the sense of Minecraft (if it makes sense
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I really like that block. I know this name might be too similar to how netherrack is named after the Nether, but what about "Fristum" or "Fristom" as a name for the block?
I've begun to work on some little banners we could put in our signatures (if we wanted to) after we finish the suggestion:
I think they might be a cool way to show that you contributed to the suggestion. Of course, there will be more icon options once we get more images/textures done.
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I agree that some of the mobs should be combined, and that some should be used in the dungeon. We don't want to have too many mobs in the dimension.
EDIT: What if the crystals were used to direct beacon beams to increase their range? Maybe it would go on for 256 blocks if pointed in a direction or something? Or maybe the crystal could do something like this with the beacon beams:
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The idea of using a leashed pig to hunt for truffles (found only in the various forest biomes maybe?) is intriguing…
Rather than a rare drop…
AMPPL50's idea of using pigs to dig out truffles (which somewhat mirrors the dolphin/shipwreck relationship upcoming in 1.13/14) would control truffle rarity by requiring player time (pigs and forest biomes are common).
Mechanically:
I would suggest that every time a pig-on-a-leash enters a forest biome chunk there is a small percentage chance of truffles growing under one of the trees.
The pig-on-a-leash will attempt to lead the player to this tree, engage in a short dig animation,and then eat the truffles unless distracted durring its digging by some other pig food. If the pig-on-a-leash is distracted, the truffles will appear at the end of the dig animation and be picked up by the player.
In order to prevent players endlessly circling the intersection of four applicable chunks, the chance would be limited to once a MC day. Bringing a pig-on-a-leash into an applicable chunk would triiger the truffle check as well as impose the equivalent of a 20 minute lingering "No-Truffle" potion on the chunk [or however else this may best be coded].
There then remains the issue of why one would want truffles…
Despite the number of players who seem to horde poisonous potatoes, I would prefer to see truffles given some practical use.
This might be something as mundane as allowing the cratfing of dirt (particularly useful in skyblock). One truffle and eight cobble yielding nine dirt.
What I would prefer, however, is that truffles acted to sooth zombie pigmen…
Throwing a truffle would act to distract any hostile pigmen within 16 blocks of the truffle for 10 to 19.95 seconds causing them both not to attack the player during the distraction and to lose any targeting they might have.
If the hostility timer ran out before the distraction timer, they would not return to hostility.
Any new attack on a pigman would override the distraction effect.
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So I'm going to keep things on the less specific side because things always change, but here are 2 mobs I thought of:
-Algid Slime
These slime-like buggers resemble greyish-yellow medium-sized slimes. However, their color depends on what type of block they're standing upon. At long distance, they can be distinguished by having a brighter tint to their color/texture, and up close will occasionally emit white particles.
-Glincher
These hovering and flight-capable creatures resemble a light, pale-blue scorpion without legs, with a large claw-like mandibles.
Both of these mobs are neutral for a few reasons.
- a. Not every mob has to be a passive/hostile.
- b. Because the dimension is non-inclusive as far as material progression is concerned, I don't really feel the player should have to have diamond armor in order to not get obliterated by the mobs here.
- c. Being neutral allows the player a bit more freedom, whilst also presenting us an opportunity of more unique ways of aggravating them.
As far as their drops are concerned, they'd be able to drop Mandibles, and Sludge/Slush respectively. The purpose of these items is to be crafted alongside other items, which in turn are utility items. The first being a sort of hybrid between a summon/pet, and a tool.
Essentially, what it does is created a slimy platform for the player to stand on. Requiring slimeballs as a sort of "fuel" or "ammo," a slimeball is consumed for every block it supports you above the ground. To prevent camping or a cheesy escape, the platform can be attacked by some hostile mobs, and being attacked will consume slimeballs as well. This is essentially like a sort of stationary build scaffolding that can be taken down and put back up again quickly for convenience.
The second is like a pair of grasping claws on a stick. It allows extended reach for breaking and placing blocks, the ability to pick up tiny mobs such as size 1 slimes/cubes, chickens, baby mobs, and parrots. Perhaps, this could also be used to link Minecarts?
I'll come back to this later on. Been trying to get this outta my head for a while and I'm burning out.
EDIT: Thanks for putting up the doc, Fish!
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I generally don't like oak trees. Both because I sort of find them the "default" tree (In no small part because most generated structures use oak wood, and it's the oldest wood), which makes them look rather bland to me. On top of that, I find branched oak trees to be the most annoying to cut down compared with the amount of wood I get from them, both due to the branches, and because playing in Fast graphics makes missing some wood blocks quite easy.
A close second to me are Spruce trees, which are tall enough to require scaffolding to chop down, but don't produce enough wood to be worthwhile. At least they do look good, and large spruce trees are a better alternative at obtaining large amounts of spruce wood.
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Generally, dying in Minecraft has the typical "Fall over to the side" animation. While this works quite well in cases such as dying due to mobs, shorter falls, or starvation. However, it just looks off when it's things such as falling into the Void or an explosion that does this. Plus, it's always a bit less frustrating to die if the animation is unique.
New death animations:
Flattening:
Description: The model is squashed flat and reddened, then puffs in smoke.
Fading:
Disintegration:
Burnt to ashes:
Effect: Turns the affected entity's model black, and then quickly crumbles into ash.
Blown to pieces:
Effect: Causes all of the affected entity's body parts to detach and be violently blown away in the blast.
Electrocuted:
Animation: Causes the affected model to be black and causes bones to be seen in the model. Then proceeds to normal death animation.
Splat:
Drown:
Effects on mobs:
Most mobs would be affected by the death animations, however, some would be... special.
Undead: Suffers from Disintegration due to Healing.
Skeleton, Wither Skeleton, Iron Golem, Snow Golem: Uses the Dismemberment animation as default.
Ghast, Vex,Phantom: always use the Disintegration effect. Vexes, however, do fade out if they "time out".
Enderman, Blaze: Plays a modified "Burnt to ashes" effect if killed by water. They instead gain a dark color and then crumble into dust.
Slimes and Magma Cubes play an unique "Splitting" animation, and the smallest sizes use the "Flattenning" effect.
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Crafting recipes should be added. Pretty good materials would be Nether Quartz, Glowsone, and Prismarine, as all of them could be conceviably related to light emmision.