We like Banners right? They look great and literally have over a quadrillion possibilities for decoration. So... how about over 750 times as many options? My idea is an Item Print, which let you put a print of an item onto the banner in any of 3 locations, the top, center, or bottom of the banner. Anything that has an icon in your inventory can be used, meaning you can use blocks or items, including items only obtainable with /give.
If you combine any item with an Item Frame you will make an Item Print of that item. Keep in mind that you KEEP the items you are printing, but lose the Item Frame, similar to how you keep a Bucket when making a cake. No wasting a Diamond simply on a neat Banner.
Because you must use a Loom to make a Banner, this means the Loom GUI needs to be adjusted to accommodate these new items:
As you can see, the input slots for the Loom now has 3 item slots instead of 1. It functions pretty much the same as it used to, you put in your Banner, your Dye, and a Banner Pattern and you can make colored layers. Where it gets different is if you put in an Item Print. When you put an Item Print into the Top, Middle, or Bottom item slots, an image of that item will appear on the Banner. You can do up to 3 items per Banner layer, however most items will overlap if you try to do all three at once.
Because the box for picking Patterns isn't used when placing Item Prints, you can instead use it to modify each print. You will get 3 rows, one for each Item Print slot (if a Print is not in a slot, the associated row is greyed out). You have four options to modify the Item Print to make them a little more custom:
- Flip Horizontal
- Flip Vertical
- Rotate 90 Degrees Clockwise
- Rotate 90 Degrees Counterclockwise
Here are some examples of the possibilities (using items to indicate what the Item Print would be):
Now that is a swanky banner!
Place this above your weapons chest to find your gear easily.
If using a block, it uses the same block icon you see in the inventory.
That is pretty much all there is to the idea, but think of the possibilities! 3 slots to place Item Prints, at least 550 blocks and items that can be used and 64 additional ways of rotating and flipping each Item Print, means that instead of having 809 quadrillion combinations (809,573,616,779,945,488), we have 617 QUINTILLION (617,826,240,051,948,503,808). That is a lot of customization, and it doesn't even include the best part!
If you get a mob or player head with /give, putting that on a banner will give you their face texture on the Banner. Make Banners with Zombie heads on them, or find a player with a Herobrine skin, spawn their head, and make a Herobrine banner.
So, what do you think?
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(The oak planks in both recipes can be any type) (The iron block in the Sawmill recipe represents the Sawmill blade) The intended use of this is to have one available in your home sometime mid-tier. If you were crafting logs at home, you would use this so that you might get more wood. However, if you were in the wilderness, or mining, the crafting grid is a much more convenient option. It could also be used to automate tree farms, I imagine, although I'm no expert on factorization in Minecraft.
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Just for that I've decided not to support this, Nah I'm just kidding, personally I like any idea that adds aesthetically to Minecraft and this is one seems pretty well thought out and it would help mapmakers at the same time. FULL SUPPORT.
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EA buys Minecraft for 3 Billion dollars.
The US and Europe see an unexpected rise in the sales of Pitchforks and Torches
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(I say we call it this: Life of Alex, The Amazingly True Story of How One Man Took Over the World)
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