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Oh, its not youuur fault. I think it just had to do with music, which was something that most people don't necessarily imagine themselves doing cool things while it plays, so it wasn't going to be the one with the most people anyway, and then the instructions were a bit complicated... If anything, its probably MY fault, cause I didn't update my post afterwards.

I still think he could get something cool out of this. Music is Magic is one of my favorite ideas. It just needs a bit more room on this or that to create characters.

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There's a simple solution to being trapped at a range: Dig or build with blocks. Yes, the spearman will have a momentary advantage, but that's okay. The sword is generally superior when it comes to fair melee anyways. If a person's taken the time to arrange the arena appropriately, they should have the advantage.

I think I see sorta what you mean, and I kinda like it. In Hardcore, dying is the ultimate punishment, because you can't come back. Its definite, and has no leeway.
But in Easy, dying can even be a reward, because you can get home quickly, and restore your hunger and everything, because of how easy it is to respawn.

You want to keep the game going with your friend, so Hardcore isn't an option, because dying means you can't keep playing. But you want to get rid of the feeling that dying doesn't matter, you want a punishment for failing to live, a challenge, instead of it just being a click of a button. You still want to fear death, but you don't want it to be something that punishes you out of the game as well as in the game.

I really, really like that idea. Maybe a way to do it in Singleplayer, as well, though I'm not sure how...

Anyway, perhaps something involving a player head, or maybe a zombie that doesn't despawn. Maybe putting a player head on two blocks of soul sand.
To go along with this suggestion, Spectators can be seen by someone holding their corresponding head, to provide a minimal way to interact with the dead person. Maybe. That could be neat.

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Don't know why but it looks like a Pokemon that won't get any evolutions.

Yes, this is a Herobrine suggestion. I'll be blunt about that.
No, this is not a "Make Herobrine that griefs you until you kill him!" Suggestion.

I don't know about most of everyone else here, but I've always really liked the legends and ideas of Herobrine. No, they aren't real. But its something I've kinda wished was a little part of the game, something out there to be different. But the biggest thing about herobrine that I liked was that he was always in the background. I don't much like the mods that have him running around, building things and trying all out to kill you, that's just too blunt.

But maybe he could be there as something that you almost never see, with random small signs that he is out there.

The Suggestion:
A Herobrine style character (Steve with white eyes) that is never truly seen. A Ghost in the game.

When it starts:
Herobrine and his effects do not start until after you have spent at least 101 nights in a world. (sleeping through them counts as well, you don't have to stay up in order to see him)

What happens:
After that 101 nights, there is a set chance of certain things to happen. First, above everything else, will be sightings.

Types of sightings/hearings:
Eyes: A pair of white eyes, visible for only a second, at a distance, and only appears in very low light levels. Much like a spider with invisibility.
Footsteps: Footsteps sound behind you, much like a creeper, except player footsteps. Turning around will make the steps stop, and nothing will be there.
Interactions: When not facing them, chests might randomly open, along with the signature creaaak sound. Doors will open and close as well.
Player: When dark, a player model can randomly be sighted on the edges of the screen. After a moment, it will quickly move off the screen, even (or especially) when you turn to face it. Always after this sort of encounter, the Eyes sighting will happen.

After the first couple sightings, a few things might start happening. First, things to do with items:

Items on the ground, in an open space, when you are not facing them, have a chance to disappear, especially if they are named. If they do, they will always reappear later, in the chest closest to the players spawn bed, after a chest interaction.
Items in chests might be rearranged a bit, shuffled to be here or there.
After a sighting, mobs that spawn have a chance to have a positive potion effect, regen or strength, much like spiders already do now.

Finally, a couple small, simple statues or structures can be built while the player is sleeping. All of these structures will be made of non-valuable materials, will be built near to the player, will only spawn in areas or chunks that the player has not altered, and if removed will not reappear. There is a max to the amount of these structures that can appear, as well, to prevent them popping up everywhere.

As a player model, there is a couple ways to hurt herobrine. One, he can activate tripwires. This is included in the random encounters, but only after the structures appear. This means he can be hit with arrows or potions or such, but only when you aren't looking.

Second, TNT will also harm him, if you can hit one of the encounters with it.

Third, the Eyes Sighting can he hit with projectiles.

Managing to hit Herobrine will do a few things.

Give you a hidden achievement: Legend Hunter
While you can't kill herobrine, hitting it has a chance of dropping a random, semi-valuable item, such as a partly degraded diamond pickaxe.


The biggest thing to remember about all this: None of it would happen regularly. The idea is to make something that would not affect your normal gaming life in any way aside from the rare chances to hear noises, maybe breaking down a three block high tower of stone that spawned randomly in one of your fields, or randomly finding that named sword, (that you lost in a ravine,) in your bedroom chest.

So, we have four tiers of armor. But right now, armor is the only way to go. If you don’t have it, you are missing a major benefit.

I would like more options, directions to go, things to use instead of armor sometimes. So… Accessories! Since these would be used in place of armor, they would go in the armor slots. We already have one accessory, with Elytra, so I’ll use that as the base. Wearable items that you can only find, and that, when they run out of durability, instead of breaking they simply stop working, until they can be repaired.

Elytra

Potion Belt

Goggles of Vision

Quiver

Cloak of Shadows

Sticky Boots

Glass Helmet

More to come soon!

Tell me what you think, both of the idea itself and each of the accessories!

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Well, I like the idea. I don't think a double saddle is needed though, people ride in pairs all the time using a single saddle.

So, first off, I've got to say that I love the idea of making a small symbol on your chestplate or helmet. Simple and awesome.

Second, I like the idea of being able to dye other armors besides leather. Gold and Iron are probably the most sensible for just how they work, but I think it would be better to let all armors be dyable. But not by simply recoloring, as that would look strange and might be confusing.

I've seen some people suggest things like the main chestplate be colored, while the arms or the legs remain the right color, so you can still tell what it is. But I think the color should be more like a highlight, rather than the main thing. For the Chestplate, only the arms, or the tops of the arms, would be colored, like a cloth placed over them. The helmet would have colored spots or a colored spot, but not all of it, the leggings would have a belt or such, and the boots would be topped with the color. This should work for basically every armor, even chain. Leather would stay the same though.

As to the "this takes away leather armors only unique and neat feature", I think that coloring is a horrible feature to make unique to one type of armor, not just because its not really a reason to choose leather over anything else, but also because its limiting mapmakers ability to use different armors for different things. If there was a team game, and the mapmaker was using armor color to show who was on each team, they would be limited to using different colored leather armors, even if they wanted something like different kits or classes, which they might want to have different armors.

I'm actually working on a thread/idea that might give leather more of a use, a reason to choose it, rather than simply coloring it. Leathers uniqueness should be better than colors.

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Good Morning MineCrafters! Welcome to Day... 1625+ of the suggestion
(Name Changed From: OFFICIAL GOLD GOLEM THREAD)

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.Surprisingly solid idea you have there. Not sure how much work it would be for Mojang to program it, but definitely interesting.

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When I found a pyramid it was just too easy to get my 11 gold, 2 emeralds, 3 diamonds, 12 iron, and 9 TNT. there needs to be something more to protect it. Such as "Desert Guardians" AKA "Gold Golems".

Health Points
200 (x100) (Debatable)

Armor 4 ()

-Includes Boss Health Bar

-They do not: Take fall damage, Drown in Water or Burn in fire/Lava
-Slow healing factor so that you can't attack then wait a long time then attack again

-High resistance to ranged attacks
Attack Strength
Melee Strike:

Easy 4 () Medium 6 () Hard 8 ()
Charge Attack:

Easy 7 () Medium 9 () Hard 11 ()
Laser Attack:

Easy 4 ()+ Medium 6 ()+ Hard 9 ()+

(see info below)
Spawn
-In Desert Temples
-Only ONE Gold Golem will spawn in the temple

-If a Gold Guardian generated as part of a Pyramid is killed, another will NOT spawn to take its place.
-The Golem WILL spawn in peaceful, but will stay inactive.
Drops
(5-10)(Why Gold? Because Ancient Egypt used Gold Plating on it's statues))
(3-6)(Why Lapis? EXCELLENT QUESTION! The golem has blue glyphs on it and i like Lapis)

( 1 )( Mob Head. Trophy/Used to create Inanimate Statues) (more info below)

( 1 )("Power Core". An Item Used To Revive The Fallen Boss) (more info below)

(Not so strange to think about now-a-days since the dragon can be re-summoned with a single purpose item)
Experience
50 EXP
(Iron Golems Drop 0)

(Wither Drops 50)

(Dragon Drops 1,200)

Movement
Rather slow unless charging

(more info below)
Does not need to jump to move up 1 block

Behavior
-The golem will stand dormant in the Pyramid like a statue until a player gets within it's line of sight

(10 Blocks), then it will "Wake Up" and attack the player.
(It will also awake if any chests within a 20 block radius are interacted with. Eyes are dark while Inactive)

Once awake, it's awareness of the player will extend 32? blocks.
If the player manages to escape, the Gold Golem will give up the chase and go back to its spawn point (or if target is killed).

It moves slowly, but when it gets close (5-8 blocks Ish?), it will begin its attack pattern:
-Attempting to Melee the player three times, raising it's arms for a moment then brings them down, giving about half a second to react and move away.

-After that, Its jaw will drop, the Eyes Glow Red and it will charge the player, making a low Roar as it attacks. This sprint can only be stopped by a wall (of at LEAST 2m tall) OR if the golem has charged for a distance of 10 blocks, causing a sort of bull fighter effect.
(Anything weaker than blast resistance 30 EXCEPT for sandstone/sandstone variants will be broken on impact. stones/sandstone will show damage cracks but never break from impact.)
-Finally, After it has come to a stop, It will look at the player, after a few seconds will shoot a beam from its mouth in a horizontal line with the player in the midpoint, causing a sort of sweep attack from left to right. (This laser will be able to break the same blockset as the charge attack, igniting any Mob/Player in its path as well as any blocks it comes in contact with. The point of this is to clear out possible barricades the player has built around it, or used to hide.)
-If the player cannot be reached for Melee attacks (Like, being stuck in a hole or a small doorway) The Golem will go strait to using its Charge (To break a wall that's possibly blocking it), Then continue with the Laser.

Gold Golems do not attack random monsters because random monsters don't want to steal treasure. A Gold Golem's primary purpose is to defend Pyramids from raiding players

(But using one as a guard in your prison/gladiatorial battle/boss for your dungeon, is also GREAT!)
(And Because they only target players they cant be used to make mob grinders to get items easier.)

WHY ATTACK PLAYERS?:
Gold Guardians are meant to protect Pyramids from THIEVES (Players) As Iron Golems protect Villagers from zombies.

(And YES, Players are thieving from the pyramid, there is no way to sugar coat it. You tomb raiding player you......)

Gold Guardians do not attack random monsters because random monsters don't want to steal treasure.A Gold Guardian's primary purpose is to defend Pyramids from raiding players (But using one as a guard in your prison/gladiatorial battle/boss for your dungeon, is also GREAT!)
And Because they target players they cant be used to make mob grinders to get items easier.
They do not; Take fall damage, Drown in Water or Burn in fire/Lava

The Guardian Can NOT Be Tamed!
(The Purpose of the Golem is to attack players. NOT RANDOM MONSTERS! If you want that then make IronGolems. Not Going To Debate It.)

Crafting A Statue/Reviving the Boss.

To craft An Inanimate statue place the dropped boss's head onto a T of gold blocks.

To revive, use the "Power Core" on the statue to bring it back to life with a mighty roar and a short "Boot up" time

Here is a Concept model done by

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If you have been to one of these temples. you will see THIS BLOCK all over. It is the reason for the creeper faces and the Lapis bands. There ya have it.

I will not make a poll. This thread has had a number of polls, each having up to a thousand "yes" votes, so I don't find much of a reason to make one.

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Qrin sat at a table of Ztaari. He was alert, and he observed those around him, but he was quiet. The desert had not done much to hone his skills of conversation over the decades of isolation.

Qrin had spent the night in the strange shack which he had discovered. Most of the other patrons had come and gone by the hour, but Qrin had sat for many hours, not once disturbed. He had sat, and though he had tried to enjoy the strange calm which he had found there, his brain had worked as it always did, and soon he had come to the realization that he could not substitute a new false reality, no matter how pleasant, for the one reality which did matter, the one which was not a figment of his mind. He had forced himself to live for many years because it was important that he eventually find the truth. If he could learn which reality existed past the signals of his neurons, he could at last have an effect on the world. He could do something by which he would be remembered. He could learn, perhaps, why he lived at all. The universe was full of questions, and to retreat from it - that would only lead to a meaningless death, the end of a meaningless life.

So, as dawn had broken, Qrin had left the shack. He had known at that time that he would need to begin searching for the ruins at which this tournament was to be held. His search had lasted half the day, and when he had at last found the ruins, he had slept in shade until evening, when he had been roused by another competitor, and brought to stand with the other Ztaari who would fight for Judith Baraches.

Then, all had happened, and soon Qrin had been here, seated at this table, observing those all around him. He remembered that he would fight them soon, and he deigned to identify which might be his most ferocious opponents.

A plate slammed into the table in front of him.

"Old bug, you don't win if you don't eat," a Ztaari said, dropping both his own plate, and a second one intended for Qrin, onto the table. Qrin looked at the vegetables and burned insects, and after a moment he plucked up a large grasshopper and he gnashed it apart with his mandibles. The Ztaari who had brought him his food had not yet started to eat, and watched as if awaiting some sort of response. Qrin looked to the Ztaari after a moment.

Seemingly perturbed, the Ztaari turned and dug into his own meal. Qrin remembered now not to over-indulge himself, as he was not used to eating copious amounts of food, and would surely be disadvantaged if he did. The other Ztaari, though, appeared to have no problem with his serving of toasted bugs.

Qrin raised another crunchy grasshopper to his mandibles, which tore into it with the ferocity only a creature of the harsh deserts could attain.

((OOC))

The sun rose on the day, shining on the city known as Opes- the human capital city. Within the city walls, the west half was known as the Residential area- this is where people lived. Further south in the same area were the slums. The homeless lived here, supported only by those who have enough generosity to give them coin. To the north were the rich nobles, with extravagant and flamboyant houses, trying to outdo each other. The southeastern part of Opes was the Business place, where craftsmen sell their goods. And lastly, in the northeast was the castle, where the current king of the human empire- Artemisius- resided.

“I take it preparations have been taken care of?” Artemisius asked.

“Yes sir, it should be ready within the month.” Responded one of his messengers.

“Good. This is the three-hundredth anniversary of this tournament, we need it to be better than ever before.”

“Yes, and we estimate a record number of people will arrive to watch- nearly three thousand, from what I hear. Not to mention those planning on signing up.”

“With numbers like that, we'll most definitely need to move it to outside the city. The eastern ruins are still unoccupied, correct?”

“I believe so, sir. Yes.”

“Make it so that the tournament will be held there. We cannot hold three thousand more
people within these walls, it would be chaos.”

“Of course, sir, I shall see to it right away.”

The messenger exited the room and left the king to his own thoughts. The old ruins… I sure hope nobody makes a fuss about what happened so long ago… We cant even be sure it really happened… but I suppose there will always be the few who believe in those old stories no matter what.

Two weeks later…

The king looked over the east wall and smiled. The three-hundredth annual Ketto Tournament was about to begin. It was still two days away, but people were pouring in from the portals in the business district, of every race. This year's tournament was sure to be one to remember. The king was only worried about the old stories of the ruins from so long ago. Most people had likely forgotten by now, but fears about the incident of old were sure to worry some.

Artemisius turned back from the wall with renewed hope about the occasion. The only thing he truly had to worry about was the fact that the ruins were about two miles from the city. He smiled, and made his way back to the castle. All that I can do now is wait.

Welcome one and all to the world of myth and legend. A land where wizards fight dragons with magical artifacts, this is truly a world where your wildest dreams could come true. For those of you who don't know, this is the end result of the process listed here http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/off-topic/forum-games/forum-roleplaying/2753713-microscope-based-interest-check. For those of you who also don't know, my name is Iceinfly and I will be your GM here. Have fun and let's make magic happen.

• No arguments. If you have a dispute, talk about it on a PM thread that I’m included in. Don’t clutter the OOC or IC thread with squabbles.
• Typical MCForum Rules and FRP rules (No meta, godmodding, etc.)
• One character per person. If you want to make a new one, talk to me and we’ll remove your old character first.
• No one liners. Put some thought into your posts and make them meaningful to the conversation.
• If you want to tennis post or have a conversation like that, feel free to take it to a PM thread in which I am involved and post the result or the entire conversation to the forums in ONE POST.
• Individual players (Including mods) cannot advance the plot or make "big plays" (Killing a tough enemy, things like that) without consulting one or more RP Mods. These big plays will be specified.

• Humans
• Elves
• Dwarves
• Ztaari(An insectoid race, They get random and unpredictable visions. A phenomenon known as Yokan. Pretty frail, but also fast and agile. Very similar to the Thri-kreen from Dungeons and Dragons.)
• The Severed (A race of undead who have literally been ripped out of the land beyond by entities or dark magics. While rare, they are blessed with near immortality and inability to rot, though they are never at peace and may never rest.)
• Naga (3-4 feet human torso, minus legs. 8-10 feet snake tail. Can switch between thermal vision and normal color vision. Venom without a known antidote that causes convulsions in their prey but doesn't kill them. Generally slow, stubborn and clumsy.
• T’Kal (Bird people, have talons for feet and wings for arms. They also have a “Hand” on the elbow of their wing. Due to the fact that they have hollow bones (better to fly with) they tend to break easier, making them much weaker in melee combat and at resisting damage.)

• No OP characters.
• If you have magic, it has to be minor. Nothing more than basic prestidigitation or simple parlor tricks. You cannot start as a full blown magician.
• Keep characters realistic. After all, this is a low fantasy setting. Also say for glory and honor, huzzah in your application so I know you read these rules.
• Unless your character is literally the most average person in their race, their strengths and weaknesses should be more than that of their race. That means that you shouldn’t put “Hollow bones” as a weakness if you are T’Kal because ALL T’Kal have hollow bones.
• No previously established universes or characters from previously established universes.
• Be creative. I reserve the right to deny any application I think will not mesh with the setting.
• If you are denied 3 times, you will not have any further applications reviewed.

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FTC APPENDIX

NEGATIVITY (Nice Guides Finish Last)

There is an adage that's been around for a while, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar. That is, you get more reception by positively reacting to a situation instead of throwing the failures into the person's face.

Where does this lead in the scope of criticism? For the Critics has always been meant as a tool that someone could use to improve their own responses. It was never meant to change who someone was; but only as a way to keep them from getting banned. With that in mind, I don't want to preach or patronize here; but point out ways to improve the overall atmosphere of the suggestions forum.

I will say, though, that in my experience; there are multiple ways to say the same thing; there are also multiple ways to read into a single message. This has been discussed in length before; but the big point here is that diction plays a huge role in how you're received. Now, should you change your style from a snarky and flippant jokester? Again, this thread is not about making that call. Should you stop being a jerk and raining on everyone? On a personal note, could you? On a non-editorial note, not the call of FTC.

NICE

DEFINELY

I BEFORE WE

INNOCENT

UPSELLING

This one will continue. If anyone has more things they'd like to add, feel free to reply below.

This is an appendix to FTC, don't expect to see it in the main body, but I'll try to get it linked there so that it can be continued.

You go back to your base after 30 minutes of mining; and you see your entire house filled to the brim with alternating stacks of flowerpots and farmland. You bring out your shovel to take care of the dirt blocks but now have to also cycle out to remove the flowerpots, flower pots, dirt, flower pots, dirt... The guy really got you good, haha. In the corner, you see one exposed dirt block hidden behind a wall. You clear it out and see a flower pot beneath, but you also see the 5 stacks of sand fall onto the pot, breaking them. Only moments later, you see the stream of lava pour in and your house start to catch fire.

EDIT

edited replacing dirt (which isn't affected by gravity) with sand (which is); and using the behavior of the flower pot to break gravity blocks falling on it.

Flower pots are not affected by gravity; but I think they do need to be placed on full blocks.

Yoshi knows from experience.

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I wouldn't have made the effort to remove the entry if that were the 'save-face' case. Every now and then we get some new chest or new form of item transfer. So there's no point in complaining about backpacks on the guide. It was the just "we need more and more slots" point I wanted to drive home. The entry may come back under a different name. But yes, I do see how labeling backpacks can muddle someone wanting to make an idea about it. Though I still like to think there was some small forgiveness room on that entry.

If people can convince me well enough, I'll take stuff off the inferior suggestions list. I've done it many times before.

Are we going for personal thoughts answer or are you asking me objectively? Probably objectively, I should have known that. You aren't getting new inventory slots from the get-go and you have to place the chest down to change its inventory. I don't know if anyone really could call that "better" overall, but I personally think it's better that it doesn't give you more passive slots to carry 15 more strength and you can just click nab.

You really don't hold back do you? You mention the sass in the guide, yet you're one of the most sarcastic people here.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, but I'm not trying to catch flies, I'm trying to make a point to a grown woman. I most certainly hope that you, so highly regarded for your guide writing, understand the concept of target audiences.

And to be clear, even if the point you made here was right and I was a confirmed massive hypocrite, my point that you haven't actually addressed would still stand.

Moving again towards the altar, Gilor replied, "Nah, I doubt it's for illumination. Otherwise, there wouldn't be the sconces; we'd probably see more beams of light like these in the other rooms. Just decorative, I think." Gilor paused, looking glancing at Caerwyn struggling to light her lantern. "I'd be a bit more judicious with your 'checking'. Losing all light like that in a room without a convenient shining shrine could be very bad."

Silver took to examining the shrine with a great interest, asking the beastfolk Pearce if he knew its function. Pearce seemed a bit confused from the sudden darkness, but was looking directly at a hexagonal indentation in the shrine. Gilor recalled seeing it before, but hadn't thought much of it. But, why else would Pearce take an interest in it? Maybe it was a slot for something...?

Gilor crept closer and examined the indentation more thoroughly. It was caked with dust; Gilor scratched off the dust as gently as he could, revealing the indentation to be quite shallow.

He gestured at the indentation while turning to Pearce and Silver. "Hmm. D'you guys think this might be a slot for something? I think we ought to comb the rest of this place for whatever might belong in there. At least we might find out some more about this shrine, or maybe the purpose of this place. Doesn't seem like a catacomb to me, not enough dead. Or sewers... even if it does smell off down here."