Shadow Steel: Generating darkness also generates mobs, and the ability to call down meteor strikes holds too much potential for griefing.
Marsium: Redstone doesn't need an upgrade. The only settings Redstone-powered items have is "on" or "off", which Redstone currently provides. What more do you need?
I wouldn't mind meteorites containing at least Iron ore, just as long as they're small and won't devastate my hard work without me being able to stop it.
Not if it means my hard work disappears in seconds with me being unable to do a thing about it. If it only happened in specific areas and could be properly sheltered against, then maybe, but other than that, no.
This... isn't how viruses work. Either rename/reimagine this mob concept, or make "viruses" a random game occurrence where certain items or mobs can be spawned with an "infected" status ailment that spreads on contact with other mobs or the player, leaving tiny yet visible red dots all over the "infected" mob.
Think LEGOs, if that example helps. We don't want a "chandelier block", we want other blocks that can be creatively used to make the chandelier. It's boring when a block has only one use. Just like stairs don't have to be stairs, and fences don't have to be fences.
Point, and yet we have stairs that serve as stairs and fences that serve as fences. I'd just be happy if there were more block types that had their own purposes and could also be used to make a better-looking chandelier (support bars, perhaps?)
Guns: primitive flintlock rifle, if anything at all.
Planes: Heck no; maybe hang-gliders?
Grenades: simple gunpowder-in-a-metal-ball might work, and I personally think it should be built more for damaging mobs than the environment (maybe just the block directly below it)
Bombs: TNT much?
ATVs: What, don't Pigs count?
As for your points:
1: that's assuming the gun can shoot that far, or if you can even see your target from that distance.
2: Minecraft has no age period. We use torches so much because they're much easier to make (stick a piece of coal on a stick. whee.) and have lower power requirements (i.e. none) than lightbulbs. The main reason we have such limited tech on Minecraft is because of limited resources, not the idea that said tech hasn't been invented yet (it could be, if we had the materials or means necessary to make it).
3: this is probably the only part I completely agree with you on.
There was a suggestion posted for a craftable Chandelier. It included a string suspending it from the ceiling that could be cut with an arrow, allowing it to fall and damage whatever mob or player it lands on (it would leave the drop after this)
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Moonstone: "Mob taming staff" concept is oversuggested and, IMO, kinda lame.
Shadow Steel: Generating darkness also generates mobs, and the ability to call down meteor strikes holds too much potential for griefing.
Marsium: Redstone doesn't need an upgrade. The only settings Redstone-powered items have is "on" or "off", which Redstone currently provides. What more do you need?
I wouldn't mind meteorites containing at least Iron ore, just as long as they're small and won't devastate my hard work without me being able to stop it.
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Point, and yet we have stairs that serve as stairs and fences that serve as fences. I'd just be happy if there were more block types that had their own purposes and could also be used to make a better-looking chandelier (support bars, perhaps?)
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Planes: Heck no; maybe hang-gliders?
Grenades: simple gunpowder-in-a-metal-ball might work, and I personally think it should be built more for damaging mobs than the environment (maybe just the block directly below it)
Bombs: TNT much?
ATVs: What, don't Pigs count?
As for your points:
1: that's assuming the gun can shoot that far, or if you can even see your target from that distance.
2: Minecraft has no age period. We use torches so much because they're much easier to make (stick a piece of coal on a stick. whee.) and have lower power requirements (i.e. none) than lightbulbs. The main reason we have such limited tech on Minecraft is because of limited resources, not the idea that said tech hasn't been invented yet (it could be, if we had the materials or means necessary to make it).
3: this is probably the only part I completely agree with you on.
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Point, but even I'll admit that a hand-made chandelier looks kinda crude and bulky compared to what a chandelier should look like.
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Which is why all his Redstone creations are massive and relatively primitive compared to their modern counterparts.
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Wouldn't the speed necessary to leave the atmosphere in one shot like that create a massive crater every time you impact the moon?