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Aqua Affinity is already on tools... And it would be useless on armor, no support.

Aqua Affinity is an enchantment for armor (helmets, I believe) which raises your mining speed underwater. It is actually quite useful to counteract the mining speed debuff underwater and is essential for hardcore builders.

Quote from Ender_David

I`d say a new chain of tools and armor, with about the strength of chain.



Here is my 15 min creation of it.

Mojang is shunning the idea of more tool tiers, but this prismarine stuff is hinting at it!

Mojang is pushing toward new ocean content, and one of their first steps has been the introduction of Prismarine, a resource found in the ocean and dropped by Guardians. However, it has little to no use. This suggestion also repurposes the Aqua Affinity enchantment. I propose that the Aqua Affinity enchantment be available on tools and not just armor. The effect table is below.



The Prismarine bit in here is connected to the Aqua Affinity. When you craft 8 shards with your item, one level of Affinity is added onto your item. This has a cap of level 10. I can imagine this suggestion being used on a PVP map, where your reward for killing the other team is shards to upgrade your weapons. Thank you for reading!

Comparing a ranged weapon to a melee weapon in terms of fire rate is a bad argument. The tradeoff between melee weapons and ranged weapons, from what we've seen in Minecraft is simple. Melee weapons get high fire rate and damage at a short distance, while ranged gets a slower attack but higher distance. If you want a sword with more range, suggest a spear.
And Over9000Guy, it actually is balanced. If you get a guy down to 4 hearts with your flintlock pistol, and he keeps shooting at you with his bow, he'll likely kill you because of the bow's higher speed, accuracy and range at the cost of less damage. Same with a sword. If you manage to get a shot into him, you'll be long gone before your reload time is up because of the superior damage, speed and accuracy of the sword at the cost of range. And up against a potion user, you'd be dominated from mid-range, high-accuracy, high-speed specialized attacks before you could even come close to loading the thing. Personally, I think this idea is genius. Why? Because the little quartet of weapon choices is missing something. A slow, inaccurate long-ranged weapon that hits like a truck. *cough*flintlockpistols*cough*

First off, I partially support. However, this idea needs some revisions. First and foremost, the firing speed. As fast as you can click? That's ridiculous! It should charge like a bow, except it requires full charge to fire and it takes a bit longer. Second, more damage. Maybe 6-7 hearts? If these changes are made, then I fully support.

Mods, please lock this thread if you see it. I am tired of being harassed by jerks who think it is fine to taunt people just because their opinions conflict. Thank you, and do not expect me to come back to this website.

If you support, please vote up top!!

I have a few ideas for new gamerules, to give mapmakers and normal players alike more power

Just in case you don't know what gamerules are, here's a quote from the Minecraft Wiki: "Game Rules allow players and command blocks to adjust several base settings." In other words, gamerules are a set of commands that change the way each individual world works.

If you want to see the gamerules that already exist in Minecraft, go to this link: http://minecraft.gam...rule#Game_Rules

List of gamerules that would be added:

/gamerule enablePvp (True or false) Enables or disables PvP.

/gamerule enableFallDamage (True or false) Enables or disables fall damage.

/gamerule doMobSpawning (ID of mob*)(True or false) Enables or disables a particular mob to spawn. This gamerule already exists in vanilla Minecraft, but it doesn't have the individual mob selection.

/gamerule blockBreak (ID of block*) (True or false)Enables or disables that particular block to get mined, broken, griefed, etc.

/gamerule blockPlace (ID of block*) (True or false) Enables or disables that particular block to get placed.

/gamerule enableChat (True or false) Enables or disables chat.

/gamerule playerDamage (True or false) Enables or disables ALL damage that players can take.

/gamerule doIceMelt (True or false) Enables or disables ice melting. (Suggested by scorpionius)

/gamerule doLeafDecay (True or false) Enables or disables leaf decay.

/gamerule plantGrowth (True or false) Enables or disables all plant growth. (Suggested by Xannot)

/gamerule tntGriefing (True or false) Enables or disables block damage from ender crystals, TNT, bed bombs, and other explosions not mob-created. (Suggested by SiennaReborn21)

/gamerule doItemDurability (True or false) Enables or disables durability on tools, weapons, and armor. (Suggested by lovemooshroom1)

/gamerule itemBan (ID of item*) (True or false) Bans the ID of the item from the game. You can't use it, craft it, or have it in your inventory.

/gamerule enableDimensions (End/Nether) (True or false) Enables or disables the Nether/End.

/gamerule chatCharacterLimit (Character limit) Sets the chat character limit. (Would be very helpful for servers and spam) (Suggested by EmeraldsInCactus)

/gamerule doCritical (True or false) Enables or disables critical hits (Hits that deal more damage) (Suggested by EmeraldsInCactus)

/gamerule gamemode (survival/creative/adventure/spectator)(True or false) (Suggested by

Please tell me if the names should change, any gamerule ideas you may have, and support if you like If you do support, please hit the reputation button, that's the easiest way to know.

NOTE: On the gamerules with the "*" you can use "all" or "none"

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Supports so far: 308!!!

I was like, OMG I gotta write this as soon as I thought of it. As the title suggests, simple suggestion.

Dyeable wooden swords, just like leather armor. Simple, that's it!

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(These examples look terrible, I know.)

Banner: (By Empoleon4625)


Details;

-You can dye them in any color dye, plus the mixed colors like with leather armor.
-Damage rate will not change, just the appearance.
-You can wash off the color by using a cauldron.
-They do not exist naturally, Zombies will never spawn with dyed-swords and neither they'll be in chest-loots.
-The only dyeable Sword is "Wooden Sword" No other Swords can be dyed.
-The Recipe is Shapeless.

Some usage example;

1. In map making, make a red-wooden sword and give it "fire aspect" and "sharpness V", then name it flaming sword.
2. In Servers, team-minigames. blue team has blue wooden swords.
3. When your playing with your friends, just for personality or for show-off.

This is just an idea to add more decorative options, vanilla style.

†his probably sounds overpowered, just from the title. But, I can't tell what you're thinking, so you'll just have to find out.

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What if we could mix obsidian with armor?
What if it could give them the ability to swim in lava...
But in return, the armor would lose durability while in lava?
If the piece of armor breaks, the player would start burning (unless another piece of armor is equipped), but armor doesn't wear down one at a time, they wear down if they're touching lava with the enchant (Perhaps, Obsidian Shield, comment name suggestions below if you support), making long swims deadly.
Also, perhaps the lava will look like red water if the player's head is under the lava.
I think this would give the nether a new twist.
However, this enchantment only works on Iron, Gold, and Diamond armor (Realism) because Chainmail has holes, and Leather isn't exactly the most burn-proof material.

This is my first suggestion, thank you for reading.

Note: Please click on the image, it is a GIF. Also note that I haven't decided between helmets or full body, so don't be mislead by the GIF and think that it's only for helmets.

EDIT: After two years, this thread is no longer an entirely accurate reflection of the current state of Minecraft. The basic problem I describe here, however, still very much persists. For more current and relevant discussion of this issue, you can skip directly to page 18.

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The basic ideas of this thread are as follows:

• Leather armor is not easy enough to acquire to balance out it's inferior statistics. Leather itself should be a commonplace early-game resource.

• Cows are unbalanced, in that they make pigs redundant and irrelevant by producing the same amount of identical food that pigs do in addition to other items that they don't.

• Both of these problems can be solved by a simple tweak to the cow's item drop rates.

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I don't know about all of you, but I've never used leather armor. I always found it to be easier to go right to iron armor; taking the time to pen in cows and breed them for leather would set me back quite a bit in game progression, and you rarely find nearby the 12-24 cows necessary to craft a full set of leather armor early enough in the game for it to be relevant for you to do so. I could better spend that time setting up a mining operation.

In relatively short order you can have enough iron for not only armor, but other essential items as well. Going directly for iron armor serves multiple goals simultaneously, whereas obtaining enough leather for armor is a task you have to go out of your way to accomplish and serves only that single goal to the exclusion of all others. Therefore, skipping over leather and going immediately for iron instead is the more efficient path to take, and the one most players will be most likely to follow. I have seen this first-hand in at least 90% of cases on all servers I've played on. This clearly doesn't make sense, as it puts the lowest tier armor in an unfortunate crossroads of being simultaneously less effective and more time-consuming to acquire.

Clearly, leather armor needs to be easier to obtain in order to balance it out and make it worthwhile for the player to spend time in the early game on it. So here is what I propose: make cows drop more leather, and less steak. When you think about it, cows and pigs are currently equal in terms of food value, but cows have an additional leather drop and are capable of producing milk. This makes them the clear choice for breeding, and makes pigs redundant and irrelevant. Why breed pigs when you can breed cows for the same resource cost and get much more payback for your efforts?

If, however, cows dropped primarily leather and only dropped a small amount of steak, it would give each animal clearly-defined roles and make both important to breed. And it would make the acquisition of leather for armor easier and give leather armor back it's rightful place as the cheap and commonplace first armor set players make.

Current Drop Rate:
0-2 leather and 1-3 steak
Even with the most improbable good fortune, under these rates you will need to kill a minimum of 12 cows to obtain a full set of leather armor, and potentially as many as 24 if you get only the minimum amount of leather from each cow you kill. But cows are capable of dropping no leather at all, which means that you might even need to kill more than 24 cows to obtain the leather needed for a full set of armor, with no theoretical maximum. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Conservative Suggested Rate:
2-4 leather and 0-1 steak
Under this rate, you would need to kill a minimum of 6 cows to craft a full set of leather armor, and as many as 12 maximum. These numbers are improved, but not quite as much as I would hope.

My Ideal Suggested Rate:
3-5 leather and either remove steak, or alter it or porkchops
With this rate the number of cows killed is now as low as 5 and as high as 8. This seems much more reasonable to me, as leather armor is primarily only relevant for a fairly small window of time in the early game, so you should obtain it as soon as possible. Either the steaks or the porkchops would be altered in terms of hunger value or saturation to make them no longer redundant and give each it's own place and use.

Pig item drop rates would remain unchanged in all scenarios.

An idea from a thread contributor that I very much support:

Quote from PatDay

4) Give leather new benefits - Make leather mechanically desirable Certainly not as much as diamond, but something people would consider using. I think the best option might be to include special non-combat enchantments only leather can get such as a Speed boost or Sneaking option (players are invisible to mobs past a certain distance while crouching). It would give people a reason to make a "work" outfit out of leather. This would seem to be only a benefit in my opinion and can't think of any drawbacks.

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You could try this:

GameRegistry.addRecipe(new ItemStack(Items.gunpowder), new Object[]{
 "yyy",
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(I must apologize first off for the lack of images in this thread, as I'm not very good at creating anything catchy or worthwhile in that department. I will however have recipes. I also apologize if this has been suggested before, and if it has please refer me to the topic using a link and I will request a lock if it's redundant.)

UPDATE: 6/26/2014 - Added enchantment poll, working on example sprites
UPDATE: 8/28/2014 - Changed crafting recipe, considering creating new arrows (?), added example sprites by Humpy123 and SparkyWasabi

Bows are one of the most popular ranged weapons in the game, so I thought there should be a couple more options for our beloved arrow-shooter. I propose that players have the option to bind their bows with leather using a crafting table to increase its durability, power and range. The way this would be done is using the crafting table and surrounding the bow with leather like so:



Using a fresh bow (it must have full durability) along with leather in the crafting grid will result in a Strongbow (name of the actual bow still undecided). The strongbow has increased base durability and increased base power.

Comparison of the Strongbow and the normal bow:

Bow
Base Damage Dealt: (when fully drawn)
Durability: 385 (approx. that many uses)

Strongbow
Base Damage Dealt: (when fully drawn)
Durability: 470 (approx. that many uses)

It deals a heart and a half more than the normal bow when fully drawn, and it's durability increases. The Strongbow's key difference, though, is that it can shoot farther than a normal bow. The downside to that ability is that the knocking of the arrow takes about a second-second and a half longer than the normal bow (meaning that drawing your arrow takes about a second or two longer), making it more for longer-ranged combat than the normal bow. Consider it the Longbow from medieval times in comparison to the Shortbow.

Along with the longer range comes a larger knockback. The Strongbow, when fully knocked, will knock the mob/animal/player hit one more block than the normal bow would at sufficient range and draw time.In addition to increased durability, knockback and base damage, you can also dye the Strongbow since the leather is now covering the wooded length. This is done as you would dye leather armor, like so:


As with leather armor, the grey center of the bow (where the arrow lies when knocked) will stay grey, but the wooded brown parts will become dyed with the color combination you choose. You can also remove the dye the same way you would remove the dye from leather armor: right click on a cauldron with water (without arrows in your inventory) and the dye will be removed.

Example sprites (by Humpy123 and SparkyWasabi, respectively):




Thank you for reading, and please, give me some constructive criticism! I hope I made my suggestion as clear and as balanced as possible.

Thanks to all the supporters thus far! If you support the suggestion, please push the rep button! I'll have a list of supporters up shortly in a spoiler.


Here's a cool banner made by Cosmic-Lightning:

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Also a sweet looking banner made by Warriorcat15:

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To whomever it may concern, I have a suggestion that I feel would really add to the experience of minecraft. The ideas will be split into a few parts for a more efficient framing of my idea; corn, crows, scare-crows, and finally a new enemy mob.

Lets begin with corn. Corn is an idea my brother and I have been wishing for for some time, and I think it would be a fairly beneficial element to the game's growing agriculture options. Corn would be, from my personal hopes, a more permanent crop wherebye you grow the plant once and then remove the ears of corn as they grow by right clicking them. From the ears of corn, they could be cooked to be eaten or crafted to make curnels(similar to seeds from pumpkins/melons) which would in turn be the means of planting more stocks. To start a corn field you will find cernels in villages as you would other rare items or through trades. The actual stocks of corn would be 2 or 3 blocks high and unable to be destroyed by jumping, allowing corn fields to be an easy place to get lost or ambushed in by mobs. This sort of maze would be quite amusing and challenging, and would add some evening suspense. The corn would need to be grown in open air, no greenhouses or underground farm. There may be no blocks above the corn or else it will only be the stock that grows but it will not yield corn. (This is actually just a cheap fix for a problem some of us noticed in the comments, if someone else has a better solution please let me know.)

Corn would not require watersource after the crop itself is planted. You need to let the stock grow in the same way you would any plant, but then after it has grown the corn will replenish itself regardless of whether or not the plant is in range of a water source block. Though corn appears more convenient aside from the necessity of finding a village or abandoned farm, corn will prove a challenge due to the next element of my idea: crows.


Crows being the main entity of this proposal, they would be the first real birds in vanilla minecraft. Crows will circle over corn fields and steal any and all ears of corn from the stocks as they spawn, making producing corn a challenge. crows are also natural scavengers would be attracted to rotting flesh, mainly zombies. Crows by night will peck at zombies, doing minimal damage, but doing just enough to act as a distraction from the player. However crows would also potentially attack players, should they be holding corn or rotten flesh. Crows would spawn in groups of 3-5 at a time, otherwise called murders (seriously, this is what a group of crows is, isnt that interesting?). When concerning corn however crows would mainly be an annoyance to the player, thus bringing in the necessity for my next implement.

The scarecrow would be craftable using sticks, jack o lanterns and hay bales. It's purpose would be to both serve as a light source, and a repellent to crows so as to prevent them from stealing your corn. Similar to a watersource block, the scarecrow would serve only a designated area from it's source. This would serve as a new purpose for jack o lanterns, something I feel is lacking. It would both protect fields from crowa and from hostile mobs spawning due to light source in the scarecrow...admittedly that's all I have for that one, Im open to suggestions for more uses, butter honestly that seems satisfactory.

The final proposition I have is a new boss or fairly challenging mob like the wither skeleton. To be spawned you would need to place a specific block(or group of blocks, I don't know something rare and difficult) in the middle of a crop circle. The player would need to design a specific shape in their cornfield to allow this boss, or very strong mob to spawn inside of it. I have very few ideas on what would spawn inside but again, this is just an idea.

It has been suggested to me that the boss could be a kind of large, evil scarecrow (not unlike the pumpkin king from Nightmare before Christmas) bent on avenging the corn you have stolen. This is just an idea and I would appreciate more feedback to really shape the idea into something usuable and interesting.

Another possibility could be to have abandoned farms with corn field's spawn. This would provide a source of corn to start a farm with, but it would be guarded by the enemy scarecrow mob.





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