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No wonder they never get anything done. Always sidetracked with random features nobody asked for.

Rabbits?? Why not add something that players have been wanting for years, instead of something that makes no difference.

Quote from JuniperMelody

I'm going to attempt to explain why redstone isn't smaller than it is. Simply, because this is a block game and the original premise was that a block could be any one thing; and how two adjacent blocks interact is purely a set of hard-coded rules.

Your suggestion to player-control how adjacent blocks interact would require imbuing blocks with a host of attributes or settings to define their behavior. Now the state of the world isn't just about the blocks, it's also very much about all the settings of the block that have been set just so.

I haven't shown that your idea is impossible or even impractical. But I think your idea would require a different vision of Minecraft.

In the end, making everything in the world smaller is just like making the player bigger; and there's really no point in that.

Restone devices often have to be small enough to fit between existing structures or terrain features. I think owing to the fact that they are usually an afterthought or because aesthetics take a higher priority than making room for bulky redstone devices.

I have a pretty good system for controlling redstone junctions. Only 3 bits are needed to define all possible junctions. Anyway, it's pretty simple. First, redstone automatically forms a junction with the previous block you placed, assuming they are right next to each other. In order to create new junctions, or destroy them, equip some kind of a wand. With the wand, left click on one block, right click on an adjacent block, and bam, you've just created/removed a junction between them. That's it., now you can have redstone wires that are directly adjacent without necessarily connecting, and can create vertical circuits as well.

So the new villager AI is nothing more than pointless wheat harvesting? Why not make them do something interesting or actually useful? They could at least defend themselves against mobs and hostile players. Why not make them recruitable? I could use some body guards and sentries, especially in multiplayer to help protect against griefers while I'm away from my base or offline. Or why not make a miner class that you can hire to work in your mine? I want to see things added to the game that actually have some kind of impact on the game. No more pointless almost totally cosmetic changes.

And someone please retool redstone so it is easier to work with. It could take up 1/4 the volume and be 2000x times easier to work with if you could build circuits vertically or control how junctions are formed between adjacent redstone lines. And craftbook's Integrated circuits have proven so incredibly useful for me that it boarders on insanity the idea that anyone would bother to make anything redstone related without them. What am I going to do with redstone emitting item frames? Nothing. And I can't believe they don't spend their effort addressing the more obvious problems with redstone.