Ever since I saw the seed glacier, I've wanted to build a house like this. Starting from one of the cliff overhangs, I would build a tower downward (the underside of the overhang being the roof). In other words, I would create a stalactite house. I haven't had the opportunity to do this yet, but if anyone's done something like it I'd love to see videos/pictures/etc.
This is probably going to be added to the game in 1.5, try reading before you post.
I swear some people just post this comment as a knee-jerk reaction to everything on the forum. Can you post a cite? Minecraft Wiki doesn't mention anything about this being a planned future update at all, let alone for 1.5:
I believe I DID explain what needed fleshing out, namely, the food items in the game that have currently just been tossed into the "random dungeon loot" category when logically they should appear in the world.
And I considered this a suggestion rather than a wishlist because it's not multiple requests, they were examples of fleshing out. My suggestion in this thread isn't specifically the examples I mentioned. My suggestion is that the items already in the game be given more use and availability. If I didn't give examples, this would have been a fail topic, although it seems the above poster didn't seem to notice I did that.
I think I haven't made clear in this thread what my suggestion was, since everyone seems to be missing the point. Again, my suggestion is to expand and refine the use of the items already in the game before adding new items.
Presumably, it's because Notch intends to keep your item stacks stored in a single byte, and 64 = 1000000 in binary. Of course, this means he'd have room for an 8th digit to still be within one byte - the reason for this I'm not too sure of, not being a programmer myself. My best guess is he figured 128 was too much for one stack, or possibly because the 8th digit is needed for something else, like indicative whether the number is positive or negative?
If apples become more common then what over-expensive item do we turn to for status? There wont be a "hunt for the diamond pickaxe." I can get a diamond pick within one minecraft week. It is not difficult. I like the rest of your ideas.
You've got a good point, but I think status items shouldn't be something mundane; rather they should be something unique, and more importantly, something you can display in your house or wear as a status symbol. This could constitute an entirely different thread, but here are a few ideas:
1) New furniture - a 1x2 grandfather clock, a dragon's head mounted on a plaque, marble statues.
2) New clothing - this could also be something with a very practical purpose - like a diver's helmet that lets you breathe longer while underwater. Obviously something like that would need to have durability to be balanced.
Already suggested and against the rules. We do not need duplicate threads or wishlists.
Please refrain from posting again until you've read the rules.
Pardon me if I'm speaking out of place, but isn't a suggestions forum by definition a wishlist? I'm making suggestions to add content that does not currently exist in the game (e.g. apple trees, birch saplings). How is my topic different from the other suggestions in the forum, other than the fact that mine is more realistic and likely to actually be implemented?
Secondly, I apologize if this is considered a duplicate thread, but a) the search function has been down for months now, making finding similar threads difficult and :cool.gif: I am making a blanket series of suggestions, and while I am sure a few of the individual ideas herein have been said before it is their collection as a group that constitutes my suggestion.
What strategies are effective at convincing your players to help pay the server's costs? What other big servers are keeping themselves running on donations, and what are they doing to succeed?
Before development of Minecraft progresses any further, I think the next couple of updates need to focus on two things. The big first thing is fixing the bugs that keep getting introduced with each new patch. I'd rather have a game that works well that a game with a lot of new things that work poorly.
The second thing, which is the real focus on this thread, is fleshing out the content that already exists in the game. These are my ideas more specifically:
1) Allow apples and cocoa beans to be farmed. These are items far too mundane to be so rare. Instead of being confined to dungeons, there should be apple trees. These should be restricted to certain biomes (i.e. not in tundra or rain forests), and apple trees should not grow as tall as regular trees so they do not also become a replacement for regular trees when it comes to wood farming (this can also be done by making them take longer to grow).
Likewise, cocoa beans should be plantable and farmable.
2) Create pine and birch saplings. Our ability to create nice-looking and more varied forests and gardens would be greatly improved if we could grow more than one type of tree. Birch has a beautiful white bark that is terribly underused due to its rarity.
3) Make seafood more worthwhile. As it stands, cooked fish is harder to acquire than bread, yet it heals the same. The healing power of food needs to be tweaked (maybe by making bread, apples and cookies heal less) so it is worth one's time to cook fish as a regular food source.
4) Make clocks hangable on walls. This would make them far more desirable and add to the sadly low catalog of decorations we currently have for homes.
I feel these additions wouldn't be terribly difficult (a plus for Notch) as they work off things already in the game, and they would make the game feel more fleshed-out and vibrant. I'd like to see these things before any additional content in Minecraft.
Important Update: SynapseSMP has gone offline due to lack of funding to keep the server running. I'm writing on behalf of DocFox, who asked me to spread the word, and I figure this is the best place to do it.
SynapseSMP is a wonderful server, but due to its size it's also quite expensive to keep going. The person who usually made the payments could not do so for this month, and previous donations have not been sufficient to keep the server going.
If anyone would like to help get SynapseSMP back online, please send a donation via Paypal to [email protected]. You can contact DocFox or Phantom via Skype for confirmation (although I won't be giving out their Skype information without their permission, I assume anyone interested enough in this server knows how to contact them). This is a great server and it pains me greatly to see it down.
If enough donations are given, DocFox will cover the remainder necessary to get the server running again as soon as possible, so please remember that no donation is too small, anything you can spare will help. Keep Synapse alive!
I've just dropped the time limit on the poll. I was going to have a round 4 with voters having to choose one of the top 5 options from round 3, but I don't want to risk poll overload.
I'll just keep this poll running until Patch 1.4 actually comes out, then I'll start the Great 1.5 Suggestion Poll.
I say it will come out at Easter cause it seems that Mojang releases updates on holidays so a large amount of people can play it on the first day, I got the idea seeming that the update with the jack o lanterns was released on halloween etc.
I like this idea because I like the idea of holiday releases in general. We could have whole speculating on the release for each holiday.
Easter:
1) Combine an egg + any dye to get a colored egg
2) Rabbits!
3) Cocao beans. 3 Cocao beans + 2 sugar + Milk = Chocolate Bar (or a chocolate egg if you prefer)
Ah, nice job guys. My first guess was Romanian but I was starting to lean towards Portuguese simply because
a) It sounded like a Romance language
:cool.gif: Romanian (and later, Portuguese) are the two plausible Romance languages I can't identify from sound alone.
I'm at a loss. It sounds like a Romance language (one of the few words I can recognize in there is something like "terra" for country), but not one I recognize, so I'm leaning towards Romanian. Honestly though, I have no idea.
to the first person to figure out what language I'm hearing here.
Thank you so much for your help! I'm sorry I didn't come in to thank you, I lost this thread as a result of the search function meltdown and just rediscovered it now.
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I swear some people just post this comment as a knee-jerk reaction to everything on the forum. Can you post a cite? Minecraft Wiki doesn't mention anything about this being a planned future update at all, let alone for 1.5:
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Upcoming_features
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And I considered this a suggestion rather than a wishlist because it's not multiple requests, they were examples of fleshing out. My suggestion in this thread isn't specifically the examples I mentioned. My suggestion is that the items already in the game be given more use and availability. If I didn't give examples, this would have been a fail topic, although it seems the above poster didn't seem to notice I did that.
I think I haven't made clear in this thread what my suggestion was, since everyone seems to be missing the point. Again, my suggestion is to expand and refine the use of the items already in the game before adding new items.
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My apologies. The other suggestions still stand, and I'm happy to see new saplings are finally on their way.
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You've got a good point, but I think status items shouldn't be something mundane; rather they should be something unique, and more importantly, something you can display in your house or wear as a status symbol. This could constitute an entirely different thread, but here are a few ideas:
1) New furniture - a 1x2 grandfather clock, a dragon's head mounted on a plaque, marble statues.
2) New clothing - this could also be something with a very practical purpose - like a diver's helmet that lets you breathe longer while underwater. Obviously something like that would need to have durability to be balanced.
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Pardon me if I'm speaking out of place, but isn't a suggestions forum by definition a wishlist? I'm making suggestions to add content that does not currently exist in the game (e.g. apple trees, birch saplings). How is my topic different from the other suggestions in the forum, other than the fact that mine is more realistic and likely to actually be implemented?
Secondly, I apologize if this is considered a duplicate thread, but a) the search function has been down for months now, making finding similar threads difficult and :cool.gif: I am making a blanket series of suggestions, and while I am sure a few of the individual ideas herein have been said before it is their collection as a group that constitutes my suggestion.
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What strategies are effective at convincing your players to help pay the server's costs? What other big servers are keeping themselves running on donations, and what are they doing to succeed?
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The second thing, which is the real focus on this thread, is fleshing out the content that already exists in the game. These are my ideas more specifically:
1) Allow apples and cocoa beans to be farmed. These are items far too mundane to be so rare. Instead of being confined to dungeons, there should be apple trees. These should be restricted to certain biomes (i.e. not in tundra or rain forests), and apple trees should not grow as tall as regular trees so they do not also become a replacement for regular trees when it comes to wood farming (this can also be done by making them take longer to grow).
Likewise, cocoa beans should be plantable and farmable.
2) Create pine and birch saplings. Our ability to create nice-looking and more varied forests and gardens would be greatly improved if we could grow more than one type of tree. Birch has a beautiful white bark that is terribly underused due to its rarity.
3) Make seafood more worthwhile. As it stands, cooked fish is harder to acquire than bread, yet it heals the same. The healing power of food needs to be tweaked (maybe by making bread, apples and cookies heal less) so it is worth one's time to cook fish as a regular food source.
4) Make clocks hangable on walls. This would make them far more desirable and add to the sadly low catalog of decorations we currently have for homes.
I feel these additions wouldn't be terribly difficult (a plus for Notch) as they work off things already in the game, and they would make the game feel more fleshed-out and vibrant. I'd like to see these things before any additional content in Minecraft.
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SynapseSMP is a wonderful server, but due to its size it's also quite expensive to keep going. The person who usually made the payments could not do so for this month, and previous donations have not been sufficient to keep the server going.
If anyone would like to help get SynapseSMP back online, please send a donation via Paypal to [email protected]. You can contact DocFox or Phantom via Skype for confirmation (although I won't be giving out their Skype information without their permission, I assume anyone interested enough in this server knows how to contact them). This is a great server and it pains me greatly to see it down.
If enough donations are given, DocFox will cover the remainder necessary to get the server running again as soon as possible, so please remember that no donation is too small, anything you can spare will help. Keep Synapse alive!
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I'll just keep this poll running until Patch 1.4 actually comes out, then I'll start the Great 1.5 Suggestion Poll.
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I like this idea because I like the idea of holiday releases in general. We could have whole speculating on the release for each holiday.
Easter:
1) Combine an egg + any dye to get a colored egg
2) Rabbits!
3) Cocao beans. 3 Cocao beans + 2 sugar + Milk = Chocolate Bar (or a chocolate egg if you prefer)
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a) It sounded like a Romance language
:cool.gif: Romanian (and later, Portuguese) are the two plausible Romance languages I can't identify from sound alone.
Well done folks!
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I'm at a loss. It sounds like a Romance language (one of the few words I can recognize in there is something like "terra" for country), but not one I recognize, so I'm leaning towards Romanian. Honestly though, I have no idea.
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