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Quote from mrbeanglomp

This si an interesting suggestion. I think though it might eb a bit imbalanced though because it is realtively simple to get a slimeball. Maybe you need four cooked slimeballs to make 1 slime-aid. It does seem like a nice addition to the game as we do need drinks. Anyways climbing on walls would not help griefers because they can use flymod to do the same thing.
Great suggestion

Thanks, I was thinking about doing that to make Slime-Aid a bit harder to get. I think I'll be changing it to fit your suggestion, since it will help keep balance. Thank you :smile.gif:

Thanks for the support large-haired man and Little Big Kid!

Quote from deathguardian97

WALL CLIMBING!?!?!? Lol, griefer central. Plus the fact that it's already dumb enough. Slimeballs already have 1 big use for pistons, and 1 use is more than a lot of items can say...

YES WALL CLIMBING. But with your logic, Minecraft should have nothing. TNT is the griefer's best friend. If the griefer is hacking, they can fly, without having to find a slime, kill it, prepare Slime-Aid, drink it, and then go up whatever it is they want to go up. We can't assume with every suggestion that griefers will abuse it. Maybe if I was suggesting a nuke, you'd have a good point.

Also, the point of this idea isn't to give Slimeballs a use, it was just another reason why it would make for a good update.

Thanks for the input though :smile.gif: I do appreciate it.

Slime-Aid:
You know those useless slimeballs you have lying around? Well, what if I told you you could drink them?!

. . . no?

Alright, well what if I told you that drinking this goo would actually give you enhanced abilities?! That's right!

What it could do:
Upon drinking this marvelous substance, you would take half a heart in damage (it goes down smooth as sludge, plus the small Slimes who drop Slimeballs have a lifespan of half of a heart, so it only makes sense). Enticing as it may seem already, that's not all! Aside from the measly damage, you would also gain the ability to cling to walls*! Movement along walls would be as easy as holding the sneak button and moving as you would normally**! Your hands would stick to the surface of the wall and allow you to maneuver in tight areas as well as scale abnormally vertical mountains! Plus, you take no fall damage for as long as the effects last^o!

*wall-clinging abilities would be temporary.
**climbing speed would be about the same speed as sneaking, possibly slower when moving upward.
^oyou only take no fall damage if next to a wall; if you dive into a hole and aren't touching any walls, you will fall normally. If you are next to a wall and aren't holding the sneak button, you will descend at about walking speed. If you are falling and then go near a ledge, your speed will be gradually reduced until you reach the walking speed. Basically, if you stick to the walls and don't hold the climb (sneak) button, you will descend at a constant speed that is slow enough so that you won't take fall damage.


How it works:
After the Slime-Aid is put into your mouth, the salivary glands work to break it down. The enzymatic properties of your spit would break the mixture down into tiny particles, which would flow down your esophagus, down into your stomach. After a while (a few nanoseconds), the Slime-Aid particles would disperse throughout your body, filling into all of your pores. The sticky properties of the Slime-Aid would turn you into a walking Post-It Note!

Why it works:
Science.

How to obtain it:
I saved the most hotly-debated subject for second-to-last; the recipe.
I would like it if Slime-Aid could be made by adding a portable dried Slimeball to a bucket of water, as it would allow for compact storage and fulfill its intended role as a portable drink enhancer. My idea for this would be as follows:

RECIPE 1:
1. Combine four Slimeballs and 1 sugar into a Slimeglob*
2. Cook the Slimeglob in a furnace to produce a Driedball
3. Add the Driedball to a bucket of water to make Slime-Aid!

*(on a crafting table, it would have a sugar in the middle, and a Slimeball above, below, and to the right and left of that sugar, with the end product being a large, less-round version of a Slimeball).

However, this would, as some have pointed out, make the process a tad confusing and add a couple of items whose only purpose would be to help make Slime-Aid (Slimeglob and Driedball, though the Driedball would be useful for stacking a certain amount (would be much less than 64; I'm thinking 4-8 in a full stack) and save space from having to have a bunch of buckets). So the only real "useless" object would be the Slimeglob. My reasoning for including the Slimeglob as a step is to ensure that Slime-Aid isn't super easy to make. The fact that you need four Slimeballs and a sugar makes it much harder to make than if you just needed one Slimeball. Also, the heating step means that you'd have to have a heat-source and a furnace, further increasing the difficulty of making Slime-Aid. I've simplified the recipe as much as I can while retaining the same amount of difficulty and the product's portability. Having said that, here is an alternate recipe that might also work, should it be more popular:

RECIPE 2:
1. Combine one/three Slimeballs and one/two sugars with a bucket of water

That's about it. This could also make Slime-Aid, though I think this takes away from the balance of the recipe that I devised and makes a little less sense when it comes to actually having a drinkable product. However, it only requires one new item to be made, which is Slime-Aid. The quantity of the ingredients is one or the other (the numbers on the left side of the slashes or the numbers on the right), not sure yet.

If you have an opinion on which recipe you like best, please share!



WHY:
There is a distinct lack of drink in Minecraft, and having one with the usual heart-healing properties seems boring. A drink with effects such as wall-clinging makes the game more interesting, yet with the damage it deals and temporary effect of it, it would not make it unbalanced. It would give some use (other than the upcoming sticky piston) to Slimeballs. Also, I feel the Nebraskans go unnoticed all too often. This is for you, Nebraska.


Suggestions:
- mrbeanglomp: raise the number of Slimeballs needed to make Slime-Aid from 1 to 4 [put into consideration]
- BobWhiskey: add sugar to the recipe so it doesn't taste like filth [done]
- Lord Penguin: change recipe and effects [done]

YUUUUSSSSSSS!!! Also, that mailbox looks heavily inspired by the Windwaker mailboxes. I love it. Excellent pictures, there. Hopefully this gets added eventually. And someone posted that it was a mod.. well, pistons were mods, too. But not many people know how to use mods and some of them don't like to go to the trouble of it, so having it in the game officially is usually best.

Quote from Regular Hexahedron

Actually, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to alter repeaters from straight to 90 degrees and back.

A very simple and convenient crafting recipe could work like this:

Place normal repeater in center left square of crafting grid, it becomes a left turn repeater. Put a normal repeater in the center right square of the crafting grid, it becomes a right turn repeater. Put either kind of 90 degree repeater in the center square of the grid, it becomes a normal repeater again.

Genius.

Quote from MrNomNoms

Actually, it's a great idea, but when you think about it...users can have more than one wolf, so does that mean they will all look the same?

Then you can use dye to differentiate between them, with the dye mixing with their other colors.

Brilliant!

5/10 or 6/10 sounds like where I'm at. I can usually figure out most things with time, but I don't know the names of the gates I'm making or anything like that.

Looks pretty awesome!

People were talking about making a treadmill. I like that. Maybe it could also lead to some sort of conveyor belt powered by wheels and water? I know water already works as a psuedoconveyer, but it's cumbersome to make it go the right way and can kill you. Conveyors could be hooked up to redstone and switched on/off.

Well, seeing as there are several Spielbergs in here, I don't think I have much of a chance. I'll try anyway. Only have Vegas, though, so it won't look as fancy as most entries :/ Hopefully you won't mind less fancy in exchange for creativity? Also, which would you prefer, slow or fast?