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Tbh I like your list but the polearms and some ranged weapons. I'd like lance and halberd to be kind of "modification" for spears, for example lance dealing more damage to unmounted units and halberd also getting the 30% penetration, of course, at cost of speed. But I do like the concept of +2 reach range.

Crossbows could be actually harder to draw than bows, and should fire higher accuracy, more damage and knockback rounds, behaving as a sniper weapon in Minecraft. Assuming we're talking European crossbows(Notch is swedish), not repeating Chinese ones. Crossbows would serve as the anti-armor ranged weapon.

Pistols, Muskets and Blunderbuss... let's just not. IMO a Blowgun would be better because this is early mediavel theme. We aren't going to add a Nanite generated laser cannon either. Blowgun might serve as a really effective weapon to deliver poison and weakening, maybe even blinding effect. Could be a debuff weapon, or a weapon that is great against unarmored or lightly armored targets(efficiency drop per same unit of armor is significantly bigger than that of a bow).

Rocket launcher (not what you imagine - think of MLRS) - is crafted from wood, and is a stationary weapon much like Cannon, and has 9 chambers to be filled with firework rockets. Could be redstone powered and probably even controlled.

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Calvary really needs an update most people don't fight on horses because it just doesn't provide any benefits if anything it's worst than fighting on the ground.

Horses provide mobility advantage, but it comes at a cost of its own(big target size and reduced maneuverability around terrain) - so I agree we need cav update. IMO horse fighting is just bland and boring, much like MC combat always was.

I kind of want heavy two handed battle axes, 2h swords, spears, lances and halberds added for better uses both as the horseman and as the anti-cavalry infantry(think of spearmen)

IMO combat should get an update in general, with crossbows, harpoons, blowguns and other custom weapons. Maybe we could think of some tribes that worship some gods and make their unique weapons, too.

I know that you're trying to make large oceans friendlier for boat users, but maybe in a different way?

Enchanting wouldn't make much sense, so there should be something else. And here it is: Engines.

1. Firework Rocket boat.

You strap 2 firework rockets to a boat and they give you 20% more speed for 3 minutes.

2. Small Steam Engine

You put a furnace and a pickaxe(as rotor shaft) in a vertical line, and above them you put 3 iron ingots acting as propeller. Gives you 8% speed boost, and it will be powered for (Amount of items burned by the fuel) minutes, for instance, 2 Wood planks will power you for 3 minutes, a Stick would power you for 30 seconds, and Coal piece would power you for 8 minutes. Ultimately, lava bucket could power you for hours!

This is awesome. Way to revive minecraft!

• Doesn't work in snapshots(Forge ones)
• Hard to install(Non-forge ones)
• Developers must keep up with Mojang to work for all the versions
• Mods are temporary solution to long-term problem
• If /rotate should be a mod, then /clone should be removed from vanilla.

Why?

Minecarts have always been clunky, and are very overdue for an overhaul.

Changes

While I am going to propose new minecarts, I first want to make some changes to the current system through which minecarts work.

Improve Minecart Physics

One of the reasons the minecart system has always been clunky is the fact that both players and other minecarts can pass through minecarts. This should be changed to make minecarts easier to manage and more predictable. Minecarts should now be "solid" as boats are; walking into one is akin to walking into a block, and you are able to stand on them. Similar to cauldrons, you can stand inside a minecart.

Minecarts should also follow this rule when colliding with one another, meaning two minecarts can't pass through each other. When two minecarts hit each other, they should also not get more reaction momentum than action momentum. At the moment, a slowly moving minecart can make another minecart go very fast with just a small touch.

Improve Minecart Speed

According to the Official Minecraft Wiki, boats have the same speed as minecarts. While boats do have a decent speed for a vehicle that is placed down and used immediately, this speed should not be equivalent to that of a vehicle that requires a preliminarily-built track to work.

What I am saying is that minecarts should be faster. Once built up to full speed, minecarts should travel at twice the speed that they currently do. For those who think this would be overpowered: minecarts are already this speed on the Legacy Console Editions.

Make Rails 3D

This is obviously much less of a priority than the previously mentioned changes, but I still think it should be implemented. The game actually has support for 3D rails, and there are even resource packs that make this change. So, why not add it to vanilla? This would of course be optional, and could be configured via the setting called, "Rails: Fast/Fancy."

Increase Rail Output

Now this is something that is definitely high priority. At the moment, these cost one gold ingot per rail excluding the cost of sticks and redstone. This sounds reasonable, but it's still pretty expensive for players who don't have a gold farm. Thus, the output should be changed from 6 powered rails to 8 powered rails.

Chunk Loading

This might be one of the most important changes to minecarts. When they are moving, they should load chunks. This would mean that you can send a minecart off and it would continue moving and loading chunks until it stops. Unlike how players load many chunks surrounding them, a moving minecart would only load 5 chunks at a time: the one it is in, and the four chunks that are directly surrounding them.

Because this could cause serious lag issues on servers or custom maps that use lots of moving minecarts, there would be a gamerule you could use to disable or enable minecart chunk loading:

/gamerule doMinecartChunkLoading true

/gamerule doMinecartChunkLoading false

"Splat!"

When a player or mob is hit by a minecart that's moving quickly, it takes damage. The minecart will also slow down slightly.

Linking Minecarts

This is one of the most asked for features, and I am sad Mojang still hasn't put it in the game. Minecarts should be able to be connected with leads. Simple as that.

New Minecarts

Dispenser & Dropper Minecarts

These are crafted just how you would expect. Just like actual dispensers and droppers, these minecarts can be placed in any orientation. They have an inventory of 9 slots, and are activated with a powered activator rail.

Redstone Block Minecart

Crafted with a minecart and redstone block, the redstone block minecart powers adjacent blocks. The blocks that get powered are:

• The block placed directly above the rails

• The blocks on either sides of the rails

• The rails themselves

This means that you can link up redstone block minecarts to your minecart train and they will power the powered rails!

Locomotive Minecart

(The current furnace minecart would now just be used for cooking items.)

Just like the normal minecart, it can be ridden by players. However, it requires fuel to move. You can get it to start moving by right-clicking on it with fuel. Each fuel powers the minecart for half as long as the fuel lasts in a furnace. The locomotive starts out very slow, but its speed can be increased by giving it more fuel while it is moving.

The maximum speed of the locomotive is 3 times the current maximum speed of minecarts, meaning it would be 1½ times that of the new maximum speed.

Locomotives would be balanced because they require a player to keep putting fuel in to ensure the locomotive keeps on going. Also, when a locomotive is traveling at a speed greater than the new max. minecart speed (so more than 75% of its own maximum speed) it explodes when crashing into blocks or other minecarts, and will even derail at turns.

Cow Catcher

Cow catchers are able to be placed on any minecart (including locomotives, of course) via right-click and do extra damage and knockback to any mobs or players on the tracks.

They also prevent minecarts from slowing down from hitting mobs/players.

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What kind of masochistic "Stop Having Fun" Guy would want to make their game give them headaches???

Put me in stasis. The "chaos" is literally giving me a headache irl...

It will say 'OOF!' when it's on its last use.

The pickaxe breaks when you abuse the poor thing.

It breaks when you craft it.

I summon Bioshock to update.

Hello everyone, Its my first time here so I guess I got to introduce myself a bit. Hello, I'm Marko. I played Minecraft for almost a year now and I fell in love with the game haha.

So I have a suggestion for the NPC - Villagers. Which will make the villagers felt a little more alive and describe them as the "The inhabitant of the Minecraft world". This is a great idea, If you love keeping villagers and villages. I`ll assure you that this will be a big hit and game changer for Minecraft. This Idea will also open a new possibilities for the Minecraft world.

So what idea I have will make you feel that this is another best time, to enjoy and play Minecraft. [For survival mode in general]. You will feel that, the faith of the Minecraft world is at your hand. And you must do something to change this will. I mean the Minecraft developers are keep making new mobs. in the future, Minecraft world will be dominated and ruled by mobs and simply putting the villagers into the verge of extinction. This will also affect you as a player. Think of this, no one in the world can prevent this Global Outbreak. What about the villagers? if we are keeping villagers and have a village, we are not sure if they are safe. they can`t fight on there own. What's awaiting the faith of this villagers is death and will ruin our trades. I know we have Iron Golem to protect them, but we can do better. It will be better if we add more capabilities to villagers, They can`t stay the same forever. The villagers should rise up! They deserve better quality of life. At this point, the Minecraft world take an opportunity of taking a step forward to civilization stages. I mean, not to much and not to the point of democracy establishment and villagers seeking independence, turns on us and kick our butt out the game lol. Lets start it little by little,not to overwhelm our developers. But over time, you'll see, that the Minecraft World will felt more like civilize. Villagers should be given more importance too. This will save the Minecraft game. That's all for my platform concept of the game.


To our Minecraft developers: I know they busy making a new mobs to go against players. But in the future, maybe they'll be able to make mobs to go against villagers. Anyway, If possible our game developer. I want the villagers to be given more of importance for the game. My idea is to give this villagers more roles/features.

This is what I have in mind:

Villagers additional feature:

I - Villagers Mortality -
Maybe we should transform our villagers into mortality state; which will make them critically vulnerable to starvation.
- I know its too much. But maybe they should have a hunger bars and health feature.
Why go into trouble on making this feature?
This will affect the villagers reproduction rate. Depends on how we [Players] cope this area.
With this situation already, Players can enjoy this kind of obstacles. Using our creative mind, maybe we can plan out on how to make a stable food reservation system; And to maintain our villagers to strive, and have a steadfast rate of population growth.

II - Villagers being Consumer -
Now that they're vulnerable to starvation, lets make them a consumer. Lets add some feature that they can actually eat food to replenish maintain their hunger bars. And it should be a wide variation of food available to provide them, like
( bread, cooked meat & fish, pie, cake ).
If you're a builder type, you'll enjoy this. I know you'll have some idea of building shops and use Chest+Hopper+Dropper+pressureplate=Drop food for them to consume every time they visit the shop. Its a good addition feature for making the villages more variant.

III - Villagers as Producer -
Lets give the Villagers a feature to craft and furnace food which vary on their respective profession and careers are.
I have something in mind like;
Farmer - can use crafting table to craft bread
Fisherman - can furnace fish
Now that they can basically craft simple food like bread, maybe we don't have to babysit to help them maintain a food resource every time.
This is a perfect feature for villagers to help them be more independent in terms of food.

IV - Villagers can equip and use tool -
Lets give the Villagers a feature to handle tools which enhance their profession capabilities.
What I have in mind is;
1.Farmer can use possess a hoe and use it to for tilling on any nearby water; to plant the seeds they have in their inventory.
Which is the wheat they crop will be used to craft bread. This cycle can be useful for them to maintain food. Also preventing their inventory to be filled with seeds.
2.Fisherman can use fishing rod to go fishing in on any nearby bed of water (during days only and no mobs nearby). And can furnace the fish they have in their inventory.
Which is another way for them they can maintain food.

V - This Villagers can equip and use a weapon - So, I`ll be giving them an additional feature like having 2 main slots that will show on the layout when we click them. This 2 main slot are mainly for equipping tools and weapons purposes. first slot is being a main one and always available , the other one is only secondary which is only available to equip secondary weapon like shield and arrows to support what main weapon they possess. So basically they can only hold one tool or weapon(Sword/ arrow) for the Main slot; then seconday slot for shield when holding sword/arrows when holding a bow.

VI - This Villagers can equip armor - So, They will have this slots available when promoted as a defender and can be equip with armor.

VII - New Option and New Slot available when clicking villagers

I am working on how to upload the photo I edited on this post, but I cant figure out how haha. but anyway; When clicking the villagers, there should be a new layout on the left-side together with the normal layout. 1.You can see their experience bar - Now we can see how much experience they currently have. This experience feature would be use to fuel their willingness to breed. 2.You can see their current health and hunger bars. 3.You can see the new two slots available. With this slot, you can use it to put, take out, replace the items. mainly for tools and weapons purpose. 4.You can the villager`s whole body framed image, showing their current appearance. 5.You can see another 4 slot, mainly for equipping armoury purpose. Other than this, I didn't include the feature of opening up the Villagers inventory.

VIII - Villagers can be promoted to become the village defender
- All kind of villager can be promoted to become defender. And will patrol the area to secure the village. However doing this will have them to abandon there original profession and will act differently.
-By being different, Their main task is to simply patrolling the area, having combatant ability, gain experience, and loot Items.

IX- Defender villagers can trade
-Defender can trade whats in there inventory and can collect the emerald they earned from trade. And also use this emerald to buy items.

I think this is all I have in mind. Simple and basic feature to add. And not too complicated to make it work. However, with all this feature idea for villagers. I am aware that there could be a glitches and a loops. So, in order for me to support this feature, I`d also like to discuss any conditions apply below.

Villagers conditions and limit to feature

I - Villagers should not craft tool -
This would lead to a lot of problem and complication.Given that they need specific items in their inventory to possibly craft tools like;
1. Hoe - (2xStick+2xPlywood/Cobblestone/Iron/Gold/Diamond) for farmers
2. Fishing Rod - (3xStick+2xStrings) for fishermans
To make it work, they should be able to have additional items they can have on their inventory. which lead to;
1.Inventory Slot being full quicker - having to possess additional items in there inventory for making tools is too much.
Having this could lead to not having enough space for food items-which is consumable. by being mix with other items that can stock up if not use.
2. Farmer and fisherman having to have additional items in there inventory - The question here is how they would manage that items? How would they manage to craft tools by themselves? Given the solution that they should be able to pick up additional items for themselves to use on crafting tools, is not a perfect solution and will only lead more complicated area.
-If you're thinking that maybe by dropping the items manually, for them to pick up and use it to craft tool should be fine. But you should take it in accountable. Given that you`ll have multiple villagers that have the same face with the same profession and careers, you wouldn't know which villagers you've provided the items last time.
-Also using droppers to automatically drop the items if activated is also lead to complication. Remember not all villagers can pick up specific items. what if different villagers activated the dropper? the items would just remain floating in the surface until someone can finally pick it up. You get the idea.
This should be great idea if you're dividing them in a faction like villages. But once they breed, there would be a problem as they wont grow up in the same profession.

So that is my statement of why villagers should not craft tools. But please, feel free to share any ideas and opinion on this matter. Ill appreciate it.

II - Villagers are limited to other tools -
At the moment, I`ll stick to that "only a villagers which are farmer and fisherman can use tools".
Which is I can support of why its should be available to them.
I know that I have or we have the same idea of " why not make them use axe, shovel and pickaxe too?"
I can support that idea. But at the moment, I wouldn't go that far as I want to focus more in specific area. And it should stick and be related to features I can support.
So;
1.Hoe is only available for farmers to equip
2.Fishing Rod is only available for fisherman to equip
However, they can also be equipped with weapons that I will discuss in another features.

III - Villagers cannot access chest and furnace
Having this command on them is a trouble. They could open your chest or furnace and pick up everything available for them to pick. So yes, They not allowed to access any. Lets keep it simple

So I think this should be it for conditions. I guess we should skip the other features and conditions. more on that in the future. But this time, Ill like to discuss on how to make this available feature works for additional support on idea. What are the new Villager Mechanics?

IV - You cant trade with defender - You wont be able to trade them in this state as they have to leave their profession to become defender.

New Villager Mechanics


I - New Option and New Slot available when clicking villagers
I will explain how this new layout works. There's so many could go on with this layout and possibilities to add more feature. But ill stick to basic at the moment for which I can support.

1.Experience Bar - Do you notice when it shows a dazzling green on top of their head every time we`ve done a trade? This is the one. This is like their experience bar we could monitor. They gain this bars when we trade them or by simply being happy when they pick up foods done by us, fellow villagers or hopper. We could use this bar to add more feature on how they would benefit from it, like fuel them to be willing to breed.
2.Heatlh and Hungry Bars - This cant be seen on the outside ( like on top of there head ) but only shows on the layout when we click them. You can use shift maybe but nah..to much. This is like for them to monitor their stats. They will then tend to share food to those who experience starving than giving it to random other villagers. It could also be use for detection to activate some command like drinking healing potion. But I would go that far at the moment.
3.Two Main Slots - This is showed on the layout when we click them. It will show what tools/ weapons they currently equip. This slots can be manage by us manually by dragging an items in-out from the slots. Or they will automatically pick up the dropped items and equip it once this slot is empty. The secondary slot is darkened when instating that it isn't available.
4. Full body Framed - This is to show their current appearance on the outside. This will be updated every time when new times enter the slots. Oh by the way, in the outside we can see what they are holding in there hands/ or what armour they equipped.
5.4 slots for armoury - is only available for defender. Once the villager is promoted to being a defender it should be available for them to equip themselves or by us. This slot is also darkened, instating that it isn't available.

II - How to Equip them with tools/ weapons?
Simply, click the villager. When the layout come out together with the normal one. Drag the tools/weapon to their available slot. or simply drop them in the floor and let them pick it up. Then there, they will automatically put it to there main empty slot. However, they wont pick up this tool or weapon when the main slots are occupied or isn't available.

III - Promoting the villagers to become Defender -
To promote the villagers, simply replace tools and equip them with weapon and they will come to defending state which will open the armoury slot and can also be equip with armor. They will then start patrolling and securing the area.

IV - Defender combatant feature -
Swordsman - will sprint and maim mobs with their shield, and attack with sword
Archer - will sprint to higher ground and shoot arrows.

There's so many areas to work on this area so, I'm planning on dividing this on different post from now on.
All of this are just my summary to my idea. By dividing them, I can clearly get to explain to you all how all this features and mechanic works

Just a question other than suggestion and plan on how to make it work. You're free to share your thoughts on this one.

1.You know that, I only feature the farmers and fishersmans careers. But for other professions of villagers, What would be their special feature? and explain how it would work and support its mechanics.
2.As I mentioned about the experience bar of the villager. What idea do you have in mind to make a use of this experience bar?

haha oh god, more features lol. I honestly trying to make everything as just basic features, so not to make it more complicated for the game ( and making it work for our developers ). Its good to have lots of features. But we should take it easy and start very slowly. Your idea is going a bit too wide from mine. What I have in mind is just to support the Villagers survivability. That's why I didn't want to add other feature such using pickaxe and axe coz its not related to preserving food and countermeasure.

For now I'm trying to establish a standing ground to support my idea. I like your additions, I honestly have similar idea like yours as well (to make them able to craft and use all tools). But for now I want to focus on "Villagers Survivabilty" Idea and make this mechanic works. If we have all the details to support this idea, then we can move on to the next feature, which is "Villagers Stability" Which has a new features. Ex: using pickaxe and axe to gather a resource and use it to repair any damaged buildings. which mechanic is to repair the building by replacing damages/ missing block but the condition is that is should be any similar block that they trying to replace. With this kind of feature. it should support why they should use axe/pick axe.

I've used horses several times, but elytra ended up causing me to abandon them, I thought of a way to make the horses more fun, add a cart to the horses, where it could take 3 people, 2 in the cart and 1 on the horse, and even put a double trunk in the wagon, the mule already has this function, but it is very few slots, and the carts could be wood, iron, gold and diamond, need to build the base of the wagon, wheels and use rope to control the horse and with that, to make a horse with a wagon, be faster than normal, would give much more grace to the horse, and our kinetics would be much more interesting