In spectator mode, when you right click a mob it should open its viewpoint as a small box taking up the lower right 1/4 of the screen. This would allow you to watch from two different perspectives at once, or even witness things happening in completely differently places.
You will still have your own viewpoint taking up the other 3/4 of the screen, and could continue to move around freely or even possess a different mob.
You could close picture-in-picture by right clicking again. It would also close if the chunk the mob is in becomes unloaded.
Support, but I don't think it should be an actual enchantment, as it would look unnatural. Maybe a Boolean NBT called preventNaming or something like that.
True, it does make sense for a hidden NBT. However there is an advantage in letting people know they can't rename it, so they don't waste time trying.
I suggest adding a Sound Effects Block. It would function identically to the Note Block, except instead of playing musical notes it would recreate Minecraft sounds already in game such as oinks, creeper hisses, villager voices, anvil clanks, door creaks, and more.
The block beneath the note block would determine what kind of sound effect it produces. For example dirt might make it play animal sounds like oinks and moos. Cobble might make it create player sounds like mining and drinking. A wood block might cause it to create wood related sounds like chest creaks and door slams. The power of the redstone signal would then determine which sound gets played within that category.
Being able to play sound effects would be really fun and useful. The sounds are already in the game data. Why not get more use out of them?
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The new update allows you to create tools that people in adventure mode can use to break specific blocks. But there's no way to place blocks in adventure mode yet. Here's an idea for two new data tags to fix that.
I suggest adding a new data tag that can be placed onto stacks of blocks, allowing them to be freely placeable in adventure mode. Furthermore I suggest adding a second data tag for tools that causes them to drop blocks that can be placed freely.
For example you could give someone in adventure mode a shovel that can only break sand, and all the sand it drops is placeable in adventure mode.
This would give map makers the options of giving people placeable blocks and/or giving them tools that can collect placeable blocks.
That is just plain genius. I love the idea, even though I never use Adventure Mode. I assume this can be broken down further to individual metadata so you can make blocks that can be placed on Red Wool but not on Blue Wool?
Also, what about some special tags? Here are a few ideas:
A tag that allows it to be placed on any block.
An exclusion tag that allows you to put a block anywhere except on certain blocks. Like being able to place Dirt on anything except Iron Blocks and Obsidian. This would require the "Any" tag I mentioned above, or it could just assume it can be placed on any block but ones you specifically exclude.
Possible tags to sort by tool used to break the block. For example, making so Leaves can only be placed on blocks broken faster by an axe.
I don't know how useful those would all be, but I'm sure someone would find uses for them.
That's a good idea! I like the idea of having tags that allow you to block off or allow numerous block types, without having to enter each one.
What would happen if you break the block? I'm not sure what to suggest for this. Maybe the whole block shatters? It doesn't make sense that the carving disappears.
The carving would just vanish and be lost if you break the block. The dropped block would be completely normal and unmarked if placed again.
I don't think realism is really required in Minecraft (we can now craft granite for heaven's sake), but if you need an explanation it can just be that the carving isn't that deep and is easily scuffed off by tools.
This'd be a great addition for the aesthetics of blocks for any type of Minecraft map!
I'm just curious of how much the carving would stand out on the block, however, you have my full support.
Support!
It wouldn't stand out at all. The goal is to make it just look like writing on the block, not anything place on top.
I've had the idea of making a bit of a tutorial adventure map, & this would make it a whole lot easier. I support!
Yeah, this would be especially useful for redstone tutorial maps. You could give someone blocks to build a redstone machine that can only be built in the right way, based on which blocks can connect to which other blocks.
The new snapshot allows you to create tools that can break specific blocks of your choice, which is very useful for adventure mode. I suggest having a similar system for placing blocks.
Mojang should add a new data tag for stacks of blocks that lets you specify which blocks an adventure mode player can click on to place something from that stack.
As a random example, you could make a a stack of 18 iron blocks that can only be placed if the player right clicks on glass or pumpkins, but can't be placed on any other surface.
Or you could allow players to design their own buildings in specific places by doing things like pre-building a small stone brick floor, and then giving them stone brick blocks that can only be placed on stone brick blocks, allowing them to expand a structure but only in that spot.
I suggest adding a new "Nether Sign" craftable with netherbrick blocks and a blaze rod. It would have the dark netherbrick color, except whatever letters you write would be glowing red-yellow.
The sign would behave exactly like a wooden sign except it would emit light level 4, too little to be an effective light source, but enough that its letters are legible even in perfect darkness.
It would be perfect for leaving messages in dark places, or if you want to give a build a mystical vibe.
In more modern builds it might also fill the role of neon lights or computer screens, and people could always retexture it to look more technological and less supernatural, while keeping the glow.
I disagree with putting books that can be edited in it, I would just keep it signed books. Beyond that my only concern is the text size. A book holds a lot more text per page than a sign and this would be a smaller area.
If you put your face right up to a block in game and open a book, the page fits into half the block with room to spare. That's of course when your head is right next to the block. If you're looking down at a block on a table it'll be further away and look smaller.
So maybe lecterns should also be mountable on walls, so you can get super close?
They could also display one page at a time and expand that to the whole block, but the book might look bad folded back on itself that way. Maybe the book would be larger than 1 block, and extend into the blocks next to it? I'm not sure.
the text would be really small though D:??????? its a good idea but it needs some improvement. to achive the GUIless feature you want, how about when you hover over it, it does text as if you have named an animal, and when you flip the page, it shows the text that is on this page. semi support!
Each page would be half a block. So the text wouldn't be huge, but still legible. You might have to get close to read it though, just like a real book.
I personally simply think a Desk block would be much more suitable. Especially if you had to use it to write things; writing books whilst standing up makes no sense.
People do write while standing though. You can imagine an intrepid explorer standing by a riverbank, journal in one hand quill in the other, jotting down his adventures.
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You will still have your own viewpoint taking up the other 3/4 of the screen, and could continue to move around freely or even possess a different mob.
You could close picture-in-picture by right clicking again. It would also close if the chunk the mob is in becomes unloaded.
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How about a note block + any record? So it's as if you copied sounds on the blank side of a record and hooked it up to a machine.
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This would be for survival mode, totally craftable without cheats.
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True, it does make sense for a hidden NBT. However there is an advantage in letting people know they can't rename it, so they don't waste time trying.
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The block beneath the note block would determine what kind of sound effect it produces. For example dirt might make it play animal sounds like oinks and moos. Cobble might make it create player sounds like mining and drinking. A wood block might cause it to create wood related sounds like chest creaks and door slams. The power of the redstone signal would then determine which sound gets played within that category.
Being able to play sound effects would be really fun and useful. The sounds are already in the game data. Why not get more use out of them?
If you like this idea you can also upvote it on Reddit so there's a 0.1% chance of Dinnerbone reading it.
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I suggest adding a new data tag that can be placed onto stacks of blocks, allowing them to be freely placeable in adventure mode. Furthermore I suggest adding a second data tag for tools that causes them to drop blocks that can be placed freely.
For example you could give someone in adventure mode a shovel that can only break sand, and all the sand it drops is placeable in adventure mode.
This would give map makers the options of giving people placeable blocks and/or giving them tools that can collect placeable blocks.
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That's a good idea! I like the idea of having tags that allow you to block off or allow numerous block types, without having to enter each one.
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The carving would just vanish and be lost if you break the block. The dropped block would be completely normal and unmarked if placed again.
I don't think realism is really required in Minecraft (we can now craft granite for heaven's sake), but if you need an explanation it can just be that the carving isn't that deep and is easily scuffed off by tools.
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It wouldn't stand out at all. The goal is to make it just look like writing on the block, not anything place on top.
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Yeah, this would be especially useful for redstone tutorial maps. You could give someone blocks to build a redstone machine that can only be built in the right way, based on which blocks can connect to which other blocks.
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Mojang should add a new data tag for stacks of blocks that lets you specify which blocks an adventure mode player can click on to place something from that stack.
As a random example, you could make a a stack of 18 iron blocks that can only be placed if the player right clicks on glass or pumpkins, but can't be placed on any other surface.
Or you could allow players to design their own buildings in specific places by doing things like pre-building a small stone brick floor, and then giving them stone brick blocks that can only be placed on stone brick blocks, allowing them to expand a structure but only in that spot.
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The sign would behave exactly like a wooden sign except it would emit light level 4, too little to be an effective light source, but enough that its letters are legible even in perfect darkness.
It would be perfect for leaving messages in dark places, or if you want to give a build a mystical vibe.
In more modern builds it might also fill the role of neon lights or computer screens, and people could always retexture it to look more technological and less supernatural, while keeping the glow.
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If you put your face right up to a block in game and open a book, the page fits into half the block with room to spare. That's of course when your head is right next to the block. If you're looking down at a block on a table it'll be further away and look smaller.
So maybe lecterns should also be mountable on walls, so you can get super close?
They could also display one page at a time and expand that to the whole block, but the book might look bad folded back on itself that way. Maybe the book would be larger than 1 block, and extend into the blocks next to it? I'm not sure.
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Each page would be half a block. So the text wouldn't be huge, but still legible. You might have to get close to read it though, just like a real book.
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People do write while standing though. You can imagine an intrepid explorer standing by a riverbank, journal in one hand quill in the other, jotting down his adventures.