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It won't die for a while. It will just slowly lose players. It has been around for a long time, and some of those from the start are long gone, but they had fun. After a while it gets a little old.

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Hello ... Bartin here -__- with another epic Minecraft "idea"

Through my travels across Minecraft it has become apparent that our oceans are bare, that is to say -__- there is no danger, nothing to fear ... to brave the world's oceans once called for the strongest and most fearless of men ... but in minecraft it calls for a "crafting table" and 5 logs ... truly, something must be done. That is why im here. -__- I know how to fix this - trust me.

We must introduce a great danger to Minecraft's oceans ... that is the only way for this to be solved: a great danger must inhabit the world of Minecraft's oceans ... and this is where the "idea" gets epic ... are you ready? Prepare yourself: Icebergs.

This new "biome" will of course generate in the ocean and pose a great danger to travelling sea vessels as crashing into one will sink your boat (and yourself X[) ) into the freezing waters below. The water is so cold , infact, that it deals damage to people submerged in it -__- the rate at which damage occurs could possibly be at the rate of starvation (or slower) I am not sure yet, the specifics of which can be left to Mojang's specifics :2

Also -__- following Mojang's recent trend of pre-generated structures it would be epic if there was possibly a "sunken ship" generated on the seafloor around the iceberg ... this could also be a potential spawning zone for the "Guardian" mob ... adding to the dangers around the iceberg.

This is truly an epic biome and will put the "fear of god" back into the hearts of -__- adventurers

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"but its been suggested millions of times before" perhaps the idea of "daggers" has been suggested "millions of times before" ... this I have no doubt, but to not make mention of its unique 1.9 passive effect of not having a "recharge" on weapon swap which is unique to my idea and what sets it apart (and makes more epic) than all the others .... -__- With "daggers", are you suggesting this isn't a dagger? Yet again, epic is your opinion. I don't find this epic. You know what I find epic? Redstone arrows. It could change the game quite a bit. As for the idea itself. Yes, it is unique, but it is still a dagger. Can you not do the -_-?

"I don't see a point for a new weapon really. Because the ones that are already in the game are enough plus the enchantments..."

No enchantment does what my idea suggests -__- please "read" through it again ... also, it satisfies a niche role in the "PvPers" arsenal in the sense that it can proc potion debuffs at close range (something we don't have the ability to do currently) ... there is too much "jank" with the item we know as "splash potions" ... I have never seen them be used effectively in an offensive way outside of a few clever traps -__- truly my idea is unique in this regard What is this "jank"? -_-?

regardless -__- I appreciate the feedback No problem. -_-again.

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Hello ... Bartin here -__- with another epic Minecraft "idea" Is this not an actual idea? Again, why is it epic?

The trees bicker for the attention of the wind ... 1.9 "THE Combat Update" ... is here -__- and with it comes many epic changes to the "Player-versus-Player" (PvP) dynamic itself. We've all heard or perhaps seen movies of the assassin lurking in the shadows ... a poisoned dagger clutched in one hand, waiting for his target ... a truly epic scenario familiar to us all

and so with that humble beginning I introduce my idea ... a truly epic idea sure to change the "Player-versus-Player" (PvP) metagame in all regards: Daggers. -__- Again, why the -_-? Why is it epic? How will it change pvp?

Crafted from a stick and an ingot of an appropriate type (See my Bartinium idea for non-degradable tools ... it's epic - trust me) the dagger is like a sword but shorter X[) ... but do not be mistaken -__- the greatest strength is usually found where others expect weakness ... the dagger like arrows will have the ability to be "tainted" with potion effects making it unique within the melee weapon arsenal ... Why is it epic? Not everything you suggest is epic. Epic is your own opinion. I'm not gonna trust you, every other one of your suggestions aren't the best. Stop saying to trust you.

but the epic does not end here -__- the Dagger has a unique "passive" ability that is undoubtedly epic among the tools and weapons of Minecraft and that is namely thus; it is not subject to the usual "recharge" on switching weapons. Those of you familiar with 1.9 will have much experience with this concept ... when switching weapons you have to wait for the sword to "recharge" and can not attack with it right away (think of it as a "balancing" feature to prevent people from switching between a sword and an axe to "maximize" damage per second). The dagger will not be subject to this "recharge" delay ... instead being able to attack immediately upon being switched to ... however it does not come without its own cost -__- the dps of the weapon will likely be that of a hoe or shovel, I am not sure yet ... the specifics of which can be left to Mojang :2 You can't keep letting Mojang do all the work. It's your suggestion, you make all the details. Mojang is there to possibly implement. Not build the idea. I like the poison idea though.

This gives the dagger a unique use in the combat-focused player's arsenal ... a weapon to quickly switch to and apply a potion debuff to their opponent before switching back to the sword for more standard damage ...

I figure the "damage health" potion will also have to be tweaked :2 in order to not make the dagger completely overpowered .. my idea is thus: damage health when on the dagger will proc a sort of "reverse absorption" effect on the opponent. Essentially the concept is simple ... where instead of having a "bonus" 2 hearts of health, the player's "maximum" health will go down by 2 hearts for the duration of the potion effect -__- Good Bartin. It's not op.

I like the idea, good suggestion now, but its been suggested millions of times before. No support.

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Your use of fluff words and your elaboration of the wrong things makes this difficult to understand. I am going to attempt to repeat your suggestion in simpler words. Tell me if I am correct.

Your suggestion is:

If you opt in to the system, you can merge your enderchest space with others. Downside is anyone takes your stuff, upside is a ridiculous amount of storage space.

It seems this way because there's no other apparent way in your suggestion to access the "EnderStorage" system than via enderchest.

Is this correct? It's honestly hard to tell what you're suggesting.

Similar to how glowstone can be used to make arrows with a glowing effect, how about using redstone to make an arrow with a redstone effect. The block hit by the arrow receives a redstone charge of 3. Meaning any redstone THAT block touches will emit a small charge of redstone to any nearby redstone circuits.

(Special thanks to skydude221 for this image)

Imagine a secret base, and the only way to get in is to fire one of these arrows at a specific block. There'd be no button, or lever, or pressure plate to hide it, just an regular old normal looking block, until you charged it with redstone revealing the hidden base.

I could also see it being used in adventure maps. In PVP arenas redstone traps could be triggered this way. All new redstone circuitry could be set up with dispenser. There's a lot of ways to implement this. Thoughts?

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Why be complicated?

But that's not all. SimpleCraft offers you many services: a shop where items can be bought and sold. . A 'Doubler', this is a concept unique to SimpleCraft which allows players to deposit gold and diamond blocks and after a week, you will have double what you paid in! This gives players who are struggling to find an objective, an objective

• Simplicity
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• PvP - but a on a whole new level

• SMP
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• Bamboo would be found in a specific biome (such as swamps, jungles, beaches, future biome, etc.) which gives those biomes an unique resource and therefore reason to visit
• Generated naturally in small Bamboo grove clusters of 4 - 8 stalks of Bamboo
• Solid block (unlike sugar cane). This presents an obstacale players must either destroy or walk around
• Grows on dirt/grass without requiring water (unlike sugar cane)
• Bamboo will require the same light levels to grow that most plants need
• Bamboo is flammable just like trees
• The appearance of bamboo will be 2 or 3 dark green stalks with yellow highlights at the segment joints and light green leaves along the stalks
• Axe is the best tool for harvesting. Cutting at the base will break all blocks above it. However, bamboo will still grow if the base block is left uncut.
• Harvesting yields "Bamboo" drops and a random chance of a "Bamboo Shoot" drops
• Bamboo is replanted with a bamboo shoot, not by placing bamboo drops into the ground. Growing Bamboo from a shoot takes longer than growing from an existing bamboo that was cut tot he base block, encoruaging certian harvesting techniques
• Bamboo can be placed directly into a clay pot similar to lucky bamboo
• Bamboo cannot be placed in raw form like sugar cane can

• Similar to taking processed wood and turning it into "Sticks", placing two bamboo drops vertically on a crafting grid yields a set quantity of "Bamboo Pole"
• The quantity yielded from crafting will be adjusted to fit game balance as well as physical sense (a.k.a. based on the size of the bamboo and the bamboo poles, does it make physical sense that I get this many bamboo poles from this much bamboo?)
• Bamboo poles look like a thick, yellow pole with light yellow/white segment joints.
• Bamboo poles can be placed similarly to a fence. It will stand vertically and have a similar collision box. The difference is bamboo poles won't branch out to connect to adjacent blocks or poles, filling a niche other blocks with small collision boxes do not achieve
• The small collision box combined with the inability to connect to adjacent blocks can be used to create windows that allow projectiles and small mobs through as well as many aesthetic designs.
• Bamboo poles are flammable and will catch fire and burn.

• When falling next to a bamboo pole (or more realistically a column of poles), you may hit shift to immediately slow your decent to the same speed you would normally climb down a ladder, which is to say non-lethal velocity (like a fireman pole). This would allow the creation of proper drop chutes without using water breaks or cobwebs

• The creation of a scaffolding block has been mentioned in many other posts, specifically in conjunction with bamboo here. I have recived permission from the author to modify the base idea
• Scaffolding has two crafting methods; using 4 vines yields 2 scaffolding blocks while the other uses 2 string and yields 4 scaffolding blocks. This gives vines a crafting use in the game while making string the preferred construction method if you have access to string. Both crafting recipes yield identical scaffolding blocks.
• Scaffolding can be broken apart by hand as quickly as dirt with a diamond shovel. This makes it very easy to break down when you're done using it.
• It can be climbed from all vertical sides, similar to ladders
• Scaffolding would be very vulnerable to fire and explosions; they would rop nothing if destroyed in either manner, which makes it ill-suited for a permenant building block
• Using Bamboo as scaffolding is very realistic. See this image of Bamboo Scaffolding used on a real life skyscraper in Hong Kong from the Wikipedia article on Bamboo.

• Crafted by placing 3 Bamboo poles in a horizontal row.
• Can only be placed on dirt, gravel, and sand blocks
• Used to create Punji pits to trap and kill mobs
• Will not destroy drops or items on contact
• Slow movement rate and deals constant rate of damage to players and mobs
• Can only be placed on the top of the block
• More versatile than Cactus, but not as versatile as the potentially planned Spike Block

AND

• Bamboo Fireworks would be crafted in the manner depicted above and yield 3 - 4 fireworks per crafting (adjustable for balance)
• Bamboo Flares would be crafted similar to Bamboo Fireworks but with glow stone powder instead of dye
• Bamboo Fireworks would be stack-able up to 16 based on color or type in the case of a Bamboo Flare
• To light a Bamboo Firework, right click the top of a solid block to place it on the ground (like a bottle rocket, placing it on the ground before launching it). You can light the firework using a flint and steel or redstone signal in a similar manner to how TNT can be handled and lit
• Punching a placed Bamboo Firework or Flare will create a drop (similar to how TNT now behaves)
• Bamboo Fireworks can be placed from dispensers if there is a flat surface directly in front and below the dispensing face (in a similar manner that boats and mine carts can now be dispensed)
• After ignition but before launch, there is a short delay, during which the Bamboo Firework fizzles (in the same manner a TNT block will blink after being lit). After which, the firework launches into the air about 100 meters before erupting into particle and sound effects depending on the color of the Bamboo Firework (This mechanic would be similar to throwing and Ender eye; how it rises in the air with small particle effects, only faster, vertical, and with sound effects)
• A Bamboo Firework would ideally explode when impacting on another surface or block (like a platform above the launch site), but since the Ender Eye will pass through solid blocks and fireworks are likely to use a similar code, I expect fireworks will not clip solid objects as well
• Bamboo Flares behave similarly to Bamboo Fireworks except when they launch, they ascend to only 50 meters or so before exploding into a temporary but bright light source that persists for a set duration of time (5 - 8 mins sounds reasonable)
• Bamboo Fireworks have a variety of aesthetic and practical uses, including presentations (accompanied with block music perhaps), signaling for help, coordinating PvP games, disorienting and distracting players in a fight, and general non-grief related pyrotechnics (as opposed to TNT and Fire Charges)
• The Bamboo Flare is much more utility oriented, providing momentary lighting in an dark open area
• Bamboo Fireworks and Flares can be "turned off" by disabling particles to prevent client lag

OR

• Crafted from bamboo or sugar cane by placing 2 in a horizontal row (similar to pressure plates)
• Bamboo and Sugar cane mats could have separate and unique textures.
• Similar to tracks in that it will snap to nearby mats to form a continuous mat
• A very large variety of aesthetic uses
• Mats are flammable and will burn down with a house

Optional Mechanics -

• Endermen are unable to teleport on to mats (disrupts their energy flow)
• Use mats to appease cats by giving them an alternate area to occupy other than beds and chests. It would have to have a below average success rate because it's generally accepted that if a cat knows they aren't inconveniencing you, they'll change tactics until they are.
• While standing on a mat, PvP unarmed attacks deal no damage, just the damage noise and knock back (sparing mats)
• Falling onto a tatami mat will reduce the calculated fall damage by 2 meters
• Unique sound effect when walking on them, even while sneaking, that can alert you of someone or something walking in your home

• Similar crafting recipe to Bamboo Fireworks and Bamboo Flare, but very different behavior
• Single crafting yields 3 - 4 smoke bombs per recipe
• Thrown like a snowball or splash potion and explodes on impact with explosion sound effect (either the same or similar to TNT explosion)
• Blocks within a 8 meter radius of the impact will emit smoke particles about 3 meters high for a duration of about 10 secs or so
• Like other pyrotechnics, this effect can be disabled by turning off particles to prevent malicious client lag for players with low end game performance
• Mechanical uses include disorientation, obscurement, and distraction in PvP and PvM fights (Mob AI would have to be written to respond to smoke screen)
• This can be a way for players to cause mischief without causing actual damage to players
• Fired from a dispenser in the same manner splash potions or snowballs are fired

• The Shishi-odoshi, or Deer Scare, is a device traditionally found in Japanese gardens
• Placed like a fence post with the mouth of the tube pointing towards you when you place it
• When placed with the mouth adjacent to running water, it will periodically make a low, dull *THUNK* sound (approximately once every 30 secs or so)
• This scares off most passive mobs (chickens, sheep, cows untamed ocelots and wolves) except for villagers, effectively preventing them from entering within a 7 meter radius (Note that while the sound occurs every 30 secs, the effect will be constant)
• Practical applications include keeping animals out of crop areas, creating an invisible fence for uncrowded animal pens (if overpopulated, animals will shove past the radius and out of the pen), keeping animals out of water features, and a easier way to segregate passive and hostile mobs in a mob farm

Optional Mechanics -

• Have some hostile mobs become attracted to the noise (skeletons most likely)

• Consumption grants 8 food points (equal to mushroom stew) but 12.8 saturation points (greater than mushroom stew, but equal to cooked beef/pork)
• Keep in mind that bamboo shoots cannot be eaten raw, similar to mushrooms
• If bamboo was used to make a unique fishing rod (still in development), this would make more sense because you use the bamboo rod to catch the fish and use then cook the fish and use that with bamboo shoots to make the Fish Shoot Stew

• If rice were added to the game, it should become a required ingredient to make this recipe and would also increase the consumption benefits
• Stew dishes such as Mushroom stew and Fish Shoot Stew could be prepared in cauldrons by filling them with water and right click placing the ingredients into them. It would create 3 bowl servings of the stew and give the cauldrons a legitimate use. It would also create another static food source like the cake where people can fill their bowl when they are hungry.

• NOT played like Ocarina of Time or Spirit Tracks (in that you would use indvidual notes to make a song
• Right clicking would start playing a generic song, clicking again would stop playing
• Playing the song would be accompanied with little note effects similar to the note blocks
• Taking damage, trying to jump, or sprinting will end the song

• The utility applications for this item are really wide open. Here are a few I thought of
• Pacifying neutral mobs that have become hostile
• Calming animals who are running away or scared
• Assist in taming skidish ocelots
• Used to tame or interact with a possible Panda mob (as suggested by Dinnerbone here
• Used to open a portal to a new dimension
• Annoy other players by prancing around like a bard while they work

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