This thread is about reworking gear in Minecraft. This will separate gear into two different categories. Base and special gear. All gear currently in the game except for chainmail will be base gear. Base gear is simply the gear with nothing special to it, it is just tough. Special gear usually grants you special abilities. Chainmail is special because you can only get it from villagers. Here are some of the new special gear:

1. Glowstone Armor: This armor is the same strength as diamond armor but has durability in-between iron and diamond. It is crafted with 8 glowstone blocks around a piece of diamond armor. It is repaired using diamonds. A full set of glowstone armor gives you an infinite night vision effect.

2. Emerald Gear (I will remove it if a lot of people request it, but note that I did give it unique abilities): Emerald gear is crafted like any gear, but with emeralds. It is in-between iron and diamond in strength (which it would be in real life, too). A full set of emerald armor grants you a level 1 health boost effect when within 8 blocks of a villager. Emerald pickaxes get you more experience orbs from ore. Emerald axes have a 50% chance to give you an extra log when you break a log that was naturally generated only. Same for emerald shovels, except it instead for dirt, sand, etc. Emerald swords get you more experience from slaying mobs. Emerald hoes have a 5% chance to plant a seed when you till dirt. There is a 55% chance this will be wheat, a 30% chance it will be a potato, and a 15% chance it will be a carrot. The use for emerald hoes was suggested by Ivya.

3. Prismarine Tools: Prismarine tools are the same strength as stone and have the same durability. Prismarine tools mine as fast as golden tools do, but only when underwater. Prismarine hoes create wet farmland instead of normal farmland. Prismarine swords do slightly more damage than a diamond sword when in ocean and river biomes only. It doesn't matter if you're on land in that biome, you just have to be in that biome. They're crafted with prismarine shards.

4. Ceramic Armor: Ceramic armor is crafted with some new materials. By putting 6 hardened clay in the shape of a door, you get 2 ceramic plates. If you put 8 ceramic plates around leather armor, you get ceramic armor. Ceramic armor has the same stats as chainmail armor except you take as much damage from explosions as you would in full diamond armor. Ceramic armor is dyeable in the same fashion leather is.

5. Bedrock Sword: You can only access the amazing bedrock sword in creative mode or with cheats. The bedrock sword does 1 million damage (exactly 1 million) and has infinite durability. It is very helpful when you want to kill the Ender Dragon or another mob with lots of health.

6. Golden Bow: By surrounding a bow with 4 gold blocks, you get a golden bow. The golden bow does slightly more damage than a normal bow and you can draw the string of the bow quicker. Simply an upgrade of the bow, which I don't really want to add.

7. Glass Armor: Glass armor is made with glass, not glass panes. The same strength, durability, and enchantability gold has. It is almost completely invisible. This makes it very useful when you have the invisibility effect as it is very hard to tell a player is wearing it.

8. Slime Armor: Cover yourself completely with armor made of slimeballs and you can climb up walls like a spider! This armor is in-between leather and ceramic/chainmail in strength.

9. Redstone Armor: Redstone armor is the same strength as iron. It is crafted by surrounding a piece of iron gear with 8 redstone dust. When nearby redstone wiring with this armor on, you send out a redstone signal. The more of the set you have on, the better the signal.

More gear will be added as time goes by. Feedback is appreciated.

Note: This is NOT a wish list. I made all the ideas similar. They all make Minecraft a bit more challenging and most are Halloween/scary themed in some way.

Mobs:

Ghost - The ghost is a new mob. It looks a lot like the default character skin, Steve, but it is transparent and has a white tint. If you are on fast instead of fancy graphics, the ghost will not be see-through. Ghosts are passive mobs. They don't even run away when attacked. They instead make the spawn rate of monsters a lot higher in a 20 block radius. The spawn rate goes back to normal when killed. Ghosts can even make monsters in areas that are lit up. However, Ghosts can only actually spawn in darkness. Ghosts float slightly above the ground, but they cannot actually fly around. They are a bit more rare than an enderman is, but they spawn slightly more frequently in abandoned mineshafts. Ghosts have 20 health (10 hearts), just like the player. They rarely drop a soul when killed. Ghosts can spawn on Peaceful, but they do nothing on peaceful difficulty.

Nether Beetle - The nether beetle is not actually a beetle at all. It looks like a red endermite except with two small, black eyes. It is a parasite. Rarely, zombie pigmen have the parasite on them and that makes them attack the player. If the player attacks back, nearby zombie pigmen that don't have the parasite will attack the player. When a zombie pigmen that had the parasite on them is killed, a nether beetle spawns on the ground. It will try to find a new zombie pigman host and it does NOT attack the player by itself. A nether beetle has 4 health (2 hearts). They drop 0-1 nether beetles. Nether beetles cannot spawn on peaceful.

Rat - Rats are new mobs that spawn near cakes and chests that have food in them. Rats will eat food out of chests and consume cakes. One rat will only consume two pieces of food or one slice of cake at a time. After about 2 minutes, it can eat more. Rats are more likely to spawn where rats are already at. Rats are passive and will run away when attacked. Now, rats cannot spawn in a 20 block radius of a cat unless there are already rats in the area. Cats will kill rats without even being told to by their owner. Dogs will only kill rats if told to. Rats will run away from cats, just like creepers do. Rats have 4 health (2 hearts). They rarely drop a rat tail when killed. Rats cannot spawn on peaceful.

Firebright Creeper - This new species of creeper is only found in the nether. It is red and does not do any damage when it explodes. Instead, it gives blindness for 5 seconds to players within a 5 block radius. This is because its explosion gives off so much light, it temporarily blinds the player. However, it can explode as many times as it wants to without dying. To keep this from being super overpowered, it has a 2 second cool-down before it can explode again. Firebright creepers can spawn anywhere within the nether. They are about as common as an enderman is in the overworld, a little bit more common. They have 20 health (10 hearts). They drop 0-2 glowstone dust. They do come in a charged form, but you cannot find it without cheating. The charged firebright creeper is exactly like the normal firebright creeper, except it has no cool-down. The charged version could be useful for map makers. This mob does not spawn on peaceful difficulty.

Morpher - Morphers are horrible creatures that spawn rarely in the Overworld. They will shapeshift into any nearby creature and act like this creature. When a player gets close, they will attack them like a zombie would. However, they are the speed of a player sprinting when they attack. They spawn like normal monsters do, in darkness. Morphers have the same amount of health as the mob they shapeshift into. They cannot shapeshift into the Ender Dragon or Wither without using cheats. They rarely drop a morpher heart.

Vampire - Vampires are rare creatures found in the Overworld, but are normally in small groups. They can only be damaged by fire, lava, and wooden tools. Vampires walk normally, but will chase the player if they start to run. When walking, they're slightly faster than a player walking. If chasing, they're slightly faster than a player sprint jumping. Vampires can spawn with different skins, armor, and weapons. Vampires burn in daylight unless wearing a helmet. They do attack villagers, but they can't break down nor open doors (because Vampires can't enter houses). Villagers spawn as villager vampires when killed by a vampire, which is simply a vampire with a villager robe and villager face. Similar to zombies, there are baby vampires (baby vampires do burn, though). Vampires drop 0-3 redstone dust and rarely a vampire's fang. If a vampire dies on fire, a vampire cannot drop redstone or a fang but will drop 0-3 ash. They have 15 hearts (30 health) and do not spawn on Peaceful.

Items:

Rat Tail - Rat tails are a rare drop from rats. They can be brewed into an awkward potion to give you a potion of nausea.

Potion of Blindness - You create these potions by brewing a dead nether beetle into an awkward potion.

Dead Nether Beetle - Dead nether beetles are a new drop from nether beetles. They can be brewed into an awkward potion to give you a potion of blindness.

Soul - Souls are a rare drop from ghosts. 8 souls can be crafted with a gold ingot to give you a soul-infused gold ingot. This ingot is a dark blue color.

Soul-Infused Gold Ingot - The soul-infused gold ingot can be used to make soul-infused gold tools, weapons, and armor. However, this gear is unique. It acts exactly like normal gold gear, but it slowly regains durability over time. So you can get really good enchantments on this gear easier than on diamond gear and it will never break if you are careful.

Infused Tools, Weapons, and Armor - They work exactly like gold gear, but slowly regain durability over time.

Morpher Heart - Morpher hearts can be brewed into an awkward potion to create a potion of health boost.

Potion of Health Boost - You can create this potion by brewing a morpher heart into an awkward potion.

Ash - Used to make a morpher block and ashwart.

Ashwart - Awkward potions are now brewed using this material instead of nether wart. Crafted with 1 ash and 1 nether wart.

Vampire's Fang - Has no use at the moment. Any idea for what kind of use I can give it?

Salt: Can be crafted with any type of cooked meat or baked potatoes to increase the saturation and increase the hunger by 1 point. Salt can also be placed like redstone dust. Undead mobs (zombie, vampire, skeleton, zombie pigman, cannot and will not walk on salt.

Blocks:

Zombie Pigman Head - Zombie pigmen now rarely drop their head. They drop their head as rarely as a wither skeleton drops its skull. Their head can be placed like a normal head or worn as a helmet. When worn as a helmet, it makes nearby nether beetles come to you, thinking you'll be a good host. After 2 seconds, they'll realize you are a human and run away, looking for a new host.

Morph Block - The morph block gets the texture of the block to the right or left of it, it chooses a random side. It is crafted with 1 lapis lazuli, 1 ash, and 1 morpher heart. You get 12 morph blocks. This can be useful if you ran out of some material you are using to build your house but have some lapis lazuli, ash, and morpher hearts. When held in your hand, it is a blank, white block.

Block of Soul-Infused Gold - A blue gold block. Made with 9 soul-infused gold ingots, like a normal ore block. It has a shimmering effect too, similar to the enchantment effect on a sword, pickaxe, etc.

Infused Anvil: Made like a normal anvil, except with soul-infused gold blocks where you'd put iron blocks and soul-infused gold ingots where you'd put iron ingots. This anvil does break like a normal anvil except MUCH faster, but it will slowly fix itself if you don't use it for a while. It looks like a normal anvil, except blue.

Salt Ore: A new ore, about as common as coal. It can be mined with any pickaxe. It drops 2-4 salt.

Changed Mechanics:

Blindness - Blindness now makes mobs sometimes not notice cliffs and makes their range in which they can see you smaller. This is so there is a reason to make potions of blindness in both singleplayer and multiplayer.

Jockeys - There is now a new jockey that can spawn. This is the creeper jockey. It is a skeleton riding a creeper.

Tree Growth - When you grow a tree, it has a 15% chance to grow into a dead tree. Dead trees look like the large oak trees but without any leaves. The tree is also made out of the wood that corresponds to the sapling you planted.

Rust - Iron and chainmail armor loses 10 durability every 5 seconds you're in water, because it rusts. This gives you a reason to choose to get leather armor instead of iron armor at the start of the game.

Hungry Zombies - The undead are invading! Zombies and zombie pigmen will now devour pigs, cows, chickens, sheep, and rabbits! They will not kill killer rabbits and they will not turn animals into undead creatures.

Smarter Witches - Witches can now open wooden doors.



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I am the owner of a server called Wither Bone Gaming. Development for it has been going on since early 2014. It should almost be ready for alpha testers, all we need is someone who can code custom plugins. If you cannot code custom plugins, we are currently not looking for any other positions on the server. The format for applying is below. Feel free to PM me or post it below.


If the staff and I decide your application is great, I will send you a private message asking you some more questions such as your age. If you want more information about the server before you apply, the staff will periodically post on the thread and talk a little about the server. Please do not lie on your application. Good luck!

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This is the main thing I want in Minecraft. Why? BECAUSE IT'S EPIC!



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NOTE: You may make ideas related to amethyst, like maybe a new ore that has an ability on the ability altar. All I ask is that you give a link back to this thread if you do. Feel free to post about your amethyst-related thread here. I'd actually prefer that you do so I can find it easier.


If you notice in Minecraft, Jeb and Dinnerbone try to use a different color for every ore they add. One color they haven't used is purple. So why not add amethyst to the game? There is no reason not to! So let's learn some more info about what this ore would be like.

Amethyst is in between gold and diamond in rarity and spawns in both the Overworld and Nether. Amethyst can only be mined with an iron pickaxe or diamond pickaxe. Amethyst has many magical properties about it. When I imagine it, I either imagine the purple ruby texture or the texture of zanite from the Aether mod. One thing you can do with amethyst is make an ability altar. The ability altar is crafted with 2 blaze rods on the bottom row on the right and left slots, 3 gold ingots in the middle row, 1 enchanted book with any enchantment in the top middle slot, and 2 amethyst beside the enchanted book. It would look kind of like a golden table combined with an enchantment table that has amethyst instead of diamonds when placed. It can be used to unlock the special properties some materials have, but it costs experience and nether quartz. It costs 1-5 amethyst and 1-5 lapis lazuli depending on the item. If the ability is very expensive, it may cost a diamond. Some items cannot be used on the ability altar. Now, what is the whole point of this ability altar? Well, the items that now have abilities can be added to either a tool, weapon, a piece of armor, and more to give it that ability using an anvil. An item that has its abilities unlocked will have a golden version of the enchantment effect. Items that have an ability added also will have the golden effect. Items that have both enchantments and abilities will have a red version of the enchantment effect. Like an enchantment is shown when looking at the item's description, it shows a list of the items that have been added to it. Let's take a look at the some of the things you can do with this ability altar.




This new block you get by adding lapis lazuli to a glass bottle is an experience jar (name by getfugu). You can store up to 15 levels in one experience jar. You cannot make double experience jars like how you make double chests. Players CAN steal the XP from your experience jars. Like how there is an ender chest, there is an ender experience jar. It works exactly like an ender chest, but stores up to 15 levels of XP instead. The ender experience jar is crafted with one experience jar in the middle, 4 eyes of ender around it, and 4 amethyst in the corners. The experience jar looks like a 3D bottle'o'enchanting. The ender experience jar will look the same except the liquid/experience/whatever you wanna call it is purple. If someone could give me an idea for what it should like, it'd be greatly appreciated.


There is yet another utility block that amethyst is used to make. This is the soul infuser. This block is created with 1 block of diamond in the middle, 4 blocks of amethyst around it, and 4 dark prismarine in the corners. The GUI of the soul infuser looks a lot like the GUI of the furnace. In the fuel slot, you put gold nuggets. Now instead of one input slot, there are two right beside each other. In input slot A, you put an egg. In input slot B, you put a mob drop that represents the mob. In the output slot, you get a spawn egg for that mob. I'll make a list of what mob drop it uses for each mob. It does not work on some mobs, such as animals that you can breed. Here's the list:


There are new weapons and tools added that are made with amethyst. No, not amethyst swords or amethyst pickaxes. There is a basic staff you create in the shape of a shovel with amethyst as the material and blaze rods instead of sticks. This staff does nothing, but it can be used to make staves that have special abilities. They won't replace bows and arrows, either. To craft a staff, you surround the basic staff with the material that corresponds to it. Here are the staves:


Amethyst now has a new use that adds tons of customization to our weapons. Introducing the weapon forger. To craft it, put 5 cobblestone in the shape of a boat at the bottom of the crafting table, 1 amethyst in the middle slot of the middle row, and 3 iron ingots above that. The weapon forger has a blade slot, hilt slot, dye slot, gem slot, sword slot, and output slot. In the blade slot, you put the material you want the blade made out of. In the hilt slot, you put the material you want the hilt to be made out of. In the dye slot (optional), you can put a dye to color the hilt. In the gem slot (optional), you can put a gem to put on your hilt. In the sword slot, you put the sword you want your custom sword to have the stats of. The output slot is where your custom sword goes. As you add things to your sword, the output slot updates depending on the materials you added to it. You click on the output slot to craft the sword. The sword can have a blade made out of wood, stone, iron, gold, diamond, emerald, redstone block, lapis lazuli, amethyst, morganite (see my signature), nether copper (search nether copper on MC Forums, there is currently no banner for it), obsidian, glowstone, and netherrack. The hilt can be made out of bone or sticks (both can be dyed via dye slot). In the gem slot, you can put diamond, emerald, redstone block, lapis lazuli, amethyst, morganite, nether quartz, glowstone, and obsidian.



More abilities, staves, and utility blocks will be added soon....


Make sure to leave feedback! Feel free to leave suggestions and to ask any questions you have! I will be adding more uses to amethyst as time goes by.

Images (sorry for size, it is not letting me change the size):

Concept image of the ore by pufflefunnyface.

Another concept image of the ore by pufflefunnyface. This one depicts how it would spawn in The Nether.

This concept image by pufflefunnyface depicts how the Amethyst item itself would look.


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Just a simple idea, but you should rename clam stew to clam chowder. Clam chowder is a real soup that I enjoy a lot that has clams and potatoes in it.

I have the greatest idea ever for this mod...

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"The reason the 1.7.10 version was not released was because a lot of new content was added b4 1.7.10 came out so I'd have to remove it all."
Directly from his twitter. He comes up with a lot of excuses, but this is by far the dumbest one. One thing you have to learn about this dev is the mere fact that he lies a lot, and when he says something is coming 'soon', it probably means he hasn't touched it at all, and in about 1-2 months prior, he'll let out another excuse instead of simply stating: "I have not done anything, sorry guys."

I can already give 2 examples of this: divine RPG, and now EI's update. Divine hasn't been updated in more than half a year, and he has had multiple twitter posts saying, "Everything is pretty much done!" or "It's coming out really soon!". Now lets look ahead to the now, not a single update on both parts.

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You made a thread that is completely unoriginal. Make your threads have originality and don't make them so vague.

Note: Pictures are coming soon. I do have the mesa outpost created, I just need to make sure it is perfect and take pictures of it.

I always love when dungeons are added to Minecraft. I get super excited whenever I find a dungeon, whether it is the plain normal dungeon or a jungle temple. As you can imagine, I was very happy when ocean monuments were added. I know many others were, too. Something I think would be amazing in Minecraft (especially since we have so many new biomes) would be a dungeon update. Here's what I'd put in it:

1. Mesa Outpost: Mesa outposts are very tiny villages. They have the main base, a storage room, a small carrot farm, a small pig, and a horse pen (it only has one horse). The main base actually looks smaller than the storage room from the outside. The main base has stairs that go down into large living quarters that also has a cell in it for its one prisoner. Connected to the main base is a small dungeon filled with monsters. There are tons of loot, animals (which are pretty rare in mesas), tons of different building blocks, and enemies. The small dungeon has zombies, skeletons, silverfish, and cave spiders. Everywhere else has crazed villagers. These villagers are aggressive and do have different professions (but there is no effect, just for looks), arms at their side, weapons (they always have either a stone axe, stone sword, iron axe, iron sword, or diamond sword), armor (pretty rarely; can only be chainmail or iron helmets), and red eyes. You cannot trade with them. There are only about 10 when the village starts but doors cause them to breed. Zombies will attack them and turn them into zombie villagers, but they will fight back if a zombie attacks them. They have 10 hearts (20 health) and drop nothing. Remember when I mentioned the prisoner? The prisoner is a new villager profession. This villager has an orange robe and special trades. The trades are:

• 5-7 emeralds and 1-2 poisonous potatoes = 1 potion of decay
• 5-9 emeralds and 2-12 iron ingots = 1 dagger
• 4-7 emeralds and 1-2 slimeballs = 5-6 leads
• 25-41 emeralds and 1 dagger = 1 poisoned dagger
• 2-3 emeralds = 2-3 acacia saplings
• 23-38 baked potatoes = 2-3 emeralds
• 59-64 cooked rabbit = 8-12 emeralds

The dagger does 5 attack damage (the same as a stone sword) and has as much durability as an iron sword. The poisoned dagger is exactly the same except gives poison 1 for 3 seconds to enemies. The dagger can be repaired using iron ingots, the poisoned one can be repaired with fermented spider eyes.

2. Warlock's Tower: A small tower found in The Nether made out of various quartz blocks. It is filled with witches. On the top floor is a mini-boss, the Nether Warlock. The Nether Warlock is a big witch with a red robe. It is immune to fire and all negative potion effects. It has 50 hearts (100 health). It drops 64 scorching blaze powder. Scorching blaze powder can be clicked on to be consumed and have a blaze fireball thrown. Scorching blaze powder looks like red blaze powder and can only be stacked up to 16. It also drops 2 special potions called warlock's concoction (idea by Kholdstare). It gives you speed 3 and jump boost 3 for 8 minutes. Its texture switches between swiftness and jump boost slowly, giving it a very cool look. You can brew gunpowder into it to turn into a potion called a warlock's explosive concoction. It is just a splash version of it. Here is it's attacking style (copied and pasted from an idea from Kholdstare, full credit to him):

"I'd personally rather redesign him so that he (she? it?) fights more like a blaze with more mobility. Instead of what it currently does, it should make use of speed and jump boost potions to leap around the room to dodge your attacks. Each time it leaps, it'll quickly shoot a stream of blaze fireballs (about 6 fireballs in half a second) at your position, and as it takes more damage it'll widen the cone in which it shoots fireballs so it ignites a larger portion of the battlefield. On Normal and Hard, it'll also use ghast fireballs to attack (preferring to use them if you are on fire), and on Hard it'll use them exclusively if you have Fire Resistance active. Occasionally, it'll shoot a large amount of fireballs in the area directly in front of it (effectively creating a wall of fire) and will use the opportunity to either drink a Regeneration II potion or a unique potion that refreshes its Jump Boost and Speed. It'll drink both, if you let it. It'll always do this if its timer on Jump Boost or Speed is running low, and on Normal and especially Hard it'll also do it if its health gets too low. Unlike regular witches, hitting it while it drinks a Regeneration potion will stop it from drinking it (and also produce the sound of a splash potion breaking and a few pinkish particles); this does not happen with the Jump Boost/Speed potion."

3. Endermite Nest: A small cave made out of endstone that has multiple endermite spawners. It is found in The Overworld, underground. There is one chest.



More dungeons and pictures will be added soon. Feedback is appreciated.

Limestone is a block that spawns like Diorite, Andesite, and Granite in Jungles, Roofed Forests, Mega Taigas, and Snowy Taigas and Extreme Hills. It has an appearance like stone but a lighter color and more limeish-peachish. It's breaking time is 10% faster than stone.

Another way to get Limestone will be by putting one stone and one iron ore/nether quartz ore in a crafting table.

With limestone you can create Limestone Slabs, Limestone Bricks, Polished Limestone, and Flower Vases.

Limestone Slabs - It looks like stone slabs but is the same color as Limestone. Crafted like any other slab but instead using Limestone.

Limestone Stairs - Looks like limestone slabs but stair version. Crafted like normal stairs.

Limestone Bricks - Limestone bricks are like Polished Andesite but instead in the color of Limestone. Has a pattern like Dark Prismarine/Prismarine Bricks.

You craft it by putting 2 Slabs in a crafting table.

Polished Limestone - It looks like Polished Andesite but in Limstone Color. Crafted by making a 2x2 square of Limestone.

Flower Vase - A flower vase is like a flower pot but taller, wider and in the color of Polished Limestone. It can have 3 flowers in it. Crafted by doing this in a crafting table (Grass Block is GB, PB is Polished Limestone)

PL -- PL

PL GB PL

-- PL --

When you click the vase it opens a tab with 3 slots and a 'done' button. Place one flower in each slot and when you are done, click the done button.

Marble

(Colour) Peach Quartz with occasional blobs of light grey

(How to Make) Smelt Polished Limestone to get one Marble Shard. Then put the 9 marble shards in the crafting table to get 5 marble.

(Things you make do with Marble)

•Striped Marble - Marble with Horizontal Stripes of Light Grey

Recipe: M M M

M PQ M. = 8 Striped

M MM

Pq is Pillar Quartz.

•Cracked Marble - Marble with cracks like Cracked Stone Bricks (haha kind of self-explanatory)

M M M

M CSB M = 8 Cracked

M M M

Csb is Cracked Stone Brick

•Rosy Marble - Marble but with smudges and streaks of pink

M M M

M PG M = 8 Rosy

M M M

Pg is Polished Granite

Scoria (Added April 17,2015)

Scoria is another type of rock. Irl, it is an igneous rock which is why I decided to place it in the Nether.

Colour- the texture looks like endstone but it is grayish-blackish with occasional red dots around it.

How to Obtain- Will spawn in the Nether randomly in veins of 12-44.

--Scoria's uses

•If you smelt Scoria you wil get a redstone pile

When you put 6 Redstone Piles in a Crafting Table you will get one Redstone Dust

•Scorched Slab - Put 3 scoria in a workbench to create a Scorched Slab.

color: It looks like a Stone Slab but it is dark grey in colour and has a red border around it

Thanks for reading my suggestion! Please suggest/comment what could be better and tell me what you liked! I'm really sorry that there isnt any art. Im not good at making textures and stuff

Beautiful Changelog of 2015

V1 - added Limestone (added Feb.15)

V2 - added Marble (added Apr.6)

V3 - added Scoria (added Apr. 17)

V3.5 - added uses for Scoria (Apr. 26)

TL;DR

It will make files lighter, should cause less lag, give a lot of customizability, and help type human readable names like

/give player "blue brick stairs" (OR) /place "inverted north red oak stair" ~0 ~0 ~1

Then easily be interpreted both in code and in commands.

The principle

Look at â, from French’s bâtir (to build) - it’s not a new letter but rather a + ^.
You can even have more than one accent like with this cute and evil looking ặ.

Blocks in Minecraft vary in model, texture, colour, and state.
Brick Stairs, heading North? Block id, Data value.
Wool, Red? Block id, Data value.
Oak door opened to the west? Block id, Data value.

This actually works fine for the moment.
Yet… this unclear model-texture and colour-state-texture distinction does not help customization, because, in order to have polished andesite stairs, trapped painted doors, obsidian red painted levers, or whatever your mind can create, one can only play with more and more block id and the same small amount of data value.

So let’s ease block/item/mob/biome addition by making the current system more intuitive and still light.

How?

Varying bytes. Using this way of coding and due to its variable size, quick calculations can be made with great customizability.

Looking at the Chunk Format and NBT structure, block ID and data value are kept in cubic chunks of 16*16*16 block ID under 256 in one list (4'096 bytes of information), block IDs over 256 in another list called "Add" (2'048 bytes of information), and data value in a third list (2'048 as well). Which makes that each cubic chunk weighs between 4 and 8 kilobytes.

I'm proposing differently which can make each cubic chunk weigh between less than 1 kilobyte to (unfortunately but unlikely) up to 20 kilobytes when super hyper customized. Let's...

• separate Y and Z into subcategories inside the cubic chunk
• allow 16 bytes in each Z-lines of each Y-Leaflets for "blocks"
• keep added information in a new 8-bytes "Add" format melting old "Add" and "Data", and there can be multiple "Add" lists.
• have the number of 1 before the zero in bytes from the "Blocks" array represent the number of four-bits related to it in the new "Add" format (At most 8 four-bits per blocks but that's quite unlikely).

This is how it would work:

• 0AAAAAAA 128 blocks where data=0
• 10AAAAAA: BBBB 64 blocks with data value
• 110AAAAA: AAAA BBBB 512 blocks with data value
• 1110?AAA: AAAA BBBB CCCC
128 blocks (A) with data value (B) and colour (C)
or 2'048 blocks (A+B) with data value (C)

• 11110?AA: AAAA AAAA BBBB CCCC
1'024 blocks (A) with data value (B) and colour (C)
OR 4'096 blocks (A+B) and data value (C)

• 111110AA: AAAA AAAA BBBB CCCC CCCC
1'024 blocks (A) with data (B) and 256 textures (C)

• 1111110?: AAAA AAAA AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD
4'096 blocks (A) with data (B), colour (C), and 16 textures (D)
OR data (B) and 256 textures (C+D)

• 11111110: AAAA AAAA AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD DDDD
4'096 blocks (A) with data (B), colour (C), and textures (D)

If that is too complex, we can let go of the varying bit idea and simply add a new list for a third set of 4-bits for colours (2'048 bytes per cubic chunk, or 128 bytes per Y-leaflets, or 8 bytes per Z-lines) and a fourth for textures (16 possible texture related to the mix of block ID and data value, which can be hair pulling to prepare the code for it though). Of course blocks that are already coloured (stained clay) can't get coloured again.

Who can do it?

Generalized simplified recipe in survival
The principle (first presented by Alexcamostyle) is simple, really. So that all of this greatness is accessible in survival, the recipes should be simplified. 3 of the same blocks horizontal? Slab. A dye with a block whatever it is? Dye with said block. Can't get much simpler. For this the way recipe works probably has to be changed as well a little. We'll see.

New GUI when in creative
The old separation of blocks/items in creative may or may not continue to exist, but one could be able to make from a three to four sided window, first with model (block ID actually), second with texture, third with color, and fourth with miscellaneous data value and otherwise tags aspects.

Command-accessible only
Or we can leave it to the command savvy, simply doing /give %p 'big cyan obsidian boat' (Link Removed)

Extra customizable ressource pack

So you want a pink-stained golden door? But how does it look?
The program will look first for a file in the ressource pack called "pink.gold.door.png", if absent then "gold.door.png" adding to it a pink tint, and if absent then take the oak door, add gold texture, then pink tint.

You have orange brick stairs? Same thing, if there is an orange brick texture, it will choose it first, otherwise it will tint the existing texture.

Beyond blocks

A similar potential can be done with entities from which the number would never go beyond a relatively small number, thus allowing more modulability to each ones like villagers with strange item exchanges, bigger creepers which could drop a TNT block, friendly spiders... And what about a swamp in which water is poisonous, or a mountain with loads of ore but water-filled caves? the limits are really far
The system for entities and biomes would be a quite different different though, and instead of having 4 bits per additional 1 in front of the first zero, it would have 8:

• 0AAAAAAA for 128 normal unspecific mobs/biomes.)
• 10AAAAAA: AAAABBBB for 1'024 entities/biome/etc. (it can't get more numerous) with 16 different basic changes (that can include the different kind of villagers, guardians, golems, or M/X/whatever other version of biomes)
• 110AAAAA: AAAAABBB BCCCCCCC same thing plus one of 128 predefined add-on (outfit, exchange, poisonous water)
• 1110AAAA: AAAAAABB BBCCCCCC CDDDDDDD same thing plus another 1/128th add-on
• 11110AAA: AAAAAAAB BBBCCCCC CCDDDDDD DEEEEEEE
• 111110AA: AAAAAAAA BBBBCCCC CCCDDDDD DDEEEEEE EFFFFFFF
• 1111110A: AAAAAAAA ABBBBCCC CCCCDDDD DDDEEEEE EEFFFFFF FGGGGGGG
• 11111110: AAAAAAAA AABBBBCC CCCCCDDD DDDDEEEE EEEFFFFF FFGGGGGG GHHHHHHH (you get the principle)

Human Writable Names for ID and data value

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Be aware

- It's going to be arduous change yet when it's done it's done for good.
- It may break many mods in their current form yet it will simplify mod making afterwards.
- By separating texture and data value, slabs and stairs for example will have unused bits yet it can be used to have side way stairs or slabs (the latter useful for thinner walls).
- Also, there will be block ID and texture overlapping, so the code is not fully efficient but at least enables future addition of blocks.
By the way, this, if well made, will not screw up existing world, only update it. Of course it's good to make a copy of your world before opening it like after any update.

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A weapon that I would very much like to see being added to the game is a lance. This would add the ability to have jousting competitions in Minecraft which would be a fun game to play with friends or even minigames on servers. Also they could be useful weapons to wield on horseback. My vision of a lance would be around 3 times the length of a sword (seeing as that's an average comparison for real life swords and lances). It would be cool if they were swung in a stabbing motion when used.

Lances would come in all the tiers that swords and tools would. The wooden lance would have a very low durability and would break instantly upon hitting another players shield (which I'll get into later). The purpose of these wooden ones would mainly be for sport jousting. In real jousting the object is to either break your lance over your opponents shield or knock them off their horse so having the wooden ones break would be true to real jousting. It would be cool if the lance had a 30%-40% chance of knocking a player off of their horse for the sake of jousting but I don't know if that is possible or not.

The other tiers of lances would do the same amount of damage as a sword of the same tier but only when the lance is wielded on a horse. When carried without a horse it will do two hearts less of damage. The benefits of lances are their additional range as opposed to a sword.

A crafting recipe for the lance could look like this

Shields would also be a nice addition. They could play a role in the jousting I mentioned earlier as well as regular combat. Of course these would also come in every tier that armour comes in. Shields will gain their own slot in the character inventory. When equipped, the shield will show up on the left arm. It can be used by right clicking, much like when you right click now with a sword and you hold it sideways and sneak. Either that or it could be activated when you sneak (by pressing shift).

Shields will block all damage taken but will lose durability quicker. Also, when you right click to use the shield it will reduce the speed of your movement and turning speed. These two features should be added in order to ensure people don't just sit around in a fight with their shield up. I don't know if it is possible or not but if there was a way to make it so that when a sword hits the shield, all the damage is blocked but when it hits a part that is not covered by the shield it harms the player. If the shield right clicking to put the shield in a blocking position regular damage will be taken. Also attacks can't be made by a played if they are in blocking position. When in blocking position, you will still get knocked back, but there could be a reduction to the amount. Maybe 50% of the knockback will be absorbed.

When the shield in its blocking position it should cover the bottom half of the screen to reduce vision in order to make the use of the shield a little more fair.

When arrows are fired at a shield, there should be a small chance that arrows will go through them. Starting with a leather shield maybe a 1/4 chance, gold with a 1/8 chance, iron with a 1/16 chance and diamond with a 1/32 chance.

New enchantments could be made for the shield. It can still get the ones that are used for armours but maybe add some shield specific ones such as one that will further reduce the amount of knockback you get after being hit in blocking position. Maybe one that allows you to perform a shield bash while blocking.

A crafting recipe for a shield could look like this

(Leather shields will be a single wooden block surrounded in the same pattern by leather in order to make it more realistic. This would make it similar to a Viking's shield)

Finally, this is optional, but it would be super awesome if you could use the same system for dying banners and use that on shields. That way you could add a crest to your shields. Completely optional but that would be awesome.

Tell me what you think. And if anyone has anything negative to say or any problems with this idea they better also have a way to solve said problem. Constructive criticism is much better then just telling someone they are wrong.

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Spears:

Can be used to attack normally, but could be thrown at enemies. Unoriginal. This has been suggested way too many times and is oversuggesed, so why would you need to suggest it here? Keywords: Search. Button.

Shields:

Can be used to block attacks, both melee and ranged attacks. Yeah, because armor and sword blocking isn't enough defense!

Daggers:

Cheaper to make than swords, but deal less damage. Why exactly? Why wouldn't you just be a little patient and get normal swords?

Battleaxes:

Better than swords, but need more material to craft. Or, ya know, normal swords that can block and do current maximum damage.

Maces:

A little bit better than swords, but not as good as battleaxes. This is called 'scale tipping'. It's basically 'more this less that'.

Scythes:

Better than swords, but not as good as maces. Scale tipping.

Gloves:

A new piece of armor, gloves. Armors need balancing to make this fill the bar with diamond armor, not go over. Gives the most less armor out of all pieces of armor. Absolutely redundant. Armor is fine the way it is, why change it?

Iron, gold, and diamond chests:

Not really much to do with combat, but these would signify the rarity/"goodness" of the loot inside. Can be found in Mineshafts, Strongholds, and Village blacksmiths. Can be crafted. Golly, I didn't think it could be crafted. You said it yourself, it doesn't fit it, it has nothing to do with combat.

Iron, gold and diamond fishing rods:

Stage by stage, they get better in chances of getting fish and good loot from fishing. Yeah, let's make getting fishing rod enchantments pointless!

Flags:

Would work similarly to banners, but they would be horizontal. They would have an animation, that they look like they are being blown by the wind. They are curvy. Not terrible, but a lot of key details are missing.

Iron, gold and diamond Bows:

These would deal more damage stage by stage. Will shoot arrows normally, just like the regular bows. Since bows can already deal up to 10 damage, going anywhere past that would be borderline overpowered.

Responses in bold.

No support; pointless, even if it's related to the combat update.

I know what you're thinking, "NO SOPPORT WE DONT NEED OP FOOD OR RIDEABLE SQUIDS GO AWAY U PIECE OF UNCREATIVITY"... well, you're probably not thinking like that but you get the idea...

This suggestion doesn't really adds, it changes the squids.

Better AI.

C'mon, we can all agree squids are pretty... dumb, even tho the wiki says "if attacked, squid will attempt to swim away from the player.", I can easily kill a squid in a few seconds.

What am I suggesting is, when hit, squid will not attempt, but really swim away from the player, and swim a bit faster than normal, squids would also spray ink on the player's face, the "ink" being simply black particles, like those when a mob dies.

Squids would also swim away from Guardians, for obvious reasons.

Another thing, when on land, squids would slowly "slide" to the nearest water block.

Sounds.

I think they could add sounds to the squids, when they get hit, and when they're swimming... I don't know how I can describe those sounds but... they could be like the sounds made by the guardians.

Or, as suggested by DesinitDraco "For swimming noises, maybe the noise it makes when you run your hand through water (that watery swooshing sound), and it plays every time the squid closes its tentacles while swimming. Possibly a underwater version of the slime's sounds for just about everything else. A sort of squishing noise since that is basically what irl squids are, giant boneless slimebags.".

BABIES!

Squids have a 15% of chance of spawning with baby squids, I think they could look like this:

They would have the same AI as squids, but would swim a bit faster and have 5 health points instead of 10.

Why add this you ask? To make oceans more alive of course.

Here's a texture made by Genlems5Ever:

And I guess that's all... it's not a big suggestion, and it's not supposed to be, if you find any flaws on it, please tell me.

I don't think this suggestion is redundant since most of the threads about "better" squids are "ADD SQUID MEAT COZ THEYRE USELESS".

No Support, squids should have the AI they had in snapshot-15w14a.

JK full support.

The Wither Bone Gaming server has many things to do such as an awesome parkour course at spawn made by a former staff member and Crystal Quest, but the one of the biggest attractions is MineGladiators. In this mini-game, you can play a variety of classes and then fight to the death in tons of different maps. The classes range from a Pig that loses hunger when fighting and having to eat to refill it to an Enderman who has the ability to teleport and has a very strong weapon that damages you when held. I think you'll really enjoy this server, I only recently started working with the staff here but I'm already enjoying it.

Minecraft has been headed down a path to becoming less about building, and more about adventure, and killing stuff I guess. Sure, we can mod the game, but Mojang has done very little to support modding. They promised a modding API ages ago, which never came....



We don't necessarily need a modding API however. If anyone has ever played GMod, when you join a server all the mods that the server has are automatically downloaded for you, making it easy and simply for anyone to play on any server, without the hassle of downloading mods.

This would have huge benefits to the community, allowing for servers to run different mods, and give players a unique experience. This is what Minecraft needs right now, it has reached its peak a while ago, and it is going downhill, something like this can make MC big again.

One: Regular Way:

1. Take a regular apple and surround it with golden blocks.

Two: Enchanting:

1. Take a regular golden apple and put it in a enchantment table.

2. Instead of regular enchants (sharpness, knockback), it gives the player an Enchanted Golden Apple with potion effects.

*You can get up to 1-4 potion effects on it and random potion effects (like how you get random enchants on a sword.) All depends on how many levels you spend on the apple/ how many book shelves (more levels= more potion effects/ better ones.) You can also get bad potion effects (troll your friends.)*

Final: Anvil:

1. Take a regular golden apple and put it in an anvil. (First Slot.)

2. In the second slot, put a potion (swiftness, strength, poison.)

3. Then take the final product out, of course taking levels with it.

*You can only have 1-4 potion effects on it. Not as random, more customization.*

THE POSSIBILITYS!!!!

You can make Enchanted Golden Apples a different way, and can get different effects on it instead of the regular ones. Ones to help you or troll your friends. Please comment if you think this is a great idea, or make up your own ideas. I am open for any kinds of answers!