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Quote from Agtrigormortis»

Perhaps quicksand could have a unique property other non chest block types don't

all items that fall in it are preserved and don't despawn, but this could be a feature exclusive to quicksand only

meaning any item that falls outside of quicksand, whether the player died or not, is still on a 5 minute timer.

The disadvantage? quicksand is not as convenient as chests, because chests actually let you see what items have been preserved or protected.

With quicksand all sunken items remain hidden from view, meaning players would need to dig them up to retrieve them again.

Also, all dropped items in quicksand could still be vulnerable to being destroyed by Creeper or TNT explosions, or nearby cactus.

Ooh, even better!

Imagine going digging for treasure like this in an adventure map..

Quote from Adamnewbie»

I've been a big fan of world generation and new biomes I would say 1.7 and the upcoming 1.17 part 2 with the new mountain generation and cave generation. New generation just adds so much to explore.

It definitely does, but a lot of people miss the pre 1.7 post 1.8-beta design with 10 biomes. It was much simpler back then.

Quote from Jeff_Milk»

I already have an idea to make quicksand with the new powder snow and I am 100% sure there is some way to make quicksand with cobweb. Although still, I like the idea of maybe having quicksand as a block instead of making a big Redstone contraption

Neat ideas, and yeah, that's a point. Maybe quicksand could be crafted from sand + powdered snow?

Quote from stresschicken»

I like the idea, especially the second part however I feel like there are already too many "useless" food sources in the game (they fill hunger, so not completely useless, but why eat something with lower saturation and no additional benefit) and the dandelion would just become one of them. Unless it comes with an additional effect, like attracting bees, or other mobs for a shot period of time. Could be interesting for sure!

Great addendum. Eating dandelions makes rabbit not scared of you, and brewing a potion from them and drinking it makes them follow you until it expires. The inverse of it is just null.

I've personally never had an issue with the additions to the game in terms of affecting the player's control of the story.

However, it is so very tempting nowadays to just explore and adventure endlessly for the numerous structures in the game, rather than stay put and develop something. I know Agri and a few other people say we have too few structures even now, but for me, there's been too many since at least 1.13. I find it hard to explore without getting sidetracked and distracted by the shiny shiny all the timey wimey.

Quote from Agtrigormortis»

I can't say they're evil spirits, if they were they'd be hostile and not neutral.

They're classed as a monster mob for some strange reason even though they don't harass you unless you hit them or look at them without wearing a pumpkin.

I would not call them evil or even afterlife-y. They're just their own sentient evolution much like piglins and villagers and guardians.

They are terraforming explorers in my eyes - ender pearls, warped forests, block picking, and the way chorus trees work, would all seem to suggest this.

Quote from eiche_brutal»

That's not what i'm thinking about. I am even suprised that witches are in the game, the more we talk about them.

The issue i have is that witches resemble woman. (despite mojang claiming to have genderless mobs)

That's why i oppose your suggestion. If the method to befriend them where to equip a cat suit i wouldn't.

This is too edgy.

And you might argue that certain illagers (mybe vindicators?) resemble men more closely than women, but they are still in the game.

My problem with this is that you are forcing the will of a sentient mob, evil or not, that's not okay. Attacking is one thing, manipulating is another, brainwashing a third. Unzombifying a villager is decidedly not the same thing, not even zombifying one on purpose since there is no will involved.

Quote from Agtrigormortis»

Of course you could argue that Piglin are simply greedy and will take whatever they can get their hands on,

but if that's the case, if they are so greedy, why are they engaging in bartering? bartering voluntarily, is the opposite of greed.

I get more the impression that they go 'well fine, you scratch my back, I scratch yours' kind of deal. Reluctantly tossing something they don't need in order to be 'fair' rather than willingly and eagerly trading. Instead of having a dialog window, you just throw stuff at each other. Doesn't sound super polite.

Quote from Agtrigormortis»

But they can spawn close by, close enough to start aggroring you as soon as they notice you using a chest, it means any chest not just ones that exist in nether fortresses or bastions. It could be a barrel, an ender chest or trapped chest.

Me and pals of mine have found solutions however, we build bunkers to shield ourselves temporarily while opening a chest.

If it wasn't for armour in the game though, Piglin would kill you almost every time because of the insane amount of damage their weapons do. Most players are not god tier enough to survive being raided by a group of Piglin without wearing armour. And unless you get to the portal before they do, you're screwed.

What about minecarts with chests or donkeys with chests? Do they attack those?

Item frames?

There are always alternate solutions...

I do agree though that the mechanic is quite poor.

Quote from Agtrigormortis»

the best part about the nether update is the bastions and the newer biomes, but beyond that they didn't change much.

Also Piglin aren't programmed to recognize their own chests, they attack you for opening your own ones also which is lame.

this means it is not safe anywhere to use an Ender chest except for in Warped forests or inside Netherack cave systems.

The worst thing you could possibly do in the game is make a feature useless.

It's not that hard to get distance between you and piglins, I find. Or to just build an extra portal.

I find it interesting as you typically seem to be against nerfing things.

I do agree though that bed should have this functionality in the nether reduced or even removed. Though if they do, I'd like to see some function replace it that isn't just "not usable" to keep the idea in mind that day and night doesn't flow here, and that they aren't hospitable dimensions.

Beds were added at a time that the nether didn't really have ores, and for the sake of being a harsh penalty to unsuspecting first time attempts, so them being cheaper TNT didn't matter at the time. Now that the nether has a very rare, but blast resistant material, it does.

Unfortunately what young children don't seem to yet understand when they get upset about dying a lot is the game provides plenty of tools and amenities to avoid many deaths in the first place, not all deaths are avoidable, but digging straight down instead of making a staircase to safely reach the lower quarters of the Overworld is quite a nooby mistake on their part, which some players still do for some reason.

I can understand why people would be upset if they forgot to put a potion of slow falling on and then fell from an extreme height or fell into the Void in End, I'd suspect an error like this is fairly common based on the number of people who appear to be playing.

Also not everyone understands why Creepers can still spawn in jungles even when it is daytime.

But there are clear dos and don'ts, it's not safe to go wandering off into the night without any armour on when the difficulty is above peaceful, I remember when I was still new to the game and I would often make the mistake of not wearing armour and then picking fights with monsters at night just for fun. I remember also not lighting up my base properly many years back and then getting killed by Creepers in a greenhouse I made.

Point being, foolish actions have consequences.

Quote from allyourbasesaregone»

Yeah I think we've established that by this point lol.

TNT is too expensive, just like railways. So much for cool mining techniques. We would really need more iron plus a gunpowder ore to fix that, but I know that's not going to happen and frankly I don't know what gunpowder is made of or how it is made beyond sulfur so not sure if you could just have it be an ore in the game and not get people asking 'hey how is this realistic'.

Yeah that's the issue with TNT, game doesn't handle it well and it blows up your game. Single tnt gives no lag for me and I use it sparingly to mine with but beds remain cheaper (lol).

Makes no sense that beds explode in the Nether and End and have a more powerful explosion either, like literally, beds are not stated to be enchanted or cursed by the video game lore, beds just explode for the purposes of what appears to be discouraging their use in other dimensions, instead their mechanics are highly abusable, making TNT less useful as a result.

So really Mojang have shot themself in the foot with this mechanic, the first thing to do to make TNT more useful is to first nerf beds so they simply not work in other dimensions instead of being used as cheap TNT.

Then changes could be made to mining so TNT is a more appealing choice for players who want faster and efficient mining,

but at the cost of a resource that could only be obtained from a select few mob kills or in chests even.

I would also support the addition of sulfur as an ore and gemstone material to be mined so players could craft gunpowder, but the gemstone form would be a non renewable resource, so players had the choice to either use it for decoration or for more practical purposes like mining or to be used as a weapon, sulfur could be given other properties besides just being used as gunpowder, especially if cinnabar were also added.

Looks like userinterface on the app for iPad or devices like that.. I tried on iPad the other week on cabin vacation, and it was x10 as hard to do anything ;).. Though I'm way used to controlling anything with mouse and keyboard...

Today I finally decided that instead of just playing the occasional minigame on Hypixel, I'd make a forums account and try find a less complex server to play on, with far fewer people and a complete lack of mods or plugins. What I found were servers advertising their economies and shopping districts with big flaming emojis to catch your attention when scrolling. I can tell by the amount of replies on some of these threads that this is what a lot of people are after when searching for an SMP, but it's just a bit too much for my liking.

I'm not saying that this new more polished era of SMP's is bad, hell I'm probably going to end up joining one, but I just wish it was all a bit more simple. I was never active in forums, or any medium of online communication with others. As a kid I always wanted more from Minecraft and I now realise it was probably the multiplayer aspect that would have really appealed to me at that time.

I really don't feel like the idea of a vanilla SMP in the manner of what existed maybe 8 years ago exists now. Whenever I see a vanilla server with no plugins it's always branded as "ANARCHY SERVER! NO RULES! ANYTHING GOES!". Maybe after the DreamSMP and others like it a twist-less SMP just doesn't cut it for many people anymore. This is just how I feel though, maybe a server just like I'm looking for is right around the corner, and maybe it already exists and I just haven't flipped enough pages to find it.

for the stacking armour that was not my inventory that was the stuff I could craft, and for the drowned part i really don't know what was going on in my brain i was probably a idiot at the time

is this generation or something

Early game, get some wheat farms going and explore and gather hay blocks from villages to give you an early supplement boost to your wheat.

Then get a cow farm going and breed them with the wheat.

This wills et you up with one of the best foods early and also give you the leather you're after.

The looting enchantment is optional, but maybe not too easy early game.

Quote from allyourbasesaregone»

Since when was there a hard rule on bumps?

Hm, I just skimmed the rules and don't see anything about it, but I'm pretty sure I've seen replies from staff in the past about a 24 (48?) hour limit.

Typically, that is standard on some forums to prevent people from posting "bump" solely to bring a post to the top.

But since the forums are slow, and I had information to add as opposed to merely replying just to bump it, but simultaneously enough time had passed that I felt an edit might get missed by some people, I thought it might be fine.

But yeah I'm not sure since I don't see it in the (main) rules.

Quote from TheMasterCaver»

This is not the case up to at least 1.12 (I have no access to source for newer versions) and I doubt Mojang would actually do this do this, as far as I know only the type of flowers are determined by the location, and with 128 attempts of placing plants it seems unlikely all would fail unless there is only a single grass block in range, otherwise, I have no idea how it could randomly fail as described, the fact that spreading water rover the area fixes it makes it sound like the game thinks some invisible non-air block is present, but why it would reappear after a reload is beyond me (if I experienced an odd issue like this myself, as I do when a new modded feature fails to work properly, I'd modify the game's code to print out exactly what it is finding as it attempts to place plants, or what is happening at each generation step, but this is of course far beyond the capabilities of most players).

Well if you don't know, it's hopeless! *cries* I was hoping you might know.

But yeah, that's the strange thing to me. I also got the impression the game thinks there is something (but what, I don't know) in these spots, and that trying to place anything there correctly updates it.

I saw the same behavior with the moving_piston blocks, but the difference was that those would only impact a single block as opposed to a small area, and water wouldn't clear it (plus I check Unmined and there's never a moving_piston block, nor anything abnormal, appearing where this occurs). So I'm not sure what this is, but I do have a feeling the whole situation with the enderman (either the initial process, or the clean up whereby I replaced those moving_piston blocks with air) is related, because it's only happening in this world.

At the least, these are both relatively rare and I have a simple fix for it. The moving_piston blocks by contrast were becoming numerous and a real pain to remove.

the elusive what

no seriously was this a joke or is that real