Alright, so there's this idea I've been working on for the past few weeks. You heard me, weeks. Basically, it's boats. Boats than you can make bigger, slap a name on, armor, choose what propulsion system it has, and carry stuff in.
Full idea in spoiler:
Boats Evolved; bigger, modular boats (Watch out --- huge!)
Okay guys. Just a slight disclaimer, the explanation for this idea is going to be *HUGE*. The idea itself may be simpler, but the description will take a long time to explain. In a nutshell, it's bigger boats that are also modular.
So we'll start with a slight modification of a game mechanic. Otherwise, the idea won't work very well. So just keep in mind that in this idea, you can't push a boat around by standing on top of it. At least just for the higher-level classes, which we'll get to in a minute.
Also, upon entering a boat, a GUI will appear somewhere around the bottom-right or so that displays the ships 'health', and speed.
Before we go overboard (no pun intended), let's begin with some basic principles that can be applied to the current boat. Let's call it the Dinghy. You can't do too terribly much with the Dinghy, but you CAN do some things.
Dinghies can be crafted just like they normally are. However to modify a boat, a new tool will have to be brought into the game. Let's say it's a Hammer. Right-clicking on a boat with a hammer, granted you're the one that built it will open up a GUI.
Like I said before the abilities with the Dinghy are limited, so you have limited things that pop up in the GUI. All that displays for now is the hull, propulsion system, and their respective health bars. You can also give your boat its own custom name that appears on its hull (But this probably won't be for the Dinghy). You will also notice two numbers at the top. On the left (12/12), is the boat's hitpoints. I doubled their damage resistance because I thought it was kind of silly to kill a boat with one arrow. To the right (1) is the ship's base speed attribute. That is to say, the speed capability of a boat, excluding the propulsion system. Boat stats will vary upon each construction. Therefore someone can be proud of themselves if they have made a fast/strong ship.
Normally, you have your standard, nonreinforced plank hull. However, you could change that. Let's start with a Reinforced Wood Hull. In the crafting table, put in 9 pieces of log together to form a piece of Reinforced Wood Plating. Dinghies will probably only need one plate to reinforce themselves. Plating will probably not be stackable for gameplay purposes.
Reinforced wood will provide a higher defense for the dinghy. Two more types of hull include Steel and Gold. Steel Plating requires 4 Iron blocks in the crafting table, and Gold likewise. With a steel-plated hull, the boat can take considerably more damage than Plank or Wood. Steel hulls can possibly withstand lava. Gold plating is only slightly stronger than Reinforced Wood and is not feasible as battle armor. However, just in case you were thinking these hulls are easy to reinforce, keep in mind higher levels will need more plating as they get bigger.
When a boat is damaged, simply right-click with the Hammer to open up the GUI. There should be a slot for extra plating to go in should the ship need repair. To ensure fair fights, the repair will be timed, like a furnace. Each repair uses up the Hammer some. It would also be nice to see some sort of visual cue for an almost-destroyed ship, like fire or a broken, damaged texture.
And now, the propulsion systems.
With the default dinghy, you have your Hands. Hands for a dinghy are basically neutral, however they will be slower than in previous versions of the game.
An alternative solution, is craftable Oars. Oars are very maneuverable and faster than hands, however they do not grant a steady speed and require you to hold down the forward button whenever you want to move. They may even 'tire' you out more (using up more Hunger).
The last one for the Dinghy, is the sail. Sails can provide very fast speeds, however they have low thrust and are not easy to slow down and speed up easily. A steady speed is required for traversing around land-covered areas. Sails can also possibly be made with different colored wool, to help a boat stand out. Sails grant a steady speed as you can leave them unattended with very little deceleration.
So now we move on to a bigger boat. Not too terribly big, but we're getting there.
To construct larger ships and propulsion systems, you're going to need an alternative to the crafting table. Let's just call it the Shipwright. This block ONLY crafts boats and takes up more blocks of space.
I think for a new level of boat, you're going to need some Blueprints. Blueprints can most likely be created by interacting with the Shipwright by combining a blueprint (Or in this case, a solid Dinghy) and investing your Experience Points to come up with a new 'idea' for a bigger boat. The 'studying' is timed, again, like a furnace, and with each clump of EP filled, the progress bar is filled some. You can also find Blueprints in dungeons, but only rarely.
After that will be done, the Blueprints can be put in a separate slot, with another slot under it. The slot under it is for the wood required to build the boat. Every time you put more wood into the slot under it, the progress bar for the ship increases. I'm not sure if this should be the way but it sounds pretty good.
I think that for each class of boat, a bigger mast will need to be crafted. That, or just have one single mast that, for bigger boats, you need to pack in more Sails. Kind of like how plating works.
So now, the next level: the Skiff.
The skiff is *about* 2 1/2 times the length of the Dinghy. However, with the next level comes new features. First off is a second slot, a passenger seat if you will. But besides that, there are two more features.
Here, there will be special lots to place blocks at. These could be something decorative like gold blocks, or practical, like chests.
To place a block in there, logically you would right click on that one place with the block. It's possible the block lot will be highlighted by the Hammer to show you where you can place things. To get it out, leftclick with the Hammer and it will appear in your inventory. If blocks aren't your fancy, perhaps animals are. Here is where the extra space in the GUI comes in. There would be a list of all the entities in the boat. If they are NPCs, you can choose to move them to another slot, or evict them. You can also evict players,but not move them[amended].
With the Skiff, you have an additional propulsion system. I'm not sure about this one so I'm going to need you guys' approval. Essentially, it is a steam-powered paddlewheel. The steam engine will need to be powered by coal, which will either have a furnace-like GUI or not. It is also be slightly less maneuverable than the Sail. The steam engine, like Sails, grant a steady speed and can be left unattended. They have perfect acceleration, however they are much slower than Sails.
For armoring, the Skiff will need more plates to sufficiently armor the boat. Possibly two or three.
The skiff will most likely be the largest boat to successfully navigate shallow marshlands and the like.
Now, for the adventurous sailor, we're going to go one step up. Meet the Cog. The Cog is a fair-sized boat, but it is hardly big. What is does have though is a top deck large enough to walk upon. Now, we're going to introduce another feature. This time, the Cog will have a lower deck. You could be able to place a few blocks in that bottom deck, such as beds and chests. This will be good for long adventures. If you aren't spoiled, you would be happy with a Cog for your adventuring needs. Hands are now unusable.
For gameplay, an invisible, penetrable box will be in the interiors of the ship that hides water and its effects when water blocks go near it, but as soon as they leave the water blocks return to normal.
Now here, starting with the Cog, is the boat's main means of offense and defense. You guessed it, the Cannon. I believe the cannon could be made with a crafting table. To fire (And right now I'm making most of this up as I go along), you must first craft a Cannonball (Maximum of 16 allowed in hand), and right click on the cannon. The cannon will fizz for about 2.5 seconds or more before firing the cannonball. You must wait an additional second to fire again. To adjust the angle of a cannon, rightclick it (without a cannonball) to point the cannon up or down.
Now with ships and other entities, contact with the cannonball will just equal damage being dealt. But with blocks, there is a chance (Depending on their blast resistance) that the block being hit, and/or the blocks around it will be pushed forward and respond to gravity. And in rare cases, break upon falling.
That, or it would just be a weak form of TNT. But I like the former better. Mostly because it's my idea. Good gosh I think I'm vain or something.
So like I said, if you aren't spoiled, you would be happy with a Cog for your adventuring needs.
But sometimes, you ARE spoiled. Or, just requiring a bit more power. That's where the fourth level comes in, behold: the Carrack. Significantly larger than the other boats, this one can actually be called a ship. It has 3 decks. The first being the top deck (Which comprises of the main deck, quarter and poop, naturally), the second the gun deck, which to the back holds the captain's quarters, and the bottom deck is mainly for cargo. If the Carrack is steampowered the boiler room will be in there.
Oars are now unusable for the Carrack, as are Hands for Cogs. (The Oars for the Cogs would be weaker than on the Skiff and Dinghy, as would hands with the Skiff. However with the Steam engine and Sail, they just get faster with each level, with exceptions [amended])
Another neat thing you get to do with the Carrack is you get to live up to the naval definiton of a ship. On the Carrack, you can place another boat inside it for scouting/lifeboats. But it can only be a Skiff or Dinghy.
Okay, next one. Here we go.
(This level is optional. You guys tell me if it should be ingame.)
Now sometimes, your lust for power is so great no measly Carrack can hold it; not even when it is steel-hulled and armed to the teeth. No, you wish for the very seas to obey your will. Well, you psychopath, here's the fix for you: Feast your eyes sir, on the Galleon. Over twice the size of a Carrack, four long decks and plenty of guns, you would not want to war with this vessel. It is essentially a Carrack on steroids; bigger, stronger (but not faster [amended]), and scarier. But, slightly slower. Should you decide to armor it, keep in mind it will need 8 Platings to armor (Maybe more). And considering each plating requires 4 blocks to fill, you're going to need a LOT of iron.
When a ship finally loses all of it's 'health', it will sink to the bottom of the sea. Here, it is subject to despawn, but will stay there as long as there is a player near it. Although dangerous, it would then be available for looting, if you haven't plundered the ship while it was afloat already. < --- This entire paragraph is subject to discussion and alternative options. It's also been proposed that the ship turn into it's block counterpart, only leave chests, or like in the Amendment Posts, leaves a Ship's Bell that can serve as a savegame for your ship.
Now, I understand that such a feature is going to be *HUGE*, possibly requiring its own update, and would be just a massive undertaking. But I for one believe it will be an undertaking worth the effort. It would heighten the spirit of Minecraft adventure and exploration, people could trade vast amounts of resources over long distances, and plunder other ships for their booty. So I'm not 100% expecting this to be accepted entirely (But if it is, thankyouthankyouthankyou!), but in the future if any modders were curious about how to go about doing their ship mod, this could be a good example. But I really hope this would at least be seen by Mojang. Just two-thirds into completing this idea, I read an old tweet of Notch saying that he might add something like this in the future. So, if you are, this could be one of the ways to go about it.
Any questions?
Amendment Post 1:
- In the Shipwright GUI, the product slot of the boatbuilding section is now a button. I've updated the image.
- Craftable ship components should have been expanded. In addition to a Galley, an Anchor component (probably most vital) is also one of them. Also proposed by the community are tables, crows' nests (That basket thing on the top of masts), icebreakers, and if the NPC crew idea is implemented, a sea captain's desk to chart courses for the helmsman.
- I actually think you should be able to move players. I mean, if they actually decided to choose to lock themselves in a mob slot rather than move around freely I think the captain should be free to move them wherever.
Amendment Post 2:
- Galleons really shouldn't be the fastest ships out there, it would be unfair. Instead, their base speed capability should be a tiny bit slower than a Carrack, probably. Updated.
- Right clicking on a cannon without a cannonball could point the cannon up/down. Updated.
- Different types of ships that do not follow the linear 5-level path of upgrades. Instead, 'extra' ship blueprints could be found in dungeons in strongholds, but they would be rare. Could be a way to get Caravels and viking ships or whatnot.
- I'm not sure about the decay process of sunken ships. Perhaps after someone leaves the ship's general area, a timer starts and eventually the ship will despawn. Or maybe it just stays there forever but can be 'mined' away to recollect valuable materials.
Amendment Post 3 (Note: These are not as important as the first 2) :
- Flags. Although I'm sure colored sails can do a good job of faction identification, custom-made flags would be really great to have. They could be used outside of boats, too.
- Extra ammo types. The standard cannonball would be made of stone and gunpowder, but others could be made out of iron and other materials. The new usable fireball coming 1.2 would also make a neat incendiary addition. Other types can inclde grapeshot and chainshot.
- Sea monsters. Pretty straightforward, I'd like to see some minor sea bosses when roaming the sea. But in my opinion, they should be restricted to certain sizes of ships (Dinghies have no bosses). For example the ship the size of a Skiff would probably only get a shark or something, whereas something Cog-sized would get sharks and sea serpents, medium-sized ships like the Carrack would get sea serpents and maybe giant octopus (Will wrap tentacles around the ship and begin to tug down unless tentacles are damaged), etc...They are, however, uncommon.
- A ship's bell. Yes, they can be used as a normal bell, but there's something that makes them special. Once placed on a ship, it bears the ship's name and can ONLY be placed on that ship (e.g Bell of the S.S Whatchamacallit). Then, if a sunken ship despawns, that bell is turned into a block at the bottom of the ocean and contains all of the ship's data. Then, it can be used to recreate the ship.
- Sea obstacles. The ocean would be made that much better if occasionally you stumbled upon a mini-biome within an ocean. These could be mysterious sea rocks, or icebergs made of pack ice where a tundra or arctic biome would usually be.
Okay guys. Just a slight disclaimer, the explanation for this idea is going to be *HUGE*. The idea itself may be simpler, but the description will take a long time to explain. In a nutshell, it's bigger boats that are also modular.
So we'll start with a slight modification of a game mechanic. Otherwise, the idea won't work very well. So just keep in mind that in this idea, you can't push a boat around by standing on top of it. At least just for the higher-level classes, which we'll get to in a minute.
Also, upon entering a boat, a GUI will appear somewhere around the bottom-right or so that displays the ships 'health', and speed.
Before we go overboard (no pun intended), let's begin with some basic principles that can be applied to the current boat. Let's call it the Dinghy. You can't do too terribly much with the Dinghy, but you CAN do some things.
Dinghies can be crafted just like they normally are. However to modify a boat, a new tool will have to be brought into the game. Let's say it's a Hammer. Right-clicking on a boat with a hammer, granted you're the one that built it will open up a GUI.
Like I said before the abilities with the Dinghy are limited, so you have limited things that pop up in the GUI. All that displays for now is the hull, propulsion system, and their respective health bars. You can also give your boat its own custom name that appears on its hull (But this probably won't be for the Dinghy). You will also notice two numbers at the top. On the left (12/12), is the boat's hitpoints. I doubled their damage resistance because I thought it was kind of silly to kill a boat with one arrow. To the right (1) is the ship's base speed attribute. That is to say, the speed capability of a boat, excluding the propulsion system. Boat stats will vary upon each construction. Therefore someone can be proud of themselves if they have made a fast/strong ship.
Normally, you have your standard, nonreinforced plank hull. However, you could change that. Let's start with a Reinforced Wood Hull. In the crafting table, put in 9 pieces of log together to form a piece of Reinforced Wood Plating. Dinghies will probably only need one plate to reinforce themselves. Plating will probably not be stackable for gameplay purposes.
Reinforced wood will provide a higher defense for the dinghy. Two more types of hull include Steel and Gold. Steel Plating requires 4 Iron blocks in the crafting table, and Gold likewise. With a steel-plated hull, the boat can take considerably more damage than Plank or Wood. Steel hulls can possibly withstand lava. Gold plating is only slightly stronger than Reinforced Wood and is not feasible as battle armor. However, just in case you were thinking these hulls are easy to reinforce, keep in mind higher levels will need more plating as they get bigger.
When a boat is damaged, simply right-click with the Hammer to open up the GUI. There should be a slot for extra plating to go in should the ship need repair. To ensure fair fights, the repair will be timed, like a furnace. Each repair uses up the Hammer some. It would also be nice to see some sort of visual cue for an almost-destroyed ship, like fire or a broken, damaged texture.
And now, the propulsion systems.
With the default dinghy, you have your Hands. Hands for a dinghy are basically neutral, however they will be slower than in previous versions of the game.
An alternative solution, is craftable Oars. Oars are very maneuverable and faster than hands, however they do not grant a steady speed and require you to hold down the forward button whenever you want to move. They may even 'tire' you out more (using up more Hunger).
The last one for the Dinghy, is the sail. Sails can provide very fast speeds, however they have low thrust and are not easy to slow down and speed up easily. A steady speed is required for traversing around land-covered areas. Sails can also possibly be made with different colored wool, to help a boat stand out. Sails grant a steady speed as you can leave them unattended with very little deceleration.
So now we move on to a bigger boat. Not too terribly big, but we're getting there.
To construct larger ships and propulsion systems, you're going to need an alternative to the crafting table. Let's just call it the Shipwright. This block ONLY crafts boats and takes up more blocks of space.
I think for a new level of boat, you're going to need some Blueprints. Blueprints can most likely be created by interacting with the Shipwright by combining a blueprint (Or in this case, a solid Dinghy) and investing your Experience Points to come up with a new 'idea' for a bigger boat. The 'studying' is timed, again, like a furnace, and with each clump of EP filled, the progress bar is filled some. You can also find Blueprints in dungeons, but only rarely.
After that will be done, the Blueprints can be put in a separate slot, with another slot under it. The slot under it is for the wood required to build the boat. Every time you put more wood into the slot under it, the progress bar for the ship increases. I'm not sure if this should be the way but it sounds pretty good.
I think that for each class of boat, a bigger mast will need to be crafted. That, or just have one single mast that, for bigger boats, you need to pack in more Sails. Kind of like how plating works.
So now, the next level: the Skiff.
The skiff is *about* 2 1/2 times the length of the Dinghy. However, with the next level comes new features. First off is a second slot, a passenger seat if you will. But besides that, there are two more features.
Here, there will be special lots to place blocks at. These could be something decorative like gold blocks, or practical, like chests.
To place a block in there, logically you would right click on that one place with the block. It's possible the block lot will be highlighted by the Hammer to show you where you can place things. To get it out, leftclick with the Hammer and it will appear in your inventory. If blocks aren't your fancy, perhaps animals are. Here is where the extra space in the GUI comes in. There would be a list of all the entities in the boat. If they are NPCs, you can choose to move them to another slot, or evict them. You can also evict players,
With the Skiff, you have an additional propulsion system. I'm not sure about this one so I'm going to need you guys' approval. Essentially, it is a steam-powered paddlewheel. The steam engine will need to be powered by coal, which will either have a furnace-like GUI or not. It is also be slightly less maneuverable than the Sail. The steam engine, like Sails, grant a steady speed and can be left unattended. They have perfect acceleration, however they are much slower than Sails.
For armoring, the Skiff will need more plates to sufficiently armor the boat. Possibly two or three.
The skiff will most likely be the largest boat to successfully navigate shallow marshlands and the like.
Now, for the adventurous sailor, we're going to go one step up. Meet the Cog. The Cog is a fair-sized boat, but it is hardly big. What is does have though is a top deck large enough to walk upon. Now, we're going to introduce another feature. This time, the Cog will have a lower deck. You could be able to place a few blocks in that bottom deck, such as beds and chests. This will be good for long adventures. If you aren't spoiled, you would be happy with a Cog for your adventuring needs. Hands are now unusable.
For gameplay, an invisible, penetrable box will be in the interiors of the ship that hides water and its effects when water blocks go near it, but as soon as they leave the water blocks return to normal.
Now here, starting with the Cog, is the boat's main means of offense and defense. You guessed it, the Cannon. I believe the cannon could be made with a crafting table. To fire (And right now I'm making most of this up as I go along), you must first craft a Cannonball (Maximum of 16 allowed in hand), and right click on the cannon. The cannon will fizz for about 2.5 seconds or more before firing the cannonball. You must wait an additional second to fire again. To adjust the angle of a cannon, rightclick it (without a cannonball) to point the cannon up or down.
Now with ships and other entities, contact with the cannonball will just equal damage being dealt. But with blocks, there is a chance (Depending on their blast resistance) that the block being hit, and/or the blocks around it will be pushed forward and respond to gravity. And in rare cases, break upon falling.
That, or it would just be a weak form of TNT. But I like the former better. Mostly because it's my idea. Good gosh I think I'm vain or something.
So like I said, if you aren't spoiled, you would be happy with a Cog for your adventuring needs.
But sometimes, you ARE spoiled. Or, just requiring a bit more power. That's where the fourth level comes in, behold: the Carrack. Significantly larger than the other boats, this one can actually be called a ship. It has 3 decks. The first being the top deck (Which comprises of the main deck, quarter and poop, naturally), the second the gun deck, which to the back holds the captain's quarters, and the bottom deck is mainly for cargo. If the Carrack is steampowered the boiler room will be in there.
Oars are now unusable for the Carrack, as are Hands for Cogs. (The Oars for the Cogs would be weaker than on the Skiff and Dinghy, as would hands with the Skiff. However with the Steam engine and Sail, they just get faster with each level, with exceptions [amended])
Another neat thing you get to do with the Carrack is you get to live up to the naval definiton of a ship. On the Carrack, you can place another boat inside it for scouting/lifeboats. But it can only be a Skiff or Dinghy.
Okay, next one. Here we go.
(This level is optional. You guys tell me if it should be ingame.)
Now sometimes, your lust for power is so great no measly Carrack can hold it; not even when it is steel-hulled and armed to the teeth. No, you wish for the very seas to obey your will. Well, you psychopath, here's the fix for you: Feast your eyes sir, on the Galleon. Over twice the size of a Carrack, four long decks and plenty of guns, you would not want to war with this vessel. It is essentially a Carrack on steroids; bigger, stronger (but not faster [amended]), and scarier. But, slightly slower. Should you decide to armor it, keep in mind it will need 8 Platings to armor (Maybe more). And considering each plating requires 4 blocks to fill, you're going to need a LOT of iron.
When a ship finally loses all of it's 'health', it will sink to the bottom of the sea. Here, it is subject to despawn, but will stay there as long as there is a player near it. Although dangerous, it would then be available for looting, if you haven't plundered the ship while it was afloat already. < --- This entire paragraph is subject to discussion and alternative options. It's also been proposed that the ship turn into it's block counterpart, only leave chests, or like in the Amendment Posts, leaves a Ship's Bell that can serve as a savegame for your ship.
Now, I understand that such a feature is going to be *HUGE*, possibly requiring its own update, and would be just a massive undertaking. But I for one believe it will be an undertaking worth the effort. It would heighten the spirit of Minecraft adventure and exploration, people could trade vast amounts of resources over long distances, and plunder other ships for their booty. So I'm not 100% expecting this to be accepted entirely (But if it is, thankyouthankyouthankyou!), but in the future if any modders were curious about how to go about doing their ship mod, this could be a good example. But I really hope this would at least be seen by Mojang. Just two-thirds into completing this idea, I read an old tweet of Notch saying that he might add something like this in the future. So, if you are, this could be one of the ways to go about it.
Any questions?
Amendment Post 1:
- In the Shipwright GUI, the product slot of the boatbuilding section is now a button. I've updated the image.
- Craftable ship components should have been expanded. In addition to a Galley, an Anchor component (probably most vital) is also one of them. Also proposed by the community are tables, crows' nests (That basket thing on the top of masts), icebreakers, and if the NPC crew idea is implemented, a sea captain's desk to chart courses for the helmsman.
- I actually think you should be able to move players. I mean, if they actually decided to choose to lock themselves in a mob slot rather than move around freely I think the captain should be free to move them wherever.
Amendment Post 2:
- Galleons really shouldn't be the fastest ships out there, it would be unfair. Instead, their base speed capability should be a tiny bit slower than a Carrack, probably. Updated.
- Right clicking on a cannon without a cannonball could point the cannon up/down. Updated.
- Different types of ships that do not follow the linear 5-level path of upgrades. Instead, 'extra' ship blueprints could be found in dungeons in strongholds, but they would be rare. Could be a way to get Caravels and viking ships or whatnot.
- I'm not sure about the decay process of sunken ships. Perhaps after someone leaves the ship's general area, a timer starts and eventually the ship will despawn. Or maybe it just stays there forever but can be 'mined' away to recollect valuable materials.
Amendment Post 3 (Note: These are not as important as the first 2) :
- Flags. Although I'm sure colored sails can do a good job of faction identification, custom-made flags would be really great to have. They could be used outside of boats, too.
- Extra ammo types. The standard cannonball would be made of stone and gunpowder, but others could be made out of iron and other materials. The new usable fireball coming 1.2 would also make a neat incendiary addition. Other types can inclde grapeshot and chainshot.
- Sea monsters. Pretty straightforward, I'd like to see some minor sea bosses when roaming the sea. But in my opinion, they should be restricted to certain sizes of ships (Dinghies have no bosses). For example the ship the size of a Skiff would probably only get a shark or something, whereas something Cog-sized would get sharks and sea serpents, medium-sized ships like the Carrack would get sea serpents and maybe giant octopus (Will wrap tentacles around the ship and begin to tug down unless tentacles are damaged), etc...They are, however, uncommon.
- A ship's bell. Yes, they can be used as a normal bell, but there's something that makes them special. Once placed on a ship, it bears the ship's name and can ONLY be placed on that ship (e.g Bell of the S.S Whatchamacallit). Then, if a sunken ship despawns, that bell is turned into a block at the bottom of the ocean and contains all of the ship's data. Then, it can be used to recreate the ship.
- Sea obstacles. The ocean would be made that much better if occasionally you stumbled upon a mini-biome within an ocean. These could be mysterious sea rocks, or icebergs made of pack ice where a tundra or arctic biome would usually be.
And the Reddit post is here:
http://www.reddit.co..._modular_boats/ (Archived)
*EDIT*
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Important Things to Know for the Unfortunate Few Without Common Sense (aka posts I've gotten a million and one times and wish to halt):
- This is NOT A MOD. The illustrations may look convincing (for a bunch of photoshopped models made in Sketchup :p) but I have repeatedly, in this suggestion, mentioned it as an idea and rarely even mentioned the word 'mod'. Please stop asking how to install this. Plus, we're in the Suggestions forum. That tell you anything?
- Yes, I have SEEN the Zeppelin Mod. You're just about the 508th person to show me this. Yes, I've seen it. YES, I think it's a great mod, but in my opinion it's best to leave it at that, and this idea is about the vanilla Minecraft ships made of predefined modules, not blocks, as that seems to be more congruent with the current game mechanics. Saying "There's a mod for that" is a warnable offense, in any case.
- You see that little link up there? Yeah, the idea is in the link (or the spoiler). I've explained rather thoroughly how the boats work. While I would really like it for you to give me your two cents, this thread is not for people to make up entirely their own ideas on how the boats work. That part's already here, mostly
- "This would be great, but the oceans need to be bigger!" <-- Say this and you're gonna get a smack. >=(
Download link to the original SketchUp models: http://www.mediafire...55l1cnm1npgkbgl
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by JasonG5!
[represent]
Looks kinda silly, right? When players get hit, sure, they can fly back a little! However, who really does the flail arms and legs uselessly thing? We need a more macho animation:
In this animation, you fall down backwards after being hit and flying some. If you are knocked off a cliff, you flip into the falling position, where you can do abilities explained later in this topic. You jump back up quickly though, after less than a second. You can still fight back in that brief moment on the ground, but you can't move. You're on your feet long before your opponent can get ready to sprint-hit you again. When you are hit, your stamina could go down, simulating pain and battle fatigue.
Let's be realistic, do you really swim this way? In fact, can you swim this way? Let's have Steve at least swim horizontally. Your stamina bar would decrease slowly, forcing you to tread water(swim without pressing forward) until your stamina has recovered to the low amount, or sink(swim down at an angle instead of forward). The Smart Moving mod does the swimming animation nicely!
Also, swimming down is implemented in the mod. Can you imagine doing the above stroke underwater? This expends slightly more stamina than swimming, but not so much that it runs out before your air bar.
Boom! This wouldn't change the flying movement any, unlike the SM mod, unless you set the setting that makes it go straight towards where you're looking, changing your altitude. Personally I find the current way that doesn't change that useful for seeing if two blocks are at the same height, but that's just me.
Yeah, people just stay in the same position with their arms at their sides and look down when falling. In reality, we scream very heroically and flail our arms, like this:
Best feature: You can kick down wooden doors and break thin glass windows, if the /gamerule command is set =) 
Crawling makes the player one block tall and two blocks long, instead of the other way around. You can dodge Ghast fireballs, go in midget tunnels, and a whole bunch of other neat things! This makes sneaking unnecessary, so to crawl, we can use the Crawl button, which just happens to be the old Sneak button(Shift). Of course, when crawling, you wouldn't fall off block edges, like when you're sneaking. Now sneaking is totally useless, and you can hide in your wheat fields! However we can still keep sneak around for those who like it, inactive with no default control.
This would be the only time the current sneak position is used, when you're charging the jump, the sneak position is automatically entered. Stamina would deplete slowly while charging, and violently decrease during the jump, depending on its power.
This could inspire some interesting sports, for instance an often fatal competition where people jump off cliffs and dodge obstacles on the way down, then plunge into water. Instead of water, some could use lava without the foreknowledge of the players, so they are forced to slow themselves down to land somehow and not get scorched! 
Also done by the SM mod, ledge climbing and grabbing would make a useful movement. It could be done by pressing Shift while in the air next to an edge. This means that you can jump and grab, or fall and grab. This would override skydiving. I mean, when would you not want to grab the edge instead of falling and dying? Climbing up onto the edge would be done by pressing the forward button while grabbing the ledge:
Shuffling sideways would be done by pressing the left and right buttons. This would take stamina for as long as it's done. Moving while grabbing would take even more stamina, especially climbing. When the low position is reached, players would be unable to climb up; attempting to do so would raise the player some, but reduce his stamina dramatically. When a player has no stamina left, they will let go and fall. If your fall speed is too great, trying to ledge climb would result in slower speed, but you would take reduced fall damage and keep falling. 
If you had wanted to charge your jump instead, you usually would have stayed still while charging. In the Speed Vault, you have to sprint-jump then strike and hold the jump button until you're over, but it quickly throws your body parallel to the ground and over the wall, saving your hide from the 20 skeletons shooting your back! Unless you forget to hold the jump button, then you fall onto the fence/wall and take moderate damage, but hey, you can still get over! If you're not dead.
There's an automatic setting that lets you do a Lazy Vault when single jumping near a wall like this, but you can't do Speed Vaults when it's on. It's like in Mario Kart, you can do Automatic Drift(easier) or Manual Drift(Harder, but you get speed boosts).
Also, certain blocks like Iron Bars support ceiling climbing. You can swing across lava lakes! Use Shift while in the air and below a grab-able block, like a fence. This would take the same amount of stamina as ledge grabbing, and moving with the walking buttons would take as much as sideways movement while ledge grabbing.
At one point, the duel wielding of items was reportedly being worked on by Mojang. This would be very useful, for obvious reasons. I will give my two cents as to how this should work. First of all, the Left Mouse Button would control the Left Hand, and the Right Mouse Button the right hand. This would be reversible in the Options, and I would do that to match the primary finger to the primary hand, as I am right-handed.This could be confusing, even though it shouldn't matter, because either way still functions the same. When used, an item would do its main action, with some exceptions. An item's main action is what it does best, for instance, a Pickaxe would break/hit the target, but a dirt block would be placed. This means that you can't break a block while using two blocks. You can use two swords to do fast damage, but you wouldn't be able to block attacks, and your stamina would deplete very fast. When targeting a mob, a block cannot be placed, so using a block would hit the mob. If wielding only one item in your primary hand(the one you click the left mouse button to use), the controls revert to semi-normal. This means that you do the main use for the item with your Left Mouse Button, and do its secondary use them with the Right Mouse Button. The same goes for the secondary hand, except the left and right button's functions are swapped, so main use with right button. This effectively means you can block with a sword. Also if you click on a block with a GUI with a hand not holding a tool and not empty, it opens the GUI, or if you have two empty/tool holding hands, the Right Mouse Button will open the GUI. The controls are reverted to normal in two other ways: You turn duel-wielding off in the options (underlined for clarity), or you use an item that requires two hands to operate, like a Bow, or a Map. Another hotbar selection indicator is needed for the secondary hand. Scrolling the mouse-wheel up would move the primary selector; down, the secondary. The hotbar would be much easier to manage with 
This would be risky, as you could suffer suffocation, fall, and drowning damage as well as the possibility of getting lost on the Enderman Express, falling into lava or the Void, getting blown up while riding a Creeper, and/or getting attacked by other hostile mobs nearby. I would assume you get a little bashed up as they move, maybe a couple hearts here and there... and of course you'd get shot in the back by nearby Skeletons, Wither Skeletons, Blazes, and Ghasts. However, this could have great benefits, as you could attack and kill mobs without them being able to harm/run away from you. Used in combination with the Potion of Fire Resistance, it would be easier to collect rare Ghast Tears and Blaze Rods by skydiving at your airborne target and clamping onto it, a skill only the best and luckiest could pull off. Whole new YouTube channels could be created off this feature alone! Imagine: Ghast Riders: Season 3!
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:-( ): :-( ): :-( ): I've always found it odd that apples don't actually grow on trees. After you've finished collecting your wood you MAY find an apple that has dropped from the decaying leaves... But most likely not. Besides the ability to use them to make golden apples, apples don't have much significance to them. They only fill your hunger bar by two and they don't have a very high saturation level. This makes the discovery of a fallen apple utterly unremarkable. This is why I think that apples should be able to be farmed in a similar way to how cocoa beans are farmed. First off, oak trees would not suddenly be full of apples, but would rarely drop them from their leaves as they do now. However, after you obtain an apple you can then put it in the crafting table and get three apple seeds. Apple seeds will only grow into apples if they are placed on the sides of the leaves on an oak tree. The apples grow only a little longer than cocoa plants and will go through four stages during its growth: a pink apple blossom, a ripe apple (completely green), an almost ripe apple (red & green), and an apple that's completely red and ready to eat. You can get the apple from the tree when it has reached its full maturity (the previous two stages will only yield apple seeds) or if you are impatient or like pink you can hit the apple blossom off of the tree and put it in the furnace to make pink dye. You could also make an apple pie by putting an apple, an egg, and sugar in the crafting table. An apple pie will only heal the player by four hunger bars; the same as the pumpkin pie... But who could resist apple pie?
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If killed, a rabbit would have a random chance of dropping either a carrot, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, cocoa beans, a potato, or wheat. If you wish to keep the rabbit as a pet, all you need to do is feed it some of the items listed above and it will be yours. You can then let it follow you or hold it (right click it to turn it into an item then right click while holding it to turn it back into a rabbit).
To breed two rabbits together all you have to do is feed them carrots, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, cocoa beans, potatoes, or wheat. They will then make 5 babies which are about the size of baby chickens.
Unlike dogs and cats, a rabbit would not teleport since it is not a very powerful ally to have in a battle. However, when a rabbit is held you can sprint and your hunger bar will still decrease at the same rate as if you were walking.
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Chairs and Tables - They could be made like Iron Golems; the chairs would be made by placing down a stair block and attaching 2 signs to it, this would then turn into an actual chair block that you can sit in if you right click on it. While sat on the chair, you could possibly regenerate a heart every 15 seconds, but sitting would not replenish your hunger. A table could be made with a fence and pressure plate. Placing multiple fences and pressure plates would make the table block larger. You could then place food and items on the table.
Larger Flower Pots - Flower pots placed next to each other would form together to create a large flower pot.
Fireplace Blocks - Fireplace blocks would be created by going into the crafting table and putting flint & steel in the middle surrounded brick blocks. Once made, the fireplace block could be placed on whatever opaque block you want. Multiple fireplace blocks could be placed next to each other to create a larger fireplace. The maximum size of a fireplace would be 2x3 and fires could only start in front of the opening of the fireplace, making this method of creating a fireplace much safer then the traditional method.
Bridges - Actual bridges would look much more aesthetically pleasing then ones made out of stairs and wood. They could be crafted by putting a row of wooden planks in the center, and a row of string on the left and right sides.
Vertical Half-Slabs - With the addition of being able to place stairs upside-down, half-slabs on the upper half of a block, and horizontal wood; I think the ability to place half-slabs vertically would help in creating complex, intricate structures and could also look very nice.
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Health Points: 50 (heart x 25)
Attack Strength: fist-3 hearts
weapons-same as player + 3
Spawn: Anywhere (except water) when it is raining
Drops: Whatever it last held in its hand before dying
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Appearance:
When a Mimik first spawns it has white skin as blank as paper and eyes as black as night, all of which appear on the same model as the player. But once the player has come within 5 blocks of the Mimik, the Mimik will immediately change it's skin to the player skin. Unlike any other mob, the Mimik is also able to switch to the same item the player has held in their hand (Example: when you switch from a apple to a bow, so will the Mimik). The Mimik is 2 blocks tall, 1 block wide, and 0.25 blocks thick.
Uses:
When a Mimik is killed, it will drop whichever item it held last in it's hand. Because of the Mimik's ability to change the item in their hand to the one that is currently being held by the player, you could kill the Mimik while holding a diamond and the Mimik would drop a diamond. But If the player is holding a stack of 25 the Mimik will still only drop one of that item.
Behavior:
A Mimik is a rare souless creature who's only purpose is to steal the identity of the player, then kill him/her. Mimiks can only spawn when it rains/snows. Once the player has been seen, the Mimik will relentlessly follow the player until it gets within 5 blocks of him/her. The Mimik then transforms it's skin into the player's and will attack. After it has changed, if the player is holding a weapon, the Mimik will be able to attack with that weapon, which will deal the same damage. However, if the Mimik isn't able to get within 5 blocks of the player, it is defensless. This makes bows a very efficient weapon to use against the Mimic if you don't mind getting nothing in return. In SMP, if the Mimik spots two or more players at the same time, it will choose to turn into and attack one of them randomly. If a Mimik kills you, when you respawn you will have the default skin of the Mimik. There are 2 ways to reverse this effect: 1-Kill the Mimik which originally killed you. 2-Let another steal your skin, which will replace the Mimik skin you currently have with you original skin. 3(Best Way)-Get a block of soulsand and hold it while standing within 5 blocks of the Mimik that originally stole your skin. The Mimik will copy the soulsand that you have in your hand and will be given its own soul, thus turning into a villager and giving you your skin back. You can then be able to trade with the villager.
Combat & Defensive Measures:
While Mimiks may sound like something from a nightmare, they can be easily dealt with. To keep your house safe and Mimik free, just make sure that there are no holes or ladders which could lead them to the inside of your house. It is also recommended that you make a platform where you can shoot them with a bow from a far distance. If you want to, you can also surround the house with things such as lava and cactus. Both you and a Mimik take damage from the same things. If you find yourself in the middle of a fight with a Mimik armor helps greatly, since Mimiks are unable to copy your armor it can give you a much better chance. In SMP fighting a Mimik with friends can be a very good strategy. While one friend distracts the Mimik by holding a diamond the others can kill the Mimik. This yields one diamond for the friends to share.
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By pressing M on your keyboard, a screen resembling the villager trading screen will pop up. You can edit what you want and what the person trading with you will get by first clicking on the input(s) (what you'll get) and choosing what you want from a list of all the obtainable blocks and items in the game, and to change the the output (what the other person gets) you simply drag the item your willing to trade to the output. To get out of the trading screen you press Escape, or M again.
Like villager trading, there are two inputs and only one output. But unlike villager trading, you can trade 5 things at a time, with each output only able to go up to a stack. This means that the person trading with you doesn't have to trade with you and then wait for purple swirls to form above your head before they can trade with you again. The only time someone won't be able to trade with you is when your inventory is full, since you would have nowhere to store your new things. Once the item in the output runs out, it will be deleted from your trading screen.
To trade with someone you right click them, which makes their trading screen pop up. While you scroll through the 5 items they are trading, the person you clicked on can roam freely where ever they want and you will still be able to trade with them as if they were right next to you. Once you have finished the trade with the other person, you can both walk away joyfully with your new stuff.
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