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Just watch this, and you'll see my problem.

(look at GPU usage).

I see no problem. It looks exactly as I would expect for a high-end machine. My own runs similarly, though not quite as well as yours. You don't seem to be having any trouble running Minecraft on optimum settings.

The only time my GPU is being used is when I look at the ground.

Actually, it appeared to be getting used a lot more when you look at the horizon, which makes sense because the game saves on GPU cycles by unrendering terrain that is outside of your view. It doesn't do it perfectly; you can often see terrain disappear when it's still inside your view.

Also, RAM is not the issue, because I even went to the extreme and allocated 12Gb of it and still the same result. Low freaking FPS and utilization only when looking at the ground or at the sky.

Also is interesting, that when I go underground (like 20 blocks above bedrock, my CPU stress is at a minimum (one core is not even used) and GPU on 30ish%

RAM won't help you. Another person already explained that you maybe should use less RAM, but the main reason it won't help you is because you're looking at a GPU issue, not a CPU issue. If you had more VRAM, then you could keep more textures and polygons loaded into memory, but just as with RAM, it wouldn't make your GPU go faster and might even bog your system down when it over-uses the memory.

Going down into caves causes less memory usage and processing because it unrenders the terrain up above. It's actually one of the suggestions for people having difficulty running Minecraft: go into the caves to increase your framerate.

How come, that PC which can run any game above 100FPS stable, can't (almost) run Minecraft?

So if someone can explain why is this happening, you are a GOD.

This is quite easy to explain. The main problem here is that you seem to be under the impression that Minecraft isn't a high-end game. You play a polygon-adventure game in which all of the environments have been carefully tailored to make your graphics card look cool, and with that 1080Ti you can just barely run things on max settings without a framerate drop.

Well Minecraft is an entirely different kind of game. It runs on a different rendering technology, and graphics cards aren't even optimized for this sort of game. It's rendering blocks, not polygons. Also, when you turn up the render distance slightly, the number of displayed blocks goes up by the square of the difference, unlike in your polygon-adventure games where a doubling of the detail level causes less than a doubling of the performance needs. Also, Minecraft is poorly optimized for the high-end. With low settings it'll run fine on a 10 year old laptop with default hardware and no 3D acceleration. But with high settings it can and will test the highest machine you can get your hands on. Blocks in the distance render exactly the same as when they are near, whereas most games reduce the texture and polygon resolution of distant objects.

Again, your results look fine and are probably what anyone else would experience running similar specs with similar in-game settings. You'll be fine at 16 chunk render distance, really. You won't even notice how near the edge is to you unless you're in a tall scout tower or flying.

I like this idea, and I vote Wolftopia for Möjang developer.

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The 3rd paragraph provides a intelligent and sensible solution to the problem of tools barely getting XP. But what axe/shovel blocks specifically give XP?

Support.

It's called fire, lava, and cactus. Also you can throw stuff somewhere you don't normally travel and forget about it until it despawns.

Currently, there is an imbalance with Mending. It works really well with armor but very poorly with tools. The way it works is simple: sometimes when you get experience, all of your equipment which is currently equipped or in use will be partially repaired. This includes all armor pieces and anything selected or in the off hand. It doesn't work very well for tools because most tool actions don't result in experience gain, and most experience-gaining actions don't repair the tools since they aren't selected. Your sword or bow can do just fine because you're usually using them while gaining experience. Armor has it even better: it's repairing no matter what you're doing as long as you get experience from it. Armor is repairing when you're doing combat with hostile mobs, but it's also repairing when you collect ore or pull stuff from the furnace.

I set mending on all of my equipment. It is all diamond and has Unbreaking II or III. In practice, I find that my armor repairs itself much faster than it gets damaged even in direct combat. It even manages to stay in good repair during combat which causes the armor to take heavy damage, such as when I'm fighting silverfish or guardians. My sword and bow also repair themselves just fine. But my pick, axe, and shovel seem to gain almost nothing at all from mending during normal use. Even when I'm caving and ores are the majority of what I'm gathering, my pick repairs barely faster than it breaks. Things I use the axe or shovel for never yield experience. I set up an experience farm which I use to repair my tools, but as I can only repair one at a time (whatever I put in the off hand), it winds up being very tedious and I get so many enchantment levels by the time even one tool is repaired that I finally just spend diamonds to repair the others on the anvil. My level will easily go into the 50s before even one tool is repaired.

One possible solution to this is to make everything with Mending on the hotbar repair from experience, so that your tools and armor alike will constantly gain from it even if you don't have the tools selected at all times. I like that solution but I'd like to go deeper. The issue then would be that mending is perhaps too powerful, as everything would generally stay repaired as long as you're gaining experience on a regular basis. When combined with Unbreaking, it would become trivially easy to maintain your tools, weapons, and armor. My solution is to reduce the rate of repair overall but have it be increased in certain situations. Weapons and armor would repair best from experience gained through combat, while tools would repair best when you gather experience from breaking blocks. Since the vast majority of experience from blocks comes from pick blocks, the three tools (pick, axe, shovel) should all gain the full bonus from all block experience. The overall difference this would make to Mending is as follows:

1.) armor would repair the same in combat, but less from breaking blocks

- armor repairs a bit less overall

2.) weapons would repair the same in combat, but now can also repair when you break blocks

- weapons repair slightly more overall

3.) tools would repair more overall, but especially when you're gaining experience through breaking blocks

- tools repair a lot more overall

I would also make it a bit harder to fit enchantments on equipment. I currently have unbreaking 3, efficiency 3 or 4, and mending on all three tools plus each has an extra attribute: fortune 3 on the pick, silk touch on the shovel, and sharpness 3 on the axe. My armor has unbreaking 3 (2 on the helmet) along with a protection attribute. In addition to this my helmet has respiration 3, and my boots have depth strider 3 and feather falling 4. They all have mending. My sword has sharpness 4, unbreaking 2, looting 2, and mending. I haven't worked any of these to their max level yet. It seems like there's room to have pretty much perfect equipment in every slot. I'd definitely make some of these enchantments cost more levels, at least that way if you have unbreaking with mending, you have to give something else up. That would further balance mending by making it cost more than finding your third librarian who sells the book virtually indefinitely for 20 emeralds each.

You can't get rid of the "fisheye effect" because it isn't an effect. What you see IS what it really looks like. You can't squeeze more stuff into your visible range without squishing things to make room for it.

The illusion is caused by displaying a 3D world on a flat screen. It is a composite product of how the image is written onto the screen and then how our brain interprets the screen image and it is present at all view angles even if you don't notice.

You can train yourself to stop seeing it simply with practice. I play on 90º view angle and it looks fine to me now because I've been playing on it for many hours. I still occasionally notice that objects are a different apparent size depending what direction I look at them, but most of the time I don't notice. Your brain is constantly adjusting what you see into a satisfactory image. You see in strong "fisheye" effect at all times since you have a peripheral view of around 160º, but your brain gets used to it and so you don't notice it. It's particularly difficult to notice it with our own eyes because we've never seen our own vision any other way, so we have nothing to contrast it with. All you're noticing is that the game doesn't look the same on a screen as it would in real life. It just takes time to adjust.

I did post a suggestion recently about giving access between the nether and the end. Maybe something similar could be proposed, allowing passage between the deep ocean and the end? It should probably be accessed from the end to prevent players getting to the end too fast, also I imagine it connects out to the outer lands so you need to kill the dragon first before you can get the access. But perhaps you discover portals in the end which when lit will take you to a strange shipwreck that contains ender items and blocks, hinting about a failed invasion...

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So the question remains, what financial sense does it make to develop and maintain 2 independent code bases for the same game, especially if one of those relies on libraries outside of their development and control? Clearly Microsoft is not above abandoning platforms that don't "make the cut". Given Microsoft's past history with Java, I'm surprised they haven't tried to phase out the Java version sooner.

Obviously Microsoft corporation does not benefit from keeping the Java edition around, precisely because it is more difficult for them to monetize it. Over-monetization has been shown to ruin titles very quickly. So we benefit from keeping Java edition around, and Microsoft is clearly making a move to sweep Java edition under the rug in order to skirt their legal responsibility for their own benefit and at our expense. You have to believe Microsoft has our interests in mind to think that's not what they intend to do.

Now all that said, does it even matter whether or not they kill the Java version? As long as you keep your own backups, probably not. Even then, it is just a game. Last I checked, there were other games out there. many of of better quality. It's not worth worrying about. And for the cost of the game, it's quite trivial, the cost of a moderately decent meal at a restaurant, and that meal doesn't last very long.

They've already built the game to require using the launcher just to launch the game, and the launcher can auto-install updates if you have an internet connection. Sure there's probably a way around it but you'd have to do some research and find out how. You can no longer double-click the executable because there isn't an executable in the game folder. This doesn't have anything to do with the sticker price of Minecraft, if we lose access to the Java version we may basically lose access to Minecraft as a whole. Those of us who can't afford the potentially much higher price for a version of Minecraft which is likely not nearly as fun may be cut off entirely except through pirating old versions of the game. And I can't just go out and find another game as good as Minecraft--I've tried quite a few, none even come close to measuring up so when you speak of quality I'm not sure what you mean, Minecraft at current is probably the highest quality game on the market. Quality is subjective but Minecraft does not have a single decent competitor for what it offers.


So you're looking at the here and now, and ignoring Microsoft's reputation, their history, and failing to extrapolate into the near future about what might happen to Minecraft. You're making assumptions about how okay that future will be, when you aren't bothering to get to know the company you're trying to make predictions for.

I have a fairly elaborate idea:

Design a radial city layout with everything spanning outward from a large town circle at the center, with a great water fountain in it. Then use a glass ceiling on much of the city, especially a glass dome over the town circle, making the fountain visible from the ocean.

Another consideration when building underwater, especially when considering how it looks from outside the structure, is to match your light sources with the surrounding materials. Glowstone goes well with cobblestone while sea lanterns go well with prismarine. There are many other great combinations as well, and you might have to experiment to find the best. I like to build tunnels or hallways with periodic light blocks along the length of the tunnel, like one set of 2-3 lights per opaque arch, while the rest is transparent glass.

If you're building it in survival, prismarine and sea lanterns are an excellent material to show off with, as they are both great-looking and a bit scarce. You can then accent it with concrete or wool to create counter-colors for any parts you want to not be blue/green, or you can even accent it with those strong green or blue colors to bring out the appeal of the teal prismarine. But if you want a cheap bulk material that looks great, stone of many kinds (cobblestone, smooth stone, stone brick, andesite, granite, diorite) can all look great if you accent them with the right blocks. You don't want it all to be over-detailed--a flat surface works fine made entirely out of gray stone if it's accented with a bit more color. Even terracotta can be used to add color to stone, as that unsaturated red for instance will look plenty red enough against cobblestone.

I voted Evolved MC because the only criterion asked was which one seems more like survival. I haven't seen the server but from the description in the OP, it sounds like neither name is a very good fit. Melville fits your name, so it has that going for it. It also sounds small. So that might be the better choice overall. I can't think of any other names to suggest.

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When you kill a magma cube while you are within Basalt Deltas biome, an invisible counter ticks up. The counter ticks 1 point per small magma, 2 per medium, and 4 per large cube killed.

Alright, time for some math.

Magma cubes can spawn in three sizes. Each time a cube dies, it splits into 2-4 smaller ones. That means a large magma cube can theoretically split into 4 medium cubes and, therefore, 16 small cubes. From this point on, I'll refer to that phenomenon as a "perfect magma chain". Each magma cube would likely add to this counter—seeing as split slimes and magma cubes currently all count as their own kills under Statistics—which means, going at four points per large and decreasing in size, you could theoretically have 4 + (2+2+2+2) + 16 points from one perfect magma chain. That's 28 points in a matter of seconds.

And if you say that it's only theoretical and wouldn't be likely, firstly, these things have to be taken into account. Second, I had no fewer than three perfect slime chains spawn yesterday alone.

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It also ticks down 1 point per 400 ticks (20 seconds) regardless of where you are. If the counter reaches 50 points, you'll go into boss cube spawn mode for 12000 ticks (ten minutes)

This spawning sounds problematic. Even ignoring the issue I mentioned above, 50 points times 20 seconds per point is 1000 total seconds to naturally enter this mode. That's 16.6 minutes. So just about every day and a half, with or without player intervention while also including the ten minutes of boss mode.

all new magma cube spawns around you will instead be Harbinger Cubes--they look and act the same as regular magma cubes except they have the name Harbinger Cube. Every time you kill a magma cube named Harbinger Cube, it'll tick your boss cube spawn counter up 1/2/4 points whether or not you're in boss cube spawn mode. This counter does not tick back down over time. The smaller cubes spawned from killing a Harbinger Cube are also named Harbinger Cube. Once your boss cube spawn counter reaches 50 points, an ominous sound is played and the boss magma cube will spawn about two chunks from your location.

This makes it sound far too easy to spawn the boss, especially by accident. I'd change three things:

1. Don't rename the magma cubes to Harbinger Cubes, either add a separate mob that looks slightly different or give them an NBT tag and let them stay as magma cubes. (This is my personal preference, so it's safe to ignore.)

2. Give Harbinger Cubes a small chance to spawn outside of boss spawning mode. Greatly increase the chances during it, but cap the spawn chance over a magma cube at something like 33% so players can ignore them if they wanted to.

3. Even with the changes I've mentioned, it sounds far too easy to accidentally spawn the boss cube due to perfect magma chains. Either reduce the number of points you get from killing Harbinger Cubes (like 0/1/2 instead of 1/2/4, which will also increase the difficulty of the boss seeing as it requires stronger enemies to spawn), greatly increase the number of points you need to spawn them (I'm talking at least doubled), or make the points decay over time, which is my least favorite of the ideas. I'd go with the first option, personally.

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If your boss cube spawn mode runs out before you kill enough harbinger cubes, you can wait indefinitely to try again. Alternatively, you can use name tags to rename magma cubes into Harbinger Cube. If you don't want to spawn the boss, you can avoid killing the cubes and/or flee the area.

"Don't fight them" is a bad way of putting it if every magma cube spawned can tick the boss counter up and they're the most common mob in the area. This is even worse considering you haven't mentioned any indication towards whether or not boss spawning mode is active or not and specifically stated that Harbinger Cubes look identical to normal magma cubes. The only way to be 100% certain an ill-prepared player or one who doesn't want to fight the boss can't fight the boss is to never attack a magma cube again.

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The named cubes spawned through this event will be unable to despawn until they have been active for ten minutes;

If they don't despawn until ten minutes pass, then they'll clog the mob cap. or, if they function like name-tagged enemies, their natural spawning wouldn't be controllable without severely terraforming the area, so they could potentially lead to lagging out games.

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any cubes renamed by players do not despawn at all. So if you leave the area and despawn the chunks, you can return later to kill the Harbinger Cubes.

This is an interesting concept, but it seems rather redundant due to how easily you've made spawning the boss.

The boss magma cube is twice the size of the large magma cube and jumps twice as high, however if chasing a player at a significantly higher altitude than itself, it can charge up a jump in order to jump as high as needed to reach the player's ledge, up to eight times as high as a large magma cube can jump. It has 96 health and 16 armor, and deals 8 damage per hit. When you kill it, it will spawn four large magma cubes that carry the same name as itself and have the same jump ability as the boss. When killed, these spawn four mediums with the name and jump ability, and when killed these spawn four smalls with the name and jump ability. When the smalls are killed, they do not spawn any more magma cubes. All three smaller sizes of boss cube have a 25% chance of dropping magma cream, even the smallest ones; however the boss cube always drops a Boss Magma, which is a block that looks similar to a magma cube and which will periodically light fires near itself (randomly placed up to three blocks taxicab distance from itself).

Aside from the potential lag caused by randomly setting fires, the boss itself sounds fine. Then again, I'm basing that last statement off of how magma blocks used to randomly evaporate water next to them which caused lag issues, but it was really only a problem due to how obtainable it was.

Attributes of Boss Cubes:
BOSS: 96 health, 16 armor, 8 damage | 100% drop Boss Magma

LARGE: 24 health, 8 armor, 6 damage | 25% drop Magma Cream

MEDIUM: 6 health, 4 armor, 4 damage | 25% drop Magma Cream

SMALL: 1.5 health, 2 armor, 3 damage | 25% drop Magma Cream

Boss cubes are not the same entity type as normal magma cubes. They do not despawn, they share no NBT data with each other, and you cannot re-name a magma cube to make it into a boss cube.

Average amount of magma cream per boss fully killed: 21

Average with Looting III (0/0/0/1/1/1/1 magma cream per kill): 48

Attributes of normal magma cubes for comparison:

LARGE: 16 health, 12 armor, 6 damage | 25% drop Magma Cream

MEDIUM: 4 health, 6 armor, 4 damage | 25% drop Magma Cream

SMALL: 1 health, 3 armor, 3 damage | no drops
Average amount of magma cream per large fully killed: 0.75 - 1.25 depending how many mediums spawn
Average with Looting III (0/0/0/1/2/3/4 magma cream per kill): 3.75 - 6.25 depending how many mediums spawn

Responses in bold. The boss itself sounds fine, and the unique drop sounds useful in redstone randomizers thanks to Observers. The biggest problem is how you've set up spawning the boss. Rather than repeat my analysis of its spawning, I'll explain how I'd change its spawning so you can compare yours to that.

Rather than having a time-based and kill-based Harbinger spawning system, Harbinger Cubes will have a small chance of spawning (maybe a 5% chance of cubes turning into one) outside of spawning events. Regular magma cubes can also be renamed to Harbinger Cubes using nametags at any time. Harbinger Cubes will look like regular Magma Cubes but with an orange border/trim around them, allowing unwanted ones to be recognized and avoided. They will never spawn as small cubes, only medium or large. They will split like normal cubes (and can only reach small size this way), but their points outside will be reduced to .5/1/2 as opposed to 1/2/4. Upon reaching 10 points, a Raid-like bar will spawn at the top reading "Magma Fever".

During a Magma Fever, Harbinger Cubes will have a 33% chance of spawning instead of magma cubes, and their point values will be doubled. The Magma Fever bar will automatically start with a tenth of it filled (meaning it maxes at 100). Killing Harbinger Cubes will increase the value of the bar by the number of points based on size, and killing anything aside from a magma cube or Harbinger Cube (either by luring one in from another biome or simply killing natural ghasts and striders) will reduce the bar by one point. The bar will also lower by one point down to a minimum of nine for each minute that passes. This way, it is possible for players to avoid spawning the Boss Cube whilst also allowing them to also kill magma cubes and Harbinger Cubes in self-defense.

Magma Fever will end automatically once the score drops below 10 points, and the bar will disappear when it is over. When the Magma Fever bar fills completely, the Boss Cube is spawned.

I would like to have mini bosses based on all monsters. Not just Magma Cubes.

Let's say you have an integer for each mob that counts up to 100, spawns the boss and resets itself.

That could of course be abused with monsterfarms but if they would drop same loot and exp like normal monsters,

that wouldn't be a problem. More a downside to those farms, since they would take way more hits.

That way they would be a dangerous challange.

There is also room for statistic about how many of what minibosses you slayed.

I'd love to see giant zombies, spiders ect in vanilla.

Black Friday refers to stores having a sale to get back "in the black" actually. Used to be you recorded transactions in a ledger in either red ink or black ink to signify a surplus or deficit of income. Black ink signified you were making a profit.

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I think one simple change might make this suggestion slightly more feasible: Flint tools.

Craft wood, find gravel, sift through it for flint. Make a flint pickaxe and bob's your uncle, you've gotten to stone and beyond.

I remember a long time ago someone suggested basically exactly this, except they also wanted to remove punching trees for wood and have the player break leaf blocks for sticks. Leaf blocks actually do drop sticks now, dropping the wood tools entirely for a flint tier could make things make some more sense and make starting out a bit more engaging. The flint axe would have to be more of a hatchet and fit in the 2x2 grid, though.

That's even more confusing. Don't get me wrong, every player has to break a block to understand that he can do that. Once the player decided to punch a tree he may discover his first usefull crafting recipes, since Trees are (mostly) all over the place. If the player has to figuere out that he has to get flint and sticks all by him self, without any tutorial then minecraft becomes a very unsatisfying death expierience game.

I think one simple change might make this suggestion slightly more feasible: Flint tools.

Craft wood, find gravel, sift through it for flint. Make a flint pickaxe and bob's your uncle, you've gotten to stone and beyond.

I remember a long time ago someone suggested basically exactly this, except they also wanted to remove punching trees for wood and have the player break leaf blocks for sticks. Leaf blocks actually do drop sticks now, dropping the wood tools entirely for a flint tier could make things make some more sense and make starting out a bit more engaging. The flint axe would have to be more of a hatchet and fit in the 2x2 grid, though.

This would bring the progression almost to a standstill, especially for new players or worlds that generate with specific biomes. Literally all of the solutions you present or reliant either on structure spawning, a high general skill level, or random numbers (except the one about the nether), which is a horrible way to progress, especially in a game like Minecraft. It would not be "pretty easy", especially if you can't find the structures or don't know what your doing (such as in the case of new players). I know that personally I would have to think for a while before I could even figure out how to progress, and I consider myself an expert on Minecraft. The entire advancement system would need a rework as well since almost all the advancements require you to get a stone pickaxe first. Wood pickaxes already have a purpose, and it is to obtain stone at first. It isn't a very bad problem anyway since wood has countless other uses that makes it far from irrelevant. I'm not even sure if survival without wood is even possible. The game isn't designed for you to get to the nether before doing anything else, and it is incredibly hard to do so anyway. Finally, this suggestion would make it near impossible to get any armor higher than leather in the first days, which is alarming because you'll really need the protection if you're going to be fighting mobs in order to get out of wood tier.

If a player does find cobblestone, they will have no way to figure out what to do with this unless they collect it, which can only be done by mining, which likely won't be done with the pickaxe because of the general unintuitiveness of the mining system itself (as well as the lack of a decent tutorial system for this). They wouldn't even know that stone could possibly drop anything because so far they haven't experienced it.

If all new players just have to go out and fight mobs or search far and wide for specific structures, and then solve the puzzle of what to do afterward, Minecraft would appeal to almost nobody.

Without stone tools, you can't play at least 50% of the game, so you're basically just locking a giant amount of content behind a door that may be simple to open, but is also incredibly confusing and unintuitive. Since Minecraft is supposed to encourage creativity, this is not at all desirable.

Literally the only thing I like about this is that it incentivizes the actual exploration of caves instead of strip mining, which most people do. The game is about exploration, after all.

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But, my real problem wasn't even with your suggestion. It was with you, how you handled criticism, and then proceeded to belittle those who provided it.

That's why I suggested putting it all behind. I'd rather just continue copper discussion than have to worry about what has been said.

I do like how you brought up metallurgy, though. If a copper set/tier is added, I'd prefer if it had a special effect. Since gameplay > realism and copper is thought of as an electrical element (even though gold is more conductive), I think it'd be interesting if mining a redstone block with copper could change its "configuration" and allow more possibilities. Maybe copper boots could even carry a redstone charge for when you walk over redstone dust.

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It could lead into some more gameplay changes to improve some of the first-tier imbalances (which have never been addressed since the first tier basically doesn't exist): leather armor is harder to get than iron armor, So is chainmail. But I've always thought of leather as the decorative tier and chainmail as the treasure tier. It's really only iron and diamond that people use. you can't make buckets out of wood, I've never actually heard anyone suggest wooden buckets. mobs at night are way too strong for newer players as well as for under-geared veteran players, I'd beg to differ on the second statement, personally. I play post-1.9, and I know how to cheese most mobs easily. For instance, hitting a creeper whilst sprinting and then backing up after landing the hit will knock the creeper outside of its explosion radius so it doesn't detonate. And arrows can be blocked by shields, but some people choose to play in pre-1.9 due to the cooldown, so it doesn't always apply. etc. I'd love to see the game actually become more friendly to the idea that you don't have to make a stone pickaxe in order to play Minecraft--it's already been done for surface and shore explorers, but I really think it should be done for the much more common type of player who simply builds a basic house and garden.

It would slow down progression, but it seems like an okay thing to me. Some of the early progression seems a bit rushed to me. I think it'd be cool to see players building their house and garden, maybe starting a cow farm for leather armor and food, before jumping down into the caves. In one of my more recent worlds, instead of building a base immediately, I crafted my first wooden sword in years and decided to just wander around for awhile, killing whatever animals I came across. It ended up lasting maybe five hours before I settled, and I had well over a stack and a half of total meat. It was a fun experience, but I'm not likely to repeat it. I understand what you're saying, though. Instead of immediately jumping into the rush towards diamond, experienced players would be forced to slow themselves down, take a step back and imagine what they want to do with the world.

Any veteran player who knows lots of ways to get cobblestone, and is skilled at navigating the game world, wouldn't have a significant difficulty in finding cobblestone, though it might raise the skill and/or chance ceiling on speedruns. But I think the most significant impact would be to newer players--in part that it might slow down how quickly they get to stone tier, but also because the attention given to the first tier will lead to positive changes to the new player experience.

I don't think slowing down stone tier will make the game significantly harder for new players, because most of them take a long time to get to stone tier for other reasons like learning basic gameplay elements. Mojang added an in-game tutorial that teaches players how to do the basics for the first few new world tasks, and advancements are shaping up to teach players new mechanics (e.g. 'Oh, Shiny!' teaching players they can barter with piglins using gold ingots). It also wouldn't make the game much harder for veterans, as stated previously. What I do think it'll do, however, is raise awareness to how broken the game currently is for players who are operating at wood tier, and lead to the game ultimately becoming more fun and engaging for new players as well as for veteran players when making a new world. I've never considered an idea like this being created simply to bring attention to an issue.

Nice idea, though your specific suggestion (if I'm understanding it correctly) would just use the wooden pickaxe you already have, and wouldn't slow the player down in any other way. I'm open to the idea of giving wood tier relevance through a different means than my suggestion, though.

That wasn't what I meant, but now I see how it could seem like that. Dispensers need fully-crafted bows, so that's what I was going for.

I'd love to see many types of stone usable for stone tools!

Several of those I simply included for consistency. It makes no sense to not consider them, simply because most players won't encounter that part of the game in that way. One of the things I think makes Minecraft great is how each change is considered from as many angles as possible.

I suppose consistency would make more sense.

Responses in bold. Some things I didn't have anything to comment on (namely the "I think there's too many mobs at night period" paragraph). I understand why you feel wood tier is completely useless, but I'm so used to advancing to stronger tiers just to get to what I consider fun faster. I never considered that some people may find those lower tiers to be more interesting.

A good middle-ground may be to simply teach players how tools can be useful. Instead of removing stone mining cobblestone, it could drop a stone shard that could be crafted into cobblestone, either in a 2x2 grid or a 3x3 if gameplay really needs to be slowed down. That way, it would still be more efficient to find some way around it, but veterans can still kind of rush through it (since they don't need to learn anything) and new players can still obtain cobblestone, even if it's just to build with. These stone shards could then be expanded, such as using them to craft some kind of weaker arrow.

I'd like wood tier to have relevancy past those first three stone too, but I'm not convinced this is the way to do it. There is no denying how much this would slow down progression. Everything you mentioned in the list is a way to advance past stone automatically, but the only ones that would work consistently without heavy RNG for good enough loot or proper structure generation would be finding natural water/lava sources close to each other and using creepers.

Using creepers would pose a problem for new players who may not have yet developed the skills to survive creeper blast whether they're on the surface at night or underground. There's also more mobs you have to consider that would spawn.

Personally, I'd say to add a similar mechanic to upgrading to Netherite with the main difference being it can also occur in crafting tables. Maybe even a wooden pickaxe in the center, a stick below and cobblestone in the entire top row in order to upgrade a wooden pickaxe to stone. It's not quite what you suggested, but it wouldn't hurt newer players as much, (remember, Mojang has added several new player-friendly features like the Recipe Book and expanded crafting stations) and it certainly wouldn't slow down progression as much.

Using mossy cobblestone to craft stone tools sounds fine. You could even expand it so the 1.8 stones can be turned into stone gear. As for changing what can be obtained with wood and stone...

Aside from the 1.8 stones (I still say those are fair-game) and stone bricks (which I'm very biased on since I love them, I admit), I don't think many players would even try to find them with wood. Nether bricks are a strong maybe, but then again, Nether survival-only players can mine blackstone in the new snapshots for stone tools. But why would anybody try to take on an End City with wood tools? Or an ocean monument? Those Guardians hit hard, and four damage ain't gonna do squat to them. So at that point, I can't decide if it'd be a good change to dissuade people from doing it with wood tools or a reward for people who somehow do manage to do it with wooden tools.

An idea to add copper to Minecraft, it would be an ore slightly more common than gold. It would not be possible to make armor or tools out of. It's sole purpose would be for redstone engineering, solid copper blocks (crafted from 9 copper ingots) would be able to conduct redstone signals through them I any direction, even up and down. If these blocks are connected to each other they can pass redstone signals through each other as well. This could make for very interesting redstone creations. there would also be insulated copper blocks (crafted from 3 copper ingots and 6 wool) these would function the same as copper blocks except they would only transmit signal out of designated ends, and non-designated ends would transmit no signal.

Copper ore: found at y 30 or below, slightly more common than gold however spawns in very large clusters. Can be smelted into copper ingots.

Copper block: crafted from 9 copper ingots, can transmit redstone signal through them in all directions, even up and down. With no delay.

Insulated copper block: crafted from 3 copper ingots and 6 wool. Functions same as copper block except only will receive and output redstone signal from designated ends. Ends can be designed by right clicking with shears.

Repeating copper block: crafted with a repeater surrounded by 8 copper ingots. Functions same as copper block, but also acts as repeater. Adding both a designated delay, and refreshing signal.

Insulated repeating copper block: crafted with 1 repeater, 2 copper and 6 wool. Acts same as repeating copper block, but only receives and outputs signal on designated sides.

I feel like this would make redstone a lot more immersive, and fun let me know what you think;)