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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.

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• 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. >=(

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Cave mapping and entities radar of the SMP is disabled by default.
When the server owner (using bukkitplugin/other) sets the key word to motd(login message), they become effective.
Please set the keyword to motd referring to the following.

&0&0: prefix
&e&f: suffix
&1: cave mapping
&2: entities radar (player)
&3: entities radar (animal)
&4: entities radar (mob)
&5: entities radar (slime)
&6: entities radar (squid)
&7: entities radar (other living)

examples.
All enable.

&0&0&1&2&3&4&5&6&7&e&f

Cavemap enable.

&0&0&1&e&f

Cavemap and EntitiesRadar(player,animal,slime) enable.

&0&0&1&2&3&5&e&f

("&" marks color codes. If your server uses a wrapper with different codes then use this for reference).

for CommandBook(bukkit plugin)

It is not possible to use it with the vanilla server that cannot set motd.

I made it for official server. / Forge server / Client(LAN Server)
LoginMessage
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-Fixed: not visible PlayerEntity of entity radar
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v3.4 [04-Jul 2013]
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v3.3_06 [10-May 2013]
-Fixed: Lighting bug fixes

v3.3_05 [03-May 2013]
-Fixed: Minor bug fixes
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v3.3_04 [20-March 2013]
-Fixed: Exception occurs in the twilight forest

v3.3_03 [19-March 2013]
-Fixed: Defect of character display of waypoints

v3.3_02 [16-March 2013]
-Fixed: Error when generating the color of the texture

v3.3_01 [16-March 2013]
-Fixed: Display the coordinates of round map

v3.3 [14-March 2013]
-Support: Minecraft 1.5

v3.2_06 [22-December 2012]
-Fixed: Updates to the map when you're riding a boat or cart, etc.

v3.2_05 [01-August 2012]
-Fixed: Color of the leaf of "The Twilight Forest"
-Fixed: Enemy of InvasionMod became purple color (EntityRadar)
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-Support: Minecraft 1.4.2 (25-October 2012)

v3.2_04 [23-June 2012]
-Added: configuration of the "Preloaded Chunks" (This setting was always enabled in v3.2 ~ v3.2_03)
If enabled, you might get a bug

v3.2_03 [21-June 2012]
-Fixed?: NullPointerException(ChunkData.updateEnvironmentColor)

v3.2_02 [21-June 2012]
-Fixed: NullPointerException in "Set Waypoint" (Default:C-Key)

v3.2_01 [20-June 2012]
-Fixed: Waypoint and Deathpoint
-Fixed: Spam message when using the Forge
-Changed: Remove the delay to the start of the minimap.

v3.2 [17-June 2012]
-Added: Smooth color of the grass/leaf/water of the biome border
-Fixed: Marker is hidden when using RenderDistance of OptiFine
-Fixed: biome

v3.1 [24-May 2012]
-Changed: Scrolling and rotation of a minimap were smoothed.
-Changed: The motion of an entity radar was smoothed.
-Fixed: An error when "sneak" is assigned to a mouse.

v3.0_06 [19-April 2012]
-Changed: InvasionMod's Enemy type are changed from "OtherLiving" to "Monster".
-Fixed: NullPointerException has occured on EntityRadar if InvasionMod is not installed.

v3.0_05 [19-April 2012]
-Added: Darken the dead entity (EntityRadar)
-Change: Enemy of InvasionMod became purple color (EntityRadar)
-Fixed: PlasmaCraft liquid did not appear.

v3.0_04 [08-April 2012]
-Support: Minecraft 1.2.5

v3.0_04 [25-March 2012]
-Support: Minecraft 1.2.4

v3.0_03 [05-March 2012]
-Fixed?: Error: -8 and Error: 16 (Minecraft 1.2.3)

v3.0_02 [04-March 2012]
-Support: ModLoader for Minecraft 1.2.3

v3.0_02 [03-March 2012]
-Fixed: Overhead pressure plate, the reaction under certain conditions
-Support: Minecraft 1.2.3

v3.0_01 [14-January 2012]
-Support: ModLoader for Minecraft 1.1

v3.0_01 [13-January 2012]
-Fixed: display a marker of long-distance
-Support: Minecraft 1.1

v3.0 [07-January 2012]
-Added: Ability to display the waypoint on the game screen
-Fixed: Changing how to convert lowercase to uppercase

v2.9_02 [05-January 2012]
-Fixed: Specify the charset encoding when saving the configuration and waypoints

v2.9_01 [01-January 2012]
-Fixed: Biome names were listed on large map
-Fixed: Show dimension names

v2.9 [12-December 2011]
-Added: Map scale setting
-Changed: Deletion method of waypoint

v2.8_04 [29-November 2011]
-Fixed: Cavemapping when using HeightMod

v2.8_03 [28-November 2011]
-Fixed: Spelling correction

v2.8_02 [26-November 2011]
-Fixed?: ConcurrentModificationException

v2.8_01 [24-November 2011]
-Added: Entities radar dimmed low position
-Update: mod_ReiMinimap(ModLoader)

v2.8 [19-November 2011]
-Added: Largemap zoom-in/zoom-out
-Added: Entity radar (lightning bolt)
-Change: Largemap label
-Support: Minecraft 1.0.0!!
-Support: ModLoader for Minecraft 1.0.0 (21-November 2011)

v2.7_04 [14-November 2011]
-Support: Minecraft RC2

v2.7_03 [12-November 2011]
-Fixed: Mob(monster) that had been displayed EntityLiving. (1.9pre6)
-Fixed: Could not be switched EntityLiving.

v2.7_02 [12-November 2011]
-Support: Minecraft Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6

v2.7_01 [10-November 2011]
-Added: Update check
-Fixed: Color of water and the lava
-Fixed: Behavior of RenderType on SMP

v2.7 [09-November 2011]
-Added: ZanMinimap texture
-Added: 4 levels of opacity maps (25%/50%/75%/100%) was.
-Added: Set the opacity of individual large map and common map.
-Added: Grid view of the chunk
-Change: Toggle Waypoints operation(Toggle Waypoints Dimension/Toggle Waypoints Visible)
-Change: Key configuration screen
-Change: Do not show the direction in which a square map.
-Fixed?: error when generating a color from the texture blocks.
-Readded: Entities radar
-Readded: Cave mapping

v2.6_01 [28-October 2011]
-Fixed: Spelling correction

v2.6 [21-October 2011]
-Added?: Height MOD support? (Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4)
-Added: Temperature/humidity is expressed as a color
-Added: Displayed biome name in large map

v2.5 [14-October 2011]
-Added?: Height MOD support? (Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4)
-Changed: The current coordinates will be set if the coordinates of a waypoint are emptied.
-Fixed: Leaves of the rubber of RedPower 2 was gray
-Removed: Orange coloration of the direction of the sunrise
-Removed: Setting the direction of the sunrise (Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4)

v2.4 [12-October 2011]
-Added: View another dimension waypoints
-Fixed: Leaves of the rubber of IndustrialCraft2 was gray

v2.3_01 [12-October 2011]
-Fixed: Disabled threading was not able to update the biome.

v2.3 [07-October 2011]
-Added: Sunrise direction setting.
-Added: Minecraft Forge Support. (block color generator)
-Fixed: Block color generator.
-Fixed?: Roundmap looked square. (Minimap Option &--#62; MapMask Type &--#62; Stencil)

v2.2_02 [02-October 2011]
-Fixed: Reflection (field name), I forgot to update. (Beta 1.9pre2 only)

v2.2_01 [01-October 2011]
-Fixed: Block-colors generate of HD Texture
-Fixed: Memory usage of the new RenderType

v2.2 [01-October 2011]
-Added: Automatically generate the block colors from TexturePack
-Added: RenderType(Biome/Temperature/Humidity)

v2.1[Guinea Pig version] [25-September 2011]
-Added: Swampland biome color

v2.0 [22-September 2011]
-Added: New lighting style of beta 1.8

v1.9_02 [20-September 2011]
-Changed: Adjustment block color.
-Fixed: In the SMP, did not work if the address of the server contains a line break.
-Fixed: When Threading and Environment Color were enable, the error might come out.

v1.9_01[Guinea Pig version] [18-September 2011]
-Added: BlockColor - MC Beta 1.8
-Added: Slightly detailed error message.
-Changed: Put the delay to the start of the minimap.

v1.9[Guinea Pig version] [14-September 2011]
-Added: Options - Coordinate Type, Font Scale
-Added: Hotkey - Waypoint List
-Removed: Cavemapping
-Removed: Entities Radar

v1.8 [25-August 2011]
-Added: Supports Minecraft Extended
-Added: Block color of Aether V1.02
-Changed: Slime spawning chunks was displayed only with Overworld(Dimension=0).
-Fixed: Waypoint was not able to be loaded with SMP, except for port 25565.

v1.7 [19-August 2011]
-Added: Show slime spawning chunks
-Added: Death point
-Fixed: Scrollbar of waypoint list

v1.6_01 [14-August 2011]
-Fixed: Mob and Animal of the Entities Radar Options had reversed.

v1.6 [14-August 2011]
-Added: The color of the block was able to be specified with the file. (.minecraft/mods/rei_minimap/blockcolor.txt)
-Changed: Organizing Options
-Fixed: Block ID of Aether was acquired from not fixation ID but the name.
-Fixed: When dimension move with SMP, the bug to which cavemap/entities radar was invalid is corrected.

v1.5 [05-August 2011]
-Added: Semitransparent indication of the map
-Added: Show the direction of the entity (Entities Radar Options)
-Changed: to hide the edges of the large map.
-Fixed: Illegal waypoints file name characters "_" is replaced by
-Fixed: Slight correction of the cave map

v1.4 [29-july 2011]
-Added: Cavemap support in SMP. default is disabled.
-Added: Entities radar support in SMP. default is disabled.
-Added: Setting of position where map is displayed.
-Added: The transparency of entity is decided by the vertical interval.
-Changed: Integration of modloader version and non-modloader version.

v1.3 [25-july 2011]
-Added: Default zoom setting
-Added: Thread priority setting
-Added: Fullscreen map show waypoint name when press "Toggle Zoom" (Default:Z-Key)
-Added: Some hot keys
-Added: Cave Map (it is disabled now in SMP) Cavemap doesn't react if there is no light.
-Added: Entities Radar (it is disabled now in SMP)
-Changed: Organizing Options
-Additionally, some small changes

v1.1_02 [23-july 2011]
-Changed: disappear minimap while open the GUI except the minimap.

v1.1_01 [19-july 2011]
-Fixed: It was not possible to start when modloader was not used.

v1.1 [18-july 2011]
-Changed: disappear minimap while open the inventory
-Fixed?: HD fonts
-Added: 1.5x zoom
-Changed(I forgot to write this): save the settings to %APPDATA%\.minecraft\mods\rei_minimap


































v1.0 [17-july 2011]
-First Release

Sound Fix Mod (Sound changes in the vertical direction...small effect)
[Minecraft 1.2.5]
[Minecraft 1.2.4]
[Minecraft 1.2.3]
[Minecraft 1.1]
[Minecraft 1.1 compatible AudioMod]
[Minecraft 1.1 for comparison (Activate only while hold down the L-Ctrl)]

back to the old color of the swampland
[Minecraft 1.2.5]
[Minecraft 1.2.4]
[Minecraft 1.2.3]
[Minecraft 1.1]
[Minecraft 1.0.0]

12/24/12
+Updated to support 1.4.6/1.5
+Bloom in particles
+Extra strikes in particles
+Wheat
+CTM

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-Seed farm:
One can easily make a seed farm by having a patch of grass in your base that's above your head. Bonemeal it from below, and then use a piston-controlled stream of water to bring the seeds down onto your head!

-Wheat farm
Bread is a good food source for everyday Minecrafting. It revives your hunger bar 2 and a half bars, and is stackable for easy carrying. Wheat is stackable too, so you can have a few stacks of wheat and a crafting table in your inventory, and be set on food for quite a while. Open the spoiler for an example of a wheat farm.

-Melon farm
Melons are a good food source in the game. Although they only heal one hunger bar, they are easily farmable and plentiful once you have melon seeds. Of course, though, finding the actual seeds is harder than a lot of other sources of food. Open the spoiler for an example of a melon farm!

-Pumpkin farm
While Pumpkins aren't a food source, and aren't useful for too many things, they are good for making into Jack-O Lanterns as a cheap substitute for Glowstone, or put them on your head to avoid Endermen! Here, have a picture of a pumpkin farm, wrapped inside a spoiler.

-Mushroom farm
Mushrooms! Yay! Mushrooms are incredibly useful in Minecraft. Bonemeal a mushroom to turn it into a Giant Mushroom, perfect for making a cute little house out of. Or, bonemeal mushrooms, and then break the mushroom blocks to harvest regular mushrooms! Make some bowls out of wood in your crafting bench, and then craft mushroom stew on the fly (it doesn't require a crafting bench). Open the spoiler for a photo of a giant mushroom!

-Sugarcane farm
Sugarcane is a lot more useful than it's made out to be. It can be crafted down to sugar, which is useful in potions and for making cake. Also, with raw sugarcane, you can make paper, then books, and then even bookshelves, which are useful as decoration and enchanting! So, make a sugarcane farm today. I don't really think you need a picture for this-- just put sugarcane around water, and set up a piston harvesting system.

-Tree farm
Ah, the tree farm. A staple of Minecraft life, tree farms supply you with the essential Minecraft material, wood. Whether you want a simple tree farm, or to get fancy with exactly spaced trees that can be cut down with an Efficiency axe while sprinting, a tree farm is a must so that you don't have to go and tear down your neighboring forests every time you want some wood. No picture for this one either, because designs vary quite a bit.

-Netherwart farm
If you want to use potions, a good source of Netherwart is a must. Since Netherwart will only grow in the Nether, this needs to be made in the Nether. Use an automatic Netherwart farm, or just create a manual (but very cool-looking) farm, using end stone and vines on the walls. Your friends will wonder how you designed a farm so well! Open the spoiler for a picture of a Netherwart farm.

-Flower farm
Same as the seed farm, using the same principle. You'll get flowers from that farm, too.

-Cactus farm
Besides making green dye for green wool, cacti in Minecraft are really useless. But you should have a farm for them anyway! Cactus farms are probably the easiest automated Minecraft farm to make, because they don't require any pistons to collect them. Just put a block that will knock off the cactus when it appears. Extra points if you build the farm in a giant model of a cactus, made out of green wool. Here's a pic of a simple farm:

-Cobblestone generator
Ah, man, cobble is common, right? You get far too much of it from mining. But make a cobble generator anyway! It's useful for building large projects involving smooth stone. Just collect tons of cobble, and smelt it in your furnace room using blaze rods from your blaze farm. (More on this later). No pic for this one, because cobble farms are fairly easy to make.

-Retractible workbench
Do you want an automated Minecraft world, where everything is convenient and easy to do? Look no further than a retractible workbench! If your base is underground, you might want to consider having these around your base. Using a piston and some redstone, make a workbench spring out of a wall when you press a button. Look it up on YouTube if you want to know how to do the wiring. Sorry, no picture.

-Railway
You need a railway to get around, right? So make one! (Or two, or five, or a million!) For a totally automated world, you should have a railway going to your stronghold and all your experience farms! You should also have railways in the Nether, going every place you could possibly think of!

-Enchanting room
Enchanting rooms are a must for enchanting your diamond tools with Level 50 enchants. Put a row of bookshelves 2 blocks high around your enchanting table, all one block away from it. Put the enchanting table in the middle of it. Optionally, put a glowstone block under the enchantment table to spread light in the room, because light passes through enchanting tables. Be sure not to put any paintings, torches, etc. between the table and the bookshelves, because that will stop you from getting high level enchantments (because it deactivates some of the bookshelves). If you like, put an awesome texture pack on that will make the room look even better! Click on the spoiler to see one example.

-Potion room
Every good automated base needs an automated potion room. One good setup is the one that Etho uses in his Etho's Lab Minecraft LP. It's hard to describe, but buttons on the walls with signs describing the items used activates dispensers with items that float down to you, making the potionmaking experience nearly automated. All you need to do then is put the ingredients in the brewing table. For more information and step-by step instructions on how to make this, look

-Storage room
Every good base needs a storage room! Go wild with this room. You should decorate it and make it look as cool as possible. Look at the "Block Combinations" section of this thread to get some ideas for building a storage room. If you really want to get fancy, make an auto minecart system that carts certain types of supplies to you at the press of a button (or the flip of a lever).

-Sleeping room
Yawnn... you're sleepy, aren't you? All of that hard work in the mines is really getting to you. So build yourself a nice bedroom! You could make a canopy bed using half slabs beside the bed and a roof over, or make a bunk bed using the "floating bed" trick. Or, if you reside in an above-ground home, make a bedroom looking out onto a Minecraft ocean! Open the spoiler for a picture of a nice bedroom.

-Room for wolves
Do you have nice wolf pets? Make them their own room! Using different colored wools, make little beds for them carved in the wool. Then give them nameplates using signs. Decorate the room, and you're done! Now your canine friends have a little sanctuary, just for them.

-Testificate room
Gotta catch em' all! Testificates, that is. Collect a full set-- all 6 different types of Villager, from farmers to priests. Using Minecarts, transport them to your base, and then give them an environment to roam in (inside your base, of course). I got this idea from Etho-- watch him do it right

-Pixel art
Have a boring wall in your base? No ideas on how to decorate it? Make some pixel art on the wall! One example is in the spoiler.

-Creeper farm
The truth of the matter is that most people need a lot of TNT for Minecraft projects. If you are a Minecraft pro, TNT is really useful for hollowing out large areas underground for making temples, or whatever. But for TNT, you're going to need a lot of gunpowder! Creeper farms are relatively easy to make-- make a regular mob trap, and have the collection tube be in the sun. Use glass for the collection tube, and regular mobs will burn in the sunlight, leaving only creepers behind. K.O. them for gunpowder. It's a bit hard to explain, but check out some of Etho's early videos to see his mob trap.

-Skeleton farm
Once you find a skeleton dungeon, you can easily make a skeleton farm. Make the skeletons drop 23 blocks if you want an XP farm (with added drops) or 24 blocks if you just want to be able to AFK and get insane amounts of arrows and bones. Here's a blueprint of a skelly farm, using a dungeon:

-Spider farm
You can make a spider farm, using a spider dungeon, for plenty of string and spider eyes. If you're looking for a Cave Spider farm design, see the Cave Spider section, a few paragraphs onwards.

-Zombie farm
See the Skeleton Farm section.

-Slime farm
Look up a design on YouTube for this. Not too hard to find one.

-Ghast farm
Look up design on YouTube.

-Zombie Pigman farm
Look up design on YouTube. I recommend docm77's Iron Lung design.

-Enderman farm
An Enderman farm in the End, using either Etho or Docm77's design. I know I reference both of them a lot, but they have worlds that many people want their worlds modelled after, because of all their automated designs for farms and traps.

-Cave spider farm
Designs on YouTube are plentiful for cave spiders. Xisumavoid's tutorial on these is fairly clear and easy to follow. (I'm not related to his channel in any way, shape, or form; I just like his tutorials. Same with any of the other YouTubers listed in this thread).

-Blaze farm
Use Etho's design. Find it on YouTube. This design has been imitated by many other YouTubers.

-Magma Cube farm
This is pretty hard to make, but it's possible. Look on YouTube for a design. This won't be a fully automatic farm.

-Sheep farm
-Pig farm
-Cow farm
-Chicken farm
-Squid farm
-Mooshroom farm
Look on YouTube for these designs.

-Snow golem creator
Using pistons to push the blocks needed into place, you can make a snow golem generator. Look for designs on YouTube for this.

-Shooting range
Have more arrows from your skeleton trap than you know what to do with? Build a shooting range to test your skills and accuracy in Minecraft shooting! Bonus points if you have a scoreboard that's automatically operated by redstone when you shoot the target. Open the spoiler for one example.

-Block museum
Do you want Minecraft to have a goal? Try and make a block museum! Create a room in your base, with a slot for every legit obtainable block in the game. If books ever become writable in, chronicle your adventures to find each block in a book next to the block. Or, you can post your story on signs in a secret piston-opened room behind the block museum.

-Giant mine
Of course, this is a given. Every base needs a mine. But what if you're bored of the same old stone caves? Take some glowstone, some soul sand, some leaf blocks, some netherrack, and any other interesting blocks and decorate the caves around your house! You'll actually enjoy walking through the caves near your base to get to that new unexplored area, and people will gasp when they see the cool caves.

-Record farm
Now, with the newest Minecraft update, you can get all of the records by getting a skeleton to kill a creeper. There's plenty of designs on YouTube for a record farm, so just look it up. Then, after you get all of the records, make a record room in your base with tons of jukeboxes and chests with all the records! Come into the room whenever you're feeling a bit musical, and play your favorite tune in Minecraft. (My personal favorite is cat).

-Music room
Look at my description of the record farm for more information about this.

-Fishing pool
Every base needs a little pool where you can farm squid and catch fish! Fish are a nice-healthy food source, high in Omega- 3's (in real life!) Make a little pool in your base, and decorate the pool room with some tall grass, vines, and sugar cane to give it that tropical feel!

-Charcoal generator
This is fairly simple. Just have a wall of furnaces, making charcoal, outside of your tree farm. This will generate plenty of charcoal, which is good incase your coal supply is running out. Did you know that you can also use blaze rods to cook things in furnaces, besides charcoal? Blaze rods are really more efficient than charcoal, once you get a blaze farm up and running.

-Nether portal room (w/ off/on switch)
Build a cool room for your Nether portal! You probably go in and out of it very often, so why not make the entrance look pretty dang cool? For one example of a really cool portal room, click right Also, you should have an off/on switch for your portal. It is possible to turn a portal off and on using a button. If you don't believe me, look at docm77's world, where he has one.

-Library
Build a mysterious library, using redstone torches and vines to give it a mysterious feel! For optional awesomeness, you could put your enchanting room in the library, too!

-Rain Detector
If you live underground in Minecraft, it might be useful to know if it's raining or not. It's possible to make this; look to see how to make it.


More Uncategorized Ideas
These will hopefully be categorized later, when I have more time.

A good base has lots of cool devices and inventions, but how do you make your base look nice? YouTubers like Etho and Docm make it so easy to make elegent, good-looking bases. Well, now you'll know how also. The secret is Block Combinations. That is, what blocks go together nicely. In this section, I'll be telling you what block combinations look nice, and also I'll be giving you a couple ideas for designs for your base!

-Obsidian, Lapis Lazuli blocks, and Gold blocks look nice together
-Jack-o Lanterns, Leaf blocks, Birch wood, and Sandstone look nice together
-End Stone and Vines look nice together
-Stone Bricks, Nether Brick, and Glowstone look nice together.
-Melon blocks and Pumpkins look nice together.
-Mossy cobblestone, Bricks, and Bookshelves look nice together.


Some design tips for your base:
-If your base looks a bit plain, put a fence with two vertical leaf blocks on top! Looks like a little tree, and is a good decoration for a boring room.
-Try putting trapdoors on all your glowstone! It makes your glowstone look nice, and it also makes it look like tasty waffles. Mmm! (Please don't sue me if you get hungry while playing Minecraft).
-Don't forget paintings! If you have a boring wall, put a painting on it! Try making a secret door using paintings!
-Try making an awesome bedroom, with half-slabs around the bed and a roof over, to make a canopy bed!
-If you have a Silk Touch pickaxe, mine some ore blocks and make a wall out of them! Try building a room out of diamond ore, or make a pattern of the different ores on the wall.
-Have stations around your base where you can "fuel up". Have splash potions in dispensers that fire at you, making you run faster and jump higher (you get a cookie if you get the reference).
-Just be imaginative! Make your base different than everone else's! Try building your base in the sky, or on a boat, or in the End. Just have fun with it.

Location is an important part of building a base! Where your base is will dictate what style and type of base you make. A few locations for building a base are:

-In the sky!
-On a boat!
-Underground!
-Overground!
-In the Nether!
-In the End!
-On a cliff!
-Off a cliff!

The location of your base will also influence how complex it is. For example, if your base is underground, you might have the space to hollow out a massive area, and to make a huge automated reed farm. If you're living, i.e.; on a boat, you might only have space for a tiny, manually-harvested sugar cane farm, or even none at all!

Next, I will go over some of the Pros and Cons of building a base in some various locations.

Underground
-Pros: Plenty of space to expand, when you want to expand, you can just dig instead of building, night/day cycle doesn't affect you
-Cons: Never see the light of day.

In the Sky
-Pros: Fantastic view, your friends will envy your awesome floating base
-Cons: Hard to expand your base, hard to reach your base from the ground, need to go down to the ground to mine

In the Nether
-Pros: Extremely easy to obtain materials like glowstone and netherrack
-Cons: Under fire from ghasts, no grass without silk touch, no water so many items are unobtainable unless traveled to the Overworld for

In the End dimension
-Pros: Novelty
-Cons: Barren, lonely, no grass without silk touch, danger from Endermen and Enderdragon before dragon is killed.

On the water
-Pros: Unique, good view of the ocean, go deep sea diving
-Cons: Not much room to expand your base, lonely (unless you bring some cows, pigs, chickens, etc. with you on the boat).


Open the spoiler for pictures of each type of base! Hopefully these will give you some building ideas.




Of course, most of that information about location is just common sense. Still, it helps some people to see it written down so they can weigh the pros of a location against the cons.

I don't want to inject too much opinion into this thread. I mostly want this thread to have facts. But my personal favorite location to build a base is underground. There's nearly infinite room to expand, carving out new rooms is easy, you can build Minecart rails to get around, night/day cycle doesn't affect you, and it's just really cool to have an underground base anyway!

Did you read the entire post up until this point? Want some closing tips; things that you should remember while making your base? Well, here are some!

First of all, try not to imitate the major YouTubers' bases. Sure, many of them, like Docm77 and Etho have really awesome bases, and many people aspire to be just like them in Minecraft. But although imitation is a form of flattery, in the long run, it's going to be more fun for you if you are creative and make up your own ideas. If you build a base that looks a lot like Etho's, you may have fun copying his cool designs now, but later on you'll look back and say, "I wish I had built something of my own creation!" If you just try your own thing from the beginning rather than trying to copy someone else, your base might even turn out better than theirs!

Also, another tip, although it sounds corny, is to never give up. Desigining a home can be very, very frustrating. Working with redstone can be even more so. If one of your creations doesn't work, or is blown up by a creeper, and you feel yourself about to all-out rage, throwing your keyboard across the room at your basket of X-Box shaped donuts on top of your cat (wat?) then take a break from Minecraft! Give yourself some time to calm down, and then come back to building whatever you were building when you're calmer. If you keep building in your enraged state, without taking a break, you'll probably just mess up more stuff, and rage even more.

Don't be afraid to come to the forums for help on your base! If you post a topic asking for help designing something or thinking up ideas, sure, there will be plenty of people that say things like "You must be new here" and call you a noob. But there are a good number of polite people on the forums that will help you out. Just ignore the mean people. And, if you see a thread like this, spread the love and help that person out. Don't be rude to other people! What goes around, comes around.

Although this isn't really a tip (it's just common sense), you need to love what you're doing. You can't build an epic base unless you're in the mood and you want to. I find, personally, that some days, I'm more keen on playing Minecraft than others. Wait to play Minecraft until a day you really want to, and build something then. I guarantee, it will be really awesome. Also, if you start a project in Minecraft and find you just don't love building it anymore, take a break from it! Chances are, you'll come back to the project later with renewed vigor, after you've thought up some good ideas about what to build.

Over all, have fun with it! Minecraft is a game, and is therefore supposed to be fun. Stop doing something if you aren't having fun with it, and don't start something if it seems like a chore and not play. Don't create a complex base with lots of redstone unless you actually like making redstone circuitry. But feel free to try new things! New things often lead to fun new experiences.

Anyway, you're awesome if you read through all these tips. I doubt anyone will, because my writing style isn't particularly entertaining, but I hope you gleaned at least a bit of knowledge from this thread. I appreciate your reading it!