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Quote from Badprenup»

I thought about doing thermals based on the area you were flying over and it seemed like it would take too much work to calculate if you make it too massive. Checking for all of a specific block in a certain area becomes increasingly harder the larger the area gets, which is why Slime Blocks are so limited (although that is also because the game needs to detect and move them). We could compromise by it detecting other blocks within a certain distance (a 5 block radius around the player would detect an area that is 121 square meters. The game would look at the Thermal block the player is in and increase the boost that they get by the standard amount plus 1% for each Thermal block the player would be effected by. So going across a large lava lake would give you the standard amount plus a 120% boost to elevation while in the thermal.

The new Elytra have some interesting implications. We now have non-powered flight available in survival, this could be a fantastic upgrade to powered flight.

Quote from Badprenup»

Okay because Minecraft now contains a glider very similar to this suggestion (in the newest snapshot), I am changing this to a thread about improving them, including the addition of thermals and general improvements. I edited the OP.

To simplify, I would cut it down to just three wind speeds: calm (nothing), windy, and stormy. Calm is normal, everyday, nothing. Windy is a slight affect that happens during rain, or when above the clouds - steady, and in one direction at a time.

Stormy, only during thunder storms... would be chaotic and make flying exceptionally dangerous.

I love it when people don't actually get how the game works.

Quote from AlexDaCoolMC»

This would be difficult to code because stairs and slabs should be also made. Also we have wool, clay and the other wood types. And also if colored wood was added, fences and doors would be needed. Sorry but

no support[/b]

Adding blocks is the easiest thing they can do, and this one wouldn't even require much work for texturing (it's just a color shift from Oak).

And so what if we want slabs and stairs too? It's not any harder to implement those. There is literally not technical reason to say no to adding new variants of existing blocks, or decorative blocks of any kind.

The only reason to say no to this kind of suggestion would be if it wasn't a good fit for the game. The silly thing about all the polls, is that people don't get this. 40% of voters said no? That's because 40% of voters didn't understand that this has no negative impact, due to common misconceptions about the development of the game.

So, would colored wood fit in the game? [b]Yes.[/b]

[b]Support.[/b]

Quote from Sanwi

Here's what I'm using right now: http://pastebin.com/fSrDQS5M

A proper command for a method would be nice. Something like:


It would pause the script until the method completes, then return output variable, with delimiters if there is more than one. This would allow proper recursion, which is extremely useful.

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Quote from 4HeadTiger

You know, it's really not that hard to solve the ores problem even if you change the depth.

Super simple solution for diamonds;

chance_to_spawn_in_chunk = max(0,depth-50)^abundance_value
size_of_cluster = random.nextInt(3) + max(0,depth)^size_value

Basically, no diamonds until you are 50 blocks down. After this point, you get veins of increasing size and rarity, determined by the abundance value. However even if you use an abundance of say, 0.25, you are looking at only twice as many diamonds after going down several times further. Tweak the numbers until the amount of diamonds is good.

It took longer to write this particular sentence than it did to come up with those equations.

I personally think that a depth of about 200 blocks would be good. You can still get everything you want at 60 blocks depth; there is just MOAR OF IT as you go further down (very simple implementation of an effort <=> reward system). Of course, then you can have some more fun with the system. Blocks and mobs get harder and stronger the further below sea level they spawn, and so on.

In fact, using a 'harder blocks at greater depths' system, you could entirely remove a depth limit: the blocks get harder, take longer to mine, and there is just a point where it is no longer worth digging down any further.