So here I am, in my survival world. I just got my second beacon and when placing it down on top of the several stacks of iron blocks, I think about what effect I want. I click the GUI and am trying to decide, when a creeper strolls up the iron blocks and blows up. He blew up the beacon. He blew up what took hours and hours to get. It didn't drop a nether star and I'm fairly certain it isn't supposed to. You can imagine my frustration.
Just to make it clear, I believe that beacons should not be able to be exploded at all, just like ender chests.
While you use 5 glass to create it, beacons are also made of 3 obsidian (which is indestructible by creepers and explosions), and 1 Nether Star (which is ALSO indestructible by creepers and explosions). Why is it that beacons, which by their crafting recipe seem to be one of the most indestructible blocks in the game, blow up by normal creepers. Ender chests are made with obsidian and they can't be blown up. Enchanting tables are made with just 1 more block of obsidian, and they cannot be destroyed by creepers.
Whilst researching why this happens, I've come across a few things. Apparently, beacons can be broken by hand, and will give the beacon. This suggestion supports the idea that beacons, just like obsidian and glass, can't be returned to the player if broken by hand. Furthermore, you should need a diamond pickaxe to mine it and get it back, just like obsidian. I believe this should happen with enchantment tables, too, but that is for a different suggestion.
The most popular argument I've seen on this topic is that beacons are fragile blocks. This doesn't make much sense however, as they are made with the most explosively resistant blocks in the game.
Please leave criticism and feedback on this idea, or merely a proper explanation of why beacons act this way. I am a bit salty, so my writing may have been slightly influenced by salt, sorry.
First of all, why would you just let a random creeper wander into your beacon site? If you want to have a beacon, you should try to protect it/encase it. It's just poor protection.
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First of all, why would you just let a random creeper wander into your beacon site? If you want to have a beacon, you should try to protect it/encase it. It's just poor protection.
that's a bit off topic, anyway I agree. I personally have never defeated the ender dragon, much less the wither. but I can see your point.
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No, I do not want to use my diamond pickaxe for the sake of destroying my enchantment table, or my beacon. Yes, beacons should be indestructible though.
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Sometimes I think people pay more immediate attention to joke, troll, vague, and wrong section threads here instead of the actual proper suggestions.
OP: Multicoloured wood stuff!!!! More wood kinds! Community: Would love this! Support! Me: STOP IT. STOP NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Me: Posts*
Community: Hey look! A thread with no comments! Lets leave it empty and let it die without even giving any thoughts! 2 days later: Me: What the... where's the thread.... oh page 10
Other notes:
> If you make a banner that doesn't link back to your thread, I'll hate you a little.
> Stop suggesting: lighted torch holding, retarded bosses, new dimensions, thirst, natural disasters.
> If you don't support a gun thread because it is "OP" and "unfitting" when it clearly isn't, (eg that musket thread), I will hunt you, and I will absorb your life essence.
First of all, why would you just let a random creeper wander into your beacon site? If you want to have a beacon, you should try to protect it/encase it. It's just poor protection.
Can you please stick to the suggestion rather than my personal errors? I would appreciate your feedback on the idea, nothing else.
I will tell you that it is my fault, but the fact that the beacon gets obliterated doesn't make any sense and should be changed. That is what I want you to criticize.
I don't mind making it immune to Creeper explosions and such, but I really don't like having to have it be mined with a diamond pickaxe.
Maybe an iron pickaxe or higher, but I can see an issue with it having to be mined with a tier of pickaxe.
Trolls on a server could just mine it with their fist to remove the beacon entirely. (Though I am not sure why they would not just steal it for themselves.)
So here I am, in my survival world. I just got my second beacon and when placing it down on top of the several stacks of iron blocks, I think about what effect I want. I click the GUI and am trying to decide, when a creeper strolls up the iron blocks and blows up. He blew up the beacon. He blew up what took hours and hours to get. It didn't drop a nether star and I'm fairly certain it isn't supposed to. You can imagine my frustration.
Just to make it clear, I believe that beacons should not be able to be exploded at all, just like ender chests.
While you use 5 glass to create it, beacons are also made of 3 obsidian (which is indestructible by creepers and explosions), and 1 Nether Star (which is ALSO indestructible by creepers and explosions). Why is it that beacons, which by their crafting recipe seem to be one of the most indestructible blocks in the game, blow up by normal creepers. Ender chests are made with obsidian and they can't be blown up. Enchanting tables are made with just 1 more block of obsidian, and they cannot be destroyed by creepers.
Whilst researching why this happens, I've come across a few things. Apparently, beacons can be broken by hand, and will give the beacon. This suggestion supports the idea that beacons, just like obsidian and glass, can't be returned to the player if broken by hand. Furthermore, you should need a diamond pickaxe to mine it and get it back, just like obsidian. I believe this should happen with enchantment tables, too, but that is for a different suggestion.
The most popular argument I've seen on this topic is that beacons are fragile blocks. This doesn't make much sense however, as they are made with the most explosively resistant blocks in the game.
Please leave criticism and feedback on this idea, or merely a proper explanation of why beacons act this way. I am a bit salty, so my writing may have been slightly influenced by salt, sorry.
First of all, why would you just let a random creeper wander into your beacon site? If you want to have a beacon, you should try to protect it/encase it. It's just poor protection.
Moonman is the best thing that ever happened to me.
that's a bit off topic, anyway I agree. I personally have never defeated the ender dragon, much less the wither. but I can see your point.
support
I'm almost completely inactive, in case you're trawling through really old threads and notice me somewhere.
No, I do not want to use my diamond pickaxe for the sake of destroying my enchantment table, or my beacon. Yes, beacons should be indestructible though.
Half support
Sometimes I think people pay more immediate attention to joke, troll, vague, and wrong section threads here instead of the actual proper suggestions.
Community: Would love this! Support!
Me: STOP IT. STOP NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Me: Posts*
Community: Hey look! A thread with no comments! Lets leave it empty and let it die without even giving any thoughts!
2 days later:
Me: What the... where's the thread.... oh page 10
Other notes:
> If you make a banner that doesn't link back to your thread, I'll hate you a little.
> Stop suggesting: lighted torch holding, retarded bosses, new dimensions, thirst, natural disasters.
> If you don't support a gun thread because it is "OP" and "unfitting" when it clearly isn't, (eg that musket thread), I will hunt you, and I will absorb your life essence.
Can you please stick to the suggestion rather than my personal errors? I would appreciate your feedback on the idea, nothing else.
I will tell you that it is my fault, but the fact that the beacon gets obliterated doesn't make any sense and should be changed. That is what I want you to criticize.
I don't mind making it immune to Creeper explosions and such, but I really don't like having to have it be mined with a diamond pickaxe.
Maybe an iron pickaxe or higher, but I can see an issue with it having to be mined with a tier of pickaxe.
Trolls on a server could just mine it with their fist to remove the beacon entirely. (Though I am not sure why they would not just steal it for themselves.)
Anyways, I guess 90% support on this.
If you break a beacon with your fist, you will get it, which makes no sense. It's made of obsidian.