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Before reading, note that all ideas here should scientifically accurate. I know some of the materials listed have been suggested elsewhere. This thread elaborates on their USES.
Please only suggest USEFUL materials. I don't want to see a list of minerals you pulled off wikipedia. Only suggest the materials you can think of practical uses for.
My ideas so far (at least the ones i've written down. this list will GROW):
Possible useful rock types:
chalk- for whitewash. I'd appreciate it if anyone posted any other ideas for uses for chalk (or anything else), but be fairly accurate to real life recipes that correspond.
limestone- you would realistically heat this on a furnace to get the material lime. However, since the use of turning limestone into other types of rock like marble using a furnace has bee suggested in other threads, I propose a crafting recipe for a bucket of lime:
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= limestone
= bucket of lava
Craft a bucket of lime with clay to get a bucket of cement. Craft cement with gravel, sand, and a bucket of water to get concrete. I'm not sure if concrete shout be contained in a bucket, or just be a block immediately... If a bucket was used, then recollecting a block of "hardened" (placed) concrete would have to give a block (cant recollect a block into a bucket!), so maybe using only blocks would be simpler. If this was the case, the the buckets of cement/water would remain in the crafting grid after crafting, and only the contents would be removed, like how milk buckets work when crafting cake. The recipe for concrete would probably make at least 8 blocks, since the process has so many steps. Another way to deal with this would be that, if concrete was in a bucket, 1 bucket could be used to place multiple concrete blocks (not infinite of course, no more than 16) Still not sure about the bucket vs. block issue. Any feedback on this would be appreciated.
Also, if lime was crafted with chalk, you could get whitewash, which would function as blank painting that could be placed over a surface. you would craft a bucket of whitewash like this:
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= bucket of lime
= chalk
ALLOYS (if you dont know what it means, look it up)
These would require a furnace with 2 slots and a variety of new metals such as tin, copper, zinc, silver,
Smelting 2 metals together would produce multiple (2-4?) of the new metal. ask you: should you have to smelt 2 ingots together, or is ore fine?
bronze: tin+copper. less durable than iron, but probably easier to produce. tin and copper would have to be fairly common, and 1 tin and 1 copper would produce at least 4 bronze- could be used for cannonballs (historically accurate). Cannonballs would be like snowballs, but would do more damage when they hit something. This would be a good item to put in dispensers. The real question is: can you make explosive cannonballs if you craft bronze with sulfur? A note block placed on a brass block would sound like a bell. (Bronze is commonly used for bells)
brass: zinc+copper- place a note block on brass block make it sound like a brass instrument. Other ideas?
steel: iron+coal (coal contains carbon). more durable than iron, but same in most other ways. Not sure about stainless steel: it would make a very decorative shiny block, but would require chromium, an element i fear is too obscure for minecraft.
Other useful alloys, stones, or materials? Other uses for the alloys, stones, or metals listed? General feedback?
Were this to come to pass, limestone could also be tossed into the furnace to make marble, as marble in reality is metamorphosed limestone. Sorry if marble isn't a particularly "useful" material, but lots of people want to see it be added.
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Were this to come to pass, limestone could also be tossed into the furnace to make marble, as marble in reality is metamorphosed limestone. Sorry if marble isn't a particularly "useful" material, but lots of people want to see it be added.
Marble would be very useful, as a building material. Maybe not in crafting recipes, but as i building material, i agree that marble would be a great addition to the game. The only reason I hadn't mentioned it was because the idea of "furnacing" limestone into other rocks has been described this way in other threads.
EDIT: Because lime could be turned into other materials using a furnace however, i propose i different way to make lime to cooperate with these ideas.
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[] [] = bucket of lime
where is limestone, and is a bucket of lava.
not a furnace, but close. this solves the problem of containing lime in containers as well.
Thank you for pointing this out.
this is pretty neat, but could you use steel tools/armor?
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steel tools and armour would probably be used. Possibly same as iron, but more durable. Again, steel has been used in countless threads. The purpose of this thread is to think of NEW uses for these materials.
It looks like this thread is pretty old. But I thought I'd add a bit anyway :smile.gif:
I'd like to see the alloys, because a game about mining and smelting feels a little bare without them. Especially steel, but also bronze and maybe brass. Which means we'd be mining Copper, Tin, and Zinc.
Gypsum could be used as fertilizer, in some sort of balance with Bone Meal (replacing it? supplementing it? enhancing it?).
Halite is rock salt. Could use it in some fashion. Salt is very useful IRL, but I'm not so sure as to the uses in-game. Food preservation? Cooking ingredient? Ice melting agent? (Actually, that last one sounds cool.)
Feldspar could make glass more durable - perhaps make it resist creeper blasts.
And Talc would be used as Chalk. Would it fit the uses you have for chalk? It'd be neat to have this game educate through osmosis as you play :smile.gif:
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Please only suggest USEFUL materials. I don't want to see a list of minerals you pulled off wikipedia. Only suggest the materials you can think of practical uses for.
My ideas so far (at least the ones i've written down. this list will GROW):
Possible useful rock types:
chalk- for whitewash. I'd appreciate it if anyone posted any other ideas for uses for chalk (or anything else), but be fairly accurate to real life recipes that correspond.
limestone- you would realistically heat this on a furnace to get the material lime. However, since the use of turning limestone into other types of rock like marble using a furnace has bee suggested in other threads, I propose a crafting recipe for a bucket of lime:
[] [] []
[] []
[] []
= limestone
= bucket of lava
Craft a bucket of lime with clay to get a bucket of cement. Craft cement with gravel, sand, and a bucket of water to get concrete. I'm not sure if concrete shout be contained in a bucket, or just be a block immediately... If a bucket was used, then recollecting a block of "hardened" (placed) concrete would have to give a block (cant recollect a block into a bucket!), so maybe using only blocks would be simpler. If this was the case, the the buckets of cement/water would remain in the crafting grid after crafting, and only the contents would be removed, like how milk buckets work when crafting cake. The recipe for concrete would probably make at least 8 blocks, since the process has so many steps. Another way to deal with this would be that, if concrete was in a bucket, 1 bucket could be used to place multiple concrete blocks (not infinite of course, no more than 16) Still not sure about the bucket vs. block issue. Any feedback on this would be appreciated.
Also, if lime was crafted with chalk, you could get whitewash, which would function as blank painting that could be placed over a surface. you would craft a bucket of whitewash like this:
[] [] []
[] []
[] []
= bucket of lime
= chalk
ALLOYS (if you dont know what it means, look it up)
These would require a furnace with 2 slots and a variety of new metals such as tin, copper, zinc, silver,
Smelting 2 metals together would produce multiple (2-4?) of the new metal. ask you: should you have to smelt 2 ingots together, or is ore fine?
bronze: tin+copper. less durable than iron, but probably easier to produce. tin and copper would have to be fairly common, and 1 tin and 1 copper would produce at least 4 bronze- could be used for cannonballs (historically accurate). Cannonballs would be like snowballs, but would do more damage when they hit something. This would be a good item to put in dispensers. The real question is: can you make explosive cannonballs if you craft bronze with sulfur? A note block placed on a brass block would sound like a bell. (Bronze is commonly used for bells)
brass: zinc+copper- place a note block on brass block make it sound like a brass instrument. Other ideas?
steel: iron+coal (coal contains carbon). more durable than iron, but same in most other ways. Not sure about stainless steel: it would make a very decorative shiny block, but would require chromium, an element i fear is too obscure for minecraft.
Other useful alloys, stones, or materials? Other uses for the alloys, stones, or metals listed? General feedback?
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Marble would be very useful, as a building material. Maybe not in crafting recipes, but as i building material, i agree that marble would be a great addition to the game. The only reason I hadn't mentioned it was because the idea of "furnacing" limestone into other rocks has been described this way in other threads.
EDIT: Because lime could be turned into other materials using a furnace however, i propose i different way to make lime to cooperate with these ideas.
[] [] []
[] []
[] [] = bucket of lime
where is limestone, and is a bucket of lava.
not a furnace, but close. this solves the problem of containing lime in containers as well.
Thank you for pointing this out.
It looks like this thread is pretty old. But I thought I'd add a bit anyway :smile.gif:
I'd like to see the alloys, because a game about mining and smelting feels a little bare without them. Especially steel, but also bronze and maybe brass. Which means we'd be mining Copper, Tin, and Zinc.
Some minerals I was discussing on another thread:
Gypsum could be used as fertilizer, in some sort of balance with Bone Meal (replacing it? supplementing it? enhancing it?).
Halite is rock salt. Could use it in some fashion. Salt is very useful IRL, but I'm not so sure as to the uses in-game. Food preservation? Cooking ingredient? Ice melting agent? (Actually, that last one sounds cool.)
Feldspar could make glass more durable - perhaps make it resist creeper blasts.
And Talc would be used as Chalk. Would it fit the uses you have for chalk? It'd be neat to have this game educate through osmosis as you play :smile.gif:
My YouTube channel is currently on hiatus, but I hope to get back to it at some point. Content is fairly random, but can be enjoyable, and is mostly game footage (mostly random Minecraft clips) from my nephews and me. Most popular MC vid so far is the one Vechs laughed at on Twitter!