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Iron and Ceramic Grates
something i thought about since i first started playing Minecraft.
a real picture of a drainage grate:
minecraft version i drew up:
Half Grates
And a Full Block Grates
Crafting Suggestion:
where = a half grate
[] [] []
[] [] [] = x 2
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and to craft a full block grate:
[] [] []
[] [] = x 1
[] []
Clay Bricks would be used in crafting Ceramic Grates.
Use and Purpose:
Oddly enough, they have a very practical use o.o
Liquids (water and lava) and items can pass through them.
- like dropped items, or blocks in item form.
The player and mobs cannot!
Falling blocks like sand and gravel will filter through by turning into item form when they touch a grate, and fall through accordingly. Very much like when they fall on a placed Torch
Shouldn't be a block mobs can see through, for the sake of not getting shot at by Skelies.
EDIT: half and full grate blocks will act as any solid block would to Boats.
Say you want, for whatever reason, a waterfall with a cave/home behind it. And you want to make a bridge that leads from the outside of the waterfall to the cave/home on the inside without having water going all over the place on the bridge. The Iron Grates will allow the water to just pass through the bridge and you can still walk on it without falling through as well.
Or say you have a trap, and you want to be able to safely collect the loot that drops from the mobs you've killed, but its not safe to go into the trap and collect. Items can fall through the Iron Grates for you to collect underneath without worry of being harmed by the mobs above!
Ever sick of your boats breaking after you try to climb out, rather it be in a dock you've made, or at any other shore? Want a cooler looking style of a dry dock instead of using dirt, sand, or stone? Grates could be your solution!
example:
where = you + in a boat
and = water flowing into a grate
you can just slide your boat in, and the grate will act like a stopper, and hold the boat in place. You can climb out without your boat shooting out from under you. And all you have to do to head back to sea, is turn around and push it back into the water, right click it just before it takes off on its own to climb back in. ^^
Just having read this, im sure some of you have already thought of other uses ^^
Many others already have! Read through some of the comments here, and you'll find a lot! :biggrin.gif:
Placement:
Kinda like half stone slabs, but are placed at the 'top' of a blocks space. Flush with the top surfaces of surrounding blocks. However, doesn't stack on themselves like stone slabs.
EDIT: Although the half grates will take up the top portion of a blocks space, they will act as an empty space from underneath, allowing you to walk under them, but will still block you from coming up through them.
As for the Full block Grates:
example in use: Where water is flowing from left to right, through a grate you can stand on.
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[] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] []
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Placement for these is pretty much just like any other block.
Other thoughts:
Note a 'grand' idea, or something completely out of this world that will change the face of Minecraft forever, but definitely a sound proposal. Just another crafting block, doesn't hold an irritation factor passed what the player does with it. The possibilities are limited, but not under appreciative.
As for the creative ones of us, can you imagine the decorative factor these can have in your structures? Like an underground molten forge with Iron Grate scaffolds passing by or through lava falls. Or a corridor floor paneling in what can look like a spaceship style design.
image made by raiu_tree
IMPORTANT: I also remember something about Flood Gates having been an idea for Minecraft that hasn't been implemented yet, but RouvenT brought up the idea of having the Grates have an on and off function, letting in and out liquids/items. Which reminded me about the Flood Gates. RouvenT made a fine point that if both Grates and Flood Gates would be considered and implemented, that it would be more efficient to combine the two instead. Using Redstone as a means to turn them On (open) or Off (closed). Grates are by default set to 'ON', requiring nothing to turn them on to use them. Applying redstone, or any other source of a charge, will reset its ON/OFF state accordingly. Diagram below.
example:
where = redstone wire charged
and = redstone wire uncharged
water flow is from left to right
ON
[] [] [] [] [] []
OFF
[] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] []
EDIT: This can be completely up to Notch n' Team to decide, but some others have suggested making Ceramic Grates always 'ON' and not effected by redstone or other devices. Thus bringing a little more difference between the two.
Hopefully you all will like this idea and not think of it as absolute crap. ^^ Thank you for your time!
Credits:
Sid Bowman and some others mentioned a Full Block version of the grates and having a liquid flow in from the sides which i hadn't even though about :biggrin.gif: So that's why those exist in this suggestion now.
Electrk brought up the concept with the crafting, and Xuro helped with flushing it out to its current state ^^
Xuro for quality control, Great Ideas and Uses!
raiu_tree for the Support Signature image and code, the Concept Art, and the concept of being able to walk under half blocks!
MechaMage for lots of awesome uses of grates!
Orion-Pyro for the Forum Icon, and Landmine for having me go and ask for it xD
If i've missed someone, please say so, im short on time with Work and all. So im not able to do as much as id like with this thread, but i wont let it die D:
Support:
If you guys want to help show everyone your support of our idea here, here's the signature code!
Since Get Satisfaction is where Notch n' Team look for what we think, just post a reply about what you think there, and hopefully if it gets popular enough, they'll notice it :biggrin.gif:
Love this idea, its so usefull and I actually was thinking of posting something like this. Its annoying to make passageways through water and having to make it ugly looking with holes at the side or something for it to work.
Maybe wooden grates also if you wanted wooden bridges or something.
I always imagined it would look like a spawner with no fire...
That'd be just as good imo.
lol i dont mind how it may turn out looking like. I just drew something up to show an example ^^
If these grates get put into the game, regardless of who gets the credit for the idea, i think id already explode from excitement xD
There's just so much id want to build with these!
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Awesome, i just think the crafting recipe should be reamde, i don't actually know how.
hmm.. well, im not to sure about other possible ways of crafting it, but you've given me an idea for a more suitable recipe i think. Going to edit it into the OP. Thanks ^^
Since this is pretty much the closest you get to a grid.
It makes sense, but it might be using to much iron.
We already have iron being used for:
-Tools
-Armor
-Swords
-Compasses
-minecarts
-minecart tracks
-iron blocks
-lighters
-Doors
-buckets
If there was another material that would better suit the idea, id be all for it.
.... O___O OMG why didn't i think about this before!
Clay!
Edit: if you think about producing large amounts with clay, its not a good idea. But does provide an alternative means instead of relying on iron.
Since this is pretty much the closest you get to a grid.
It makes sense, but it might be using to much iron.
We already have iron being used for:
-Tools
-Armor
-Swords
-Compasses
-minecarts
-minecart tracks
-iron blocks
-lighters
-Doors
-buckets
If there was another material that would better suit the idea, id be all for it.
.... O___O OMG why didn't i think about this before!
Clay!
Edit: nvm.. thought about using clay for it, but if you think about producing large amounts, its not a good idea.
Clay would be good, thus making this item fairly rare and allowing you to only use a few, you wouldn't need loads anyways.
The reason id like this to be a fairly moderate item to produce is for the decorative factor in it. But i guess the more i think about using clay... hmmmmm well.. if you think about temperatures, ceramics have a better heat resistance then most metals, making a grate for a lava fall make sense.
think this is a pretty good idea. The harder part would getting the proper sound to regester from walking over them.
I'd love to use them in a submarine, or for a city's drainage system :tongue.gif:
but yeah, I never have much of a problem with iron, and I have over 2.5 stacks of Iron Blocks. so I don't think spending 5 iron is that bad. but to get 4 grates from 4 iron? that's a bit much imo. MAYBE 2 for 4, but 2 for 5 iron in a
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would be best I guess.
items, water, lava... + sand? hmmm lots of good things you can do with it...
might make mob traps easier :biggrin.gif: but since water is finicky anyway, i doubt much lenience to how we put down water will be affected.
also, if we made a 'house' or w/e behind a waterfall,..... if we are trying to hide it, why would we make a walk way through the water? also, though it is hard to do, you CAN make the water fall look like it's going though rock by using blocks to direct the flow around the bridge, then having source blocks under the bridge.
grates would make this easier though :biggrin.gif:
oooo ! what if you had a lava falls in your room, with a waterfall right behind it, both passing through grates, leading to a secret cove? you take damage in the lava, but are safe shortly after it, it would deter thiefs yes?
so .... hmm.. I like the idea, but think you guys are being too lenient on how much it should cost, vs how much it should give. :/
I just can't be the only one getting a decent number of iron ingots can i?
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this can be done with redstone activation. just like how using a lever attached to a door can make it either open, or closed. :smile.gif:
don't ask me bout redstone though, that crap confuses me!
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I like making walls of Text.
You have now been Officially been warned!
I was looking at stuff you posted, and I finally remembered my other idea.
(off topic of grates, but you said something about sharing ideas didn't you?)
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= fish bowl (water is bucket)
Fish Bowl (under) fish = fish bowl with fish :biggrin.gif:
Fish Bowl x 5 (shaped like a helmet) = scuba helmet!
was thinking of tubes and ropes, but I'm pretty tired and hungry and have stopped remembering all the details I had come up with at that time :sleep.gif:
I hate waiting 24 hours between meals :sad.gif:
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I like making walls of Text.
You have now been Officially been warned!
This idea sounds pretty awesome. May not be on the grand scale, but some of the simplest ideas are the best. You should sometime later put this idea on Get Satisfaction :wink.gif:.
Not sure if this would be an better/worse, but how about the grate be one full block, allowing water to flow through from all sides?
It'll naturally want to flow downwards, and will, unless a block is in the way on the bottom. In which case it will try to spread.
Maybe I'm making this too complicated :biggrin.gif:
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I'm not so sure I agree. 1) Nothing else has gender, even all players make masculine noises. 2) Creepers can't cook so what's the point of having a woman one?
Iron and Ceramic Grates
something i thought about since i first started playing Minecraft.
a real picture of a drainage grate:
minecraft version i drew up:
Half Grates
And a Full Block Grates
Crafting Suggestion:
where = a half grate
[] [] []
[] [] [] = x 2
[]
and to craft a full block grate:
[] [] []
[] [] = x 1
[] []
Clay Bricks would be used in crafting Ceramic Grates.
Use and Purpose:
Oddly enough, they have a very practical use o.o
Liquids (water and lava) and items can pass through them.
- like dropped items, or blocks in item form.
The player and mobs cannot!
Falling blocks like sand and gravel will filter through by turning into item form when they touch a grate, and fall through accordingly. Very much like when they fall on a placed Torch
Shouldn't be a block mobs can see through, for the sake of not getting shot at by Skelies.
EDIT: half and full grate blocks will act as any solid block would to Boats.
Say you want, for whatever reason, a waterfall with a cave/home behind it. And you want to make a bridge that leads from the outside of the waterfall to the cave/home on the inside without having water going all over the place on the bridge. The Iron Grates will allow the water to just pass through the bridge and you can still walk on it without falling through as well.
Or say you have a trap, and you want to be able to safely collect the loot that drops from the mobs you've killed, but its not safe to go into the trap and collect. Items can fall through the Iron Grates for you to collect underneath without worry of being harmed by the mobs above!
Ever sick of your boats breaking after you try to climb out, rather it be in a dock you've made, or at any other shore? Want a cooler looking style of a dry dock instead of using dirt, sand, or stone? Grates could be your solution!
example:
where = you + in a boat
and = water flowing into a grate
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] []
[] [] []
you can just slide your boat in, and the grate will act like a stopper, and hold the boat in place. You can climb out without your boat shooting out from under you. And all you have to do to head back to sea, is turn around and push it back into the water, right click it just before it takes off on its own to climb back in. ^^
Just having read this, im sure some of you have already thought of other uses ^^
Many others already have! Read through some of the comments here, and you'll find a lot! :biggrin.gif:
Placement:
Kinda like half stone slabs, but are placed at the 'top' of a blocks space. Flush with the top surfaces of surrounding blocks. However, doesn't stack on themselves like stone slabs.
EDIT: Although the half grates will take up the top portion of a blocks space, they will act as an empty space from underneath, allowing you to walk under them, but will still block you from coming up through them.
As for the Full block Grates:
example in use: Where water is flowing from left to right, through a grate you can stand on.
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] []
[] [] []
Placement for these is pretty much just like any other block.
Other thoughts:
Note a 'grand' idea, or something completely out of this world that will change the face of Minecraft forever, but definitely a sound proposal. Just another crafting block, doesn't hold an irritation factor passed what the player does with it. The possibilities are limited, but not under appreciative.
As for the creative ones of us, can you imagine the decorative factor these can have in your structures? Like an underground molten forge with Iron Grate scaffolds passing by or through lava falls. Or a corridor floor paneling in what can look like a spaceship style design.
image made by raiu_tree
IMPORTANT: I also remember something about Flood Gates having been an idea for Minecraft that hasn't been implemented yet, but RouvenT brought up the idea of having the Grates have an on and off function, letting in and out liquids/items. Which reminded me about the Flood Gates. RouvenT made a fine point that if both Grates and Flood Gates would be considered and implemented, that it would be more efficient to combine the two instead. Using Redstone as a means to turn them On (open) or Off (closed). Grates are by default set to 'ON', requiring nothing to turn them on to use them. Applying redstone, or any other source of a charge, will reset its ON/OFF state accordingly. Diagram below.
example:
where = redstone wire charged
and = redstone wire uncharged
water flow is from left to right
ON
[] [] [] [] [] []
OFF
[] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] []
EDIT: This can be completely up to Notch n' Team to decide, but some others have suggested making Ceramic Grates always 'ON' and not effected by redstone or other devices. Thus bringing a little more difference between the two.
Hopefully you all will like this idea and not think of it as absolute crap. ^^ Thank you for your time!
Credits:
Sid Bowman and some others mentioned a Full Block version of the grates and having a liquid flow in from the sides which i hadn't even though about :biggrin.gif: So that's why those exist in this suggestion now.
Electrk brought up the concept with the crafting, and Xuro helped with flushing it out to its current state ^^
Xuro for quality control, Great Ideas and Uses!
raiu_tree for the Support Signature image and code, the Concept Art, and the concept of being able to walk under half blocks!
MechaMage for lots of awesome uses of grates!
Orion-Pyro for the Forum Icon, and Landmine for having me go and ask for it xD
If i've missed someone, please say so, im short on time with Work and all. So im not able to do as much as id like with this thread, but i wont let it die D:
Support:
If you guys want to help show everyone your support of our idea here, here's the signature code!
Or Orion-Pyro's Forum Icon!
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Maybe wooden grates also if you wanted wooden bridges or something.
But this is epicer
the more i think about these grates, the more stuff i want to make with them. xD
I want to make mesa
you know those weird floors?
.. not to sure what you mean.. tried to google mesa floors.. didn't really help any lol ^^;
lol i dont mind how it may turn out looking like. I just drew something up to show an example ^^
If these grates get put into the game, regardless of who gets the credit for the idea, i think id already explode from excitement xD
There's just so much id want to build with these!
hmm.. well, im not to sure about other possible ways of crafting it, but you've given me an idea for a more suitable recipe i think. Going to edit it into the OP. Thanks ^^
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[] = Drainage Gate X 4
[] []
Since this is pretty much the closest you get to a grid.
It makes sense, but it might be using to much iron.
We already have iron being used for:
-Tools
-Armor
-Swords
-Compasses
-minecarts
-minecart tracks
-iron blocks
-lighters
-Doors
-buckets
If there was another material that would better suit the idea, id be all for it.
.... O___O OMG why didn't i think about this before!
Clay!
Edit: if you think about producing large amounts with clay, its not a good idea. But does provide an alternative means instead of relying on iron.
The reason id like this to be a fairly moderate item to produce is for the decorative factor in it. But i guess the more i think about using clay... hmmmmm well.. if you think about temperatures, ceramics have a better heat resistance then most metals, making a grate for a lava fall make sense.
i onno, guess i'll leave that up to Notch n' Team to decide if they ever do consider using this idea.
I'd love to use them in a submarine, or for a city's drainage system :tongue.gif:
but yeah, I never have much of a problem with iron, and I have over 2.5 stacks of Iron Blocks. so I don't think spending 5 iron is that bad. but to get 4 grates from 4 iron? that's a bit much imo. MAYBE 2 for 4, but 2 for 5 iron in a
[]
[] []
[]
would be best I guess.
items, water, lava... + sand? hmmm lots of good things you can do with it...
might make mob traps easier :biggrin.gif: but since water is finicky anyway, i doubt much lenience to how we put down water will be affected.
also, if we made a 'house' or w/e behind a waterfall,..... if we are trying to hide it, why would we make a walk way through the water? also, though it is hard to do, you CAN make the water fall look like it's going though rock by using blocks to direct the flow around the bridge, then having source blocks under the bridge.
grates would make this easier though :biggrin.gif:
oooo ! what if you had a lava falls in your room, with a waterfall right behind it, both passing through grates, leading to a secret cove? you take damage in the lava, but are safe shortly after it, it would deter thiefs yes?
so .... hmm.. I like the idea, but think you guys are being too lenient on how much it should cost, vs how much it should give. :/
I just can't be the only one getting a decent number of iron ingots can i?
You have now been Officially been warned!
"The oceans of minecraft are vast and nearly endless... and we just have a floating little box to traverse across them..." - doctorseaweed2
this can be done with redstone activation. just like how using a lever attached to a door can make it either open, or closed. :smile.gif:
don't ask me bout redstone though, that crap confuses me!
You have now been Officially been warned!
(off topic of grates, but you said something about sharing ideas didn't you?)
[] [] []
= fish bowl (water is bucket)
Fish Bowl (under) fish = fish bowl with fish :biggrin.gif:
Fish Bowl x 5 (shaped like a helmet) = scuba helmet!
was thinking of tubes and ropes, but I'm pretty tired and hungry and have stopped remembering all the details I had come up with at that time :sleep.gif:
I hate waiting 24 hours between meals :sad.gif:
You have now been Officially been warned!
Not sure if this would be an better/worse, but how about the grate be one full block, allowing water to flow through from all sides?
It'll naturally want to flow downwards, and will, unless a block is in the way on the bottom. In which case it will try to spread.
Maybe I'm making this too complicated :biggrin.gif: