This isn't a suggestion for Mojang. It's a suggestion for a player who's a talented programmer.
Player heads are very useful in decoration. I've seen them used as tiny chests, tiny cactus heads, tiny lamps, all kinds of things. You can upload any texture you want to serve as a player's head skin.
What if we created some Minecraft accounts controlled by bots, that are capable of changing their skin in order to alter heads in game? That would be a way of taking data from the outside world and putting it into Minecraft
For example, imagine a head that looks like a day calendar and displays the real date. Every morning the bot would switch it to a new texture, so the numbers on the head are actually displaying the real date.
Or example a bot that automatically checks Jeb's twitter feed, and switches the textures of a bunch of heads so each one matches a different letter in his post. Then you could have a billboard in game made up of 140 heads that actually displays whatever Jeb's most recent tweet is.
Like I said, this isn't something for Mojang to do. It's something that a fan would have to make. It isn't even technically a mod, since it's just vanilla Minecraft being used.
I think you're missing the part where 140 different heads for a twitter feed equals 140 different accounts, or, roughly, 4000$ US. It is a nice idea, but not feasible until Mojang allows players to create 'dummy' accounts for skin uploading(Which they really, really, should do).
I think you're missing the part where 140 different heads for a twitter feed equals 140 different accounts, or, roughly, 4000$ US. It is a nice idea, but not feasible until Mojang allows players to create 'dummy' accounts for skin uploading(Which they really, really, should do).
Well, that particular idea would be very expensive. Mojang could always choose to donate those particular accounts though, since this would be a beneficial service all Minecraft players could benefit from, or many players that want that service could chip in. Or players could volunteer their own heads to serve as letters, and be ok with a bot controlling what letter their head looks like.
But there are plenty of uses for just one head. A clock displaying the current real world hour. A bush that's budding in spring, green in summer, orange in fall, and dead in winter. Etc.
It is a good idea overall, but I feel that Mojang needs to revamp the head system in general. The idea for heads was a good one to begin with, but needs to be expanded on - legitimate way to obtain heads, at least official Mojang ones, in survival, creative-only head that's the size of a full block(Custom texture blocks in a map without custom resource packs(!!)), etcetera.
Actually, when I think about it, this is technically off-topic.
Support, someone design and post a bot for dynamic skins.
Player heads are very useful in decoration. I've seen them used as tiny chests, tiny cactus heads, tiny lamps, all kinds of things. You can upload any texture you want to serve as a player's head skin.
What if we created some Minecraft accounts controlled by bots, that are capable of changing their skin in order to alter heads in game? That would be a way of taking data from the outside world and putting it into Minecraft
For example, imagine a head that looks like a day calendar and displays the real date. Every morning the bot would switch it to a new texture, so the numbers on the head are actually displaying the real date.
Or example a bot that automatically checks Jeb's twitter feed, and switches the textures of a bunch of heads so each one matches a different letter in his post. Then you could have a billboard in game made up of 140 heads that actually displays whatever Jeb's most recent tweet is.
Like I said, this isn't something for Mojang to do. It's something that a fan would have to make. It isn't even technically a mod, since it's just vanilla Minecraft being used.
Well, that particular idea would be very expensive. Mojang could always choose to donate those particular accounts though, since this would be a beneficial service all Minecraft players could benefit from, or many players that want that service could chip in. Or players could volunteer their own heads to serve as letters, and be ok with a bot controlling what letter their head looks like.
But there are plenty of uses for just one head. A clock displaying the current real world hour. A bush that's budding in spring, green in summer, orange in fall, and dead in winter. Etc.
Actually, when I think about it, this is technically off-topic.
Support, someone design and post a bot for dynamic skins.
Also: TIMEZONES