Minecraft already has a handful of blocks and entities which are only available to players in creative mode, or by cheating them in.
These include bedrock, barrier blocks, various command blocks, a Minecart with a command block, mob spawners and a Minecart with mob spawner.
This suggestion is to add two more things which survival-mode players cannot get by default, but for which resource packs could add recipes for.
The first one is an block which crafts things automatically, the second is an entity which does almost the same thing.
The auto crafting block would have two modes, controlled by whether or not it has a redstone signal; the auto crafting minecart has the same two modes, controlled by whether or not the last activator rail it ran over had a redstone signal.
In both modes, the block has a nine ordinary inventory slots, numbered one through nine, corresponding to the 3x3 crafting grid. Items can be inserted into these slots via player, hopper, or dropper, and can be extracted from these slots via player or hopper. The block version of the autocrafter can have ingredient items extracted via hopper-minecart.
In both modes, there is an output-only slot, with the crafting result. Both the block snd minecart version can have items taken out via player or hopper; the block can also have items taken out via hopper-minecart.
In the first mode of the block-or-entity auto crafter, the crafting results are in slot number ten. Measuring the block or crafting minecart with a comparator looks exclusively at the fullness of slots one-through-nine, ignoring the crafting result.
In the second mode of the block-or-entity auto crafter, the crafting result is in slot number zero. Measuring with a comparator looks exclusively at the crafting result slot, not at the ingredients.
In either case, actual crafting only happens (and ingredients are consumed) whenever a hopper or hopper-minecart or player tries to extract from the crafting result slot, and there is nothing leftover from the previous craft.
Neither the auto crafting block nor the the auto crafting minecart need textures, since anyone adding a recipe via resource pack could add a texture the same way, but if the block could look like a normal crafting bench but with an enchanted sheen, that would be cool.
Minecraft already has a handful of blocks and entities which are only available to players in creative mode, or by cheating them in.
These include bedrock, barrier blocks, various command blocks, a Minecart with a command block, mob spawners and a Minecart with mob spawner.
This suggestion is to add two more things which survival-mode players cannot get by default, but for which resource packs could add recipes for.
The first one is an block which crafts things automatically, the second is an entity which does almost the same thing.
The auto crafting block would have two modes, controlled by whether or not it has a redstone signal; the auto crafting minecart has the same two modes, controlled by whether or not the last activator rail it ran over had a redstone signal.
In both modes, the block has a nine ordinary inventory slots, numbered one through nine, corresponding to the 3x3 crafting grid. Items can be inserted into these slots via player, hopper, or dropper, and can be extracted from these slots via player or hopper. The block version of the autocrafter can have ingredient items extracted via hopper-minecart.
In both modes, there is an output-only slot, with the crafting result. Both the block snd minecart version can have items taken out via player or hopper; the block can also have items taken out via hopper-minecart.
In the first mode of the block-or-entity auto crafter, the crafting results are in slot number ten. Measuring the block or crafting minecart with a comparator looks exclusively at the fullness of slots one-through-nine, ignoring the crafting result.
In the second mode of the block-or-entity auto crafter, the crafting result is in slot number zero. Measuring with a comparator looks exclusively at the crafting result slot, not at the ingredients.
In either case, actual crafting only happens (and ingredients are consumed) whenever a hopper or hopper-minecart or player tries to extract from the crafting result slot, and there is nothing leftover from the previous craft.
Neither the auto crafting block nor the the auto crafting minecart need textures, since anyone adding a recipe via resource pack could add a texture the same way, but if the block could look like a normal crafting bench but with an enchanted sheen, that would be cool.