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That would look absolutely atrocious over my mantlepiece (but so cool)

You know what would be really cool? Carry a torch or chunk of glowstone in your off-hand and have it actually illuminate the area around you.

Yeah, but will we be able to leash boats to fences yet? No point in having boats that don't break if you keep losing the darn things to inertia anyway

I gotta say, as Roundtable topics go, this isn't one of your better ones. The features been around less than a month, and yet already it seems to be on the decline.

Yes. Yes it is

Since quite a while before it was discovered

I build a stairway down to layer 12 or thereabouts and then start a straight, one-level, 3-block high branch mine with 20-block branches on each side at 3-block intervals, but also take the time to fully explore, mine, light up, and then seal any caves, mine shafts, and ravines I come across in the process, to the best of my ability. I keep extending the tunnel until I feel like it's gotten too long, and then I seal the mine and start a new one in a more recently generated part of the world.

I'm thinking that when I reach the endpoint of my current mine, I might build a stairway up to the surface to see if there's anything of value up there, and then if there is, I'll convert the tunnel into a new subway line instead of sealing it.

I also got a decent amount of resources when digging out my basement, subbasement and subway tunnels.

Unfortunately, I've only recently taken the time to start lighting the surface in my territory (apart from buildings and roads), so with all those illuminated caves, I've got a ton of monsters to deal with up top (but I'm making pretty good progress on lighting all that space up, so I won't have that problem for long. Not sure how to go about lighting the jungles, though).

There should be creepy bioluminescent fish such as angler fish, barreleyes, and viper fish that are unique to underwater cave biomes and blind albino cave fish that only spawn in underground lakes. Maybe bioluminescent fish drop glowstone dust, or some other substance useful for creating light sources.

There's definitely need to be kelp forest and coral reef biomes, which would be by far the most rich in natural resources. Hydrothermal vent biomes, which would be small, but rich in minerals as well as life. If the oceans are deep enough, there can be dimly lit trenches and abyssal plains featuring similar lifeforms to the underwater caves, only without rock on top. Sub-glacial lake and polar sea biomes under the ice in frozen bodies of water. Seagrass meadows. Cold seeps. Blue holes. Brine pools. Whalefalls. Sunken ruins. Pumice rafts and floating islands.

They could also have different selections of marine life in inland water bodies, with separate marine biomes for swamps, lakes, rivers, lagoons, floodplains, ponds, salt marshes, peat bogs, fjords, tide pools, etc.

How 'bout algae or benthos that functions like an underwater version of grass?

I doubt there'd be much in the way of river life anyway, seeing how narrow and shallow the rivers and lakes are, but you make a very valid point.

Frogs wouldn't be a bad idea at all, and I wouldn't mind some crocodiles in the swamps, and maybe some tasty crayfish, some proper ducks instead of just swimming chickens, maybe even swamp monsters. Rivers could have some turtles or otters or something, perhaps catfish.

Personally, I'd really like to see some proper sea life, of both the animalian and botanical varieties. I've got a cool underwater tube section to one of my mine cart lines but there's nothing but open water to look at on the other side of the glass, which is kind of a bummer. I'd also really like to build a shark tank in my villainous lair, but there are no sharks and the squids just aren't biting (the slowly descending platform suspended over the tank that I can chain the hero to is a different suggestion entirely).

I think we need proper fish entities for all the fish items currently available, and maybe some other varieties as well like lion fish and angler fish. We need sharks. Maybe some giant squid hostiles with fully articulated tentacles or even some proper good olde fashioned sea monsters. We need underwater "foliage" such as seaweed and corral and anemones and tube worms that won't displace water and won't be washed away. We need some underwater structures other than just dungeons, such as shipwrecks and sunken ruins and interesting rock formations.

Obviously larger mobs would have to have a minimum amount of space available in order to spawn, but then, squids really should have that too. It's annoying seeing a one-block deep pool full of halfway-out-of-the-water squids. Don't land mobs have some sort of minimum air-block requirement to spawn? I'm pretty sure they do.

Also, when I kill a squid, I want to get calamari. Because calamari is delicious. I don't care if I can't actually taste it, it's still delicious.

As for "bow hunting" and "stabbing" fish, I remind you that fish are small and fast, and water disrupts the flight of projectiles.

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I'm not sure how I feel about this

Trick arrows, eh? I wonder if the slime arrows bounce off objects and can be used for elaborate ricochet-based trick shots. I'll bet the glowstone ones are firable light sources, like the archery equivalents of a flare gun. Lava and gunpowder are obviously flaming arrows and explosive arrows respectively.

I'm guessing hacking arrows and punching glove arrows are out of the question.