Boat With Chest: Shipping goods across the sea now made possible with the boat with chest! Also, it would make the item in my previous idea more useful. But how do we craft a boat with a chest? You put 1 chest on top of the boat in the crafting area.
Powered boat: The powered boat is 38% faster than the regular boat. But with great power, comes great responsibility. That is why there are 4 different types of encrusted powered boats for making sure that your boat doesn't break so easily, also for aesthetics. And all the powered boats are encrusted. Here are the stats for the powered boat damage reduction of each variant: Iron encrusted powered boat: reduces damage by 60%. Gold encrusted powered boat: reduces damage by 44%. Diamond encrusted powered boat: reduces damage by 80%. Emerald encrusted powered boat: reduces damage by 75%.
Encrusted boats: If you're concerned about the flimsy boats we have now, then these are the boats for you! Same options as the encrusted boats, same damage reduction, same design, except they're not... powered. Also, their crafting recipes are the same as the encrusted powered boats, minus the redstone, which is what powers the powered boats.
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cookies4you posted a message on Redstone Pump : Filling up cauldrons and creating pulse signalsPosted in: Suggestions
Intro
The redstone pump (RSP) is a component that combines the capabilities of three blocks; the dispenser, the hopper, and the sponge.
Like a sponge, the RSP has two modes; dry and wet.
If any side other than the RSP’s face touches water, it absorbs it, becoming wet. On the next tick, it expels the liquid like a dispenser would dispense a water bucket, turning it dry.
If a RSP is powered, then similarly to a hopper, it will absorb water, but not release it.
Other Details:
Redstone pipes have a comparator output of zero when dry, and three when wet, similar to full cauldrons. Additionally, they are completely silent.
A dry RSP can be moved by pistons, but not a wet one.
A wet RSP pointed into a dry RSP will wet the latter and dry the former.
If a wet RSP cannot expel its contained water, it will do so at the next available opportunity.
The RSP absorbs water in the same manner that a dry sponge does.
If a wet RSP is pointed into a dispenser or a hopper holding an empty bucket, it will release the water into the block and turn the bucket into a water bucket.
Likewise, if a dispenser holding a water bucket is pointed into a dry RSP, dispensing the water will wet the targeted RSP.
An RSP pointing into a cauldron will fill it with water when it empties itself.
On the other hand, an RSP will drain nearby cauldrons and wet sponges not facing into it, wetting itself at the expense of the other blocks.
Purpose:
The RSP fits in the late-game as a luxury item and as a redstone component.
As a luxury item, it can be used to automatically refill cauldrons or fill empty buckets stored in dispensers when connected to a water source.
When acting as a redstone component, its single-tick release allows it to act as a pulse generator when paired with a dispenser and a comparator.
Additionally, when a wet RSP and a dry RSP are pointed into each other, a comparator can be added to create a rapid pulsar activating every 2 ticks, a much faster variant of the hopper clock.
Finally, the RSP can also be used to reliably transfer pulse signals vertically and in other complex directions, using water as a means to create a redstone output.
A small and compact T flip-flop. There is a dispenser, a RSP, and a sticky piston. The first two objects are pointed into each other, but the piston stores a water bucket. When the button is pressed, the dispenser dispenses the water into the RSP, wetting it. The comparator detects the difference and outputs to the sticky piston. After a single tick, the RSP feeds the water back into the dispenser refilling the bucket. Due to the nature of dispenser mechanics, the circuit does not reactivate until the button un-sticks and is pushed again.
Each of the RSPs are pointed towards each other, going up and going back downwards. When wet, they immediately release the water to the block in front of them, allowing it to be absorbed by the nearest RSP. This action continues so long as all of the RSPs are releasing water. Comparators are connected to three RSPs, releasing a pulse to the pistons. In this case, the pistons are all flip-flop capable, but activate in a sequence with slight delays before the other.
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Comrade_Dispenser posted a message on Let's Talk About StrongholdsWhen a server first starts it seems to be a lot of players’ goals to be the first to find the stronghold and fight the enderdragon. That, in some players’ minds, is the sole purpose of finding a stronghold in the first place. But really, other than the ender portal and the accomplishment of finding a rare structure, what reason do players have to go to or seek out a stronghold? The loot isn’t too good, when you think that you have the chance of getting better loot from the dungeons, desert and jungle temples, abandoned mine shafts and even villager blacksmith chests, and all of these can appear more than three times in a world, making the Stronghold appear very limited The strongholds have the potential to be a good base, but often times aren eaten away by caverns and torn apart by ravines, even to the point of the end portal being rendered useless by the damages.Posted in: Suggestions
Strongholds are supposed to be strong, I could see a ravine ripping through the ground or a cave eating through stone during its formation, but surely these strongholds weren’t build so long ago that full fledged caves have been able to eat through their bricks, along with the abandoned mineshafts tearing through a stronghold. If these shafts were made by the owners of the stronghold, I doubt they’d mine straight through their home, and any actual miner should suspect there’s no ore to be find by tearing straight through the inside of a subterranean fortress. Maybe less, or no caves even could generate around the areas of Strongholds, along with mines and ravines, improving the integrity of the building, and they could act as a clue to allow an observant player to guess there’s possibly a stronghold nearby, without the use of an ender eye.
The player should have more reasons to seek out a stronghold, they should be large, impressive complexes, I mean, take a look at the Nether Fortresses, they're magnificent, and provide the resources of blaze rods and netherwart, along with a place for Wither skeletons to spawn. The stronghold could use a larger variety of rooms, perhaps a dining hall, with tables and benches, a high grand ceiling and chests of food items. A blacksmith’s forge, with a lava pool, multiple furnaces, chests filled with smithing related goodies, maybe even a (slightly damaged?) anvil. There could be a wizard’s study, like a small library with chests containing books and paper, with a rare chance of enchanted books, and an even rarer chance of finding and enchanted item or bottle of enchanting, perhaps they could have an enchanting table, unless people think those should stay player made only. There could be barracks and/or dormitories that the past residents could reside in, a place with beds and chest serving as footlockers.
There could even be an armory, a grand hall, with weapons and armor hanging on the walls in item frames, chest filled with weapons related loot, arrows and such, this could even be a place for the armor stand/mannequins I’ve heard of people asking for to be implemented. Suits of armor could be along the walls serving as eternal sentries to watch over their home, well, until an enterprising player comes and removes the armor from its ancient stand. The armor and weapons could even be found with enchantments on them, with items bearing particularly high level enchantments having a randomly generated name to give the feel of “This is an artifact of a lost civilization” unless people don’t think that fits with the theme or balance of minecraft.
There are three end portals but that doesn’t mean there has to be only three strongholds, perhaps they could be found more often (though still extremely rarely) just without a portal in them, and the ones lacking portals would probably be smaller than the ones with. And who remembers the image we were first shown of a stronghold?
Strongholds that generated with an entrance above ground, I’d like to see a return of this, or at least this happen more often if it still does (like a mushroom biome, I’ve never actually seen a stronghold that generated above ground) this would allow the player to randomly stumble upon a stronghold, rather than need to make a bunch of ender eyes and go actively hunting for one, give a little bit more reason and reward to random exploration of the world. This would, preferably, come with the added benefit of Strongholds not spawning at the bottom of the ocean, sure its mystery and cool though as to how they got there, but really, what purpose would a submerged stronghold serve when you can build a much more effective one on land?
Just some ideas I’ve had, first major suggestion I’ve made for this game, tell me what you think and go ahead and suggest your own ideas.
Examples I've made for what the new rooms could look like, I'm not that good of an architect so if you want to make your own rendition go ahead!
Blacksmith:
Dining Hall:
A throne room:
Room Ideas by BodOwen!
I also did my take on the armory:
as you can see the armory has spawners, it has a 75% chance to be a zombie and 25% chance to be a skeleton spawner.
I also have an idea for a potions room, these will just be a bunch of bookshelves with "tables" and cauldrons, along with a chest with a few potion ingredients.
sometimes destroyed rooms will spawn in the stronghold, these "collapsed rooms" will be filled with stone or dirt , it also has a chest or two in it, but you have to dig it out.
"Collapsed Room" Screenshots.
The stone and dirt is not seen in here, this is what it would look like if it was "cleared out"
Others coming eventually.
A great concept by Badprenup for how a new generation system could work
Quote from Badprenup
In all honesty, I think structures like this should not be fully randomly generated. Instead, they should be pseudo randomly generated like so:
1. There are 3-10 Stronghold Hallway patterns stored in the game. These are the most bare-bones versions of the Stonghold, and only have the Portal Room and hallways. At this point, the Stronghold has no rooms, only markers of where rooms can be. These would be at any room entrances that we see in the current Strongholds.
Using patterns like this costs a fraction of the randomness, but ensures you don't have any "stupid" generation, such as hallways leading to nothing but themselves and crap like that we have seen. And the Randomness will be restored later.
2. Next, the game looks at how many markers of potential rooms are in that Stronghold, and chooses to generate any of the potential rooms based on the Seed. Each room type would have X amounts of times it can generate, based on the type of room it is. For example, there could be a maximum of 3 Dormitories, but only 1 Armory per Stronghold. Similar to the Hallway pattern, each room has a marker to ensure they align properly.
This returns the randomness of the generation, but in a more logical way. It would be silly to see a Stronghold filled with nothing but Dining Halls. Where did the people sleep? Also, it adds balance. No stumbling into a Stronghold filled with 20 Armories.
3. Next, the game places a room by lining up it's marker with a marker in the Stronghold Hallway pattern. This ensures that everything is lined up properly, and prevents structures from overlapping. Once it chooses a room and generates it, it removes one instance of that room from the potential rooms. It also removes the marker from the Hallway pattern so it doesn't double generate.
4. The game repeats step 3 until there are no more markers in the Hallway pattern.
5. After all markers are complete, the game generates 3-4 layers of Stone/Dirt/Ore to overwrite any other generation that had happened (optional)
If people like this concept, I can make some pictures. Pictures in the spoiler directly below this.
Quote from Badprenup
Alright, I made some quick and dirty mockups with Creative Mode and MCEdit, and it shows a basic implementation of what I was getting at. So I'll go over what I said before, but with images to go with it.
1. An example of a bare-bones hallway pattern. This one is just a tiny one I made, and only has space for 5 rooms. But Mojang could easily make them larger or take up several floors as they do now. This is just a simple design. You might notice the Redstone and Lapis Blocks, those are examples of the markers that help align the rooms to the structures, more on those later. And in place of the Silverfish spawner I used a Jukebox so I could have music while I worked. Also, you may note that I only used one Brick type, that was strictly for simplicity's sake.
2. Here is a close up of the Portal Room, just to show it off.
3. Finally, a close up of a set of markers. The Redstone Block is always right in the doorway oh the hallway pattern, and the Lapis Block is always one block inside the room. This assures everything always lines up correctly.
4. Now, here are some quick and dirty rooms I made. If you didn't see what I said before, each room could have a specific number of times it can generate per Stronghold, which would be based on the loot that can be found or the usefulness of the room. I will note how many times each one can appear:
Throne Room (1 Time)
Sleeping Quarters (2 Times)
Note that there could be a chance that some beds or chests had rotted away over time, so each time this room spawned the number of beds/chests could vary slightly, as could loot in the chests.
Enchanting Room (1 Time)
The same thing that happens with the Sleeping Quarters could happen here as well. You could find this room 100% complete, or it could be missing bookshelves or even the Enchanting Table
Forge (2 Times)
As with the above two rooms, the Anvil could be a different damage level or gone completely, and there could be randomized loot/fuel in the Furnaces
5. So as you can see, each room had markers like the hallway, a blue one that is in the room and a red one that denotes where the hall is. With this system or a similar one, it assures that the rooms are rotated properly and aligned every time, unless the actual room or hallway file stored in the code was built incorrectly. Here is a GIF of showing how a room lines up:
6. So as you saw from the first image, there were 5 places where rooms could be generated, but a total of 6 possible rooms (1 each of the Throne Room and Enchanting Room, and 2 possible Forges and Sleeping Quarters each). This is where the random generation comes in, so let's see how they happened to generate this time:
So that is how it happened to generate that time, but a different seed could have generated differently.
Room 1: Sleeping Quarters (1 Sleeping Quarters, 4 empty rooms remaining)
Room 2: Forge (1 Forge, 3 empty rooms remaining)
Room 3: Enchanting Room (0 Enchanting Rooms, 2 empty rooms remaining)
Room 4: Sleeping Quarters (0 Sleeping Quarters, 1 empty room remaining)
And finally, with a chance for it to be a Forge or Throne Room (drum roll)...
Room 5: Throne Room (0 Throne Rooms, 0 empty rooms remaining).
7. An image of the finished Stronghold
A great idea by Jakakun!
Quote from Jukakun
I would really want to see a room called Mineshaft Entrance, it's just a room with two Doors (Iron or Wood, i prefer Wood though) that lead to a Mineshaft, the ones we usually see, that would be good for two reasons:
1: It makes sense, i mean, the civilization needs ores don't they?
2: The possibility of the inverse happening, you're exploring a Mineshaft and then you find that Stronghold Room, since both are connected! Oh the glory, that's a cool way to find a Stronghold!
Some more ideas by Dommenick.
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As promised, I started working on my version of the Stronghold rooms and corridors, based on the system Badprenup explained, with the connection points in-between corridors and rooms, to prevent overlapping or "stupid" corridors.
For now it are only basic builds. I haven't reached a far enough point to determine if everything works with each other and how many of each room could be added, but I hope to be able to work that out in the future. I'm also really really waiting for SPC and WE for Minecraft 1.7.4, so I can do some copying and I can make an actual stronghold with the pieces. That being said, all the things on the pictures are hand build, block after block, without using any utensil like world edit.
In the pictures the most things are still very bright. I haven't added torches anywhere, except for redstone torches, as I feel like the Stronghold should be a dark and obscure place, long left behind by society, for only ghosts and mobs to dwell... *horror music* ... haha, no but seriously, I tried going for a dark and almost scary atmosphere.
Portal Room:
As you can see, I went for a different approach with the portal room. In stead of having the staircase to the flying portal in the middle, I decided to take it all down and place the portal on floor level, with lava and obsidian below it.
I also put obsidian behind the iron bars. Just a small difference, but I think it makes a great change to the atmosphere. The sponges you can see in the photos are supposed to be mob spawners.
I also changed the lava "pools" into lava "streams" coming from the walls and I gave the entire room a a little more circular feel (or that's what I tried) with the stairs around.
Library:
In the pictures I haven't added cobwebs yet, but apart from that it's finished. It is a one-floored version of the library, I haven't looked into a 2-floored yet.
This (photo above) are all the formations in which bookcases can spawn (they can be mirrored and altered as much as you wish). The biggest one in the middle are two smaller ones combined with a overhang. I believe that if this 'formula' for bookcases is used in stead of the old one, you have opportunities for way better looking and cooler libraries.
As you might have noticed, in the first picture of this library, there are 3 chests and 1 enchantment table to be found. Of course this would be randomized and some things might spawn more often than others. That what you see in the pictures above:
There will always spawn 1 chest, and on top of that you have 50% chance on a second chest and 25% chance on a third one. Also, an enchantment table or brewing stand can spawn, but only 1 of those two (maximum) per library!
Armory / Blacksmith:
I've had fun with this room! To be honest, I think it turned out great! The black thing on the left is a tool forge or something like that, in the back you have an anvil (take a look at the last picture for that
), on the right of that a little shelf with a chest and a cauldron, and in the corner a little lava "pit" and some furnaces.
Just like the enchantment table and the chests in the library, this item at the place the anvil is at, is random. In the picture above you see the items it can contain, including nothing. If it happens to be an anvil, you have 20% chance on a non-damaged anvil, 30% chance on a slightly damaged anvil and 50% chance on a very damaged anvil.
Bedroom / Barracks:
As suggested in the original post, the barracks! I also gave these a shot, and the out-come is a semi-two-floored bedroom with supporting wood and beds downstairs and bedrolls upstairs.
Junction / Intersection:
We've all seen them, the boring plain-looking intersections (see picture above). I always thought that particular room was extremely boring and should be way better.. So I gave it a go!
This is another build that really suited me. I - for some reason - absolutely love the idea of having supporting wooden beams, so that is what I did. The sponge in the middle is, once again, supposed to be a mobspawner.
The room has four exits, just as in the "vanilla" room, and in the corners you can just find some randomly placed fences, broken support beams, perhaps a crafting bench, whatever you like really. By the way - this room is also supposed to be pretty dark and gloomy, hence the spawner.
Hallways - WIP:
I wasn't sure how to start on these, but after some mental warfare I decided that I would try and create "presets" which could be molded together in as many as possible ways. This is still in a very early stage though. (Some of the walls and ceilings aren't even finished yet, but hey, it'll give you an idea 
Plain corridors:
Long corridor (wall-less)
Small corridor (wall-less)
These are both just basic straight corridors, nothing special about them. Next up are the fun ones!
"Special" corridors:
Corridor with a chest in the wall
Corridor with a trapped chest and TNT behind it in the wall
Small corridor with a door (a connecting piece, really)
(I changed the wall into stained glass here to see how the inside is built up.
Collapsed corridor
! I'm having troubles uploading this picture, it'll be there ASAP !
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Possibly a Ice box? Before electricity and such was used, people used to store highly perishable food items in underground rooms usually kept cool by ice or natural temperatures. You could make that a bit unrealistic and just use ice in a crafting recipe and that is what keeps the food from 'spoiling.'
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Thank you for clarifying that. If he were to bring something new to this thread, and add some concept art to support it (along with more info to make it less vague) this thread could become very popular very fast. A few of his threads have potential to become very famous.
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Also, I would recommend searching the forums for similar ideas before making a post, because pet armor has been suggested quite a bit actually, and this thread could get locked due to that. A general idea is to look over what other people have suggested and try to improve upon them, and maybe even try to add a unique factor others haven't!
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No problem! I'm always happy to help! It's good to see a unique and (At least from what I've seen) original idea now and again! Keep it up!
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Posting here is a bit of a community support thing. Sometimes you get enough support and it could catch Mojang's eye, sometimes those ideas are noticed by others and added to mods. This is a big community; You never know what might happen!
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EDIT: By new Inventory slot, what do you mean? I had the idea of having not be just a slot for a Disc Player of sorts, but more of a back slot for that, Backpacks, and other gadgets and gizmos you might come up with!