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Quote from Fabian42»

Yes, fireworks. Shoot one in the air and you get pushed forwards.

Many of the Minecraft quizzes and such out there are trivia questions about the game's finer details as well as its history. "When was the game created?" "What biome does this block generate in?" "Which of these can you not use as fuel?" etc. This quiz, however, is a set of "puzzles" or "riddles," if you will, where you try to find out how a certain event could have possibly happened. They might be tougher than you think, so put on your thinking diamond helmet!

1. The Mystery Mob

2. Into the Void

3. Escape

4. Killing the invincible mob?

5. Escape, Part II

6. The Mystery Block

7. The Armor Stands

8. Escape, Part III

If you found an answer to any of these, put your answer in a spoiler and I'll tell you if it's correct! Extra bragging rights if you solved it without the hint.

Introduction

Emerald armor and tools are among one of the least supported suggestions in the forums. Why? For several reasons. One, because emerald armor doesn't really have a place to fit in terms of its power. Emeralds are much easier to get than diamonds (through trading), so it can't be stronger than diamond; no significant enough gap exists between diamond and iron to be useful; any lower than iron and there's no point in using it. Two, and more importantly, Mojang doesn't want new armor tiers to exist. Do consider that they went against their own rule by adding chain armor, which presented a new spin on just "craft it and wear it." With that being said, here is my attempt at making a suggestion for emerald armor which diverges from the beaten path of most armor suggestions.

Crafting

The crafting recipes are what you'd expect--emeralds in the corresponding armor shape. There is one catch, however. You cannot use emeralds obtained from trading in crafting this armor. You can only use emeralds from the emerald ores in Extreme Hills biomes. While emeralds are much simpler to get than diamonds, emerald ORE is harder to get than diamond ore, so this balances out.

Now how would this be coding possible? Perhaps the emeralds obtained from ores would be renamed to "pure emeralds," which would exist as a damage value for normal emeralds. The texture for pure emeralds would be slightly more shiny, but otherwise the appearance would be exactly the same. (I am considering a purple glow for the pure emerald, the one that exists on enchanted gear and books, potions, nether stars, etc.)

You could use pure emeralds for every other action that normal emeralds serve--trading, crafting into emerald blocks, sacrificing to a beacon, etc. You can mix pure emeralds and normal emeralds in the crafting recipe for an emerald block, but no matter how you craft it, uncrafting the block always results in 9 normal emeralds--even if you crafted it entirely out of pure emeralds.

So what does the darn thing do?

The protection values for emerald armor are as follows: 3 for the helmet, 7 for the chestplate, 5 for the leggings, and 3 for the boots. That's 18 armor points, 2 less than diamond. The durability is 320 for the helmet, 459 for the chestplate, 434 for the leggings, and 376 for the boots. Emerald armor is harder to enchant than diamond, similar to how gold armor is easier.

So far, the information presented states that emerald armor is not only harder to get than diamond, but also worse in terms of protection, durability, and enchantment. So what's the point of this armor at all? Well, the gimmick of this armor set is that of the currently untapped Luck effect. Whenever a full emerald armor set is worn, the player is given a Luck effect. This effect increases the chance of finding more valuable items in loot chests, finding more treasure items when fishing, and getting cheaper prices from villagers. You are also given sort of a permanent Fortune/Looting boost. Whenever the armor is worn and a tool with either Looting or Fortune is used, the chance of getting more items is increased. This does not increase the maximum amount of items you can get, just the chance of getting the max amount of items in the first place.

Other methods of obtaining

Whenever a zombie spawns, it has a 5% chance of spawning as a zombie villager. It also has a 0-15% chance to spawn with armor (depending on local difficulty). I propose that if the above two conditions succeed, it has a 5% chance to spawn with emerald armor. (Other armor tier chances would be adjusted accordingly.) This means that 5% of all zombie villagers would be wearing emerald armor. No effects are provided to the zombie other than protection values and enchantments.

Conclusion

This was my attempt on making an emerald armor suggestion that stood out from the other mundane armor types. How did I do? Share all questions, comments, and criticism down below. I'm expecting stiff resistance from the community despite my best efforts, and I especially doubt this would be added into Minecraft. But I think it was worth a shot.

Quote from Tedious»

I can't imagine any good use for this, but it's not illogical. Stepping on something isn't the only way to apply pressure. That's why it's called a pressure plate, not a foot detector. Walking into one placed on a wall would activate it, but only if you collided with the wall. Same with the ceiling pressure plate.

I could argue a "not useless" case for nearly every block and item in the game.

Air: Air is a very important block, as without it the entire world would be irreversably filled up. What would the player spawn in? What would replace mined blocks? How would you move?

Dirt: You can't have farms without dirt.

Dead bushes: Provides sticks for emergency situations, and it sets an appropriate mood in certain environments aesthetically.

Flowers: For aesthetics. Also provides dye, which can be used for, well, more aesthetic blocks and items.

Ferns: Again, aesthetics. They do provide seeds as well.

Dragon egg: As bragging rights or for a trophy room. You can actually use dragon eggs to break through bedrock using a 1.9/1.10 glitch, and you can also duplicate them using another glitch.

Prismarine: Well, no uses except for aesthetics--but that's a use in itself.

Sponges: As of 1.8 they can soak up water once again, which is a big help for clearing out lots of water.

Cauldrons: Currently they are the only piston-movable block with different output values when a comparator is connected to it, which means you can create piston loops that change redstone outputs. Very useful.

Note blocks: Cool for custom music players, which allows you to basically recreate songs or create your own. Even better with resource packs which allow you to change the sounds.

Lily pads: One of the only blocks you can place onto water, so if you're swimming out in the ocean and you somehow lose your boat, you can place a lily pad to access your crafting table and craft one. More importantly, you can access your ender chest in the middle of the ocean this way.

Rotten flesh: Wolves and priest villagers both like rotten flesh.

Diamond hoes: Some eccentric people out there need really large farms and don't want to go through a bunch of stone ones. And with Mending, you're not really wasting diamonds anymore.

Golden anything: Not only are they better for enchanting, but golden pickaxes also mine stone faster than diamond. This means you can insta-mine with only a gold pickaxe and a Haste I beacon. You can repair it on the fly with experience bottles and Mending for a longer-lasting mine session.

Compasses: Your spawn point will pretty much never be at 0, y, 0. So compasses will point you in the right direction if you haven't memorized your coordinates. They also serve as a crafting ingredient in maps, which are extremely useful for navigation.

Clocks: When placed in item frames, you can use clocks as decoration. It can also be helpful for determining whether or not you should emerge from your cave/branch mine, as during the night you may be swarmed by mobs if you're not yet geared up.

Clownfish: If you don't want to use your cod or salmon for taming that ocelot, you're in luck! But seriously, it is a bit of a stretch.

Poisonous potatoes and mundane potions: They, uh...you can...um, well, they're good for...uh...okay, I've got nothing.

Oh, if you'd like, feel free to provide any blocks and items of your own, and I'll evaluate them!

Quote from John2024»

Before I make a suggestion, I have to ask:

Why do Enchantment Levels have such a small limit?

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Why can you use up Enchantments after you maxed them out?

Quote from John2024»

A lot of entities are almost impossible for me to kill (One hit kills aren't for every mob). & I don't mean just the Ender Dragon and the wither.

Higher Enchantment Levels would be much appreciated. maybe a 64-150 Enchant limit? (this would be great for Command-Artists.)

Quote from jonathanpecanynext »

Because when people die they will go to heaven but in this case the nether since there is not heaven they will be in the nether besides it will be complete.

Gameplay > Realism. Or, in this case, Gameplay > Realism according to most examples of lore and religion. I get that people either go to heaven or hell when they die, which appeals to realism. However, this adds nothing when it comes to gameplay. It's just a copy-paste of Overworld villages into the Nether, which is redundant and unnecessary.

Quote from jonathanpecany»

They should add a boss in the nether like a nether mutant or something. or herobrine since herobrine lives in the nether.

Quote from jonathanpecany»

No i mean like dragons will breath fire and will have more health than a ghast so yay.

Quote from Vegtable_Ninja»

i think if they made nether dragons it shouldn't be a boss it would be a smaller red ender dragon that can randomly spawn and acts like a ghast!

If you want to make sure, turn on subtitles and the game will tell you what sound it was (assuming you're playing 1.9 or later, of course).

Quote from Fabian42»

/give @p diamond_axe 1 0 {ench[{id: <whatever id ssharpness has, it's in the wiki, but I currently can't look it up (phone)> ,lvl:6}]}
/enchant @p sharpness 6 doesn't work, it can only enchant up to the Survival limit.

Quote from TheUnknownFew»

By my calculations, there are currently 267,319 possible crafting permutations . I do not think Minecraft uses all that many crafting combinations in comparison to this number, nor do I think Minecraft will ever reach using that many crafting permutations. It is kind of redundant to add a larger crafting grid when we already have tons of possible outcomes.

Care to check my math, but my point is that even if you do, you will get a large number.

I, for one, do not support this because there is no use for it when we already have a large crafting bench.

No Support

I don't really see what the number of potential permutations has to do with anything, unless you genuinely believe this crafting recipe should be added before we even consider a larger grid:

Quote from minceraft2»

size: bird, 2m; insect, 2dam

attack: 60

speed: bird, 1m/s; insect, 2dam/s

So, what you're saying is, as an insect, this thing is 2dam small and 2dam fast.

Huh.

No Support. But thanks for the laugh.

The command block delay setting would be a setting like how there's the conditional/unconditional button in the GUI of command blocks, and it would allow delays to be put on command blocks. You would type in a number, which would be the delay (in ticks) that the command block would have.

How the delay works would be different depending on the command block type.

Impulse: The delay would make the command block not execute its command until X ticks after it is powered by redstone.

Chain: The delay would make the command block not execute its command until X ticks after the command block behind it executes its command. (So if you have three chain command blocks in a line all with 20 ticks delay then they'd all execute their commands one after the other with a 20-tick gap between each)

Repeat: The delay would make the repeat command block only execute its command once every X ticks, rather than every single tick which is currently the case.

Why should this be added:

Currently the only way to have delays on command block executions is to use repeaters, and that can involve a lot of tedious placing and setting them all to full delay (or using /fill to place them, but even then you still have to make sure they're pointing in the right direction).

With the repeat command block delay, you don't really need some commands to execute every tick, as the thing that I've been finding is that if you have a ton of repeating command blocks executing their commands every tick, it tends to cause lag, thus rendering Minecraft practically unplayable. I tend to create comparator clocks to execute such commands once every half-second or so, which still works for the purposes of my maps but does not create lag.

Quote from GiselleGewelle»

I dislike when people praise undertale as the greatest game of all time.

May I ask why? I don't like it when fanboys start flamewars when people don't love Undertale, but I don't like it when fanboys start flamewars over any game.
If Undertale is someone's favourite game and they like to talk about it I think that's fine.
I personally love Undertale

My unpopular opinion: Minecraft is actually a great game. It's simple yet there are so many things you can do. It's relaxing and alleviates stress and anxiety. It's also the perfect place to meet friends. I'm pretty sure this opinion would be very popular on these forums, but outside not so much.
Most people look down on Minecraft as a game for kids and full of immature people. I'm scared that when I get older people will look down on me because I play Minecraft.

But before we get into the actual mechanics and such, here are the conditions that must be met in order for this event to occur;

-It must be a New Moon (Moon phase reference)

-The regional difficulty must be: 1.3/2.5 on Easy/Normal difficulty respectively. On hard difficulty regional difficulty doesn't matter.

If these two conditions are met, a Dark Night has a 5%/13%/24% chance to occur on Easy/Medium/Hard difficulty respectively. While these values seem like a lot, it's worth keeping in mind it's only possible for this event to occur on a New Moon, that is every 7 in-game days.

The event has two main effects. The first, as show above, is the eerie dark atmosphere. This makes seeing in pure darkness near-impossible, pushing players to stay near lit areas. The next is various "corruptions" to mobs, making them generally more hostile than before once exposed to the darkness. The exact effects are listed below:

- All mobs spawn more frequently, and will stay in the general area they last saw a player instead of eventually wandering off.

- Zombies can sense players through walls if 8 blocks away and will attempt to pathfind to them. Zombies have roughly an 12% chance of being able to break down doors.

-Skeletons have roughly an 15% chance to spawn with tipped arrows. These arrows can inflict either poison, weakness or nausea for about 8 seconds each.

-Skeleton Jockies are much more common, you can expect to see roughly 2-3 throughout the night.

-Spiders will re-obtain their ability to see through walls during the event and will attempt to attack the player.

-Endermen spawn rates are greatly increased if it is not raining, but will flee the player as if it were day unless looked at or provoked any other way by the player. Endermen are also extremely prone to despawning. This is mostly to add part of the atmosphere of the event, having Endermen eyes stalk you through the night. This also makes Enderpearls easier to obtain before actually reaching the End.

Dark nights are considerably more difficult to survive in compared to normal nights. But players are expected to be prepared for this event, as a bit of time must pass before the event can even be triggered, during which time regional difficulty itself naturally increases, making the game slightly more difficult. If the player is properly prepared (Iron armor generally should be good enough) it can be a night were many useful materials such as experience and Ender Pearls are easily gathered, as the higher spawnrates present the opportunity to gather mob drops in mass.

However, if the player so wishes to avoid the event entirely, they do still have a couple of options. This event only happens at night, so the player can simply sleep the night away. They can also just wait in their homes, go to a different dimension, or go caving, as only the surface of the overworld is effected by the event. The event doesn't occur until quite some time has passed in-game, so players should have more than enough time to at least obtain basic shelter or a bed.

Lastly, a couple of quick notes:

-This event only affects the surface of the overworld. The Nether, End and caves in the overworld are not affected at all. Caves will retain normal lighting and will not be pitch black.

-Mobs are only slightly more common, you won't be instantly swarmed by the time night reaches, however groups of mobs may appear to be bigger by 4-6 entities.

-Lighting, such as torches, work exactly the same as before and are not dimmed during the night, so if an area is too dark, it can be lit, and the lighting will be just as effective as before.

Anyways, I believe that's it. The main purpose of this suggestion is to give players who last long in a world a nifty little challenge while also attempting to balance out that challenge with great rewards. Players aren't forced to follow through as the event can be easily skipped or ignored entirely without any punishment or penalty given to them. Hopefully I did an alright job on doing that...

So what do you think? What needs to be improved on, what do you think I should add/remove?

I think we need some sort of command or block that allows you to define a specific area as a certain biome. I know there are map editors that let you do this, but I'm talking about giving you the ability to do it without external hacking.

Quote from Zarlog_Core24»

Alright, here is my story. I put it in a spoiler since it is quite long.

There is a server I joined in March 2014. It was probably the best server you will find. Very friendly community, back then all the staff knew exactly what to do and could do just about anything, not to mention that they were very nice too.

Around December 2015, a new player joined. He was not like other players, was very mature and was very friendly compared to others (all of the players on the server were friendly, but this one was best). So I decided to help him get started. I let him use my blaze farm and automatic melon farm, use parts of my base since I didn't need them, and I made him maxed diamond armor and tools. We started building things together (I love building, and so did this new player).

One day in April 2016 the server admins announced on the server forum that moderator applications were open. I applied and hoped for the best (I had been playing on the server for 2 years and was one of the most well-known players). This new player also applied. Well, I my application didn't get accepted but this new player's application did. So he became a staff member and I didn't (much to my disappointment, I had been waiting for this for a year). So I decided to throw a party for the new player who DID get accepted in my newly completed convention center, and it was the most ridiculous thing you would ever see on a server. Tons of players went to it and it was mostly throwing tons of splash potions of nausea, strength and healing. Lots of explosions and fireworks. I have a recording of it somewhere. It was probably the funnest thing I have ever done.

A few months after I joined that server in March 2014, another player joined. This guy started off OK but when he started donating and buying all the perks, he became the rudest player you will ever meet. Constantly messaging me rude messages telling me to stop complaining about him being rude to other players, and he got warned, muted, and banned several time, all for being rude to players. Fast forward to April 2016, I have just about had it and just want him banned once and for all. A few days after I report him, the staff applications open and he applied. Guess what? HE BECAME A MODERATOR. He had a filthy record of griefing, swearing, and being rude to players. I even reported him and he still became a moderator. I had a clean record, I had NEVER been rude to players, and I was very supportive of the community yet I did not become a moderator when I applied. For the first week he was not rude, but then after that all hell broke loose. Players who had clean records for 5 YEARS (this server started in 2011) suddenly got banned, kicked, muted and warned because of things that did not break the rules (such as pranking friends they knew IRL). They asked for the offenses to be removed from their profiles, and the server owner said "I trust his decisions and they will not be removed". Then, he starts dirtying MY clean record with warnings, over things like flattening land, buildings that are "too fancy and modern", and "redstone lighting causes lag".

On June 25, 2016 , the unthinkable happened. I opened my Minecraft launcher to check for griefs on my property. So I clicked the server name in the list, it goes to "logging in" and then a horrible sight: "You are banned from this server! Reason: griefing". Knowing that I was not a griefer, I immediately freaked out and went on the forum to write a dispute. Guess who banned me? THE ABUSIVE MODERATOR. He replied with a screenshot of what I "griefed". The server had prizm and so they used it to see who griefed something. The screenshot did not look familiar in any way to me, and so I asked some questions about it. Rather than answering it, the thread got locked. I knew something was wrong, and so I asked the nice moderator (the player in my "best" entry) to investigate for me, knowing he would happily do it (he was very supportive of me getting unbanned). Since I was not banned on the forum, he checked the ticket and took more screenshots of the area. I was surprised to find that it was a house that one of my friends owned. I KNEW I didn't do it then, and more investigation found out that the moderator had actually griefed the building and used some hack to make it look like I did it. I started a thread on the forum saying that this guy needs to get demoted and banned PERMANENTLY, and before anyone could see it or reply the thread gets locked and deleted. As a last resort, I contact the server owner and tell him. He never replied, and it has been 2 weeks. Then the abusive moderator goes and tells some other staff members who don't even know me that I am a "horrible griefer and troll" and, just to be mean, all of them put like 20 bans on my profile just to annoy me and saying really mean things in the reasons like "Bye zFa!!!! We won't miss you!", "Wow, it's so great to be rid of you!" and "You are a horrible person and should never have even been allowed on this server in the first place. We are so much better than you." Then they ban me from their OWN servers before I can even contact them and tell them that none of this is true. What's worse is that they use MCBans on all of them and now I have a horrible rating on it and can't even join most servers now.

I had projects that took me MONTHS to complete on that server, I had made several friends and was very well known and now I lost all of it because of this.

Guys i bet this is the reason. You know how they have a decrepit torn up tatters of apparel? Maybe they are supposed to represent marooned souls (hence "stray") who were neglected and "marooned" in their life with no loved ones or family, and now they roam the earth looking for freedom from their predicament. I would guess that the origins of the name come from Asia where Taoist and Shinto believers in Japan believe that their ancestors guide them through their lives. Or it could be from Vietnam where in the Vietnamese War the U.S. created haunting broadcasts of supposed "Tortured souls" to deter the Vietnamese people from joining the war. In all I think the Stray is to represent wandering souls that had lonely lives.

Alright, here is my story. I put it in a spoiler since it is quite long.