Just build a wall around any unwanted settlement, and gradually close it in on them. Drop gravel on the NPCs for fun. Once they are safely contained, profit and annex the land for yourself!
I, like probably many Minecrafters, use drydocks to keep boats from going insane. That is, stone half-blocks adjacent to water to safely put a boat onto. Well, after a long night's exploring , I go to put away my boat, by slowly and carefully creeping into my dock area, and onto the stone half-blocks. But as soon as it reaches the half blocks, I instantly die. I was playing on peaceful and there were no wolves to anger, just as soon as I get to the stone, I died. Don't really want to die every time I put up a boat. On a Mac, playing offline, if that matters. Oh, and I used the search bar snd got no helpful information.
this is to amazing for words to describe my need for this
Are. You. Ready… for Halo Reach er… New Nether?!?
I'm ashamed I know that video.
Anyways, yeah, Nether is currently very simple. Would be nice to have more in it, it has potential.
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(yes im oppressed with slimes)
Sorry to hear that, The slimes are a very oppressive regime =)
Guh, please stop calling it that way. I know it looks like a cool thing, but no one else is going to keep copying and pasting just for that.
"Æ/æ" is a Scandinavian letter, used in Denmark and Norway, also spelled ae on international keyboards. The Swedish equivalent is "Ä/ä"
It's fairly common, but it'd be a mispronounciation of Aether, since it would sound like Eh-ther... Which is just stupid.
Unless people are saying it with a quite failing accent, too think it is a bad idea to ever l33t speak it like so.
PweasssssSSSSSSSSSssssse don't do it people Thank you
Actually, I was using it in the Greco-Roman sense, as in "CAIVS IVLIVS CÆSAR" (Gaius Julius Caesar) in which case it has no effect on pronunciation and is merely a way of writing. I apologise for this and promise to stop. Not trying to be a jerk or anything, being sincere and addressing the problem.
I love the idea of an Aether.
Though it, nearly, completely removes the threat of Quicksoil.
I hope it doesn't, that was a cool idea and made the Æther more dangerous/exciting. Maybe just ~1 block runoff from islands, even tiny (2x2x2-5x5x5) sized islands, would be easier.
Er, how could you drop a gravel/sand pillar down to the cloud... -snip-
Your argument made me think of something.
WHAT HAPPENS IF SAND AND GRAVEL FALL FROM THE AETHER?
Do they just... disappear? Or do they fall into the Overworld? And in that case, what if a sand/gravel formation naturally occurs in the Aether and falls down when the player spawns? Then, why are there sand and gravel pillars falling from the sky?
It'd be the same as the concept that Grey mentioned, where they'd just break into resources, and disappear. If you want to build down that badly, make a staircase and build off that. (Which you could do anyways, just like you do in reverse in the overworld)
This makes sense since clouds are not solid anyway (it sounds like cold clouds are, hence the confusion). + for this or portal or whatever gets the job done.
What if it were crafted from wheat and sticks/wood, for that extra support, and then is not affected by gravity? This would make roof building easier, give it more uses, and still be cheap to build while making sense? I kind of like it as it was originally, with four wheat and defying gravity so it can make roofs really easily and bridges, too, that can be burnt down easily. Gladly surprised to see the newfound support for thatch blocks again!
That sounds more like a further craftable. Thatch is, by definition, just the straw/reeds that have been bundled and laid on the roof of a building. To add wooden supports would alter that. i like the idea though, and thus I say- Make it a further craftable with loose thatch to make reinforced thatch that doesn't fall. Since the required support is easily made, I'd say about three sticks should do- bound in a triangle pattern to which the thatch is added.
Sounds good. This makes a lot of sense, and I hope Notch does it this way if he put thatch in-game. It would still make for very cheap, renewable roofs, too. Has Notch been made aware of this, as it stands with ^this idea?
What if it were crafted from wheat and sticks/wood, for that extra support, and then is not affected by gravity? This would make roof building easier, give it more uses, and still be cheap to build while making sense? I kind of like it as it was originally, with four wheat and defying gravity so it can make roofs really easily and bridges, too, that can be burnt down easily. Gladly surprised to see the newfound support for thatch blocks again!
Clouds as the Æther floor has already been suggested, and the idea was abandoned for a portal that makes building on the "floor" impossible. I liked the idea, too, until I thought about the "supporting other blocks" thing. I agree that looking down from Æther should not render the Overworld as you're not so much in the sky as in a seperate sky realm. Like the idea of Overworld rain, though (and wind too). The only real problem with this is the ease of building on the base level, which makes the whole "floating islands" thing pointless.
But since the clouds break if you have them in contact with the player, you couldn't build with them, ne? if you can't place any block on them, you can't build down there, unless you built down from the islands and then made a floor as a layer all the way down there- which you can still do anyways. But if it was a cloud that captured the falling waterfalls, you can at least swim back up the waterfalls and get onto an island, without any interaction with the Overworld at all, which continues the same concept of world segregation that was started with the Nether, if you wanted to take it that far.
You can still drop sand/ gravel pillars until you reach the bottom. The portal would not support blocks; they would just fall right through. It wouldn't even have to be a big glowing portal, either. It could be blue, or with clouds, or whatever. This does facilitate Æther floor building, while the portal would virtually eliminate this loophole. Unless the clouds do not support blocks, but then, I guess, the floor would. The portal would either kill you or you give you a nasty "fall from heaven/grace," a la Mt. Olympus in the Greek myths, (and probably more) which fits with the Greek theme of some of this suggestion.
As for the idea, I think it's basically covered by the Hell Bulbs. Not completely, but basically.
Would it be another type of corruption? Would it be mine-able? What would it's uses be if it were?
Give it a little more thought. It's not bad, but not quite good yet.
The idea was to replace the current wood idea to end that debate, not to start a new one. It would be the same wood as before, but made more hellish or different in concept than a tree that can't be made into planks, does not make leaves &c. It would still follow the shard patterns and all that was said begfore, but now it has reasons to do so. If anyone hates the idea of it being lichen as opposed to wood, comment, because I feel it fits better here than wood.
… Perhaps it's a lichen tree… which is a colonial organism and grows well in volitile places…
… the idea of hellish mold or lichen is interesting in it's own right.…
Yes, well done; now that's thinking outside the box. :smile.gif:
… from the perspective of someone who came from the Overworld; if it feels and acts like wood, they'll call it wood; otherwise they'll call it something else.
(sorry, been gone awhile thinking this was tossed aside by the debate) (quotes shortened for succinctness)
Thanks for taking notice, in the midst of all that. I think it fits better than wood in the flaming Nether. Mold would be in hell, maybe. Lichen grows on old rocks and is at least incredibly difficult to make the little flakes into planks , eliminating that. It could look like anything and would not form leaves, as gloomwood before.
Gloomlichen doesn't have the same "ring" to it, though.
What if it's a semi-solid cloud base that is dense enough to support water? Something that is functionally how this looks- http://static.desktopnexus.com/thumbnai ... mbnail.jpg I mean, you already have the breakaway cloud blocks; Why not have them support water and not break from water's contact? Then you have a massive field of cloud cover beneath the AEther, hiding it from view from below (provides additional reasoning for why the game doesn't have to try and render AEther while in Overworld) while catching the water overflowing from the waterfalls to the land below. When the clouds get saturated enough, they tear open and let loose a heavy rain on the world below. (story component, until rain is implemented).
Just a thought. Still don't like the AEther in general, though. Seems too... kitsch.
Clouds as the Æther floor has already been suggested, and the idea was abandoned for a portal that makes building on the "floor" impossible. I liked the idea, too, until I thought about the "supporting other blocks" thing. I agree that looking down from Æther should not render the Overworld as you're not so much in the sky as in a seperate sky realm. Like the idea of Overworld rain, though (and wind too). The only real problem with this is the ease of building on the base level, which makes the whole "floating islands" thing pointless.
@Amariithynar
Thank you for clarifying this. I'd always heard that Eucalyptus was a poor wood to build with, and that it's more of a weed than anything else. We have some eucalyptus at our house, and they blow over pretty easily, and splinter as well. Never heard of coconut planks either, thanks for that. It seemed too porous and grassy to make into planks, but apparently not. As for flooring, you can use cork bark, but I wouldn't build with it like I'd build with, say, oak.
@Darkbirth
Yes, I see that. Maybe all the cold it absorbs makes it brittle, and it crystallizes, although that is quite unrealistic. Perhaps it's a lichen tree, which is a colonial organism and grows well in volitile places, and they can be living and grow, but still be mineral-like; if Lichen grew huge and solid like proposed, it would probably form cakey shards (from my experience with lichen anyway) Yes they usually are smaller, but, trees don't spontaneously grow in real life, either.
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Are. You. Ready… for Halo Reach er… New Nether?!?
I'm ashamed I know that video.
Anyways, yeah, Nether is currently very simple. Would be nice to have more in it, it has potential.
Sorry to hear that, The slimes are a very oppressive regime =)
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Actually, I was using it in the Greco-Roman sense, as in "CAIVS IVLIVS CÆSAR" (Gaius Julius Caesar) in which case it has no effect on pronunciation and is merely a way of writing. I apologise for this and promise to stop. Not trying to be a jerk or anything, being sincere and addressing the problem.
I love the idea of an Aether.
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I hope it doesn't, that was a cool idea and made the Æther more dangerous/exciting. Maybe just ~1 block runoff from islands, even tiny (2x2x2-5x5x5) sized islands, would be easier.
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This makes sense since clouds are not solid anyway (it sounds like cold clouds are, hence the confusion). + for this or portal or whatever gets the job done.
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Sounds good. This makes a lot of sense, and I hope Notch does it this way if he put thatch in-game. It would still make for very cheap, renewable roofs, too. Has Notch been made aware of this, as it stands with ^this idea?
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You can still drop sand/ gravel pillars until you reach the bottom. The portal would not support blocks; they would just fall right through. It wouldn't even have to be a big glowing portal, either. It could be blue, or with clouds, or whatever. This does facilitate Æther floor building, while the portal would virtually eliminate this loophole. Unless the clouds do not support blocks, but then, I guess, the floor would. The portal would either kill you or you give you a nasty "fall from heaven/grace," a la Mt. Olympus in the Greek myths, (and probably more) which fits with the Greek theme of some of this suggestion.
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The idea was to replace the current wood idea to end that debate, not to start a new one. It would be the same wood as before, but made more hellish or different in concept than a tree that can't be made into planks, does not make leaves &c. It would still follow the shard patterns and all that was said begfore, but now it has reasons to do so. If anyone hates the idea of it being lichen as opposed to wood, comment, because I feel it fits better here than wood.
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(sorry, been gone awhile thinking this was tossed aside by the debate) (quotes shortened for succinctness)
Thanks for taking notice, in the midst of all that. I think it fits better than wood in the flaming Nether. Mold would be in hell, maybe. Lichen grows on old rocks and is at least incredibly difficult to make the little flakes into planks , eliminating that. It could look like anything and would not form leaves, as gloomwood before.
Gloomlichen doesn't have the same "ring" to it, though.
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Clouds as the Æther floor has already been suggested, and the idea was abandoned for a portal that makes building on the "floor" impossible. I liked the idea, too, until I thought about the "supporting other blocks" thing. I agree that looking down from Æther should not render the Overworld as you're not so much in the sky as in a seperate sky realm. Like the idea of Overworld rain, though (and wind too). The only real problem with this is the ease of building on the base level, which makes the whole "floating islands" thing pointless.
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Thank you for clarifying this. I'd always heard that Eucalyptus was a poor wood to build with, and that it's more of a weed than anything else. We have some eucalyptus at our house, and they blow over pretty easily, and splinter as well. Never heard of coconut planks either, thanks for that. It seemed too porous and grassy to make into planks, but apparently not. As for flooring, you can use cork bark, but I wouldn't build with it like I'd build with, say, oak.
@Darkbirth
Yes, I see that. Maybe all the cold it absorbs makes it brittle, and it crystallizes, although that is quite unrealistic. Perhaps it's a lichen tree, which is a colonial organism and grows well in volitile places, and they can be living and grow, but still be mineral-like; if Lichen grew huge and solid like proposed, it would probably form cakey shards (from my experience with lichen anyway) Yes they usually are smaller, but, trees don't spontaneously grow in real life, either.