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It'd be nice if you could craft chestplates with Elytra so you have the visual appearance of wearing armor, but I agree that Elytra shouldn't grant armor. I just don't like running around bare chested when I use them, so it'd be nice if I could have the appearance of wearing armor with them.
Good compromise.
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As has been said a million times, no. Elytra are OP and making them mutually exclusive from chestplates is a balancing choice - maybe the only one made for them.
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Not necessarily. I personally believe animals designed to be farmed should be more rewarding based on how hard they are to farm. Take rabbits for example: they are very small and will run away unless you're holding a carrot. But they can give you leather (via rabbit hides), a Jump Boost potion ingredient and meat. There's also hoglins which drop at least four porkchops (in my experience) but are hard to kill.
With this mindset, cows are the outlier. They're tall enough to be unable to move through one-block spaces (yet their youth can) but are very rewarding to farm and can do so via wheat. Pigs need carrots, potatoes or beetroot, all of which are much rarer, and they are one-block tall, so conventional methods for separating the parent from the child wouldn't work.
Mojang has already denied all forms of bodily fluids, so manure isn't likely to happen.
"Body fluids (including animal ones): Not a fit for Minecraft." (reference)
"All forms of poop and bodily fluids have already been rejected from being put in the base game, too - sorry!"
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I thought OP meant broken glass as in a broken texture and a hitbox that arrows could fly through, mostly for use in rundown-themed builds. Either way I give support!
I'd like a bear-trap style broken glass object similar to berry bushes or magma blocks.
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For not having monsters, I support ideas for blocking mob spawning on other ways than placing a lot of ugly torches everywhere.
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I think some form of difficulty for new players, as I was scared to come out of peaceful when I first played on pocket edition. I am a Java user now, and can handle mobs, but it would be nice for me to have had a difficulty which has slower hunger depletion, and hostile mobs spawning, but less of them, and gradually ramping up their power until you are in easy with longer hunger. This could teach new players some combat skills, and make the transition from peaceful a lot less scary.
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I would rather Peaceful was changed to mean 'peaceful' rather than 'mobless'. Mobs spawn normally, but are neutral to player and to each other (i.e. zombies not attacking villagers)
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It would need a massive amount of thought to get it right, but as you've laid out here I give partial support. I like the idea of wind as a purely visual thing, but there are questions to be asked about lag especially in jungles. We'd have to see a mod to know how it would actually play with the other kids though.
For the waves, I can imagine an ocean where the water would rise by a few fractions of a block like snow layers, then fall by the same, and it would oscillate gently around the normal height. The front side of the wave would be flowing for a few ticks while rising, but the back wouldn't do the same so the overall effect would carry boats and stuff back towards land. When the wave contacts land, the water would flow inland like 3 blocks or so and then dissipate like after breaking a source block. Redstone and plants placed in the tidal area would pop, and fish that somehow get caught riding the wave would potentially get beached when the water fades to nothing, leaving the occasional sea item on the shore like squids do now. The most difficult thing would be figuring out which directions the waves go since MC worlds are so broken up, and how far out to put them because where would they originate from unless they only happen near landmasses... Once again there may also be lag, but I do think it would increase the visual dynamics significantly. Support for waves once we figure out a good way to do it on the technical optimization side.
If we are to have hurricanes later into the games development, I'd support it only if it causes players to walk more slowly when moving against it, as if they had the status of slowness on them, this would force players to remain in their homes until the hurricane/wind storm stopped, giving more purpose for houses in Minecraft than just evading hostile mobs. But I certainly do not want it ruining people's builds, and while it is true that thunderstorms technically could burn your house down if made of wood, this is only true in scenarios of extreme bad luck, most of the time the rain would put the fires out long before your wooden house could be destroyed by it.
Although hurricanes could be made to knock trees over, so if your home was built next to a forest, and it wasn't built with stone or similarly hardy material, then your home gets damaged as the tree falls over on top of it if the house's distance from the tree is less than the tree height.
This in my opinion is the most reasonable mechanic to add into the game without adding too much of a mess for players to clean up.
Other than that, it should only produce visual and audible effects imo.
Such as leaves seen being carried off by the winds.
I am hugely in favour of waves on oceans though, but this needs to become a graphical setting because not everyone's computers will be good enough to handle it. Foliage for plants or leaves of trees swaying and moving when wind acts against vegetation should also become a graphics setting, so if people end up with lag they have the option to disable it returning Minecraft to its retro visuals.
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Minecraft today has gone through so much change since when I began playing. But the world just doesn't seem as real as it should. By adding waves and wind into the game, it gives gamers more of an opportunity to experience something like the real world. Waves and wind give more depth to the game instead of the still like game play in oceans and around the world. With these new features, wind could move leaves and debris in the air (small particles). This is also a possible idea of adding natural disasters into the game such as a wind storm or a hurricane. With waves though, the water might be more difficult to travel around and there could be a chance of players drowning due to riptides if this idea advances. Many creatures like fish, squid or even turtles could be pushed by the waves of water. But this idea offers more of a real life experience for players other than seeing a standstill world which can get boring after a while. Although this is a large feature to be added, I think it would truly make the game more interesting.
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What exactly in not inclusive about the words 'whitelist' and 'blacklist'
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Wow there's a lot to unpack here, so I'll just cover a few things:
I think more passive mobs should be added with their own unique functions for two reasons: populate the world with more diverse life, and make a player choose which animals to farm and in what amount, since farming all the animals at max capacity would become unmanageable and thus encourage a player to choose what resource they want more of.
Beavers would be a neat addition if they didn't have too much function. I think flooding rivers is a bit much, but it would be neat to come across a 1-4 block pile of sticks in a river (so found in river biomes only) with beavers coming and going from them like bees do with hives. What function would they serve? Don't know yet. But as a potential addition I like this idea. The dams would be able to hold back water, but water going over them would cause them to pop into a few sticks.
I don't know if we need any more mobs giving us items (villagers and cats for example already do this), but I don't necessarily think any mob needs to have a big new function in order to be considered. Bear variants that go for hives and cause the bees to get temporarily annoyed and drop the honey value to zero sounds reasonable to me. Birds that fly with modified bat AI would be another nice addition. They wouldn't do much of anything outside of making the world look more pretty and dynamic, but that's the point of most of the animals I can see being added.
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I thought OP meant broken glass as in a broken texture and a hitbox that arrows could fly through, mostly for use in rundown-themed builds. Either way I give support!
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Support scorrp10's take on it... Mobs are peaceful and completely neutral until hit directly by the player.
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It would need a massive amount of thought to get it right, but as you've laid out here I give partial support. I like the idea of wind as a purely visual thing, but there are questions to be asked about lag especially in jungles. We'd have to see a mod to know how it would actually play with the other kids though.
For the waves, I can imagine an ocean where the water would rise by a few fractions of a block like snow layers, then fall by the same, and it would oscillate gently around the normal height. The front side of the wave would be flowing for a few ticks while rising, but the back wouldn't do the same so the overall effect would carry boats and stuff back towards land. When the wave contacts land, the water would flow inland like 3 blocks or so and then dissipate like after breaking a source block. Redstone and plants placed in the tidal area would pop, and fish that somehow get caught riding the wave would potentially get beached when the water fades to nothing, leaving the occasional sea item on the shore like squids do now. The most difficult thing would be figuring out which directions the waves go since MC worlds are so broken up, and how far out to put them because where would they originate from unless they only happen near landmasses... Once again there may also be lag, but I do think it would increase the visual dynamics significantly. Support for waves once we figure out a good way to do it on the technical optimization side.
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Should we call up every Spanish-speaking country and tell them that saying "black" ("negro") is illegal? When do we stop?
If you honestly think that the solution to historic Jim Crow is to ban the distinction between colors- not even contextually about races- today, might I suggest that you're just changing stuff for the sake of changing stuff, not attempting to achieve any meaningful goal. You can put the greatest of intentions behind what you're suggesting here, but that doesn't make the action any less counterproductive.
As Steven Crowder said recently, the BLM movement and the riots pasted all over the MSM have created more first-time gun owners, and more racists. The civil rights movement had the correct intention behind it, but now BLM blacks have taken it to the point that they demand that us whites confess our "white privilege" and pay them reparations, and if you dont they'll assault you and then burn your business to the ground... This is the progressivism that serious conservatives fight against tooth and nail at step one, and in this particular case the step one is not having Mojang change universal coding terms for everybody to accommodate one person's fragile psyche.
We've eradicated all systemic racism in the US. More trainings and "corrective measures" (ie. reparations) are ineffective and pointless at best, and will breed more racism in the younger generation at worst, so be careful what you push for.
I don't know why this thread is still here. I figured it would be taken down by now, if that's something MC forum does...
OP posted this on June 14th (2 weeks ago) and hasn't responded at all. I'm sensing a troll here...
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For the record I'm 23 (ie. hardly a boomer) and I still said what I did. Age has nothing to do with it...
"...Actually just fix these things..." It's not broken, so don't fix it."...Without stopping to ask if some old farts are afraid of change." Disregarding the old farts piece, the problem is that you overgeneralize the problem to allow for overgeneralized solutions. Does anyone really feel offended when they crack open their Minecraft server properties file? No. The only persons who will care that the universal "whitelist" and "blacklist" nomenclatures are being used in a Minecraft server menu are people who wake up in the morning and set out to deliberately find racism where there isn't any. I have zero tolerance for that as you can probably tell from my tone, because you water down the real remnants of racism that may be left, and thus will get missed because "everything is racist." Call racism at nothing too many times, and people will stop caring.
Edit: take OP's suggestion as written: "Replace the terms 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' with more inclusive alternatives." Who exactly feels excluded by Mojang's use of these common programming terms?
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How about we don't look to a videogame to change its linguistically common terms to make people who deliberately see color feel better? smh...
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i think the chains should be able to be placed horizontally too, since right now it seems like orientation is just an arbitrary limitation.
For pistons I think it would be cool to have chains (or ropes if ever added) count as one block for the whole length, and be treated as sticky on the ends so you could move a block that's far away from the mover. (ie. a mine elevator with the piston mechanism at the top hoisting it instead of listening to a flying machine right under your feet for the whole ride.)
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They mean you'd be doubling or more the amount of time it takes to mass craft stickies for big machines. However you already addressed this in your very first post where you stated it would be an alternate way to craft them, not a method meant to replace the current recipe... People just aren't remembering what they've read (or haven't) and they're bringing it back up. I still give full support here.
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I've suggested elsewhere in my replies that I had the idea for slime blocks long before they were a thing using the same method here: slime would be applied by hand to any face of a movable block as a green redstone texture, and until it's broken (also by hand) any block in contact with that face would be stuck to it using the same mechanics as slime blocks. The advantage of this method would be that you dont have a giant lime green splotch in the middle of piston doors and such, since unless it's exposed you wouldn't see the texture between the blocks. I've rabbit trailed a little but I'd like to see this implemented even now since your idea would fit this perfectly logically.
Support!