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With Mojang's new released snapshots, there are many features that add ways to customize your environment, such as armor stands, and banners. Yet, there is one thing that is missing in all of this: Trimmed Armor!
This would allow you to use various dyes and or ingots in order to trim your armor to your liking.

Think about the possibilities! A PvP game in which both teams have diamond armor, but you can show which team they are on using trimmed armor. Or a factions server; everyone in the same faction dons the same armor, and makes their enemies cower in fear as they brandish their symbol on their armor. It would look something like this:



This system can work similarly to how banners are right now, and can allow for a large amount of customization. The crafting recipe should be the same as dyeing banners in the new snapshot. All the current banner recipes can be seen here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Banner . Just use a piece of armor instead of the banner. Imagine: You Drop a yellow creeper head on that boring ol' diamond chest plate and a yellow trim around all of your armor and boom - you got a fancy suit of armor, fit for any minecraft knight and his trusty steed. Along with this idea, maybe Horse armor can apply to this as well, so that you may color the armor or even the saddle the horse wears.

Of course, this would have limits. For one, you shouldn't be able to completely switch the color of armor, to prevent you from confusing people by looking weaker than you are.

Also, trimmed swords would be nice(Gold trimmed diamond sword;just changes color of border of the sword.)

Thanks Somethingvalid for this picture of what 1 set of trimmed armor might look like:

I would rather would be a plugin/mod, as we have experience to customize pvp a lot already. Plus, I don't really wanna play World of Warcraft in minecraft. This whole tree system only would work if it is turn based attacks, as to not make it all op.

No support.

This server is addicting.. Will never get my homework done at this rate lol

Ign: sayhisam1
Amazing server, worth playing on. Different style of pvp, unabusive staff, and dungeons and treasure make it all the better.

Wouldn't it be awesome to have armor that actually looks complex, and can be set apart as different from other armors, and jewelry that you can make, which makes you look awesome.

For example, I can make an iron necklace, with lapiz in the center to make myself look better.

Also, armors should be able to add ores to them, to make them look better.
ie: Iron Armor with a gold trim around it.

Armor Stands- A stand of some sort, that will hold armor, jewelry, weapons and tools to add a nice effect in building, show other players armor, and can store different "Costumes" of armor you want

Can hold/show off armor and jewelry to players
Will add a nice ambience to the game (with statues in castles, etc)
Dynamic Poses, holding weapons and tools(Thanks Warpedshadow)


Please tell me what you think of this idea.


Trimming Armor:

Rings:

Necklace:

Armor Stands

If you want to suggest a better recipe, please feel free to do so.

I have to say, this server is pretty awesome, with nice community and staff. Definitely worth a look.

I have heard rumors that after 1.0, everyone who didnt get the game in alpha will be charged for minecraft updates.. Is this true? Also, if this is, then multiplayer would be messed up.. And i would definitely quit, as my mom wasnt too happy about getting me minecraft in the first place..

Virus id guess? Or maybe lack of memory in computer, try clearing cookies and files and such...

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Image

The model isn't the final thing. I won't update a new one but just to note, there are only 3 papers placed on the board, the black stuff is a book and it should have an ink bowl and a feather but I don't know how to model them.

The Planners Table is made out of three separate parts. The body, the board and the writing set.

The Body-

The Board-

The Writing Set-


I am dreadfully sorry that you had to see the brutal massacre of artistic beauty but I don't know how to show you the crafting. My artwork (I don't even think it is considered "art") hath butchered the beauty of Minecraft, I am sorry.

For the sake of not damaging anybody's brain further (Imagine the hospital bills from those three pictures alone.. *shudders*) I shall leave your imagination to see the outcome when these three are crafted together.. Or you can look at the model at the top of the page though it is slightly inaccurate. In both cases, you guys can make bird droppings look good compared to any of my amateur attempts.

The Purpose
Horrible art aside I shall discuss more about my idea in text, my more preferred form of explaining.

The Planners Table occupies a 2x1x2 in Length, Width and Height. If it helps think of its shape as two large chests stacked on top of each other.

Now, the Planners table is for those who has nothing to do when he has an epic house, a superultramegarific house, or a house that is better than mine. The table has several uses. Firstly, it has a map placer where you can place a map there. When you place another the current map pops out like a record from a jukebox. The second feature are reminders. Those are the three papers on the wall. You can select each of them and write as much as you can write in a sign. Useful for reminding yourself when you are checking your map and then looking up and saying "Oh yeah! I gotta craft a map! Imaginary maps go only so far.". The final addition is a book. It contains 10 pages with a lot of space. You can even draw on it.

There are other special uses too. With the map in place there you can draw on the map while it is placed. You can forge maps if you are skilled or name important locations. Or you can invent some pseudo code only other people in your undercover organization of trained cubes can read.

You can enchant the map by placing either Redstone, Glowstone or even those new stuff I haven't seen nor touched with me own square hands and eyes. Meh, whatever. For now I will use the two dusts and nobody will be able to stop me.

Redstone would make the map automatically update. If anything new happens the map would automatically update on it. Glowstone adds dots to the map that symbolize moving targets. Purple for players and red for anything not a player. You can place the two at once making it a good sort of "Satellite Monitoring" device you can use to check for nearby players without leaving the safety of your home.

When equipped with an Ender Pearl and clicking a part of the map you will select a pixel (It will color light green) and if you right click you will be sent there. Good travel use too.

Now you can have a functioning and useful thing to do while you wait the night out. Or if you're a town leader or some important person of the town, you can use this to make guard of the townspeople, check if anybody's missing, newcomers, mobs, animals, and seeing the progress of the town with ease.

Another use if for war. Strategy is important and a command center is very important. Place on your reminders the commands and assaults you will do, the map to monitor for enemy movement and base movement and the environment to give you an advantage and the book to write down your entire bases' defenses and your strategies. Be careful of infiltrators!

And if added with lots of other stuff out there in the suggestions forum like horses, defenses and stuff, Minecraft would feel like one of those games where everything is square and you can be free to do with what you want (Like Minecraft and only Minecraft!) but better and with more stuff.

Approved Fan Ideas

Quote from invisifly2

Perhaps you could make a block that would prevent them from teleporting within a certain distance of that block? You could bury these along the land to hide them and create a vast area nobody could teleport into. Of course this wouldn't affect spawns/nether/aether portals or prevent people from teleporting OUT of an area, as well as player commands (mods still need to moderate? amirite?)

Color coding players on dots (by invisifly2)


Thanks for reading. And if you want to criticize my idea I have this format set up.

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