Minecraft ideas

[Mr Companion]

If you have no idea what minecraft is then I suggest you go take a look now, and try to overcome the initial repulsion of the simplistic graphics before passing judgement . Anyway-

Never before have I seen such potential for ideas in a game. I have played about half the games under the sun and even I am dumbfounded by how versatile the concept of Minecraft is. And me and my brother just came up with some ideas about things that could be implemented, but I would like to hear some ideas from the crowd. Here are some ideas we had-

Natural disasters
Flying/climbing enemies (Banshees or something)
Birds that fly about during the day and sing pleasantly in the morning to evoke a feeling of relief after the nightly terror.
The player should also be encouraged to explore, as supposed to how it is now where exploration is both dangerous and unprofitable which doesn't make use of the near infinite scale of the world.

These are just a few ideas we threw about for a couple of minutes, I am certain the clever clogs here shall with thought produce some great ideas, so lets use our combined creative effort to produce some conceptual brilliance.

 

[shootthebandit]

is it free to play?

 

[Brotherofwill]

I love Minecraft, but come on. It's not that revolutionary. It's basically Lego on a PC, with much less building parts and stuff to tinker with (ok, I guess the interaction of an avatar in the scale of it is pretty neat).

Stuff I've built so far: I built a giant black tower that was filled with colours inside. On top was a small hole that you could jump in. You fall through the tower and you see all the colours passing by you, kind of like the sequense in 2001. Then you land down there in a pit of lava. A comuterized journey in the afterlife.

ANother thing I built was a flying model of the discworld world, dull with elephants and everything. Here:

It didn't turn out so well, but then again I had to build it flying in the sky.

How could you build enemies? Oh, I get it, this is about what would be interesting to add to Minecraft, right? Sorry, I misunderstood. Any type of AI in ther would be neat. Maybe some form of socialising beyond text. I'd love if there was some form of joints or moving, animated parts so you could build giant robots and the like. Basically they should look at Lego and try to copy some of their more useful blocks, like moving joint and blocks that go around the corner. They should also look at what LBP 2 is doing in the whole way of distributing levels and promoting them, like a rnaking to check out good levels maybe. Actually they could copy loads of stuff from LBP.

 

[Mr Companion]

It's just like Ultima VII/VIII/IX(or what U9 should have been), but with worse graphics, no magic, and killing bricks instead of monsters.


Guess the OP missed the whole MMO stage of his "extensive" gaming career.

PS Dig Dug anyone? :S

What?
No really, whaaa?
First of all, career? Second of all, no monsters in minecraft? Are we talking about different things? Third of all OH NO! I have not played or even heard anything about ultima! I guess my "Extensive" gaming "Career" has not been as "Complete" as yours which presumably extends to every and all games in the history of ever. No that made no sense and no I don't care.

Anyway I seem to be getting some negative feedback from posters so I guess my rare bout of enthusiasm has offended some people. If I could remove this thread I guess I would but I don't know how. Oh well, I guess this stain on my otherwise flawless track record of cynicism and lifeless boredom will have to offend people further and tarnish my "reputation" (sigh).

 

[Brotherofwill]

What?
No really, whaaa?

Sorry if I came across as a bit harsh. I love Minecraft, but to me it doesn't hold that much potential. It's like a crippled yet interactive form of Lego.

Anyway, I feel you. What? How the hell is Minecraft similar to Ultima? Say whaaaaaaa...

 

[Mr Companion]

What?
No really, whaaa?

Sorry if I came across as a bit harsh. I love Minecraft, but to me it doesn't hold that much potential. It's like a crippled yet interactive form of Lego.

Anyway, I feel you. What? How the hell is Minecraft similar to Ultima? Say whaaaaaaa...

Hey don't worry your post was fine, in fact your post made perfect sense, you just gave an opinion and shared. Its just that I get tired of posting a thread and finding the comments section littered with ignorance and unwarrented rage from people like TcheQ here. Its like if there is any way at all somebody can misunderstand and proudly display their mindless ramblings then they take the opportunity with open arms. How the blazes is Minecraft anything like DigDug?

Anyway don't feel my resent is aimed anywhere near you, you are quite cool. By the way I used to like lego as a child, but to me Minecraft is less like that and more like an open world spelunky, a sort of survival horrer free roaming sandbox adventure game.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

What I feel Minecraft needs right now is something like a horse, because right now travelling around is pretty slow, and it can be punishing if you accidentally die far away from your spawn point. Having a stable or something near your spawn point would bve very helpful. Piggy saddles are available but very rare and are not quite the same.

That or teleoprters. To be honest I find it hard to think of any more practical ideas.

Personally I can't wait until the 'flying machines' are implemeted.

I love Minecraft, but come on. It's not that revolutionary. It's basically Lego on a PC, with much less building parts and stuff to tinker with (ok, I guess the interaction of an avatar in the scale of it is pretty neat).

Just out of curiosity, have you played survival mode? It is a lot different than the free version, which I presume you played as there is coloured cloth in your Diskworld. You'll find a few of your suggestions have already been implemented.

It is currently available for free, as the website is broken.

edit: nevermind, the website is working again now.

Also, HYAAHH http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Minecraft-Appreciation-Club

 

[SilverStrike]

The thing is, we're not being precise about which version of Minecraft. There's the free version, which some have encountered, and assume is the full thing. Then there's the real thing, which the OP has, which includes far more building customisation and even enemies that attack you at night.
Having not played the full version and only the free, I cannot suggest ideas because they probably already exist.
But, just make sure you know which version you're talking about.

Also, you can flood the free version if you make trenches for the water to lower-than-sea-level sections.

 

[Celestialum]

A compass, or a map of some sort would be really nice. It's awful when I've been exploring across the world for 10-20 minutes only to fall into a pit or get bumrushed in a corner by a mob, and I can't find my body for the life (hurk) of me. The world really is big enough that you can walk around seeing new places without finding one particular spot for a very, very long time.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

A compass, or a map of some sort would be really nice. It's awful when I've been exploring across the world for 10-20 minutes only to fall into a pit or get bumrushed in a corner by a mob, and I can't find my body for the life (hurk) of me. The world really is big enough that you can walk around seeing new places without finding one particular spot for a very, very long time.

But there is a compass...

I recommend using all that useless cotton punched from sheep to create massive, indentifiable structures, and placing them periodically around the world, so the world doesn't all look the same and you get lost less.

 

[Tharwen]

A few ideas:

Better fluid physics! A few relatively simple lines of code here could make the water in the game flow so much better than it does now.

Torches produce light even when you're holding them (but not when you have a different item equipped).

It might also be good if different types of resources appeared in large quantities in specific areas. That would mean that you could just go to your iron cavern if you wanted some iron, or example, instead of just building a massive tunnel in the hope that you hit something useful. I'm not saying there should be areas made purely of one type of mineral, but if an area could just have a higher density of it you might have to plan your routes more (and it would require more exploration over a large area).

EDIT: More ideas!

Animals have some sort of herd AI and breed instead of just spawning. Then you could try to trap them and farm them.

Monsters try to get to dark areas before the Sun comes up.

About 20 blocks down from the surface, the ground goes very hard and only iron pickaxes (or better) can mine it effectively. You can only find valuable blocks like redstone and diamond in this area.

 

[Mr Companion]

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Wow. I mean, I was pretty certain you were just blurting random statements earlier but now you might as well be shouting "GHlargleraarbloodadoowheeeeeeeee!" while slapping the top of your head and dancing around. This is now nothing more than the ramblings of a crazed internet doomsayer. I have no single minded fanboyish duty to defend Minecraft but I do have a sensible duty to point out nonsense so that it doesn't go unchecked and spread itself about.

First of all its worth noting that a game is not constrained by the content of its title, if a game was called, for example, Guild Wars then I doubt that game would consist entirely of wars between guilds. By the same merit a game called Littlebigplanet might not be based around a planet of paradoxical scale.

"Crappy graphics isn't new" lego has pretty shitty graphics, dungeons and dragons doesn't even have graphics at all(it does have insufferable gameplay but that's besides the point). The point of minecraft is that the bare minimum graphics allow it to do things that graphically detailed games struggle with, dynamic lighting, flowing liquids, destructible terrain, procedural generating, infinite landscape ect.

The last paragraph I admit I find very difficult to decipher, but I think at one point you equate the gameplay of Neverwinter Nights with Minecraft. This and other comparisons lead me to believe that you create comments with one hand fishing about in a sack of bits of paper, and on these bits of paper are names of videogames. Every now and then you pull out a name and write it down.
Anyway no offence or anything but your comments make no sense at all. As I said im not defending Minecraft im happy to see other peoples points of view. I just cant help but ask when somebody seems to have no idea what they are talking about.

 

[Danzaivar]

Looks like an interesting game. Seems as though they could add more to the characters (Magic etc), what they have for the World looks promising however. Being able to make computational logic gates for a game so basic looking seems funny. Kind of like 3Dlittlebigplanetlite?

Must say though, OP sounds like a massive fanboy and is really putting me off the Minecraft community.

 

[Mr Companion]

Looks like an interesting game. Seems as though they could add more to the characters (Magic etc), what they have for the World looks promising however. Being able to make computational logic gates for a game so basic looking seems funny. Kind of like 3Dlittlebigplanetlite?

Must say though, OP sounds like a massive fanboy and is really putting me off the Minecraft community.

Sorry about that, I should be a little more reserved.

GHlargleraarbloodadoowheeeeeeeee

What an amusing creature.

Perhaps you will find a more receptive audience if you actually posted your ideas here:

http://minecraftforum.net/index.php

After you've done that, maybe you should go play the other "half the games under the sun" and then you might understand how ludicrous, highly exaggerated and underwit your statements in this thread are.

Ill give that a shot.

 

[Jacob.pederson]

A compass, or a map of some sort would be really nice. It's awful when I've been exploring across the world for 10-20 minutes only to fall into a pit or get bumrushed in a corner by a mob, and I can't find my body for the life (hurk) of me. The world really is big enough that you can walk around seeing new places without finding one particular spot for a very, very long time.

There is a compass. It's a craftable item.

 

[DuplicateValue]

If you misinterpreted anything I said (clearly, rhetoric again), it's because you appear to not only have missed the MMO part of a gaming, but the RPG part too.

I've played plenty of RPG's and MMO's, and not one of them has been in any way similar to Minecraft.
This isn't crafting, it's building. In which of your RPG's can you build giant castles from the ground up? Or recreate the Earth itself?
Seriously, if you know one, tell me. 'Cos I'd fucking pay for that shit.

Crappy graphics isn't either.

In short, this might be more well received if it had been released 10-15 years ago (I could have stated that earlier but it was more interesting not to)

Well if graphics stop you from playing good games, you're going to miss out on a lot.
What about games like FFVII? What happened to your love of RPG's? Or do you only play the pretty ones?

And it's been very well received actually. Have you been on the internet at all lately?
Especially for an independently developed game, it's had plenty of success so far, and that can only grow as it gets developed further.

 

[fearanger]

I have an idea for the new versions. I figure that we should make a new mob and area, Desert, Vulture and Scorpion. There is barely no water in Desert and Cactus's and Slimes are much more common, even Slimes appear on the surface. Vultures are airborne day and night dwellers. they are the players running speed and they can attack from land and air. *damage3**#health3* *sword1* scorpions replace spiders in the desert. *health5* *damage3* *sword2*.

 

[Hashime]

If you have no idea what minecraft is then I suggest you go take a look now, and try to overcome the initial repulsion of the simplistic graphics before passing judgement . Anyway-

Never before have I seen such potential for ideas in a game. I have played about half the games under the sun and even I am dumbfounded by how versatile the concept of Minecraft is. And me and my brother just came up with some ideas about things that could be implemented, but I would like to hear some ideas from the crowd. Here are some ideas we had-

Natural disasters
Flying/climbing enemies (Banshees or something)
Birds that fly about during the day and sing pleasantly in the morning to evoke a feeling of relief after the nightly terror.
The player should also be encouraged to explore, as supposed to how it is now where exploration is both dangerous and unprofitable which doesn't make use of the near infinite scale of the world.

These are just a few ideas we threw about for a couple of minutes, I am certain the clever clogs here shall with thought produce some great ideas, so lets use our combined creative effort to produce some conceptual brilliance.

I would like to see sentry guns of some sort, and maybe a jetpack type device.
Also dedicated scaffolding that is easier to expand outwards.

 

[Tsunimo]

I think it would be nice if the exploding fuckers would disapear with the rest of them in the morning... not noon.
I juts died for the 4h TIME because it keeps sneaking up, exploding on my face and killing me.
and i only got the game yesterday

 

[SomeLameStuff]

A compass, or a map of some sort would be really nice. It's awful when I've been exploring across the world for 10-20 minutes only to fall into a pit or get bumrushed in a corner by a mob, and I can't find my body for the life (hurk) of me. The world really is big enough that you can walk around seeing new places without finding one particular spot for a very, very long time.

There is a compass, though you'll need steel and redstone to make it.

And there is a third party program that maps out your game world as you go along. I haven't used it yet though.