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KissofKetchup

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Some way to armor a house or something. Three ingots of iron vertically makes 4 plate of armor plating that you apply similar to a ladder or painting
 

Custard_Angel

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I'd like a challenge mode, where you're assigned tasks to complete and rewarded for doing so.

Like, the task is "create a house made of bricks and wooden planks with dimensions of 10x10x5", and as a reward, a chest is added containing some of the standard goodies you may find in a dungeon chest (special items, ores, materials etc).

I suppose the hard part of this is programming what a "house" is.

Other than that, I'd like to see a use for gold beyond making pimp armour and golden blocks.
 

obedai

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I think it needs more block types, simply for cosmetic variation, the ability to turn dye into paint and change the color of wood, stone, and the like.

It also needs to change the terrain generation so that the terrain features are much larger. Imagine if you could have mountains 3x as big as they are now, it would make for more interesting build spots and more fun exploration. Though the height cap would have to be raised.

Larger biomes, so that you can have one biome as far as the eye can see, which would be cooler than trying to build a pyramid in a tiny patch of sand. And an ocean biome, since there is no way to build cool stuff in the water.

Better combat. Perhaps some sort of basic hack and slash type thing where you can mix up light and heavy attacks and do combos. Although you would need much better mob AI for that.
 

DarthFennec

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TestECull said:
DarthFennec said:
Since indie developers are taking a huge risk jumping into this industry, and they put all their time and money and effort into making things that most likely won't sell too well, if at all, I think it makes much more sense for indie devs to charge more for games ...
I'm fine with this as long as they don't get ideas of grandure and start charging more than it's worth. I won't even pay sixty bucks for stuff from the professionals so I'm sure as hell not gonna spend it on something written by one or two guys in their basement.
Well then good job Minecraft's only $20, right? :3
 

Sn1P3r M98

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silver wolf009 said:
Elamdri said:
silver wolf009 said:
Multilpe save slots that can be used to save the same world in more than one slot.

Nothing sucks more *STREAM OF EXPLITIVES* that having months, BLOODY MONTHS, of mining, building, stockpiling, dissapear in a flash into oblivion... Nothing.
Backup your saves man. There are plenty of programs that will do it.
I should not have to download a program for that, but there is no excuse for my folly.
Go to Appdata/.minecraft/saves, and copy/paste your save file from the folder to your desktop or somewhere convenient. BAM! Instant backup.

Also, this [http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=80644] mod looks very interesting...
 

bam13302

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Chase Yojimbo said:
hmm... Minecraft needs more Dungeon Keeper elements... If you don't know what Dungeon Keeper is, slap yourself.

What I mean is instead of tirelessly building one block at a time, you could instead delete an entire wall of rock depending on your currently equipped device (Pick Axe, Shovel, etc), then replace it with say, Cobblestone. Only an idea, and it would save me time. There are many other elements that could be used from Dungeon Keeper, such as Minions as well, and you could minipulate the skins of the minions *not that different from what you do already with your avatar*, and every bed you build or something else could be considered a "Lair".

If you still don't know what im talking about, go find an extremely old copy of Dungeon Keeper 1 or 2. They were one of the best series in the 90's. You could also find software online probebly using a torrent or 2.
a- there is programs for this (mcedit, its on the minecraft wiki)
b- the major point of making things in minecraft is the effort involved, the great wall of china is a lot less impressive if it was done in 2 clicks
 

ionpulse2

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Simple machines.

Think about how useful a pulley could be. That, and how about some sloped blocks? That would make things easier.

Also, scuba gear would be nice.
 

Jaime_Wolf

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An actual coder.

In the past, I typically just ignored everyone's complaining about Notch, writing it off as typical internet whining.

But, his somewhat awkward attitude toward the community aside, I've come to the unfortunate realisation that the man cannot code. He's a brilliant designer, but he really needs to leave the bulk of the coding to others. The moment you look at any of the deobfuscated code floating around, you will immediately understand - it's held together with the coding equivalent of chewing gum, paperclips, and duct tape.

And god forbid you actually try to DO SOMETHING with the code. The main APIs that have been developed are missing key features simply because the code of the actual game is so incredibly badly written. It's just cobbled together with no regard for future development, bug-fixing, or modification. It's no wonder that it takes him so long to fix things and add new features.

At this point, I honestly think the best use of the team's time would be take a month or two to rewrite the engine from scratch to create a cohesive and extensible base to work off of.
 

DarthFennec

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TestECull said:
DarthFennec said:
TestECull said:
DarthFennec said:
Since indie developers are taking a huge risk jumping into this industry, and they put all their time and money and effort into making things that most likely won't sell too well, if at all, I think it makes much more sense for indie devs to charge more for games ...
I'm fine with this as long as they don't get ideas of grandure and start charging more than it's worth. I won't even pay sixty bucks for stuff from the professionals so I'm sure as hell not gonna spend it on something written by one or two guys in their basement.
Well then good job Minecraft's only $20, right? :3
I bought it when it was only 10 and I'm still debating whether or not it's worth that. As I mentioned on page 2 Minecraft certainly has many things that are missing.
I bought it when it was $10 and I've always thought it was worth much more, but I guess that's my opinion. The cool thing about Minecraft is he'll keep adding stuff until nothing or very little is missing, and you'll never have to pay another cent.
 

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Sirpipple said:
Minecraft is missing the ability to get around the world faster, yes, there are mine carts but I would really like to see are riding animals (the pig doesn't count) and maybe a flying machine of some description.
FLYING MACHINGE!!!
YES
that would help a lot
 

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bleachigo10 said:
I'd really like some system of getting rid of excess materials. After a lot of mining the majority of my inventory spaces seem to be filled by cobblestone and gravel and i'd rather not have 50 chests sitting around full of rocks.
Build an incinerator out of lava. I have one in my house.
 

kjh242

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Uh... i hate to be "that guy", but almost everything you people have just said is already in existence on the completed mods thread of the minecraft forums...
Aeroplanes... check
Horses (flying and pack horses as well)... check (Mo'creatures- now 1.3_01 compatible!)
the rest of Mo'creatures
minecart systems... check
EVERYTHING ELSE... check

it all works fine. quit whining about the install process and go install them.
 

TG MLPDashie

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a friend list so you can join a friend in single player and if its someone you hate you can just remove them, and if you could make a setting so if i build a house on MP someone wont run up and pull it all down, i know there's a door lock and a chest lock but there needs to be more than that.
 

Drakmorg

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Decent combat for one, or at least some worthwhile combat rewards.
I set my difficulty to "Peaceful" like three months ago and have felt absolutely no desire to return to the normal, inconvenient difficulty settings.

I realize that making the combat actually interesting would most likely require some kind of major engine overhaul or something, but the mobs could at least drop useful crap after I've killed them.
 

arcaneviper

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mb16 said:
a option to remove passive mobs.
There is a way. It's called starting a multiplayer server and never setting an ip adress. Login with local host and your away. The server config then means you can turn off animals/ mobs and you then have /give abilities for the fun. But minecraft could really benefit from something like a trapdoor mechanism (already been mentioned i realised) and fruit trees! I want to actually have my own orchards (cider plox?? hehe) It would also be nice to add something like a cooker that would cook your food, and a hollowed stone block for a sink. Part of trhe fun of minecraft, to me, is the ability to really personalise your home. Currently you kin've have to mock up everything and it generally becomes oversized because of the blocks required to do things. But yes trapdoors seriously! triggerable by redstone would make them awesome!
 

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josemlopes said:
Lunaras13 said:
right now the game is just
start a new map -> build a shitty house -> mine far into the ground -> build a better house -> put it on hard mode -> kill shit tons of monsters -> quit for a week or 2 -> repeat


so i would suggest some RPG elements

an economy
what if gold could be smelted down into coins, and somewhere underground you found an old man running a shop that you could buy things at like diamonds, pictures, etc. many old men selling different things each

more dimensional gates like hell, not all of them are hostile

i would love it if magic were added, fireballs that would hurt enemies and light stuff on fire from a distance, ice bolts that would slow enemies and put out fires/lava, lightning that could activate switches and stuff from a distance, teleport back to spawn point.
This.

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Not much to add then
This plus the 4x4 idea from another post, and the more vehicles idea from a third.
 

Lord_Ascendant

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Seriously

I would like a mineral finder.

That beeps when a mineral is close.

Like, redstone and diamond maybe like how a clock is gold and redstone and compass is iron and redstone.
 

arcaneviper

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The mineral finder has been suggested loads of times. Personally i wouldn't use it. It would tkae the fun out of finding diamond. I know that its pure joy on finding those two blocks on every new world. If a mineral finder were added we would simply be waiting for the 'beep'.
 

Chase Yojimbo

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bam13302 said:
Chase Yojimbo said:
hmm... Minecraft needs more Dungeon Keeper elements... If you don't know what Dungeon Keeper is, slap yourself.

What I mean is instead of tirelessly building one block at a time, you could instead delete an entire wall of rock depending on your currently equipped device (Pick Axe, Shovel, etc), then replace it with say, Cobblestone. Only an idea, and it would save me time. There are many other elements that could be used from Dungeon Keeper, such as Minions as well, and you could minipulate the skins of the minions *not that different from what you do already with your avatar*, and every bed you build or something else could be considered a "Lair".

If you still don't know what im talking about, go find an extremely old copy of Dungeon Keeper 1 or 2. They were one of the best series in the 90's. You could also find software online probebly using a torrent or 2.
a- there is programs for this (mcedit, its on the minecraft wiki)
b- the major point of making things in minecraft is the effort involved, the great wall of china is a lot less impressive if it was done in 2 clicks
True, maybe the feature of Multi-Build/Delete isn't a great idea :p