What Minecraft Is Missing

[Zorg Machine]

I don't like the metal detector idea because that's part if the charm and I also think that blue dye is a kind of status symbol and you should feel damn good for managing to make your megaman sculpture.

I liked the other ideas, especially the water idea.

Also, I want my trap door! I want to be able to lure a creeper into a corridor and drop them into a room of cacti and arrow dispensers.

 

[Something Amyss]

I cracked up at Minesweepercraft.

I might be playing this game if it had a better learning curve. Was easier to get into.

 

[Deacon Cole]

And blue is not an obscure colour, that shit is primary.

Don't let the ancient Phoenicians hear you say that. Their fortune was made with Tyrian Purple. Just be glad you didn't have to fish for hundreds of pounds of snails to get a few blue blocks.

 

[theriddlen]

I got myself Minecraft (finally..) after last ZP, and yeah, Creepers are terrible. My first encounter of them was quite surprising for me - i was starting a game, survived first night, and then went out to look for moar coal. I found it, in few blocks wide cave in the mountain, started mining it, when suddenly - i heard a new sound! The Dickhead sneaked up to my back, and exploded there - killing me outright. Also, my first day of playing Minecraft was quite traumatic and dramatic - on the next day i noticed that i accidentally set the difficulty on "Hard".

 

[razing32]

This game's dev needs some help from a few more people to finish the game and later release things as DLC - it would make things much smoother.

Alternatively they could split the game like the Linux distro - you know , Fedora/Red Hat dichotomy ?
The core is open-source and proprietary stuff gets sold as DLC , and the modding community will probably go nuts.

Just my two cents.

Great article - didn't know Yahtzee could be so funny in text.

 

[shimyia]

yahtzee, you forgot to say:

!!! It needs a furniture patch to decorate properly all those huge empty rooms that you build !!!

here's a tip, wooden stairs with two blank signs, one eitehr side, it looks like a cair.

is looks like one but it isn't...
i want real furniture with actual usefulness ...
like sleeping on a bed to add health or smth. else
desks... and to have their use
etc.

 

[XxaxX]

Speaking from somebody who is actually in the gold exploration business, i truly agree that some intellectual basis for the discovery of the gold in minecraft would probably put it over the top in my books of great games.

 

[Pumpkinmancer]

I like a lot of these ideas, but I'd rather not see ore detectors. Rather I'd like to see honest Ore veins so that if you were to find a block of say, iron, then you know there is more iron to be had in the area. As it is now while there are sometimes small pockets of blocks of the same material, they are not necessarily in the same geographic location as another lone group and so on.

I like the idea of random pockets of ore and other mine-able materials, but I'd like to see veins of it as well.

I would also like to see something like a list feature implemented. If I discover how to build axes for example then when I want to build one I should just be able to select it from the tools list and so long as I have the materials on hand it gets built without me needed to place the blocks.

 

[Muzz]

I agree with some others on the blue dye thing. It could be Notch's Wyrm Online past showing through. From memory blue and purple dyes were some of the hardest to extract and fix in any usuable form (regardless of how common it is in nature). That's why they're the colours often assocated with royalty.
Having different colours be valued differetly is kinda interesting.
Then again true white pigment was made from lead oxide and tended to poison the people who extracted it. I guess fighting skeletons could be a good aproximation.

 

[General Vagueness]

"Bursts of coloured confetti and sounds of fanfares and rounds of applause playing whenever you successfully kill an exploding bush monster before it gets to you.

That would be nice."

sounds like someone played a Halo game with Grunt Birthday Party on

 

[manic_depressive13]

Your all a bunch of easily lead sheep here on this forum.

"O NO! don't disagree with the great Yathzee! His opinions are teh perfection!"

I don't think Mr.Croshaw gets much helpful feedback if you don't give him some constructive critasism. SO here is mine. I find it a bit odd that his same reasons for liking Minecraft are the same reasons he hates WOW. Lots of grind that you lets you show off your big golden cock/Epic gear drops.

Grind is boring to me. I might like this game if it were sand box in a pure form. As I recall you don't need to go digging in a sand box to find the sand.

I didn't get the impression that Yahtzee dislikes WoW. Didn't he say he stopped playing because it was consuming his soul? Your constructive criticism is really just a result of inattentiveness.

 

[Karthek]

Keep in mind that Minecraft is in early Betaphase! By the time it actually comes out, we will all be flying around in airships or dragons

 

[Vulpis]

Apparently, Yahtzee has taken a hit of Prozac here... He's so calm! ;-)

That said--mostly good points, though a bit redundant if you bother to read the Minecraft forums and Notch's own blog. The Tutorial and Sluice Gate (or at the very least water and lava being able to pass through the existing doors) are being worked on.
Ore detectors...I'm kinda mixed on--on the one hand, as someone who spent waaaay too much time dodging Sudden Lava Pools down in the deep levels to find a bare 5 diamonds, I wouldn't mind a detector. On the other hand, it could easily make things *too* easy.

As for Lapis...I had not quite the opposite problem as I was finding a bunch of the stuff when I wanted to find diamonds (find where sea level is, dig a shaft about 50-54 floors down, and then work out horizontally from there...keeping in mind that while this is where diamonds, Lapis, and redstone appear, so does the Hot Fun aka Lava). Granted, not as much as I did of the redstone, but still..

Elevators...I get decent use out of the ladders, so far. Granted, while a proper ladder shaft will allow a decent descent, going up needs holding a key rather than being automatic.

I like the drawbridge idea...but more in keeping with the style, I wonder how well you could implement the classic Megaman nemesis, the Disappearing Block?

 

[Ashoten]

Your all a bunch of easily lead sheep here on this forum.

"O NO! don't disagree with the great Yathzee! His opinions are teh perfection!"

I don't think Mr.Croshaw gets much helpful feedback if you don't give him some constructive critasism. SO here is mine. I find it a bit odd that his same reasons for liking Minecraft are the same reasons he hates WOW. Lots of grind that you lets you show off your big golden cock/Epic gear drops.

Grind is boring to me. I might like this game if it were sand box in a pure form. As I recall you don't need to go digging in a sand box to find the sand.

I didn't get the impression that Yahtzee dislikes WoW. Didn't he say he stopped playing was because it was consuming his soul? Your constructive criticism is really just a result of inattentiveness.

Your right I should have phrased it differently. Yahtzee likes the soul consuming grinding of Minecraft but not the soul consuming grinding of WOW?

 

[Mute52]

Tutorial and metal detector i disagree with, you say the fun in the game is finding all the materials, knowing exactly where everything is takes the fun out of it. As for the tutorial, being told what or how to do something automatically limits your creativity imo. Minecraft isn't that type of game, you don't even need to be told how to play, because you can play the game however you like.

 

[Lucifer dern]

Odd thing I expected him to mention but he didnt.
The spawn point, its fixed.
so minecraft generates this MASSIVE world, yet without map hacking, you cant stray to far from a single point for fear of losing all your shit...
It seemed odd since the funnest part of minecraft is before the "I'm going to mine antil I have enough iron to make something to help me mine iron strage"
It's the, shit, How am I going to survive this?
the parts that end with you franticly trying to build a door, because you swore it didnt get dark that quick...
and those points are most common when your exploring.

 

[Niccolo]

-flying/swimming mobs that grab you and try and drown you/drop you from a great height. that would scare the fuck out of me (smacking the mob with enough damage would make it drop you)

I can see so many ways this could go wrong... Imagine hitting them when you're too high? It'd be like a self-generated "Oh goddamnit" moment.

 

[Firia]

I'd like a "Stack all" button. There's already a TON of click drag. A little less would be nice. ;_;

 

[TJ2u1]

I say add uranium,build a nuke and blow up the other island.then you would be worshiped by all
the green shrubs and send them out to go blow people to hell .NEWS Flash:Minecraft holocaust! hmm TNT looks pixly cant imagine what a nuke would look like or do....Kind of ironic now i think about it creation game gone wrong if there were nukes.I agree with all the things he suggested ores difficult to find,how ever after you have tons and tons of ore what will you do with all of it? Dimond armore tools...Build a massive train track?

 

[TJ2u1]

Bloody mother SHART i delted my exxesivly long comment by hitting the back button whitch is a damn bad idea of makeing it also go back a page...

Minecraft needs to keep you interested at all time,they alredy have done so by makeing you work for you assesets.but there are only aprox 100crafts whitch can be memorrized fairly easily.if there were say a million crafts it would be very difficult to impossible to memmorize them.A better combat system would do wounders when i have a sword i should be able to ***** slap that zombie befor it touches me whitch i always get hit when i try to do so.There are the bow n arrows whitch i have grown to love with there macine gun like firing rate.Cannons would be very nice to add the explosions keep just about anyone interested
and having simmilar effects like TNT.A moarter like shape with iron as the craft.
I like the metal detector idea but you would have tons and tons of ores what would you do with all of them?only way to keep balence is make a mind-boggling amount of crafts.A mode whitch i read about for minecraft a ind of zombie survival thing have a pre-built castle
the zombies can break blocks(and balls) keep the sunsa-bitches out cannons and arrows,it would have to be multiplayer to make it possible you would be swarmed and forced to bend over if you didnt.
INtelegent NPC's pigmen seem to be a good choice they can harvest materials and build villages make them mad they hunt you down and gut you like a pig (haha).But if they had millions of crafts programed in them i would fear them that or have a nuke on hand>
There would be multipul vilalges all over the world each a diffrent color diffrent color makes them enemmys and when spoted they have a little fight,whitch i would find it ammusing seeing pigs fight to the death.And you could aliy with a village and have world domination
if a other colored pigmen kills the other village they capture it,whitch geares them all for worl-I mean minecraft domination.Yahtzee would prefer to nuke them all i imagine.Maybe even human NPCs whitch are loyal to you and fight to the death.Whitch would make it more like first shooter world domination strategy game.
My ideas may seem a bit beyond current tech nology conisdering i never seen a intellgent NPC.However they seem possible and excusse me for leaving a long comment*
eat your waffles grandmas,if you dont yo guna get a spankin.