What Minecraft Is Missing

[NinjaZat]

Hate to burst your bubble but tnt can only be made by materials either gained from a ghast or indeed, an exploding green cock =/

 

[Orekoya]

Jin's Creeper Slayin' Tutorial:

What you'll need;

- 4 dirt blocks
- 1 TNT

When the creeper is running directly towards you, quickly build a vertical square between you and him, out of the dirt.

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===== Ground

The creepers don't know the 'go AROUND the dirt' tactic of getting you, so said wall should keep him in place, pressing his face into your awesome mudshield in fury. Now, place the TNT on the ground on your side of the square, and back away in a straight line, keeping the middle of the dirt-square between you and the creeper at all times. As you back off, hit the TNT.

Collect your free sulphur.

But gods help you if there are two of them.

Uh, that's horrible. You're wasting tnt to collect sulpher to make tnt. A more proper way to do that with 4 dirt 2 sand.

You
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===== Ground

And then that indignant little shit finally stops trying to jump up to reach you drop 2 sand off the side on top of him. While under those two block he takes damage from being crushed under all that sand until he dies, break your way back to the ground and collect. This work on zombies and spiders too if you can get the spiders to stop climbing up to you. And spiders only need 1 block. Although they're more likely to die from the sword swings and the fall damage of being 4 blocks up. I usually go out at night with a stone sword, stack of dirt and sand to go hunting for them that way. The only thing I run from is skeletons because I typically only go out with a sword and leave my bow in the cave for digging.

 

[Rkiver]

I've been playing Minecraft since the alpha, and even paid for it as I enjoyed it so much.

A few little changes would indeed be nice, and I think Yahtzee has hit a few little ideas. I would really like a trapdoor.

And as for a metal detector of some sort for ore would be rather nice, something akin to a geiger counter that ticked the closer you got.

Overall minecraft is good fun, but not for everyone. But then again isn't that everything?

 

[Cheesepower5]

Killing bush monsters would be better with the Final Fantasy 1-6 victory theme.

 

[Craterlord]

What does everybody have against the idea of an ore detector? Do you guys LIKE having to spend hours digging around randomly and praying you'll find some ore?

Or is it because that would make the game less based around dumb luck?

EDIT: Also I love how Minecrafts grind is "making you earn your rewards" (that you might not get because you dug in the wrong direction) while the grind in MMOs (where a reward is guaranteed eventually) is "Artificial Padding" Hypocrisy much?

Digging toward that watery/moaning noise to find a cave isn't dumb luck. And even if you do decide to keep on digging trying to find a cave, it might take you what, five to twenty minutes at most? If thats still not good enough for you, go walk around on the overworld a bit. Won't take long at all to find some adventure. And who ever said reward isn't guaranteed? Are you saying that mining does not eventually guarantee five stacks of cobblestone, which can be used to make a shelter(AKA - Reward).

And FYI, you don't HAVE to mindlessly dig to enjoy minecraft. I, for example, don't build anything major at all but simply explore the terrain. I may go ahead and explore that cave I just found, and prepare to fight various mobs. The most grinding I have to do here is getting a few blocks of wood to make a door and to block of the entrance to the cave, so that enemies won't get me from behind. Which begs the question, how you played Minecraft at all, or done anything else other than what you have seen people do?

And to make your whole argument invalid at some point in time, I have heard there will be an updated version of "creative mode" which will feature everything Minecraft has now and will have in the future.

 

[the1ultimate]

Well, I had a thought about it and have decided that I also have something to add:

The ability to build a house made of cake, a diving suit, a teleporter and a hookshot.

Also add The Fae to monsters. Yeah.

 

[spillblood]

A ore detection system? are you on crack? wtf it would be exactly like walling in css or a heartbeat monitor god forbid in cod. aka it would be nooby as shit.

 

[Thownwh]

I hope a lot more items are added by the final version. I also hope some kind of compass is added that can find a previously set way-point. (maybe you have to craft the compass and a magnetic structure?) I say this because in my largest world I have two houses that I can't find anymore. And one of them has some diamonds in it. I really want those back.

For you and anyone else having this same problem you should look up a tool called cartograph. and watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqDvY6Bcgs or do a search on youtube for "how to find a caves in minecraft" using cartograph and Gimp together eleminates the need for random searches of ore, and is awesome if youve lost a base like i have, my largest map takes 6 days to get accross x.x dont ask me why, i just did it but it saved me when i got lost

 

[C.S.Strowbridge]

Better farming is what I'm going for. Anything plant that grows, you should be able to farm yourself.

Also, feeding chickens grain should make them lay an egg immediately with a short cooldown.

 

[forsaac]

they should add weather in because rain would be cool and snowy areas would need a way of geting snow back because without weather in the earlyer versions you can't get snow back. also all the trap doors and sluice gates sound really cool

 

[Mohn_Jarwin]

To everyone wanting feature "x" I have a glorious tip. Start your own server and throw on plugins. The recommended one is called Bukkit and it has more mods than you can shake a stick at:

http://www.bukkit.org

Enjoy!

 

[WaReloaded]

The funny thing is that those suggestions are quite good, and could be easily implemented into the game, Nice on Yahtzee.

 

[NeoBlackheart]

Whats funny is that in the half year since the last post 95%+ of the suggestions that have been thrown up have been implemented or done as a mod. Trap doors more items for the farm all of this has been put in while find ore easier and all this other stuff is moded in with stuff such as X-ray mod which lets you see through walls to see anything around you such as diamonds gold and such. They have mods to fly planes mods to add monsters and mods to well mod If you can think it on minecraft most likely someone has done it or can do it.

 

[Zajber]

The ability to move spawn points is pretty much number one on my list.

It might be that's it is possible to do but the quick search on google gave me no answers.

Build bed, sleep in bed, profit.

 

[DioWallachia]

Even if i agree with Yahtzee in this article, there is still the question of a Minecraft review after it hits the Full Version in November 18 or will he wait for the next year? but then again, the game has been (mostly) updated on schedule and taking suggestions from the more level headed customers so there is no really a point of asking for a review for a product tha changes frecuently. Perhaps the real question is how can you determine a candidate for a top Best/Worst game that has been around for a long time BUT its official release is way latter?

 

[DioWallachia]

I agree with everything except the metal detector.

Why not? its seems logical for metals like iron and gold to have a detector specially when there is Dispensers and you can even make a Piston TV of 61 pixels. You may say that is already easy to find those ores but its nice to at least have the option specially if its an adventure map and ores are actually VERY limited

 

[Weentastic]

I really like that only one of these features has been added, in the form of pistons. And the concept of an end was added, which by the logic of this review (which I think makes sense) turns it into a game. So now its a really buggy, unfinished game with a really shitty ending! Yay Notch and open development!

 

[Xman490]

So now its a really buggy, unfinished game with a really shitty ending! Yay Notch and open development!

I wouldn't say it's "really buggy", except in multiplayer, where EVERY CREATURE shakes around when hit and the final boss dragon doesn't work.
However, the ending is fairly good, despite being a forest of text that all amounts to, "You beat the game. Now get a life."