Minecraft Ideas

I sometimes come up with ideas for Minecraft.

Some of these lend themselves to being features in the standard game, but most are more appropriate as mods.

I have grouped these ideas based on whether they can run solely on the client, or the server has to be in on it, too.

Client side

  • Consistent shift-click (furnace, brewing stand)
  • Show waypoints, faraway players (like rei’s minimap)
  • Newtonian celestials
    • Proper orbits for sun, moon, planets, stars
    • Procedurally generated stars
    • Shooting stars (possibly with meteorites, server-side)
    • Comets
    • Nebulae
    • Aurorae
  • Dynamic clouds
    • Form over water, dissipate over land, depending on wetness of biome
    • Determines fog
    • Collide with mountains
    • Dynamic merging/splitting
    • Degrees of sun depending on cloudiness
  • Particle effects
    • Waterfalls
  • Reduce monotony
    • Rotate textures
    • Rotate particles
  • Connected textures (like chests)
    • Glass
    • Glass panes
  • Lava makes stone red/glowy
  • Zombie Pigmen have random pieces of meat missing
  • Change redstone to copper

Server side

  • Stackable (non-used) tools, potions, soup etc.
  • Reverse dispenser (like obsidian pipes in industrialcraft)
  • Improved dispenser
    • Spawns entities (boat, minecart)
    • Eggs hatch
  • Parachute
  • Allow blocks to be under water (fences, etc.)
  • Self-replanting seeds/saplings (for autofarming, forest spreading)
  • Auto-pickup chest/dispenser
  • Mechanism Glowstone (glowstone + redstone) reacting to redstone
  • Scuba Gear
  • Terrain features
    • Volcano
    • Trench (underwater ravines already implemented)
    • Wear and tear from walking (paths)
    • Coral reefs
  • Multiple rock types
    • Marble
    • Limestone
    • Shale
    • Granite
    • Gneiss

    • Stained glass (using dyes), possibly colouring all kinds of blocks

  • Multiple viewport portals
    • Actually see into the portals, like in portal
    • Limit visible chunks (170ish degree angle)
    • Line of portals for neat effects
    • Instant traversal through portals
    • Horisontal portals
  • Infinite Z-levels
    • 16x16x16 chunks (could save on loading/saving?)
  • Remove spawn protection
  • Disable /give, /tp etc.
  • Nuanced weather depending on clouds
    • Degrees of rain
    • Degrees of snow
    • Possibly hail
    • Storms
  • 8th blocks
  • Telescope (see DJoslin)
  • Rope
  • Finite liquid
  • Coloured torches using dyes
  • Redstone
    • Embedding redstone in blocks (fences, blocks, pistons, dispensers); have redstone “snap” to them, and transfer power through them.
    • Vertical redstone (see VerticalRedstone)
    • Wireless redstone (see transmitter)
    • Logic gates (see Insta-wire)
      • AND/OR/XOR/LATCH(MEM)
      • NAND/NOR/XNOR/NLATCH
      • Repeater rename to delay
      • Instant repeater named repeater (see Insta-wire)
        • Can be switched to instant NOT / delay
    • Pulse
    • Circuit board (saveable schematics?)
  • Dyed wool
    • 16 bed colours
      • 16^3 bed patterns (green+black+green = creeper!)
    • 16 (128?) painting mappings
    • 16 wolf collar colours
  • Rail upgrade
    • Signals
    • Cart storage/dispenser
    • Powered rail turning
    • Chaining carts for multiple passengers
  • Magic stuff
    • Wands
    • Spells
  • Architecture/fences
    • Stone pillar/fences
    • Brick pillar/fences
    • Smooth stone pillar/fences
    • Stone brick pillar/fences
    • Sandstone pillar/fences
  • Double door openage
  • Furnace
    • Show progress/status/something in top bit
    • Different texture when not empty
  • Celestial mechanics
    • (Expansion of newtonian celestials)
    • Spherical worlds
    • Intercelestial travel
    • Gravitational pull towards barycenter (like Blockade Runner)
  • Rotting food
  • Moss on the northern side of trees?
  • Sticky blocks (for use with pistons/sticky pistons)
  • API
    • Entities with coordinates
      • Players
      • Mobs
    • Chat