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Shop Suggestions, part Deux!

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MonkeyJamboree

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Hey guys!

I have some suggestions of things to add to the shop! Most of this would only be good for decor, or possibly designing your own adventure cavern/etc, but would greatly enhance the server! The last topic got lost and overrun with ink sac talk -_- but here are my suggestions:

1. Dead Shrubs and Ferns - More natural desert/mountain landscaping and decorations would be possible with this, and those who wanted to be holiday festive could, by using shrubs for creepy halloween areas or ferns for festive yuletime ones.

2. Coal, Redstone, Lapis, and Diamond Ore blocks - Since these only drop redstone and coal, we can't currently place them for visual effect like we can with Iron and Gold. The textures on these would be awesome and give even the most sophisticated stone structures more appeal.

3. Villagers - Not sure if it would be possible to have placeable/craftable villagers (aside from golems), but I for one would love to be able to create my own NPC towns!

4. Huge Mushroom blocks - I once tried to move around mushroom blocks to build something when I first started my Aquaria claim. Once. It was such a pain that after 3 hours of carefully placing pistons to shift things so I had a single outline, I gave up. Having these purchaseable would be a VERY nice thing!

5. Mycelium - I don't know if placing this in non-shroom biomes would work, but it would be awesome if so! This form of "grass" is cool and makes for some really neat looking areas!

Thanks for adding Sponge to the shop! The prices were starting to get quite outrageous for those who wanted to buy it!

I realize shop prices on some of these things (particularly ores) would have to be high to ensure people don't abuse the system and buy the ore just to harvest the minerals, but I believe it's worth the price if you have a project that requires the extra finesse!

Thanks for reading my ramblings (yet again lol)
MJ
 
Villager wouldnt work. Theyre an entity so they have no block ID to add to the shop.
 
I would LOVE to see new discs on the shop. Maybe with like a really high price like 500 caps in case notch ever adds them in game.
 
Jeff, I'm not asking for giant mushrooms to be sold. I'm asking for the blocks to be sold, so we can build with them and not just go "ooh, yay, giant mushroom that sits there doing nothing!" as in, building a polka-dot red and white house out of the sides of the red shrooms, etc.
 
interesting..... buy mushrooms? grow them then find bonemeal? derp.

i like your suggestions but i dont think ore blocks would be sold as far as i know of.
 
CommanderFluffy said:
interesting..... buy mushrooms? grow them then find bonemeal? derp.

i like your suggestions but i dont think ore blocks would be sold as far as i know of.
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As I said before, that doesn't work if you want to use the blocks that form the giant shrooms. you have to use pistons to move the blocks around as they drop regular mushrooms just like the diamond ore drops pieces of diamond, not the ore itself.

I really hope the ore blocks would end up on the shop, it would be great to be able to create spelunking adventures for users or to just use as decoration in a well-planned-out build!
 
YourMacManDan said:
Great Ideas... Really!

But as the saying goes... "Easier said than done."
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This is true, however they were able to let you buy leaf blocks for decoration before shears came out, way back in 1.7 IIRC... This would be a similar thing. I mean, heck, Sponges are back, so why not? :)
 
MonkeyJamboree said:
This is true, however they were able to let you buy leaf blocks for decoration before shears came out, way back in 1.7 IIRC... This would be a similar thing. I mean, heck, Sponges are back, so why not? :)
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I think the reason behind this is due to the fact that shop should not be used as your major material output. I think the MCA Team wants the players to feel as if they are in SSP, but with better game enhancing plugins without ruining the feel of minecraft.
 
YourMacManDan said:
I think the reason behind this is due to the fact that shop should not be used as your major material output. I think the MCA Team wants the players to feel as if they are in SSP, but with better game enhancing plugins without ruining the feel of minecraft.
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Oh, I totally agree on that. That's why the ore blocks would be incredibly, prohibitively expensive. It would prevent people from gaming the system too much, and allow a bit more of a creative throughput for Architects and others interested in using the most of what's in the game. Besides, If I am not mistaken, Iron, Gold and Diamond blocks are readily available via shop. I just wish these ore blocks I'm asking about were in the game in the same fashion as the Gold and Iron Ores.

If it's decided not to do that after all, that's fine, but then the shop and money aspect of the server kind of goes against the whole SSP/SMP feel thing, you know? I love the server, and want to see more unique or special things in shop because it's different from SSP and I have more flexibility than playing by myself or if I were to start my own (paltry by comparison) server.

MCA forever! :D
 
Here is my two cents,
About the mushrooms blocks:
Since experience orbs are disabled we can't use it to enchant silk touch to pickaxes and its too hard for most people here to piston it out to hell just to make nice creative buildings, the only practical way would be to buy it from the shop.
I don't believe this server was to boost some egos by making things inaccessible. If not, why ever there was wool and ice in the shop anyway?

About feathers:
In a few weeks Ill run out of feathers and will have to make a farm with hundreds of chickens to provide my needs, unless it's added back to the store. I'm not sure if the lag will only affect people near my farm or the whole server.
 
not sure about the ore blocks, but for the mushroom blocks, there's a different block id for each of the different side pieces of the mushroom, which means we would be adding like 15ish items to the shop just for the mushrooms. So no, the mushroom blocks aren't going to be added.
 
BirdOnAWire said:
not sure about the ore blocks, but for the mushroom blocks, there's a different block id for each of the different side pieces of the mushroom, which means we would be adding like 15ish items to the shop just for the mushrooms. So no, the mushroom blocks aren't going to be added.
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Actually, it looks like (from messing around with them before) that there are only 10 possible huge mushroom data values, but that IS a lot to add to the shop if you consider both red and brown types. Adding just the corners and stems would still be a lot at like 9 blocks... I guess this is out of the question and pistons would have to do... I didn't even think about that! Thanks for the response on that!

I never suggested feathers myself - I'm not sure how I feel about that since they are pretty farmable.

I really hope the other items can be added at some point, it would vastly increase the materials i could use for my creepy mansion (whenever I get that finished)!
 
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