User:Nihiltres/ImagiNaries

These are some imaginary recipes that would create new and interesting objects in the game. They're intended to be fair, appropriate, and fun. If you have comments, feel free to add them immediately after the description, much as you might on any talk page. They're sorted into subsections, but aside from that, newer ideas go below older ones.

To create a recipe, put the name (not including the "File:" prefix) of the appropriate inventory image into the crafting template. Here's an empty example:

Grandfather Clock
This would be a grandfather clock that would show the time just like the Watch, but be free-standing in the world rather than sitting in the inventory. It would be two blocks high, in the same way that a door is. For obvious reasons, the Watch is an ingredient!

Trapdoor
Sometimes you want to block off a hole securely. Instead of using blocks to cover the hole, why not install a trapdoor? Like ordinary doors, this would come in wooden and iron varieties, where the iron one would require a redstone input to be opened. For practical purposes, the trapdoor would have to be installed on the side of a block, and would always have its outside to the top of a block. For purposes of redstone, it would be operated by input from any adjacent block—including another trapdoor!* (*However, trapdoors would conduct current for only 2–3 blocks, compared to 15 for redstone wire.) Trapdoors would not, however, be able to support other platforms directly, meaning that trapdoors for use in traps could be at most 2 blocks square without afforting safe spots inside. Trapdoors would have a surface at the level of a step, that is, at half the height of its container block. Clever players might make trapdoor steps or ledges the only entrance to their lairs, allowing hostile mobs or annoying players to be remotely dunked in water or lava below.

Redstone Box
This one is not original. It would be very useful to be able to compress redstone circuits into smaller spaces, making fancy tools, traps, and toys easier to fit together. However, I think it's too simple to introduce such a block by having it simply function as a single-block logic gate. Instead, I think redstone blocks need to make the puzzle of fitting redstone circuits together more interesting.

Therefore, my idea of a redstone block is as a double-chest in a single block, divided into three groups of nine blocks. These represent a 3×3×3 cube into which redstone dust, iron ingots, and redstone torches (but no other items, so it isn't a super-chest) can be placed. Iron ingots function as mini-blocks, redstone dust acts as ordinary wire, and redstone torches act ordinarily.

Each outer side of the Redstone Box links to the centre block in that side of the inner cube, unless two Redstone Boxes are placed contiguously. In that special case, their insides are considered to be contiguous along their joining edge, where the diagrams are considered to have up as north. Redstone Boxes would not function in the Nether, due to the same interference that confuses compasses.

Since a Redstone Box would be a highly advanced piece of technology in the Minecraft world, it is made from correspondingly rare and valuable materials. The Obsidian seems appropriate: a material that produces the space-warping Portals seems useful for producing a circuit-shrinking device.

Bridge Block
''There needs to be a good recipe for a proper Bridge Block that can toggle its solidity, for use in bridges, fluid systems, and other toys. However, it hasn't been created here yet; a few recipes are being considered.''

Note:Physics blocks like sand or gravel ought to fall through, but only if there is a space below the block.

Pump
''There ought to be a block that briefly reverses the gravity of water and perhaps even lava, when powered by redstone. However, there's no recipe for it yet.''

Scissors
There are many things that the Sword can cut well that it oughtn't be used for, and takes double damage from. Some of these materials ought to be cut by… Scissors! With an obvious use for things such as leaves or cloth, and great potential in yet-unplanned contexts, it would be a great tool to add to the game. This recipe might or might not be better if the centre material were replaced with a stick.