The speaker discusses seven ideas for updates to Minecraft, which they have teamed up with Mr. Macstein to prototype. The ideas range from serious to fun and far-fetched.
1. **Bow and Tether**: A new item that allows players to move around with ease but at a cost. It's essentially a grappling hook that pulls the player towards a target location. The item is made by combining a bow, lead, and an arrow in a crafting table. It's balanced and can be used for various purposes like getting out of holes, jumping across ravines, or saving friends from falls.
2. **Snowman Faces**: The speaker suggests that each time a player shears off the pumpkin from the snow angels, it has a chance to be a different face. This adds character to the snowmen and can be a source of amusement.
3. **Dynamic Lighting**: The speaker discusses the idea of dynamic lighting, where a torch emits light only when it's in the player's hand. This is already implemented in Optifine, a Minecraft mod. The speaker suggests taking this a step further by introducing a new enchantment that allows the player's armor to glow, providing the same effect as holding a torch.
4. **Chorus Pearl**: The speaker proposes a new craftable item called the Chorus Pearl, a combination of ender pearls and a relatively unused food item, the chorus fruit. When thrown at a mob, it teleports the mob to a random nearby location.
5. **Rotten Wood**: The speaker suggests a new block, rotten wood, which breaks if a player stands on it for too long. It could be used for trapping people and would break faster if triggered with redstone.
6. **Giant Slime**: The speaker proposes a new mob, the giant slime, which could bounce around the world, destroying trees and crushing other mobs. The giant slime could drop a unique item, charged slime, when defeated.
7. **Air Conduit**: The speaker suggests the idea of an air conduit, which would allow players to swim in the air in a radius around it. It's made out of glowstone and has a limited range.
The speaker concludes by asking the audience to comment on their favorite idea and if they would like to see these ideas in Minecraft.
1. Over the last year, there have been significant updates to Minecraft with new blocks, features, and improvements added to the game.
2. The speaker has teamed up with Mr. Makestein to create prototypes of ideas they would love to see implemented in the game.
3. The speaker's first idea is a new item called the "Bow and Tether", which functions like a grappling hook, allowing players to move around with ease.
4. The Bow and Tether is created by combining a bow, a lead, and an arrow in a crafting table.
5. The speaker suggests that the Bow and Tether could be used for a variety of purposes, including getting out of holes, jumping across ravines, saving friends from falls, and even a new level of PvP.
6. The speaker introduces another idea involving snow angels, suggesting that each time a player shears off the pumpkin from a snow angel, it could reveal a different face.
7. The speaker's next idea is the introduction of dynamic lighting, where items like torches only emit light when they are in the player's hand.
8. Building on this concept, the speaker suggests a new enchantment that would allow armor to glow when worn, providing the same effect as a torch without holding one.
9. The speaker proposes a new craftable item called the Chorus Pearl, which when thrown at a mob, teleports it to a random location nearby.
10. The speaker suggests that the Chorus Pearl could have serious PvP implications, such as escaping combat or trapping enemies.
11. The speaker proposes a block called Rotten Wood, which breaks when a player stands on it for too long and can also be triggered to break using redstone.
12. The speaker suggests that Rotten Wood could be used for creating traps in adventure maps, such as instantly vanishing floors.
13. The speaker's final non-serious suggestion is the Air Conduit, a block made of glowstone that would allow players to swim in the air in a radius around it.
14. The speaker believes that the Air Conduit could be used for various purposes, including creating mini-games, PvP fights, and late-game building in Minecraft.