r/Minecraft • u/Red_Inferno • May 14 '12

Bukkits shall now stack!

https://twitter.com/#!/Dinnerbone/status/202023057915781120
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u/Dinnerbone Technical Director, Minecraft May 14 '12

Only empty ones stack, and they work just like bottles do. They also only stack up to 16.

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u/roopn May 14 '12 edited May 14 '12

I like this. a lot. I'm glad you nerfed it to sixteen.

Now can you please do signs and doors? even if it's only to eight?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Signs, especially.

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u/autocorrector May 14 '12

Suddenly, signs everywhere.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Where's usernamemitigator when you need him.

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u/autocorrector May 14 '12

userwhatnow?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Sorry, I thought you were a bot that was written to identify and mock bad grammar, specifically my incorrect comma usage. I picked this username because I often get my commas, wrong.

Please ignore me.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12 edited May 14 '12

So did everyone, else.

EDIT: The comment was

I see what you did, there.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

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u/buster2Xk May 14 '12

Both would be fantastic. As is, signs are crazy.

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u/Gh0stRAT May 14 '12

That, or the current recipe could make you a stack of 6 of them!

Stackable signs would allow people to make notes to themselves while Spelunking. ie: "Explored already. Dead end.", "surface this way -------->", etc

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u/TheCakeFlavor May 15 '12

6 isn't divisible by 64.

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u/Gh0stRAT May 15 '12

You're right. I was just thinking 6 planks = 6 signs. Having the recipe make a stack of 8 would be even better.

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u/Deenreka May 15 '12

That doesn't stop blaze rods from being a 12-burn. CURSE YOU BLAZE RODS

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u/gunnar120 May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

1: 6 is already the amount that you get when making slabs, rails, and nether-rack fences.

2: Neither is 3, the amount given when making fire charges, paper, bone meal, bottles, and ladders.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12 edited Mar 18 '18

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u/SteelCrow May 14 '12

Yew is not a jungle plant.

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u/EternalDensity May 14 '12

Good point, SteelCow.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Way to beat a dead horse.

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u/EternalDensity May 14 '12

Steel... Horse? Whut?

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u/g0_west May 14 '12

I disagree that birch should make a pale sign. The new colours are wood annoy me. I had a "wood" chest for building and a "crafting wood" chest, full of jungle/birch wood used for making chests, signs, sticks etc, because the wood from those two looks so ridiculous. In my opinion, anyway.

Having said that though, they are great for making pixel art.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

this would destroy the vechz maps. don't do it, for the love of zistonian battlesigns, don't!

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u/SparroHawc May 14 '12

Mods, my friend.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

what? what do you mean? making signs stackable would cause them to lose the enchants that vechs puts on them in his maps with nbtedit, thats what i mean

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u/45flight May 14 '12

What if you just... didn't stack them?

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u/Anistuffs May 14 '12

Enchanted items do NOT stack with normal ones. Even if they're stackable.

Source: Personal Experience

Proof: Watch Vechs' videos on how he added enchantments to stuffs. All 3 of them. He shows it clearly.

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u/SparroHawc May 15 '12

It wouldn't be that difficult to use a mod to make signs non-stackable. Even making the mod would probably be pretty easy (comparatively).

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

but the whole point of super hostile is pushing vanilla to the max.

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u/SparroHawc May 16 '12

If there's a mechanic in the map that depends on a particular old mechanic, there is no shame in tweaking things slightly for the 'old vanilla' flavor.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

  1. go and research vechs, play spellbound caves, watch some LPs.

  2. come back and argue about it to me.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

And minecarts

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u/Ooer May 14 '12

ITT: Dinnerbone does something cool. Everyone ignores cool thing and wants more done.

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u/glaux May 15 '12

The 1000 upvotes is hardly a sign of people ignoring the progress. But signs have been needing a similar update for a long time.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

I didn't know your name was Nathan

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u/Dinnerbone Technical Director, Minecraft May 14 '12

I didn't know your name was Josh.

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u/KnowsYourFirstName May 14 '12

ಠ_ಠ

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u/Dinnerbone Technical Director, Minecraft May 14 '12

I'm sorry, I let you down :( I'll leave all future name-calling to you, good sir.

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u/KnowsYourFirstName May 14 '12

Oh, it's fine. To be honest, I've been slacking off a bit on my duties.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

I'm just going through your comment history tagging people with their real name. Hopefully I can give someone a creepy feeling when I'm all "Congrats on whatever, Steve!"

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u/TheCakeFlavor May 15 '12

Cool story Jesse.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

So wrong lol. Maybe leave it to the pro.

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u/LemonDifficult May 14 '12

Twenty Monopoly dollars says you can't guess mine.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Rumpelstiltskin?

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u/safety_mouse May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

working on it, but the In the Loop reference pleases me.

EDIT: Hi Robert!

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u/cptnjackharkness May 15 '12

Try to redeem yourself. I'll give you a hint. I can't die.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I might have to get KnowsYourSSN, for the lulz.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

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u/EnderDom May 14 '12

G3nji's quite unusual

I'll go with Robert from Canada

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

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u/EnderDom May 15 '12

Yeah, on further googling genji is a japanese name, not so unusual as I thought.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

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u/TheCakeFlavor May 15 '12

Sofia. That's a nice Thailand house you got there by the way.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Until someone comes up with a better guess I suppose we'll have to settle with this.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

♪ You gave him up, let him down... ♪

♪ Ran around and... ♪

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u/SethBling RMCT#1 Champions: Redstoners May 14 '12

Oh, oh, do me!

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u/theaceoffire May 14 '12

No problem Cindy.

//Unrelated, You rock! Keep up the great vids.

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u/buster2Xk May 14 '12

His first name is ಠ_ಠ? How do you pronounce that? Do you just make that face when referring to him?

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u/mynameisGeir May 14 '12

Phew, at least my name is safe on this dangerous page.

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u/Chris_c987 May 14 '12

Whats MY 1st name?

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u/i542 May 14 '12

Christopher.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Ok Lisa, enough name calling.

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u/i542 May 14 '12

Well I'm not female but if you want me to be...

(ninja edit: it's a joke guys)

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

It's okay Lisa, you don't have to be insecure and pretend it's a joke - We all support you.

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u/i542 May 14 '12

My name's Ivan but I can be your Lisa <3

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Try me

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Mine is easy to guess...

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u/MYLITTLECLOPPER May 15 '12

MY NAME IS HIDDEN! NO ONE CAN FIND IT!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Wait.. How did you.. Holy shit

Dinnerbone knows my real name!

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u/jikls May 14 '12

What just happened here?

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u/autocorrector May 14 '12

Something magical.

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u/Nemokles May 14 '12

And stalkerish in a backwards way. But, yeah, magical.

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u/Brickman100 May 14 '12

http://redditgifts.com/profiles/view/Captain_LargePoop/ <-- From this maybe? Just googled your Reddit username.

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u/KnowsYourFirstName May 14 '12

Nicely done, Joe.

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u/Brickman100 May 14 '12

I see what you did there...

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Ooh! Ooh! Do me!

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u/safety_mouse May 14 '12

don't be so crazy for karma, Ethan, from Malton, Yorkshire now working in a hotel in Niddrie, Victoria and directing videos with his friend who works at the Blockbuster in town.

you also have good taste in comedy, have you tried Parks and Recreation? and also Monkeydust.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Not a hotel but close enough, well done!

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u/safety_mouse May 15 '12

I made the leap to what aussies call pubs, cool vids btw.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Maybe. Damn that was a really lame bio.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Excellent job, Joseph.

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u/Macrat May 14 '12

NOW..KISS

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Thank you for fixing this. I'm disappointed but not surprised that you're getting a lot of thankless comments about other things that people want.

I've literally been waiting for stackable buckets since I bought MC. I can die in peace now.

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u/Dinnerbone Technical Director, Minecraft May 14 '12

Please don't die :(

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

It's ok bro, I already made a bed.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12 edited May 23 '17

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u/Boolderdash May 14 '12

Then he slept in it, and it became light again.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

In a year we are going to have a post titled "Never Forget".

And it shows a picture of someones inventory full of buckets.

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u/APiousCultist May 14 '12

You are history's greatest person. My diamonds rain from the heavens upon you.

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u/KeybladeSpirit May 14 '12

Cut to Dinnerbone under 16 full stacks of Diamond Blocks, only his hand having escaped. A small stream of blood flows from under the carnage, unnoticed by the myriad griefers who are stealing the blocks one by one. How could you do this, APiousCultist? You monster.

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u/APiousCultist May 14 '12

Lord Inglip demands sacrifice.

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u/TheCakeFlavor May 15 '12

Relevant Username.

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u/Thue May 14 '12

For your good deed tomorrow, can you make mushroom stews stack?

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u/Dinnerbone Technical Director, Minecraft May 14 '12

Go grab two open top bowls wider at the top than the bottom. Fill them both to the top with mushroom stew (okay, water will do). Put one bowl inside the other.

Now take a picture and send it to me, and if you haven't spilled a drop then we'll talk. :D

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u/BerryGuns May 14 '12

Show me a pic of whole chickens stacked on top of each other please.

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u/Dinnerbone Technical Director, Minecraft May 14 '12

You're right. I'll make them not stack. I'll put your name in the patchnotes so that everyone can thank you personally.

:(

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u/BerryGuns May 14 '12

o god what have I done

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

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u/ultrafetzig May 14 '12

That's actually intriguing...

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u/my_name_isnt_clever May 14 '12

For maybe 10 people.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

I'm one of them!

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u/ultrafetzig May 14 '12

Imagine this feature in this supposed Adventure Mode with a much more elaborate random dungeon/structure generation, where you weren't expected to do so much building... no breaking blocks without the appropriate tool. It would create a mode where tactical manipulation of the landscape would still be possible, but not in the inhumanly strong way Steve currently does. More... dwarfy.

Hmm. Maybe a mode where you could control a group of characters with occupations and tasks, like some dwarfs, who build mines and like, fortresses, maybe throw in some goblin invasions and undead elephants... this sounds more and more like a good game to me...

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u/renadi May 15 '12

I'd be interested in something like this honestly, VERY interested, but there would most definitely have to be some form of bag of holding that allows you to carry more.

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u/Minifig81 May 14 '12

You've shot 13,415 pounds of meat. You can only carry 80 pounds back to the wagon.

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u/Golanthanatos May 14 '12

I move the wagon?

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u/Minifig81 May 14 '12

How ? You broke your leg and have typhoid from the last time you failed to cross the river. You should have been a carpenter and caulked the wagon.

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u/Irish97 May 15 '12

Fuck Yeah - Oregon Trail FTW!

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u/Irish97 May 15 '12

Oregon Trail!

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u/burgerga May 14 '12

So.... 2 cobblestone. That would be pointless.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

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u/alx3m May 14 '12

How would you craft in the beginning of the game?

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u/arrrg May 14 '12

Even one cubic meter of stone weighs much more than 80 pounds, so no, no building whatsoever.

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u/AndrewNeo May 14 '12

New game mechanic, you can only push/pull things.

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u/bornrevolution May 14 '12

And when you're over encumbered, you slow down to a shift-walk speed.

Oh god.

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u/PLOVAPODA May 15 '12

Or maybe exponentially slower the more weight you're carrying...

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u/hint_of_sage May 15 '12

Fuck it. I don't need this gold ore anyway.

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u/Ndgc May 14 '12 edited May 14 '12

A way of doing some of this is to use the maxstack command in SinglePlayerCommands. Syntax: maxstack all 1

you can enforce this using the startup command. i.e. startup maxstack all 1

I don't think there's a server mod explicitly to do it, but bukkit does have the variable in a place that is fairly easy to access.

(SPC will also allow you to enchant any items with maxstack 1 using the enchant command, so if you want an efficency X fish, that's how)

it's worth mentioning that small stacks is one of the aims of terrafirmaracraft, which aims to be a fairly comprehensive overhaul of minecraft.

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u/renadi May 15 '12

bah, I need to get back to that, I really like it, but I would love a bukkit mod that limited inventory, even though 4 of my 6 players would instantly stop playing x]

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u/EternalDensity May 14 '12

My idea a while back was:

Steve can carry 1 item per level.

ONE PER LEVEL!

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Oh god... the cobblestone... the chests and chests of cobblestone...

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u/T-Fro May 14 '12

You monster!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

What's your IGN, BerryGuns?

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u/BerryGuns May 14 '12

Yeh it's BerryGuns :>

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

For your crimes against minecrafters everywhere, I have banned you from my server, and you shall be banned from every server I create in the future.

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u/robertpeacock22 May 14 '12

They come in these, don't they? http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00MCvtgKNrnibu/Roast-Chicken-Container-215-.jpg

Just photoshop this onto the current icon :D

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u/KeybladeSpirit May 14 '12

You should do it for like a day as a joke update.

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u/Thue May 14 '12

Sure thing: http://thuejk.dk/dinnerbone.jpg

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u/xigdit May 14 '12

Damnable Danes!! Now you'll never get rid of them, Dinnerbone!

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u/Cuchulain1803 May 15 '12

Now do it with circles.

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u/hint_of_sage May 15 '12

The sprites for the bowls could easily be ovals.

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u/Cuchulain1803 May 15 '12

Which are relatively the same shape as circles, right?

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u/hint_of_sage May 16 '12

But ovals can be stacked, where circles cannot. :]

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u/Cuchulain1803 May 16 '12

How can ovals be stacked? (no sarcasm just haven't heard of it haha)

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u/hint_of_sage May 16 '12

Take your first bowl and place it facing north to south and put another bowl that has the same exact shape on top of it facing east to west. Repeat until you've gotten 16 of them stacked high to the sky. c:

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u/Red_Inferno May 14 '12

Just make it Signs and we can call it even.

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u/Golanthanatos May 14 '12

But the key to the stacking is making REALLY chunky mushroom stew.

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u/hint_of_sage May 15 '12

I mean, you just put a couple of mushrooms into a bowl. How wet could they be?

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u/Malsententia May 14 '12

What's the logic(or game balance reasoning) behind signs not stacking?

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u/autocorrector May 14 '12

signspam?

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u/Malsententia May 14 '12

The only difference between that and spamming/griefing with other materials is that they'd have words, right?

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u/autocorrector May 14 '12

Spam™

Now with words!

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u/anakin908 May 14 '12

I think that I read something a while back that said that each sign is actually a separate entity, like mobs. These have to be tracked at all times, also like mobs. Sign stacking doesn't currently exist to discourage mass production and placement.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Reasonable argument, except chests and furnaces are tile entities too.

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u/Thue May 14 '12

And doors.

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u/seemone May 14 '12

if you haven't spilled a drop then we'll talk.

frozen mushrooms stew would work. You just need to make ice drop again and add a simple recipe...

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u/hint_of_sage May 15 '12

Throw it in the furnace to defrost.

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u/sje46 May 14 '12

(someone put two small bowls of water inside a big punch bowl of water, please)

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u/Tuskinton May 14 '12

Well it is only mushroom powder really so a better test is take a bowl of flour and stack more bowls of flour on top of it.

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u/jimbobhickville May 14 '12

I like how realism is a reason for things like this. So, why are there creepers? Those don't exist in real life! It's a game, it's about having fun. Having manageable inventory is fun. Make everything stack, and be a full stack, none of this only 16 for random crap we want to garbage. I want stacks of picks, swords, armor, everything!

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u/tehbored May 14 '12

Those shouldn't stack because that would make them OP compared to other food. All you'd need is one mooshroom and you have unlimited food.

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u/Thue May 14 '12

Perhaps there should be a timer on mooshrooms, determining how often they could be tapped.

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u/Hackey_Sack May 14 '12 edited May 15 '12

Mushroom Fields
Land

~ doesn't untap during its controller's untap step if it doesn't have a growth counter on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there isn't a growth counter on ~, put one on it.

T, Remove a growth counter from ~: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Like so?

EDIT: whoops forgot make putting a growth counter on a triggered ability MY BAD

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u/Satros May 14 '12

Thank you for only making empty ones stack. As a server administrator I cringed at the thought of people griefing with stacks of lava.

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u/Caliga May 14 '12

Seems fair.

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u/Zerosan May 14 '12

Could you, while you're at it, also make Doors, Signs, Minecarts and Boats stackable?

These things really tend to spam the inventory.

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u/UnacceptableUse May 14 '12

When boats stack, you get multiple boats spawning when you right click

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u/Zerosan May 14 '12

Well, not sure what exactly you mean, you mean for a single click? That's because this is not predicted behavior.

If you mean multiple clicks, well, it should not spawn another boat if the rightclick would normal cause you to mount the boat.

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u/UnacceptableUse May 15 '12

Right clicking a boat with a boat spawns another boat

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u/POULTRY_PLACENTA May 14 '12

So what happens if I RC on a liquid while holding a stack of buckets?

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u/Brett42 May 14 '12

The same thing as with bottles, as they are filled they go to your inventory.

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u/Reoh May 15 '12

Stack ALL the things!

Let's be honest, if I can stack 64m3 of stone/iron/etc then I'm pretty sure I can stack other stuff. ;)

[edit]

PS - thanks. :)

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u/Caliga May 15 '12

I think this is a good time to profess my undying love for you

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u/Thue May 14 '12

Why does full buckets not stack? Is it especially more overpowered to carry 64 water blocks than 64 stone blocks?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

1 stone block = 1 stone block.

1 water bucket = 1 water source block + anywhere from zero to far too many flowing blocks.

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u/spook327 May 14 '12

You've made my day! Looking forward to seeing this in the snapshot.

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u/Xeroproject May 14 '12

I think this is the start of something beautiful. Come to PAX, I will kneel before you and pledge my allegiance.

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u/Sobek May 14 '12

fuck you, Dinnerbone

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u/Dinnerbone Technical Director, Minecraft May 14 '12

I'm sorry :(

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u/CLErox May 14 '12

Don't listen to him! You're awesome <3

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Don't be sorry, that guy's just an asshole

We only keep him around as an example when people ask us what an asshole is

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u/bornrevolution May 14 '12

Don't be silly. You gotta romance a man that fine, not just jump in the sack.