What item would you like to see added to Minecraft?

[Mr Companion]

A torch you can hold to illuminate your immediate surroundings.

 

[Oktanas]

Dual wielding, shields, lantern, more stuff to mine, upgrade for workbench that gives you bigger space to craft, more enemies...

 

[Cavan]

I'd like what everybody has already said in terms of gates and blocks which affect other blocks.

Specifically trapdoors/drawbridges/winch+pulley+rope+counterweight mechanisms/water and lava gates.

 

[ninjapenguin981]

Sluice gates would be really awesome.

 

[wammnebu]

i would like to see serfs and indentured servants, most people build castles and cities. so why not play baron and populate it

 

[Lord Legion]

The ability to make machinery...like a jackhammer or a front end loader that could be built in sections...
If you can't tell, I need to level off a few mountains and strip mine out the buitiful deposits beneath.

Otherwise, maybe steam powered stuff, you know? like a stove that boils the water and you then connect piping to various implements...

 

[Dfskelleton]

Guns. Minecraft needs guns.

 

[omicron1]

I want to see various resources that only show up in certain parts of the world. Special dyes, extra-strong ores, gemstones, different kinds of flowers/mushrooms... just anything to differentiate areas. Let this go beyond even biomes, and thereby establish a reason for trading and conquest in multiplayer.

Alternately/additionally, let players learn advanced crafting techniques. Things like Damascus Steel production, or fancy stonework, or wood carving. Let one player learn how to make picks with double the normal cutting speed, or doubled durability, and Minecraft's multiplayer will increase greatly in depth.

 

[Rossmallo]

Pretty much everything in Industrialcraft.

 

[sune-ku]

Well I'm really hoping pistons get added soon. The mod is available but I'd like it fully supported. Notch has said he might add them, which would be awesome as they bring loads of interesting possibilities, including using them as sluice gates for water/lava, hidden staircases/trapdoors and having more interactive building elements.

 

[Orcboyphil]

Redstone blocks, Singleblock gates, horizontal bars, verticle half blocks.

 

[Sakurazaki1023]

Shields (to defend against skeleton arrows)
Water Gates
More Metals/Ores
More Mobs
Boss Battles
Different forms of TNT (some bigger, some smaller)
Some easy way to create deep lakes and water features

...Essentially more of everything

 

[WaReloaded]

I think it'd be interesting to see the game evolve in such a way that there was a game mode in which you've got 15 minutes to build a defence and then a wave of mobs are spawned. Once the mobs are destroyed (perhaps with a Bow that you automatically receive?) you've got 5 minutes to repair your "base" and then a bigger wave of mobs spawn. Essentially a Tower-Defence game mode, but I still think it'd be a blast.

 

[2xDouble]

Vertical and upside-down mine cart tracks, and see-through "wooden trellis" blocks. I'm building a "railercoaster".

A mining helmet (hat + torch). Even with well-placed Torches, sometimes it's hard to see what I'm mining.

Dye-able bricks. Maybe I don't want red brick or grey stone. Maybe I want yellow brick blocks (not solid Gold blocks) like in a certain copyrighted movie...

A mineral detector. (compass + stick(s) + redstone + [mineral] maybe?) Adding an item or block of a mineral consumes the item, but lets you locate a specific ore. At least some easier way to locate or approximate locations of materials... maybe some kind of sonar detector to use in tandem with TNT.

Rope and Pulley systems. I need some way to make elevators and drawbridges...

 

[Ulixes Dimon]

I'm sure someone has posted about this before, but I was just wondering what ideas people had for items/options that they think should be added to Minecraft?

I personally would like to see trap doors added, and maybe editable maps so you can have the option of marking your surroundings to ease exploration. What do you guys think?

Floodgates. They're doors that allow water/lava to go through them.

Although they wont look quite like trap doors, the pistons notch is adding will do the same thing a trap door would! :3

Rope and Pulley systems. I need some way to make elevators and drawbridges...

Yesssss!!!

 

[The Weaver]

I am one of the few people yet play Minecraft (OMG UNBELIEVABLE), so my input might not be as useful as others, but the only thing I can think of at this time that has not been stated before would probably be more a novelty than useful but a ?Tame spider? item. If one was put in it might be enough to persuade me to try it.

 

[cthulhumythos]

creeper repellent.

they ruin everything.

and maybe another craft-able mineral. or maybe a way to make steel.

 

[linkvegeta]

i will say this again and again, Quicksand, it would be great for mob traps and or secret entrances.

 

[Angus565]

More advanced dungeons would be awesome I think.
Like big underground Zelda-style dungeons with lots of loot at the end!

 

[Fanta Grape]

Vertical and upside-down mine cart tracks, and see-through "wooden trellis" blocks. I'm building a "railercoaster".
Dye-able bricks. Maybe I don't want red brick or grey stone. Maybe I want yellow brick blocks (not solid Gold blocks) like in a certain copyrighted movie...

You can use yellow dyed wool...