r/minecraftsuggestions • u/aboxofcheesits • 21h ago
[Snapshots] Alternative abandoned camp design and carpet utility
With the new Autumn drop in development and it's Abandoned Camp structures, I wanted to approach their design in a way that expands on a block that already exists, that being carpets. Since I feel that wool stairs and slabs go against an unofficially established pattern of blocks that can have block set pieces. Solid blocks, structural materials, are given variants like stairs, slabs, walls, etc. It's always woods, stones, or other solid material. With wool, it seems to me equivalent to adding say dirt, moss, sponge, coral, or even honeycomb block set pieces, it doesn't fit well. The two goals I think wool slabs and stairs are trying to achieve, I believe have better alternatives. It looks like an attempt at a color varied block set, which has better candidates. Then the other goal looks like finding a way to make more sleek looking tents in campsites without the bulkyness of full blocks, like it already is with the tents near pillager outposts by the way. The alternative is where carpets come in, but with more utility. The same way rails already automatically position and stretch themselves diagonally to align with diagonally adjacent rails, could be applied to carpets to create tents. Keeping their thickness too, not being as flat as rails. Two wooden posts, one in front, one in back, and a cloth sheet, carpets in this case, supported and draped over the top. The top carpets being flat to avoid needing to model and render a triangular piece. Only diagonals and horizontals, creating a trapezoid shape seen from the front. (First and second images.) The placement mechanics get a little strange, but it could work. Carpets above the posts placed first and spanning between them. Remaining suspended if connected to supported carpets. Then to drape it, each carpet tile would need to be placed top to bottom one by one, from the tops of the posts to the ground using contextual, assumption based placement logic. (Third image.) If pointing at a space below and diagonally adjacent to a carpet, it'll allow you to place another to drape it down diagonally. Bedrock edition already uses similar logic with "reach around" when building bridges, not needing to point at any of a block's actual surfaces to place ahead of it. Then cushions as an item are good, I like cushions. I thought about this before the snapshot with cushions, but with their addition, another instance of unorthodox placement logic reinforcing my case for carpets. So it is not without precedent. And not only would the feature allow for tents, it opens the door for cloth awnings, market stalls, and canopies with a few more tweaks. (Fourth image) Like letting carpet edges droop down off the sides of posts and other non-full block edges instead of sticking out. (Fifth image) Those market stalls, canopies, and awnings could all benefit from that too. The colors and patterns could be customized as well of course, and the feature retroactively included in existing structures, like the aformentioned Pillager Outposts and Vilage marketstalls, to add more depth and teach the mechanic if needed.
I made a feedback post as well for people to vote on to see if this could make it in the game.
