How to Add Infinite Features into Minecraft (with one update)

Okay so chances are your first time playing minecraft if you’ve even played it went a little something like this neat okay so what do I do how do how do I get stuff oh I hold it down okay I bet there’s absolutely nothing sinister in this cave no what’s

That all right I get the message I have not wanted here how do I get out [ __ ] okay so I guess I’ll be going back there when I have better stuff this place looks neat nice and flat I might build a house here did you build houses in this

Game is that what you do I have no idea I have you’ve never played this game before what are you talking about no more cactus okay the animals look incredibly derpy okay is that like an aw do I do it can I mind that it’s called minecraft right uh-huh all right okay

All right let’s get me some iron okay that like mountain area looks really cool I want to go there alright well now I’m here neat what is that what is that even supposed to be you’re like a cow yeah this is a cow isn’t it Oh neat this

Day and night in this game cool the sunset looks really pretty this is my life now like many games a lot of the joy comes from not knowing what to expect not knowing what you could find in this new world and since Minecrafts only limit is your own creativity there’s huge amounts of

Replay value well your own creativity plus the vertical block limit plus no circles allowed plus I meet your own patience is a big one I myself since I have nostalgia for it and friends who also play it will come back to it from time to time to start up a new survival

World and the weakest aspect is always the exploration don’t get me wrong it’s fine I’m not gonna pretend like there’s a huge problem with the game just an area that I think could see immense improvement what if every time you loaded up a new Minecraft world you had

That same excitement you had the first time you played of not knowing what you’re gonna find in that world the first night you spent in Minecraft cowering in a hole you didn’t know what you were hiding from there could have been anything out there and that was

Kind of scary and kind of exciting now you know it’s creepers zombies spiders skeletons which is end of and so on just like when you mine you know exactly what also you might find when you go exploring new terrain you’re like that’s a swamp and once you’ve seen one swamp

You’ve kind of seen all of the swamps the game has a finite amount of content and yeah that’s not a problem games do have a finite amount of content but with the way that minecraft actually works it doesn’t have to have a finite amount of content it could literally

Have infinite features and I’m gonna show you how introducing egg it’s called egg this is egg or you find it occasionally in sand you know unlike all of the other minecraft doors which spawn in stone egg spawns in sand you can use it to make a set of egg tools and if you

Hit something with an egg tool it gives it weakness it gives it the weakness debuff that’s already in the game the tools themselves work a bit faster than iron but have worse durability you can also eat egg if you’re feeling a bit peckish I mean it makes sense it looks a

Bit like cabbage you can craft a block of egg like you can do with most other ores in the game egg can also be used to build a compass like item that points at your nearest source of egg or which is crafted using four edges and a phantom

Membrane but what is it that makes egg special share put the words on the screen which means this is like a real video essay well egg is special because I didn’t come up with it in fact nobody did egg was completely randomly generated by a spreadsheet that I created a spreadsheet

That I’ll link in the description see each or in Minecraft is quite simple really it’s just a few properties like can you use it as fuel can you make tools out of it how good are those tools can you turn it into other is it used in

Any other crafting recipes can you make any unique items with the oil that you can’t make with anything else so imagine spawning into a world in Minecraft and knowing that some of the ores you might encounter some of the creatures you might fight and some of

The biomes you might find yourself in a completely randomly generated the spreadsheet I created is incredibly simple compared to something that could actually be created by a team of professional programmers and I will explain how it would actually be implemented into a game don’t worry do you understand there’s difference

Between implementing something into a video game and making a spreadsheet that just says the thing the block would be generated and then its properties would be saved as part of your save the item IDs for the all the item and the items that you can craft with it would be

Saved as part of your world you to the game that they were generated in the appearance of different ores would be similar to the way that the appearance of grass and trees and different biomes work the actual textures for grass and leaves in the game in greyscale the color being added

Afterwards by a shader this is why the same block will appear slightly different colors depending on where you are in your world so if you were to add 16 grayscale or textures that can be added on top of whatever substance they spawn and usually it’s stone which isn’t

Even a particularly high number you would already have a practically inexhaustible supply of possible textures that can be generated for your oz by the generator which is how my spreadsheet works already it takes it existing or and says but it’s this color for example egg was lapis but in sand

And a particular shade of green the texture for the mined version of the ore the item that you get in your inventory was nether quartz but again the same shade of green even the unique items that can be crafted with the original ores that you can find don’t actually

Add any new mechanics into the game they just make existing mechanics interact in new ways for example if you crafted an egg sword if you used it on enemies it would give them the weakness debuff the weakness debuff and swords are both already in the game but this is a new

Feature the compass like item that pointed towards your nearest source of egg or takes the game’s existing compass mechanic and compass texture recolors it to the same color as egg and then uses the same mechanics to do something else let’s have a quick look at some more of

The ores that it generates just so you can get a sense of the variety at play here this pink stuff was given the randomly generated name in neo site and it can be crafted into different kinds of decorative blocks that’s it this one was pretty useless actually it was

Really rare as well seed find this to be like whoa I’ve never seen this before what does it do oh not much cool here’s an awl called IBO which you can eat to gain health and craft into a unique tool that makes wool explode when you mine it

Which could be immensely useful for mining and the like now also considered you’ve got something that can generate unique items in the game and you could totally give completely unique items like these as rewards in dungeon chests or mineshaft chests or as high roll drops from mobs or even as

Credibly rare loot from a fishing rod and you never know what these items you could find might do maybe find something that gives you the levitation effect while you’re holding it maybe you find something that can summon fireballs at the cost of 10% of its durability or a weapon that’s useless against anything

But zombies but insta kills zombies and I’m not just saying you know wouldn’t this be neat I’ve linked an actual generator that makes completely unique minecraft items in the description below and all of these items were generated by that generator in terms of textures for these items we use the same solution

That we used before you have a few existing textures for the items that get recolored by the game let’s say there are a hundred in the game let’s say there are a hundred handles for the tools and a hundred heads for the tools and they get combined randomly into

10,000 possible unique tool combinations and then they get recolored into gazillions more possible combinations but now I’m gonna move on to a part where I am just gonna say wouldn’t it be neat because you don’t have to limit this to unique items or unique cause you can do this with basically everything in

The game unique biomes unique mobs unique spawning conditions for those mobs unique types of tree that you can find in new biomes made out of new kinds of wood and that drops saplings that let you grow more of those kinds of trees the actual properties that make biomes

And mobs and kinds of wood are simple enough to sort of randomize so let’s do it let’s make a Minecraft where you can cower in that hole and not know what you’re hiding from if you’ve played as much minecraft as I have too much you’ll recognize that this terrain doesn’t fit

In any one specific Minecraft biome that if you loaded up a new Minecraft world you wouldn’t see anything like any of these you’d see one of a few very specific preset biomes oh look the swamp the current system is functional but it’s not exciting you can’t find anything that you wouldn’t really expect

So how do you implement all of this random stuff without overwhelming the game that already exists random mobs and random ores and random items are cool and all but you don’t want to replace your iron your diamonds you call you don’t want to get rid of your zombies

Your skeletons eat creepers these things have been staples of the game since very early on in its development so you don’t want to add so much content that they become relevance of the game and adding infinite content yeah there’s kind of a risk that that might happen so how do

You implement this kind of stuff into the game without overwhelming what’s in the game already well there are a few possible solutions the first which I think is by far the most obvious is just to make all of this stuff kind of rare kind of push it off

To the sidelines and that could certainly work that would be a great default setting but I think there are some much more interesting things you could do with a concept like this you could have it as a setting when you generate your new world a slider that

Lets you choose anything on a scale from no randomly generated features in the game to literally only randomly generated by rooms and mobs and ores in the game I’d play that one there’s also another possibility that I really really like the idea of which is infinite dimensions implement an item that can

Open portals put it somewhere that the player will only be able to access late in the game like in an end city or as a drop from killing the wither that you can use to open portals like nether portals or end portals but these portals go to places that are completely

Randomly generated you can make these portals from any material you like and every time you make a new unique portal it will take you to a new unique dimension the blocks those dimensions are built from a randomly generated or randomly chosen from existing blocks the rules by which the terrain is generated

Again randomized the mobs that might spawn they’re randomly generated or randomly chosen from existing mobs can you get trees there I don’t know it’s random can you get giant mushrooms there I don’t know it’s random can you find an orange glowing rock called blue stone

That kills you when you touch it I don’t know it’s random and isn’t that exciting now to that you might say no I don’t think that’s exciting and I can’t blame you it’s a pretty nice oh dear it’s also quite an ambitious idea but it’s certainly not an impossible one also

This is very important not not entirely related please remove the auto jump feature thank you but if thanks for coming to my TED talk if you want to check out the spreadsheet that generates random unique ores and unique items then the link is in the description if you do

Want to use it though I should let you know that there’s a bug in Google sheets that breaks the randomizers if too many people are viewing the same document at one so if a few people are looking at the spreadsheet and it’s not working properly your solution is to make a copy

Of the spreadsheet that’s file make a copy and then you’ll have your own copy that you can actually edit if you want to that’s it let me know what you thought of this it is a bit different from my usual style although I find recently I’ve been saying that after

Like maybe a third of the videos have ended up making so it’s an experimental time for me I could buy