Summary
Minecrafthas a wide array of decorative features available to players looking to spruce up their builds. However, there’s one thingMinecraftcould borrow from another franchise to give interior design some extra oomph.
Minecrafthas very little in the way of allowing the player to create their own art in-game—as in, art that can be hung up like a painting.
There areMinecraft’s banners, but these all hold prescribed designs that can be mixed and matched into a limited pool of possible designs. The way many players create art is to build something facing the sky (such as pixel art made from blocks, built flat on the ground) and then fill in the terrain on a map. The map will then display the art when hung in an item frame. It’s something of a cumbersome system that requires a little math, albeit it’s a wonderfully creative solution.
Animal Crossing’s Bulletin Board Art Would Work Great In Minecraft
One mechanicMinecraftcould draw inspiration from to make this all more convenient isAnimal Crossing: New Horizons' bulletin board art. This simple system allows players to draw and display art, which can support a great deal of complexity if enough investment is put into it. Showing off bulletin board art is something many players take on, just asMinecraftfans might share their builds. There are several ways that this feature could easily be implemented intoMinecraft.
How Drawing In Minecraft Could Work
Minecraftalready has paintings as a feature, so it only makes sense that the player should be able to make their own. In addition, the aforementioned banner feature also gives way to some precedent. The only question, then, is how to suitably create this mechanic in a way that seems adequatelyMinecraft-like.
One way would be to make use of ink sacs, which could kill two birds with one stone by also expanding the use of glowing ink sacs to make some unique pieces. A unique brush tool and some colored ink sacs would be more than serviceable avenues for a painting feature. Alternatively, these drawings could take more the form of tapestries than paintings—still drawn by the player’s own hand, but with an end product that’s given more of a cloth texture.Minecraft’s loom would be the perfect toolfor this purpose, particularly because colored wool already exists and could easily serve as a resource.
Making Art Could Be Made Unique To Minecraft
One issue that could be inherent to any drawing system is the potential to conflict withMinecraft’s iconic art style.New Horizons’brush wouldn’t mesh particularly well with howMinecraftis expected to look. Of course, the brush could just be made square-shaped, but more creativity is possible. Whatever canvas would be used to paint these pieces, be it a menu on the loom or a new block, could be set on a grid. Each grid square could have a block placed into it (perhaps wool or inked via ink sacs), creating pixel art when viewed in totality. The drawing should then be able to be placed on paper and then hung up.
This would not only keep artMinecraft-adjacent in design but could be used for other purposes, such as collaborative art pieces, but it wouldn’t even have to end there. Plotting objects on a graph could be used for play. Players could play battleships or chess if there’s an eraser mechanic to remove placed blocks. In fact, players could evenplayDungeons and DragonsinMinecraft. That’s without getting into the possibility of redstone integration with comparators or crafter blocks, the latter of which could serve as a printing press to pump out duplicate pieces.
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WHERE TO PLAY
Minecraft is a game made up of blocks, creatures, and community. You can survive the night or build a work of art – the choice is all yours. But if the thought of exploring a vast new world all on your own feels overwhelming, then fear not!Minecraft has no set goal and can be played however you’d like! This is why it’s sometimes called a “sandbox game” – there are lots of things for you to do, and lots of ways that you can play. If you like being creative, then you can use the blocks to build things from your imagination. If you’re feeling brave, you can explore the world and face daring challenges. Blocks can be broken, crafted, placed to reshape the landscape, or used to build fantastical creations.Creatures can be battled or befriended, depending on how you play. The world of Minecraft allows for epic adventures, quiet meditations, and everything in between. You can even share your creations with other players, or play in community worlds!
