actually it's not like i'm getting in anyone's way if i yap about my minecraft a1.1.2_02 fork feature ideas without being asked.

if a full block is put in the cell an item stack (or certain entities like arrows) is in, such as by falling or being placed by a player, the item gets buried in the block. only one item stack can be buried per block.

• except containers, where the item goes into the container's inventory.
• the item drops if the block is removed such as by decaying, exploding, or being mined.
• items buried in ice or glass are visible. this makes sense and lets you make cool display cases.
• minerals buried in eligible blocks turn them into an ore blocks
  • ore blocks additionally drop cobblestone (or whatever else the non-ore version of that ore block would drop).
  • raw iron and raw gold items
• saplings and fruits are buried in leaf blocks instead of being part of their loot. this lets me reuse a small number of leaf block types for all trees.

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• axes and hoes break leaves faster.
• more fun swordplay in some form.
• golden tools mine at full speed underwater and midair and golden armor gives you a small speed boost per piece worn, including sinking and rising in fluids. this gives a nice niche to gold for building in lakes and oceans, and is a fun tradeoff between protection and speed.
• bedrock tools, which are of course unobtainable and unbreakable, but i think they'd be funny and a nice addition for people who like to cheat. the bedrock sword is an insta-kill, and all other bedrock tools do zero damage.
• redstone tools and armor should probably exist in some form. i don't know what they would do.

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• if a sign is placed on a container, the sign's text becomes the container's GUI title.
• if a sign is placed on a container, clicking the sign opens the container.
• if you place a sign on a ceiling it, becomes a hanging sign.
• if you place a sign on a wall at a very acute angle, it becomes a hanging sign on a pole.
• bold, italics, underlines, font size, and colors on signs
  • text sizes work by merging multiple rows into one line of text.
  • there are 8 rows, but the default font size is 2 lines.
  • using a color on a sign requires one dye of that color.
  • breaking a sign drops the dyes used.
  • you can also use glowstone dust to make glowing letters or to make the sign glow.

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• interacting with a chest opens it. you can close it again by clicking the lid.
  • chests can also open and close via redstone.
  • mobs can steal from open chests.
  • items (and some entity forms of items such as arrows) can fall into open chests which puts them in the chest's inventory.
  • players can freely access the contents of open chests.*
• obsidian chests and doors, which are like wooden doors but they take a long time to break, are blast resistant, and need a diamond pickaxe to properly mine.
• *iron chests, which can only open and close via redstone.
• locks and keys
  • every lock has a matching key.
  • *locks can be attached to chests, doors, levers, and buttons (not iron chests and doors), which prevents players and redstone from interacting with them unless they're holding the correct key (except accessing the contents of open chests).
  • you craft new lock and key as a pair.
  • you can clone locks and keys in crafting.
  • skeleton keys which are single-use, made from bone, and can only be made by cloning non-skeleton keys.
• dungeon puzzles utilizing the aforementioned features.

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• slime blocks that pretty much work like in modern versions.
• place a slimeball on any full block surface to make it sticky. you can break the sticky coat to get the slimeball back.
• smelt a slimeball to make a baked slimeball.
  • you can throw it, and it has bouncy-ball physics.
  • punching it propels it. different tool types (not tiers) affect its trajectory differently.
  • if it hits a mob, it deals knockback based on its trajectory and causes the mob to panic or be angered.
  • pick it up at any time by right-clicking it.

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