Blocks & Decoration Foreground Walls

[Orchamut]

Add some sort of tool that transforms placed background walls into foreground walls when used. I'd have added it as a hammer right-click, but I don't want a feature like this to be hard to use for mobile players. Foreground walls just drop the same wall when broken. There could also be an accessory that allows the player to toggle placing walls as foreground walls.
Foreground walls are functionally identical to background walls except that they're drawn over entitites and blocks instead of behind them.
A possible mechanic is that if the player is directly behind enough foreground walls to completely obscure it, the foreground walls around the player temporarily become transparent to make the area behind them visible.

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They'd also have a texture as light as the original block, instead of being darker like background walls.
This could take some work to add for every single wall, but I think something like this could be worth it.

 

[Green_Metaknight]

Add some sort of tool that transforms placed background walls into foreground walls when used. I'd have added it as a hammer right-click, but I don't want a feature like this to be hard to use for mobile players. Foreground walls just drop the same wall when broken. There could also be an accessory that allows the player to toggle placing walls as foreground walls.
Foreground walls are functionally identical to background walls except that they're drawn over entitites and blocks instead of behind them.

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They'd also have a texture as light as the original block, instead of being darker like background walls.
This could take some work to add for every single wall, but I think something like this could be worth it.

This would be EPIC, but having it as light as the original block would look weird.
Also, I imagined epic music playing when I saw this suggestion, it is NEXT LEVEL. Maybe something from the Flash OST, like

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[Dragon Lord Fladnag]

Now I can hide boulder traps behind walls Nyeh heh heh

 

[TechionPrime41 🌳]

Not a bad idea, except for the fact that these walls would obscure your vision of where the player is, and therfore may make it hard, if not impossible, for you to see where your character is if they're beind foreground walls. Glass and echo walls might the only two exceptions to this, though.

 

[Orchamut]

Not a bad idea, except for the fact that these walls would obscure your vision of where the player is, and therfore may make it hard, if not impossible, for you to see where your character is if they're beind foreground walls.

That is exactly the idea. With great power comes great responsibility. You could use it for some cool decorations to make things feel more immersive, like fences, or artificial giant trees... or you could create an evil dungeon filled with unseeable traps that you can't find your way through.

 

[Aceplante]

Not a bad idea, except for the fact that these walls would obscure your vision of where the player is, and therfore may make it hard, if not impossible, for you to see where your character is if they're beind foreground walls. Glass and echo walls might the only two exceptions to this, though.

thats... the point..

 

[Green_Metaknight]

That is exactly the idea. With great power comes great responsibility. You could use it for some cool decorations to make things feel more immersive, like fences, or artificial giant trees... or you could create an evil dungeon filled with unseeable traps that you can't find your way through.

What if there was a seed combo that makes all walls into foreground walls?

 

[Orchamut]

What if there was a seed combo that makes all walls into foreground walls?

*underground desert noises*

 

[Stellar Mastodon 267]

Not a bad idea, except for the fact that these walls would obscure your vision of where the player is, and therfore may make it hard, if not impossible, for you to see where your character is if they're beind foreground walls. Glass and echo walls might the only two exceptions to this, though.

Probably you would still see your players name so you know where you are if it is in a parkour maze. Though you would be fully invisible to other players.

 

[HandsomeSquirrel🐿️]

Not a bad idea, except for the fact that these walls would obscure your vision of where the player is, and therfore may make it hard, if not impossible, for you to see where your character is if they're beind foreground walls. Glass and echo walls might the only two exceptions to this, though.

Perhaps there could be a toggleable setting (like ruler or wire sight) that shows a faint outline of your character when behind foreground walls. It would only visible to you; other players wouldn't be able to see it.

 

[TechionPrime41 🌳]

Probably you would still see your players name so you know where you are if it is in a parkour maze. Though you would be fully invisible to other players.

Not a bad idea here either. Though it did give me another idea: maybe make the foreground walls a bit translucent in a little area around the player, so you can still see where you are, but it also would still obscure you from other players in a similar way.

 

[Orchamut]

Not a bad idea. Then again, maybe make the foreground walls a bit translucent in a little area around the player, so you can still see where you are, but it also would still obscure you from other players in a similar way.

That idea is so good that I'll add it to the OP as an optional mechanic.

 

[Stellar Mastodon 267]

Not a bad idea here either. Though it did give me another idea: maybe make the foreground walls a bit translucent in a little area around the player, so you can still see where you are, but it also would still obscure you from other players in a similar way.

Like I dungeon crawler video games when a house looks solid from the outsized but the walls/roof become transparent when you enter. The foreground walls could do that.

 

[Big Sammich]

Maybe if you could just see a silhouette of the player behind the walls?

 

[FrostedCookiie]

I feel like this should function similarly to other games, where if the player is fully obscured, it disables visibility for all attached foreground walls. I do like this suggestion though, and I support. Plenty of potential for nefarious shenanigans nyeheheh

 

[ADHDemonYT🌳]

Either an accessory or an item, but yes please! and standing in front of foreground glass walls allows you to see a bit of the player!

 

[sunner]

love the idea! seems like it'd be hard to code in, but if it makes in, adventure maps and builds are gonna reach a whole nother level.

 

[ADHDemonYT🌳]

love the idea! seems like it'd be hard to code in, but if it makes in, adventure maps and builds are gonna reach a whole nother level.

Invisible parkour, or view blocked parkour

 

[Yenrand]

I've seen a modification that adds this (where it copies the background from one place and moves it to the foreground in another place). The effect is impressive not only in buildings but also in biomes. I recommend seeing it with your own eyes.

 

[ADHDemonYT🌳]

I've seen a modification that adds this (where it copies the background from one place and moves it to the foreground in another place). The effect is impressive not only in buildings but also in biomes. I recommend seeing it with your own eyes.

This would make caves very difficult