Hey Guys, so when playing the update I noticed Lucky Blocks popping up extremely commonly, and not that spread out, so I decided to mine a few to attempt (it was an attempt because they just pop back in random spaces) clearing out a space to build.
When mining a few and getting an idea of what they have to offer, they're not a bad idea in-game, as they could be used as good potential for giving us access to things that would otherwise be inactive/unobtainable features on the server, but I thought up some ways that these blocks can be improved, as well as being a more valuable block, and how they can be balanced in a way that it wouldn't be worse off for.
•Allow lucky blocks to have a chance of dropping any resource available in Survival Multiplayer, along with some lucky block exclusive/placeholder items(or at least until there's offical implemented ways to obtain those resources elsewhere in the future).
For example, allow placeholder mobs(like the Zombie Pigmen, Silverfish, and Blaze), blocks(like Nether related blocks or Prismarine), plants(like the dirt-with-grass, rose bush, peony, lilac, and sunflower), or items(like Cocoa beans and ink sacks) to have chances to spawn from lucky blocks.
•Add a chance of lucky blocks spawning in a well.
These wells would be similar to the MineCraft mods, where it gives you a gold nugget, and you throw it down the well.
Lucky wells tend to give you various rewards ranging from potatoes, to flowers, to riches like diamond, gold, and emeralds.
Unlucky wells tend to give you punishments such as a considerable amount of TNT exploding, or a swarm of mobs such as silverfish and spiders spawning (in jungle related biomes the swarm of spiders that spawn would be replaced with cave spiders, and in desert related biomes they would be replaced with scorpions).
•Make Lucky Blocks have a chance to generate a TV-like structure, where the the video blocks (which currently just pop up everywhere, and ironically enough pop up video ads when mined) make up the "TV screen" of the structure, it'll both allow Video Blocks to have a proper place in the game, and it clusters a lot of them in a single area, making it more likely for someone to mine more video blocks, allowing more possible ad revenue.
This would replace the way video blocks generate now, making them a block that doesn't dot about all over the place, but instead a concentrated spot, making natural terrain less cluttered with Lucky-tier blocks(Lucky Blocks and Video Blocks are what I would consider to fit this tier).
•As a trade off to making the Lucky Blocks more valuable, they should be more limited in spawning, but in a way that won't make them worse because of it.
Currently, Lucky Blocks just dot about the land in a very common quantity, and very easily seen, and if you try to clear out an area where you don't want them at, whenever you re-load those world chunks they'll re-appear in a random order (instead of ores, which re-appear in the same area interestingly enough).
Instead Solverlabs could hold special server events for the first week of every month where Lucky Blocks are enabled to randomly generate in active/loaded world chunks, and it'll be a free-for-all rush about collecting whatever you can from Lucky Blocks before the end of that first week of the month, when the Lucky Block spawning would be disabled until the next month.
This would help give active players something to look forward to, and keep them coming monthly, as well as the special events being a way to balance out lucky blocks, and prevent them from cluttering biomes all the time(instead only sometimes), as random lucky blocks dotting about everywhere in the wilderness looks unnatural to be honest.
•Lucky Blocks can also be a reward for winning a Forums Contest, as the usual in-game coins reward can't get you as much as something like 32 lucky blocks can, making the contests more rewarding.
This is what I could think of to improve Lucky Blocks, if you read this far, than thank you for reading. :)
Also here are some images of the Lucky Wishing Wells on Google...
Nice Ideas
Thanks :)