Functional Lights

[Oliverium]

What's your Minecraft Username?: Oliverium
What's the title of your suggestion?: Functional Lights

What's your suggestion?:
When it comes to properties, you typically walk in with lights on and the only way to make it dark is going into edit mode and breaking light sources. Why not make some functional lights blocks, such as lamps, or light switches? That way, when you walk by houses, or even enter them, you'll know who is awake and active. It adds a touch of realism, and there's plenty of ways to expand this.

1. Furniture: Add a functional furniture type item that is purchasable in player shops or furniture store. It can be toggled with a right click. (I've seen mods like this, so I wonder if it's possible for a plug in or something)

2. Buildmode option: Redstone lamps can get edited into a lamp you can toggle with a right click, similarly to how they work now. Not sure if you only toggle them with buildmode enabled but if it could be changed to not buildmode that would be cool.

3. Some totally different thing: Staff know how things work better than I do, but maybe there's a way you can light up the house/rooms with a lightswitch, which just spawns those invisible light blocks around and allows you to dim them?

I'm sure something can work, this is only a suggestion after all.

How will this benefit the server and community?:
1. Realism: Properties, businesses, hospital, and even school can benefit with a touch of realism. Turning lights on and off can communicate sleeping, inoccupation, and even help those with sensitive eyes (+ concussions)
2. Classroom management: Ever been in a classroom that would NOT stop talking, and the lights suddenly go out? Flick, flick, flick, now the teacher has your attention! Would be cool to have that ICly for teachers to grab the attention of a rowdy classroom.
3. Events: Power outages, thunderstorms, etc., the possibilities are endless. Instead of giving blindness, just turn off the lights!
4. Who is home?: Basically that- you can tell who is active in their homes in order to meet neighbors, say hi, or come over to hangout.

 

[celexaprozac]

+1

 

[Oliverium]

Something to add: typically hospitals have generators and aren't affected by power outages!

 

[findouticly]

+1

 

[printsess300]

+1

 

[Benspudgydad]

+1/-1
I feel as if it's a GREAT idea, but I see little need for it, as turning lights on and off in roleplay can be slightly frustrating, BUT you can always roleplay that the light is off. I do get the frustration, though, as if you're taking cinematic shots, it can be irritating. But I also feel as if it may take too long to code/produce, as it would just be nearly impossible to create a plugin for it, as you'd have to operate it like redstone but retexture it and completely change how it works. As a furniture item as well, it may cause issues with setting it up. I think it's a cool idea but not really needed for anything besides screenshots for that really important biography picture you need. Im not an expert in plugin design but I doubt it's going to be the easiest thing to code in.

 

[Winters]

+1/-1
I feel as if it's a GREAT idea, but I see little need for it, as turning lights on and off in roleplay can be slightly frustrating, BUT you can always roleplay that the light is off. I do get the frustration, though, as if you're taking cinematic shots, it can be irritating. But I also feel as if it may take too long to code/produce, as it would just be nearly impossible to create a plugin for it, as you'd have to operate it like redstone but retexture it and completely change how it works. As a furniture item as well, it may cause issues with setting it up. I think it's a cool idea but not really needed for anything besides screenshots for that really important biography picture you need. Im not an expert in plugin design but I doubt it's going to be the easiest thing to code in.

It wouldn't be impossible to make a plugin for it, and it wouldn't be that hard to code in.
Clearly you haven't realized how much these devs must be paid just by how good the car and train systems are, and how those ARE actually hard to code.

In fact, it wouldn't even be hard to have a system with light switches compared to the vehicles.
Also, roleplaying the lights off isn't nearly as good as an automated light system, where you are oocly unable to see well, eliminating issues caused by bad RPers, or people who don't want to play along.

And, as somebody who does plugin development, especially with the way they (the OP) specified how they want this implemented, it would be extremely easy to retexture lamps, and modify how they behave, as they already did many times with many other blocks in vanilla mc upwards of 3 years ago.

 

[urufu]

+1

 

[KimiNoUso]

Accepted
Thank you for your suggestion! After discussing this with the team we have decided to implement it.

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