Better Transportation Systems

This is another one of those suggestion threads where it's more like a cool idea and not really something I expect to be added to the game.

Currently the only major methods of transport are boats and horses. Of course, you have fast travel as well but player controlled transport is the focus of this concept.

First, I would like to suggest some changes to the horse system.

Ever since horses were added (maybe not, the wiki doesn't say anything on this), there has been an unused slot for horse armor when you hover over the saddle in your inventory. Horses cannot take damage, so why would you need horse armor? They could maybe have IDs for your horse that increase speed and jump height, which would be useful. So far I only have 2 ideas for horse armors that could be obtained.
Ternaves' prized horse armor and Bucie's prized horse armor would both be good for a certain thing and bad for another. They could be switched for specific situations. To get them, you would have to win a horse race of some kind in both towns. This would be an optional event purely to teach the player how to use their new horse.

Ternaves' horse armor would have:
+5 speed
-5 jump height

Bucie's horse armor would have:
+5 jump height
-5 speed

The tournaments would specialise in the horse skill that is increased by the armor, with Ternaves making you race around a track against other NPCs while Bucie would have you race hurdles against NPCs. Doing these would also increase that skill on your horse for every win (unless you are at the level cap for that skill)
It should also be noted that the minimum level decrease from armor is down to level 1 so that people don't just go down to -4 speed by wearing bucie armor on a fresh horse.


The breeding system for horses is perfectly fine as it is. I would change it so that it's more likely to upgrade by breeding if the horses are both leveled up well but that would kind of ruin the horse economy.


Horse cloaks are very lacking right now. The only 2 you can get are zombie horse and skeleton horse. I assume the one thing stopping the CT from just reskinning some horses and adding those as cloaks is the fact that the textures would be screwed up for 1.13+ players due to horse models being changed. The solution I have is that we can just use the fact that there are separate texture packs for different versions. My ideas for cloaks are:
Robo-horse
Dernic horse
Golden horse
Rainbow horse
Helio horse
Unicorn
Epona


The current way to upgrade your horse is to go to IB, GG and CDS and buy it with dungeon drops and the horse itself. This doesn't make too much sense so I came up with a better way of doing it.
With your 1 Theorick ice shard, 2 redbeard hairs, 3 corrupted witherhead ribs or 4 Antikytheria chips, you can go up to their dungeon merchants and buy Brown, black, chestnut and white horseshoes respectively. You can then go to any blacksmith and have him upgrade your horse with them. Now it doesn't seem like taking redbeard's hairs and gluing them to your black horse has magically made it stronger!



Next I want to go over boats. I'm not sure if they have been fully patched yet but god these things are glitchy. They can only hold 1 person (unless they made them 2 player with the minecraft 1.9 boat changes) and a lot of the time they just sink me to the bottom of the ocean (again, not sure if this was patched). Their concept is very interesting though. For 2 emerald blocks (or 2 emeralds if you know where to look) you can get your own personal rowing boat that goes faster when you're with other players. I would like to expand on this idea. Around the world, there could be a dock. By this I mean every seaskipper checkpoint and notable island. For one time you could pay 5 liquid emeralds to get your very own sailboat. It's faster than the rowing boat and can seat 7 players (including you as the captain). It gets a speed boost when it is near other sailboats and I'm sure your main question is ''how the hell would they make a fully fledged block boat work?''
This wouldn't be a block model. It would be an armor stand model. Cool ideas would be for the flag at the top to change to the banner of the captain's guild and for there to be multiple cool skins for them that you can get from crates. I'm sure people would have a lot of fun sailing around on the seven seas with their very own vessel. The only problem I can see with this is that if enough people were on their boats at the same time there would be a lot of lag for lower-end computers.



Finally, I have one more suggestion. This isn't in the game yet, but I can tell a lot of people would want a solution like this. It is usually argued that the sky islands are the hardest place to navigate in the whole game and I agree. I have an idea that will make it a lot less tedious. Airships! They would be very similar to the sailboats except they would be able to go up and down and would have height and depth limits. The biggest problem with this is that players would probably find a way to glitch it out of the sky islands boundary and either fly around off of the map or get to high places around the main map that are usually not meant to be reached. Another issue is that they would be able to see into the void, meaning that to make the experience more realistic a huge wall of mountains would have to be added to the sides of Gavel. This one seems the least likely to be added.

 

You should add poll options for each idea. I like the horse idea, but I don't know about the sailboat idea and I don't think airships would be a good idea.

 

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Honestly, if they could balance horseback combat, I'd love to see even more ideas for horse armor to maybe even make that a viable build, kind of like the new fabled boots I can't remember the name of.

 

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