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Last update: 28 May 2020

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Building Things

• Vertical Slabs, Sideways Slabs, Furniture
• Concrete and Terracotta having Slab, Stair, and Wall Variants

Custom Things

• Custom Skins
• NBT Tags for Custom Recipes
• Custom mobs for Mapmakers
• Macros folder in data or behavior packs to define "new" blocks, items, and entities
• Superflat/Custom World Generation
• World Size Option

Mods

• Importing Mods
• Console mods/Mods on Console (all consoles)

Dogs

• Dog fur/skins/varieties

 Other Animals

• Bear Varieties - Please consolidate all your general support various biome specific bears here, unless they are brand new/fantasy/imaginary ursine/bear-like creatures. 
• Generic Birds - the general idea of more birds. 
   
• There are also threads for lions, tigers, elephants, penguins, fox eyes, and every single announced item from Minecon 2018.

Weather and Nature

• Natural Disasters
• Realistic Terrain
• Seasons
• Natural Occurrence in the Nether (like weather-ish)
• Biome: Volcano
• Biome Specific Grass and Trees

Villagers

• Villager guards, knights, soldiers, fighters, defenders, archers, warriors, or protectors
• Nitwit Dialog
• Villager Animations

Combat

• Please see the Java Combat Snapshot category for discussion about the current plans. Please place new ideas in their proper categories (usually Gameplay or Blocks, Tools, Items)

Mobs

• Redo Mob Spawning System 
• Disable Mobs From Spawning
• Add a unique type of mob for each existing biome.

World Sync

• With External Storage
• Cloud/Online/Account Based
   

Other Stuff

• Add the ability to disable autosaving and to exit without saving
• Ability to pause single-player games (Bedrock)
• Make everything in every kind of wood
• Carpets
• /gravity
• Backpacks

Performance and Render Distance

• Render Distance (Not-realm)
• Render Distance (realm)
• Render (lower)
• Render (adjustable)

Plug ins, Add-ons, Launcher

• Add on maker (via menu)
• Allow Minecraft Players To Program Plugins For Minecraft Maps And Realms
• Create a Minecraft launcher to use old versions
• Launcher Options for Different Versions and Multiple User Accounts

Availability on your favorite platform

• Bedrock Engine for Mac & Linux
• Oculus Go version?
• Oculus Quest
• Chromebook Availability | ChromeOS
• Daydream VR Support
• Bedrock for Android TV
• (Server software) Windows 32bit Availability
• Minecraft in Steam Store
• Minecraft for DS, DS lite and DS i