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Blue ice fast transport

In my opinion, the new blue ice although "expensive" to obtain, makes fast travel a bit too easy. If we go way back to older versions the different transport methods measured up better to each other. Walking and running was quite slow and used food. Having ice tunnels with low ceiling was faster, still used food and more effort to build. However, the fastest option at the time was the piston bolt, a Redstone contraption that used a lot of materials and took alot of time to build, involved the player getting creative in coming up with the system and as the most expensive option also had the benefit of not having to eat and being automatic. All those systems had a nice balance to each other where if you wanted to go faster it was more expensive and take more time to build. With the blue ice, one can go way faster than with any other system in the game at the moment, no matter the resources or ingenuity the player spends to come up with a custom system. In previous versions of the game, there have been player built systems that reached 40m/s and they all have been patched away, now Mojang comes along with a way faster system that involves no special effort in building and very low material cost in comparison. In my opinion this not balanced at all and they either should consider making the blue ice slower or even better allowing mechanics that player build systems can be faster than the new ice. Building the blue ice transport is also really boring gameplaywise in comparison to building a piston bolt or a comparable system

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• June 04, 2018 18:47
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  MacchuPicchu96 commented

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  • June 04, 2018 19:58
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  Interesting argument, you have my vote. Am I correct in recognizing you from the SciCraft server?

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  ClayGoddessSari commented

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  • June 05, 2018 03:42
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  I hope what they do is allow a technicial system that goes faster than the ice, rather than nerf the new ice.  Although, given that they have continued to patch all the travel methods that technical players have come up with, it seems like they don’t want fast technical travel to be a thing...

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  UnlistedMonk commented

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  • June 10, 2018 23:52
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  I don't know how they want us to get around. They gave us a rail system but set a max speed of only 16 mph.

  Then they turn around and give us boats on ice and it's super fast. 

  Hope this helps. Have a nice day.

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  RomaqRosher commented

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  • June 02, 2019 16:49
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  Has anyone determined if blue ice makes "2-high jump-sprint travel" faster than packed ice? If the travel is exactly the same but still "ridiculously fast" and "on par enough compared to piston bolt", then you could say just using packed ice makes it much less expensive.

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  Marioboy19 commented

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  • July 27, 2019 05:31
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  I'll assume you've never tried to make a blue ice transport system in survival. It's not easy, fast, or cheap in any way. This is a fine alternative for people who don't want to spend endless hours learning and building finicky redstone machines. They can instead spend *more* endless hours trying to farm ice in a way that's legitimate in survival.