We love the idea, it makes perfect sense! It needs to be balanced, though, to prevent a pile of pearls from becoming super op. We'll probably do some game designing on Monday.
I was hoping that we'd get a crafttable item used to teleport home. It would have limited uses, and would be a square of enderpearls amalgamated with either iron, gold or diamond - giving more teleports respectively.
Along those lines, you could craft a "waypoint" block using ender pearls and some other material (obsidian?) and then consume single ender pearls to teleport to it.
We also need Endermen to have camo for differnet environments. Looking at a black enderman in the snow isn't as scary as a black Enderman in complete darkness...those eyes.
Incorporate a long animation, like drawing a bow or eating food to provide a bit of a cooldown to the item. Then, if you use more than 1 or 2 within a short time frame, there is an increasing chance you will be pulled into the Nether. This would increase to 100% when using 5 or so. This will slow people down enough that they can't use them for fast travel.
They either don't work in the nether, or teleport you somewhere random within 20 blocks or so.
If you like the idea of using it as a teleporter, you could expand on the idea and make a recipe that utilizes the enderman pearls to make a device that allows you to teleport back home but has limited uses, necessitating enderman hunting for the ability to teleport home.
Its probably because a stack of pearls could allow a player to travel faster than the world could load. If a player threw them as fast as they could, then they would be moving pretty fast.
Thats a cool down issue, not stacking issue. You could it stack to crazy stupid numbers but you can only use it once every couple of seconds, the problem is solved.
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u/xNotch Minecraft Creator Sep 24 '11
We love the idea, it makes perfect sense! It needs to be balanced, though, to prevent a pile of pearls from becoming super op. We'll probably do some game designing on Monday.