A Grim Minecraft Feature Could Be a Game-Changer For Decorations (2024)

Minecraft is full of ways to liven up a room with numerous forms of decor. However, there's one feature that could be added to allow for a macabre twist to Minecraft's decoration.

Decoration is a part of the title that is always getting updates. Just recently, decorative pots were added to Minecraft. These pots mark a big shift in the game's decor; flower pots, item frames, and paintings are nice, but these vases require exploration to unlock their full potential. All sorts of different sherds are hidden throughout Minecraft's structures, giving more reason to look into oft forgotten locales such as desert wells and underwater ruins. Moreover, these pots can store items and have flowers grow out of them, adding to their utility. It would be great to see more decor move in such a multi-faceted direction, and fossils could be the next area to explore.

Displaying Enemy Fossils Would Add A Great Bit Of Grim Flavor To Minecraft

A great way to keep improving Minecraft's decor options would be to continue on these archaeological lines. With the unveiling of ancient creatures like the sniffer, the possibility for the bones of extinct creatures to be just lying around underground is open. In addition to extinct creatures, fossils of long-dead relatives to existing mobs would be a good way to allow for decorating with mob trophies.

New Fossils Would Be Great For Minecraft's Lore And Archaeology System

Minecraft already had fossils long before 1.20's new archaeology features—but it's a landmark long shafted by the game and many players. They're hugely rare, but there's nothing exclusive to them; fossils are just husks of bone blocks. Mixing these with Minecraft's new archaeology system would give them a new lease on life. Fossils could still be rare, but they could possibly be items unto themselves rather than block buildings—ones that could be found in suspicious sand with a brush just like pottery sherds. In fact, these fossils could be in disparate parts—special bones that need to be reassembled into a larger whole. This would create a decoration like decorated pots, one that requires a great deal of exploration to complete.

Moreover, remastered fossils could deepen Minecraft's lore. Fans have always been loud about their theories as to the origins of many mobs, and Mojang have taken steps to play into these in recent years. 1.20 especially renewed this fervor with its focus on Minecraft's lore, so it would only make sense to see more of this. Imagine collecting ancient bones, only to put them together to find the dead remains of a Wither, one which slaughtered the builders of yore. Not only would this make a great centerpiece for a room, but it would confirm many theories and invite even more questions.

A Creepy Twist To Decor Is Just What Minecraft Needs

Whilst decorating a room with bones may seem a little much for the game's family-friendly reputation, it's not without precedent. Minecraft already lets players collect heads from foes, albeit with a lengthy but rewarding process. Having some scarier decoration features would provide some great new creative tools for players with a more macabre inclination. Furthermore, they would work well for non-horror interiors too, such as museum or hospital builds.

With the title erring towards more toned-down additions, save for Minecraft's horror-themed Warden and its stomach of screaming souls, it would be fun for something new that calls back to those days of urban legends—where players kept one eye open at night for Herobrine, haunted by the cave noises that echoed around their hill-hole homes. Perhaps some bones could form the skeletons of incredibly large beasts, or perhaps just one giant leg of an impossibly large horror. An injection of eldritch terror, of unknown frights from the long past, would rekindle those old rumors of hidden monsters.

Minecraft

Platform(s)

PS4 , PS3 , PS Vita , Xbox One , Xbox 360 , Switch , 3DS , PC , Android , iOS , Wii U

Released

November 18, 2011

Developer(s)

Mojang

Publisher(s)

Mojang

Genre(s)

Sandbox , Survival

ESRB

E10+ For Everyone 10+ Due To Fantasy Violence

How Long To Beat

N/A

X|S Enhanced

No

File Size Xbox Series

1 GB (December 2023)

Metascore

93

Split Screen Orientation

Vertical or Horizontal

Number of Players

1-4