Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25799916-20150506174330/@comment-26298013-20150508210307

You realize that Mevans doesn't follow vanilla Minecraft logic, right? He can pretty much do as he wants, meaning that Minecraft versions usually don't matter to him. He doesn't need any functionalities of 1.8 to input tracking.

The way I'm envisioning tracking is that you can see footprints on the ground. The higher your alignment with a faction that can track, the more you "learn" from them, and the clearer the footprints grow. If the trail leads over something like snow, it becomes very clear. If it goes over stone of any sort, or other very hard surface, the footprints fade to nothing, unless you have a fairly high alignment with a faction that has methods other than visual tracking to follow trails. I.e., Orcs who can track by sent, or Elves who are somewhat magical. I'm aware that footprints are not always a principal component of real-life tracking, but this is Minecraft, and therefore a simplified version is appropriate in my opinion.