User:S'moregoth/BeardSuggestion

Note: ''This suggestion is intended to be something that should be added immediately. It is intended to be a somewhat fun (and hopefully useful/productive) suggestion, that would be added when Mevans/the Mod Team sees fit.''

One of the problems with Minecraft skins is that you can not easily have good looking, long, luxurious beards. (Sure, you can put it on the front of your torso, but that doesn't look near as good as the beards on NPCs in the mod.) So, I am proposing that beards be added.

I originally had a super detailed plan involving mechanics concerning beard growth, shaving, braiding, etc. After thinking about it more, however, I realized that all that I had had in mind would need a mod of its own. Because of this, I have vastly simplified it, and present to you this shorter (and hopefully more do-able) suggestion.

For this suggestion to work, only one item need be added. This item would be the beard.

Crafting
In real life, beards are grown, but for the purpose of this suggestion and gameplay, beards would be crafted with three wool on a vanilla crafting table.

They could be crafted with any color of wool, but always come out white. They would also start out as a boring, long, straight beard. (This will be explained more later.)

Usage
At this time, beards would serve no purpose other than for humor and decoration, like leather hats. (Other uses may be decided by the mod team if this is implemented.)

Beards would be helmet items, in that they can be worn on the head, but would grant no protection. When on the head, a beard would render at about the same distance from the body as leggings do, and would stick straight down, like NPC beards do. (I will show pictures later on.) It could probably use the same model as the one for NPC beards/hair.

No NPCs would generate with them, as most NPC models already have room for beards. If/When vanity slots are added, beards would be able to go in the lower head slot, so that they could be under a helmet. Since they do not exist yet, however, for now they could be crafted with a helmet to become attached to it, and then (whenever the helmet is worn) it would include the beard, as well.

Customization
You would be able to customize your beard (to make it look more like what you want) using certain crafting recipes on a vanilla crafting table. It would be very similar to the Vanilla 1.8 Banner customization, but hopefully much simpler.

Dye
You would be able to dye and wash beards in the exact same way as you do with Harad Robes. This would allow you to have a beard of virtually any possible color, even turquoise if you so desire.

Trimming
Using shears on a crafting table you would be able to trim the beard in certain ways to achieve a desired shape. If this suggestion is implemented, it is up to the mod team to decide on the specifics, but I am going to give a few examples of recipes that I have come up with.

The basic, default, unmodified beard would look something like this: (With a Gondorian's head for comparison)  Every time you trim a beard, you get the shears back, but perhaps with one less durability.

Size Adjustments
The first trimming options are to shorten the beard, to trim the top, and to trim the sides. All of these are optional, but would have to be done before any other trims, to give the computer a size to work with. Shortening the beard removes the bottom 2 rows of pixels, and can be done up to seven(?) times. Trimming the top of the beard removes the top (single) layer of pixels, and can be done up to two times. Trimming either side removes the far left/right column of pixels, and can be done once per side.

Others
After you have finished with those original trims, you can move on to more detailed ones. Most of these can be mirrored to affect the other side of the beard as well. Here is a list of ones that I have come up with:

Using all of these alterations, you would be able to make many styles of beard. For instance, here is a beard that I made using 1 top trim, a top corner trim on each side, and a steep angle trim on each side.

Hopefully all of this made sense. As always, Suggestions, Questions, and Criticism welcome!