Minecraft fans ask Mojang for black bamboo, slab seams and split gamerule

This week's wishlist on Reddit r/minecraftsuggestions runs from small building tweaks to a full End structure with its own mobs. The ideas include a seam for double polished slabs, leaded glass panes, black bamboo, unbreakable Sift tools and a mob_griefing gamerule split into categories. These are fan suggestions, not leaks or datamines, and none of them is a promise from Mojang.

All six posts come from the community subreddit and were written by individual players. One user, Balkenbrij_, posted three of them (the slab seam, leaded glass and black bamboo), while GreenMarks, I_like_croissants_ and another poster covered the Sift tool idea, the gamerule rework and the End citadel. The material I was given contains no Mojang reply to any of them.

Put plainly: nothing in this round-up is confirmed by Mojang. It is a snapshot of what players are asking for, and it is worth reading as that.

Building ideas: seams, glass and bamboo

The slab post asks Mojang to give double polished slabs a visible line down the middle, so they read as two stacked slabs. The poster points to smooth stone and what they call the new polished calcite slabs as examples, and argues it would add building options without adding any new blocks. I could not check the calcite claim from the sources, so treat that detail as the poster's own.

The leaded glass post comes with a concept image of a glass pane framed by dark lead, with colours borrowed from the iron chain texture. Two recipes are floated: one glass pane surrounded by four iron nuggets, or the same layout with an iron ingot in each corner. The author is openly undecided and asks which one readers prefer. The aim is medieval houses, castles and churches.

The black bamboo post wants a second bamboo species that grows in small jungle patches, separate from regular bamboo. It would come with its own bamboo blocks, planks, stairs and slabs. The author made two concept images, one of a stalk and one of a block, and based the look on the real plant Phyllostachys nigra.

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  Glass PaneBase item in the leaded glass concept
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  Iron NuggetProposed frame material in both recipes
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  Bamboo BlockExisting block a black variant would copy
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  ShearsNamed as a low-durability item in the Sift tool post
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  BrushAlso named as an item that wears out fast

Tools and rules: Sift gear and a gamerule rework

The Sift tool post starts from a premise I cannot verify: that a Sift dimension is coming and players are speculating about its gear. The author says many people are talking about it, but the material I had contains no Mojang statement on any such dimension. Treat the premise as community talk, not fact.

The idea itself is a side-grade to netherite. Sift tools would never break and would have the same stats as diamond, so netherite stays the best tier, especially for gear that benefits from experience such as weapons, armour and Fortune tools. The poster also wants unbreakable versions of shears, flint and steel and the brush, and notes a niche use in PvP for breaking armour. They end by asking if it is too strong, too weak or just dull.

The mob_griefing post is the most technical. It proposes splitting the gamerule into hostile, neutral, passive and custom modes, with a custom mode that lets players switch categories, whole mobs or one ability of one mob on and off. For example, turning off the vegetation category would stop villagers farming, rabbits eating carrots, sheep eating grass and bees pollinating crops.

• Explosion: creeper, ghast, wither skull
• Block breaking: ender dragon, ravager, turtle eggs, brittle ice, and doors on hard difficulty
• Pick up and place blocks: enderman, iron golem
• Pick up items: zombie, piglin, villager, allay, fox, copper golem
• Vegetation: villager, rabbit, sheep, bee
• Other: silverfish infestation, snow golem snow, ghast and blaze ignition

The big pitch: the Voided Citadel

The longest post describes a very rare End structure: four small towers around one large one. A new item at the top would create a barrier that disables block placing for anyone inside, and the author adds an effect that grounds elytra flight. The structure would use a new void stone block, with a texture borrowed from a mod, and the poster admits ender pearls could still skip parts of it.

Three new hostile mobs are proposed. The Blastling is a flying, tanky enemy that strafes away from most attacks but becomes vulnerable while charging an End Beam, and may drop an energy ball for bows and crossbows that works like a weaker, hitscan arrow. Vector blocks move in straight lines like Snake blocks in Super Mario games and change direction at a Vector changer. The End Nomad looks like a vector block while dormant and drops them when killed.

At the top sits an End Spark block. Touching it would start a lockdown, with waves of End mobs climbing the tower, including the poster's earlier creation, the Octomaul. The source text cuts off mid-description, so I cannot say how the poster ends the idea or what the reward would be.

What players are saying

The material I was given has no YouTube takes and no visible comment threads, so I cannot report the reaction. What I can say is that every author ends by asking for feedback: the Sift post asks whether it is too strong or boring, the glass post asks which recipe to use, and the citadel author says they posted early to gather ideas. The mood is collaborative, and the ideas are clearly unfinished.

1. Week of 7 November

   Six suggestion posts appear on r/minecraftsuggestions covering blocks, tools, a gamerule and an End structure.

2. Same week

   The Sift post refers to a Sift dimension as upcoming; the sources show no Mojang statement backing that.

3. So far

   No Mojang reply to any of the six ideas appears in the sources.

What to watch next

No release date or event is tied to these ideas in the sources. The practical thing to do is read Mojang's next snapshot or preview patch notes when they arrive, and see if any of these themes appear, such as slab shapes, gamerule changes or a new dimension. If a test build ever does include one, we will say so here. When you do try a test build, back up your worlds first, because test builds can crash.