Bureaucracy

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Overview
Bureaucracy is a new content mod bringing the slow-paced, soul crushing world of modern business life to Minecraft. This mod provides new recipes for office furniture, tools and armor so players may recreate the drudgery and sameness of office life in their Minecraft worlds.

Because this is bureaucracy and modern business life, real gameplay goals should either be nonexistent or unattainable or vague to the point of both. This mod should not provide any end game type equipment or items, nor should it do anything more or less than waste time and resources.

Blocks

 * Cube Walls - Cube walls are partition blocks which should naturally stack and attach. They should attach to each other with the same behavior as glass panes or iron bars. Cube walls should initially be available only in gray.
 * Suggested Recipe: six wool arranged across the bottom two rows = 16 cube walls.


 * Pile of Paper - Decorative block only. Made using nine sheets of paper in the grid. Just looks like a stack of paper. Can be decomposed back into 9 sheets of paper.


 * Desk - Desks blocks are decorative blocks. Two desks next to each other should combine into a double-wide desk and use different textures. The combination behavior should be the same used by chests so more than two desks should not be placeable adjacent to each other or on top of each other. Desks should have a top texture depicting a writing pad and other boring office equipment. The front texture for a single desk should resemble a cut-out for office-steve's legs. The front texture of a double-desk should have a texture depicting a set of drawers and a cut out. The back, underside and side textures can all be generic wood plank textures.
 * Suggested Recipe: Crafting table with paper on top?


 * Filing Cabinet - Filing cabinets can only be used to store paper. They can be placed next to each other and stacked. Filing cabinets have a front texture resembling a filing cabinet drawer and a smooth beige texture for the other sides. Clicking on a file cabinet opens up the filing cabinet UI, which is a single long row of item slots, each of which can hold a stack of paper.
 * Suggested Recipe: Five iron ingots in an L shape and a piece of paper in the center.


 * Office Wheelie Chair - Office Wheelie Chairs are for steve to sit on while working. Office Wheelie Chairs have four horizontal legs radiating from a central post. On top of the post is a chair. It may have arms if the model is not already too complicated. Office Wheelie Chairs can be picked by breaking them like minecarts. They can be placed on any surface and can be pushed around like minecarts off rails or boats out of water. Steve should be able to sit in an Office Wheelie chair by right clicking on it. A player sitting in a wheelie chair can move normally but cannot jump or move up stairs. Whenever Steve sits down in a wheelie chair it should move away from its initial location along a vector described by it and steve's position when the player clicks. When a wheelie chair moves with a player in it it will randomly choose to slowly rotate right or left. Steve can perform a "Wheelie Chair Charge" by holding and releasing a key (TBD). This will cause Steve to move (initially) backwards quickly for several blocks (TBD). Office Wheelie Chairs are all black.
 * Suggested Recipe: sticks in the bottom two corners; iron in the bottom center; wool in the center block and one of the two top corners.


 * Water Cooler - The water cooler fills paper cups with water. It can be loaded up with 9x64 paper cups. Right clicking on it or feeding it a redstone current will cause it to dispense a paper cup with water. Right clicking on the water cooler with an empty paper cup will fill it. The water cooler never runs out of water. Craft by placing in a vertical stack: stone, a bucket of water, a glass block.


 * Coffee Maker - The coffee maker fills paper cups with coffee. It functions identically to the Water cooler but has an additional slot for dirt (this coffee is shit). One block of dirt is good for 16 cups of coffee. Craft by placing in a vertical stack: a furnace, a bucket of water, a glass block.


 * Wall Clock - works just like a regular minecraft clock except it can be placed on a wall and it emits a loud ticking noise to remind your Businessificates of the ever-dwindling time remaining in their lives. May increase the likelihood of spontaneous suicide for nearby Businessificates.


 * Overhead Fluorescent Lighting - Light-emitting half or quarter slabs which can only be placed on the ceiling. Use the new colored lighting engine to output light with an uncomfortably white/blue tint. Light produced is 15 and they cannot be turned off. This would be best implemented if we include custom sounds so we can have them give off a faint-yet-unbearable high-pitched whine around 19kHz.


 * Fax machines - What office would be complete without these archaic devices. Fax machines can be used to send paper and reports to other fax machines. Right clicking on a Fax machine will bring up the fax machine interface which will of course be confusing and misleading. You will see a list of other fax machines near by. Place the paper in the input slot and hit the Send Fax button and it will either return an unintelligible error message or move the paper to the output slot and claim success. Successful transfers only actually successfully transfer a fax 60% of the time.


 * Paper Shredder - This machine accepts paper or reports and grinds them into paper scrap. Paper scrap can be crafted into paper. Businessificates will frequently take advantage of this to shred their paper and reports to generate new paper for crafting into reports.


 * Copy Machine - Copy machines copy reports. They need to be periodically refilled with stacks of paper and ink. Businessificates will use them to duplicate their reports and then hand the duplicates to their office mates. Sometimes they will sit on a copier and photocopy their ass. These will also be distributed.

Items

 * Wheelie Chair Item - Placeable wheelie chair; cannot be stacked.


 * Reports - Because bureaucracy is all about reports. These act like paper: they can be bound into books and filed in filing cabinets. If we implement faxing they should be able to be faxed. Perhaps reports can only be generated by Businssificates? If you provide paper for them in the form of stacks of paper or paper in filing cabinets they will magically transmute it into reports.


 * Stapler - no function.


 * Red Stapler - secret easter-egg (for fun)


 * Paper Cups - used for coffee or water 'food'. Recipe: three sheets of paper in a bucket formation yields a stack of 64.


 * Used Paper Cups - automatically created when coffee or water is consumed. Cannot be reused. Can be burned in furnaces with the same fuel stats as sticks. Used paper cups are automatically dropped on the ground after water or coffee is used.


 * Paper Cup with water - food item. Cannot be stacked. Restores 1 food point and zero saturation.


 * Paper Cup with coffee - food item. Cannot be stacked. Restores 1 food point but causes exhaustion to increase by 0.5. zero food saturation.


 * Pink slip - crafted with paper and pink dye. If given to a Businessificate they will path west away from their current location and will despawn when out of visual range. 1% of Businessificates will leave and then come back 5 minutes later with a gun, executing everyone they encounter.

Armor
Craftable Bureaucrat clothing. At a minimum we should provide slacks (in beige, gray and black) and shirts (all white with beige, blue or black ties). These should probably not provide any armor bonus but may convey other special abilities. For instance, perhaps wearing business clothes will allow the player to also craft paper into reports. Wearing business clothes may also make the player a target for a rampaging fired businessificate. Should Businessificates disregard Pink Slips if the player is not wearing business clothes?

Mobs

 * BUSINESSIFICATE - New Passive mob similar to a TESTIFICATE villager but with greatly improved AI. Businessificates have a similar chance of spawning as villagers but they spawn in response to local desk blocks.

Possible Behaviors

 * 'socializing' with each other - B's will wander around cubes and stand around and look at each other.


 * hanging out by the water cooler/coffee maker. B's will seek out a coffee maker or water cooler if one is near by and spend several minutes getting and drinking a beverage. They discard the used cups on the floor and then return to work.


 * Moving paper around - this should be the default behavior for B's. They should constantly be picking paper out of the filing cabinets and putting it in other filing cabinets. Sometimes they should trade paper with other B's.


 * Bothering the player - B's should also attempt to 'socialize' with the player. They will chat generic business jargon at the player "Let's Get on the Same Page" or "What are our Action Items?" or "I'm spit-balling here... ". If they have a report or piece of paper there should be a good chance it is dropped for the player to pick up during 'socializing'


 * Wheelie Chairing - B's should sit in wheelie chairs and propel themselves around in them.


 * You're Fired! Giving a businessificate a pink slip will cause them to continuously path west away from their present location.


 * Postal - Very rarely, a pink-slipped businessificate will go on a killing rampage and murder other businessificates.

Basic Furniture
Implement basic, essential office furniture with limited functionality:
 * Desks
 * Cube Walls
 * Filing Cabinets
 * Pile of Paper

Wheelie Chairs
Add the Wheelie Chair item & block

Coffee Makers & Water Coolers
Add:
 * Coffee Makers
 * Water Coolers
 * Paper Cups
 * Cup of Coffee (food item)
 * Cup of Water (food item)
 * Used Paper Cup

Office Decorations
Additional details/items/blocks to make the office more officey:
 * Useless Stapler items
 * Reports
 * Motivational Posters
 * Office Plant
 * Overhead Lighting
 * Ticking Clock
 * Cube walls craftable in 4 depressing colors: grey, washed out green, beige and washed out blue