User:Lemmmy/Project ideas

Sometimes, you may find yourself thinking, "I want to create something cool in ComputerCraft, but I don't know what". Often, people fall back on trying to create something that's already been done/attempted thousands of times before, or something that is completely useless. These are typically OSes (especially NDFJay clones, CraftOS wrappers/edits, and "Unix-like" systems), browsers, package managers, and door locks.

Instead, I provide you my (opinionated) list of unique, useful ideas that you could try to make in ComputerCraft. Feel free to add to this list, though I may remove ideas that I disagree with. For discussion, see |the talk page.

Survival Helpers
These programs help out with player progression in Survival Minecraft.


 * Recipe-based autocrafting solver (similar to Milo, but not part of an OS)
 * Turtle/Neural interface pathfinder with block scanners
 * Intelligent crop/animal farm management software

Server Applications
These programs would be useful on a Multiplayer server, such as SwitchCraft.


 * Krist banking system

In-game Applications
These programs are to be used on a Computer in-game.


 * A decent modal text editor, similar to vim or emacs.
 * Better documentation viewer
 * Consider creating a program to easily search and display documentation from this wiki
 * A bash-like shell with process piping, variables, loops and subshells
 * Along with a good set of utilities to make program composition useful and turing-complete, similar to the GNU coreutils