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Section 1
Why was/is this idea on here in the first place?

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The best place for us to begin is not at the origins of Minecraft itself, like some sources may try to get out of the way. Instead, we're going
to start by going all the way back to November of 1998, just two years before the new millennia had begun.

During that month of 1998, Lego Creator had been released. The 1990's were rife with video game content that were breaking all sorts of new ground, and a select few, like in this case Lego Creator, were outstanding even for their time, well ahead of their time in the 90's. We'll first focus on Lego Creator here, since obviously it's the main, primary subject of this brand new, exciting video game concept.

One of the most, if not the most, impressive features of Lego Creator were the fact that it had actually possessed a real, full, realistic physics system, which was unusual in the 90's even then but was exceptional for Lego during that time. Not only could bricks fall and bounce around like per usual in physics games, they also possessed advanced algorithms that allowed them to know how fast or where to bounce depending on its rotational speed or rotational position when it had hit the ground, and even take trickier shapes such as smooth hills and rather awkward brick setups into account, for example.

Another strong selling point of Lego Creator, but certainly no less important to its success than the advanced realistic physics, was the fact that it had dispensed with an absolute hard-wired fixed grid where blocks or bricks could literally only snap to absolute co-ordinates on the grid itself in the world. Instead, like in Unity, it relied on dynamic grids, which could adjust and pivot depending on the location of one single brick, for example. In other words, it was only required to snap if it were directly on top of another brick that was on the same relative plane as the original one, but the brick could otherwise move around completely freely around the game world.

In that same sense, bricks could also be freely moved or rotated to any desirable position the user wishes. This actually allowed for true non-right-angled designs, and even made putting bricks on axles possible, allowing them to freely rotate around the brick it was attached to or otherwise. A lot of other possibilities had been realized as a result of this complete positional freedom in Creator, such as sliding doors, giant gates, and even contraptions such as helicopters and robotic arms.

Finally, other helpful extra features that have given ridiculous amounts of room for creativity, especially when compared to later builder games like Minecraft, were true day/night cycles, properly working colored light and transparent surfaces, and lots of other options such as setting up paths or attaching vehicles to roads in order to have them follow a set route, or just drive around casually all on their own, or even a select few basic contraptions or even logic gates (AND, OR, XOR, etc.). (Actually, that last bit I'm honestly not completely sure about. If I've gotten anything wrong here, then please let me know right away. Thanks. ^_^)

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Okay. We've talked about the history of builder games and Minecraft itself. What does this even have to do with why this project exists in the first place now?

Okay, fine. We've rambled long enough.
Minecraft - Order Of The Stone, or Project Minecraft 2.0, exists to advance the field of gaming and specifically builder games, not only where the original Mojang Minecraft itself had already paved, and add 100% more to it, but to implement a full-on perfection upgrade to the original formula that Lego Creator had paved, essentially turning it into an outstanding full Legos-on-the-internet where practically everything you could have and work with with real-life Legos, from basic building and building quirks to moving parts and complete contraptions, is available.

In other words, not only is the only limit is truly your imagination in form, the only limit is ALSO truly your imagination in function. All because MC-OOTS actually bothered to contribute and innovate to the builder game platform - and double that. And this just goes to show what a difference just doubling something, instead of tripling or quadrupling, can do not only for gaming, but for our world.

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This one should hopefully be obvious to you as opposed to original Minecraft. But I'll explain anyway just to make the gist of it clear to y'all:

Instead of an absolute hard-fixed grid in original MC where you could literally only place blocks on the integer planes specified by the game world itself - no off-gird placement, rotation, or anything there - MC-OOTS will focus on relative dynamic grids with an actual snapping system that only fix blocks to spaces determined by the soft-implemented grid itself, just like LEGO CREATOR and Sim Theme Park.

In other words, there's no such thing as a hard-wired absolute fixed grid in the world where blocks can only affix strictly to those co-ordinates. Only dynamic grids are present in the game, which not only allow you to place blocks on any kind of plane you want, but they obviously also allow for complete freedom of block placement, allowing you to literally place them on any whole or decimal co-ordinate on- or off-grid, and rotate them in certain ways. If you've used Unity and of course LEGO CREATOR before, you'll probably get what I'm talking about here right now.

I'm also possibly considering even actual scaling of blocks, to allow for much more massive, or tiny, bite-sized creations.