aaand I'm back with some good'ol rambling. a thing which I always hate about vanilla minecraft are the beds. I'm always having a bad time finding a good way of putting them in my base.
personally I'd love it if you'd be able to just put them bed up vertically against the wall, but that would look a bit weird.
thinking about that and with the mods I use I started thinking of perhaps some sort of capsule instead in which you could walk into and it'd act like a bed. the capsule that Sync is pretty much what I was thinking about as how the capsule would look. but because I started thinking about Sync I wondered... why not take it a step further? why not have a capsule that you could walk into to sleep, but how about also have it act as a way of safely going AFK in your world? if you're inside the capsule, you wouldn't be affected by the outside world nor would the outside world try to interact with you (meaning no mobs can see you nor can other players attack you or blow your capsule up), you wouldn't take damage or get hungry and any effect (such as the warp effects from Thaumcraft) wouldn't get triggered. now ofcourse this shouldn't come cheap, you'd need to actually supply the capsule with power to have it function, so if you'd use this capsule to go AFK you'd need to make sure you'd have an automated energy production going.
but what if the capsule could do even more? how about having the capsule also recharge your armor and tools with power while you're inside the capsule, or also have it regenerate your health at a faster rate or nullify any potion effects you're under while you walk in? ofcourse all of this will affect the power usage, the more work the capsule needs to do, the more power it'll use.
but I started thinking some more, it'd be a nice way of safely going AFK, but often I want to quickly look at something to see how it's going and go back to being AFK, but what if I could monitor things while I'm inside the capsule? perhaps there could be a way to add compatibility to the capsule with other mods so you can upgrade your capsule so it'll do more things. there could be a computercraft module in which you can access computers that are nearby and edit their programs. there could be an applied energistics module where you're able to keep an eye on the content of your AE2 network or you'd be able to craft items inside the capsule. or perhaps an Ender IO/Thermal Expansion module so you can keep check on how much power you've stored or how much power you're using, or perhaps even a Big Reactors module so you can see how much power you're generating and perhaps also allow you to control the reactors all within the capsule. more modules would mean a higher energy usage ofcourse, and the modules would actually be blocks that you'd need to attach to the capsule in some way, so the capsule will become a multiblock if you wish to add all these modules.
I was thinking that there could perhaps even be some sort of armor stand function with the capsule, similar to how Tony Stark displays his Iron Man suits. you could add more capsule to the capsule network and add armor to each of these capsules. you can see what armors they're from outside the capsule, and simply walking into a capsule would change the armor you're wearing. each capsule would be able to charge the armors inside it and perhaps you could even change armors while you're inside the main capsule. you'd be able to control everything from within the main capsule through a GUI created through augmented reality. each module would hover around in a window in your field of vision and you can move them around as you wish. you can interact with all these modules through the windows and minimize or maximize them as you wish.
though there's 2 big downsides to a mod like this, the first would be to actually add compatibility for all these mods into this mod, which isn't a very easy thing to do.
the other problem is the gameplay experience. with a mod like this you'd basically be playing most of the game inside this capsule that you almost never have to leave, which doesn't really make the game exciting