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14 (93.3%)

No!

1 (6.7%)

Total Members Voted: 14

Voting closed: December 25, 2012, 01:15:00 pm

[Girlinhat]

Defining what you want is the best way to gather people to do it.  Without a plan there is no start.

So what do you (we?) want?  Cave worlds, crafting recipes that use underground wood-types, hefty sieges?  Are the worlds cavern worlds like the Nether, or are they normal worlds that are very deep and have open cave systems?

[Djohaal]

I vote on normal worlds with deeper caverns and less overworld (push the sealevel to 128, or 196 if you are really mad about it).

Caverns could use a different algorithm, maybe something flattened in the Y (up) axis so we'd get the expansive but relatively flat caverns from DF. They'd have large splotches of muddy soil where fungus would grow (I think mycelium from vanilla MC would do the job. Does it grow underground?). Shrooms would have to grow spontaneously to their gigantic proportions and when you chop them you'd get mushroom wood to craft stuff. Stone doors instead of wooden, which would be breachable by sieges. Sieges would be reskinned (or not, if we want to keep zombies and skeletons) mobs that would appear in large numbers and try to breach any door they see. There was a mod that added sound awareness and pathfinding to the mobs, it was damn scary.
That'd be a good step 1 for the mod.
Step 2 would involve underground farming and crafting, more decor to the fortress and such. Also maybe needs such as booze and feeding and insanity. More metal types would be a must, and why not a more complex forging system with alloys, anvils and  the such? Items could have quality modfiers which would affect durability, protectiveness and damage/efficiency.
Step 3 could involve machinery such as axles, windmills, millstones and of course pumps to make drowning traps/obsidian casting/whatever.
Step 4 would involve mostly pig tail socks.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Get some programmers, then make a design document

Working on step 1. Know any?

Ask me again in about a month when my skills extend beyond "Omg guise! I made a block that poops diamonds!"

[Ultimuh]

What about mods?
Omnir's mods would be great for multiplayer.

edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood the current conversation.

[Djohaal]

Get some programmers, then make a design document

Working on step 1. Know any?

Ask me again in about a month when my skills extend beyond "Omg guise! I made a block that poops diamonds!"

Got much farther than I did. I commend ye. 

[forsaken1111]

As far as I can determine, the mod would be 3 parts.

1. World Gen

Dwarfcraft worlds would be expanded to give more 'underground' and less 'surface' but we don't want to remove the surface altogether. Surface should probably consist of the normal mix of biomes and possibly some custom 'mountain' biomes and if we really want to get crazy, some good/evil biomes.

'Surface' world should extend 64 blocks from sea level to world ceiling, with everything else being underground. Below ground there should be 3 cavern layers and then a magma sea which rests on top of bedrock.


2. Crafting

All crafting recipes would have to be adjusted (or new items made) so that you can get along just fine without anything from the surface. We'd need some kind of cavern grass to get seeds, edible/plantable fungus, fungus which can act as wood for crafting, etc. Magma forges would be a plus.


3. Dwarf!

Make the player more like a dwarf. Add a morale(thirst) bar which requires regular entertainment (booze), add other things. Work in progress.


Obviously this would take some more planning but I'll work at it a bit.

[Ultimuh]

So.. you guys planning something with Minecraft or Terraria?

[Girlinhat]

Man you're having trouble staying on topic...  This is a Minecraft "mod we want to see happen".

[forsaken1111]

As far as I can determine, the mod would be 3 parts.

1. World Gen

Dwarfcraft worlds would be expanded to give more 'underground' and less 'surface' but we don't want to remove the surface altogether. Surface should probably consist of the normal mix of biomes and possibly some custom 'mountain' biomes and if we really want to get crazy, some good/evil biomes.

'Surface' world should extend 64 blocks from sea level to world ceiling, with everything else being underground. Below ground there should be 3 cavern layers and then a magma sea which rests on top of bedrock.

*COUGHCOUGHHFSSPLUTTER*

Hm?

[Girlinhat]

Doesn't work so well when you try to use acronyms in a terrible coughing spurt.

We need Hell.

[Djohaal]

For hell, what about adamantine veins including horizontal (4x4 with a hole in the middle pits) portals that warp you to the nether, which would have mobs that eat your face...

[Ultimuh]

Man you're having trouble staying on topic...  This is a Minecraft "mod we want to see happen".

Yes, sometimes topics do tend to go over my head.

[Matz05]

There was a mod that added sound awareness and pathfinding to the mobs, it was damn scary.

...are you aware how epic that kind of thing can get? How quickly Minecraft can go from sandbox to survival horror?
Let's face it. The default overworld mobs are weak only because they are stupid and oblivious. If the mobs had decent AI, one would need every trick in Technic pack to stay alive. I want to see that mod!

[Djohaal]

There was a mod that added sound awareness and pathfinding to the mobs, it was damn scary.

...are you aware how epic that kind of thing can get? How quickly Minecraft can go from sandbox to survival horror?
Let's face it. The default overworld mobs are weak only because they are stupid and oblivious. If the mobs had decent AI, one would need every trick in Technic pack to stay alive. I want to see that mod!

Search for corosus's pathfinding mobs mod

[Girlinhat]

Technically, one would only need 3-high walls and a door to stay alive.  Unless you went for some modded creatures, like giving zombies the ability to (slowly) bash through wood and cobble tiles, or allowing creepers to get "as close as they can" and when they get stuck, to explode.  If further mods were made, like making it more difficult to obtain smoothstone and metal, and spawning zombies by the dozen, then you get into proper defensive horror.