Ok, another game mode idea for this great game. A team of players spawn at morning on some location with a life block. During their first day they build their fortress as fast as they can around this life block. Then when night comes, some light waves of creepers, spiders, skeletons, etc start assaulting your position with creepers acting as moving demolition charges that open gaps for the rest of the mobs to pour in. Some players dedicate on shooting arrows, others go berserk with swords and armor and charge, other repair the fort and set traps, whatever you can do.
After the battle, damage is repaired, loot is collected and further weapons are developed. Perhaps now with powder and some sand, engineers can build some cannons for the fort. Each day the waves get tougher, faster and bigger. So this is a constant but eventually doomed defense. Losing is fun! Who will survive for longer?
Stories of three man strong parties that held for weeks will form the legends in the Minecraft books. What do you think?
Note: We would definitely need flying exploding mobs too, to avoid the issue of flying castles or huge moats. Or some mob capable of building slime, bone or whatever bridges.
Edit: TNT-spitting flying dragons? AAA Arrow launchers? Booby Traps? I'm getting a boner just thinking of the possibilites...
Sounds like the beginnings of a great idea. I think the most exciting thing about Minecraft for me is to just see where the community takes it.
Definitely! I wasn't going to buy Minecraft, but the community is so active and the developer seems really focused on the neat coding/storytelling opportunities it offers. This could turn out really neat.
Scourge? in Minecraft?
Shit.
This is a brilliant idea. Team tower defense, with the buildability of Minecraft! Sure, it'll take some code changes to make it possible, but it would definitely be worth it!
He mentioned he would add invasion mode and I think not being rooted to one location would be more fun anyways. Like if a horde of zombies and creepers plowed your fort down you'd have to head for the hills and quickly rebuild during the day.
I really Like this idea. I thought that was one thing missing form the game already was enemy sieges. Maybe like in dwaf fort where once you get big enough / rich enough the bad guys come storming the gates and it's up to you to defend your property.
Is this what a DF attack looks like?
Yeah that's the ticket, watch out for the hydra. . . . Erm, I always used a graphics pack for DF, made it much easier to understand and then I could spend more time learning the key combos to play.
I don't see this working very well.... Dig a 2 block wide pit around your fort, have it deep enough to kill anything that walks into it.....
Zombies.... Zombies carrying blocks of dirt... Zombies carrying ladders! OMG! We're all going to die!
Pole Vaulting Zombies? Coming for my sunflowers?!
That's the spirit! We need to figure out how to make things more dangerous/fun.
What about flying dragons that spit explosive blocks? Anyone?
Flying creepers? And how about we allow zombies to climb each other.
now that's an idea... and spiders that climb walls...
Fuck everything about that.
and skeletons shooting flaming arrows that explode
And leave behind ropes for other mobs to climb?
Oh god no...nonononono
ITS PURE GENIUS
I've been thinking/hoping that one of the updates introduces a MYRIAD of new monsters. I'm talking like dozens of new monsters. Some land specific (scorpions on sand, perhaps), and some flying ones. More baddies would be nice.
And then some more armor/weapon choices would be cool, too.
And their commander is herobrine!! Bwahahahhahahaaha!
You'd only have a day before the first wave, maybe half a day would be best. Then you make it so when mobs die they replace where they were with a block, or explode. Make the mobs who explode able to jump high and those that drop blocks normal. Enough randomness and mobs or smart coding about how the mobs die should be enough to make it really fucking hard.
What if the ground isn't dirt... but BEDROCK.
Then where do you dig up supplies to construct your fort and weapons?
Set a floor so that isnt possible.
I think this is inevitable. But much more fun if flying blocks were not allowed. Just have the game delete anything not anchored down at the start of the wave ;)
But what if your fortress becomes separated from the map because of continuous explosions that carve the ground below you? It would delete your whole fort, game over.
Easy: put the life block on a level five blocks above sea level.
That's why I said once at the start of the wave ;) Or it could fall down, it could crush some mobs then.
Easy: Don't allow this to happen.
Yes, but I don't mind the flying castles or huge moats, as a matter of fact I would be even cooler. That's why I tossed the idea of flying tnt-spitting dragons or bridge building mobs. Other suggested climbing mobs.
Oh, I agree. If the zombies could carry ladders/blocks/bridges, and spiders could jump ridiculously high, creepers explode your defenses, and skeletons could snipe you, that'd be an awesome game.
I've seen video of some hacks for gravity in multiplayer creative mode. So it's possible that a castle with no base could be made to fall in on itself.
The separated entity (in this case the fort) should "fall" as a unit until it touches ground. It shouldn't crumble apart. Anyway, that an option. Eventually the fort would be sitting at the bottom of a huge crater.
This idea would be very easy to implement, if the monsters were actual players.
A lot like L4D, really.
Too hard with players, you'd be in in minutes
How do you figure, n'wah?
If would be fucking amazing if we could craft catapults. Imagine luring a creeper into a catapult and launching their creepy ass to the other side of the world.
Imagine a cannon built out of iron, mounted onto a stand and with the ammo and gunpowder put inside it you select where you want to aim and fire.
That would be awesome
If the blocks had permanent durability (ie. a monster could whack away some of the health) this would be amazing. With a better AI and some more mobs this could easily be the best game ever.
We'll need more diversity in monsters for this. Like flying dragons.
Minecraft has so many fantastic possibilities.
Dwarf Fortress mod? Multiplayer Dwarf Fortress mod where you play the dwarfs, but with DF game rules? Netstorm mod, with floating islands? Dungeon crawler mode? Roguelike? Tower Defence type games?
This would work great as long as your life block was in the middle of a giant field of obsidian.
You'd need to set it so you could only place blocks during the day. That'd be moddable.
That would be cool but I'd probably just try and farm some obsidian and make an explosion proof wall. Game over.
This is such a great idea, this would be like a game mode where the emphasis is really on the survival.
Make the lifeblock movable. Make it unmoveable at dawn (auto drop in place for the night). Add digging mobs, flyers and prepare for an awesome multiplayer experience.