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Something like this? which is better?
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I was thinking, to remove the spawner, instead if you break the half-brick slabs a buffed a zombie or skeleton pops out (60% zombie 40% skeleton) buffed as in being fully armored and geared.

Love the new look, either one looks really nice. That idea with the Zombies and Skeletons could be done easily too. The Monster Egg block (Silverfish Block) only uses 3 of it's 16 Data Values so you could use other ones to make Skeletons/Zombies/whatever appear.

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Full support for all ideas, another cool room could be the "Beast Pens" with Ocolets and Wolves, maybe even vary rarely the Red Dragon...

Well that doesn't really add up. After all, the ruins are deserted, for who knows how long. They would either take the mobs with them or they would have starved by then. And the Red Dragon should not be implemented as it would totally destroy the Stronghold and most of your world with it.

In all honesty, I think structures like this should not be fully randomly generated. Instead, they should be pseudo randomly generated like so:

1. There are 3-10 Stronghold Hallway patterns stored in the game. These are the most bare-bones versions of the Stonghold, and only have the Portal Room and hallways. At this point, the Stronghold has no rooms, only markers of where rooms can be. These would be at any room entrances that we see in the current Strongholds.

Using patterns like this costs a fraction of the randomness, but ensures you don't have any "stupid" generation, such as hallways leading to nothing but themselves and crap like that we have seen. And the Randomness will be restored later.

2. Next, the game looks at how many markers of potential rooms are in that Stronghold, and chooses to generate any of the potential rooms based on the Seed. Each room type would have X amounts of times it can generate, based on the type of room it is. For example, there could be a maximum of 3 Dormitories, but only 1 Armory per Stronghold. Similar to the Hallway pattern, each room has a marker to ensure they align properly.

This returns the randomness of the generation, but in a more logical way. It would be silly to see a Stronghold filled with nothing but Dining Halls. Where did the people sleep? Also, it adds balance. No stumbling into a Stronghold filled with 20 Armories.

3. Next, the game places a room by lining up it's marker with a marker in the Stronghold Hallway pattern. This ensures that everything is lined up properly, and prevents structures from overlapping. Once it chooses a room and generates it, it removes one instance of that room from the potential rooms. It also removes the marker from the Hallway pattern so it doesn't double generate.

4. The game repeats step 3 until there are no more markers in the Hallway pattern.

5. After all markers are complete, the game generates 3-4 layers of Stone/Dirt/Ore to overwrite any other generation that had happened (optional)

If people like this concept, I can make some pictures.

Alright, I made some quick and dirty mockups with Creative Mode and MCEdit, and it shows a basic implementation of what I was getting at. So I'll go over what I said before, but with images to go with it.

1. An example of a bare-bones hallway pattern. This one is just a tiny one I made, and only has space for 5 rooms. But Mojang could easily make them larger or take up several floors as they do now. This is just a simple design. You might notice the Redstone and Lapis Blocks, those are examples of the markers that help align the rooms to the structures, more on those later. And in place of the Silverfish spawner I used a Jukebox so I could have music while I worked. Also, you may note that I only used one Brick type, that was strictly for simplicity's sake.



2. Here is a close up of the Portal Room, just to show it off.



3. Finally, a close up of a set of markers. The Redstone Block is always right in the doorway oh the hallway pattern, and the Lapis Block is always one block inside the room. This assures everything always lines up correctly.



4. Now, here are some quick and dirty rooms I made. If you didn't see what I said before, each room could have a specific number of times it can generate per Stronghold, which would be based on the loot that can be found or the usefulness of the room. I will note how many times each one can appear:

5. So as you can see, each room had markers like the hallway, a blue one that is in the room and a red one that denotes where the hall is. With this system or a similar one, it assures that the rooms are rotated properly and aligned every time, unless the actual room or hallway file stored in the code was built incorrectly. Here is a GIF of showing how a room lines up:


6. So as you saw from the first image, there were 5 places where rooms could be generated, but a total of 6 possible rooms (1 each of the Throne Room and Enchanting Room, and 2 possible Forges and Sleeping Quarters each). This is where the random generation comes in, so let's see how they happened to generate this time:
So that is how it happened to generate that time, but a different seed could have generated differently.

7. An image of the finished Stronghold