The Cactus Crawler is a monster I thought of seeing how cacti crumbles when you attack it.
Cactus Crawlers are a small 1x1 sized monsters, they'd spawn only in desert biomes in small groups of cactus plants with actual cactus plants spread out between them, before being attacked, the cactus crawlers would look like any other cacti, 3 blocks tall and useless, but after being attacked their true selves show and by doing that they also cause any cactus crawler plants nearby to break into more cactus crawlers, creating a possibly huge mob of 1x1 blocks.
Suggestion by ThePengu: when a mob of cacti crawlers goes below 3 members, they would go into some sort of panic mode, where they try to run and hide so they can grow thus creating another chain of mobs :3
Size: 1x1, with 1 leg on each side and 2 big white eyes in the front.
Rarity: Common, spawning wherever there's cactus in any desert biome.
Health: Because of how uncontrollable these things can become, it would only take 1 hit with a wooden sword to kill them.
Damage: Normal mode: .5 hearts, no special attacks
Panic Mode: Right after the going into panic mode, the cacti would shoot their needles into the player, knocking him back and maybe, if ever implemented, stunning him for a few seconds.
The trick cactus idea has the potential to be cool, but I'm not so sure. I really don't want to start harvesting already dangerous cacti and have one attack me.
I'd prefer a larger mob, with six large blocky feet and two body segments, cactus textured with some small flowers. It lurks around cacti, moves slowly, has moderate health, does moderate damage. Hitting it with anything directly will damage you moderately. Arrows, TNT or other traps are the only methods of killing it completely safely. Cacti don't damage it.
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I like this idea. Though you know something up when you see a forest of Cacti
If they only take one hit to kill then there would have to be a lot of them to be any potential hazard and not a annoyance.
Since cacti only tend to be in small groups. It would end up being a quirky asthetic. So perhaps they should panic and try to run away, hide and grow? If they run into you in panic it would still hurt.
You could aways have them grow into larger more dangerous crawlers if left for a long time or with a constant supply of water. Maybe a 2x2 crawler that will defend it little ones.
Woah :ohmy.gif:
While it wouldn't add to much to anything, I'd love to see cactus-mimics run away when I hit them thinking i'm harvesting cacti. It would just look really cool, and I think they would be fun to have.
@Qwill and ThePengu: When I suggested this, I was thinking of it being more of a "wtf just happened"-type of creature :tongue.gif:, not something you'd have to stock up on arrows and ham to fight, although it'd be pretty awesome if these were accompined by one large cactus-boss thing, heh.
@ThePengu: Well, since they only spawn in desert biomes I'm assuming cactus forests would be the norm :tongue.gif:, although, I do like the idea of them running away and growing into larger, more powerful cacti crawlers, perhaps if their number goes bellow 3, they'd go into panic mode and run away?
@weq150: Mind telling us why you don't like it? :ohmy.gif:
I just had an extra idea.
These things have needles right?. They could do a one time attack that fires them out. giving them enough time to run off and eventually regrow them.
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O-O oh god, that sounds really awesome, I can just imagine them going into panic mode, exploding and thus knocking you back a few blocks and then running away D:, I'mma add it to the OP.
I like it. this game is going to need biome based enemies for when notch releases them right, so it would be good to get some out of the way as soon as possible.
maybee for all the cactus blocks whould be turned into 1x1 crawling cactus things shooting weak spikes at you dmging 0.1 (if posible) and dmging if you just touch them once (when the crawler has shooted 10 spikes its wont hurt you anymore and are easy to kill) the reward whould be a normal catcus block. these whould be a annoyance but still harmless. when hit you whil be pushed back hard making it hard to deafet them whitout a bow.
they whould only be crawlers if its at a big sandy and sunny area, if its just some few cactus they whould be rare.
they whould be able to dig them selvf down to grow more if you leave. no matter what they can hurt you 0.1 just by bumbing into you whit some spikes back its whould dmg the normal 0.5
think on all these things into a basic enemy
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Eh, I don't really like the idea of ALL cacti turning into monsters, I think it'd be better if these were a desert only creature, so if you wanna harvest cacti safely, you can go the safe but time consuming route of hunting them on beaches.
I prefer it if these weren't TOTALLY harmless, 0.1 of a heart is really little, and these things die in 1 hit, so they won't be too strong.
Most of the things you've mentioned are already in the OP, though, and I'm not really sure what the hell that last paragraph is supposed to be...?
Cactus Crawlers are a small 1x1 sized monsters, they'd spawn only in desert biomes in small groups of cactus plants with actual cactus plants spread out between them, before being attacked, the cactus crawlers would look like any other cacti, 3 blocks tall and useless, but after being attacked their true selves show and by doing that they also cause any cactus crawler plants nearby to break into more cactus crawlers, creating a possibly huge mob of 1x1 blocks.
Suggestion by ThePengu: when a mob of cacti crawlers goes below 3 members, they would go into some sort of panic mode, where they try to run and hide so they can grow thus creating another chain of mobs :3
Size: 1x1, with 1 leg on each side and 2 big white eyes in the front.
Rarity: Common, spawning wherever there's cactus in any desert biome.
Health: Because of how uncontrollable these things can become, it would only take 1 hit with a wooden sword to kill them.
Damage: Normal mode: .5 hearts, no special attacks
Panic Mode: Right after the going into panic mode, the cacti would shoot their needles into the player, knocking him back and maybe, if ever implemented, stunning him for a few seconds.
Reward: 1 cactus block each.
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I'd prefer a larger mob, with six large blocky feet and two body segments, cactus textured with some small flowers. It lurks around cacti, moves slowly, has moderate health, does moderate damage. Hitting it with anything directly will damage you moderately. Arrows, TNT or other traps are the only methods of killing it completely safely. Cacti don't damage it.
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Woah :ohmy.gif:
While it wouldn't add to much to anything, I'd love to see cactus-mimics run away when I hit them thinking i'm harvesting cacti. It would just look really cool, and I think they would be fun to have.
@ThePengu: Well, since they only spawn in desert biomes I'm assuming cactus forests would be the norm :tongue.gif:, although, I do like the idea of them running away and growing into larger, more powerful cacti crawlers, perhaps if their number goes bellow 3, they'd go into panic mode and run away?
@weq150: Mind telling us why you don't like it? :ohmy.gif:
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O-O oh god, that sounds really awesome, I can just imagine them going into panic mode, exploding and thus knocking you back a few blocks and then running away D:, I'mma add it to the OP.
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Eh, I don't really like the idea of ALL cacti turning into monsters, I think it'd be better if these were a desert only creature, so if you wanna harvest cacti safely, you can go the safe but time consuming route of hunting them on beaches.
I prefer it if these weren't TOTALLY harmless, 0.1 of a heart is really little, and these things die in 1 hit, so they won't be too strong.
Most of the things you've mentioned are already in the OP, though, and I'm not really sure what the hell that last paragraph is supposed to be...?
@lucain: thanks :>