Hey there, joined up to add some suggestions and what not:
First of all, your first task shouldn't be punchcard alchemy but just the sylladex system. Hell, even if this is all you make I'll still use the hell out of it. You can even spend some extra time and make different moduses, having the modus cards spawn randomly on monsters and in towns/mines.
It would be cool if your minecraft mod actually mirrored a player's advancement through SBURB, which is to say, they start in a regular minecraft map, make a house, get the SBURB Beta (perhaps it just spawns in their home after a set number of days, I'm tempted to say 413 days but that's a pretty long time), and then can use their computer to craft things like the Cruxtruder, Punch Designix, Totem Lathe, and Alchimiter. They also get a pre-punched card to make their Cruxite artifact. Upon using this artifact (it could be random and have to be used, like you get a cruxite shovel and you have to dig until it breaks, if you get a cruxite apple like John you just have to eat it) you and your house are teleported to the medium.
In the above scenario you'd presumably have to have meteors coming, you could start the timer with 4 hours 13 minutes and presumably anybody could complete the mission in that time. You might have to make the meteor a "creature" in the game code. This would allow for it to be animated smoothly. Upon contact with the player/ground it would explode and you'd get a game over. It would basically be a combination of the ghost things in The Nether and Creepers.
A sprite would be possible. It would mimic the wolf in that it follows you around but it wouldn't fight and would be immortal. You could prototype it by killing an animal with it following you. Whatever the first thing you kill it would prototype with. Imagine a creepersprite or a netherdragonsprite. Awesome.
Several biomes could be designed to represent planets in the medium. A random one could be selected, alternately two could be selected and spawned. For instance you could have a "heat" biome and a "stone" biome and get the Land of Heat and Stone.
To start it should probably just be a 1 player session, even if that doesn't make much sense.
Sleeping in a bed teleports you to prospit (made of gold) or derse (probably a new block). That self can fly like in creative mode.
A quest bed will randomly spawn somewhere within a certain distance of your house. If you die on it (or just sleep in it which should be easier to code) then you become God Tier (you lose your dream self in this process). This lets you fly around as if it's creative mode, possibly changes your character skin (if you can do that client side, not sure) and maybe gives you other abilities based on your randomized title.
I don't see much use for the battlefield, honestly even prospit or derse seems kind of pointless since you couldn't bring items from one to the other. Perhaps there are portals littered around that you can use to get between the three though.
Teleporting your house into the medium would probably require some sort of pylon or border sysstem to denote your "property" so it doesn't just pull in some predetermined distance from your bed. Maybe there's a preset area you can build your house in to stop people from bringing whole chunks into the medium with them.
Alright, the ideas keep coming but I'll take a breather for now. I'm pretty busy with work and other projects but this might be something I have to chip in on. I'm a decent programmer, though I've never tried modding. I'll look into things.
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First of all, your first task shouldn't be punchcard alchemy but just the sylladex system. Hell, even if this is all you make I'll still use the hell out of it. You can even spend some extra time and make different moduses, having the modus cards spawn randomly on monsters and in towns/mines.
It would be cool if your minecraft mod actually mirrored a player's advancement through SBURB, which is to say, they start in a regular minecraft map, make a house, get the SBURB Beta (perhaps it just spawns in their home after a set number of days, I'm tempted to say 413 days but that's a pretty long time), and then can use their computer to craft things like the Cruxtruder, Punch Designix, Totem Lathe, and Alchimiter. They also get a pre-punched card to make their Cruxite artifact. Upon using this artifact (it could be random and have to be used, like you get a cruxite shovel and you have to dig until it breaks, if you get a cruxite apple like John you just have to eat it) you and your house are teleported to the medium.
In the above scenario you'd presumably have to have meteors coming, you could start the timer with 4 hours 13 minutes and presumably anybody could complete the mission in that time. You might have to make the meteor a "creature" in the game code. This would allow for it to be animated smoothly. Upon contact with the player/ground it would explode and you'd get a game over. It would basically be a combination of the ghost things in The Nether and Creepers.
A sprite would be possible. It would mimic the wolf in that it follows you around but it wouldn't fight and would be immortal. You could prototype it by killing an animal with it following you. Whatever the first thing you kill it would prototype with. Imagine a creepersprite or a netherdragonsprite. Awesome.
Several biomes could be designed to represent planets in the medium. A random one could be selected, alternately two could be selected and spawned. For instance you could have a "heat" biome and a "stone" biome and get the Land of Heat and Stone.
To start it should probably just be a 1 player session, even if that doesn't make much sense.
Sleeping in a bed teleports you to prospit (made of gold) or derse (probably a new block). That self can fly like in creative mode.
A quest bed will randomly spawn somewhere within a certain distance of your house. If you die on it (or just sleep in it which should be easier to code) then you become God Tier (you lose your dream self in this process). This lets you fly around as if it's creative mode, possibly changes your character skin (if you can do that client side, not sure) and maybe gives you other abilities based on your randomized title.
I don't see much use for the battlefield, honestly even prospit or derse seems kind of pointless since you couldn't bring items from one to the other. Perhaps there are portals littered around that you can use to get between the three though.
Teleporting your house into the medium would probably require some sort of pylon or border sysstem to denote your "property" so it doesn't just pull in some predetermined distance from your bed. Maybe there's a preset area you can build your house in to stop people from bringing whole chunks into the medium with them.
Alright, the ideas keep coming but I'll take a breather for now. I'm pretty busy with work and other projects but this might be something I have to chip in on. I'm a decent programmer, though I've never tried modding. I'll look into things.