This is crossposted from another topic, where I got lots of positive feedback and vomit.
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Basically, the idea is that Ghasts reproduce via budding.
In their old age, they are actually FASTER, though they lose their ability to produce fireballs as the heat of the Ghastmother's body keeps the babies alive. To make up for this, they grow a single arm.
The ghast babies will count as seperate mobs, each taking only one hit with an iron sword to kill. On death they explode leaving pink ghast tears everywhere, and igniting any nearby objects. It also damages and angers the ghastmother.
Upon death, the ghastmother drops all of the babies, each one falling in a different direction. Some will fall slower than others, some will practically launch off like a cannon, others will just tumble. If they hit the ground, they will either die from the fall, or die of coldness, wiggling around mostly helpless. If they hit the lava, they spend a few in game days in there and a new ghast arrives.
The ghastmother's top priority is her children, and will not attack you unless she feels cornered, or if she feels you will attack her children. They tend to stay floating over lava. While over lava, they will usually drop their baby ghasts down into the lava below.
If you kill enough of the ghast babies, or make her desperate, the ghastmother will regain her ability to spew fireballs, though it damages her children.
The ghastmother leaves behind an easily traceable path of ghast tears, as the ghast babies cry a lot! I don't have any particular ideas for how ghast tears work, but an idea was that it's what the ghastmother uses to nourish her children, so maybe it heals you if you eat it? I'd imagine it'd be disgusting though.
Ghast babies have no eyes, and are blind. However, they can smell you, and might jump out of the lava if you wander too close! The ghast babies cannot fly, but their flight gland is developing at this point, so they are very buoyent. By the time they are old enough to attack you, they are more resilient and can survive being outside lava, being able to crawl around a bit, though they don't like it. They have little reason to attack anyone, as the mix of lava heat and calories and ghast tears can keep them from needing to eat up until their middle stage, but they will if they feel threatened, but they are paranoid and may often surprise you! It is possible to desensitize them, living in harmony with them, but once they grow up, they won't be tame, and they will be hungry!
Ghastmothers will be incredibly rare, having a 1 in 5 chance of spawning each in game day per netherchunk.
Yes. I vote yes. I have not been to the nether yet but i would love it if i entered for my first time and saw this giant bus like screaming creature dropping its babies into lava. Diamonds for youz
A fully adult Ghast should have about 1/100 chance of appearing (Like the Rider Skeleton )
It's about maybe 5x5 or 8x8 (around there), have longer, more tentacles. It also shoots about 5-10 fireballs in quick succession, rather than the usual 1. It also drops more gunpowder.
For one 4 minecraft days, is illogical with the current mob system. Many of them would dissipated and or not even be noticed. When they hit the lava, they should form into some sort of "timing block" that is white like a egg. The time would be very short however before it turns into the first stage of a ghast, the gaze.
The gaze, would do just that if you stand near lava they would pop up and look at you O_O. Causing you to slow down and/or some other odd effect, "maybe hallucinate or even loose control in some hilarious way?". This form would last about one minecraft day Or until its "night on earth". Then they become a ghast.
The ghast mother is a special mob. The ghast mother cannot occur as a very common spawn or as the result of a ghast growing up. The ghast mother much like the disturbing picture "maybe loose the odd arm", would leave behind a trail of flaming tears. As you attack her she sheds the ghast babies, that upon hitting anything else but lava Erupt into flame based explosions **much like a fireball but a small bit worst". The mother would not chase you unless you entice her, otherwise she would just be focussed on staying over lava and shedding one baby at a time.
There could be other forms, but this would be very epic.
Edit: 1 in 5 per day O_O Per CHUNK!, thats not rare thats plentiful. i would suggest a better spawn method, like the type notch will use for his "mega monsters".
The babies "gazes" could look like this.
^ it using its gaze effect O_O
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You can go ahead and move at the speed of light, But i will move at the speed of darkness.
so the Mother "should not be able to shoot fireballs", yet "be able to shoot clusters of firebals". hm?
i also think the "adult gast" should be somewhat darker, and have a constant fire stream attack while its eyes are burning as it slowly aims it around !!!!
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You can go ahead and move at the speed of light, But i will move at the speed of darkness.
I personally don't think the ghastmother should be aggressive. She has her babies to worry about, and would want to go after prey that can't fight back.
(also 1 in 5 per day per chunk means that each day, each chunk has a 20% chance of spawning a ghastmother. So if you waited in the same spot for 5 days, you'd find one.)
The baby ghast, which would only start attacking you after spending at least 1 minecraft day growing up in lava (I'm thinking of how aggressive they should be. Maybe they only eat small prey, unless they are in large enough groups to attack things like you)
Then the normal ghast
And finally the mother ghast, with some targetable ghast buds. When the buds fall off, they are merely projectiles until they hit the lava, in which case they become baby ghasts.
Possibly a father ghast to act more as a boss than the mother ghast, who is merely a trophy to be hunted.
I think this is a decent idea, however I think it would be more interesting to create a completely different nether-only mob, or a boss like creature that you only encounter ever rare once in a while.
This IS rare. And it makes a canon as to how Ghasts reproduce. I'd also like to see some canon way of Creeper reproduction, too. In fact, I think I'll do it right now.
I like the three forms of a ghast idea. No fetuses just baby lava jumping ghasts, the normal ghast, and the two final ghasts. The Mother Ghast will drop her babies in the lava but can be hunted and killed for a trophy of some sort and the father ghast should be a dark smoky color and not have babies but he extreamly aggressive.
The Mother and Father Ghasts will always be together but the mother is non lethal and will always flee for her babies. It is possible that if she is left alive and the Father is killed a ghast could take his place and turn into the big ghasts. The Ghast parents should look like whales, or buses. The Ghast Mother would be white and resemble Moby **** just with a bunch of baby ghost wart cannon fireball lava hoppers. The Ghast Father would be a darker color like a deep smoky sort of hue.
It will be easiest to kill the ghasts by jumping on to the top of then from a high area of equiping a bow with alot of arrows since the ghast parents can not go any closer then 5 blocks from a surface. So jumping off a cliff and hoping to god you hit the Ghast Father would be totally epic.
REALLY disturbing, Notch approves this (Not really :tongue.gif:)
I Approve of Farmcraft.
For one 4 minecraft days, is illogical with the current mob system. Many of them would dissipated and or not even be noticed. When they hit the lava, they should form into some sort of "timing block" that is white like a egg. The time would be very short however before it turns into the first stage of a ghast, the gaze.
The gaze, would do just that if you stand near lava they would pop up and look at you O_O. Causing you to slow down and/or some other odd effect, "maybe hallucinate or even loose control in some hilarious way?". This form would last about one minecraft day Or until its "night on earth". Then they become a ghast.
The ghast mother is a special mob. The ghast mother cannot occur as a very common spawn or as the result of a ghast growing up. The ghast mother much like the disturbing picture "maybe loose the odd arm", would leave behind a trail of flaming tears. As you attack her she sheds the ghast babies, that upon hitting anything else but lava Erupt into flame based explosions **much like a fireball but a small bit worst". The mother would not chase you unless you entice her, otherwise she would just be focussed on staying over lava and shedding one baby at a time.
There could be other forms, but this would be very epic.
Edit: 1 in 5 per day O_O Per CHUNK!, thats not rare thats plentiful. i would suggest a better spawn method, like the type notch will use for his "mega monsters".
The babies "gazes" could look like this.
^ it using its gaze effect O_O
Ghast mother.
i also think the "adult gast" should be somewhat darker, and have a constant fire stream attack while its eyes are burning as it slowly aims it around !!!!
(also 1 in 5 per day per chunk means that each day, each chunk has a 20% chance of spawning a ghastmother. So if you waited in the same spot for 5 days, you'd find one.)
Or the fatherghast approach, where a daddyghast finds a mommyghast and then the mommyghast erupts into crazy baby warts.
I am open to either one, but was originally thinking of the first; we don't want too many ghast mobs! This is already 3!
The baby ghast, which would only start attacking you after spending at least 1 minecraft day growing up in lava (I'm thinking of how aggressive they should be. Maybe they only eat small prey, unless they are in large enough groups to attack things like you)
Then the normal ghast
And finally the mother ghast, with some targetable ghast buds. When the buds fall off, they are merely projectiles until they hit the lava, in which case they become baby ghasts.
Possibly a father ghast to act more as a boss than the mother ghast, who is merely a trophy to be hunted.
The Mother and Father Ghasts will always be together but the mother is non lethal and will always flee for her babies. It is possible that if she is left alive and the Father is killed a ghast could take his place and turn into the big ghasts. The Ghast parents should look like whales, or buses. The Ghast Mother would be white and resemble Moby **** just with a bunch of baby ghost wart cannon fireball lava hoppers. The Ghast Father would be a darker color like a deep smoky sort of hue.
It will be easiest to kill the ghasts by jumping on to the top of then from a high area of equiping a bow with alot of arrows since the ghast parents can not go any closer then 5 blocks from a surface. So jumping off a cliff and hoping to god you hit the Ghast Father would be totally epic.
We need to keep in mind how difficult things will be to code/draw for Notch.
Rather torn to yes or no.
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Dude just what. Perhaps there could be some kind of upper class monster in the Nether correlating to the Ghasts. But it would be too silly...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual_re ... production
I still think it should be kept mostly simple, maybe ghasts destined to become ghastmothers are no different from other ghasts until then?