If you've already got all of the achievements, and you don't care about leaderboards, why not just load your level up in creative, drop a load of spawn eggs into a chest, save and exit, load it back in survival and use the spawn eggs the way you see fit? You don't require a large change in mob generation to fix something that you yourself - and many others who want spawn eggs in survival - can literally do right this second...
If you're having issues finding the correct items from mobs that you need (arrows, ender eyes, iron ingots, and the like...) go in search of several dungeons and convert them to mob farms. Failing that, do what I've done, and create a large 4-block high room which is about 100 x 100 blocks large which is totally pitch black. I have a chest full of night vision potions, as well as food supplies and weapon dispensers. I can go down there any time and kill as many creepers, spiders, endermen, skeletons, witches, zombies, and other naturally spawning mobs I like. I'm also using the iron ingots from a nearby zombie spawner farm to replace the floor of this large room with hoppers to collect EVERYTHING that is dropped. Sure I could use water to push the useful stuff where I need it, but I prefer hoppers... lots and lots of hoppers...
Because I want other people that come to my map to get achievs. I only play when ot.her people play with me, and most don't have even half their achievs..
Because I want other people that come to my map to get achievs. I only play when ot.her people play with me, and most don't have even half their achievs.
Don't take this the wrong way, but from reading your posts, it seems like you simply don't want to put that much effort at all into building machines such as grinders and mob farms. Instead I get the impression that you want these items accessible in vanilla survival for the sake of convenience.
Now regarding your friends achievements, I can easily obtain all the achievements in a few days at the most, and that's playing by myself. If you only play with friends like you say, then you have it even easier than most of us as the combined man power can make a decent base with all the bells and whistles pretty fast, even in survival.
Because I want other people that come to my map to get achievs. I only play when ot.her people play with me, and most don't have even half their achievs..
The fact still remains that you're not going to run out of mobs... just leave some dark areas and they will spawn there continuously... That's all a mob trap really is... a dark spawning place for mobs with some added bells and whistles that make it safer and easier for the players to kill them. The achievements don't require a lot of mobs either. Most of them can even be obtained in peaceful mode. I'm starting to get suspicious that you want this so badly because you want to lure noobs onto your map (with the prospect of getting achievements) and then torment them with mobs.
ETA: As mentioned previously, adding spawn eggs is not going to alleviate an issue with the Leader of the Pack achievement (each player taming 5 wolves) since the world maximum on wolves will still exist regardless of whether they spawn naturally or you use spawn eggs. Players would still likely have to kill off their pet dogs in order to allow new players to get the achievement.
It seems like thecheater (very appropriate user name, if I say so myself) wants the eggs for the sole purpose of changing spawners.
This is a bad idea that you think is actually a good idea simply because it's your idea. Sometimes it requires other people to explain to you how bad of an idea it really is.
I will say, yet again. Survival Mode is designed by the developers to be played in a particular way. That way does NOT include creeper spawners, passive mob spawners, ghast spawners (in the Overworld? Dear Lord!), or anything other than what is currently in the game mode now.
If the developer wishes to make MOB spawners customizable in Creative (a feature I'm in favor of), then any altered map loaded in "Survival" is no longer a pure Survival map, and by right should have its Leaderboard privileges revoked.
Others on this forum have offered a multitude of other reasons why spawn eggs should not be added to Survivlal, or at the very least why it would only be redundant.
I love the thought of all the hoppers. Your truly a person to be emulated.
Because I want other people that come to my map to get achievs. I only play when ot.her people play with me, and most don't have even half their achievs..
Don't take this the wrong way, but from reading your posts, it seems like you simply don't want to put that much effort at all into building machines such as grinders and mob farms. Instead I get the impression that you want these items accessible in vanilla survival for the sake of convenience.
Now regarding your friends achievements, I can easily obtain all the achievements in a few days at the most, and that's playing by myself. If you only play with friends like you say, then you have it even easier than most of us as the combined man power can make a decent base with all the bells and whistles pretty fast, even in survival.
The fact still remains that you're not going to run out of mobs... just leave some dark areas and they will spawn there continuously... That's all a mob trap really is... a dark spawning place for mobs with some added bells and whistles that make it safer and easier for the players to kill them. The achievements don't require a lot of mobs either. Most of them can even be obtained in peaceful mode. I'm starting to get suspicious that you want this so badly because you want to lure noobs onto your map (with the prospect of getting achievements) and then torment them with mobs.
ETA: As mentioned previously, adding spawn eggs is not going to alleviate an issue with the Leader of the Pack achievement (each player taming 5 wolves) since the world maximum on wolves will still exist regardless of whether they spawn naturally or you use spawn eggs. Players would still likely have to kill off their pet dogs in order to allow new players to get the achievement.
It seems like thecheater (very appropriate user name, if I say so myself) wants the eggs for the sole purpose of changing spawners.
This is a bad idea that you think is actually a good idea simply because it's your idea. Sometimes it requires other people to explain to you how bad of an idea it really is.
I will say, yet again. Survival Mode is designed by the developers to be played in a particular way. That way does NOT include creeper spawners, passive mob spawners, ghast spawners (in the Overworld? Dear Lord!), or anything other than what is currently in the game mode now.
If the developer wishes to make MOB spawners customizable in Creative (a feature I'm in favor of), then any altered map loaded in "Survival" is no longer a pure Survival map, and by right should have its Leaderboard privileges revoked.
Others on this forum have offered a multitude of other reasons why spawn eggs should not be added to Survivlal, or at the very least why it would only be redundant.
Hate this Idea, why Does the FIRST post have RanDom capitalization???
And I HATE thIs IdeA
Spawn eggs are for creative.