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The Wasteland mod is a very large collaborative modding project between me (Beu50) (code), Lancer369 (Lore/Ideas), Dillo (coder) GrumpyOldWizard (lead coder), jimmydeansauce (concept artist), and Fluxigon (artist/Modeller). The Wastelands project was an attempt to give the Minecraft community the thrill of surviving and exploring a realistic and in depth post-apocalyptic Minecraft environment. In the Wastelands mod we hope to bring the most complex and thrilling collaborative project that the community has seen. The Wastelands mod will offer many great aspects of the Minecraft game all lopped into one mod. These aspects of game-play include: guns, skills, experience leveling system, randomly generated instances and structures, and much more. It is worth noting that this is a pretty large mod and the work that needs to get done is a bit overwhelming. It will take time to get this mod up and running and it will actually never be finished; I'm planning on adding onto this mod for a quite some time. This mod is in its early stages of development and one of the reasons I've posted this, was to get any ideas from the community that I could add to this mod. The creativity of all contributors will be given credit once this mod has been released. This is not only an attempt to make a good mod but to better the game-play of Minecraft.

I will highlight the following things in colors representing their perceived level of difficulty. Green meaning easiest, Orange meaning the task is of medium difficulty, and Red meaning that the task to code the idea is perceived to be difficult. In addition to the color code, I will the task's progress percentage in purple brackets next to the name, so followers can track the slow but steady development of the mod. Any item descriptions will be highlighted in blue; this include things like stats and item descriptions. Again, if there are any ideas or questions please comment. Every bit of creativity counts to the progression of this mod. This Minecraft project is of course open to the community. I would like this project to be a community effort (at-least for the concepts and ideas) and we'll handle the coding.

Regarding textures or sprites: None of the shown images are final and may be subject to modification. There are two types of resolutions that will be in use: 32x32 and 16x16; they will be placed in that order if both definitions are available. Graphics for everything except mobs will count for 10% completion. 32x32's will account for 6% completion while 16x16's will account for 4% completion.

If you have a suggestion then follow this application. If you have more than one just cut and paste another and repeat for as many ideas that you have. For the game play theme, I am shifting towards a organic, rather then mechanical feeling. This would more things like mutants and plant life than industrialized super complexes and robots. Also what caused the Wastelands to become what it is, was a prolonged nuclear war followed by a slow reclaim by nature. So please make sure your ideas fall within those guidelines.

The Wastelands Idea Application
1. What is the name of your idea?
2. What group does it fall under?
3. What subgroup does it fall under?
4. Give a detailed description of your idea.
5. Include a picture if needed.
6. Any other miscellaneous information that might be useful to know.

A note to the impatient: There are certain conditions to which this mod gets developed. First off me and the other 2 people writing this meet twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays) for about 3 hours and whatever gets done in that time is what gets done. If I have the time to work on it other then those allotted slots of time then I may decide to write more, but for the most part I think dedicating 6-8 hours of time on this is enough. Writing this mod is not my job, its a hobby. In order for any block to be considered complete, I need to have the proper texture and the person making them has a life as well. In addition to his generosity in making the textures he's making a 16x16 and a 32x32, obviously that will take time as well.

LATEST UPDATES; 2/28/12:
Sorry everyone but I've abandoned this project for a different one. Noticing the amount of time till our lives are destroyed at college we decided to create our own game and we plan to sell it on steam. So basically we dropped this for a funner more original project. We will post a link to the source if anyone wants to pick up where we left off. We're also all just tired of minecraft, it's just not that fun anymore to be honest (we've been playing since Indev).

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Sounds like a tough challenge.
If you guys can pull this off successfully then it would be awesome!

mabye we could see some pics later on in the project?

Quote from Cooper7

Sounds like a tough challenge.
If you guys can pull this off successfully then it would be awesome!

mabye we could see some pics later on in the project?

ya ill probly be posting pics soon

added more skills, bullets, and things that can go wrong from poorly made guns and bombs. thinking about adding better descriptions and making post look prettier.

I've made the "Weapons" section look nicer and expanded a bit on some of the features in that section. I will update another section later.

Since you have used radiation maybe for a mob infected humans. not like the zombie that already exist in the game. they could be a peaceful mode unless provoked but if u get near them you get effected by radiation. Giant Cockroaches maybe, those things never die so it is likely that they could survive in a wasteland. Anyways just some suggestions it sounds great so far

I say use ideas from the media, such as (relatively) popular post-apocalyptic movies such as Resident Evil. God, how i would love to see Split-Heads. Also, i don't really think there's much of a point in adding ores. I would make chests spawn rarely in ruins, maybe a new type of storage crate or something. If you want an apocalyptic feel, make pre-generated ruins throughout The Wastelands, maybe anything from Large, dead cities to small outposts and hide-outs. I'd imagine that'd be hard to code, but i'm just offering ideas. In creating a post-apocalyptic feel, the most important things are the ruins, although it depends on what type of feel you're looking for. If you're after a more ambient and lonely feel, i suggest more drastically empty ruins (and that spawn less, so you seem even more alone) with spawners of new mobs, rather than having mobs spawn frequently throughout the terrain. If you're after a more intense, shoot as much as you can before you die feel, then i suggest more spawns of new mobs generally throughout the terrain, and much more frequently spawning ruins. I think wire fences and electric fences are both great ideas. After reading some more, it seems as though you're looking for a more intense feel, yet more in-depth where you have more options rather than just wandering around shooting stuff. In that case, you could make a sort of 'biome' system, where there are empty plains, abandoned towns, military outposts, Large, government controlled cities, etc. These different 'biomes' could generate randomly but have a common theme of generation. Mobs are difficult to contemplate, but i suggest just making infected versions of already existing things. They could be more beneficially affected by the radiation than humans, like they could be larger or spit acid or something.
Here's a list of a couple mob ideas:
Acid-spitting lizards
Infected Creepers, with an explosion that releases radiation.
Split-Heads/hounds (From Resident Evil.)
Centipedes, like those from The Nether Update.

Whatever, though, you all are the coders, not me. I'm just giving you some suggestions. Sorry for making you read a bunch of stuff, btw.

What about civilisation trying to rebuild itself, so tiny ruined villages with NPCs trying to rebuild it scattered all over the map. it would give it more of an apocalyptic feel

I've updated the utilities section to look better and be more informative.

Quote from Bazaloy

Since you have used radiation maybe for a mob infected humans. not like the zombie that already exist in the game. they could be a peaceful mode unless provoked but if u get near them you get effected by radiation. Giant Cockroaches maybe, those things never die so it is likely that they could survive in a wasteland. Anyways just some suggestions it sounds great so far

Ya i have thought of a infected human type mob but i just don't know of a way to describe it :tongue.gif: and i was trying to avoid things that were in fallout.. thanks for the ideas though, im definitely going to add a infected human type mob. probably variants of that as well.

Quote from Sethris134

I say use ideas from the media, such as (relatively) popular post-apocalyptic movies such as Resident Evil. God, how i would love to see Split-Heads. Also, i don't really think there's much of a point in adding ores. I would make chests spawn rarely in ruins, maybe a new type of storage crate or something. If you want an apocalyptic feel, make pre-generated ruins throughout The Wastelands, maybe anything from Large, dead cities to small outposts and hide-outs. I'd imagine that'd be hard to code, but i'm just offering ideas. In creating a post-apocalyptic feel, the most important things are the ruins, although it depends on what type of feel you're looking for. If you're after a more ambient and lonely feel, i suggest more drastically empty ruins (and that spawn less, so you seem even more alone) with spawners of new mobs, rather than having mobs spawn frequently throughout the terrain. If you're after a more intense, shoot as much as you can before you die feel, then i suggest more spawns of new mobs generally throughout the terrain, and much more frequently spawning ruins. I think wire fences and electric fences are both great ideas. After reading some more, it seems as though you're looking for a more intense feel, yet more in-depth where you have more options rather than just wandering around shooting stuff. In that case, you could make a sort of 'biome' system, where there are empty plains, abandoned towns, military outposts, Large, government controlled cities, etc. These different 'biomes' could generate randomly but have a common theme of generation. Mobs are difficult to contemplate, but i suggest just making infected versions of already existing things. They could be more beneficially affected by the radiation than humans, like they could be larger or spit acid or something.
Here's a list of a couple mob ideas:
Acid-spitting lizards
Infected Creepers, with an explosion that releases radiation.
Split-Heads/hounds (From Resident Evil.)
Centipedes, like those from The Nether Update.

Whatever, though, you all are the coders, not me. I'm just giving you some suggestions. Sorry for making you read a bunch of stuff, btw.

thanks for your ideas mate, they're pretty good.

• One thing i'm trying to do is avoid already existing game content.
• The reason im adding ores is because i would like the environment to have custom "things" i guess, that would only be do-able if i had these custom ores and other things in it. So im planning on getting unique mobs and plants to spawn on these unique bits of custom earth.
• I really like your idea of making some different chest. i think ill include that later as some sort of mini-game. like a lock-picking game or perhaps needing some sort of key. i like this one thanks :biggrin.gif:
• I am indeed planning to have randomly generated structures in the game. if you read into the "randomly genereated structures" section (cough* :tongue.gif:) then you can read about the ones im planning to include so far. and it would indeed be hard to code but i know of a way to do this and will try to adapt it and get clever with it in time.
• im planning on having mass generated biomes. this will mean that some areas will indeed feel "alone" while others will feel dense and inhabited.
• i did not think of electric fences! that is a great idea ill be sure to try and work that in :biggrin.gif:
• no problem on the paragraph you wrote. its not that much at all and it really helps expanding the project. I actually would hope people did it more often :|

What about a spectre mob. Like the Ghosts of those who had died. it could be green and partially see through. I was thinking of it acting a bit like a creeper. it would hover in one spot until you walk near it and it would follow behind you whispering creepy things

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What about a spectre mob. Like the Ghosts of those who had died. it could be green and partially see through. I was thinking of it acting a bit like a creeper. it would hover in one spot until you walk near it and it would follow behind you whispering creepy things

Oh i really like this idea i think ill include this. A ghost mob that can you can see partially threw. When you look at it it wont move but just hover there in one place looking back at you. when you turn around it will follow and the pattern repeats. it will say these creepy things but only when your not looking. it will only attack you (and very strongly) when your within one block away of it. This is great because you can view this as a it killed you because you were uncareful or it drew you in. This is great :biggrin.gif: keep them coming if you can :biggrin.gif:
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this sounds like it could be uber creepy

updated the "randomly generated structures" section to be more informative and better looking.

yeah i thought it was uber creepy. i had an after thought about the mob. maybe this could be a variation of it. What about a Will-o-wisp, a creature that you can't see but calls you to it and leads you into a trap. you could make this more difficult by creating helpful ones which will lead you to an ore reserve or a chest or something

Quote from Bazaloy

yeah i thought it was uber creepy. i had an after thought about the mob. maybe this could be a variation of it. What about a Will-o-wisp, a creature that you can't see but calls you to it and leads you into a trap. you could make this more difficult by creating helpful ones which will lead you to an ore reserve or a chest or something

hmm... sounds kind of hard to do but i really like the idea. i will definitely consider this.

Im in.

Just Cool

updated the environment section to be better looking and MUCH more informative.
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added acid rain

Quote from Beu50

thanks for your ideas mate, they're pretty good.

• One thing i'm trying to do is avoid already existing game content.
• The reason im adding ores is because i would like the environment to have custom "things" i guess, that would only be do-able if i had these custom ores and other things in it. So im planning on getting unique mobs and plants to spawn on these unique bits of custom earth.
• I really like your idea of making some different chest. i think ill include that later as some sort of mini-game. like a lock-picking game or perhaps needing some sort of key. i like this one thanks :biggrin.gif:
• I am indeed planning to have randomly generated structures in the game. if you read into the "randomly genereated structures" section (cough* :tongue.gif:) then you can read about the ones im planning to include so far. and it would indeed be hard to code but i know of a way to do this and will try to adapt it and get clever with it in time.
• im planning on having mass generated biomes. this will mean that some areas will indeed feel "alone" while others will feel dense and inhabited.
• i did not think of electric fences! that is a great idea ill be sure to try and work that in :biggrin.gif:
• no problem on the paragraph you wrote. its not that much at all and it really helps expanding the project. I actually would hope people did it more often :|

No problem! :biggrin.gif: i would love to see this mod finished, i bet it'll be awesome!

Edit: Come to think of it, if i know anything from using Last Days, and from playing with the Walled City Generator, i think trees might ruin some environments. You could possibly collect wood from random buildings or outposts you find.

As well, i thought of two new things.
One: Tumbleweeds would be cool, although hard, most likely.
Two: Little Desert gusts and whirlwinds would also be cool, like the ones Kodaichi made.