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Undeniably, one of the most embraced activities in Minecraft is to craft a permanent base, home, castle, tower, etc…, to call your own. People enjoy decorating their constructs, taking screenshots and showing off their epic creations.

I would like to suggest adding collectable items, or trophies.

The whole process could be under the heading...

~Treasure Hunting~

- "Relic Boxes” can spawn underground and or on the surface.
- Mobs and Creatures have the chance drop rare items.
- Achievements. This is kind of a secondary suggestion, but it would fit with this prestige, trophy idea.

Possible ways to obtain unique treasure:
Relic boxes
But what would these boxes contain? Here are a few ideas.
Crystal Skull: What does it do? Nothing, but its very rare and seeing one in someone’s throne room, trophy room, and secret chamber would indicate the presence of a great adventurer.
Rune Stones: Carved blocks with glowing blue runic symbols. Collect em all!
Books: Fill out that library room

Having rare collectable objects capable of spawning on the surface would also give adventurers more to quest for in addition to breath taking scenery.

Mob droops
Creature Statues: A statue for every Creature and Mob. (Maybe 1/1000 drop rate when death results from sword or arrow damage)

Achievements
These have proven to be successful goal shaping features in many videogames. I understand that achievements would be a whole new ball of wax and a separate suggestion... but If you were able to receive some kind of displayable trophy for your efforts would go a long away to filling out that treasure room.
Dig 10,000 cobblestone – Reward: Stone Heart
Travel 1,000 squares from spawn – Reward: Adventures spy glass

Drawbacks:
Restricted by the intentional lack of story or lore to draw from. Books for example would have to just consist of vague titles.
Achievements can burn people out and provide too much structure for an open game such as this.

Well there you have it. It’s just an idea. Help me brainstorm by coming up with more unique relics/trophies, ways to get them or reasons why this is a bad idea.

Thanks!

This is an awesome idea. It would add a lot more... oomph to the game. I love exploring and I get giddy when I find dungeons in the game, so the idea of relic chests and monster drops makes me feel like a school girl.

Make it happen. :3

Maybe for fun you can put the skull on your helmet spot? It would do nothing of course, like the pumpkin :biggrin.gif:

I want this so bad! I think i would have both achievments! Not sure about the travel one though :tongue.gif:

Hey Im glad you guys like these ideas!

More Relic Ideas:
(Focusing on collections)
Tarrot Cards - Work like paintings, there are 12
Gems of the Lost - 5 large gems of diffrent color with thier own stand.
Painted Jars - 16 uniquly painted, clay jars to store in your treasure room.

I Want This, NOW! also my achievement/relic ideas.

Achievements
jeweler:find 50 diamonds
chef:cook 100 food

Relics
Badge:you can put them on leather vests (new idea?) there are 22
Bedrock Painting:acts like paintings but pastel bedrock, there are 14

Monster fighting trophies:

Punch Out!:
Displayable boxing gloves textured after the monster defeated:
Punched out a creeper in 5 secs
Punched out a Skeleton in 20 secs
Punched out a zombie in 5 secs
Punched out a spider in 30 secs
Punched out a ghast in 1 min
Punched out a zombie pigman in 30 secs

all damage done to the monster must be punch damage from the player, not weapon damage, explosion damage, or hazard damage.

Boxing King: Golden gloves crafted by placing all 6 gloves in the workbench crafting square in any order.

Sniper:
Displayable arrows with a shrunken face texture of the defeated monster underneath, covered over by a red crosshairs:
Ghast sniper: Killed a ghast from max arrow distance
etc,etc,

Sharpshooter: Displayable golden crosshairs with a golden arrow shooting through the middle crafted from all 6 previous trophies

Swordsman: Displayable sword textured after the defeated mob (may be beaten with any sword type)
Skeleton swordsman: Defeated 3 skeletons in 1 minute with swords
Creeper swordsman: Defeated 3 creepers in 30 seconds with swords
Zombie swordsman: Defeated five zombies in 1 minute with swords
Ghast swordsman: Defeated 1 ghast with swords in under 1 minute
Spider swordsman: Defeated 3 spiders in 1 minute with swords
Pigmen swordsman: Defeated 5 pigmen in 1 minute with swords

all damage must be by the blade, must be completed within required time

Samurai:
Displayable katana set crafted from all 6 swords. Places like fence, takes up two spaces plus 2 half blocks overhead

like this:



Demolitions expert:
Placeable TNT block textured after defeated mobs (non functional)
Ghast demolition: Beat 1 ghast with explosives
Zombie demolition: Beat 6 zombies with a maximum of 2 blocks within ten seconds
Spider demolition: Beat 3 spiders at one time with one block of TNT
Pigmen demolition: Beat 30 pigmen in 1 minute using as many TNT blocks as required
Skeleton Demolition: Beat 6 skeletons with a maximum of 2 blocks in 20 seconds
Creeper Vengeance: Beat 9 creepers within two minutes using as many tnt blocks as necessary. Creepers exploding other creepers does not count.

you must be alive after the final TNT block detonates for the item to drop

Demolitions Expert: Golden placeable TNT block crafted from all previous explosives trophies

Warrior king: massive trophy with a miniature sword wielding generic minecraft player on top crafted from the four previous top trophies

I just had this idea and decided to post it.

SLIME PET TROPHIES

Kill 30 slimes with as much TNT as necessary: Demolitions slime. Placeable and retrievable pet slime wearing a set of goggles. Appears in inventory. Does not take fire or explosive damage.

Kill 20 slimes in 1 minute with a sword: Blader Slime. Placeable and retrievable pet slime wearing a helm. Appears in inventory. does not take weapons damage.

Kill 10 slimes in 30 seconds with arrows: Archer slime. Placeable and retrievable pet slime wearing a bandanna. Appears in inventory. Does not take fall damage. Extra jump height.

Kill 5 slimes in 10 seconds by punching them: Boxer slime. Placeable and retrievable pet slime wearing a headband. Appears in inventory. does not drown underwater.

King slime: Invincible pet slime. Golden crown wearing slime that can be placed and retrieved. Does not suffer fall damage, does not take weapons damage, does not catch fire, not succeptable to lava damage, does not down underwater, does not take explosives damage. Crafted from the four previous slimes. extra jump height.

Note that all pet slimes are non-agressive and will not fight enemy mobs. Stops hopping around and just looks at the player when within 1 block.

That’s some nice detail there Razre, but adding pets might be beyond the scope of this suggestion (as well as achievements >_>).

I've had similar ideas like this. It's a great thing because it gives players a motive to keep mining and exploring. I'm trying to come up with achievements......

-SSSSSSSSS! - Get damaged by a creeper's explosion fifty times
-Undead Slayer - Kill 100 zombies, 50 Skeletons, and 30 Creepers
-Spelunker - Uncover 5 different caverns while mining underground

I'll think of more some other time

So after messing with the World of Warcraft expansion and trying Archeology...
Giving player the optional goal of completing artifact and/or fossil collections is appealing to me.

Maybe someday, between my two jobs and insane girlfriend, I'll find the time to learn Java or what-not and implment this myself.
... some day.

Must.

Have

CREEPER SKULLS


...come on.. it'd look good over my fireplace...


+ =win


EDIT: im not very good at math

I like the idea of relics, but lets make them "rare" in the sense that just digging around is a bad idea if you are treasure hunting.


Relics should only have a chance to spawn in caves and dungeons.

So you want to find treasure? you have to explore natural caves.

This could also add a little flavor if there are underwater caves, giving much more incentive to explore the depths.

I would like this. I would. But the books should be readable and contain valuable information, since not all of us look up things online.

The more goals in the game, the better.

I also have to agree with Ole'swifty. There needs to be some way for you to know where to go to find these relics.

Also, I would find it interesting to have some toggle-able features unlocked for getting a hard-to-get trophy. As an example, getting the "stone heart" would allow you to change the color of your bright red hearts to grey hearts, or basiclly, stone hearts.

And this is DEFINITELY the way to make players want to go out and explore. Not something like hang-gliders and things of the like.

Here's a few achievments I thought up.

"Glutton": Eat a lot of food, while at full health, maybe about 4 chest inventories worth of food.

"Thank Notch for Armor": survive damage that would have killed you in one hit using armor.

"Sharp and Shiny": Craft a diamond (or gold) sword (any warcraft fan will get the reference here)

"It Burns!": Like the stoneheart, but with netherstone.

"'Til Yer Blue in the face": Survive an insane amount of time underwater in one sitting, resets if you leave the water.

"Worthless pieces of *grumble grumble*": Die while wielding a wooden sword, wearing full leather armor.

"Divide by 0": Die from falling into the void.

Sounds good. I do like the ideas, and I hope Notch implements them.

I'm thinking we should also have some structure related achievements, like build a four story building with a minimum 20X20 base.

And another thought, would achievements be a late development thing anyway?

Great suggestions everyone!

GunKiller,

I really like your building achievements. There is a lot of room in that category.

Nice, succinct and analytical. Minecraft DOES need some rare loot to stock out dungeons and make mob drops slightly more interesting. But I'm on the fence on the specifics. As far as achievements go, they seem somewhat ancillary, maybe post-alpha.

I love this idea, through I think the mobs should also drop their heads/skulls, rarely, the rest of the time they break. I suggested this idea for some dragon/hydra thread, but I also think that you can stuff the head and turn it into one of those moose-head trophies:



= / / / / /
and you can hang it on your walls and proudly walk by. The creeper head would scare the living 's out of me whenever I walk through my hallways.

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Great suggestions everyone!

GunKiller,

I really like your building achievements. There is a lot of room in that category.

You're welcome. To be honest, I was surprised to see no one else came up with that. After all, it's Minecraft. You gotta build something with the materials you mine.