Currently, in the source, there is an unused human character. This got me thinking about dungeons. Dungeons hint to past civilizations digging into the earth before the player began to discover. In Minecraft, I love discovering interesting, past-civilization features. This leads into my ideas for civilization. I think it would add elements to both building, mob interactions, and exploration.
Civilization:
- Procedurally generated structures and placed items (Houses, animal pens, torches, wheat fields, chests).
- NPC resource gathering (Tree cutting, hunting, farming, fishing).
- Mob fights (Between human NPCs and Mobs. Also with the player if he attacks them).
- NPC Pig riding.
- Underground Tombs and Crypts. Tombs would be a dungeon made of cobblestone with a coffin that has a zombie inside (They would appear under towns of human NPCs). Crypts would be sandstone dungeons with chests filled with gold, and also coffins. They would be much sparser than dungeons and tombs, and would only appear in the desert biome (Or maybe only in large areas of sand.
These are just ideas I'm throwing out for the use of human NPCs, although I'm sure Notch has an idea of how he's going to use them already.
ok, this has been suggested various times, and in various different forms, but i enjoy reading these suggestions so much that i would like to see how this topic is different. please be more specific, even down to the most insignificant of details.
Civilization:
- Procedurally generated structures and placed items (Houses, animal pens, torches, wheat fields, chests).
- NPC resource gathering (Tree cutting, hunting, farming, fishing).
- Mob fights (Between human NPCs and Mobs. Also with the player if he attacks them).
- NPC Pig riding.
- Underground Tombs and Crypts. Tombs would be a dungeon made of cobblestone with a coffin that has a zombie inside (They would appear under towns of human NPCs). Crypts would be sandstone dungeons with chests filled with gold, and also coffins. They would be much sparser than dungeons and tombs, and would only appear in the desert biome (Or maybe only in large areas of sand.
These are just ideas I'm throwing out for the use of human NPCs, although I'm sure Notch has an idea of how he's going to use them already.
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... How do Dungeons hint towards older civilizations?
ever hear of a little something called... *dramatic pause for effect*
THE PYRAMIDS, or some other large or underground monument that was believed to be cursed and could work to the same effect as being a dungeon.