Well i have talked it over with a lot of my friends on Mine Craft and other such places, and colonies of ants underground and such sounded like a cool idea. It might explain those giant underground cave systems that just exist for no reason and it would also add another cool monster to the game. Like your digging, and suddenly ANTS, ANTS EVERYWHERE... I dunno i just thought this sounded like a cool idea for notch to throw in and kinda fitting for a game about digging and building. Just a suggestion though, let me know what you all think, Also if notch wont add it but someone is willing to mod it, i am willing to assist this mod as best i can.
yes, they will interact with the player and the size would depend on the rank of the ant in the colony... Queen being pretty big, warriors and diggers and such, add new items maybe and make it so the items hide your smell from the ants of make different types of ants hostile or neutral or make warriors hostile to all but workers and queen and such neutral.
What about Termites? They'd eat through wooden objects just like fire. You could wash them away with a bucket of water.
Destroying a block with Termites crawling on it would have the termites "explode" like the block. They'd land on adjacent blocks and eat the wood there, basically multiplying.
In this case, the Termites would be rather small. Like as big as the black spots on Coal Blocks in the Default Texture Pack. 1x1 or 1x2 pixels, but they'd be moving, all over the block.
Termites are just parasites. They can't hurt you, but they hurt your wooden buildings, so you're forced to make them out of stone or brick... or sand/sandstone.
Also, they'd take down trees, so if you see trees just being "cut" without your interraction, you'd know there'd be termites there.
and ants are more useful because they can actually dig, and maybe at somepoint an item or mod would be added so you can control the ants somewhat, like riding pigs, and ading ants also will not force you to do anything
Destroying a block with Termites crawling on it would have the termites "explode" like the block. They'd land on adjacent blocks and eat the wood there, basically multiplying.
In this case, the Termites would be rather small. Like as big as the black spots on Coal Blocks in the Default Texture Pack. 1x1 or 1x2 pixels, but they'd be moving, all over the block.
Termites are just parasites. They can't hurt you, but they hurt your wooden buildings, so you're forced to make them out of stone or brick... or sand/sandstone.
Also, they'd take down trees, so if you see trees just being "cut" without your interraction, you'd know there'd be termites there.
That's the problem. Anything that forces you to play a certain way will ruin it.