Hey guys.
So, I was thinking today whilst watching a minecraft video: Wouldn't it be cool if he came back from his exploring for such a long time, to find his house in decay?
So I was wondering how it would go about. So I'm just going to go, by example, a wooden house. Very generic. So anyways, as soon as you leave the vicinity of your house (this would sort of rely you making your house your spawnpoint, but I'm sure that can be sorted out. Maybe be effected by placed blocks?), and by vicinity, I mean quite a large number of chunks, as in 'I'm leaving to make a new home' distance, the house goes into decay mode. Over a week of minecraft days, 2-5 torches in the house go out. After all torches are gone, by average taking around a month of minecraft days, (approx 3 hours. Actually, by this length, I'm sure a longer time would be reccomended, as the more hardcore players would despise this.) Then, after that, blocks begin to rot. Wood blocks rot faster then stone, and if your house is a combination of the two, then the wood rots first. This includes fences too, and empty chests.Then stone, and empty furnaces. (I was also thinking that if water is within 1 or two blocks of any block from iron downwards, it degrades twice as fast.) It could work on the mining scale, that iron is harder then stone, (gold being the exception. It would not be weak, it would be stronger then iron/as strong as diamond.) and obsidian being the strongest.
I think this would be cool, because if you were on a short adventure, then you would come back to see your home, quite possibly filled with monsters, and degraded. This would provide a sense of 'fighting back for your land', and I think it would be very fun.
So, I was thinking today whilst watching a minecraft video: Wouldn't it be cool if he came back from his exploring for such a long time, to find his house in decay?
So I was wondering how it would go about. So I'm just going to go, by example, a wooden house. Very generic. So anyways, as soon as you leave the vicinity of your house (this would sort of rely you making your house your spawnpoint, but I'm sure that can be sorted out. Maybe be effected by placed blocks?), and by vicinity, I mean quite a large number of chunks, as in 'I'm leaving to make a new home' distance, the house goes into decay mode. Over a week of minecraft days, 2-5 torches in the house go out. After all torches are gone, by average taking around a month of minecraft days, (approx 3 hours. Actually, by this length, I'm sure a longer time would be reccomended, as the more hardcore players would despise this.) Then, after that, blocks begin to rot. Wood blocks rot faster then stone, and if your house is a combination of the two, then the wood rots first. This includes fences too, and empty chests.Then stone, and empty furnaces. (I was also thinking that if water is within 1 or two blocks of any block from iron downwards, it degrades twice as fast.) It could work on the mining scale, that iron is harder then stone, (gold being the exception. It would not be weak, it would be stronger then iron/as strong as diamond.) and obsidian being the strongest.
I think this would be cool, because if you were on a short adventure, then you would come back to see your home, quite possibly filled with monsters, and degraded. This would provide a sense of 'fighting back for your land', and I think it would be very fun.
Well Peaceful wouldn't fit the whole fighting back aspect, but why not? I would like a reason if your going to decline it.