I was in the Nether with my friends on my server and realized that though it's exciting at first, it gets boring very fast.
I thought, what if there was more variation? And I came up with some ideas for nether biomes. All of these are still the basic nether (i.e. a roof and floor/lava) but a bit different.
Biomes/Land features:
-Hellswamp:
A low, flat area, mostly open with some protrusions of netherrack/glowstone.. the ground is almost all soul sand or lava pools, basically like a hellish swamp with lava instead of water. Very little netherrack on the ground. Ghasts are a huge hazard here because of little cover, the slow speed from soul sand, and the threat of being knocked into lava.
-Plateau:
A raised area, mostly flat at the top, with some lavafalls and glowstone protrusions.
-Tunnels
What the nether looks like now.
-Glowstone Spire
A huge cluster of glowstone that extends from the floor almost to the ceiling, like a giant crystal formation.
-Lava river
A river of lava. Self-explanatory. Maybe later add a hostile mob that swims in it and an iron boat that can float in lava.
-Mushroom field
A large area covered in mushrooms.
-Dead Village
A blackened, twisted version of the Overworld villages. Small houses of black, rotten wood planks and Netherrack, many collapsed in on themselves or burning (permanently). Zombie Pigmen would live here along with dead, haunting trees (black/gray wood) with a few gray leaf blocks and dead shrubs. These would be usually on Plateaus. Maybe a chest would spawn sometimes in a house, but opening it would frenzy the pigmen who would then attack you. The chest would contain some precious materials like you'd find in a dungeon, and also some nether-specific items (maybe nether gems or rare ores if those are added
-Ghast Nests
Near the top of the Nether, in tunnels dug into the Netherrack, would be several Ghasts along with the shiny objects and meat they collect from the unwary Overworld travellers they overpowered. (some storage device with diamonds, rare ores, diamond and iron tools, and other "shiny" things. As well as Raw Human Chops (yechh...) and Raw Pork Chops (pigmen))
This would be an awesome update to the Nether if it was added after the Adventure Update.
I thought, what if there was more variation? And I came up with some ideas for nether biomes. All of these are still the basic nether (i.e. a roof and floor/lava) but a bit different.
Biomes/Land features:
-Hellswamp:
A low, flat area, mostly open with some protrusions of netherrack/glowstone.. the ground is almost all soul sand or lava pools, basically like a hellish swamp with lava instead of water. Very little netherrack on the ground. Ghasts are a huge hazard here because of little cover, the slow speed from soul sand, and the threat of being knocked into lava.
-Plateau:
A raised area, mostly flat at the top, with some lavafalls and glowstone protrusions.
-Tunnels
What the nether looks like now.
-Glowstone Spire
A huge cluster of glowstone that extends from the floor almost to the ceiling, like a giant crystal formation.
-Lava river
A river of lava. Self-explanatory. Maybe later add a hostile mob that swims in it and an iron boat that can float in lava.
-Mushroom field
A large area covered in mushrooms.
-Dead Village
A blackened, twisted version of the Overworld villages. Small houses of black, rotten wood planks and Netherrack, many collapsed in on themselves or burning (permanently). Zombie Pigmen would live here along with dead, haunting trees (black/gray wood) with a few gray leaf blocks and dead shrubs. These would be usually on Plateaus. Maybe a chest would spawn sometimes in a house, but opening it would frenzy the pigmen who would then attack you. The chest would contain some precious materials like you'd find in a dungeon, and also some nether-specific items (maybe nether gems or rare ores if those are added
-Ghast Nests
Near the top of the Nether, in tunnels dug into the Netherrack, would be several Ghasts along with the shiny objects and meat they collect from the unwary Overworld travellers they overpowered. (some storage device with diamonds, rare ores, diamond and iron tools, and other "shiny" things. As well as Raw Human Chops (yechh...) and Raw Pork Chops (pigmen))
This would be an awesome update to the Nether if it was added after the Adventure Update.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/469172-new-nether-mobs/page__p__6192136__hl__nether__fromsearch__1#entry6192136