Strongholds only appear 3 times PER WORLD and they only appear within about 600 blocks to 1400 blocks from spawn. They should be able to spawn anywhere and there should be AT LEAST 10 for each world.
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Super Hostile maps I've completed: Spellbound Caves (Yeah, I pretty much suck.)
i think they should be harder, and i kinda like that they can spawn only 3 times per world, they would loose their "Pizzazz" if there was unlimited amount aloud to spawn.
They should remain the same rarity...but I mean, if you expand your world way past the third stronghold, it would be weird wouldnt it? That there are three strongholds within 2000 blocks of the spawn but none anywhere else in the entire world. Sounds a bit farfetched.
A more reasonable way to make it is every time a dungeon is about to be generated, generate a random number, so that 20% of the time, a stronghold generates instead of a dungeon. That way strongholds would appear all across the world, no matter how far from spawn.
Obviously the code would have to be tailored to match the seed number, so that the stronghold would be in the same place each generation. But that's fairly simple.
Super Hostile maps I've completed: Spellbound Caves (Yeah, I pretty much suck.)
Plus 1.9 will have unlimited strongholds.
A more reasonable way to make it is every time a dungeon is about to be generated, generate a random number, so that 20% of the time, a stronghold generates instead of a dungeon. That way strongholds would appear all across the world, no matter how far from spawn.
Obviously the code would have to be tailored to match the seed number, so that the stronghold would be in the same place each generation. But that's fairly simple.