So it starts with you crafting a fancy compass with enderpearls and iron. This is no ordinary compass, it seems to point in a direction different than your spawn. You follow it until your there, but there isn't a thing in sight. You get the idea of digging underground, and success, you find an abandoned mineshaft! In a chest the compass was pointing to there's a ripped piece of paper (1 of 6). It says "If I only had a second chance". With it there's another compass that looks similiar to the one you have. And the search is on.
Following countless compasses and exploring many abandoned mineshafts you find 6 scraps of papers, this is what each one will say:
1: "If I only had a second chance."
2: "It was supposed to help us, not destroy us."
3: "The Red Moon rose, and that's when I knew it was all over."
4: "I created it, now I must destroy it."
5: "I have a plan, to save the few who still remain."
6: "The portal is opened, the innocent flee. I will stay behind and disable the portal. I could have stopped this nightmare."
The idea is that whoever is wrote these scraps of paper lived in the current place known as the Nether but used to be a nice, peaceful land. He created the first portal between the Nether and the Overworld and let villagers escape through the portal to minecraft. To further the storyline you must speak with an elder of one of the villages in the Overworld. The elder tells you that if you truly want to know what happened, you must look through the mirror he gives you. What you see through the mirror is the following:
The rolling grasslands are scattered with playing children, smiles, and spring air. That night all the houses in a great kingdom go out, and a red moon rises. Two scientists work with great haste in the castle's dungeon, and they put redstone into the mouths of various dead animals and humans. The flip of the lever and the ground shakes, the red moon in the sky spins fast. The humans are morphed into zombie pigman, enderman, or skeletons as multiple animals morph into one creeper and a ghast. The mutations attack the scientists and the kingdom quickly turns into a burning nightmare as the years pass. A brief montage shows the scientist creating the portal and letting the last civilians go free. He disables the portal as soon as the creatures of the Nether begin to attack.
As you come out of the cinematic it is night and a red moon is in the sky, the villagers are screaming and running from the monsters of the night. Just outside of the town is a red Nether portal and a grey enderman with red eyes steps out the portal. Save the twon and disable the portal to the Nether! Killing the extremely strong enderman causes his minions attacking the town and the portal to explode. You have defeated the first boss mob ever. The moon returns to its normal color and the villagers cheer!
As a token of thanks, the elder gives you a full diamond toolset and a sword with rune etchings on it. The elder says the true nightmare lies inside the Nether. The end?
Maybe it will be an optional world setting. Please leave comments/suggestions!
A fancy compass could be eerie and not very accurate, like a Nether compass but it very subtle-y sets on the right direction every once in a while.
And ripped paper telling of eerie storylines would be a very nice addition to the game and need for exploration. As long as they don't get old and there are different ones in every world.
Also, cutscenes and extended story would knock me out from awesomeness.
That is a fantastic idea. It's interesting to think of any kind of storyline for minecraft. There should be some way of implementing a storyline, like what you did, or what vechs does with his maps.
Not necessarily the main game, but possibly a mod that allows users to create stories within the minecraft world.
I like the idea of scraps of paper with mysterious notes on them, but the rest seems a little over-the-top. IMO, it'd be better if the player just discovered the events of a civilization long gone. But the other stuff just makes Minecraft more of an RPG than a sandbox game.
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If this could be done as a specific map, then I would approve. Otherwise, I don't think it would work for Minecraft. With this story, as loose as it is, it would become the focus of the game. Everything else that is a part of Minecraft as of now, building, mining, crafting, the like, would all become secondary. In order to play the game to its fullest, everyone would have to play the same way. And I don't believe that's what Minecraft is about. Plus, the story would be the same for every world, so there would be no surprises, and Minecraft would lose a lot of replayablity since the only purpose of a world would be to find the paper and get to the elder, ect, ect. It would just be the same thing over and over again. It would be putting players on a railroad, and I don't like it.
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This is far from being a "loose" story. A loose story would be "You feel a slight tingling sensation, and then emptiness. You awake, to find yourself in a strange new land [Text fades away, 1st-person view fades in]," not a full-on quest.
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So it starts with you crafting a fancy compass with enderpearls and iron. This is no ordinary compass, it seems to point in a direction different than your spawn. You follow it until your there, but there isn't a thing in sight. You get the idea of digging underground, and success, you find an abandoned mineshaft! In a chest the compass was pointing to there's a ripped piece of paper (1 of 6). It says "If I only had a second chance". With it there's another compass that looks similiar to the one you have. And the search is on.
Following countless compasses and exploring many abandoned mineshafts you find 6 scraps of papers, this is what each one will say:
1: "If I only had a second chance."
2: "It was supposed to help us, not destroy us."
3: "The Red Moon rose, and that's when I knew it was all over."
4: "I created it, now I must destroy it."
5: "I have a plan, to save the few who still remain."
6: "The portal is opened, the innocent flee. I will stay behind and disable the portal. I could have stopped this nightmare."
The idea is that whoever is wrote these scraps of paper lived in the current place known as the Nether but used to be a nice, peaceful land. He created the first portal between the Nether and the Overworld and let villagers escape through the portal to minecraft. To further the storyline you must speak with an elder of one of the villages in the Overworld. The elder tells you that if you truly want to know what happened, you must look through the mirror he gives you. What you see through the mirror is the following:
The rolling grasslands are scattered with playing children, smiles, and spring air. That night all the houses in a great kingdom go out, and a red moon rises. Two scientists work with great haste in the castle's dungeon, and they put redstone into the mouths of various dead animals and humans. The flip of the lever and the ground shakes, the red moon in the sky spins fast. The humans are morphed into zombie pigman, enderman, or skeletons as multiple animals morph into one creeper and a ghast. The mutations attack the scientists and the kingdom quickly turns into a burning nightmare as the years pass. A brief montage shows the scientist creating the portal and letting the last civilians go free. He disables the portal as soon as the creatures of the Nether begin to attack.
As you come out of the cinematic it is night and a red moon is in the sky, the villagers are screaming and running from the monsters of the night. Just outside of the town is a red Nether portal and a grey enderman with red eyes steps out the portal. Save the twon and disable the portal to the Nether! Killing the extremely strong enderman causes his minions attacking the town and the portal to explode. You have defeated the first boss mob ever. The moon returns to its normal color and the villagers cheer!
As a token of thanks, the elder gives you a full diamond toolset and a sword with rune etchings on it. The elder says the true nightmare lies inside the Nether. The end?
Maybe it will be an optional world setting. Please leave comments/suggestions!
A fancy compass could be eerie and not very accurate, like a Nether compass but it very subtle-y sets on the right direction every once in a while.
And ripped paper telling of eerie storylines would be a very nice addition to the game and need for exploration. As long as they don't get old and there are different ones in every world.
Also, cutscenes and extended story would knock me out from awesomeness.
Not necessarily the main game, but possibly a mod that allows users to create stories within the minecraft world.
Bearier -noun- A large wall composed entirely of grizzly bears.