Make a fire. With dynamic lighting coming soon (out now for you folks with expendable incomes... and jobs), fires will probably be introduced. So, why not make mobs afraid of fire?
Here's how I imagine it:
You build a medium-ish fire. For the radius that it puts out a decent amount of light, Mobs will not spawn (although a few brave ones may enter).
HOWEVER, to stop people from just spamming fires so no mobs will spawn ever, fires must be either:
A.) Difficult to build (Requiring wood as a fuel, metals to make a spark, and perhaps coal as a placeholder for flint)
B.) Burn out alot (This would be annoying, however)
C.) Put an arbitrary limit on the amount of fires one can have at once
A fourth possible alternative would be to put in a random weather cycle, and make rain douse every exposed fire.
I dunno, sounded better when I was mulling it over in my head. Now that I put it to text, it seems...
Add whatever you wish, just keep to constructive criticism.
Notch as previously mentioned that he will include something like a flag which can be placed to scare away mobs from that area. I cannot find the cite for this, but it's probably in the blog somewhere.
Land-claim flags
Note: Planting a flag (costs gold in survival?) claims an area of land. No monsters can spawn or die from age in that area, and only selected players can build in that area.
I do like the fire idea, though. It could repel monsters for as long as it's burning, in addition to the Land-Claim Flags, but that doesn't mean that it needs to have a longer life than initially intended.
Firestone? Just have flint blocks. You have to craft flintstones to make fire with them (basically craft the object that is currently on /indev/), and they could have a percentage chance of breaking every time they are used.
Maybe randomly get a flint block when mining stone?
Here's how I imagine it:
You build a medium-ish fire. For the radius that it puts out a decent amount of light, Mobs will not spawn (although a few brave ones may enter).
HOWEVER, to stop people from just spamming fires so no mobs will spawn ever, fires must be either:
A.) Difficult to build (Requiring wood as a fuel, metals to make a spark, and perhaps coal as a placeholder for flint)
B.) Burn out alot (This would be annoying, however)
C.) Put an arbitrary limit on the amount of fires one can have at once
A fourth possible alternative would be to put in a random weather cycle, and make rain douse every exposed fire.
I dunno, sounded better when I was mulling it over in my head. Now that I put it to text, it seems...
Add whatever you wish, just keep to constructive criticism.
But i bet we will be getting safe zones too.
Like I said, it replaces the Red Flower, so it's kinda funny stumbling across a field of them
I don't suppose there's any way that I can animate them?
http://www.minerwars.com/?aid=640
I would partially like that :biggrin.gif:
But if fire does burn up wood, it would HAVE TO be like TNT and be optional for servers...
The griefing potential O_o
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Curse PremiumNotch as previously mentioned that he will include something like a flag which can be placed to scare away mobs from that area. I cannot find the cite for this, but it's probably in the blog somewhere.
Ha! My crystal ball was right!
I do like the fire idea, though. It could repel monsters for as long as it's burning, in addition to the Land-Claim Flags, but that doesn't mean that it needs to have a longer life than initially intended.
In creative mode fire should be unlimited like the other blocks
but for survival you need to do something FOR the fire
like:
-getting leaves and wood from a tree
-place them next to lava for drying (this is just a lil thought theres no need for it but it will make fire rare and valuable)
-mining a new block type: Firestone, which is really very rare and needs some time for mining, like obsidian or dunno.(you need two pices)
-then crafting (if its unlocked) leaves and wood for fireable stuff
-and then use all of it together for making a fire. (after using youve lost all, firestone and wood stuff
after this youve got a nice fire. you can ignite some other wood without firestone now.
those are just written down in some seconds so dont flame me done
Maybe randomly get a flint block when mining stone?