The ancient fossilized remains of ancient beings from the minecraft world’s distant past can still cause instant death today, but they can also be a powerful tool.
May I suggest fossil creepers heads as an addition to the game; simply put, a fossil block deep underground that appears to be a creeper’s skull inside stone. The block would need to be identifiable as a fossil creeper head from all directions. These rare and valuable blocks can be gained from mining deep under most over-world biomes. They are not found in The End Realm. In fact they and any item enchanted by them will react very poorly in that realm by exploding! It would be a bad day to go to that realm wearing a newly anti-blast enchanted suit of armor, because you will blow up. Remind anyone of beds in certain realms?
These fossil creeper heads will be used specifically as an anti-explosive enchantment. Maybe they could be worn as a creeper skull helmet visually when a players armor is enchanted by them? They could also be used as an item to gain other favorable items from the villagers in trade. They would make living creepers not see you from far distance when you have on items enchanted by them, and make you blast proof from TNT or hidden creeper fossils. You may also enchant building materials with these items to make materials withstand explosives, effectively making enchanted anti-blast materials act like Obsidian when exposed to explosions. You could have anti-blast doors blast-proof glass even.
They can be found between the bedrock layer and up to level 30 underground. They are slightly rarer then diamond and they are never in groups of more then one block wherever they are found. These stone relics can only be mined carefully with diamond pickaxes, and the amount of time to mine them will take as long as obsidian with the proper tool. If using any other tool there would be a chance the relic would crumble into nothing or a much greater chance the tool would set off the ancient TNT charge still left in the relic and it could do up to half a normal creeper’s damage and the same blast radius without the warning hiss. Unlike TNT and the creeper, there would be almost no escape time for someone who set one of these off by accident. In fact the diamond pickaxe would be the only way to avoid setting these fossils off. Excavate at own risk! Also disturbing the blocks next to the fossil could also be potentially deadly. Mining lots of blocks at a high rate of speed and finding this item unexpectedly could be fatal if the explosion pushed you into lava or off a ledge. The explosive charge felt by these fossils should never be enough to directly kill a player who has at least leather armor and full health without some other reason such as lava or fall damage. Fire, lava, and redstone devices may be able to set off these fossils also. A person using TNT nearby could also set a hidden fossil off within the TNT blast radius.
Practical use; you could use these to hunt creepers for gunpowder because you would be able to sneak up much closer then normal to an unsuspecting creeper, and if the creeper did survive your attack the incoming explosion wouldn’t harm you. Just the area around you would take explosion damage. You could also lead creepers toward other players with no fear of death by the creepers in multi-player games. If using the building materials that are anti-blast enchanted, fortresses and strongholds would become much harder to blast apart, and you could survive another player’s attempt to send you to heaven in pieces.
These fossils or the items enchanted with them would need to be fragile to certain types of attacks. Attacks from zombies, spiders, and skeletons and other non-explosive mobs may destroy the enchantment or the items. If they are being worn as armor enchanted by these fossils, the armor would not have as much resistance to normal melee attacks as normal armor and more damage would be taken from things like lava.
Forgive me if you hate this idea. I know it is probably a horrible idea, bad concept, and impossible to implement into the game right? If it could be useful, I think this might lead to a fossil creeper return from the dead concept in some future Halloween edition. Give them the ability to come out of walls and chase people. That would scare the heck out of me if I encountered one during the game.
This actually sounds like a really neat idea except the part about using it to survive an explosion from a creeper. It seems a bit silly. Also what would you give them for enchantments seeing as it is really weak, maybe unbreaking...
Unbreaking 1- 1 to 2 extra times it can get damaged.
Unbreaking 2- 2 to 3 extra times it can get damaged and so on.
Another idea for this is in mine shafts, have fossilised cave spider heads in the wall. When you mine to fast in the proximity of one, it give you a poison effect somehow....
Overall, it's a fairly good idea. Support.
No support. I dont like idea of exploading at all but i like the primary idea of fosiles. I mean if it is ever going to be added it should be just for decoration not any special efects.
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Well to be honest I quite like this idea (personally I wouldn't mind fossils in Minecraft), I like how it was well balanced so that its not overpowered (as in the items enchanted with the fossil were fragile to other attacks), good job +1
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Damnit I got ninja'd by two people (double ninja'd as well as being the first time I've been ninja'd)
May I suggest fossil creepers heads as an addition to the game; simply put, a fossil block deep underground that appears to be a creeper’s skull inside stone. The block would need to be identifiable as a fossil creeper head from all directions. These rare and valuable blocks can be gained from mining deep under most over-world biomes. They are not found in The End Realm. In fact they and any item enchanted by them will react very poorly in that realm by exploding! It would be a bad day to go to that realm wearing a newly anti-blast enchanted suit of armor, because you will blow up. Remind anyone of beds in certain realms?
These fossil creeper heads will be used specifically as an anti-explosive enchantment. Maybe they could be worn as a creeper skull helmet visually when a players armor is enchanted by them? They could also be used as an item to gain other favorable items from the villagers in trade. They would make living creepers not see you from far distance when you have on items enchanted by them, and make you blast proof from TNT or hidden creeper fossils. You may also enchant building materials with these items to make materials withstand explosives, effectively making enchanted anti-blast materials act like Obsidian when exposed to explosions. You could have anti-blast doors blast-proof glass even.
They can be found between the bedrock layer and up to level 30 underground. They are slightly rarer then diamond and they are never in groups of more then one block wherever they are found. These stone relics can only be mined carefully with diamond pickaxes, and the amount of time to mine them will take as long as obsidian with the proper tool. If using any other tool there would be a chance the relic would crumble into nothing or a much greater chance the tool would set off the ancient TNT charge still left in the relic and it could do up to half a normal creeper’s damage and the same blast radius without the warning hiss. Unlike TNT and the creeper, there would be almost no escape time for someone who set one of these off by accident. In fact the diamond pickaxe would be the only way to avoid setting these fossils off. Excavate at own risk! Also disturbing the blocks next to the fossil could also be potentially deadly. Mining lots of blocks at a high rate of speed and finding this item unexpectedly could be fatal if the explosion pushed you into lava or off a ledge. The explosive charge felt by these fossils should never be enough to directly kill a player who has at least leather armor and full health without some other reason such as lava or fall damage. Fire, lava, and redstone devices may be able to set off these fossils also. A person using TNT nearby could also set a hidden fossil off within the TNT blast radius.
Practical use; you could use these to hunt creepers for gunpowder because you would be able to sneak up much closer then normal to an unsuspecting creeper, and if the creeper did survive your attack the incoming explosion wouldn’t harm you. Just the area around you would take explosion damage. You could also lead creepers toward other players with no fear of death by the creepers in multi-player games. If using the building materials that are anti-blast enchanted, fortresses and strongholds would become much harder to blast apart, and you could survive another player’s attempt to send you to heaven in pieces.
These fossils or the items enchanted with them would need to be fragile to certain types of attacks. Attacks from zombies, spiders, and skeletons and other non-explosive mobs may destroy the enchantment or the items. If they are being worn as armor enchanted by these fossils, the armor would not have as much resistance to normal melee attacks as normal armor and more damage would be taken from things like lava.
Forgive me if you hate this idea. I know it is probably a horrible idea, bad concept, and impossible to implement into the game right? If it could be useful, I think this might lead to a fossil creeper return from the dead concept in some future Halloween edition. Give them the ability to come out of walls and chase people. That would scare the heck out of me if I encountered one during the game.
Unbreaking 1- 1 to 2 extra times it can get damaged.
Unbreaking 2- 2 to 3 extra times it can get damaged and so on.
Another idea for this is in mine shafts, have fossilised cave spider heads in the wall. When you mine to fast in the proximity of one, it give you a poison effect somehow....
Overall, it's a fairly good idea. Support.
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Damnit I got ninja'd by two people (double ninja'd as well as being the first time I've been ninja'd)
Is it just me or do I just go around supporting random suggestions?