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Support! I think it's already possible to do this with player heads, so why not custom player NPCs too?

Quote from Deonyi

But what if a player changes their skin? Would mapmakers need to buy accounts, simply for the purpose of this or perhaps could they specify a URL to get the skin?

Mapmakers do that to obtain custom heads, too. Though I'm pretty sure Marc_IRL or someone made accounts with certain skins specifically for this purpose.

Anyway, I support. This would be great for mapmakers.

Quote from SVGK

i think there should be a few versions of them you can make, the normal passive one, the aggressive one, one that attacks you if you attack them first, one that follows you as a follower, and a tradeable function, making it possible to trade with them.

and finally, you can assign colored "tags" to any mob, meaning, you can make a "blue team", "red team" and "yellow team", and have some be peaceful towards certain colors, and angry with others, so you can make combat scenes, and you can assign players with a tag using command cubes, and assign the tags to animals, the skeleton hating guys, who have a "good" skeleton as a leader, just an example.

Yeah, that would all be great. The more customization the better.

Being able to add trades would be really useful. In addition to just using them as normal merchants, trades could let someone serve as a party member with special powers. For example, if you have someone being followed around by a "Priest" NPC ally, they could have a trade that lets players trade 10 rotten meat for a healing potion.

Great idea, this will be great for map makers. Support for this!

*cough* Cloning mod. There is actually a mod that you can already do that, but its's not as easy as just using a command and summoning it. I kinda like the hard work to gain your clones. You can even give them color teams and you can make them passive, fight each other, or fight you.

Quote from gyptoega

*cough* Cloning mod. There is actually a mod that you can already do that, but its's not as easy as just using a command and summoning it. I kinda like the hard work to gain your clones. You can even give them color teams and you can make them passive, fight each other, or fight you.

I'm not familiar with that mod. Does it require the person playing the map to have the mod, or just the creator? I assume the former. That makes it less useful for sharing an adventure map or server with lots of people, since each needs to download the mod.

Quote from gyptoega

*cough* Cloning mod. There is actually a mod that you can already do that, but its's not as easy as just using a command and summoning it. I kinda like the hard work to gain your clones. You can even give them color teams and you can make them passive, fight each other, or fight you.

1) I'm pretty sure that only works for clones of you if i know the mod you mean.
2) It's a mod. You have to download it.
3) This is for mapmakers. They aren't really the people who want to wait 45 seconds before the clone is made per clone.
4) "I kinda like the hard work" "not as easy as using a command" ......... Obviously people who use this command will be in survival. Right? Isn't it normal to have cheats enabled in survival?

Quote from Ouatcheur

Interesting, but I'd add this:

Step #1 You make the command. You also specifiy how many of the NPCs you want.

Step #2 The other player receives a message telling who asked how many NPCs, asking if he accepts.

By default, each player has his skin "Locked" and thus the command won't work. This is to avoid some players seeing their ski copied against their will.

An option in your command would be used to change the lock on the skin (used for all players), and to change the lock status only for specific players (three states: -1 just use current all players value, +1 always yes / 0 always no).

Why?
1) "OMG THIS GUY IS SO MEAN HE USED MY SKIN BECAUSE WITH MOB HEADS OH YEAH HE CAN SHOW WHAT MY HEAD LOOKS LIKE BUT NOT MY GLORIOUS BODY!"
2) "Yessssss, trolling time." *denydenydenydenydenydenydenydenydenydenydenydenydenydeny*
3) *singleplayer* "Hey, why isn't it letting me get a clone with a Sky skin?"
3a) Don't say they need to be on multiplayer, because do you really upload maps from multiplayer servers very often?
3a1) I doubt it would work across worlds/servers/TYPES OF GAMEPLAY! (singleplayer vs multiplayer)

I support, it sounds pretty cool.

Quote from aminecraftguy00

Mapmakers do that to obtain custom heads, too. Though I'm pretty sure Marc_IRL or someone made accounts with certain skins specifically for this purpose.

Anyway, I support. This would be great for mapmakers.

Yeah, there are some heads created by Mojang so they have no possibility of ever changing. They're listed on the wiki.

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Mob_head#Player_Heads

Perhaps Mojang could make some special accounts just to store a few various different NPC skins, which people can choose to use if they want something they know will be permanent. Obviously players can provide an infinite number of skins, but a few basic types of characters that could fit in many different worlds would be nice. Knight. Ninja. Pirate. Mummy. Wizard. King. Princess. Townsfolk. Modern soldier. Scientist. Cyborg. Etc.

If this suggestion added:
*Change skin to Scary ghost skin,make a Horror map then Evil laugh *

this suggestion not just Great for adventure map,its also usefull for making server toturial in Big server with the dialouge and who know that sethbling will create new mini games with this.

Support

I posted a topic similar, but I'm not gonna call out redundant because it is different. I would prefer to see mine implimented in the game because I gave them an action, an AI. And I called it a biped instead of player or human.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1893968-new-mob-biped-does-nothing-and-everything/page__hl__nsta8#entry23389481

Love the idea. It does seem a bit underdeveloped and simple, though. It couldn't hurt to flesh this idea out a bit more

Quote from OpelSpeedster

Definitely support!

As always, an excellent idea presented by Regular Hexahedron. Full support, all the way.

Quote from pinballboy7

Love the idea. It does seem a bit underdeveloped and simple, though. It couldn't hurt to flesh this idea out a bit more

What else do you think I should add?

Quote from Regular Hexahedron

What else do you think I should add?

To be honest, I don't know. I just feel it would be nice if the clones did more then wander around and possibly fight. Maybe add nbt tags to make them behave differently?

I like this idea a lot. Tons of mapmaking potential!

As far as permissions go---how about anyone with a paid account can upload a secondary skin or two to minecraft.net, which the game will use instead of the player's skin when creating a "clone" (maybe using a number value to specify the skin to be used, similar to leaves?). This would allow mapmakers to have a skin that wouldn't change without their permission, and they might not need to buy a new account.
And maybe players should be required to opt in for "cloning", say, by clicking a checkbox on their profile page.

Cool idea bro.

Quote from GrumpyDragon

I like this idea a lot. Tons of mapmaking potential!

As far as permissions go---how about anyone with a paid account can upload a secondary skin or two to minecraft.net, which the game will use instead of the player's skin when creating a "clone" (maybe using a number value to specify the skin to be used, similar to leaves?). This would allow mapmakers to have a skin that wouldn't change without their permission, and they might not need to buy a new account.
And maybe players should be required to opt in for "cloning", say, by clicking a checkbox on their profile page.

Interesting idea. That would be nice of course, but then Mojang would have to store more data. Not sure if that's a problem for them or not.

What if they had some special NBT tags like anger or trading? It would be simple AI since those aspects are already incorporated.

Other than that, EPIC SUPPORT.