Well, let's bring this back with some creature ideas.

Coatis: Small raccoon-like animal with red fur and a long tail held upright like a flagpole. Spawns in groups in savannas and jungles. Can be tamed with fruit, insects, and/or eggs.

Monitor lizards:

- Megalania: A massive cousin to the Komodo dragon, with reddish-brown scales striped with red-brown. Roughly in between a grizzly bear or polar bear on all fours at shoulder height and longer than a crocodile, these huge creatures live in the savannas, red mesas, and rarely in deserts - they deal a hell of a lot of damage and inflict slowness with their attacks, making them extremely dangerous foes.... and useful mounts.

- Silawik dragon: About the same size as a Komodo dragon, but slinkier and sleeker, maybe a bit longer, and with a pale straw-yellow coloration with a brown line down the spine and similarly-colored stripes branching off from it. Spawns in savanna biomes.

- Perentie: Slightly smaller than a normal Komodo dragon. Spawns in deserts.

Antelope: Fast-moving herding animals that live in various biomes and flee from players that get close like zebras, best hunted with a bow and arrow. All of the animals listed below drop leather and antelope meat (Fills as much of the hunger bar as pork, but drops is pretty decent amounts). Maybe they can be lead around with sheared grass?

-Thompson's gazelle: Roughly the size of a goat, one of the fastest examples. Spawns in savanna.

-Springbok: Very fast, in between a cow and a sheep in terms of size, able to leap great distances. Spawns in savanna and red mesa.

-Bongo: Beautifully-colored antelope that's more solitary than the others. Spawns in jungles.

-Blackbuck: Males will attack the player for a fair amount of damage - say, one to one and a half hearts. Spawns in plains.

-Dorcas gazelle: Fairly small and plentiful, only dropping one or two items, either meat or leather, never both at once. Spawns in savannas.

-Saiga antelope: Quite stocky, making loud noises. Spawns in extreme hills.

-Klipspringer: Very tiny, able to climb very well - maybe it can walk up blocks like a spider? Spawns in extreme hills.

-Grant's gazelle: Spawns in savannas, maybe red mesa biomes. Males can attack like the male blackbucks can.

-Lechwe: Attacks are about as strong as the blackbuck's. Spawns in swamps.

-Hartebeest: Fairly large - maybe it can be ridden? Spawns in savannas.

-Wildebeest: Moves in large herds, often hunted by lions and other predators. Spawns in savannas.

-Gemsbok: Attacks for 1-3 hearts of damage with each attack. Spawns in savannas and/or red mesas.

-Blesbock: Spawns in hill biomes.

-Roan antelope: Spawns in savannas.

-Dik-diks: Tiny antelope about the size of rabbits. Spawns in savannas and jungles.

-Sable antelope: Attacks are as strong as a gemsbok's. Spawns in savannas.

-Giant sable antelope: Can be ridden like a horse after being fed enough wheat to tame it. Spawns in savannas.

-Addax. Spawns in deserts, males will attack like some of the other antelope will.

-Scimitar oryx: Spawns in deserts, very rare.

-Gerenuk: Has a custom animation where it rears up onto its hind legs. Spawns in savannas.

-Giant eland: Very large, able to attack for 1-3 points of damage. Spawns in savannas. Can be ridden.

-Greater kudu: Attacks like the giant eland does. Spawns in savannas. Can be ridden.

It's been a long time, hasn't it? Well, no time like the present to start anew. As of now, I'm bringing this thread back.

First off, an idea for goats:

Instead of destroying items when they eat them, they should have a 'digestion' timer - aka how long it takes for that item to be destroyed. Dirt, seeds, and other organic items aren't affected, but metal or diamond materials take quite a while to digest. If you can kill the goat before that timer is up, you can get your stuff back, albeit a bit damaged.

Second, I would like to submit a two-part suggestion: first off, to have different types of big cats have slightly different stats (Tigers have more health, leopards can climb easier, cheetahs are faster, etc.). And second, I would like to suggest that jaguars be added as part of the big cats. They'd be in between lions and leopards in terms of strength, and mainly found in jungle biomes, as well as very good at swimming. Gotta have your murdercats, man!

Come to think of it, why not add a couple of extinct cat species? I know just the two for the job:

-Cave Lion: In between a lion and a tiger in size and strength, these guys live in taiga and tundra biomes, with shaggy brown-and-white coats.

-Smilodon: Largest of all big cats, even exceeding tigers in size, these tawny giants are big enough for an extra chest to be put on them, and they do extra damage against big animals like elephants and mammoths. Can be crossbred with other cats to make bigger saber-toothed versions of those cats (Including a literal sabretooth tiger)

In addition, the sabre cats would have a couple of rare species:

-Shadesaber: Either spawning in the dark forest or made by giving a Smilodon an Essence of Darkness. Charcoal grey in color, these guys are totally silent when they move and can leap great distances to take down prey. They also inflict blindness and, rarely, wither on their prey.

-Snowsaber: Shaggy cold-dwelling subspecies.

-Hellsaber: A giant among giants, these titanic predators are the largest and the deadliest of the special sabertooth subspecies. Found in the Nether, their fur is a bloody crimson in color, striped with obsidian black like a tiger. The forelimbs are considerably larger than the hind legs, and a mane of fur runs from the back of the head down to between the shoulders, while a long, thin serpentine tail constantly lashes through the air behind the creature. Anything it hits catches fire, and it's extremely tough, taking no knockback and being immune to fire and wither effects.

Next, some subspecies for crocodiles:

-Nile crocodile (Current one)

-Cuban crocodile (Rare, slightly smaller than normal crocodile, more colorful)

-Saltwater crocodile (Largest crocodile variant, found on beaches and in oceans)

-Dwarf crocodile (Smallest variant, found in jungles)

-Freshwater crocodile (Fastest one of them all on land)

An alligator would also be cool. They'd be darker in color and a bit smaller than regular crocodiles, as well as with a shorter, blunter snout. They'd primarily be found in swamps, but they do have a subspecies: the cave alligator. Pale clammy greyish-white, larger than the average alligator, and with no eyes, these creatures would be hyper-aggressive, with higher health than regular alligators, but being intolerant of light (They flee from it; would need special coding)

Perhaps as a subspecies, they could have caimans; smaller and less aggressive than regular alligators, they would be found in jungle biomes.

Also, maybe give crocodiles a proper swimming animation. At the moment, they look really weird when they 'swim'. Ooh, maybe they could leap out of the water to snatch birds?

But what would crocodiles be without a giant subspecies? Introducing the Ticktock. Rare to the extreme, this gigantic crocodilian is based on the crocodile of the same name from Peter Pan, as well as the real-life giant croc known as Gustave, an immense Nile crocodile that has killed more people than any serial killer in history, and the prehistoric crocodilians Crocodylus anthropophagous and Crocodylus thorbarnarsoni, two gigantic prehistoric crocs that lived alongside -and preyed upon - early humans. One and a half times as large as a saltwater crocodile, this monster reptile has several unique attacks - it can ram with its snout to destroy boats and knock back players, whip its tail to attack those trying to kill it from behind, and chomp away with its massive jaws. When killed, it drops a ton of crocodile leather, the bones and rotting flesh of its prey, and a small fortune's worth of gold nuggets from when it devoured an ancient treasure chest, as well as, rarely, a clock or two.

The next idea I have is for rhinoceroses. Big, burly animals only exceeded in size by elephants, these savanna herbivores are neutral, but they're also territorial - get too close for too long, and they will charge you. Despite their size, they can move quite quickly, and they don't take knockback. Can be tamed with a shitload of wheat, although young ones can be tamed with apples (Good luck getting it away from momma, though). Once tamed, you can saddle them and put chests on their backs, as well as special coverings for the horns, like with elephants and their tusk armor.

Three subspecies exist:

-Jungle rhinoceros: Smaller than the normal rhino, will flee rather than fight, but will attack if cornered. Found in jungles, based on Javan rhinoceros.

-Durer's rhinoceros: Covered in bony metallic-grey armor, found in extreme hills biomes. Lots more health, lots more damage.

-Woolly rhinocers: Largest of them all, found in tundra and taiga.

Next: An idea for werewolves

There are actually lunar cycles in Minecraft - maybe werewolves could get a strength or speed boost during full moons and a debuff during new moons?

Also, a note for zebras: Maybe they could spawn in the savanna biome more frequently than regular horses do?

Next up: Giant slugs!

You can never have too many giant insects, and the caves need some more cuddly things. The giant slug is there to solve both problems! About the size of a cow, these guys are ridiculously slow, but they're versatile: they can climb walls and even ceilings easily, and their soft bodies mean that they don't take fall damage and they can squeeze through one-block-wide holes. When killed, they drop slugflesh (Gives nausea when eaten raw, but when cooked, it's quite filling), slimeballs, and slime sheets - stick it onto the side or bottom of a block, and you've got essentially an upgraded ladder. Thanks to their sticky bodies, slugs don't need a saddle to be ridden: just right-click on them with a leaf on a stick (Crafted like a carrot on a stick, but with a leaf block or sapling of any kind instead of, well, a carrot) and you're good to go! Going too slow for you? Give the slug a piece of sugar (Maybe a sugar cube?) and its speed increases by 25%, maxing out at about the same speed as a Tier 2 horse (Takes a ton of sugar, obviously.) Also, when you're attacking these guys, there's a low chance that your sword will get stuck in the slug's flesh, wrenching it from your hands. The weapon will drop when the slug is killed, but it can still be very irritating.

I know that an update's on the way, but I'd like to leave these suggestions anyway.

Horseshoe crabs: Living fossils that spawn on beaches.

Trilobites: Basically a bottom-crawling equivalent to ammonites

Mawsonia: A nice big fish for the Sarcosuchus and Spinosaurus.

Parasaurolophus: This mod has yet to have a single hadrosaur in it. This needs to change.

Corythosaurus: Same reasoning as above.

Edmontosaurus: See above reason. Plus, it would be a good food item for the T-rex.

Chalicotherium: These big lovable guys would make good, if a bit weird, additions to the mod's lineup of mammals.

Deinocheirus: This guy's so weird, it has to have a place in any suggestion list for this mod!

Protoceratops: A rival to the Velociraptor, and a smaller, cuter version of the Triceratops.

How about some stone carvings?

Ooh, how about this mod?

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1284746-1-6-4-witches-and-more-v164dev12-by-chancebozey-a

With a bit of work, these guys would fit perfectly in this mod!

Also, I found some more old ideas for mods that would work well in Primitive Mobs:

Um, the Wendigo from those sources isn't actually very similar to the one from the legends.

At first glance, you probably rolled your eyes when you saw this. "Oh, look," you probably thought to yourself. "Yet another Jurassicraft ripoff with no progress whatsoever being made on it." But appearances can be deceiving: welcome to the Primordial Land: A dimension where time stands still,

Getting to the Primordial Land

OK, that welcome is a bit early: you still need to get to the Primordial Land dimension first. How do you get there, you ask? Simple! All you need to do is find an Ancient Temple, a structure spawning in jungles that at first glance looks very similar to the vanilla jungle temple. But instead of the usual traps and treasure, the Ancient Temple houses a large statue-the Victorian Sculpture. Looking like a much smaller version of the dinosaur statues that were built for the Crystal Palace, these statues-which can be picked up and moved elsewhere-are activated by tossing two Eyes of Ender onto them: don't use them, just throw them onto the statue. The two orbs will fill the empty eye sockets of the statue, allowing it to activate. Now, simply right-click the statue with an empty hand to be teleported into the Primordial Land!

Terrain

The terrain of the Primordial Land is essentially that of the stereotypical lost world, with swamps and jungles covering most of its surface.

List of biomes:

-Primordial Swamp: This biome is covered by large trees that block out most light, leaving only small clearings of sunlight shining onto the ground. Ponds and lakes dot the swamps, and the ground is thick with mosses and ferns. The main animals here are dinosaurs, giant insects, a few carnivorous plants, and primordial aquatic beasts.

-Primal Jungle: Very similar to the Ancient Swamp, the Primal Jungle has fewer waterways than the swamp, but is much more dense with greenery. Trees twice as large as any giant jungle tree grow everywhere; the ground is cloaked in moss, ferns, and grasses; and the understory is composed of trees, giant mushrooms, tree ferns, and dozens of other large plants. The main species here are dinosaurs of immense size, as well as carnivorous plants and a few large mammals.

-Timeless Depths: The seas of the Primordial Land are home to massive sea monsters, sunken ruins, and forests of immense kelp. Some of the largest creatures in the mod live in this biome, and sailing across it is a risky endeavor.

-Prehistoric Plains: These large, open areas are covered in short grasses and ferns, constantly trimmed down by the many large animals of the area. Large mammals are fairly common here, but large dinosaurs also roam this region.

-Volcanic Mountains: Tall mountains composed of dark volcanic stone, the Volcanic Mountains biome is an imposing place indeed, with lakes of lava on the peaks of the mountains and large cave systems honeycombing their interiors. This region is home to a multitude of flying reptiles, and even a few immense apes.

Mobs

(Note: none of these images belong to me. They are creatures that I want to base the mobs of the Primordial Land off of.)

Megalosaur

Image:

(Mod version would have more armor plating down the back)

Health: 25 hearts

Alignment: Neutral

Attack strength: 4-6 damage

Spawns in: Primordial Swamp

Drops: Dinosaur hide, dinosaur meat, dinosaur tooth

A colossal crocodilian predator, megalosaurus are amphibious predators that hide underneath the surface of the water, bursting out to attack passing prey. Slow-moving on land, it is possible to put a megalosaur to good use: if it is somehow lured into a moat or an ocean, it makes an excellent way to stop monsters-and rival players!-from approaching by water.

I can't wait to see what this mod will turn out to be! Personally, I want to see the creation of entirely new creatures with genetics, maybe even combining the ecology aspect of the mod to create entire artificial food webs! It would also be cool to see prehistoric animals being recreated with modern animals' DNA-things like ankylosaurs made from armadillo and turtle, chicken-dinosaur hybrids, tyrannosaurs made from crocodiles, monitor lizards, ostriches, and kangaroos, etc.

Full support! Villages need more love (And if you ask me, more types of building)

If you want, I could design a couple of new wells.

I have some ideas for the mod:

Alright, so there's this idea I've been working on for the past few weeks. You heard me, weeks. Basically, it's boats. Boats than you can make bigger, slap a name on, armor, choose what propulsion system it has, and carry stuff in.

Full idea in spoiler:

Boats Evolved; bigger, modular boats (Watch out --- huge!)

Okay guys. Just a slight disclaimer, the explanation for this idea is going to be *HUGE*. The idea itself may be simpler, but the description will take a long time to explain. In a nutshell, it's bigger boats that are also modular.
So we'll start with a slight modification of a game mechanic. Otherwise, the idea won't work very well. So just keep in mind that in this idea, you can't push a boat around by standing on top of it. At least just for the higher-level classes, which we'll get to in a minute.
Also, upon entering a boat, a GUI will appear somewhere around the bottom-right or so that displays the ships 'health', and speed.



Before we go overboard (no pun intended), let's begin with some basic principles that can be applied to the current boat. Let's call it the Dinghy. You can't do too terribly much with the Dinghy, but you CAN do some things.
Dinghies can be crafted just like they normally are. However to modify a boat, a new tool will have to be brought into the game. Let's say it's a Hammer. Right-clicking on a boat with a hammer, granted you're the one that built it will open up a GUI.



Like I said before the abilities with the Dinghy are limited, so you have limited things that pop up in the GUI. All that displays for now is the hull, propulsion system, and their respective health bars. You can also give your boat its own custom name that appears on its hull (But this probably won't be for the Dinghy). You will also notice two numbers at the top. On the left (12/12), is the boat's hitpoints. I doubled their damage resistance because I thought it was kind of silly to kill a boat with one arrow. To the right (1) is the ship's base speed attribute. That is to say, the speed capability of a boat, excluding the propulsion system. Boat stats will vary upon each construction. Therefore someone can be proud of themselves if they have made a fast/strong ship.

Normally, you have your standard, nonreinforced plank hull. However, you could change that. Let's start with a Reinforced Wood Hull. In the crafting table, put in 9 pieces of log together to form a piece of Reinforced Wood Plating. Dinghies will probably only need one plate to reinforce themselves. Plating will probably not be stackable for gameplay purposes.
Reinforced wood will provide a higher defense for the dinghy. Two more types of hull include Steel and Gold. Steel Plating requires 4 Iron blocks in the crafting table, and Gold likewise. With a steel-plated hull, the boat can take considerably more damage than Plank or Wood. Steel hulls can possibly withstand lava. Gold plating is only slightly stronger than Reinforced Wood and is not feasible as battle armor. However, just in case you were thinking these hulls are easy to reinforce, keep in mind higher levels will need more plating as they get bigger.



When a boat is damaged, simply right-click with the Hammer to open up the GUI. There should be a slot for extra plating to go in should the ship need repair. To ensure fair fights, the repair will be timed, like a furnace. Each repair uses up the Hammer some. It would also be nice to see some sort of visual cue for an almost-destroyed ship, like fire or a broken, damaged texture.

And now, the propulsion systems.

With the default dinghy, you have your Hands. Hands for a dinghy are basically neutral, however they will be slower than in previous versions of the game.
An alternative solution, is craftable Oars. Oars are very maneuverable and faster than hands, however they do not grant a steady speed and require you to hold down the forward button whenever you want to move. They may even 'tire' you out more (using up more Hunger).



The last one for the Dinghy, is the sail. Sails can provide very fast speeds, however they have low thrust and are not easy to slow down and speed up easily. A steady speed is required for traversing around land-covered areas. Sails can also possibly be made with different colored wool, to help a boat stand out. Sails grant a steady speed as you can leave them unattended with very little deceleration.



So now we move on to a bigger boat. Not too terribly big, but we're getting there.

To construct larger ships and propulsion systems, you're going to need an alternative to the crafting table. Let's just call it the Shipwright. This block ONLY crafts boats and takes up more blocks of space.



I think for a new level of boat, you're going to need some Blueprints. Blueprints can most likely be created by interacting with the Shipwright by combining a blueprint (Or in this case, a solid Dinghy) and investing your Experience Points to come up with a new 'idea' for a bigger boat. The 'studying' is timed, again, like a furnace, and with each clump of EP filled, the progress bar is filled some. You can also find Blueprints in dungeons, but only rarely.
After that will be done, the Blueprints can be put in a separate slot, with another slot under it. The slot under it is for the wood required to build the boat. Every time you put more wood into the slot under it, the progress bar for the ship increases. I'm not sure if this should be the way but it sounds pretty good.
I think that for each class of boat, a bigger mast will need to be crafted. That, or just have one single mast that, for bigger boats, you need to pack in more Sails. Kind of like how plating works.



So now, the next level: the Skiff.

The skiff is *about* 2 1/2 times the length of the Dinghy. However, with the next level comes new features. First off is a second slot, a passenger seat if you will. But besides that, there are two more features.



Here, there will be special lots to place blocks at. These could be something decorative like gold blocks, or practical, like chests.



To place a block in there, logically you would right click on that one place with the block. It's possible the block lot will be highlighted by the Hammer to show you where you can place things. To get it out, leftclick with the Hammer and it will appear in your inventory. If blocks aren't your fancy, perhaps animals are. Here is where the extra space in the GUI comes in. There would be a list of all the entities in the boat. If they are NPCs, you can choose to move them to another slot, or evict them. You can also evict players, but not move them[amended].



With the Skiff, you have an additional propulsion system. I'm not sure about this one so I'm going to need you guys' approval. Essentially, it is a steam-powered paddlewheel. The steam engine will need to be powered by coal, which will either have a furnace-like GUI or not. It is also be slightly less maneuverable than the Sail. The steam engine, like Sails, grant a steady speed and can be left unattended. They have perfect acceleration, however they are much slower than Sails.



For armoring, the Skiff will need more plates to sufficiently armor the boat. Possibly two or three.
The skiff will most likely be the largest boat to successfully navigate shallow marshlands and the like.



Now, for the adventurous sailor, we're going to go one step up. Meet the Cog. The Cog is a fair-sized boat, but it is hardly big. What is does have though is a top deck large enough to walk upon. Now, we're going to introduce another feature. This time, the Cog will have a lower deck. You could be able to place a few blocks in that bottom deck, such as beds and chests. This will be good for long adventures. If you aren't spoiled, you would be happy with a Cog for your adventuring needs. Hands are now unusable.
For gameplay, an invisible, penetrable box will be in the interiors of the ship that hides water and its effects when water blocks go near it, but as soon as they leave the water blocks return to normal.



Now here, starting with the Cog, is the boat's main means of offense and defense. You guessed it, the Cannon. I believe the cannon could be made with a crafting table. To fire (And right now I'm making most of this up as I go along), you must first craft a Cannonball (Maximum of 16 allowed in hand), and right click on the cannon. The cannon will fizz for about 2.5 seconds or more before firing the cannonball. You must wait an additional second to fire again. To adjust the angle of a cannon, rightclick it (without a cannonball) to point the cannon up or down.



Now with ships and other entities, contact with the cannonball will just equal damage being dealt. But with blocks, there is a chance (Depending on their blast resistance) that the block being hit, and/or the blocks around it will be pushed forward and respond to gravity. And in rare cases, break upon falling.
That, or it would just be a weak form of TNT. But I like the former better. Mostly because it's my idea. Good gosh I think I'm vain or something.
So like I said, if you aren't spoiled, you would be happy with a Cog for your adventuring needs.



But sometimes, you ARE spoiled. Or, just requiring a bit more power. That's where the fourth level comes in, behold: the Carrack. Significantly larger than the other boats, this one can actually be called a ship. It has 3 decks. The first being the top deck (Which comprises of the main deck, quarter and poop, naturally), the second the gun deck, which to the back holds the captain's quarters, and the bottom deck is mainly for cargo. If the Carrack is steampowered the boiler room will be in there.





Oars are now unusable for the Carrack, as are Hands for Cogs. (The Oars for the Cogs would be weaker than on the Skiff and Dinghy, as would hands with the Skiff. However with the Steam engine and Sail, they just get faster with each level, with exceptions [amended])
Another neat thing you get to do with the Carrack is you get to live up to the naval definiton of a ship. On the Carrack, you can place another boat inside it for scouting/lifeboats. But it can only be a Skiff or Dinghy.



Okay, next one. Here we go.



(This level is optional. You guys tell me if it should be ingame.)

Now sometimes, your lust for power is so great no measly Carrack can hold it; not even when it is steel-hulled and armed to the teeth. No, you wish for the very seas to obey your will. Well, you psychopath, here's the fix for you: Feast your eyes sir, on the Galleon. Over twice the size of a Carrack, four long decks and plenty of guns, you would not want to war with this vessel. It is essentially a Carrack on steroids; bigger, stronger (but not faster [amended]), and scarier. But, slightly slower. Should you decide to armor it, keep in mind it will need 8 Platings to armor (Maybe more). And considering each plating requires 4 blocks to fill, you're going to need a LOT of iron.



When a ship finally loses all of it's 'health', it will sink to the bottom of the sea. Here, it is subject to despawn, but will stay there as long as there is a player near it. Although dangerous, it would then be available for looting, if you haven't plundered the ship while it was afloat already. < --- This entire paragraph is subject to discussion and alternative options. It's also been proposed that the ship turn into it's block counterpart, only leave chests, or like in the Amendment Posts, leaves a Ship's Bell that can serve as a savegame for your ship.

Now, I understand that such a feature is going to be *HUGE*, possibly requiring its own update, and would be just a massive undertaking. But I for one believe it will be an undertaking worth the effort. It would heighten the spirit of Minecraft adventure and exploration, people could trade vast amounts of resources over long distances, and plunder other ships for their booty. So I'm not 100% expecting this to be accepted entirely (But if it is, thankyouthankyouthankyou!), but in the future if any modders were curious about how to go about doing their ship mod, this could be a good example. But I really hope this would at least be seen by Mojang. Just two-thirds into completing this idea, I read an old tweet of Notch saying that he might add something like this in the future. So, if you are, this could be one of the ways to go about it.


Any questions?

Amendment Post 1:
- In the Shipwright GUI, the product slot of the boatbuilding section is now a button. I've updated the image.

- Craftable ship components should have been expanded. In addition to a Galley, an Anchor component (probably most vital) is also one of them. Also proposed by the community are tables, crows' nests (That basket thing on the top of masts), icebreakers, and if the NPC crew idea is implemented, a sea captain's desk to chart courses for the helmsman.

- I actually think you should be able to move players. I mean, if they actually decided to choose to lock themselves in a mob slot rather than move around freely I think the captain should be free to move them wherever.
Amendment Post 2:
- Galleons really shouldn't be the fastest ships out there, it would be unfair. Instead, their base speed capability should be a tiny bit slower than a Carrack, probably. Updated.

- Right clicking on a cannon without a cannonball could point the cannon up/down. Updated.

- Different types of ships that do not follow the linear 5-level path of upgrades. Instead, 'extra' ship blueprints could be found in dungeons in strongholds, but they would be rare. Could be a way to get Caravels and viking ships or whatnot.

- I'm not sure about the decay process of sunken ships. Perhaps after someone leaves the ship's general area, a timer starts and eventually the ship will despawn. Or maybe it just stays there forever but can be 'mined' away to recollect valuable materials.
Amendment Post 3 (Note: These are not as important as the first 2) :
- Flags. Although I'm sure colored sails can do a good job of faction identification, custom-made flags would be really great to have. They could be used outside of boats, too.

- Extra ammo types. The standard cannonball would be made of stone and gunpowder, but others could be made out of iron and other materials. The new usable fireball coming 1.2 would also make a neat incendiary addition. Other types can inclde grapeshot and chainshot.

- Sea monsters. Pretty straightforward, I'd like to see some minor sea bosses when roaming the sea. But in my opinion, they should be restricted to certain sizes of ships (Dinghies have no bosses). For example the ship the size of a Skiff would probably only get a shark or something, whereas something Cog-sized would get sharks and sea serpents, medium-sized ships like the Carrack would get sea serpents and maybe giant octopus (Will wrap tentacles around the ship and begin to tug down unless tentacles are damaged), etc...They are, however, uncommon.

- A ship's bell. Yes, they can be used as a normal bell, but there's something that makes them special. Once placed on a ship, it bears the ship's name and can ONLY be placed on that ship (e.g Bell of the S.S Whatchamacallit). Then, if a sunken ship despawns, that bell is turned into a block at the bottom of the ocean and contains all of the ship's data. Then, it can be used to recreate the ship.

- Sea obstacles. The ocean would be made that much better if occasionally you stumbled upon a mini-biome within an ocean. These could be mysterious sea rocks, or icebergs made of pack ice where a tundra or arctic biome would usually be.

And the Reddit post is here:

http://www.reddit.co..._modular_boats/ (Archived)


*EDIT*

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Barteksx2 ~ Programmer

Jozufozu ~ Programmer

zoombaz ~ Artist

Thank you for the help, and the suggestions. I've been away from minecraft for a while, and when I come back to this mod whenever I do, I'll take these suggestions.

You know in Pokemon, whenever you came across a shiny you practically went into a frenzy trying to catch it? And if you didn't know what it was you'd just be so utterly confused? Well, that joy might just be able to work it's way into Minecraft.

-There is a .01% chance of a mob being albino

-They illuminate their surroundings (They glow) with a light level of 3

-Always drop albino heads which glow (Even when worn) with a light level of 3

-Changes color scheme of the mob

-Drops 5 times the normal drops (Not bosses)

-Bosses drop special loot and have a new behavior

-They are undeniably awesome

The color schemes of the albino mobs are listed below.

Colors

Bosses

Other

This also makes the rarest mob in all of existence be... Drumroll please... Baby albino zombie villager with full enchanted gold armor on an albino chicken. Imagine seeing one of those.

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Ok, this suggestion includes a new type of mob, with new items as drops, found in a new dungeon, and also some new blocks.

First off, the mobs.

Basicly, they will be giant ants. There are three varieties. All ants would randomly spawn inside the area the tunnels occupy. This would be similar to the mechanic guardians have. Ants spawn when there is a solid block beneath them, and at any light level. Furthermore, no other mobs would spawn in this area because the ants “already got ‘em”.

Along with the ants spawned naturally, ants will also spawn with monster spawners in special rooms within the dungeon. This would make specific types of ants be more common in specific places, and make ants appear from seemingly nowhere.

More in Depth spawning- Thanks to Ouatcheur!

Anyway, these are the mobs....

ALL ANTS ARE EFFECTED BY BANE OR ARTHROPODS ENCHANTMENT

1. Worker ant- "Baby" model for the ants I guess you can say. About 1x1x0.5, or as big as a cave spider.
• Same melee attack damage as spider (Easy: 2 (), Normal: 2 (), Hard: 3 ()), but has Knockback I as well
• No armor.
• Same amount of health and speed as a cave spider (12 ())
• Immune to the slowing effects of resin(more on that later).
• Can climb walls like a spider
• Looks like this.
2. Soldier ant- "adult" model for the ants. 2x2x1, or the size of a normal spider
• Melee attack strength of 5 on Easy (), of 7 on Normal (), and 9 on Hard(), along with Knockback I.
• Same amount of armor as a fully leather armored player.
• Same amount of health as a normal spider (16 ())
• Speed is slightly faster than a normal spider. (105% spider speed)
• Immune to the slowing effects of resin(more on that later).
• Can climb walls like a spider
• Also gives the player a “Irritation” effect for 30 seconds, which halves all types of healing and hunger gain (Thank you Ceroz for suggesting that!), and Nausea for 3 seconds.
• Looks likes this.
3. Ant Queen- Like the "Elder" class of guardian, or a Mini boss. About 2x3x1.5 blocks in size, or as big as a short horse.
• Gives Regen I to nearby ants (like a 2 block radius),
• Has the same amount of health as an Elder Guardian (80 ( × 40))
• Has the same armor as a fully chain mail armored player.
• Immune to the slowing effects of resin(more on that later).
• Moves slightly slower than a normal spider.(90% of a spider's speed) Also does not wander much.
• Attack-
1. places a resin block at a players feet randomly if the player is in a 3 block radius (randomly, like every tick, there is 1/30 chance of it doing this) More on resin blocks later.
2. Melee damage is comparable to a normal zombie. (Easy: 2 (), Normal: 3 (), Hard: 4 ()) Melee range is one block in front of it's head. Slow attack speed, because if you're in melee range, you're probably stuck in resin.

• Looks likes this.

Behavior-

• Worker ants are actually neutral. Soldier ants and Ant Queens are not though (they are aggressive). The worker ants will not bother you until you attack any kinda of ant. Example: You gain entrance to the ant dungeon, and all the worker ants are wandering around doing their thing. A soldier ant then immediately comes up ant tries to attack you. After you hit the soldier ant, all the workers will become aggressive to you too.
• Ants will also attack all mobs, both hostile and passive. The only thing is, all hostile mobs are also hostile to ants, and mobs killed by the ants don't drop anything (to prevent them from becoming a substitute to iron golems).
• Ant queens will actually retreat to the nearest ant after being hit (along the x,z axis, I don't want them wandering to the closest ant above them).
• As many people have suggested, ants now spawn around the ant queen, but they do so in a different manner than you may expect. Ants (75% of them will be soldier ants, 25% worker ants) will spawn within a 12 block radius from the ant queen, but will not spawn within an 8 block radius of the queen. More so, ants will only spawn if the player is in an 8 block radius with the queen. This would make the ants occasionally spawn behind the player, or in different rooms adjacent to the Queen’s room. This is meant to simulate all ants in the hive travelling over to save the queen (because many of the times, the ants would spawn out of view, or at the entrance to the room). The ants the queen spawns will also automatically target the player, even if the ant does not have a direct line of sight with the player. About 2-4 ants spawn each time, and spawn with the same frequency of a monster spawner.
• Diagram explaining ants spawning around the queen:

Drops-

All ants drop random amounts of resin droplettes () and red sand, similar to guardians dropping prismarine shards and fish (so 1-3 resin nuggets, 0-2 red sand)

• Worker ants also rarely drop random plants like; leave blocks (all varieties), mushrooms, vines, seeds, and crops, but only if killed by a player
• Soldier ants also rarely drop mob related items, like rotten flesh, string, bones, and gunpowder, but only if killed by the player. They also have a unique drop, an “ant stinger” () which is a potion ingredient, and is dropped normally.
• Can be brewed with an awkward potion to make an “Irritation I” potion that has a duration of 3 minutes.
• Extended potions last 5 minutes
• Adding glowstone dust makes an “Irritation II” potion, which lasts 1 minute, 30 seconds and reduces healing and hunger gains by 2/3rds
• Adding a fermented spider eye makes a “Wellness” potion, which increases health and hunger gains by 50% for “Wellness I” and 66% for “Wellness II”. Has the same effect time and their un-spider eyed counterparts
• Ant Stinger’s are “bad food” like spider eyes, or rotten flesh. Has an 90% chance to give you the “Irritation I” effect for 7 seconds when eaten, has the same amount of saturation and hunger points as a spider eye.
• Ant queens have a 50% chance to drop an Ant Queen head, and commonly drop whole resin blocks themselves.

The dungeon-

_{Note- Some ant colonies would be Polygyny, or have multiple queens.}

The dungeons the ants spawn in appear in any type of Mesa Biome. They have a 1/150 chance to spawn around any specific chunk within Mesa Biome.

It looks similar to caves, but always connects to the surface, and with hardened resin blocks and red sandstone mixed with the naturally occurring hardened clay.

The caverns would look like this.

^{_{Please forgive me for my terrible cave making skills…...}}

At the end of each dead end in the tunnels generated like this, there would be one of several specific rooms that can form. All rooms have a weight value, which will help the game determine which room has what probability to spawn.

Notice! Room weight values are prone to change.

• "Resting" Room- a default room I guess you could say. Nothing too special. Has hardened resin and "soft" non-drying resin equally distributed in here. 50/50 spawning for each type of ant. Has a weight value of 150
• Nursery room- Would contain a single Ant Queen would spawn (like a Elder Guardian in a Monument), and there would be many, many "soft" non-drying resin blocks everywhere, accumulating in piles. 75% of the ants that spawn here are soldier ants, 25% are worker. The change weight that this room will spawn is 20 (but there will always be at least one!)
• Food room- Would have leaf blocks and both types of mushrooms naturally growing inside of this room. A couple "soft" non-drying resin blocks, but mostly there is hardened resin. 50/50 spawning for each type of ant. Chance weight is 70
• Garbage room- Contains mostly coarse dirt and mycelium. Contains only hardened resin, no "soft' resin. Only worker ants spawn here. Chance weight is 50
• Hatchery room- This is the only room that contains spawners. There is one worker ant spawner in here, hidden under a pile of "soft" non-drying resin blocks. Actually, there would be many, many piles of "soft" non-drying Resin Blocks. everywhere. 75% of ants spawned here through natural means are worker ants, 25% are soldier ants.

Blocks-

Resin blocks are like the combination of a slime block, sand, and cobweb. It looks like a amber colored slime block and has the slowing effect of one, is affected by gravity like sand, and you fall into it and are slowed like a cobweb.

There are also two types of resin blocks, those found naturally in the dungeon, and those you can craft. Naturally generated resin does not dry out (more on that later), but crafted resin does.

"Soft" Resin can only be picked up with a shovel, and can be crafted with a 2x2 crafting grid filled with resin nuggets.

Breaking a soft resin block will drop 3-4 resin nuggets as well, similar to snow or glowstone.

Similar to how crops grow, resin blocks have a timer. After a random period (similar to crops), the crafted Soft Resin will harden into Hardened resin, which is mined with a pickaxe. These have a dull amber color, and are useful for decoration.

Similar to farmland, a water block close-by to a crafted resin block will prevent it from becoming a hardened resin block. Hardened resin blocks however will not revert back into “squishy” resin blocks if close by to water.

Hardened resin can also be put into a furnace to create an Amber Block.

Amber blocks can be put into a crafting table in a 2x2 configuration to create Amber bricks. They can also be made into slabs and stairs, and have a “chiseled” variant similar to stone bricks. Crafted with two slabs over each other in a crafting table.

Amber is just another decoration block, until you surround it with four glowstone dust, which will create an Amber Lamp. This would be a new light source.

The blocks look like this….

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*Special Thanks to Cerroz for suggesting useful things and Endergirl00 for telling me my Ant texture looked okay*

Thanks For Reading!

Thanks for reading!