Wait, there's a world building/potential game engine out there that doesn't attract little kids and filthy casuals? How do I sign up?
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- three_two
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To be fair I've done a ton of work on that map post-jam. Didn't realize the jam thread was linking to the updated version but, that's fine with me because the jam version was pretty trash.
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Thanks for playing and I really appreciate the feedback. A few thoughts:
RE: [i]No-regen is slow and painful[/i]
I think the natural regen normal MC offers creates sloppy players. I was one of them. No-regen should train you to avoid damage without avoiding combat. There's a lot of micro-mechanics involved in that and it's good for players to learn them. There can be steep learning curve at first.
RE: [i]Golden apples and healing potions were few and far between[/i]
Honestly, this is the first I've heard of this in the current version of the map. I had been feeling like there are waaayyyy too many healing drops so I thank you for a different perspective on healing item density.
RE: [i]The food situation[/i]
Considering you're not loosing saturation or hunger from regenerating health, the scarcity of food should balance itself out. Although, I can't say I've played the map trying to survive on mushroom stew. The trade for porkchops is a much better source of saturation. I personally do not sprint-jump in normal travel, only combat. Sprinting and jumping are huge drains on food supplies.
RE: [i]The map is, quite frankly, really dull to look at[/i]
Meh, it's not absolutely gorgeous, I'll give you that but, it has an aesthetic. I really like to create desolate and dangerous landscapes. I abhor blue skies and flowery froo-froo mooshroom paradises. There's plenty of maps out there that can fulfill the "cornucopia-aesthetic" that modern CTMs seem to have adapted to but, ET just isn't one of them.
RE: [i]The obelisk towers are too hard[/i]
I thought the Ghast tower was too tough, mostly because the health buffs on the mobs were way too much. I felt like the rest of the towers were pretty straight forward and mostly non-threatening though.
RE: [i]The Ghasts don't despawn in Trance #3[/i]
Yup, that spawner was not meant to work that way. I made an error somewhere in the NBT. Something I've been meaning to fix.
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• yes - Regional difficulty is determined in each chunk by a long tag called InhabitedTime shown here: http://i.imgur.com/qDghnpa.png - InhabitedTime measures from 0-3,600,000. At 3.6 million, the regional difficulty is maxed. More info here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Alpha_Level_Format/Chunk_File_Format#NBT_structure and here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Difficulty#Regional_difficulty
TL;DR here's a filter :/ https://github.com/jedediah/mcedit_filters/blob/master/SetInhabitedTime.py
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Be sure to spoil at least half of those jump scares in the trailer
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Check inside the lower part of the obelisks. Circle stone brick is a cue
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Currently about 1%. There was a starting island volcano area but, i scrapped that for something that looked less World Painter-y. Only other thing I used to use WP for is blob variation but, I figured out a way to make Minecraft do that by using chunk re-pop and customized world settings. I don't use WP anymore for anything except making custom text brushes and hiding secret messages in the biome data
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MCEdit Unified with a large collection of filters and NBTExplorer are the only tools I use.
Not a big fan of mods and plug-ins.
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1.8 is reaching the end of its life cycle. There are plenty of good CTMs to play in 1.8. Even if combat in 1.9 is geared toward casuals and 8 year olds, I'll make it work. Besides, 1.9 tech and features blow 1.8 out of the water. Spent a year and a half on VFIII, If it takes another year and a half to complete, thats what it takes. Besides, once VFIII is released I'm officially retiring from Minecraft content creation. Don't be so quick to usher me out
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Great to see, I'll check it out!
VFIII for 1.8 is 90-95% complete. I haven't worked on it since August. Still in limbo as 1.9 is not feature complete or stable enough to begin converting the map. When I do start the conversion process that completion % drops significantly as I will have to redo all the tech, loot and spawners. That's around 3000 command blocks, 100+ custom spawners and at least 400 custom items
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Thanks! I had a few people who played the beta say that getting potions felt grindy. I overcompensated for that but, I'd rather give lots of loot and heals than have people get frustrated for lack thereof. I agree on the the comparison of 2nd and 3rd trance. Maybe the 3rd needed more DOT enemies.
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This is too good! (Possible spoilers if you haven't played ET yet)
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Nah, should be fine. The healing drops and gold nuggets are kind of overkill on my part because I'd rather players have too many heals than have to grind for them. The commands replace bones, flesh and spider eyes with nuggets; carrots and potatoes with ingots. You can take those junk drops and throw them out of your inventory to transmute them into gold but, the system doesn't account for stacked items so, if you want equal ratios, you'll have to throw them out individually.
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Ah, the best part of mapmaking, getting to kick back and watch the fun begin
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Evantide Trance is now out of beta and officially released! here's an album of screenshots and renders http://imgur.com/a/tQUSo
You can pick up the map form the OP or, link for the lazy https://goo.gl/rvJk9q