Parallel Structure?! Naw not really XD
Yo wazzup mah peoples! =D
I promised I would update with my modding adventures, and so I am doing just that.
A while back, I don’t recall if I mentioned this in my last post, I was spawning Enderdragons in the overworld.
Now, I thought it would be a good idea to increase the spawn probability of the dragons so I would see them faster…
(I was worried that since I had modded the Dragon’s class file that I had made it unspawnable)
I was right, it was unspawnable..
So I changed it back and saved, and then…
BOOM!
Millions of Enderdragons spawned everywhere! @O@!
The game slowed to a laggy crawl, and I myself crawled and slowly built a Nether portal to escape the madness.
Crazy indeed.
Thank the good lord I was on creative mode!! xD
And thank goodness I had modified the Enderdragon class so they can no longer destroy blocks upon contact.
(Let me tell you, if you spawn them in the overworld they will TERRAFORM your land.
And by terraform, I mean to imply that they will obliterate your landscapes.
Perhaps good for mining, but not really, since they destroy everything.
You’d have to be pretty good at killing them for that to be and effective measure. lol)
Here is my first encounter with spawning Enderdragons in the overworld.
(NOT the one where I spawned a billion of them on accident..)
As you can see, there were quite a few of them.
It was hard to capture them all in a pic!! xD
Here is an example of what happens when they dive in to attack you, the land is carved out like ‘twas nothing. O_O
Pure, uncontrollable CARNAGE!! lol
Yeah, so that is why I made it so Enderdragons can’t destroy these kinds of blocks XD
As for when a million spawned….
Spawning them isn’t hard, it’s killing them and stopping the lag that is the tricksy bit. –.-It
I tried changing their maximum health, but it still took too long to kill them, and they are so hard to catch. ;/
SO I tried changing their maximum health to zero and they all did the death animation simultaneously:
Which would have been nice if it had worked better!
Apparently this slowed down the game too, and I have no clue if any of it actually killed any of the dragons! @~@
I ended up just changing the code so when the Enderdragon is hit it sets itself to dead.
I ended up going hunting and killing all the rest of the dragons with awesome eggs.
Yeah, totally awesome eggs
Some of the other mods I was working on earlier, all base-class mods, were making it so cows and wolfs spawn in the Nether, making something I dubbed “CakeSeed” which you can tempt chickens with, which will make the chickens poop out golden nuggets instead of eggs for that moment you feed them cakeseed.
(…continuing talking about cakeseed…)
And, which can be harvested from cake, and can be planted as a cake.
And… yeah, it can be eaten when placed on the ground too, as it is just cake.
You can’t really tell the difference =P
^Chickens laying golden nuggets since I am feeding them cakeseed
^Some planted cakeseed. (notice the tilled ground underneath the cake, and the stone hoe in my hotbar)
I did, however, make a special graphic for the cakeseed :D
I couldn’t figure out how to include it in the source code, so I had to add into the .jar file manually after compiling.
(but I think I figured out what was wrong, I have to include the image in the jar/resources folder or whatever wherever it is)
^There is my graphic for cakeseed! :D
Isn’t it lovely? ;)
I think I had just destroyed a cake to see if it would drop cakeseed as I expected it to do, and I think it worked in that image. (I don’t quite remember, but I think that is true)
Aside from trying to spawn enderdragons, I also tried to spawn Ghasts :O
^Scenic Ghast picture, nice sunset and Ghast combo there ;p
Unfortunately, unlike Enderdragons, Ghasts just keep on flying… Upwards.. forever.
(I think)
They just kept going higher and higher, and I couldn’t get them to launch fireballs at me.
I don’t know if they are incapable in the overworld, if they need lava to do so, or what, but I couldn’t figure it out.
(Though, I suppose if I look at the code for a Ghast I could figure out something at least.)
The silly things just kept on flying away… like puffs in the wind, or clouds, or something.
IT was strange!! xD
I am also working on another mod, as these other ones were just for fun exploring what you can do with minecraft modding.
My current mod?
Well, it’s working already, but this is a small part of a major overhaul that I intend to draft out over the summer. (if I have time, which I might/should)
First thing I am doing and am halfway done with now?
Chicken eggs.
Yep, they spawn from Chickens all right.
But I have modded the game so that if you are holding a chicken egg in your hands (like it’s selected in your hotbar), then you take no fall damage and you fall in the same slow floating fashion as the chickens themselves do.
(yep! Awesome huh? :D)
I also made it so chicken eggs currently spawn lightning instead of baby chicklets, and do so 100% of the time rather than 1/8 of the time.
(This will be different in the final version of my mod)
The plan is as follows:
I will create a new Egg object that looks exactly like the normal egg object, and it will spawn rarely from chickens.
(The idea is that you won’t be able to tell if the chicken has spawned a rare egg that is a lightning egg or not)
This egg, not the other normal chicken eggs, WILL spawn lightning 100% of the time and WILL allow you to float like a chicken and take no fall damage.
(A very useful thing indeed.)
However, due to it’s rarity and usefulness in obliterating most mobs,
(Except creepers, pigs, and Endermen (well sometimes Enderment))
the player has to make a decision between using it as a weapon or as a tool.
(It is much more useful as a tool for floating down into ravines safely, or from the top of trees. Very useful for climbing trees, perhaps could even allow for new fortress designing mechanics, all based on the idea that members of the clan will ALWAYS carry an egg or two on them, so they can traverse the different sections of the fortress with ease.)
I do not have any ideas for other item mods or the like yet, but I will draft up some soon :>
OH WAIT! That is a tiny bit untrue.
I am working on making it so boats float in lava, and so they make you immune to fire while you ride them (else you’d catch on fire and your vision would be skewed with flames, very annoying and hard to navigate I’ll tell ya!))
The plan is to eventually replace the mod with an entire new Iron Boat, that is crafted from a normal boat, and which can be used in lava but will sink in water.
(okay, maybe it won’t sink in water, idk… I need to think about it :>
Lava is more dense than water, so the Iron boat would float more in Lava than water…)
I think if I can figure out how to do it, I want make a gigantic boat for a multiplayer server, a boat that can float on water and has a cockpit where one player can control it’s directions.
(And perhaps it will also have slots where crafted cannons can be placed, so one can build up an arsenal and load them with cannonballs.)
Speaking of which, it would make sense and it would be cool to make an extra large biome in which pirates spawn on their pirate ships, so a on a multiplayer server you can fight pirates and board THEIR ships and steal their loot, and then you can keep their ship as your own.
My true ambition is to create a meteorite that can crash into the minecraft world, and will scatter moonstone all over the land in the nearby biomes and oceans.
If you manage to collect enough moonstone you can create a portal to the moonrealm, where you will have to fight your way through the fortress there and defeat the boss.
Once defeated, you will earn yourself a space suit, which really is so you can dive underwater and not have the lack of oxygen kill you.
And so you can actually see what happens and is underwater.
I want to also add in a game mechanic whereby special chests spawn randomly underwater in the Ocean biome, chests that are nigh impossible to find if you don’t have the space suit from the moon realm.
Also, the moon realm will have it’s own special plants and biomes, and if you don’t defeat the boss and get the space suit within a certain span of time, you will begin to become infected and will slowly die.
(Like samus games kinda type genre)
Also, there will be a secret uber hidden hard place to find on the moon realm, where you can find archaic symbols that give instructions on how to craft a moonstone crafting table, a table which allows you to craft special objects and the like from the native elements of the moon realm.
(Special potions, tools, etc)
These tools help on the moon realm specifically, and have some special applications down on earth too.
(Which I haven’t devised yet)
Only diamond tools are strong enough to mine the stones on the moon/planet, but once the other tools are crafted you can do much more and much more efficiently.
I am not sure how I want to design the portal, but I think it will require netherrack, obsidian, and moonstone…
And a torch pathway that leads to the portal.
The portal is ignited by placing a single torch at it’s doorstep.
When thus done, all the torches in a 50 km radius will disappear, and the day will instantaneously turn to night, and the portal will glow and swirl a chalky moonstone color.
The luminescence from the portal will be epic, I assure you :)
These are just my ideas.
Do I have what it takes to make these mods?
Currently no, but I do have the curiosity and desire to make them.
But like so many other hobbyists and noobs, I may not have the time to do all of this.
But I will report on what I do accomplish here, don’t worry :>
Thanks for reading! :D
I will update again soon (I think)!
Sincerely,
~James Dodon
(P.s. My final project in programming class is aiming to be a 2d minecraft like game…
I have a feeling game programming, even simple 2d game programming, is going to be a lot harder than I had anticipated… lol. But I have complete control over what happens, and can add in any features I wish. (Which is why I bought minecraft btw, because of the awesome modding scene. Totally unheard of in any other games ever)
As far as AP exams go, I have done Calculus and Chemistry, and now only have English (tomorrow morning) and Macroeconomics (next Thursday) left.
Chem sucked, Calc was pretty good, English will be okay (idk if I can get the 5 but I will try, it is possible), and Macro… well, we will see when I get there :)
That is all for now! XD
I will post my final project progress here as well,
Stay tuned! ;)
~James)
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