Okay, so I seen a post about a craftable mob spawner yesterday that was posted here. It got me thinking: craftable mob spawners WOULD be a great idea! I did not, however, agree with the approach the fellow that suggested it took. This is my approach(and yes, it's been started).
If someone else is working on a similar mod, or if one has already been published, then I'd like the owner to contact me and tell me if they want me to stop with the production of this mod.
Please note this mod DOES NOT add mine-able Spawners, it only allows for craftable, custom ones.
Features
Craftable Mob Spawners (obviously)
A new "Soul Furnace"
A soul from [nearly] every mob in the game
(Not sure what else to put here, more information on the mod below)
Information The Soul Furnace
The soul furnace is the key additive to this mod. A crafting recipe has not yet been determined(suggestions welcomed). Currently, the furnace is set to use Blaze Rods as a fuel source(this may change, as I don't want it to be easy to make these spawners) and a blaze rod "smelts" half of a soul. Similarly to the way saplings work in regular furnaces, you must have 2 blaze rods as the fuel source(or more) or you will not get your soul and you will lose your precious blaze rod.
Souls
The souls are probably the second most important thing that this mod introduces. In order to receive a soul, you must "smelt" a predetermined item that correlates to a specified mob. This smelting will be done in the Soul Furnace and the product will be one Soul of [insert mob here].
Items to Souls
This section will tell you the [possibly temporary] ways to get your desired soul.
Chicken: Smelt Raw Chicken in Soul Furnace.
Cow: Smelt Raw Beef in Soul Furnace.
Mooshroom: Smelt Mushroom soup(?) in Soul Furnace.
Ocelot: Smelt Raw Fish in Soul Furnace.
Pig: Smelt Raw Pork in Soul Furnace.
Sheep: Smelt Wool(or a new item/block, idk) in a Soul Furnace.
Squid: Smelt Ink Sac in Soul Furnace.
Enderman: Smelt Ender Pearl in Soul Furnace.
Wolf: Smelt... I really don't know
Zombie Pigman: Smelt Wooden Sword in Soul Furnace(LOL)
Blaze: Smelt blaze rod(with blaze rod as fuel? lolwtf) in Soul Furnace.
Cave Spider: Smelt String in Soul Furnace.
Creeper: Smelt Gunpowder in Soul Furnace.
Ghast: Smelt Ghast Tear in Soul Furnace.
Magma Cube: Smelt magma cream in Soul Furnace.
Silverfish: Smelt stone brick in Soul Furnace.
Skeleton: Smelt Bone in Soul Furnace.
Slime: Smelt slimeball in Soul Furnace.
Spider: Smelt [new block] in Soul Furnace.
Zombie: Smelt Rotten Flesh in Soul Furnace.
Empty Mob Spawner
This is the empty mob spawner. You will combine this with a soul of something in a shapeless crafting recipe to create the spawner that will spawn your mob. This block will be placeable and you will receive a drop when you break it.
Possible Crafting Recipe:
III
IOI
III
I = Iron Bars
O = Obsidian
I think I covered everything I got right now. If you have any questions about the mod, place them here or PM me and I'll get back ASAP.
What Do I Have Done?
You may be asking, "Okay, the idea looks good written down, but how much have you done exactly?"
Well, as of right now, this is just a side-project. However I have a soul prototype(I used pig for the prototype), I have the Soul Furnace completely coded, although changes may come, and I have began textures.
If someone else is working on a similar mod, or if one has already been published, then I'd like the owner to contact me and tell me if they want me to stop with the production of this mod.
Please note this mod DOES NOT add mine-able Spawners, it only allows for craftable, custom ones.
Features
Information
The Soul Furnace
Chicken: Smelt Raw Chicken in Soul Furnace.
Cow: Smelt Raw Beef in Soul Furnace.
Mooshroom: Smelt Mushroom soup(?) in Soul Furnace.
Ocelot: Smelt Raw Fish in Soul Furnace.
Pig: Smelt Raw Pork in Soul Furnace.
Sheep: Smelt Wool(or a new item/block, idk) in a Soul Furnace.
Squid: Smelt Ink Sac in Soul Furnace.
Enderman: Smelt Ender Pearl in Soul Furnace.
Wolf: Smelt... I really don't know
Zombie Pigman: Smelt Wooden Sword in Soul Furnace(LOL)
Blaze: Smelt blaze rod(with blaze rod as fuel? lolwtf) in Soul Furnace.
Cave Spider: Smelt String in Soul Furnace.
Creeper: Smelt Gunpowder in Soul Furnace.
Ghast: Smelt Ghast Tear in Soul Furnace.
Magma Cube: Smelt magma cream in Soul Furnace.
Silverfish: Smelt stone brick in Soul Furnace.
Skeleton: Smelt Bone in Soul Furnace.
Slime: Smelt slimeball in Soul Furnace.
Spider: Smelt [new block] in Soul Furnace.
Zombie: Smelt Rotten Flesh in Soul Furnace.
Possible Crafting Recipe:
III
IOI
III
I = Iron Bars
O = Obsidian
I think I covered everything I got right now. If you have any questions about the mod, place them here or PM me and I'll get back ASAP.
What Do I Have Done?
Well, as of right now, this is just a side-project. However I have a soul prototype(I used pig for the prototype), I have the Soul Furnace completely coded, although changes may come, and I have began textures.