Make sure you use mods for whatever needs you have. It would be stupid to try to recreate arenas within the confines of the game, everyone could tear it apart. And make sure the cornucopia isn't a chest. Drop items down at the beginning of the game, including chests and workbenches, so people won't be just standing there retrieving items. Also, make sure there is an incentive to run and hide. Otherwise the game will last for half a day.
Well, my arena is really just going to be a for-fun map, so I don't think I'll even share it.
I don't mean to impose, but I was thinking that you'd probably want to request a custom mod. Again, not to impose, but here are some things I thought of for it:
1) Turn of player names. Just... yeah.
2) A spectator mode, for video making and possibly for non-contestants.
3) If you want to be hardcore, something that kills you if you don't eat food once every X days.
4) Possibly disable third person mode.
5) As someone else mentioned, keep players from breaking anything but wood and gravel, and disallow placement of everything but furnaces (maybe) and workbenches. That way, players can still get basic armor and tools, but nothing fancy.
6) If it's possible, some way to force the default texture pack so that people don't use X-ray texture packs to cheat (though I doubt people will).
Again, I hope I'm not imposing, because I sort of feel like I might be.
1. Download elemental arrows mod.
2. Don Katniss skin.
3. Join server with full armor and incediary and explosive arrows.
4. Aim at guy with President Snow skin with one of them creeper tipped arrows.
5. Be respected by all in the server.
6. ???
7. PROFIT!
8. Now moving on to Splinter Cell.
On a more serious note, this looks pretty epic. Can't wait for it to come out. Also, which arena will you base it on? The first one? If you do...
Mods you should use:
1. all the ones you suggested should be considered.
2. reskin all the hostile mobs as "mutts."
3. there's a mod out there that makes creepers have either double explosion or a series of mini non suicidal explosions, makes spiders jump 4x higher, zombies move 4x faster, and skellies fire arrows 4x faster and with more range. It's called "harder natives," I think. It would fit the whole muttation theme.
4. Mod for knives that can be used and thrown?
5. Increase durability of tools, or get rid of durability all together, but make it take longer to destroy blocks and deal less damage, maybe?
6. Also some way to make camoflauge.
7. Berries both poisonous and helpful.
8. Some system of poisoning? Like losing health over time, vision blurring like you're entering the Nether, slowing down, etc.
9. A training center for the contestants?
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Actually, that's the best mental image ever. A dying, drowning man stuffing his face from a massive wall of cake, and carving out a monstrous underwater cake picture. I'd pay to watch that irl.
[quote=Rotten194][quote=mcnugget] "Love cabin"[;/quote][quote=mcnugget]creepers.!
hay guise I have an idea. I haven't done any work yet I was hoping someone else would do that part. In the meantime I require attention. And peons volunteers
... to be fair it is a good idea and has the potential to be a lot of fun. And there are plenty of people who like building things (this is Minecraft after all). So premature announcement or no, I hope you make something out of this.
1. I call male contestant from District 3.
2. If any hostile mobs are used, we should download and reskin Mo'Creatures/Quintessential Creatures.
3. I think the glass roof is a bit primitive. I'll look for a security camera mod, and edit this post when I find one.
4. Reskinning the mobs might be a good idea, but it would also be good to have more intelligent mutts. (Players with mutt skins.)
5. This will most likely take a couple months to organize. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Anyway, if it's taking that long already, why not request a special mod just for this project? We could add things like tracker jackers, claws for people playing as mutts, etc.
1. I call male contestant from District 3.
2. If any hostile mobs are used, we should download and reskin Mo'Creatures/Quintessential Creatures.
3. I think the glass roof is a bit primitive. I'll look for a security camera mod, and edit when I find one.
4. Reskinning the mobs might be a good idea, but it would also be good to have more intelligent mutts. (Players with mutt skins.)
5. This will most likely take a couple months to organize. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Anyway, if it's taking that long already, why not request a special mod just for this project?
The more "intelligent mutts" should come when there are about 2 to 4 players left, though.
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Actually, that's the best mental image ever. A dying, drowning man stuffing his face from a massive wall of cake, and carving out a monstrous underwater cake picture. I'd pay to watch that irl.
[quote=Rotten194][quote=mcnugget] "Love cabin"[;/quote][quote=mcnugget]creepers.!
1. I call male contestant from District 3.
2. If any hostile mobs are used, we should download and reskin Mo'Creatures/Quintessential Creatures.
3. I think the glass roof is a bit primitive. I'll look for a security camera mod, and edit when I find one.
4. Reskinning the mobs might be a good idea, but it would also be good to have more intelligent mutts. (Players with mutt skins.)
5. This will most likely take a couple months to organize. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Anyway, if it's taking that long already, why not request a special mod just for this project?
The more "intelligent mutts" should come when there are about 2 to 4 players left, though.
A couple suggestions: make a pit of bedrock as the spawn so that when people die, they are stuck there.
Install MoveCraft and have the gamemakers hover around in aircrafts where they can drop tnt or lava or whatever. Spectators should also be allowed to have aircrafts to see the action.
The cornucopia: This would be simple. Contestants are put in a chamber surrounding a ring of chests, and they would all be opened remotely to let people out.
How will you restrict how people break blocks? They can just dig a hole for themselves to survive. If there is such a mod, I would have it so that contestants are only allowed to break wood and gravel. That would restrict people to wooden swords.
Only problem? What if spectators help the tributes?
Holy Balls this sounds awesome! I love how this could be done and pulled off perfectly too. Would be really cool once the survival update is released though, make alliances and own the water hole.... Hunting pigs while hiding from the enemies... It just sounds so awesome... I'm going Rue style and hiding in the trees though...
Holy Balls this sounds awesome! I love how this could be done and pulled off perfectly too. Would be really cool once the survival update is released though, make alliances and own the water hole.... Hunting pigs while hiding from the enemies... It just sounds so awesome... I'm going Rue style and hiding in the trees though...
I'm currently looking for viable mods. I'll post a list here, as I find them.
Mo'Foodz - Adds thing like apple trees, and grape vines. If hunger mod was used, these would help with survival. viewtopic.php?f=25&t=178500
Extended 2x2 Crafting Grid - Gives you more diversity in weapons/tools, allows simpler crafting without as much access to resources. viewtopic.php?f=25&t=164050
I have been thinking about this for a while, it's awesome to see that someone is doing this, are you going to be replicating the forest in the book, or a completely new type of terrain?
Oh hell! This is turning into something very big. Ok answer time! Up first, regarding mods. Organizing mods to fit the whole thing would be VERY hellish! What I am thinking: Mutts = Players with mutt skins. I personally think that the mod allowing game makers to flyaround might actually work out nicely! I'll look into it. Mobs = gone is what I think. Survivng from mobs and players may be too much. A mod allowing contestants to only break certain materials could work but read on...Also a mod that adds in knives to be thrown, a mob called a tracker jacker and general hunger games style stuff would be appreciated if anyone is good at that stuff. Again, not sure if there will be mobs in the arena. If there is a mod out there that makes it so that you can toggle if certain blocks are breakable or not, that would be good. Hunger mod? Maybe. I like the thought of being able to poison people. New item that you can put on the tips of arrows, knives? And if anyone can mod berries into it, that would be good with some berries healing you and others poisoning. We will need to add antidotes too. Onto other things (hope I didn't forget anything here) Wall material = obsidian is what i think will be good. Just make sure there is no diamond pickaxes on the arena. DIGGING A HOLE I think that we should put in a floor to this arena, say 5, 6 blocks down? Incentive to hide - Any ideas there? I got nothing. Also, if we can somehow restrict crafting, this will eliminate any chances of diamond pickaxes, overpowered weapons, certain advantages 100% Thx for the suggestion! Spectators cheating? Well the only way I can think to stop that is to threaten with banning. Any other thoughts on that? Removing players names - I have considered this too. If anyone can mod online multiplayer files so that player names are removed, thank you! Also, I have received dozens of posts regarding helping out. Here is what i think would work.
Architects: these guys help build the stadium to perfection!
Landscapers: these people will come in after the architects and build hills, forest, etc.
Redstone experts: these guys will come in after both of these teams are done. They will set up clever traps.
Modders and Editors: these people will create mods, mess with game files, so on.
Wow. Big wall of text. Sorry about that. 72 posts is something to take care of! Everyone asking to help, me and my friend will try to fit you in somewhere in our plans. And Note: Districts are not confirmed. We may not use tributes by district. Reservations may not be acknowledged (sorry!) as there is still LOTS of planning to be done! Again, the ideas are grea! Keep them coming! I will try and find time to put up all your suggestions and ideas on the front page post. Once agai, thx!
If we do this, we need a SMP server. This means that client-side mods won't work. So everything needs to be in te form of Bukkit mods. I'd be willing to help setup a good server for this, but we need a VPS or Dedicated server to run this on! So plan for Bukkit Mods, because SSP Mods won't work with this epic project.
I propose that we rank players as so for the games:
Guest (gets to watch from stands)
Player (the offerings/fighters/contestants)
Gamemaster (runs the game)
Moderator (moderates, spawns items, cuboids, zones, ranks players)
Admin (all the Moderator stuff+they have ever more commands)
Actually, if we could get some hardware to run this on, then I'd be willing to Admin the server (AKA set it up, install Bukkit, get it ready, etc). At this point, all we need is a server to use :smile.gif:.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” — Albert Einstein
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." — Robert Heinlein
Oh hell! This is turning into something very big. Ok answer time! Up first, regarding mods. Organizing mods to fit the whole thing would be VERY hellish! What I am thinking: Mutts = Players with mutt skins. I personally think that the mod allowing game makers to flyaround might actually work out nicely! I'll look into it. Mobs = gone is what I think. Survivng from mobs and players may be too much. A mod allowing contestants to only break certain materials could work but read on...Also a mod that adds in knives to be thrown, a mob called a tracker jacker and general hunger games style stuff would be appreciated if anyone is good at that stuff. Again, not sure if there will be mobs in the arena. If there is a mod out there that makes it so that you can toggle if certain blocks are breakable or not, that would be good. Hunger mod? Maybe. I like the thought of being able to poison people. New item that you can put on the tips of arrows, knives? And if anyone can mod berries into it, that would be good with some berries healing you and others poisoning. We will need to add antidotes too. Onto other things (hope I didn't forget anything here) Wall material = obsidian is what i think will be good. Just make sure there is no diamond pickaxes on the arena. DIGGING A HOLE I think that we should put in a floor to this arena, say 5, 6 blocks down? Incentive to hide - Any ideas there? I got nothing. Also, if we can somehow restrict crafting, this will eliminate any chances of diamond pickaxes, overpowered weapons, certain advantages 100% Thx for the suggestion! Spectators cheating? Well the only way I can think to stop that is to threaten with banning. Any other thoughts on that? Removing players names - I have considered this too. If anyone can mod online multiplayer files so that player names are removed, thank you! Also, I have received dozens of posts regarding helping out. Here is what i think would work.
Architects: these guys help build the stadium to perfection!
Landscapers: these people will come in after the architects and build hills, forest, etc.
Redstone experts: these guys will come in after both of these teams are done. They will set up clever traps.
Modders and Editors: these people will create mods, mess with game files, so on.
Wow. Big wall of text. Sorry about that. 72 posts is something to take care of! Everyone asking to help, me and my friend will try to fit you in somewhere in our plans. And Note: Districts are not confirmed. We may not use tributes by district. Reservations may not be acknowledged (sorry!) as there is still LOTS of planning to be done! Again, the ideas are grea! Keep them coming! I will try and find time to put up all your suggestions and ideas on the front page post. Once agai, thx!
Personally, I think iron weapons and stuff should be found in the cornucopia. No Diamond, though. It's too overpowered, as you say. We need to find a modder who likes the series. I wonder if DrZhark has ever read the books? I doubt it, but, it's worth a try.
The New Boat Elevator
Simple Drowning Trap
Complex Drowning Trap
Note Blocks - The Blue Danube
Minecart Rider Detection System
I don't mean to impose, but I was thinking that you'd probably want to request a custom mod. Again, not to impose, but here are some things I thought of for it:
1) Turn of player names. Just... yeah.
2) A spectator mode, for video making and possibly for non-contestants.
3) If you want to be hardcore, something that kills you if you don't eat food once every X days.
4) Possibly disable third person mode.
5) As someone else mentioned, keep players from breaking anything but wood and gravel, and disallow placement of everything but furnaces (maybe) and workbenches. That way, players can still get basic armor and tools, but nothing fancy.
6) If it's possible, some way to force the default texture pack so that people don't use X-ray texture packs to cheat (though I doubt people will).
Again, I hope I'm not imposing, because I sort of feel like I might be.
2. Don Katniss skin.
3. Join server with full armor and incediary and explosive arrows.
4. Aim at guy with President Snow skin with one of them creeper tipped arrows.
5. Be respected by all in the server.
6. ???
7. PROFIT!
8. Now moving on to Splinter Cell.
On a more serious note, this looks pretty epic. Can't wait for it to come out. Also, which arena will you base it on? The first one? If you do...
Mods you should use:
1. all the ones you suggested should be considered.
2. reskin all the hostile mobs as "mutts."
3. there's a mod out there that makes creepers have either double explosion or a series of mini non suicidal explosions, makes spiders jump 4x higher, zombies move 4x faster, and skellies fire arrows 4x faster and with more range. It's called "harder natives," I think. It would fit the whole muttation theme.
4. Mod for knives that can be used and thrown?
5. Increase durability of tools, or get rid of durability all together, but make it take longer to destroy blocks and deal less damage, maybe?
6. Also some way to make camoflauge.
7. Berries both poisonous and helpful.
8. Some system of poisoning? Like losing health over time, vision blurring like you're entering the Nether, slowing down, etc.
9. A training center for the contestants?
I don't want to know.
peonsvolunteers... to be fair it is a good idea and has the potential to be a lot of fun. And there are plenty of people who like building things (this is Minecraft after all). So premature announcement or no, I hope you make something out of this.
I fully support this, but change the amount of tributes to 24. :biggrin.gif:
1. I call male contestant from District 3.
2. If any hostile mobs are used, we should download and reskin Mo'Creatures/Quintessential Creatures.
3. I think the glass roof is a bit primitive. I'll look for a security camera mod, and edit this post when I find one.
4. Reskinning the mobs might be a good idea, but it would also be good to have more intelligent mutts. (Players with mutt skins.)
5. This will most likely take a couple months to organize. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Anyway, if it's taking that long already, why not request a special mod just for this project? We could add things like tracker jackers, claws for people playing as mutts, etc.
The more "intelligent mutts" should come when there are about 2 to 4 players left, though.
I don't want to know.
I agree. It's just to spice up the fight.
Only problem? What if spectators help the tributes?
Anyways, I would love to be involved in this!
Mo'Foodz - Adds thing like apple trees, and grape vines. If hunger mod was used, these would help with survival.
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=178500
Extended 2x2 Crafting Grid - Gives you more diversity in weapons/tools, allows simpler crafting without as much access to resources. viewtopic.php?f=25&t=164050
Minecraft Revamped - Adds thing like dynamic water, more items, weather, etc. Unfortunately, it's gonna take a looooong time to finish. viewtopic.php?f=25&t=197584&p=2853260&hilit=hunger#p2853260
Xie's Hunger Mod - It... ummm... adds hunger. viewtopic.php?f=25&t=157009&hilit=hunger
So yeah.
I have been thinking about this for a while, it's awesome to see that someone is doing this, are you going to be replicating the forest in the book, or a completely new type of terrain?
Architects: these guys help build the stadium to perfection!
Landscapers: these people will come in after the architects and build hills, forest, etc.
Redstone experts: these guys will come in after both of these teams are done. They will set up clever traps.
Modders and Editors: these people will create mods, mess with game files, so on.
Wow. Big wall of text. Sorry about that. 72 posts is something to take care of! Everyone asking to help, me and my friend will try to fit you in somewhere in our plans. And Note: Districts are not confirmed. We may not use tributes by district. Reservations may not be acknowledged (sorry!) as there is still LOTS of planning to be done! Again, the ideas are grea! Keep them coming! I will try and find time to put up all your suggestions and ideas on the front page post. Once agai, thx!
But, I would be a awesome head Redstone Expert, We should start a skype chat or something with everyone to plan this all out.
If we do this, we need a SMP server. This means that client-side mods won't work. So everything needs to be in te form of Bukkit mods. I'd be willing to help setup a good server for this, but we need a VPS or Dedicated server to run this on! So plan for Bukkit Mods, because SSP Mods won't work with this epic project.
I propose that we rank players as so for the games:
Guest (gets to watch from stands)
Player (the offerings/fighters/contestants)
Gamemaster (runs the game)
Moderator (moderates, spawns items, cuboids, zones, ranks players)
Admin (all the Moderator stuff+they have ever more commands)
Actually, if we could get some hardware to run this on, then I'd be willing to Admin the server (AKA set it up, install Bukkit, get it ready, etc). At this point, all we need is a server to use :smile.gif:.
Plugins: http://plugins.Bukkit.org
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." — Robert Heinlein
Personally, I think iron weapons and stuff should be found in the cornucopia. No Diamond, though. It's too overpowered, as you say. We need to find a modder who likes the series. I wonder if DrZhark has ever read the books? I doubt it, but, it's worth a try.
Yes he is, he said that it was only to gather ideas. I guess now he has the time to run it?
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/edit-sec-worldedit-4-0-beta7-world-cuboid-editing-new-tips-tricks-blog.62
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/mech-mob-control-v1-5-control-those-mobs-349.4828/
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/mech-otherblocks-v0-4-3-customize-what-broken-blocks-drop-447.4072/
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/chat-muted-v0-31-mute-anoying-players.2848/