Oh this is awesome. As much as I love the Ice and Fire mod, I think this mod has it's own charm and identity. I'm glad you brought back some of he features from the Eragon Mod.
A query, with Hippgriffs, can you get MCA guards and family members to ride tamed ones, and what about dragons? I know I'm not the only one who wants to ride into battle leading Hippogriff Calvary or swoop down with a group of dragon rode by my MCA family/minion to burn all that my enemies hold dear to ashes.
To anyone interested, the creator of the Vampirism mod, created a new mod, Vampirism Integrated, which lets it work with various modded biomes and also MCA Villagers. So yes, you can now play with a vampire family. Just watch out for those hunters.
How will Spider Queen react to Animania, a mod that changes vanilla animals like chickens, cows and pigs? Will those animals just turn into vanilla webbing victims?
Also, maybe some character interactions for Spider Persons, like sending them off hunting, to come back with bounds victims and such, or even use them in the same way heirs worked in MCA. When on hard mode, if you die, you came back playing as one of your spider person offspring. If you wanted to get back all of your levels, your would have to find the location of your previous character's resting place, extract the 'Heart of the Queen' item, either eat it and get back your levels and abilities or perform a ritual.
Also, another use for Thralls, is that they could serve as scouts. Perhaps via a ritual or special item you could puppet a thrall and use them for long distance recon and/or assassination missions. You could even make thralls out of animals, though not Spiders, or any undead creature for obvious reasons.
An idea for the web structure, is an upgrade or different structure that involves the Nether Portal, like a portal structure filled with string instead lit by fire and serving to funnel 'nether essence' into eggs and/or items, a ring of obsidian with enchanted and blaze string etc as the final level of the structure.
Nether Shards. Harvested from the Spider Nether Portal, they could be used to upgrade on the web structure. Put them on grass on they increase the change of mobs spawning. Use them to form a command staff that lets you put Spiders into Squads, or use them and a bound NPC that would give a normal spider to create a Wither Spider. You could also use them in potions for a splash potion that sets everything on fire, or gives wither.
Spider Squads: There is a mod called Overlord that lets you create a skeleton army. It lets the user organize its minions into squads that can be controlled as a squad instead of individually. This is a trait I'm sure a lot of people want as Spiders are a pain to control other wise. One option is a rod made using a nether shard instead of a spider eye or torch. Options include, stay, wander, follow and guard a certain area. The other option is the Spider Person. Have Spiders assigned to follow them and the player can interact with them like their were an MCA villager/Guard.
Spider Heir Ring: With a Spider Person, you can give them a ring made using gold and a spider eye. This will mark them as their heir and as mentioned above, allow the player to survive on hard mode.
Boss Ideas
Spider Demon: Based on Lolth the spider demon/goddess from DND this battle would take place either in the nether it self, or which ever Spider Nether Portal the player uses. It's basically a giant spider with ghast abilities and who leaves behind fire and/or poison webbing. They can also break through everything beneath iron in terms of hardness.
Spider Crown/Spider Empress/Evil Spider Queen: A one time event (assuming you win the battle) where in the player crafts a crown using a nether shard, gold and webbing. When they put it on, it starts a timer, wherein an Evil Spider Queen, or the 'Spider Empress' will spawn and move towards the player's base with her own spider army. If the player wins, the other spider queens will forever be loyal to them no matter what.
Wars/ Monster Monarchs: It would be cool if somewhere in the world, there were structure sporting the monarchs of each type of mob, except endermen (beat the Ender Dragon to do that). The player could seek them out and destroy their monarch, taking their crown and scattering that monster nation. Afterwards no mob of that type will bother the player again.
Human Kingdoms: one or several structures that spawn, basically a walled town with a castle, within which are numerous adventurers, guard mobs, iron golems and a king mob. It's not so much a boss as the whole place is a challenge to conquer.
So another idea dump this one about the Spider Themed Magic system. As I said before it's based on Blood Magic, the whole drain victims life to magical power that is focused via a multi block structure(s). Fair warning this may get long.
An idea for the webbing is special Lapis Lazuli infused webbing, so the blocks are not so easy to just get. The structure would be stone surrounded by a ring of special webbing and then normal webbing, and a ring of wood logs and towers that connect the corners/sides via webbing like spider legs, and an enchantment table for the interface. That would be level one. To get energy you devour a victim on the platform in the center. However, instead of getting hunger, or eggs etc, it all goes to the stored amount of energy. The reason for this is that this probably something the player would make underground.
Spells/Rituals/ General Ideas
Besides using stored life points to enhance stats like, the amount of webbing one produces, claw damage, add a poison effect to one's claws and/ore feed on an unbound target and poison them, you could increase fertility (how many eggs one can expect to get at once) or even a vampiric bite on an unbound victim that drains their life and adds it to their stored life points. Also undead creatures like Zombies and Skeletons, should not produce 'life force', or blood (whatever Nova and Bama decide to use) for obvious reasons.
Mass Hatching: If you want a bunch of creeper spiders, get some eggs, put them on the platform, but four bound creepers on the corners, and go to the enchantment table. Instantly all the creepers will die, and depending on how much life force you have stored, the eggs will turn into creeper spiders.
Thralls: Put a bound player npc in the platform, right click them with a spider egg, start the ritual, and they work for you now. You can use them as guards, or send them to collect resources or animals. Devious I know, but this is the Spider Queen mod, not the fairy queen mod. Set them to a bed, and if you're in multiplayer, you have a little army to watch your back during daytime (assuming players have the chance to choose if they will be spider or human) without immediately tipping off were your nest is. You could even make a little town above your den as a door stop for any would be adventurers. Heck give them webbing to let them capture other player NPCs (sounds like a roleplay...huh...).
Spider Person: My two possible ideas for this, is an upgrade on the thralls, turning them into spider people with the upper body of the player skin, or a ritual involving an egg, a skull, brain, bones, lungs, heart etc, surround with webbing to make a cocoon. Begin the ritual and you have a spider person serving you. They could possibly produce their own mini-army but they basically act as squad leaders. You can assign spiders to them and give them weapons.
The Umbrella: Not a ritual just an item you can craft, holding it in the other hand and you don't get weakness will walking in daylight.
Spider Dragon: Did you defeat the ender dragon? Great! Now turn its offspring into an unholy affront to God and nature to serve as your ultimate weapon for you ambition of global dominance via a ritual that involves the egg, fire and poison webbing, several of your own eggs, a massive high level structure, and a copious amounts of life energy from an uncountable number of victims and maybe even some ender and blitz spiders as sacrifices...I'm beginning to fear something is wrong with me...meh. Obviously this is end game, biggest possible structure, massive amount of energy gathered, sort of stuff.
Web Armor: Use webbing forged/enchanted by the structure to defend yourself. Each blow will instead be taken out of your life energy reserve instead of your health bar.
Spider Golem: A ritual involving iron blocks, and an egg. Instead of attacking you or mobs in general, it attacks whatever attacks you or whichever faction hates you at the moment.
Sheep Spider: Not good for anything but producing more thread for you.
A book/In-Game Wiki: Basically a book, calling it the Book of Lolth/webbing, the Webnomicon, Spiders for Dummies, whatever, basically the player crafts it and gets a run-down of the mod's features and what not.
Squid Spider: Either they can blind enemies and/or they can swim and be ridden in the water.
Level Up Spiders: Put your chosen spider on the platform, some sacrifices on the sides, and start the ritual, converting the life points of the sacrifices and the stored life points into experience for the spider to use.
Spider Banners: Nuff said. Some decoration for your lair besides webbing and maybe your thrall village.
Player Skin: Sacrifice a player NPC in a ritual involving shears....and you get the player skin item. Put it on like a chest piece, and your character model immediately becomes that of the player you...sacrificed. Your spider powers are limited, your minions may not recognize you and but hey, at least player npcs won't immediately attack you...and you have some left over organs to give as peace offerings...my word why am I enjoying this....?! Anyways, the skin doesn't last forever considering...proportions, so don't go thinking you can hide out in a human village forever
MCA/ Spider Queen Interaction
Half Spider Children: If you have an MCA spouse and a wife, chances are that kid would end up as a spider person, or half spider person. You could also do a ritual or make a special potion to convert them into a full spider person, which your spouse may, or may not like the idea off (then again they married you so it's a bit late to be upset about a spider for a kid...)
Spider Clothes, use webbing and the needle from MCA to make clothes that actually appear on your Spider model.
Villager Thralls: Why pay money when you can instead implant a baby spider into their brain and....you get to the point. I imagine there would be unique consequences for each type of villager. A Cleric Thrall could have an interesting use...or you could just use them as meat shields...
For now that's all I got. Please note, no, I don't expect every if any one of these ideas to implemented, I have a fair idea of how...annoying coding can be, and this is just for fun and if the developers decide to use these ideas, cool. That said, anyone else has any other ideas?
An idea, if this hasn't been done already, but for Multiplayer servers, the host/admin could set the ratio for MCA Villager to players, I.e. For every one player there could be thirty or so that naturally spawn (not including the cake method)
Here's a questions, how often do mobs spawn and can you make it that only one of each mob spawns at a time, for people who want to RP as monster hunters?
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They're basically the same mod, but this one brings back features from the original mod.
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Still waiting for this mod to update.
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Godspeed, also will the dragons have special abilities. While that may be cool, I think that may cause balancing issues.
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Oh this is awesome. As much as I love the Ice and Fire mod, I think this mod has it's own charm and identity. I'm glad you brought back some of he features from the Eragon Mod.
I do ponder though, do any of them breathe fire?
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A query, with Hippgriffs, can you get MCA guards and family members to ride tamed ones, and what about dragons? I know I'm not the only one who wants to ride into battle leading Hippogriff Calvary or swoop down with a group of dragon rode by my MCA family/minion to burn all that my enemies hold dear to ashes.
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To anyone interested, the creator of the Vampirism mod, created a new mod, Vampirism Integrated, which lets it work with various modded biomes and also MCA Villagers. So yes, you can now play with a vampire family. Just watch out for those hunters.
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The Mod Developers have stated on the front page, and it's been reaffirmed many times on the forum, that they are not making anymore types of dragons
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He no longer maintains the mod.
Go here if you have problems: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/2853758-kagic-v1-9-steven-universe-mod
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They made it clear, they are not doing anymore types of dragons, only Fire and Ice.
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A question and more ideas.
How will Spider Queen react to Animania, a mod that changes vanilla animals like chickens, cows and pigs? Will those animals just turn into vanilla webbing victims?
Also, maybe some character interactions for Spider Persons, like sending them off hunting, to come back with bounds victims and such, or even use them in the same way heirs worked in MCA. When on hard mode, if you die, you came back playing as one of your spider person offspring. If you wanted to get back all of your levels, your would have to find the location of your previous character's resting place, extract the 'Heart of the Queen' item, either eat it and get back your levels and abilities or perform a ritual.
Also, another use for Thralls, is that they could serve as scouts. Perhaps via a ritual or special item you could puppet a thrall and use them for long distance recon and/or assassination missions. You could even make thralls out of animals, though not Spiders, or any undead creature for obvious reasons.
An idea for the web structure, is an upgrade or different structure that involves the Nether Portal, like a portal structure filled with string instead lit by fire and serving to funnel 'nether essence' into eggs and/or items, a ring of obsidian with enchanted and blaze string etc as the final level of the structure.
Nether Shards. Harvested from the Spider Nether Portal, they could be used to upgrade on the web structure. Put them on grass on they increase the change of mobs spawning. Use them to form a command staff that lets you put Spiders into Squads, or use them and a bound NPC that would give a normal spider to create a Wither Spider. You could also use them in potions for a splash potion that sets everything on fire, or gives wither.
Spider Squads: There is a mod called Overlord that lets you create a skeleton army. It lets the user organize its minions into squads that can be controlled as a squad instead of individually. This is a trait I'm sure a lot of people want as Spiders are a pain to control other wise. One option is a rod made using a nether shard instead of a spider eye or torch. Options include, stay, wander, follow and guard a certain area. The other option is the Spider Person. Have Spiders assigned to follow them and the player can interact with them like their were an MCA villager/Guard.
Spider Heir Ring: With a Spider Person, you can give them a ring made using gold and a spider eye. This will mark them as their heir and as mentioned above, allow the player to survive on hard mode.
Boss Ideas
Spider Demon: Based on Lolth the spider demon/goddess from DND this battle would take place either in the nether it self, or which ever Spider Nether Portal the player uses. It's basically a giant spider with ghast abilities and who leaves behind fire and/or poison webbing. They can also break through everything beneath iron in terms of hardness.
Spider Crown/Spider Empress/Evil Spider Queen: A one time event (assuming you win the battle) where in the player crafts a crown using a nether shard, gold and webbing. When they put it on, it starts a timer, wherein an Evil Spider Queen, or the 'Spider Empress' will spawn and move towards the player's base with her own spider army. If the player wins, the other spider queens will forever be loyal to them no matter what.
Wars/ Monster Monarchs: It would be cool if somewhere in the world, there were structure sporting the monarchs of each type of mob, except endermen (beat the Ender Dragon to do that). The player could seek them out and destroy their monarch, taking their crown and scattering that monster nation. Afterwards no mob of that type will bother the player again.
Human Kingdoms: one or several structures that spawn, basically a walled town with a castle, within which are numerous adventurers, guard mobs, iron golems and a king mob. It's not so much a boss as the whole place is a challenge to conquer.
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So another idea dump this one about the Spider Themed Magic system. As I said before it's based on Blood Magic, the whole drain victims life to magical power that is focused via a multi block structure(s). Fair warning this may get long.
An idea for the webbing is special Lapis Lazuli infused webbing, so the blocks are not so easy to just get. The structure would be stone surrounded by a ring of special webbing and then normal webbing, and a ring of wood logs and towers that connect the corners/sides via webbing like spider legs, and an enchantment table for the interface. That would be level one. To get energy you devour a victim on the platform in the center. However, instead of getting hunger, or eggs etc, it all goes to the stored amount of energy. The reason for this is that this probably something the player would make underground.
Spells/Rituals/ General Ideas
Besides using stored life points to enhance stats like, the amount of webbing one produces, claw damage, add a poison effect to one's claws and/ore feed on an unbound target and poison them, you could increase fertility (how many eggs one can expect to get at once) or even a vampiric bite on an unbound victim that drains their life and adds it to their stored life points. Also undead creatures like Zombies and Skeletons, should not produce 'life force', or blood (whatever Nova and Bama decide to use) for obvious reasons.
Mass Hatching: If you want a bunch of creeper spiders, get some eggs, put them on the platform, but four bound creepers on the corners, and go to the enchantment table. Instantly all the creepers will die, and depending on how much life force you have stored, the eggs will turn into creeper spiders.
Thralls: Put a bound player npc in the platform, right click them with a spider egg, start the ritual, and they work for you now. You can use them as guards, or send them to collect resources or animals. Devious I know, but this is the Spider Queen mod, not the fairy queen mod. Set them to a bed, and if you're in multiplayer, you have a little army to watch your back during daytime (assuming players have the chance to choose if they will be spider or human) without immediately tipping off were your nest is. You could even make a little town above your den as a door stop for any would be adventurers. Heck give them webbing to let them capture other player NPCs (sounds like a roleplay...huh...).
Spider Person: My two possible ideas for this, is an upgrade on the thralls, turning them into spider people with the upper body of the player skin, or a ritual involving an egg, a skull, brain, bones, lungs, heart etc, surround with webbing to make a cocoon. Begin the ritual and you have a spider person serving you. They could possibly produce their own mini-army but they basically act as squad leaders. You can assign spiders to them and give them weapons.
The Umbrella: Not a ritual just an item you can craft, holding it in the other hand and you don't get weakness will walking in daylight.
Spider Dragon: Did you defeat the ender dragon? Great! Now turn its offspring into an unholy affront to God and nature to serve as your ultimate weapon for you ambition of global dominance via a ritual that involves the egg, fire and poison webbing, several of your own eggs, a massive high level structure, and a copious amounts of life energy from an uncountable number of victims and maybe even some ender and blitz spiders as sacrifices...I'm beginning to fear something is wrong with me...meh. Obviously this is end game, biggest possible structure, massive amount of energy gathered, sort of stuff.
Web Armor: Use webbing forged/enchanted by the structure to defend yourself. Each blow will instead be taken out of your life energy reserve instead of your health bar.
Spider Golem: A ritual involving iron blocks, and an egg. Instead of attacking you or mobs in general, it attacks whatever attacks you or whichever faction hates you at the moment.
Sheep Spider: Not good for anything but producing more thread for you.
A book/In-Game Wiki: Basically a book, calling it the Book of Lolth/webbing, the Webnomicon, Spiders for Dummies, whatever, basically the player crafts it and gets a run-down of the mod's features and what not.
Squid Spider: Either they can blind enemies and/or they can swim and be ridden in the water.
Level Up Spiders: Put your chosen spider on the platform, some sacrifices on the sides, and start the ritual, converting the life points of the sacrifices and the stored life points into experience for the spider to use.
Spider Banners: Nuff said. Some decoration for your lair besides webbing and maybe your thrall village.
Player Skin: Sacrifice a player NPC in a ritual involving shears....and you get the player skin item. Put it on like a chest piece, and your character model immediately becomes that of the player you...sacrificed. Your spider powers are limited, your minions may not recognize you and but hey, at least player npcs won't immediately attack you...and you have some left over organs to give as peace offerings...my word why am I enjoying this....?! Anyways, the skin doesn't last forever considering...proportions, so don't go thinking you can hide out in a human village forever
MCA/ Spider Queen Interaction
Half Spider Children: If you have an MCA spouse and a wife, chances are that kid would end up as a spider person, or half spider person. You could also do a ritual or make a special potion to convert them into a full spider person, which your spouse may, or may not like the idea off (then again they married you so it's a bit late to be upset about a spider for a kid...)
Spider Clothes, use webbing and the needle from MCA to make clothes that actually appear on your Spider model.
Villager Thralls: Why pay money when you can instead implant a baby spider into their brain and....you get to the point. I imagine there would be unique consequences for each type of villager. A Cleric Thrall could have an interesting use...or you could just use them as meat shields...
For now that's all I got. Please note, no, I don't expect every if any one of these ideas to implemented, I have a fair idea of how...annoying coding can be, and this is just for fun and if the developers decide to use these ideas, cool. That said, anyone else has any other ideas?
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An idea, if this hasn't been done already, but for Multiplayer servers, the host/admin could set the ratio for MCA Villager to players, I.e. For every one player there could be thirty or so that naturally spawn (not including the cake method)
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Congrats, on your marriage. Godspeed you two.
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Cool
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Here's a questions, how often do mobs spawn and can you make it that only one of each mob spawns at a time, for people who want to RP as monster hunters?