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I am disappointed with the status of unarmed combat in Minecraft. No one engages in hand-to-hand combat by throwing their right fist over and over and jumping around a bit.

My suggestion is this: You could enter a boxing stance by pressing "u" on a computer or holding both L2 and R2 (RB and LB on Xbox) on console, deselecting your hotbar entirely and raising your fists up like they are when you hold up a map. Pressing the left mouse button throws punches with alternating fists doing 4 damage, while the right brings your fists up to block, reducing damage by 25%, except for potions of harming.

In addition, punching through glass blocks or panes in a boxing stance would damage anyone behind them by 5 health points (due to glass shards), but damage the puncher by 3 (due to punching glass). Sprinting continuously for three seconds before an attack would double your knockback.

When moving in boxing stance, the more armor you have on, the slower you will move, except for leather armor. Each piece of Gold/Iron/Chainmail armor you're wearing will slow you down by 10%, while each piece of diamond will slow you down by 20%.

This would be useful for any time your sword breaks; I just suggested it because I like punching things, though.

10/10 support. The best suggestion I've read on these forums for awhile.

Usually, spawning in desert biomes, especially in large biomes mode, is a death sentence, mainly due to the lack of food and trees, which makes sense, after all, deserts aren't known for being hospitable; But when I walk up on an oasis, I should be able to find food and wood here as I would if I was really lost in the Arabian/Saharan desert, hence my suggestion of date palms.

For those unaware and too lazy to google, dates are fruits which grow in the desert, mainly in countries such as Egypt, Iran, and Arabia in the middle-east and Sahara. They were a very vital food source in ancient times, though they have now been replaced somewhat by exported food.

So anyways, date trees would spawn near... oasisis? oasi? oases? Oases. Anyways, the trees would grow near oases, and a unique wood, leaf, sapling, and fruit would be introduced. The logs could not be crafted into planks, but four logs could be made into a crafting table, and two could be made into a stick (To preserve the difficulty of Deserts, and because date trees aren't used for making houses all that often). The leaf blocks would drop 2-4 dates on being broken. Dates themselves would restore three hunger points and restore 2.5 saturation.

Trees would be 6 blocks tall and have a flat patch of leaf blocks in a + sign, like you'd expect from a palm tree. The Date saplings would be like normal saplings, but would grow on sand, red sand, and coarse dirt, and have to be within 5 blocks of a water source to be planted or grow. Date Saplings would turn into dead bushes after around 5 minutes if the water source they were planted near was destroyed.

Ok, so I had an idea, and I searched for Slime, got about 3 related results in the whole listing, the rest were just random. Also: The full editor is stupid, it deletes all the empty lines, like you'd never pressed enter, to I have to put those back every time.

• So here's my (first) idea: Slime slabs and panes

When the player right clicks a block with a slimeball, it places a slimy green semi-translucent block, about the size of snow (not snow blocks, but the thin snow), it slows the player down and can be broken to give a slime ball. It is most easily harvested by hand, and occurs naturally in slime spawning areas. Also it can be placed on a wall where it will become a Slime Pane.

• My next idea: Slime caves

My next idea is a new generated structure, called a Slime Cave, the slime cave looks a series of caves that stay rather flat (not going very much higher or lower at any spot than any other spot). These caves are often covered in slime slabs and slime panes, with slimes spawning here excessively, and other mobs having a much lower chance to spawn.In addition, there would be a room with slime spawners and a giant slime for a "boss" of sorts, he wouldn't drop anything special though, he's just a very large slime who would split into 4 large slimes.New: May contain some of those new slime blocks that they're adding in 1.8, not really sure how that would work so post ideas.

• My Third idea: More Slime colors

(Currently the most liked idea in the poll.)More slime colors: So, you're probably thinking "well what if I don't want it to be green" (well, you're probably not thinking that, but still) so, I have a solution for you: Slimeballs could be dyed (crafted with dyes) to make another color slimeball, and therefore another color slime slab.But it doesn't stop there, Slimes will actually have a 5% each chance of spawning (40% chance total) in the following colors:

• darker Green
• red
• orange
• yellow
• blue
• pink
• black
• white

This really has no effect other than aesthetics, and one can die them into ordinary Slimeballs using lime dye.New: The player can also dye slimes directly, you want all your slimes you spawned green? just right click the slimes themselves with lime dye.This would also allow map makers with custom resource packs to re texture a certain color of slime, for example: A map maker making a partially undersea level could texture yellow slimes to look like sponges, then spawn in several slimes, and color some yellow to make the look like sponges while dying others blue to blend in with the water and a third group green for enemies on land.Example two: A map maker could texture red slimes to look like dirt, yellow ones to look like stone and white ones to look like diamond ore, then spawn slimes in various locations and dye them into a camouflaged color to ambush the player on their map. The Slime blocks would also be dyable. Also, name a Slime jeb_ for a rainbow slime.

• Magma cubes

Per request of Roundninja, I'm putting this section here.Magma cubes, like slimes have their own equivalent of the ideas I've proposed for slimes. Magma Cube Panes and Slabs currently have no differences from their Slime equivalents other than appearance.Magma cubes would have Magma Cube Caverns, covered in Magma Cream Slabs. Magma Cube Caverns are larger and more spacious than Slime caves, but lava often generates inside of them.Magma cubes can also be died, but they can only be died certain colors:

• Red (They look brighter red)
• Orange (They look similar to lava)
• White (Look brighter than they were before)
• Black (Look like their original form)

I know this is short, but I already explained how these things' Slime counterparts function and work, and the Magma Cube versions are the same unless specified otherwise..Other

• rarekwiebus suggested bouncing off Slime blocks' sides

Notes

• White Slimes look a slightly pale blue tinted clear color, and are much more translucent than other colors.
• Please view this, it's sort of a forth idea of this suggestion: http://www.minecraft...th-a-new-twist/

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A well thought-out and extremely descriptive suggestion, I definitely support.

Essentially, I noticed that Iron Golems are only capable of protecting you from hostile mobs, and not hostile players; They will hunt down and murder so much as a silverfish in your house, but someone can just sit next to your bed and spawnkill you, and the Golem will do nothing. Here's my suggestion:

When you right-click on a golem which you have created, it opens a GUI with two columns and two corresponding spaces above the columns where you can write names. Entering a player's name would cause them to show up on the column, though an "x" would be present next to their name to allow you to remove them

One column would be labelled "never attack", and the Golem would not attack anyone on this list, even if it were hit by them. Entering /all as a name would cause the Golem to be completely passive to all players.

The other would be labelled "always attack", and the Golem would actively go after the players on this list even if it was never attacked by them. Entering /all as a name would cause the Golem to attack anyone who was not it's owner, excepting those who are on the never attack list.

Players not on either list would be treated neutrally by the golem, excluding the player, who the iron golem would always be passive towards.

This way, you could have your golems defend your multiplayer house from your enemies when you're unable to, make sure your friends wouldn't accidentally hit your golem and be killed by it, make sure only your teammates can get into your house, etc.

Here's another picture taken with resource packs showing off the slime panes in a slime cave.

The Sea Ice ocean would be a variation of the deep ocean, covered in floating chunks of ice.

Like in other cold biomes, Snow would fall instead of rain, but unlike in them, water wouldn't freeze on it's own just from being exposed to the open air (to prevent it from just becoming another frozen ocean biome).

Guardians would rarely spawn naturally, giving some incentive for players to enter this difficult-to-navigate biome.

(Note: Being simple ≠ being vague)

Alright, so there's this idea I've been working on for the past few weeks. You heard me, weeks. Basically, it's boats. Boats than you can make bigger, slap a name on, armor, choose what propulsion system it has, and carry stuff in.

Full idea in spoiler:

Boats Evolved; bigger, modular boats (Watch out --- huge!)

Okay guys. Just a slight disclaimer, the explanation for this idea is going to be *HUGE*. The idea itself may be simpler, but the description will take a long time to explain. In a nutshell, it's bigger boats that are also modular.
So we'll start with a slight modification of a game mechanic. Otherwise, the idea won't work very well. So just keep in mind that in this idea, you can't push a boat around by standing on top of it. At least just for the higher-level classes, which we'll get to in a minute.
Also, upon entering a boat, a GUI will appear somewhere around the bottom-right or so that displays the ships 'health', and speed.



Before we go overboard (no pun intended), let's begin with some basic principles that can be applied to the current boat. Let's call it the Dinghy. You can't do too terribly much with the Dinghy, but you CAN do some things.
Dinghies can be crafted just like they normally are. However to modify a boat, a new tool will have to be brought into the game. Let's say it's a Hammer. Right-clicking on a boat with a hammer, granted you're the one that built it will open up a GUI.



Like I said before the abilities with the Dinghy are limited, so you have limited things that pop up in the GUI. All that displays for now is the hull, propulsion system, and their respective health bars. You can also give your boat its own custom name that appears on its hull (But this probably won't be for the Dinghy). You will also notice two numbers at the top. On the left (12/12), is the boat's hitpoints. I doubled their damage resistance because I thought it was kind of silly to kill a boat with one arrow. To the right (1) is the ship's base speed attribute. That is to say, the speed capability of a boat, excluding the propulsion system. Boat stats will vary upon each construction. Therefore someone can be proud of themselves if they have made a fast/strong ship.

Normally, you have your standard, nonreinforced plank hull. However, you could change that. Let's start with a Reinforced Wood Hull. In the crafting table, put in 9 pieces of log together to form a piece of Reinforced Wood Plating. Dinghies will probably only need one plate to reinforce themselves. Plating will probably not be stackable for gameplay purposes.
Reinforced wood will provide a higher defense for the dinghy. Two more types of hull include Steel and Gold. Steel Plating requires 4 Iron blocks in the crafting table, and Gold likewise. With a steel-plated hull, the boat can take considerably more damage than Plank or Wood. Steel hulls can possibly withstand lava. Gold plating is only slightly stronger than Reinforced Wood and is not feasible as battle armor. However, just in case you were thinking these hulls are easy to reinforce, keep in mind higher levels will need more plating as they get bigger.



When a boat is damaged, simply right-click with the Hammer to open up the GUI. There should be a slot for extra plating to go in should the ship need repair. To ensure fair fights, the repair will be timed, like a furnace. Each repair uses up the Hammer some. It would also be nice to see some sort of visual cue for an almost-destroyed ship, like fire or a broken, damaged texture.

And now, the propulsion systems.

With the default dinghy, you have your Hands. Hands for a dinghy are basically neutral, however they will be slower than in previous versions of the game.
An alternative solution, is craftable Oars. Oars are very maneuverable and faster than hands, however they do not grant a steady speed and require you to hold down the forward button whenever you want to move. They may even 'tire' you out more (using up more Hunger).



The last one for the Dinghy, is the sail. Sails can provide very fast speeds, however they have low thrust and are not easy to slow down and speed up easily. A steady speed is required for traversing around land-covered areas. Sails can also possibly be made with different colored wool, to help a boat stand out. Sails grant a steady speed as you can leave them unattended with very little deceleration.



So now we move on to a bigger boat. Not too terribly big, but we're getting there.

To construct larger ships and propulsion systems, you're going to need an alternative to the crafting table. Let's just call it the Shipwright. This block ONLY crafts boats and takes up more blocks of space.



I think for a new level of boat, you're going to need some Blueprints. Blueprints can most likely be created by interacting with the Shipwright by combining a blueprint (Or in this case, a solid Dinghy) and investing your Experience Points to come up with a new 'idea' for a bigger boat. The 'studying' is timed, again, like a furnace, and with each clump of EP filled, the progress bar is filled some. You can also find Blueprints in dungeons, but only rarely.
After that will be done, the Blueprints can be put in a separate slot, with another slot under it. The slot under it is for the wood required to build the boat. Every time you put more wood into the slot under it, the progress bar for the ship increases. I'm not sure if this should be the way but it sounds pretty good.
I think that for each class of boat, a bigger mast will need to be crafted. That, or just have one single mast that, for bigger boats, you need to pack in more Sails. Kind of like how plating works.



So now, the next level: the Skiff.

The skiff is *about* 2 1/2 times the length of the Dinghy. However, with the next level comes new features. First off is a second slot, a passenger seat if you will. But besides that, there are two more features.



Here, there will be special lots to place blocks at. These could be something decorative like gold blocks, or practical, like chests.



To place a block in there, logically you would right click on that one place with the block. It's possible the block lot will be highlighted by the Hammer to show you where you can place things. To get it out, leftclick with the Hammer and it will appear in your inventory. If blocks aren't your fancy, perhaps animals are. Here is where the extra space in the GUI comes in. There would be a list of all the entities in the boat. If they are NPCs, you can choose to move them to another slot, or evict them. You can also evict players, but not move them[amended].



With the Skiff, you have an additional propulsion system. I'm not sure about this one so I'm going to need you guys' approval. Essentially, it is a steam-powered paddlewheel. The steam engine will need to be powered by coal, which will either have a furnace-like GUI or not. It is also be slightly less maneuverable than the Sail. The steam engine, like Sails, grant a steady speed and can be left unattended. They have perfect acceleration, however they are much slower than Sails.



For armoring, the Skiff will need more plates to sufficiently armor the boat. Possibly two or three.
The skiff will most likely be the largest boat to successfully navigate shallow marshlands and the like.



Now, for the adventurous sailor, we're going to go one step up. Meet the Cog. The Cog is a fair-sized boat, but it is hardly big. What is does have though is a top deck large enough to walk upon. Now, we're going to introduce another feature. This time, the Cog will have a lower deck. You could be able to place a few blocks in that bottom deck, such as beds and chests. This will be good for long adventures. If you aren't spoiled, you would be happy with a Cog for your adventuring needs. Hands are now unusable.
For gameplay, an invisible, penetrable box will be in the interiors of the ship that hides water and its effects when water blocks go near it, but as soon as they leave the water blocks return to normal.



Now here, starting with the Cog, is the boat's main means of offense and defense. You guessed it, the Cannon. I believe the cannon could be made with a crafting table. To fire (And right now I'm making most of this up as I go along), you must first craft a Cannonball (Maximum of 16 allowed in hand), and right click on the cannon. The cannon will fizz for about 2.5 seconds or more before firing the cannonball. You must wait an additional second to fire again. To adjust the angle of a cannon, rightclick it (without a cannonball) to point the cannon up or down.



Now with ships and other entities, contact with the cannonball will just equal damage being dealt. But with blocks, there is a chance (Depending on their blast resistance) that the block being hit, and/or the blocks around it will be pushed forward and respond to gravity. And in rare cases, break upon falling.
That, or it would just be a weak form of TNT. But I like the former better. Mostly because it's my idea. Good gosh I think I'm vain or something.
So like I said, if you aren't spoiled, you would be happy with a Cog for your adventuring needs.



But sometimes, you ARE spoiled. Or, just requiring a bit more power. That's where the fourth level comes in, behold: the Carrack. Significantly larger than the other boats, this one can actually be called a ship. It has 3 decks. The first being the top deck (Which comprises of the main deck, quarter and poop, naturally), the second the gun deck, which to the back holds the captain's quarters, and the bottom deck is mainly for cargo. If the Carrack is steampowered the boiler room will be in there.





Oars are now unusable for the Carrack, as are Hands for Cogs. (The Oars for the Cogs would be weaker than on the Skiff and Dinghy, as would hands with the Skiff. However with the Steam engine and Sail, they just get faster with each level, with exceptions [amended])
Another neat thing you get to do with the Carrack is you get to live up to the naval definiton of a ship. On the Carrack, you can place another boat inside it for scouting/lifeboats. But it can only be a Skiff or Dinghy.



Okay, next one. Here we go.



(This level is optional. You guys tell me if it should be ingame.)

Now sometimes, your lust for power is so great no measly Carrack can hold it; not even when it is steel-hulled and armed to the teeth. No, you wish for the very seas to obey your will. Well, you psychopath, here's the fix for you: Feast your eyes sir, on the Galleon. Over twice the size of a Carrack, four long decks and plenty of guns, you would not want to war with this vessel. It is essentially a Carrack on steroids; bigger, stronger (but not faster [amended]), and scarier. But, slightly slower. Should you decide to armor it, keep in mind it will need 8 Platings to armor (Maybe more). And considering each plating requires 4 blocks to fill, you're going to need a LOT of iron.



When a ship finally loses all of it's 'health', it will sink to the bottom of the sea. Here, it is subject to despawn, but will stay there as long as there is a player near it. Although dangerous, it would then be available for looting, if you haven't plundered the ship while it was afloat already. < --- This entire paragraph is subject to discussion and alternative options. It's also been proposed that the ship turn into it's block counterpart, only leave chests, or like in the Amendment Posts, leaves a Ship's Bell that can serve as a savegame for your ship.

Now, I understand that such a feature is going to be *HUGE*, possibly requiring its own update, and would be just a massive undertaking. But I for one believe it will be an undertaking worth the effort. It would heighten the spirit of Minecraft adventure and exploration, people could trade vast amounts of resources over long distances, and plunder other ships for their booty. So I'm not 100% expecting this to be accepted entirely (But if it is, thankyouthankyouthankyou!), but in the future if any modders were curious about how to go about doing their ship mod, this could be a good example. But I really hope this would at least be seen by Mojang. Just two-thirds into completing this idea, I read an old tweet of Notch saying that he might add something like this in the future. So, if you are, this could be one of the ways to go about it.


Any questions?

Amendment Post 1:
- In the Shipwright GUI, the product slot of the boatbuilding section is now a button. I've updated the image.

- Craftable ship components should have been expanded. In addition to a Galley, an Anchor component (probably most vital) is also one of them. Also proposed by the community are tables, crows' nests (That basket thing on the top of masts), icebreakers, and if the NPC crew idea is implemented, a sea captain's desk to chart courses for the helmsman.

- I actually think you should be able to move players. I mean, if they actually decided to choose to lock themselves in a mob slot rather than move around freely I think the captain should be free to move them wherever.
Amendment Post 2:
- Galleons really shouldn't be the fastest ships out there, it would be unfair. Instead, their base speed capability should be a tiny bit slower than a Carrack, probably. Updated.

- Right clicking on a cannon without a cannonball could point the cannon up/down. Updated.

- Different types of ships that do not follow the linear 5-level path of upgrades. Instead, 'extra' ship blueprints could be found in dungeons in strongholds, but they would be rare. Could be a way to get Caravels and viking ships or whatnot.

- I'm not sure about the decay process of sunken ships. Perhaps after someone leaves the ship's general area, a timer starts and eventually the ship will despawn. Or maybe it just stays there forever but can be 'mined' away to recollect valuable materials.
Amendment Post 3 (Note: These are not as important as the first 2) :
- Flags. Although I'm sure colored sails can do a good job of faction identification, custom-made flags would be really great to have. They could be used outside of boats, too.

- Extra ammo types. The standard cannonball would be made of stone and gunpowder, but others could be made out of iron and other materials. The new usable fireball coming 1.2 would also make a neat incendiary addition. Other types can inclde grapeshot and chainshot.

- Sea monsters. Pretty straightforward, I'd like to see some minor sea bosses when roaming the sea. But in my opinion, they should be restricted to certain sizes of ships (Dinghies have no bosses). For example the ship the size of a Skiff would probably only get a shark or something, whereas something Cog-sized would get sharks and sea serpents, medium-sized ships like the Carrack would get sea serpents and maybe giant octopus (Will wrap tentacles around the ship and begin to tug down unless tentacles are damaged), etc...They are, however, uncommon.

- A ship's bell. Yes, they can be used as a normal bell, but there's something that makes them special. Once placed on a ship, it bears the ship's name and can ONLY be placed on that ship (e.g Bell of the S.S Whatchamacallit). Then, if a sunken ship despawns, that bell is turned into a block at the bottom of the ocean and contains all of the ship's data. Then, it can be used to recreate the ship.

- Sea obstacles. The ocean would be made that much better if occasionally you stumbled upon a mini-biome within an ocean. These could be mysterious sea rocks, or icebergs made of pack ice where a tundra or arctic biome would usually be.

And the Reddit post is here:

http://www.reddit.co..._modular_boats/ (Archived)


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Ok, this suggestion includes a new type of mob, with new items as drops, found in a new dungeon, and also some new blocks.

First off, the mobs.

Basicly, they will be giant ants. There are three varieties. All ants would randomly spawn inside the area the tunnels occupy. This would be similar to the mechanic guardians have. Ants spawn when there is a solid block beneath them, and at any light level. Furthermore, no other mobs would spawn in this area because the ants “already got ‘em”.

Along with the ants spawned naturally, ants will also spawn with monster spawners in special rooms within the dungeon. This would make specific types of ants be more common in specific places, and make ants appear from seemingly nowhere.

More in Depth spawning- Thanks to Ouatcheur!

Anyway, these are the mobs....

ALL ANTS ARE EFFECTED BY BANE OR ARTHROPODS ENCHANTMENT

1. Worker ant- "Baby" model for the ants I guess you can say. About 1x1x0.5, or as big as a cave spider.
• Same melee attack damage as spider (Easy: 2 (), Normal: 2 (), Hard: 3 ()), but has Knockback I as well
• No armor.
• Same amount of health and speed as a cave spider (12 ())
• Immune to the slowing effects of resin(more on that later).
• Can climb walls like a spider
• Looks like this.
2. Soldier ant- "adult" model for the ants. 2x2x1, or the size of a normal spider
• Melee attack strength of 5 on Easy (), of 7 on Normal (), and 9 on Hard(), along with Knockback I.
• Same amount of armor as a fully leather armored player.
• Same amount of health as a normal spider (16 ())
• Speed is slightly faster than a normal spider. (105% spider speed)
• Immune to the slowing effects of resin(more on that later).
• Can climb walls like a spider
• Also gives the player a “Irritation” effect for 30 seconds, which halves all types of healing and hunger gain (Thank you Ceroz for suggesting that!), and Nausea for 3 seconds.
• Looks likes this.
3. Ant Queen- Like the "Elder" class of guardian, or a Mini boss. About 2x3x1.5 blocks in size, or as big as a short horse.
• Gives Regen I to nearby ants (like a 2 block radius),
• Has the same amount of health as an Elder Guardian (80 ( × 40))
• Has the same armor as a fully chain mail armored player.
• Immune to the slowing effects of resin(more on that later).
• Moves slightly slower than a normal spider.(90% of a spider's speed) Also does not wander much.
• Attack-
1. places a resin block at a players feet randomly if the player is in a 3 block radius (randomly, like every tick, there is 1/30 chance of it doing this) More on resin blocks later.
2. Melee damage is comparable to a normal zombie. (Easy: 2 (), Normal: 3 (), Hard: 4 ()) Melee range is one block in front of it's head. Slow attack speed, because if you're in melee range, you're probably stuck in resin.

• Looks likes this.

Behavior-

• Worker ants are actually neutral. Soldier ants and Ant Queens are not though (they are aggressive). The worker ants will not bother you until you attack any kinda of ant. Example: You gain entrance to the ant dungeon, and all the worker ants are wandering around doing their thing. A soldier ant then immediately comes up ant tries to attack you. After you hit the soldier ant, all the workers will become aggressive to you too.
• Ants will also attack all mobs, both hostile and passive. The only thing is, all hostile mobs are also hostile to ants, and mobs killed by the ants don't drop anything (to prevent them from becoming a substitute to iron golems).
• Ant queens will actually retreat to the nearest ant after being hit (along the x,z axis, I don't want them wandering to the closest ant above them).
• As many people have suggested, ants now spawn around the ant queen, but they do so in a different manner than you may expect. Ants (75% of them will be soldier ants, 25% worker ants) will spawn within a 12 block radius from the ant queen, but will not spawn within an 8 block radius of the queen. More so, ants will only spawn if the player is in an 8 block radius with the queen. This would make the ants occasionally spawn behind the player, or in different rooms adjacent to the Queen’s room. This is meant to simulate all ants in the hive travelling over to save the queen (because many of the times, the ants would spawn out of view, or at the entrance to the room). The ants the queen spawns will also automatically target the player, even if the ant does not have a direct line of sight with the player. About 2-4 ants spawn each time, and spawn with the same frequency of a monster spawner.
• Diagram explaining ants spawning around the queen:

Drops-

All ants drop random amounts of resin droplettes () and red sand, similar to guardians dropping prismarine shards and fish (so 1-3 resin nuggets, 0-2 red sand)

• Worker ants also rarely drop random plants like; leave blocks (all varieties), mushrooms, vines, seeds, and crops, but only if killed by a player
• Soldier ants also rarely drop mob related items, like rotten flesh, string, bones, and gunpowder, but only if killed by the player. They also have a unique drop, an “ant stinger” () which is a potion ingredient, and is dropped normally.
• Can be brewed with an awkward potion to make an “Irritation I” potion that has a duration of 3 minutes.
• Extended potions last 5 minutes
• Adding glowstone dust makes an “Irritation II” potion, which lasts 1 minute, 30 seconds and reduces healing and hunger gains by 2/3rds
• Adding a fermented spider eye makes a “Wellness” potion, which increases health and hunger gains by 50% for “Wellness I” and 66% for “Wellness II”. Has the same effect time and their un-spider eyed counterparts
• Ant Stinger’s are “bad food” like spider eyes, or rotten flesh. Has an 90% chance to give you the “Irritation I” effect for 7 seconds when eaten, has the same amount of saturation and hunger points as a spider eye.
• Ant queens have a 50% chance to drop an Ant Queen head, and commonly drop whole resin blocks themselves.

The dungeon-

_{Note- Some ant colonies would be Polygyny, or have multiple queens.}

The dungeons the ants spawn in appear in any type of Mesa Biome. They have a 1/150 chance to spawn around any specific chunk within Mesa Biome.

It looks similar to caves, but always connects to the surface, and with hardened resin blocks and red sandstone mixed with the naturally occurring hardened clay.

The caverns would look like this.

^{_{Please forgive me for my terrible cave making skills…...}}

At the end of each dead end in the tunnels generated like this, there would be one of several specific rooms that can form. All rooms have a weight value, which will help the game determine which room has what probability to spawn.

Notice! Room weight values are prone to change.

• "Resting" Room- a default room I guess you could say. Nothing too special. Has hardened resin and "soft" non-drying resin equally distributed in here. 50/50 spawning for each type of ant. Has a weight value of 150
• Nursery room- Would contain a single Ant Queen would spawn (like a Elder Guardian in a Monument), and there would be many, many "soft" non-drying resin blocks everywhere, accumulating in piles. 75% of the ants that spawn here are soldier ants, 25% are worker. The change weight that this room will spawn is 20 (but there will always be at least one!)
• Food room- Would have leaf blocks and both types of mushrooms naturally growing inside of this room. A couple "soft" non-drying resin blocks, but mostly there is hardened resin. 50/50 spawning for each type of ant. Chance weight is 70
• Garbage room- Contains mostly coarse dirt and mycelium. Contains only hardened resin, no "soft' resin. Only worker ants spawn here. Chance weight is 50
• Hatchery room- This is the only room that contains spawners. There is one worker ant spawner in here, hidden under a pile of "soft" non-drying resin blocks. Actually, there would be many, many piles of "soft" non-drying Resin Blocks. everywhere. 75% of ants spawned here through natural means are worker ants, 25% are soldier ants.

Blocks-

Resin blocks are like the combination of a slime block, sand, and cobweb. It looks like a amber colored slime block and has the slowing effect of one, is affected by gravity like sand, and you fall into it and are slowed like a cobweb.

There are also two types of resin blocks, those found naturally in the dungeon, and those you can craft. Naturally generated resin does not dry out (more on that later), but crafted resin does.

"Soft" Resin can only be picked up with a shovel, and can be crafted with a 2x2 crafting grid filled with resin nuggets.

Breaking a soft resin block will drop 3-4 resin nuggets as well, similar to snow or glowstone.

Similar to how crops grow, resin blocks have a timer. After a random period (similar to crops), the crafted Soft Resin will harden into Hardened resin, which is mined with a pickaxe. These have a dull amber color, and are useful for decoration.

Similar to farmland, a water block close-by to a crafted resin block will prevent it from becoming a hardened resin block. Hardened resin blocks however will not revert back into “squishy” resin blocks if close by to water.

Hardened resin can also be put into a furnace to create an Amber Block.

Amber blocks can be put into a crafting table in a 2x2 configuration to create Amber bricks. They can also be made into slabs and stairs, and have a “chiseled” variant similar to stone bricks. Crafted with two slabs over each other in a crafting table.

Amber is just another decoration block, until you surround it with four glowstone dust, which will create an Amber Lamp. This would be a new light source.

The blocks look like this….

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*Special Thanks to Cerroz for suggesting useful things and Endergirl00 for telling me my Ant texture looked okay*

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