My idea is, basically, adding beehives and bees to Minecraft. You may say this has already been suggested before, and you will be right. But, after some searching, I couldn't find anything but some ordinary hive ideas. I'm not talking about 1 block-sized beehives and 2 pixel bees. I'm talking about player sized bees and average house sized beehives which also extend underground and contain a big hallway system which leads to the Queen's room.
Location
I'm not quite sure about the location, but I think beehives would fit flower forests, maybe even any type of forest at all. But the generation of beehives isn't determined only by the biome. It also has to be at most 10 blocks away from a bigger group of flowers. Also, it overwrites any other structures on the same location, underground or aboveground.
Beehive
Blocks
The beehive itself consists of hive blocks. You can mine them with hands and they will drop the original block. A shovel mines them faster. It makes the grass sound when interacted with. The hive also contains a new liquid, honey. It can be collected with a bucket, or put in a glass bottle and drunk afterwards. It flows a bit slower than lava, but as far as the water does. You can't create infinite honey source. When an entity walks trough it it walks about 70% slower. It's texture is basically a yellow recolored water texture.
Shape and rooms
The aboveground part of the hive will be shaped like the real-life beehive. It will be about 10 blocks high and it's diameter is about the same. It has a two block high opening on the ground level- basically a door, and many 1 block openings on any level- something like a window. It's not divided into rooms. The only difference is that there will be a 2x2 hole in the floor, in the center of the room, leading to the Main room. It's the biggest room of the hive (14 blocks high, diameter of 10) and contains 0-4 chests filled with Hive loot (later about the loot). The Main room is connected to 5-7 hallways, each of them leading to 1 or 2 smaller rooms. The hallways and small rooms are narrow and 2 blocks high. Each small room has a 40% chance of containing a loot chest. They also contain Hive loot. All the bee types, except for the Queen, will spawn in ALL of the abovementioned rooms, including the aboveground part. In every hive's underground part, at a random location, there is a 1 block hole in the floor leading to the Queen's room. The Queen's room's center is directly below that hole, so basically, when a player falls trough that hole, he falls to the center of that room. The Queen's room will be described along with the Queen bee.
Bees
What's more important for the beehive than the actual bees? There are 5 types of bees + The Queen bee.
Worker bees- they are common and spawn in the hive and in it's environment (in a 5 block radius). They have 10 health (5 hearts) and a damage of 3. They are neutral, but will attack you if you attack a bee of any kind. Drops: 1-3 pollen (80%), 1 amber (20%), 1-2 wings (40%) and 1-2 exp.
Soldier bees- they are also common, they are aggressive (hostile) and have 15 health(7.5 hearts) and 6 damage. They have a 20% chance to poison you for 5 seconds. Drops: 2-5 pollen (70%), 1 amber (20%), 1-2 wings (40%) and 2-3 exp.
Armor bees- these are pretty rare. They have 15 health and 6 armor points. They look like a soldier bee, but with some kind of brown chitin armor. They have 5 damage. Drops: 1 pollen (90%), 2 amber (25%) and has a 20% chance of inflicting poison for 5s.
Shooter bees- these are uncommon, but more common than armor bees. They have 12 health, a damage of 3, a 50% chance to poison a player for 5s and a unique ability to shoot the stinger for unlimited times. No melee attack. Drops: 1-3 pollen (50%), 1 amber (10%), 1-2 wings (40%) and 1-3 exp.
Red bees- this is the rarest type of bee. They look like a warrior bee, but with red color instead of yellow and they are smaller- 1*1*1 block. They fly very fast in a straight line and they are very deadly if you are not careful enough. They have only 6 health, but 6 damage. They also have a 80% chance of poisoning you for 10 seconds. Drops: 2 amber (50%), 1-2 wings (40%) and 4 exp.
Queen fight
So, what about the Queen? There is only one queen per hive and it spawns in Queen's room, obviously. The room itself is 7 blocks high and 16 blocks in diameter. It contains much honey on the floor level. It contains 2-3 chests with Desert temple loot, so it resembles the treasure the bees have stolen. Other bee types spawn here too, but at a 80% lower rate than usual. The Queen bee has 60 health (30 hearts), 8 damage and a specific AI. It usually stays at one place, but it will sometimes just randomly start flying towards the player until it hits the player 2-3 times or gets hit a few times. After that it will fly to the random spot of the room and stay there for some time until it decides to strike again.
Drops: It has a 100% chance to drop 10 pollen, and another 50% to drop 5 more.
Similarly, it has a 100% chance for 6 amber, and 50% for 3 more.
Loot
You remember when we talked about the "Hive loot". This part of the suggestion is going to define it.
Hive loot
There will be 3-5 items in every chest. Here are the chances for any of the possible items to appear in place of one item.
- 1-4 pollen:20%
- 1 amber:15%
- 1-3 bottled honey:20%
- 1-27 rotten flesh:30%
- 1-3 diamonds:4%
- 1-4 bones:10%
- 1 "Poison" enchanted books
What are these items for?
Pollen: Pollen is used for making a new potion. That potion is called Potion of absorption and it gives you the Absorption status effect for 3 minutes. You can also make it absorption II or extend it to 8 minutes, like any other potion.
Bottled honey: It's just some honey in the glass bottle. When drunk, it gives you Health boost for 2 minutes. Health boost actually exists in the game but it's unused.
Amber- It's the most expensive bee-related item. It's sole purpose is creating amber armor. It gives you the same protection as the chain armor, BUT it comes with a little bonus. It has 80% (20% per piece) chance of protecting you from the negative potion effects that should be inflicted to you. It has the durability of iron armor. It is golden colored, but semi-transparent, so it differs from the golden armor.
Bee wings- used to brew a Potion of beeing. It has 70% of negating the fall damage you take, and Potion of beeing II gives you 100% protection.
Poison enchantment: This enchantment cannot be obtained trough enchantment table. It is only found in beehives. It can be enchanted to swords and bows. If it is used on sword, with each hit you have 20% chance to inflict Poison II to your target. If you use it on bow, it is the same, but it is applied to arrows it shoots. Just one level off this enchantment is available.
Farming the bees
So, you have killed the queen and you are ready to leave the hive. Your job is not done yet! Worker bees can be tamed with golden pollen (crafted: pollen surrounded by 8 golden nuggets). When tamed, it becomes passive towards all the mobs and the player. You can attach it to a lead or make it follow you by holding a piece of ordinary pollen (in a similar way cows and other animals follow you when you hold wheat etc.). To make a bee farm you need to make a completely enclosed room, because bees can fly and the ordinary fence will not stop them from getting away. They can be bred by pollen. And last, but not the least, for collecting bee drops, there is no need to kill those bees. You can put a bee collector in the farm. It is crafted by surrounding a chest with 8 amber. It looks like a yellow chest and you can store items in it normally. But, if you put it in the bee farm, every bee will put a random drop in it every minute. The chances for each drop are the same as if you killed them. If you put buckets in the bee collector, they have a 20% chance every minute to get filled with honey (if there are bees). They have 5 slots and hoppers can't interact with them. Also, you can craft hive blocks by surrounding a bucket of honey with 8 dirt (You keep the bucket).
Notes:
- If you didn't understand something or I didn't tell you something i should have, reply and I will answer you as soon as I can.
- If you didn't like something, let me know.
- This is about what the soldier bee should look like. Not exactly. It's from Biomes o' plenty. I'm sorry, but I'm not experienced in making resource packs.
- This is my first thread, so please, stop asking me that question.
Credits to alex_the_pony for the banner
My idea was put on the new website, We the players. It is some kind of game discussion forum, mainly for the ideas. It was made by builderbuilder. Here are the links to home page and bees suggestion page, respectively:
https://wetheplayers.org/petition/add-beehives-and-bees-to-minecraft
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The Potion of Shrinking, if you haven't already guessed, shrinks a player. The potion does not affect mobs. There are two levels to the Potion of Shrinking, Shrink I and Shrink II. It can be used to escape other players, (unless they have a potion for themselves... then Good luck with that.), for roleplay purposes, adventure maps, minigames, etc.
Shrink I:
Shrink II:
The ingredient to make the potion is a silverfish scale (also being suggested). Silverfish have a 40% of dropping a silverfish scale (47% with Looting I, 55% with Looting II, and 68% with Looting III).
Add 1 Redstone Dust:
Splash Potion:
Add 1 Redstone Dust:
Add 1 glowstone dust:
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This should maybe be added for the slimes.. too...
They're slimes, c'mon.
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Your brain is just full of ideas and equations isn't it...
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"This is totally pointless. Why would we use this? Right now,
No support"
Think, before you reply.
Shrinking - To get in small spaces, could be used for adventure maps, roleplay, and (possibly) minigames.
Growing - To do extra damage, could also be used for adventure maps, roleplay, and (possibly) minigames.
I Don't think command blocks can decrease or increase a player's height.
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Building... protection...
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...Building.. protection...
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Time to build my new bomb shelter.
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I like it! though I think rabbits should only be able to replace one type of mob... Skeletons or Zombies..
Choose wisely...