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Quote from Skull023»

Sometimes i remain speechless thinking on how much work mod makers have to do just because minecraft is coded in java...

And knowing how much simpler things would be in a newer engine.

Thanks, it's a labor of love.
I kinda like Java because of how flexible it is. But yeah, a newer engine/language would bring some great capabilities with it.

Quote from slugsmgee»

Damn straight!

1.12.2 is starting to shape up like 1.7.10 for mod support. Some big name mods have released for it while skipping most of the rest, or even since 1.7.10

Twilight Forest, Erebus, Aether 2, Galacticraft, soon to be Thaumcraft!

Hoping Railcraft does soon, oh and this!

Any eta?

Edit: Thaumcraft recently released for 1.12.2!!

Nah, no ETA. Sorry.

Quote from aycfes»

to start off, i don't have the time (and tbh, probably neither the patience) to read trough all that has been said so far, so sorry if my suggestion has already been suggested (redundancy ftw).

so, i belive a monster that can't be killed by hitting it, or at least is very hard to hit would be interesting, what i have in mind, more precisely, is something akin to a irl jumping spider; A tiny arthropod that moves extremely fast, but in bursts, so fast, in fact, that if it misses it's target and hits a block, it takes significant damage, dying after 3 or 4 times. it would deal fairly little damage, so that it is not too powerfull and you can kill it even if it gets the first hit before you notice it.

I feel that pine/spruce forests would be a good biome for it

As for the drops, i am not sure, but it would probably be something related to how it moves and/or it's chemical makeup, for instace, if it moves by creating small explosions, it could drop said explosives.

i was basically rambling here, i wrote it as it came to my mind, so i appologize if it is badly structured or such.

thank you for your time and attention.

The mechanic you described is pretty cool. But I feel like it would be more appropriate for a large, lumbering, and clumsy beast mob. When I think of jumping spiders, I think of precision and agility. When I think of rhinoceri, for example, I think of recklessness and brute strength.

Quote from mxnmnm»

You should add a treeth. An ent like creature that invades wooden blocks near the player controlling them and building up health as a result (of course there should be a limit editable in the config so it doesn't become too bosslike) and the only way to restore the wooden blocks is by killing the mob. It should drop an item that lets you hide in blocks for a certain amount of time helping you hide from mobs and if you move it gives you absorption (while animating the block you were hiding as on your character and making it fall off and disappear).

I really don't like it when mobs grief the environment. Sorry, going to have to turn this down.

Quote from MohawkyMagoo»

A mimic monster that sneaks into your base and replaces your bed - only comes alive when you try to sleep - aaaaarrrggghhhh!

This sounds much more frustrating than it does fun.
A big part of mob design is maintaining atmosphere. A players spawn should feel like a safe place with the hostility of the world coming from the outside. A mimic chest in a dungeon underground would be a more appropriate trap-like mob, and Primitive Mobs adds a great one.

Quote from Gillymoth»

Hi Mohawky, it's been a while since the Ruins forums, oh, it turns out that the creature of night terrors as you mentioned can be cobbled together in a summon command, and even a cobbled-together version shows it would work well in Mowzie's mobs in a custom form. Maybe an irresistibly soft trap-door spider or something slow that would need surprise to ensure a successful attack.

In the picture I just trapped a zombie in a two-deep hole and got the bed to the right height against the floor. The hitbox pushes you before you fall in with it, which could be how the creature traps the player.

It would be like a pangolin with a soft, fluffy back, and the front pummeling fists would interlock perfectly into the front part of the crouched animal, forming the pillow, kind of like those rock-crabs on Pirates of the Caribbean, at worlds end.

Tried making the form out of armorstands, but ended up with Replicators from Stargate *hides*.

Oh, that's really cool. I still don't feel like the mechanic lends itself to fun gameplay, though. Sorry.

Quote from MokahTGS»

Why would you skip 1.12.2? Seems like a giant waste of time, since the vast majority of the modding community is working with 1.12.2

1.13 is a long way from stable.

I do not plan on skipping 1.12. Someone said I should earlier and a lot of discussion followed. I WILL update to 1.12.

Quote from ALEXG00000000»

Grelydra: scourge of the seas of sand :STREAMLINED EDITION

Aggressive, desert

Snapping turtle + dinosaur + Nibelsnarf + Softshell turtle + Desert tortoise

“I can still remember that night.

We were still at our trading outpost, It was the transition into night.The men from far off lands had hopped on their llama caravans and rode back towards the mountains;people were finishing their trades and horses were tied up to posts. The tents were being set up around a dwindling fire of burnt coals.

Me and the boss were speaking in lulled whispers about the doings and deals of the day. An abrupt cry split the still of the night. A monstrous hill of sand appeared, and raced towards the camp. People desperately tried to untie their horse, who freaked out and tried to escape as they thrashed about, and then it sunk back into the sand. Nobody in the camp moved, I locked eyes with the boss. Suddenly, the gigantic beast exploded out of the sand, directly in the middle of camp!

Sand blew everywhere as the beast bites into tents and slaughtered the horses and the people indiscriminately, some fled, all others died. Me and the boss ran to get away, When the creature was right behind us, he said we should split up, as he said that he could take it on.

I now live in a beach village; I still don’t know what happened to the old boss, but deep down, I know that he was killed.

Sometimes I walk down the beach to look at the sea turtles, watching them peacefully swim around. Hard to believe they’re related to the thing that still haunts me to this day.”

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The GRELYDRA is a Large desert dwelling beast, it has a mostly flat and spiky shell, that has a large, curious yellowish orange crystal popping out of the middle. It's fin like claws are used to dig through sand.

Grelydras have long necks with sandstone camouflage. The head has a spikey and cracked look,with softshell turtle like noses and a giant, toothy maw.

Underneath the shell is a mucusey and amphibious blue skin that is incredibly weak and thin, and needs to be protected at most times. The tail has both a thin orange fin and two bony green plates on either sides. They are extremely slow on top of the land, but very fast under the sand.

They also have red forms that spawn in mesas, and are slower but have more health, that is the only difference besides the coloration and spawn location.

Attacks:

Carnivorous cavern: This is more of a passive ability, it digs beneath the sand showing only its head, closing its eyes and showing its tongue that has a grass like design, luring in prey animals (rabbits,horses,cows,sheep,pigs,llamas, and chickens) much like a player holding food. Once it is close enough, it chomps down and kills the animal. It will not do this around players.

Sand swim: Grelydras can freely swim through sand,red sand, gravel, and concrete powder. Much like sea turtles swimming through water. It is invulnerable when under sand

Dust sneeze: It will move its head back and shoot dusty sand particles out of its nose, it will do one half heart damage, and 0.8 seconds of blindness.

Sandy Splash: It will breach out of the sand and walk around on the surface, flinging sand blocks everywhere, and doing damage to them.

Sneaky chomp: While under the sand. It sticks its neck and head out, biting you and causing 2.5 damage

Tail attack: Grelydras have a very hard time turning around above land.but if you are directly behind it, it will swing its tail causing 3 hearts of damage and knocking it back a considerable ways.

Spin shell Hell: Tucking in the legs and neck (part ways) and closing the eyes. It will then spin around like crazy, bouncing off any blocks like a certain Dragon turtle that is very well known, while causing massive damage.

Tremor Ambush: The Grelydra will sink down into the sand, after a while a shadow appears beneath you, move out of the way quickly or the Grelydra will bring you up into the air with it and drop you back down again.*

Sandomancy: with a mighty roar it will cause a mountain of sand to rain down upon you, dig out quick before you are suffocated. *

*It will only use this if it is on a quarter health

It is a boss like monster(similar to the elder guardian or a more powerful frostmaw), spawning on it's own and few and far between each other, they are 4 blocks tall and 5 blocks long.

DROPS:

Common: sand,sandstone, Any raw meat, and Desert shell shard(or Desert Scute)

Uncommon: Sand Crystal, a large orangish yellow crystal which contains the powers of sandomancy, but on its own, only causes the Dust sneeze sort of attack, like a blinding ice crystal. Flexible Fin, a large orange fin that is incredible flexible and is located on the tail of a grelydra.

Rare: Grelydra Egg, a black, that when put near a torch, eventually hatches into a hatchling that can be tamed with any raw meat., and eventually grow to a full size in a number of minecraft days. It is peaceful and has 15 health, no drops, and can only sand swim and Dust Sneeze if you hit it, it will run away while crying and screaming, it’s call can sometimes cause a grelydra spawn, to defend the baby from you, a tamed hatchling will follow you like crazy and be made to sit like a wolf, but will run from hostiles, occasionally dust sneezing them.

ITEMS:

Bulldozer Hammer: this weapon is crafted in three parts, first is the head,which is a sandstone block with Desert shell shards surrounding it. The middle piece is a sand Crystal in the middle, and two iron ingots on the left and right.

Finally, place the head at the top, the middle in the, well, middle, and a bone underneath, finally you have the Bulldozer hammer

Damage: 9.5 hearts

Speed: 0.6

Much like the Ferrous wroughtnaut axe, you can attack horizontally, but when you do, it also conjures up sand and throws the blocks at an enemy for damage.

But if you hold left click you bring the hammer back to charge it up, and then fling a precise and line of even more sand, this has a cooldown. You can also Shift-left click on the ground with it to mine a 3x3 hole with the silk touch effect, but this also has a cool down.

Sand Surfer: Place any type of boat in the bottom of the crafting table, with slabs of the same wood type on their side of it on both sides of it, and a fence of again the same type of wood on top, and finally a Flexible fin on top, finally, it is done.

These transportational device are a fast way to traverse deserts at a very fast speed

While trying to streamlining the grelydra, I thought of multiple smaller, peaceful and neutral mobs based around the idea of a “sand sea”, like an ocean that dried up, leaving behind a wasteland that is still teeming with life.

Bathing and swimming through the sands…

Dune Fish: this fish has a toothy beak and hard and rocky head. it swims through sand and occasionally jump out of the sand or backflipping out of the sand, they spawn in small groups and are two blocks long, they will sometimes slowly swim up to rabbits or chickens, and then attacking, however they seem omnivorous, attack cactus in the same manner, causing it to fall down.they can be bred with raw chicken, rabbit, or cactus blocks, and will follow them too. making them a farmable creature. they can also be put on leads and have a special use, tying them to a sand surfer makes it so that you will travel even faster in the desert while also maintaining full directional control. The Grelydra boss will sometimes try to find a Dune Fish and eat it to regain a little health.

Common: Sand, Raw Dune fish, it heals 5.5 hunger and can be cooked to heal 9.5 hunger

Uncommon: 1-3 desert shell shards can come from it's plated head

Rare:

Patrolling the Arid skies…

Sandgull: this large bird sports emu like grey and black feathers and a large beak. it's special talons let it rest upon cactus tops, it is two blocks tall and fly away when players draw near, they hunt by gliding near the ground and sifting through the sand, dune fish run away as if it gets close it will swallow it, puffing out the beak significantly. it is mostly neutral, If you shoot it then it will swing back around and dive bomb you, but if it has puffed cheeks, it will barf out a dune fish on low health, it will give you hunger and nausea as it then flies far away.This poses a problem for dune fish farmers, as the sandgull often steals fish,but they do fear a tamed grelydra, and will run from it.

Common: feathers,bones,

Uncommon:

Rare:

Lurking beneath shimmering sands...

Spinetis: this flat arachnid cannot actually move upwards into sand, and instead sticks to the bottom, skittering away as the player gets quite a scare

It is three blocks long, but very flat, a little smaller than a slab, it is neutral and will try to sting you if you attack. They will attack any dune fish that get close

Common: sandstone

Uncommon: spider eyes, Nautilus shell?

Rare:

Last guardians of long gone ecosystem…

Death Flop: sometimes, a small chunk of dead coral will spawn beneath the sands, and if you step near on the sand on top of it, then particles of sand will start to form on the top, as strange creatures flap out of the ground in groups of 3-8, the death flop is covered in dead coral and is pale white except for its sandy eyes, they hover on wing like fins and will chase you away, until you get far enough away that they float back to their dead coral, Spinetises will crawl towards them to attack them, but are often overwhelmed by the number of death flops. an odd thing happens when near water, they actually change to be the color of coral they are.

Common: dead coral or coral fan,(that they are)

Uncommon:

Rare:

Inspirations for new stuff are prehistoric aquatic creatures, such as dunkleosteus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkleosteus, sea scorpions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurypterid

pelagornis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagornis , and while the death flop is more frog fish, it is sort of like a six finned land fish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcopterygii

So much better! You took everything I said to heart! No promises, but I'll hold on to the Grelydra idea for the far future.
Actually, my favorite idea here is the dunefish. I've been brainstorming for smaller mobs to add, and the dunefish has a really cool design-mechanic synergy. I kinda want to give it a marlin-like sail on its back so you can see it swimming beneath the desert surface. Thanks!