Raust's Mods Thread (Discussing Project Enderscale)

[morvelaira]

Direwolf's episode 41 finally features doggy talents.

Heh, yeah, that was unexpected :)

I squee'd for you when I saw that :)

[Sothe Cuslinde]

Although it sure doesn't help that in the very next episode you can hear direpup whining from not eating.

[Roablin]

Bandits sound fantastic, if they were smart/nasty enough then I would definitely use it. Please don't make them human though; everyone knows Steve is the only human in minecraft. If I can reskin the models as goblins it would be bodacious.

Really, anything cool that discourages trading is great.

[RaustBlackDragon]

Hey, I'm currently working, can anybody let me know if the new crucible/cauldron system breaks the BTW addon of RBD Tools?

[sargunv]

Hey, I'm currently working, can anybody let me know if the new crucible/cauldron system breaks the BTW addon of RBD Tools?

The game runs fine, but I haven't tested melting down the tools yet. I don't think it will break it though.

[Husbag3]

While we're on the topic off your tools add on, is there a chance that we can get an obsidian miners pick that can place water from a bucket in the inventory and pick it up?

[RaustBlackDragon]

While we're on the topic off your tools add on, is there a chance that we can get an obsidian miners pick that can place water from a bucket in the inventory and pick it up?

Huh... Interesting.

It would likely break hardcore buckets though...

[RaustBlackDragon]

Alright, I've updated RBDTools to take advantage of the new resmelting system! now you can resmelt iron and gold rbd tools back to their basic parts, and you won't lose the iron from the flint and steel/shears used in the gold ones!

[Sothe Cuslinde]

Can I make one small suggestion for the next release of DT? Will you have it so that when you right click on a dog with a compass that it prints something? That way when people do it the can tell if it has worked or not.

[RaustBlackDragon]

Can I make one small suggestion for the next release of DT? Will you have it so that when you right click on a dog with a compass that it prints something? That way when people do it the can tell if it has worked or not.

Yeah, I'm gonna do that, along with a way to keep the bed from overwriting compass assignment :)

[Sothe Cuslinde]

One random idea that is probably not going to be added in. A soulforge matchpick has the ability to set fire to the ground and you could select between torch and fire like you can select other blocks. You could set fire to enemies by leading them into the fire you place, maybe cost one durability or more to use the fire though.

[RaustBlackDragon]

Alright, after a lot of thought, I've decided that it's high time I fix the utterly broken nature of, like, everything combat/adventure related in minecraft.

I'm calling it Project Enderscale.

Basically, picture Better Than Wolves, except not programmed by FC, but by my (decidedly less competent) self, and focusing not on the building aspect of this building-adventure hybrid, but rather on the adventure aspect.

I'm going to have to edit base classes, but I have decent reason to believe that they're classes that BTW won't touch, so the two will be compatible.

My primary objectives:

1: Nerf armor. Seriously, it makes it almost impossible to die, and it's literally impossible to find a mob that will do more than half a heart of damage against the best armor out there. That's quite a massive mismatch between attack and defense, I intend to fix that.

2: Make the hostile mobs implement Sparrow, and make Zombies capable of fighting back against non-players.

3: Add dynamic difficulty. I'll make it so that the risk and reward actually increase the further out from your spawn you explore. Ore frequency will likely scale with the tier of your location, as will the caliber of monsters you'll face.

I feel really strongly about this, and if anybody's interested in helping me out with textures, I'd really appreciate it!

[FlowerChild]

You're pushing it with the all-caps titles Raust.

[RaustBlackDragon]

You're pushing it with the all-caps titles Raust.

Ooh, sorry, I did that without realizing. I hate those too, I'll fix it immediately.

[BinoAl]

I feel really strongly about this, and if anybody's interested in helping me out with textures, I'd really appreciate it!

*raises hand*
I don't have quite the time i did when i did the RBDtools textures, but I can probably do most of em for you :)

[th3m1ner]

Alright, after a lot of thought, I've decided that it's high time I fix the utterly broken nature of, like, everything combat/adventure related in minecraft.

I'm calling it Project Enderscale.

Basically, picture Better Than Wolves, except not programmed by FC, but by my (decidedly less competent) self, and focusing not on the building aspect of this building-adventure hybrid, but rather on the adventure aspect.

I'm going to have to edit base classes, but I have decent reason to believe that they're classes that BTW won't touch, so the two will be compatible.

My primary objectives:

1: Nerf armor. Seriously, it makes it almost impossible to die, and it's literally impossible to find a mob that will do more than half a heart of damage against the best armor out there. That's quite a massive mismatch between attack and defense, I intend to fix that.

2: Make the hostile mobs implement Sparrow, and make Zombies capable of fighting back against non-players.

3: Add dynamic difficulty. I'll make it so that the risk and reward actually increase the further out from your spawn you explore. Ore frequency will likely scale with the tier of your location, as will the caliber of monsters you'll face.

I feel really strongly about this, and if anybody's interested in helping me out with textures, I'd really appreciate it!

Please do this! I hate default mob, there boring and die easily. I don't even bother to go out and search for them any more. I will support this all the way. :)

[PhantasticJoe]

I can try and help out with textures too, if you need an alternative, in case Bino is busy, or some such. That sentence had too many commas.

[sargunv]

Is Enderscale an evolution of the Bandits mod or a totally separate idea?

[RaustBlackDragon]

Is Enderscale an evolution of the Bandits mod or a totally separate idea?

The bandits mod will likely become a feature of Enderscale. Really, I'm just sick and tired of how easy this game has become, and how all of my advancements don't serve to prepare me for any mightier foes.

[walker_boh_65]

3: Add dynamic difficulty. I'll make it so that the risk and reward actually increase the further out from your spawn you explore. Ore frequency will likely scale with the tier of your location, as will the caliber of monsters you'll face.

For the life of me, I cannot remember if something came out of the last time this was discussed.

Regardless, I will follow development very closely. Best of luck to you in this endeavor. (Also, my mediocre pixel art is always willing to help you out.)

[Poppycocks]

DO THIS VERY MUCH.

However I honestly hope you ain't just gonna crank up the values for monsters further away from spawn.

[RaustBlackDragon]

DO THIS VERY MUCH.

However I honestly hope you ain't just gonna crank up the values for monsters further away from spawn.

I WILL be doing that, but not JUST that. First step is to do the simple fixes outlined in parts 1 and 2.

[shoegun56]

I'm just sick and tired of how easy this game has become, and how all of my advancements don't serve to prepare me for any mightier foes.

I must say that I agree, sometimes, minecraft is just way too easy, even with the new AI. LOVE the idea, best of luck to you :)

[embirrim]

I don't usually pipe in much on these discussions, but isn't this one of FC's primary concerns, and something he has planned to fix/alter in MC?
It seems like the mod would become slightly pointless after the anniversary update for BTW comes out. At least according to the end of the teaser video it seemed like we'd be pooping our pants a bit more often.

[Poppycocks]

I'm still mostly hoping for variants instead of run-of-the-mill stuff. I've got a feeling that the very same monster becoming stronger for no apparent reason would become old fast. Simple variations could be enough to indicate increased strength. Tinting them different colors for easy identification perhaps. And size variations. Maybe new skills in the remote regions.

Mini creeper swarms(on leaves in jungles! Old suicide-jump AI FTW!!), zombies based of iron golems, teleporting skeletons, noxious cloud zombies, iron creepers(I will kill you creeper! I'll keep hitting you until you fall over, no matter how long it'll take! Oh wait, is that a storm coming?), fast regenerating zombie.

That kinda stuff.