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- Hydration bar - This would act as a hunger bar, but for water
- Temperature - Different temperatures in different biomes
- Mob lifespans - Possibility for cows, pigs etc to die after a certain amount of time
- High level mobs - Skeletons, Zombies etc which are harder to kill and deal great damage
- Specialized mobs - For example, using spider riding creepers as a type of fast creeper or exploding spider
If it's possible, I would want this to be added as options in the settings tab, enabling the options of toggling the mechanics on/off before starting a new world.
Plan B would be to add these improvements into an all new survival game mode called survival+. Meaning that you would choose game mode survival+ instead of survival mode or hardcore mode.
- The Hydration bar would make the players' survival dependant of staying hydrated by drinking liquids. Items would also get new uses! For example the milk bucket which currrently is only needed to make cookies and cakes. Giving for example milk another use would also need the player to take care of some cows, making the game a bit more challenging and giving players a broader experience by having to keep livestock.
- Temperatures would need the players to think an extra time when choosing different places to settle down at. For example settling down in a snow biome (or other cold biomes such as the taiga) would make players cold and have to make cold resistant armour or build a fire. In the dessert on the other hand you would have to cool down by drinking a lot of water. Other warm biomes like the dessert would also make the players hydration bar go down quicker than usual. With this added to the game, players would have to choose different types of armour depending on temperatures. Maybe they would have to mix diamond and leather armour while in a snow biome in order to get protection from both the temperature and hostile mobs.
- Mob Lifespans would act as a timer which makes a mob die after a certain amount of time. I would make this work by adding the possibility to tame mobs such as chickens, cows and pigs by feeding them their favoured type of food. After a mob is tamed, it would start a countdown timer which kills the mob instantly when hitting zero. This would make breedning necessary in order to keep your livestock alive, making yet another not very important game mechanic more necessary than before!
- High level Mobs are just what you think they are, mobs which deal greater damage, have more health etc. There is already a mechanic in the game which spawns a few hostile skeletons and zombies with armour, swords etc, but I do not think they are difficult enough. Either make these mobs more difficult or add new, more difficult versions of all current monsters with a similair spawnrate. This would make mobs a great danger at all time during the players' adventure and players would have to focus more on enchantments and avoiding enemies.
- Specialized mobs would give current mobs new attacking abilities. There is already a chance in the game that there will spawn creepers riding spiders or zombies riding chickens. These mobs could add a new threat to the player if spawned in higher quantities. Players would not just have to watch out for regular creepers, but charging spider creepers. Maybe even add skeletons shooting flame arrows? This improvement would make players have to defend themselves and stay sharp at all times.
I think of Minecraft as a game with many possibilities in gameplay. If you like to build there's creative mode and if you like minigames there are minigame servers.
Playing minecraft in factions, other survival based gamemodes or even vanilla is to easy in my opinion. Reaching the Minecraft endgame takes time, but when you have reached it, there is nothing which you really have to worry about and that is what makes the game boring.
These improvements which I have talked about earlier are ways in which the Minecraft endgame could be more challenging. Making the endgame a bit more challenging would benefit in the long run. Players would have more fun and play for longer time periods.
In my opinion, what makes a game fun to play is the challenge. If there is no challenge, interest is quickly lost. Sure, it might be fun for a while, but not for long. And because Minecraft is a game which takes time in order to reach the endgame, keeping players happy and motivated while playing is a main goal.
Some may argue that hardcore survival mode is available for people looking for an extra challenge. I agree with them, but hardcore mode does not give any extra difficulties more than that you are not allowed to die, which in my opinion isn't helping. It is instead causing people to be afraid of dying and losing their world.
The player schould be allowed to die and rebuild, that is something which makes some players brave enough to slay bosses, venture down into dangerous places and thus achieve the end game.
To end this blog, I just want to say that these are my personal ideas and thoughts on how to make the game better.
To sum the blog up, I want to make the game more challenging and more fun by adding survival improvements into the game. Improvements such like a hydration bar, temperatures and mob lifespans.
These improvements would be added into the settings menu when creating a new world, or into a new gamemode called survival+.
I believe that these improvements would extend the time players spend on the game. Not because of things taking too long, but because it would be more fun and enjoyable.
Thank you for reading this blog! Hopefully we agree on this topic! If that's the case, or if you want to discuss this further, feel free to give this a diamond and comment your own ideas and thoughts! I'll try to answer as soon as I can!
//grodan
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