BV Dungeon Box Template

This may not seem like much, but it is the start of a new assets folder for the Blue Vanilla mod.

BV is currently being used to put hundreds of structures across players SSP and SMP worlds, much like vanilla desert and jungle temples. For 2014 we are working on assembling a collection of amazing dungeons, each with cool custom mobs you may never have seen before, for players to find and explore under the surface of their minecraft worlds.

This dungeons project will not be an addition to the current BV assets. It will be a standalone variant of Blue Vanilla, so your world will look like a normal vanilla minecraft world on the surface, but when you go caving you will run into these immense and amazing dungeons unlike anything you'd ever dream of finding in vanilla minecraft.

The problem is, someone needs to BUILD these dungeons and CREATE the skins for these amazing new mobs.

We need help from you amazing builders and artists. Just follow these three steps:

1. Download this schematic. Build an amazing dungeon, labyrinth, buried spaceship, lost library, creepy catacomb, or some other neat structure within the confines of this box. The signboards in the schematic are for you to read, but should not be left in the final build. Try to keep game balance in mind when you build. A labyrinth made entirely of diamond blocks may well be rejected, but you are encouraged to include loot for the players to find!

2. Create or find a skin to use for the mob that will inhabit your dungeon. It will be wrapped around a zombie model unless you choose to create something based upon another kind of mob. We have used endermen, skeletons, pigs and other mobs as models for our custom mobs, so if you have questions go to our reddit page and you should get help quickly. I have found great skins here as well as on minecraftskins.net but you must get the skin author's name so they can be properly credited. Any place providing free skins for player use should be considered fair game, though crediting the site and author is required.

3. Submit the dungeon in schematic form and the skin to SRJ26 either here on PMC, by email or on our reddit page. We will work with you to refine the mob and set up it up to behave the way you want it to, within the limits of the BV engine. We will convert the schematic to our xml/txt file format and may work with you to randomize chest contents and do other customizations that schematics cannot do but that the BV engine can provide.

For more information on Blue Vanilla, you can visit our website.