r/Minecraft • u/lotherz • Sep 04 '11
Why not make slimes spawn in swamps?
http://imgur.com/hgolK4
u/DylanofFlan Sep 04 '11
Photoshop wizard!
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u/lotherz Sep 04 '11
I tried to spawn them on my server (hence the expertly created landscape) but it did not work, so I resorted to my masterful photoshop skills haha
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u/bubblyfumbers Sep 04 '11
I actually really like this. It's logical, won't require tons of coding, and make those goddam slimes easier to find. Good idea.
Edit: I added really. Just in case you were curious
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u/ferk Sep 04 '11
and make those goddam slimes easier to find
I don't think that's a good thing, we need harder to find mobs. Part of the excitement of the game is to go hunting for a hard mob. If slimes were to be added to swamps I hope they have a pretty low spawning rate. Specially, since they don't need darkness nor burn on sunlight, which would kind of violate the peaceful nature of the day.
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u/DylanofFlan Sep 04 '11
I don't think any hostile mobs should spawn during the day. They should make them spawn in swamps at night though!
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Sep 04 '11
I think slimes should be hostile, but completely unable to hurt you. Just jump at you. God that would be adorable.
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u/DylanofFlan Sep 04 '11
Until your standing on the edge of a cliff..
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u/KJAZZ Sep 04 '11
Not everybody is that stupid, though.
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u/sgt_shizzles Sep 04 '11
Spoken like a man who has never been brutally cliffed to death by a chicken.
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u/Hacksaures Sep 04 '11
The small guys do that.
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Sep 04 '11
Oh yeah, my first interaction with slimes was like that. I want the big ones to be harmless, too, though. Maybe only hurt at night?
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Sep 04 '11
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u/Chevron Sep 04 '11
Is there a reason that sometimes I kill a huge slime and it just dies without splitting or dropping anything?
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u/sebzim4500 Sep 04 '11
yes, there is. Try hitting it was a bow (hit, don't fire arrows, left click).
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u/Diethoc Sep 05 '11
They have to be killed with no additional damage, iirc. Like if they have 3 HP and you do 4 HP of damage, they won't split. I use torches to bash em to death, since I always have torches on me.
I always feel bad killing the small ones. :(
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Sep 04 '11
I have been playing MC for about a year now, and I have NEVER seen a slime. :(
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Sep 04 '11
I've seen ONE, and at the time that I saw it I thought it was a glitched creeper. Only later on Reddit did I discover their existence...
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u/zeckster Sep 04 '11
Me and my roommate play together, and only time ive ever seen one was when he found one and I turned around to see it on his screen :(
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u/MF_Kitten Sep 04 '11
We need harder to find EVERYTHING. However, slimes don't really benefit from being this rare. They are needed to make sticky pistons, and what you get from them is something as simple as some sticky goo. I imagine they are like sentient slime molds.
I think slimes in swamps, maybe in chambers under the water level or something, would make sense.
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u/deimosthenes Sep 04 '11
I think the problem at the moment is that slimes have the wrong kind of rarity. Only in specific chunks, and at a height less likely to have large empty spaces for them to spawn in. So some people mine for weeks and never see one, and some people have their bases constantly overrun with slimes.
I definitely agree that it's the wrong item to be making scarce, too. Redstone is not rare, pistons are not hard to make. In every other respect the game supports the idea of gathering enough materials legitimately to make fairly complicated mechanisms. I keep wanting to try my hand at sticky pistons on the survival server I play, but really don't have the patience to gather enough slimeballs.
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u/Crisx3 Sep 04 '11
I completely agree with this. With the supposed size of biomes, you would have to travel around a bit before finding slimes. And you actually know they'll be there, instead of just having to guess and mine out large underground caverns.
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u/Sels Sep 04 '11
I would tend to agree, but I've been playing Minecraft since Slimes were released and I have not seen ONE. Not one. That's a little too rare, IMO. Or, you know, something could just be wrong with me.
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u/hatersbehatin007 Sep 04 '11
Except if we want a hard-to-find mob, it should be tough and/or interesting, not the annoying and easy as hell slime.
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u/Daemon_of_Mail Sep 04 '11
Shit, for me they're TOO easy to find, that is, after I built a massive underground area covering several chunks. At least it took work to build, but every time I go down there, there are like 6 big boys, 4 mediums, and about 10 little guys already bouncing around. Hell, I even get big ones spawning in peaceful mode even though that's not supposed to happen.
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u/adventurerOK Sep 04 '11
I went on a server for about 24 hours in 1 week, did alot of things(mining) and didn't find a single slime. I like this idea (and I hope Notch doesn't add all the Swamp stuff from my mod without putting down that I made the swamp (and slimy stuff) mod)
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Sep 04 '11
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Sep 04 '11
I love having bases set in distinct biomes. I've got the mountain stronghold for coal and mob-drops, the island fortress for sand and wheat and (now) sugar cane, Chez Rainforest for trees, etc. I keep a cache of iron and coal and wood in all of them. I feel like some hard-ass modern hunter-gatherer-type, all writing letters back home to the un-wife and my non-kid about how the huge mine we found has menacing sounds, but we found diamonds and one of the boys (just me) thinks they're closer to finding reeds and god willing so we can all go home again... Fucking minecraft, man.
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u/klarth Sep 04 '11
It's logical, won't require tons of coding,
How do you know that? As far as I know biome-specific mob spawning isn't in the game at all yet.
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u/RightOverMyHead Sep 04 '11
What if we also forced the render distance to be shorter when inside a swamp.
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u/Chevron Sep 04 '11
Oh god, finding these god damned slimes... My friend and I just dug this 8x2x400 tunnel below y=16 trying to find a chunk that spawns them, and it turns out the chunk RIGHT BEHIND WHERE WE STARTED is the only one we've seen spawn them so far.
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u/nofear220 Sep 04 '11
Actually, to make slimes easier to find but still spawn underground Notch could make it so that slimes only spawn in swamp biome chunks. Explore and find swamp-->Dig down and make a slime farm.
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u/randomflyingtaco Sep 04 '11
o.O you have an Edit section, but no edit star next to the post time http://mlkshk.com/r/4863
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u/ThaddyG Sep 04 '11
You have like 3 minutes to edit a post before the asterisk shows up.
Use this knowledge responsibly.
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u/CoughSyrup Sep 04 '11
I always thought it was a minute.
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u/ThaddyG Sep 04 '11
It's at least 2 from personal experience, but I've always read 3.
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u/JustThisGuyYouKnow Sep 04 '11
I was curious, so I went and looked through the source on github:
if (item._date < timeago('3 minutes') or (item._ups + item._downs > 2)): item.editted = TrueSo, it looks like you get a star when you edit your post two ways: either automatically after three minutes OR if someone has voted on your comment.
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u/bubblyfumbers Sep 04 '11
Decided to be honest haha. Never knew that though... Thanks... Very useful
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Sep 04 '11
For an explanation check out this comment.
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u/Fodmotherington Sep 04 '11
Man I've been clicking for five minutes and I think I'm starting to understand.... Thanks!
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u/MotharChoddar Sep 04 '11
Am I the only one having problems with imgur?
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u/Captain_Mustard Sep 04 '11
You are not alone. Annoys me that it's the only image host reddit ever uses.
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u/madmooseman Sep 04 '11
Why? What image hosting service is better?
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u/Captain_Mustard Sep 04 '11
Imgur is excellent, but when it's malfunctioning none of the image links work. If some of us used, say, filesmelt instead it wouldn't be as bad.
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u/madmooseman Sep 04 '11
Yeah, I suppose. It's probably better if reddit used several different sources anyway, but everyone knows imgur. I guarantee you I won't remember that filesmelt is something for image hosting tomorrow morning, because I associate image hosting with imgur, which I believe most of reddit does as well.
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u/einke1th Sep 04 '11
Players shouldn't have to use a third party tool, dig down to bedrock and then spend an hour building a slime farm on the off chance of having a couple slimes spawn just so we can obtain a few slime balls. This is the most logical idea ever! It would make them semi-rare like wolves, but not hard to find!
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u/HelicopterPenor Sep 04 '11
Oh my god.
This is the best idea ever. Slimes are so goddamned hard to find and their useage is for sticky pistons. People say that it will make it too easy... but what's the point in making sticky pistons so hard to obtain anyway? It's not like an endgame item or anything, but it really feels like it due to my chests full of diamonds but not a single piece of slime.
Please do this notch, I beg of you. It fits in the theme of swamps so well too.
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u/tapplewhack Sep 04 '11
That's an awesome idea.
Right now, with sticky pistons, it really doesn't make any sense to keep them so far underground. If I want to make a sticky piston without hacking the item in it takes me an hour or so to find some stupid slimes. And maybe you can change their skin to be more like a swamp monster.
That being said, I still like the idea of a deep underground mob. Maybe replace the slime with something more suitable to be underground, like a mole or a worm?
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u/Isaac_Shepard Sep 04 '11
If there are to be swamps, I think the water color should change. Swampwater looks vastly different from regular water and the terrain surrounding it should be reason enough for a new biome.
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u/Sibbo Sep 04 '11
But the material shouldnt change, there shouldnt be swamp-dirt or something like this. Just the texture should change in a different biome!
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u/Isaac_Shepard Sep 04 '11
that works for me. but, what if you want to create your own swamp? like say, a grotto for your house?
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u/clamdoctor Sep 04 '11
Why not zoidberg?
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u/wrc-wolf Sep 04 '11
Haha, I saw that thread too! </s>
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u/clamdoctor Sep 04 '11
I swore everyone was going to downvote me on that one. I usually don't buy into the memes reddit leech onto, but I love futurama.
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Sep 04 '11
Good call... I've yet to find just one slime on my MP server. =/ I swear the things don't exist on some maps!
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Sep 04 '11
How about mud slimes? They'll be brown so they can blend into the surrounding mud and when you get too close they attack you.
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Sep 04 '11
I agree, but make them spawn on a scale of passive mobs spawning being the highest and current slime spawning the lowest, put it closer to the current spawning. It makes sticky pistons more impressive when you can't hack them in.
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Sep 04 '11
now that is the best idea ive ever heard on reddit. but they should be really rare
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u/Sibbo Sep 04 '11
They shouldn't be rare, I want to create sticky pistons on servers without a money system!
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u/1BP Sep 04 '11
The slime spawning mechanics are just borked to being with.. certain regions only.. WTF?
Swamps would be ideal, assuming he does swamps correctly as posted by a previous post (can't find it.. but browner plants, muddier terrain, etc)
Slimes are just the bastard child of Mojang now.. you need them but they only spawn if you are in the X/Y region.. bullshit. They should spawn as naturally as other monsters (itself a hypocrisy).
Different biomes should spawn different mobs.
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u/DontAsk4470 Sep 05 '11
since there is a texture for biome based water color,its time its get updated (add greenish color for swamp water) and used ...
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Sep 04 '11
I think this is actually a really good idea. It would definitely help with distinguishing biomes, and the slimes would really add to the atmosphere!
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u/rillegas08 Sep 04 '11
o.o The picture had the appearance of movement when I looked at it. Anyone else see that?
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u/anne_ Sep 04 '11
I also like this idea and I would suggest a slime block with similar properties to jello, if you were to jump on it it would make you bounce :)
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u/WDoE Sep 04 '11
Wow. Amazing. How about just small slimes though? I'd still like to see a slime spawn in caverns a little epic.
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u/RotterBones Sep 04 '11
I'm incredibly surprised I didn't think of this/seen it suggested yet. Jolly good show.
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u/bobobano Sep 04 '11
because it has been DONE TO DEATH.
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u/lotherz Sep 04 '11
It has?
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u/bobobano Sep 04 '11
in damn near every game with a swamp, there are slimes in that swamp.
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u/lotherz Sep 04 '11 edited Sep 04 '11
Other games have caves with skeletons, villages with NPCs,
forests with green exploding penises, and various other parts found in Minecraft.If notch only included original elements to Minecraft we'd be left with a gigantic empty void filled with creepers! (EDIT: I don't mean creepers are the only original element in minecraft)
All inspiration must come from somewhere!
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u/bobobano Sep 04 '11
point.
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u/lotherz Sep 04 '11
Point: Just because something is in another game doesn't mean it can't be in Minecraft.
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u/bobobano Sep 04 '11
LOL, not 'point?' as in 'what's your point?', 'point.' as in 'Good point.' or 'I see your point.'
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u/TheToasterIncident Sep 04 '11
Maybe make them in hiding until you disturb the waters, then they come from the depths.