Suggestion Biome Environment Effects

[bearcat99]

I have no idea if this is able to be coded, but I thought of it and it seems kinda cool.

My idea:
Make Snow and Desert biomes hurt you. (only on surface and above)

Why:
More hardcore. Additionally, it can give towns based in these biomes an advantage to be protected from raiders.

In detail:
Tundra/Snow - You are technically freezing. You lose a couple of hearts every few minutes. However, the more armor you have on, the reduced amount of damage you take. You can fully stop the damage if you are a certain distance from a light source.

Desert - You are getting dehydrated in the burning heat. You lose a couple of hearts every few minutes. You take less damage with the least amount of armor you have on. If you have no armor, you take the least amount of damage. To stop all damage, you have to be in shade (under a roof or something). Also, maybe to stop damage for ~10min, you have to drink a bucket of milk.

My explaining:
Towns within these biomes will experience a little difficulty to survive, but also an advantage because raiders will need to become fully prepared to survive the environment. This will overall make Herocraft more hardcore.


Please give ideas/comments/opinions. No bullshit or I will delete your posts. Once again, I have no idea if this can be coded, or if it will be a bitch to code. I am already expecting Kainzo to say this can't be done.

 

[Haxnn]

I like this, but I think it should be turned off in towns. It keeps the inside safe. If you had to go out to do something you could still take damage.

 

[w0nd3rb0y]

instead of mink, just drink bottled water

 

[c12095]

I like this, but I think it should be turned off in towns. It keeps the inside safe. If you had to go out to do something you could still take damage.

I disagree, what sense would it be to step inside a region and the freezing cold/blistering heat instantly vanishes? That would ruin this idea, I think that the towns that live here and receive the defensive bonus should model their town to fit with the environment. Overall I love this idea, makes people think where they will travel and what they need to do insidetue environment.

 

[Angyles]

instead of mink, just drink bottled water

Bucket of water =D

I remember they have this in RS, where you have to have water skins in the desert, and you could get water from cactus.

I like the idea

 

[Kainzo]

Any plugin to do this? time to start coding bearcat?

 

[bearcat99]

instead of mink, just drink bottled water

It would have to be milk because milk is consumable. Water is not. Also, it would create a nice usage for milk.

Any plugin to do this? time to start coding bearcat?

If it were in HTML, I would totally be able to.

 

[Angyles]

It would have to be milk because milk is consumable. Water is not. Also, it would create a nice usage for milk.

Another use for leather, water skins!

 

[PewPewPewLasers]

I think milk would work, because currently, the only two uses for milk are cake, and taking off poison. (Not sure if that is enabled in HC or not.)

 

[Northac]

Interesting idea (the cold one would affect me as thats where I have a base at lol) As for the desert, shouldnt getting in water help you too? hell it stops zombies and skeletons from burning it should do the same for us as well.
I think this would be an interesting hardcore addition

 

[Haxnn]

I disagree, what sense would it be to step inside a region and the freezing cold/blistering heat instantly vanishes? That would ruin this idea, I think that the towns that live here and receive the defensive bonus should model their town to fit with the environment. Overall I love this idea, makes people think where they will travel and what they need to do insidetue environment.

Makes sense, I just it just might discurage desert towns or snow biome towns.

 

[Roadkill909]

It could be done, but it might be a performance nightmare.

I have never worked with chunks or biomes so there may be a faster way to do this, but you may have to cycle through every online player, check if they're in a biome, calculate an armor value, and apply a damage based on the armor value.

If you're applying this effect every 5 seconds, and you have a DoD in a desert biome, then the server may lag badly every 5 seconds.

Edit2: You could probably split up the number of players that the effect is applied to over several "tasks". Check 20 players, wait a few ticks, check the next 20 players, wait a few ticks, until you run out of players, then schedule the process again (possibly based of the time it took to check all players). This should reduce load when a lot of players are online, but at the cost of the effect being guaranteed to happen every 'x' ticks (which isn't really a problem).

Edit: note I'm not volunteering to code it, just giving ideas

 

[Davros_]

Awesome idea IMO.

 

[OliverDollar]

Nice idea.
Here's a possible starting point if you want to use other's plugins: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/radiation/ - could certainly be adapted to this idea.

 

[Jonsoon]

In this sense then you should get a toxic debuff in swamps and suffocate in extreme hills.

Edit: rather, suffocate once above a certain elevation which would be accessible in extreme hills.

 

[Kwong050]

I think that armor should not effect the dmg done because Casters would have a major disadvantage vs a pally

 

[bearcat99]

For a beginning code, the armor would not have to be added yet. This would make things easier.

 

[MajorasMask]

What happens to towns, such as those in a dessert, who wish to have open surface cities? The same goes for towns in snow biomes, will they still get hurt?

 

[c12095]

What happens to towns, such as those in a dessert, who wish to have open surface cities? The same goes for towns in snow biomes, will they still get hurt?

Mother Nature can be a bitch.

 

[MajorasMask]

Mother Nature can be a bitch.

Yeah but it sucks for the towns that wanted to make awesome buildings in set biomes. Take Paragon for example, we want to make an awesome looking desert city, which would be difficult to do under these conditions.