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Winter drop update

I know that the concept of snow and packed ice bricks have been suggested before, but I think along side these new building blocks a new structure called the frozen ship-wreck - where the ship is 'stuck' in the ice and maybe spawns with 1-3 skeletons on board, that spawns in frozen ocean biomes and could serve as a possible early-game shelter in those biomes if you're lucky enough to come across them as well as offering some nice loot. I also think that the stray texture needs to be updates, the new bogged and drowned variants look amazing whereas the husk and strays have always felt super lacking. Finally i think a frozen zombie that moves slightly slower than regular zombies but have a chance to inflict a frozen effect on players. This would help to further diversify winter biomes. I also enjoy the idea of a zombie becoming frozen and then drowned. I also think that a frozen zombie that enters a hot biome or the nether would turn into a regular zombie.

All of these idea are quite small and centered heavily around expanding existing mechanics, but i think that for a smaller drop update this would well to add functionality to, but not completely overhaul or break some existing biomes that are still somewhat lacking.

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• October 07, 2024 15:02
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  • August 01, 2025 12:35
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  I also have a few suggestions to add to the whole "Winter Drop" topic:

  The new biome could be Pine Woods. Pine Trees could have a plank color that is the chest color, so that we'd have a wood type matching the chest wood color (that wood color is pretty, but we lack it in the game).

  The new features of pine trees: Instead of saplings, the leaves drop Pine Cones.
  You can either plant the pine cones like a sapling, or you can put the cone in a crafting grid to extract pine nuts.
  These pine nuts can then be combined in a crafting grid with sweet berries, in the same recipe as the cookie recipe, except instead of cocoa beans, you have sweet berries, and instead of wheat, you have pine nuts, to create Sweet Berry Pine Muffins.
  I'd also suggest combining the cone with any material used in trims to create "glitter cones", which are purely decorative blocks.

  Reindeer:
  This could be a new mob that spawns in the Pine Woods. The reindeer occasionally drops it's antlers, (in real life, reindeer drop their antlers every year for them to regrow naturally). These antlers could then be combined with a helmet for decoration. And if that helmet is combined with an armor trim, you're getting not just the trim on the helmet, but also a garland in the antlers.
  Another feature of the reindeer could be that they pull sleds. These sleds can be combined with two double chests for transportation. And the player can sit on the sleds to direct them.