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Volcano Biome

A hot Biome that has Lava, Magma Block, and cooled lava block. These mountains would be the tallest of the game, with the lava level at Y150 and crater edge at Y200. This volcano will be huge and take up the entire Biome. The Volcano would erupt every so often on one side. It would have many lava falls. Villages exist on the side of the crater that is not on the eruption side. Snow also exists on the non eruption side. The eruption side has way more lava falls. The volcanic crater is open air like it has erupted before. The villager homes are made with cooled lava block(a solid, black block). MOJANG PLEASE USE THIS IDEA!!!!!!!!!!

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    This is an amazing idea! It would go great with the caves and cliffs biome, because it is both a cave and a mountain!

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    Talk about a hot biome!

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    Omg great idea there should also be volcanic caves

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    I like the idea of a volcano. I feel like this would fit in the Nether and it would be made out of basalt or black stones. Instead of eruption you can have lava spewing out of the volcano instead. If most people want it to be in the overworld that would be fine too.

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    buena idea lo de un bioma de volcan eso me facino

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    Amazing idea! How about adding this in the cave and cliff update. It would fit the theme!

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    This would fit with the cave and cliffs update perfectly!

     

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    Maybe a bit like the basalt deltas, but with little hills and not so much lava.

    A cooled of Volcano ould be possible.

    they also shouldn't be that tall, just up to Y70.

    What about a ruined Village instead of an inhabited one

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    This is a great idea, I would like to add a few things:

    • Eruptions seem a little extreme, Mojang has specifically stated that they do not want anything that can potentially destroy the player's builds and overall experience with unexpected cataclysms (Lightning, looking atcha')
    • Ash seemed like a good idea, they can be formed when a piece of log gets burnt, or even when a piece of log stays burning for a long time. Maybe they can be the tree itself. Make them a fertilizer specifically for trees. Ash could also reduce render distance severely
    • To maybe add some risk, the Volcano could have deep crevices in it.
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    This is a grat idea. I think a good location for them would be in oceans. In real life there a lot of volcanos as well. Volcanos would be a good opportunity to allow us to get basalt in the overworld. There could as well be a new type of dirt or soil on which crops grew faster. Volcanos destroy but create soil with a lot of minerals. That would be some things to consider as well.

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    There could also be burnt, charred trees dotting the biome

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    There could be caves in the volcanoes

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    I would love it if only the villages werent made of lava as that just seems weird, but i like the idea of the volcano actually exploding into the air!

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    I'm not sure about the complexity of this idea, however, I find some of the fundamentals very interesting. I like the idea of bringing strategy back into building as you presented with the eruption mechanic. This was partially done with raids and villages, encouraging players to build walls. I believe biome specific event that the player can prevent/ protect against would be interesting. (avalanche, dust storm) they need not be occurring often however if the player is able to prevent said event with building or an item it would make building and exploration way more interesting. Peoples way of life will be tailored to the biome they build in. It would provide a whole new risk and reward to building and would encourage planning a build as well.

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    It spawns nether portals.

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    Great ida

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    This will be great for Caves & Cliffs Update

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    Perfect for Caves and Cliffs

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    Not a biome, but some individually vulcanoes in the mountains, with lava and errupt proabality would be great!

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    That's a great idea.
    I think we need a volcano.

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    that's a good idea 

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    Maybe the volcano already has flowing lava when you find the biome...

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    I saw a comment that said maybe a "big boss" in the volcano, and that got me thinking... Instead of having an eruption (Which would be hard to do in a systemic game like minecraft) what if there was just a boss monster that spawns, one in each volcano, that shoots streams of lava? Not lava source blocks, but just the lava, which will spread out and disappear after a little bit, so it doesn't destroy the world. This would be similar to an eruption, and possibly make volcanoes worth seeking and surviving. I saw a video long ago that suggested a "lava kraken" which I think would be a great addition. And since a volcano is a large structure, new players who aren't prepared won't be killed by it too easily. I notice that all overworld bosses or high level areas are clearly identifiable, so you only go there when you're ready. The volcano accomplishes that nicely.

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    I think  there should be precious gems and ores at in the heart of the volcano and it should go all the way down to bedrock.

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    There should be new block that if you place it under lava it will create smoke so that volcanos can be constantly smoking. The eruption could be a burst of ash and small fiery debris from these blocks under lava sources which happens at random only in this biome. The eruption could cause small damage if you don't take shelter.  Also during the eruption lava should flow farther for its duration.

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    I think this is a cool idea, but it should be a little more tame. I don’t think the volcano should be so tall or large—maybe the size of a regular mountain pre-1.17. Secondly, I don’t think that any nether blocks should spawn in the volcano biome, as that would defeat a large purpose of the 1.16 update. That means no basalt or blackstone. However, we should see new blocks like ash (maybe acts like snow/is farmable/can be used as fertilizer), gneiss, pumice, and maybe some new volcanic plants or flowers. It would also be cool to see some new volcanic animals like lizards or something. As far as the volcano villagers, I’m not sure they exactly fit into the Minecraft world all that well; perhaps if they were modeled after the Illagers, but even then I feel like having an entirely new series of villagers would be too much for one biome. I also don’t think that there should be snow on the volcanos just because I think they would fit better as a warm biome—perhaps spawning close to or in tandem with coral reefs. All in all, I love this idea, I think it would be fun!

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    Super cool idea man. I think I have a good idea it is a ghost dimension But it is still pending approval.

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    I like that and the mechanic for the eruption could be timed like the daylight cycle and they could do like in usable dispensers that you could walk through that would dispense lava or just use a ton of command blocks...wait no I meant just edit the code it can’t be that hard (on a computer)

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    I think this is a good idea however it would be hard to code in an eruption state. Instead how about a dormant volcano. This could be a mountain that generates like a volcano and could have ash particles like the basalt deltas. It could also have ash layers and ash blocks that work like snow. It could generate with magma blocks and lava rocks with wall, stair, slab, and polished variants. It could have lava flowing down the sides and burnt stumps of trees. I think this would make an amazing biome.

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    They should have a new block called molten cobblestone which does the same amount of damage as magma blocks but it slows players down as much as soul sand. It would spawn in the basalt deltas and the volcano mountain biome!