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Abandoned Castles in Snow Biomes/Mountains

A giant tower lurks over the snowy mountains. What could it be, a trap, or a new challenge? Abandoned and destroyed, this castle holds many secrets. Loot found beneath its floors. New monsters along with strays inhabit its walls. The player can rebuild this structure, or fight in its dungeons.

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    This is on of the best ideas I've seen so far, mostly because of its potential and it still being largely vanilla-themed. I hope this really does get added, even though I feel like not many ideas on here get considered.

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    Man who wouldnt want to build build this old castle back up

     

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    Edit: Note that I made 2 comments. The first one was inexplicably rejected. I won't rehash it but I thought it would be important to explain why this one begins with "continued."

     

    (Cont... Hit 1500 word limit) But aligning a "big" fortress with a Nether chunk having 6 ancient debris is just an idea. In my opinion, mining for ancient debris is very, very, VERY boring. Exploring mountains for a rare fortress to invade and having the location of that fortress correlate to 6 pieces of ancient debris would be quite exciting!

    ...line the keep portal up with a basalt delta on the other side so that you really need to find the *exact* chunk of that portal in order to "score." Sighting the fortress wouldn't be good enough to just throw down a portal where you first see it and start insta-mining away soft stuff. Nope. You get zapped to a delta, but mining that ONE single chunk becomes very worth your while.

    I currently hate looking for ancient debris. It feels so completely random. By having a dynamic such as this, mining for Netherite would actually feel like a game.

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    I will rebuild the empire!

    Also, you could add crop circles of a special type of grass that becomes a special type of farmland that grows slightly discoloured crops.

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    Incredible imagery! Within 5 seconds of this being added every youtuber goes:

    500 NIGHTS IN ABONDONED CASTLE!!!!!!!!!!

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    maybe they could add ruined bridges as well and making them more likely to be around villages?

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    THIS IS A NICE IDEA BRO!!

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    Maybe the next voting event in Minecraft would be Structure vote, similar to Mob & Biome votes. 😉

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    love the idea as the snowy biomes are very empty with no major structures and just a lot of empty space

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    Yess please

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    Abandoned Cabins or ditched tents structures with extinguished campfires for the mountains since there are no structures that can generate there. Chest loot could consist of pickaxes (enchanted or not), maybe food, iron nuggets, emeralds, paper, books, snow, wood logs, coal, torches, lanterns and leather boots (enchanted or not).

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    Ce sera ultra cool

     

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    poderia nascer no castelo pillagers e um pillager rei

     

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    "So there you are, fighting through hoards of illagers.   The ax wielders are particularly nasty.   As you're fighting, you turn a corner to see 4 blue robed illagers, like nothing you've ever seen before.  Then suddenly everything goes black, and you're peppered with arrows.   Back to respawn you go. "  

    I hope you enjoyed my short story.   My idea is to have a non-abandoned version of this castle, and illusioners should spawn there.   

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    Now that Microsoft owns Bethesda, I wouldn't mind the subtle hint at some Skyrim-esque ruins...

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    super idée mon pote je te donne mon vote direct !

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    What kinds of monsters? Like ice goblins, stuff like that.

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    ICEOIOGER PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    the idea is great however, maybe the chests should be pretty op and make the structure rare

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    and maybe add ruby in snow biomes too!

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    Ooo yes. They should have unique banners to add too like the Pillager Woodland mansions.

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    Maybe on an extremely rare occasion we could bring back the red dragon and if you find it in the castle it is a 1 in 100 chance and if you get it you get its scales and can create new things with that.

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    I think there should also be a cats found in the castle since cats often live near non inhabited  structures in the real world.

     

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    Sounds super cool!

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    Maybe you could find the red dragon egg there on a rare occasion (like someone else suggusted)or there could be a pedestool that you put the ender dragon egg on, and then you could tame/hatch the dragon with loot that you get from the castle boss 

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    This makes me remember of castle Dimitrescu from Resident evil 8

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    Mabye the castle can be half buried in untouched snow. And there can be a chance for enchanted apples to spawn in loot chests mabye. Oh and there can be spawners trying to stop you from looting the castle.

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    I love the idea and it will bring new attention to the snowy biome, but if castle is really big like a castle, I feel it won't feel too minecraft-y, as it would just not fit in with the rest, but I still voted, maybe it won't be too extra/above the necessities.

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    This fits in with the archeology update

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    I built an abandoned ice castle in my creative world once, it was really nice and had a ton of traps, silverfish spawners, strays, and stuff like that. I also built a secret dungeon underneath with a stray spawner where you could battle mobs for loot and maybe make an XP farm. It would also be a good idea to add hostile snow golems on the watch towers, thye can shoot snowballs that take 1 heart of damage. Just an idea, it would be cool if it got added to the game.