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(July 2018) Featured Topic: The Swamp

Welcome to July’s featured topic: The Swamp. 

12 July: In light of a discussion we had with our team about "megathreads", we will be taking a new approach to featured topics. We will introduce the overall topic/theme on the front page, but the discussions will take place in separate threads in the categories that are appropriate to your topic. In order to help us find your post easier (hint: good idea), please use the theme in the subject line. For this month that would be:

(Swamp) Grootslang 

I'm using this as an example, this would be the subject line for a post about this creature found in the Mobs, Animals, and Characters category. That will help us find your idea and round them up with the others at the end of the month.

Please keep suggestions focused on a single idea per post. Posts containing multiple items will be removed, in accordance to the posting guidelines.

Duplicates will be removed. If you're going to start a new Crocodile suggestion, it needs to be significantly different than another Crocodile suggestion. If the two posts are too similar, the oldest thread will take precedence, regardless of number of comments or voting status.

The number of swamp threads is what has inspired us to start up a featured thread, much like the underground thread (which you should absolutely still contribute to). The underground thread has been very helpful for our team, and we thank everyone for continuing the discussion (and staying on topic). 

Please note appearance on the pinned list in the thread is not an endorsement by the community team or us saying go vote for a particular idea, we’re just letting you know if you’re highly invested in these items, you should discuss them there.

This thread will be closed. If you have contributed, thank you! If you would like to start a separate post for your idea, please feel free to do so and edit your post in this thread (or contact us so we may do so) to guide people to the new discussion. Or please feel free to just leave your contribution here - we'll still read it and consider it in our discussion! If you have yet to contribute to the thread and have an idea for the swamps, we look forward to reading it soon in the appropriate discussion category.

Thanks!

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    One word: BIRDS! Lots more birds.

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    I would want to change oak trees into Willow Trees, having a dark gray bark with a grayish-brown plank color. And instead of dropping apples, it drops Medicinal leaves that could be eaten for a small amount of regeneration.

    The medicinal leaves could be brewed into Potion of Anti-Venom that gives you the effect of Venom Resistance, which will protect you from poison and/or Wither for an amount of time.

    It could also be used into Willow armor that provides the same armor as leather armor, but when all 4 armor pieces are fully equipped, gives Venom Resistance.

     

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    Ok so yesterday I commented about a bog monster ,and I said that it's rare drop would be a swamp ruin map. This would help you find a swamp ruin because you could find without it but it's harder. A swamp ruin would be like a dungeon. It would contain traps like from a jungle temple and mob spawners from strongholds. It would be made of lots of mossy stone and mossy cobblestone bog monsters would have a better chance to spawn ,but it can not drop a swamp ruin map if it spawns in the swamp ruins the loot of the ruin would be emeralds ,diamonds ,and maybe swamp crystal. I think the swamp crystal would be the only thing I don't think will make it if you even think about adding this. The swamp crystal would give you immunity to bog monsters ,witches ,and slimes. It would also give you infinite regeneration (witch) ,jump boost (slimes) ,and any mob that hits you will get poison. The swamp crystal only works in the swamp. Well I'm done finally. I don't know what i'll post next maybe willow trees.

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    New MOB: Bigfoot.
    New Status: Bad Smell (Unable to eat FOOD or drink POTION within area of effect)
    New Crafting Item: Big Foot Hair (Maybe used in potions? armor?)
    New Block Covering: Bigfoot Tracks (Like Right-clicking with a Shovel or and Axe: Leaves tracks on various ground types)

    Bigfoot does NOT like Endermen.
    Bigfoot sometimes spawns with a Black Panther (cat variant) as a pet.

    Bigfoot is not hostile unless it has Baby Bigfoot. or unless attacked.
    Bigfoot has random trades.

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    I like Samuel Novak’s Idea of a new wood type for the swamp.

    (Here’s the quote)

    Like many of the other biomes, the swamp should have it's own kind of item or blocks that exclusively spawn in it. Just like haw many biomes spawn a certain kind of tree, like the dark oak forest has dark oak, and how the jungle has jungle wood, the swamp should also have a respective wood type, like possibly, "Swamp wood". This wood could sorta have a dark bark with a kind of a murky dark green in it, also the leaves would be similar to it.

    In addition to this, it would be cool to see the swamp have petrified logs with the same texture as Novak’s idea of the “Swamp wood”. I think it would fit in well, and make sense mainly because as of the unexplained appearance of the “Petrified Wood” (old type of oak slab that acted as a stone slab) on the Java version. This idea would make sense for newer players who don’t understand why petrified wood is a thing in the game, and make petrified wood obtainable.

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    I remember seeing the impossible spawning requirement of Giant mob; maybe give it a twist and make it spawns in swamp with certain condition along with that dark muddy swamp water? It could also be designed into a biome-based boss like elder guardian or mini boss like evoker. 

    I feel like it should have loots that’s treasure-enchantment related. Anybody wants an area-mining enchantment? When you dig a block, the blocks around it will break, too. The chain of thought was from “giant’s pickaxe” when I played Twilight Forrest Mod and the enchantment from Tofu Craft Mod. 

    To make it balanced, it can be exclusive from efficiency enchantment. An area digging vs. fast digging sort of thing?

    same as shovel, too. 

    Maybe it will directly drop enchanted books? Has a pool of its own drops, maybe?