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Nether Obelisks and Nether Sickness

Nether Obelisks are somewhat rarely spawning small structures in the Nether consisting of Quartz Pillars and the new Quartz Rune block. They vary in height, but generally range from 1x1x3 to 1x1x5 blocks in size.

The Quartz Rune block appears to be a regular Quartz block with an eye carved into it. When placed atop at least two Quartz blocks (pillars or ofherwise), they will shoot a projectile at any player or passive mob within a set range from the structure. This range is determined by the amount of quartz under it (the more blocks, the larger the range).

The projectile it shoots looks like a densely packed ball of dark potion particles (such as the ones you may get with a Blindness effect) and applies a lengthy ”Nether Sickness” debuff.

This effect causes the player’s health and hunger to slowly degrade unless the player is dealing damage at a semi-constant rate, which is especially dangerous when sometimes the only things around that can be damaged are Zombie Pigmen.

When mined, the Rune can be placed atop Quartz anywhere the player would like. It retains its aggressive behavior towards players and passive mobs except for when it is in the presence of a beacon. In this case, it will apply a higher level of the beacon’s effect, with the proper color change to its projectile.

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• April 19, 2019 17:53
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  • April 25, 2019 19:16
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  Sounds like it would make the nether a MUCH more explored dimension and not as avoided but I do think that there is much more that you could add to this idea. Such as more mobs new items other blocks  maybe inside of the  obelisk are loot chests or a new mobs or bosses or maybe it’s bigger on the inside than the outside that’s just some of my ideas and I would be happy if it helps you can use my ideas if you want to.

   

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  • April 27, 2019 18:37
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  Totally good idea, maybe you could add screenshots! Also Could you add in (possibly) my idea to it? Okay, obelisk is in the middle of a village where all the inhabitants were killed by the obelisk sickness. When the world generates, nether villagers spawn in these villages. So if you are fast, you could save them! Also perhaps zombie nether villages? Rarely maybe you could find nether villages without obelisks!

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  • October 12, 2020 21:15
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  That is awesome. I like the beacon idea and i think that should be one use of it, but what if you could also make a rune golem, an iron golem with gold blocks instead of iron, a quartz rune instead of a head, and a netherite block under the head, in the middle. It would be more mobile, but not make the beacon stronger.

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  • October 12, 2020 21:18
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  What if the tower was really tall, and you had to climb it somehow, but there were traps and 'drakes', phantom sized flying mobs, that swarmed around it, or maybe piglins could spawn around it, alternatively.