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Anti-Beacon

This suggestion is to implement an alternate version of the Beacon, where each buff is replaced with the closest debuff counterpart:

  • Speed to Slowness
  • Haste to Mining Fatigue
  • Resistance to Poison
  • Jump Boost to Nausea
  • Strength to Weakness
  • Regeneration to Wither

This Anti-Beacon would affect all mobs and players, but the debuff is reduced 1 level for every piece of Netherite Armor equipped (having 2 or more pieces of Netherite Armor would equipped effectively make the player immune).

The Anti-Beacon would be crafted in the same way as a normal Beacon, except with Ancient Debris in place of Obsidian.

It's pyramid would have to be built with Ancient Debris, the pyramid would have to be built upside down, and the player would only be able to power the Anti-Beacon with Netherite Ingot.

Anti-Beacons would also naturally spawn in Nether structures, where they will produce a random full-pyramid effect until mined (they do not spawn with pyramids). Anti-Beacons would only be mine-able with a Netherite Pickaxe.

 

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    Ooooo, I really like this idea! Perhaps instead of having them be craftable, they could be found in some sort of dungeon in the nether. They could be set to give the player one of the debuffs (other than wither of course, that would be impossible to work with), so that the player has to get through the dungeon while they have that debuff to be able to obtain the anti-beacon. Then once they obtain it then it will harm hostile mobs instead of the player. I quite like the idea of having the pyramid have to be made of gold and that it would have to be powered by netherite

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    sounds really op. maybe have a much smaller distance that these effects reach

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    I think the only thing I'd change is the player drops part. They're called player drops for a reason, and I think that it'd be a tad broken to the nuanced balance of the game if player drops could be gotten in such an easy wide-scale way.

    However, an addition that came to mind, I'd love it if it was an upside down pyramid, and the "Anti-beacon) or Netherite Beacon would always need to be atop the largest level, It'd make it interesting, and easy to hid in builds.

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    Sounds a little too broken. I'd say it has a charge limit. So Netherite charges it longer than gold, but after some time it will deactivate itself

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    I like the idea but this would only effect the people who build it so maybe making it so you can assign the debuffs to certain people or mobs

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    Do we have to overcomplicate it based on who owns the anti-beacon? Even if no player is protected from it, adding Wither would still have a legitimate purpose - think people who try to drill inside your thick obsidian base.

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    Name suggestion:

    De-con?

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    This idea would be very useful, but then if you needed xp, would you be able to collect it? I'm not a noob, I'm just wondering.

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    I like the idea of the un-beacon, but I think it'd be easier to implement if it effected everyone, including the player that places it.

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    It would make Good use of Netherite. I like this idea a lot,tho levitation could also be a opposite to jump boost.

    and poison as an opposite of Resistance because it reduces health to one and a half hearts. 

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    Or perhaps you could find them in a certain type of illager base or outpost where they use the beacon to slow you down. I suppopse something else that might help in such a setting would be another type of illager that uses potions to prevent it and surrounding illagers from being effected by negative potion effects. Potion of Positivity

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    A good idea, but kind of op when it doesn't affect the player who made it. I think it should affect everything.

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    I don't like the idea of netherite armour removing the beacon defects entirely because it would make the (anti beacon) totally useless and not worth using to defend your base. maybe just allow the owner to choose who is effected and Instead of major decreases just minor decreases and yeah, it would be very stable. everything else is perfect tho.

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    Perhaps in order to prevent yourself from being effected yo could set it so it doesn't effect you through an ownership mechanic or have a potion that prevent negative effects for a temporary time. If you do find this within certain structures where enemy mobs are it could be set that way so they are not effected then for a harder dungeon because they have ownership, or there could be another mob giving them the potion the prevent negative effects.

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    For an ownership mechanic perhaps yo would need to give it a rare item such as a nether star, to prevent it from effecting you.

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    No

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    I feel like the whole netherite thing is going a bit overboard and maybe you could craft it by surrounding a regular Beacon with netherite ingots.

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    TnT

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    Minecraft needs something like this where you can set up a beacon to give the status effect of mining fatigue. this would allow players to make defensive bases with traps and secret rooms without worrying that someones just gonna mine through your wall. This is a must add!

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    That's a great idea, I've had it as well and that brought me here, I think the pyramid should be built form a different material though. It's hard enough already to gather netherite for armour and tools.
    I think the pyramid should follow the voodoo logic, you'll need materials related to the mob you're want to affect, like bone block pyramids for skeletons, obsidian pyramids for endermans, soul sand for players.

    The difficulty of using it, would be in the finding it in the nether and successfully raiding its location being affected by all debuffs, and then using netherite to activate it.

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    Wither is to powerful, should just be poison. Resistance can be bumped over to Blindness.