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Monster Dens underground (spiders, creepers, etc.)

Monster Dens would generate beneath the surface, including being able to generate in a hill/mountain depending on if that fits with the mob (some could be biome-restricted too). Each den belongs to a certain type of mob and only allows said mob to spawn until you come in and clear it out (perhaps destroy a certain block; maybe some sort of “nest”-type block?).

Dens would fit the mob’s characteristics, i.e. spider dens would have cobwebs and could have a new web block that you can climb like vines (but makes you slow, not as bad as cobwebs), some cobblestone, and could be big but somewhat narrow. Creeper dens could contain gunpowder-like stuff or spore-producing, explosive plants (depending on how they’re seen to be, not sure; Creeper AI could also be updated to tackle you while in the den and only explode there as a last resort), and be kinda small and have a bigger, main room with small rooms close by. Slime dens could be rare (could only generate in slime chunks or under swamps) and have slime stuff, silverfish dens could be damp and small, zombie and skeleton dens could be kind of basic (though skeletons could have bone stuff and wooden blocks), etc. Just cool mob-specific areas for monsters underground.

These wouldn’t be very common, though some could be rarer than others. Maybe there could be loot in them, too, the kinds of items depending on the den.

I think these could be really cool and breathe a bit more life into the monsters, so I hope they sound cool :)

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    this just sounds like the monster dungeons we have with the spawner

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    Squidkid9999756 The dungeons are small, though, and are a single room with a spawner in the middle. Dens would be bigger (varying in size vertically/horizontally) and could have more rooms (but one main room). They would also vary in appearance depending on which mob's den it is.

    I guess the nest does sound like a spawner though, however I meant more like only a specific mob could spawn in the den until you break the nest, then any mob could spawn. Of course there could just be no nest and they could stay mob-specific areas where the mobs can keep spawning; I was trying to think of a way to balance it, but I'm not sure how to do it or if it needs that kind of balance tbh.