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Update Monster Spawners!

          As they stand right now in the Overworld, monster spawners mostly generate small dungeons and in abandoned mineshafts. The new Caves and Cliffs update will change Minecraft’s underground forever, but so far, there is no public plan to update Minecraft’s dungeons, leaving them appearing out of place. 

          Dungeons need to be increased in size, and have some element of mystery to explore. They shouldn’t be so large that they make the stronghold look small, but they need to be larger than a cobblestone cube. New dungeons could further incentivize players to explore the new caves, and the new dungeons could greatly vary in size. The structures could be customized to the mob inside of them, with spider dungeons having lots of cobwebs, or skeleton dungeons could have fossils. Spawners underneath desert biomes could generate with husks rather than zombies, and under snowy biomes with strays rather than skeletons. 

          Besides the dungeons, monster spawners could generate with a rare chance of being in a random spot in a cave, varying the difficulty of one cave over another. Additionally, they could be increasingly common the higher the player goes into the mountains, with smaller sized dungeons generating in the hillside. They could also be used to make the stronghold to make it a more difficult structure for late-game players. To conclude, monster spawners could be changed to be a more integral part of the exploration of the new caves and cliffs update.

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• February 22, 2021 23:06
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  • February 21, 2021 22:53
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  I agree that dungeons are clearly lacking. I remember a mod that added temporary spawners, as in ones that spawned a specific number of mobs then dissapeared. This is a good solution to adding spawners to more structures to add difficulty as it doesnt creep the ability to make mob farms and can allow for the possibility of drowned or creeper spawners which would otherwise be too op.
  To add, dungeons are still a bit special even late game due to the chance to find enchanted golden apples so we should have more super rate uncraftable items like that to encourage more exploring and give more variance. Like it would be cool to see an enchanted golden carrot?

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  • February 22, 2021 12:48
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  Yes please. These "dungeons" are great for building mob farms but since they can't be moved they act like tiny, visible, slime chunks that you can turn off with light. Changing that to make things more interesting is long overdue.
  
  Each dungeon should be an exciting, dangerous, place you explore underground rather than just a cube of stone you defeat with some quick torch placement.
  
  I also definitely love the idea of the spawners showing up in more places. They could be random, or they could show up with custom generation like the cave spider spawners we currently find in mines . . . which seem like they also should show up in the big "deep dark" caves.