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Arizona Biome Inspirations: Desert & Badlands Trail Ruin/Adobe Structures

There are many Native American cultures that claim home in Arizona, including the Salado and Zuni. I name these two peoples specifically because they were known for being sedentary pueblo societies with rich community and spiritual life. I think this could serve as a good opportunity to shine light and appreciate Sonoran history by introducing adobe pueblo structures that generate carved into or along mountain sides in the existing badlands biome, as well as my other proposed blue mesa badlands and desert shrublands biomes, and along riverbanks in these biomes as well. These could serve as a new structure/culture in Minecraft or as an expansion of the trail ruins culture. Within these structures a player can find loot similar to the trail ruins with new pottery sherds and trims inspired by these and other Sonoran cultures. Turquoise could be introduced as a new resource found within these ruins or generated as ore with the badlands and related biomes. The Zuni have a rich history with turquoise: mining it, using it as currency, crafting intricate jewelry, and applying spiritual importance. This can potentially set up turquoise as tiled mosaic themed decorative block, a trim material, a jewelry based armor set, a substitute trade currency, or a magical resource with connections to life,the sky, earth, and rain.

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    Within these structures or among the badlands biome a new type of decorative natural block may generate along the walls that acts as a sort of natural chiseled block containing ancient petroglyphs. Instead of being its own unique stagnant block, potentially, a new functionality could be introduced that allows the symbols of pottery sherds to be carved unto the surfaces of hardened clay blocks or terracotta, introducing more building variety, acting much like current clay pots. These petroglyphs could also have some sort of gameplay mechanic beyond decoration by introducing some minor status effects within a small area depending on the symbols acting like an early to mid game beacon. These could either affect the player or affect processes like speeding up smelting time, plant growth, potion brewing, and breeding cool downs, slightly increasing drops from farming and killing mobs both passive and hostile, a chance to increase the amount of babies produced from breeding, increasing or decreasing hostile and passive mob spawn rates, applying a slight luck effect for fishing and mob drops, affecting villager trade rates, and, my favorite, apply a small chance for materials to not be consumed during crafting processes. To active these effects, if they'd need to be activated, the aforementioned turquoise could be used either by having the glyphs consume turquoise and light up or by placing turquoise near or next to the glyphs. Different materials/gems could work on different glyphs

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    Also just want to be clear that I understand that these features/locales extend beyond my state and represent the entire Sonoran desert region, I just named Arizona first because its my home.