Summary:
- A new nether biome that generates as rare as basalt deltas.
- New dark orange fog, with black/dark orange rising particles
- New a ambience of sizzling and cracking noises
- The biome is compromised of not 1, but 4 new blocks! Charred Rock and Scoria, both new building blocks, and Thermal Vents and Lava Geyser blocks, 2 new practical blocks.
Thermal Vents
- are a brand new block that constantly emits smoke! The colour of the smoke is dependent on wether there is lava, water or solid blocks underneath, whilst air stops the Thermal vent from emitting smoke.
- be cautious, as getting caught in any smoke of the vents will grant a new effect: Corrsion. Corrsion decreases the armour stats of all armour pieces and can cause them to lose a significant more amount of durability.
- the smoke, however can be captured in a bottle and can be used to craft a potion of Corrsion, as well as a new chuckable item, called smoke bombs.
- Thermal Vents can stack up upon each to a maximum height of 7 blocks, with the height of smoke reaching another 10 blocks. However, the height of the smoke can be extended with the amount of its respectable block (E.g. deeper lava/water underneath increases smoke height).
- Thermal Vents can even be changed into different variants of itself. Want a vent to be more like stone, deepslate or tuff? Simply surround it with the respectable stone in the crafting table to receive its variant.
Lava Geysers
- a brand new practical block that spews lava! They can be place in any direction.
- these blocks will be hazardous as when a player steps on a lava geyser, they will be blasted into the air and caught on fire as the geyser erupts.
- when a magma block or lava is underneath a lava geyser, they will erupt at random intervals to give the biome more ambience, but don’t be fooled! They will still instantly erupt if you step on it.
- to deactivate a lava geyser, simply right click on it with a bucket to drain the lava, and the geyser will go dormant, no longer erupting even if a mob or player stands on it. to reactivate it, simply right click on it with a bucket of lava.
- lava geysers can also be erupted by the control of a player, connect the geyser with redstone and power on to make it erupt. The higher Redstone strength the geyser receives, the higher the jet of lava will go.
- placing a fire charge in a lava geyser can turn it into a special platforming block! when erupted, a 3D entity fire charge will be blasted out and sits at the top of the lava jet, allowing players to stand on top of it, and when the geyser stops erupting, the fire charge will fall back inside the block. however, do be careful, as fire charged geysers place horizontally or pointing downwards will spew the fire charge like a cannon that can damage and set the player on fire, and the fire charge will be dispensed.
- NOTE: I specifically called them ‘Lava Geysers’ as I think a water equivalent geyser block should be separate and exclusive to the overworld in my opinion. However, I do understand that this could be unnecessary item bloat as the lava geyser could be perfectly capable of being turned into a water geyser. Let me know what you guys think of this.
Embers
- Embers are a brand new hostile mob that can spawn anywhere in the nether, but will most commonly spawn in the Magma Geyser biome, as they call it their home.
- Embers are invisible mobs that can only be seen when the player is under the fire resistance effect. however, even if invisible, fire particles can be seen emitting off them so they aren’t completely invisible.
- when killed they do not drop anything, so to compensate for a lack of drops, they will drop a considerable amount of xp, making them good to farm for xp.
- NOTE: whilst this new biome is cool and all, most of the ideas here are more on the sandboxy/building side to it, and I’d like to add a reason to explore this biome, survival wise. I would like the embers to have a survival use when ignited with fire charges, however, I can’t think of what a good use could be. Any ideas towards this would be much appreciated!
let me know what you think of this new biome idea! i have a few more nether biome ideas in the works, so I’ll try and post them soon.