Discouraging the player from entering the void -- Riptide + Void Leviathan spawn
Midnight_Tea
Join Date: 2016-08-27 Member: 221790Members
Join Date: 2016-08-27 Member: 221790Members
I've heard some news that the Void will eventually become extremely dangerous to venture out into. Nice! But it does remain that the surface is likely to be safe... right? Right? Yeah, about that.
I think the PDA should warn you, as you go into the void that an unusual riptide is close by and that you should turn back. If you keep going forward, you'll be pulled underwater . You can fight the tide by turning back and swimming up immediately, but it'll be a fierce current that will drown you if you don't do so.
If you're lucky. If you're lucky you'll drown.
If you're unlucky, or you're in a seamoth or submarine or the like, you'll be pulled pretty far down into the void (until of course you pass crush depth). At that point, a leviathan -- I recommend the Sea Dragon, since that one is limited to one underground biome and is thus not going to get as much play otherwise, or one specially made for the void -- will spawn explicitly to track and kill you. Given that the void is wide open and the strong current is limiting your movement, that's probably a guarantee.
Since I'm throwing out ideas anyway, I'll bring up my void leviathan idea specifically -- it would hate light, a sort of grue leviathan. If you can shine your flashlight/seaglide or vehicle lights on it for a brief moment it'll recoil, buying you a few more seconds to get out of the void (but screaming in anger afterwards, temporarily preventing you from trying that trick twice). If you swim close enough to the surface it won't follow you. If you manually spawn it in a lit environment or just anywhere outside the void, it'll "warp" away like the warpers before you can get a good look at it. It actively does not like being in any biome that isn't labelled "void".
I think the PDA should warn you, as you go into the void that an unusual riptide is close by and that you should turn back. If you keep going forward, you'll be pulled underwater . You can fight the tide by turning back and swimming up immediately, but it'll be a fierce current that will drown you if you don't do so.
If you're lucky. If you're lucky you'll drown.
If you're unlucky, or you're in a seamoth or submarine or the like, you'll be pulled pretty far down into the void (until of course you pass crush depth). At that point, a leviathan -- I recommend the Sea Dragon, since that one is limited to one underground biome and is thus not going to get as much play otherwise, or one specially made for the void -- will spawn explicitly to track and kill you. Given that the void is wide open and the strong current is limiting your movement, that's probably a guarantee.
Since I'm throwing out ideas anyway, I'll bring up my void leviathan idea specifically -- it would hate light, a sort of grue leviathan. If you can shine your flashlight/seaglide or vehicle lights on it for a brief moment it'll recoil, buying you a few more seconds to get out of the void (but screaming in anger afterwards, temporarily preventing you from trying that trick twice). If you swim close enough to the surface it won't follow you. If you manually spawn it in a lit environment or just anywhere outside the void, it'll "warp" away like the warpers before you can get a good look at it. It actively does not like being in any biome that isn't labelled "void".
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(and to keep it fair, it would even hate the dim light of that spinny red planet)