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Seraphaestus / HistoricizedMedicine

A 1.12 minecraft forge mod adding historically inspired medical-related items.
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[SUGGESTION] Biological warfare #8

Open Sunconure11 opened 6 years ago

Sunconure11 commented 6 years ago

Since your plague is based off of the bubonic plague, you should look into some of the stuff mongols did with dead bodies, as a form of early biological warfare. Maybe you could implement some way to pull it off without weirdness going on with other mods that deal with graves and what not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_biological_warfare#Middle_Ages

Also, a rat spawn egg might be a good idea, for testing purposes.

Seraphaestus commented 6 years ago

I have rat spawn eggs in my game. They're the same colour (temporary) as the villagers from this mod, so maybe you missed it because of that? https://i.imgur.com/eGyc4wg.png Biological warfare would be interesting! Maybe you could swab infected entities and then craft an infected arrow? I'm not sure how useful it would be gameplay wise though, seems the only purpose would be to give other players it in multiplayer

Sunconure11 commented 6 years ago

Maybe specific entities, in addition to rats, could also act as carriers for diseases. Maybe even some plants.

This would indeed be a more multiplayer-based feature, but some of it's content could be worked on to make singleplayer a bit harder as well.

I could foresee faction-based servers using it to knock out enemies rather brutally, without having to go in and kill everything.

Infected arrows could spread disease to any valid entity nearby that can be infected. This should also be configurable in the future, IMO, so more modded mobs can pick up on it, in the event you do more diseases that are carried by specific mobs (I.E for instance, if you did something spread by cattle, a player might want to add support for modded cattle.)

LatentDesire commented 6 years ago

Oh, do cats/ocelots kill rats? If I remember right, one of the reasons the bubonic plague was as bad as it was is because people killed a bunch of cats due to superstition that they were bad luck. This lead to a swell in the rat population, and well, I’m sure you know the rest.

Sunconure11 commented 6 years ago

Hm, if cats killing rats is implemented, you might want to make it so anything that extends the entity for the cat attacks them. It appears Animania is going to alter cats this summer.