Build Ancient Arena - An Attempt At A Mob Arena

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So I was bored.

Then this happened.

There's like, not much color and other fancy shit in this, because I really cbf

Ancient Arena (creative name amirite) is a mob arena-ish thing designed and built by yours truly. It has an open-ended gameplay and just good for vanilla-ish PvE practise in general.

The gameplay itself is fairly simple. You spawn and yeah:



Then you walk forward a bit:



You will see class selection, I will elaborate on this later.

To either side are the difficulty selection as well as game options. Fiddle with them as you see fit, will also be elaborated on later.




I am not a builder, the arena itself is fairly simple:




You can leave the arena by pressing the red button in the middle.



Killing the mobs will drop bones, if you throw a certain number of bones in each of the four Ancient Altars in the arena, the boss will appear.



Ok now let's talk about the details.

5 classes: Knight, Warrior, Mage, Archer and Ninja. No this is not based on Wynncraft.

Because I have a super short attention span, I kept everything nice and simple so I can actually finish something for once.

Knight
Damage | ***
Defense | *****
Special | **

Knight is the most defensive of all the classes, it passively has Slowness II and takes no knockback (except from the boss), excellent for soaking up hits. Knight also has a bit of Thorns to punish enemies.

Warrior
Damage | *****
Defense | ***
Special | **

Warrior is a heavy-damaging class with reasonable defense. Warrior can one-shot Ancient Guardians with a critical hit. Nothing too special about this one.

Mage
Damage | **
Defense | ***
Special | *****

Mage is a class that focuses on damage over time. With permanent Weakness III, you won't expect to kill anything with your sword. Instead, Mage's sword has Fire Aspect X that will eventually burn enemies to death. Permanent Fire Resistance too.

Archer
Damage | ****
Defense | **
Special | ****

Archer can jump 3 times as high as other classes, it has a Wooden Sword that deals high knockback as well as a bow that will one-shot Ancient Guardians if fully charged. Archers only spawn with 12 arrows, but you can gather more from enemies (they are Skeletons).

Ninja
Damage | ****
Defense | *
Special | *****

Ninja has permanent Speed III buff. It has a Stone Sword that does fair damage as well as heavy knockback. While Ninja is extremely frail, it's true power comes in the form of Looting V. This allows Ninjas to quickly 'steal' Bones from enemies to activate Ancient Altars.

Ok now on to the Difficulties and Game Options.

3 difficulties: Easy, Normal and Hard. They are just basic /difficulty options, Ancient Guardians hit with different damages with this.

Game Options:

Natural Regeneration: /gamerule thing. Even if it's off, you can heal by eating Golden Apples as drops from Ancient Guardians and Ancient Sharpshooters (20% and 50% drop respectively).

Guardian Buffs: Every once in a while all Relic Guardians and Relic Sharpshooters will gain Speed and Strength, as well as Diamond Armor. This lasts around 3 seconds, good if you want some extra challenge. Turn off if you're a wuss.

Player Buffs: For those who are shit at PvE, every once in awhile a 'holy wind' will brew through the arena, healing players for 4 health over 10 seconds.

I don't wanna spoil too much on the Ancient Altar and the boss itself but it's nothing too fancy. The boss will drop a god apple, so you can continue your fight if you want to. There's no limit to how many times you can activate the altars.

Now I'm gonna showcase some of the command blocks behind this project. There isn't that much since everything was made in 4 hours.

Spoiler: Stuff

Ancient Arena is multiplayer-friendly so feel free to play with your friends over LAN or something.

Also this is the first map I ever finished without ditching it halfway.

Please do give this map a try, it will mean a lot.

Download: No viruses, I promise.

Click -> Ancient Arena Download (Dropbox, if you have a better alternative please tell me).

If you have tried the map please leave feedback as well as any bugs/exploits you find, thanks!

 

Ew default resource pack D:

 

Good things I see:
Atleast you tried to add detail....

Bad things I see:
No depth at all

Build heavily lacks of detail

The build its self its just flat

Your only using 2 block color and 1 texture type for the build

Build is small for a arena

 

I really like this. I make classes a lot, but mainly for PVP purposes with different abilities and things. But I can never make an arena or balance them in a PVE fight against mobs and bosses. Nice job!

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Can we get a pic of the boss?

 

I'm not a builder :(

As long as everything works I'm happy.

Find out yourself ;D

 

Challenge accepted

(tomorrow cuz I cant do computer today).

(actually probably Tuesday or Wednesday)

 

I LOVED BUILDING MOB ARENAS!!! But it gets really boring after a while :/ Nice arena tho!

 

Would be really cool to see some block variety and details in there

 

You need to add a LOT more detail to the arena. Try using more than 1 block. Putting some pattern in the ground. Allow the player to maybe move up to platforms. And lastly add more depth to walls.

 

I said I'm not a builder lol. This isn't made to look good.

 

As someone who used to be addicted to mob arena, from the screenshots, I actually like it. I might play it later if I get the chance...

 

directions on how to get it into mc

 

I just didn't read mechanics and game rules I just looked at the pics.
Looks like you did some fine developing there.

 

Put the folder in the .minecraft/saves folder.

 

NECR-

Nvm it hasn't been 1 month

 

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