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Building Minecraft Fantasy Plus Part One

 Hello. C J here. My video game Dragon Engine is in a stable pre-alpha build. I’ve got an ocean, grassland, sample house, player inputs and a really nice looking sky. I’m done working on Dragon Engine until next year and the pre-alpha will be available as a free .EXE for Windows on Christmas Day this year 2025. What am I doing until then?

Minecraft.

For a while I’ve wanted to make a Minecraft server and I’m looking into getting a dedicated laptop to run it on. I do have the money on hand for that. I’ve got some fun ideas and I’m going to be making a custom map and some custom NPCs for it. I’m doing generic fantasy as the project’s genre. I wanted to do something uniquely Canadian but the Legend Setting is so modern day realistic that I decided instead to take a break from the genre.

Here are some of my ideas.

The game will be in Adventure mode so we have crafting and combat but no block breaking or black placing.

The game will be cooperative.

I’m starting with a real world culture themed region for Ancient Egypt and a desert temple theme. I have Bedrock Editor to help with this.

There will be dungeons with bosses run off a mob spawner each. They will drop useful things.

NPCs for trading will form the in-game economy and will also be run off mob spawners in houses.

I actually can do player run base and city building to give the server a more MMO feel. I’ve figured out how to do this with a redstone setup that requires specific items to activate once each building.

I want players to be able to gather resources, craft goods and trade them for gold nuggets. These then are the server’s currency.

People will keep their items on death.

Good. Now back to drawing maps on paper.

C J Mcpherson


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