[WIP] Tainted World mod. You against the purple. Concept post

[Moridin]

If HQM has its way, you very well could do just that, Nfrance. I do agree that I hope for that sort of thing as well. I want to play around as the goody two shoes and the evil SOB.

 

[Arkandos]

Perhaps you could make it an option to do the reverse of purifying everything, but instead corrupting "yourself" it's something I haven't really seen with Thaumcraft stuff, and that is the taint would be your ally in a sense. Think Evil Overlord that lives in a castle inside of a evil fogy bog feel, for other people the bog is bad, for Mr. Bad guy it's good. Also tainted things would either be neutral or friendly to you. Except creepers. Because creepers.

Maybe there could be a map where there are two teams, a tainted and a pure one.

 

[DR. DOOMADORE]

Heh, the story of Tainted World starts after the evil master mind has gone and blown himself into the void. You get to try to clean up the mess he left behind.

Hrrm. Although you guys have gotten me thinking in a dungeon keeper sort of vein. An asymmetric multiplayer map where one player is a dungeon keeper and has to manufacture all the monsters to send after the "Hero" players. It be a doozy of a mod that for sure.

 

[Arkandos]

I think you should try to use the warp mechanic as much as possible considering how easy it is to use the Thaumcraft api.
I just found out there is both permanent and temporary warp.

 

[fandacreep]

I think you should try to use the warp mechanic as much as possible considering how easy it is to use the Thaumcraft api.
I just found out there is both permanent and temporary warp.

I never really liked warp tbh.

 

[Arkandos]

Then maybe you should not look for a mod called "Tainted World"?

 

[fandacreep]

Then maybe you should not look for a mod called "Tainted World"?

What does taint have to do with warp?

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

What does taint have to do with warp?

Everything.

 

[Qazplm601]

What does taint have to do with warp?

lore. read the TC lore. i realise many people don't care about lore, but to me it is very important.

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

lore. read the TC lore. i realise many people don't care about lore, but to me it is very important.

Part of why I love thaumcraft.
Ignoring the lore while making an addon is not a good recipe.

 

[Qazplm601]

Part of why I love thaumcraft.
Ignoring the lore while making an addon is not a good recipe.

yep. TC is the current top of my list for epic lore mods.

 

[ewsmith]

lore. read the TC lore. i realise many people don't care about lore, but to me it is very important.

Umm...yea. Taint is magical sewage. It isn't "that which we aren't meant to know" and does not effect warp.

 

[Qazplm601]

Umm...yea. Taint is magical sewage. It isn't "that which we aren't meant to know" and does not effect warp.

:/ it says in the lore that taint is the physical manifestation, and warp is the mental one.

 

[ewsmith]

:/ it says in the lore that taint is the physical manifestation, and warp is the mental one.

Exactly. Warp is a mental instability based on trying to understand things you aren't meant to know. Taint is basically the sewage of misused magic. Pollution is hardly forbidden knowledge.

 

[Qazplm601]

"if warp is the physical manifestation of magic gone wrong, then flux is its physical manifestation" - the bible thaumonomicon

 

[ewsmith]

"if warp is the physical manifestation of magic gone wrong, then flux is its physical manifestation" - the bible thaumonomicon

umm... both are physical? ._.
warp and taint are tied, yes, but one doesn't cause the other.
warp is mental instability caused by magic while taint is a creeping disease that is chaotic magic.

thaumcraft is based off of the ars magica role playing game. many concepts can be loosely tied. warp being one.

EDIT: ars magica wiki link

 

[Arkandos]

Don't turn this all religious now.

 

[ewsmith]

Don't turn this all religious now.

but thaumcraft is my religion :[