So, I was going to post this in the stickied mod suggestion thread, but, this will be more practical.
So I had this idea while thinking about the Mayans and the Aztecs, and all the culture they had, particularly the sacrifices and the popular myths of the end of the world and ancient technology. I thought that that could make quite a cool mod to play around with. I'm not going to lie, half the reason I wanted to do this was because of how many people will have their brains melted trying to pronounce some words.
Sacrifice:
So, the first thing you would do would be to trap an animal in a sacrifice cage. This is a block which you have to place down, then when activated by redstone, it will close, trapping the mob. You then can break it, pick it up, and take the cage and put it on top of a sacrificial altar.
The altar would be something made of sandstone, a flat topped pyramid, with an altar with a blood collection hole in it, with different tiers having elements like a larger shape, and decoration would be possible, some for aesthetics, some for making the sacrifices different.
You would use a special dagger to kill the animal, and then you would get blood of the animal in the altar's blood collection hole. Using a bucket, or pipes from another mod, you could then take it away. Each species of animal has a different blood value and tier, as in some would be better than others, and some do different things to others.
If blood is mixed somehow, be it through contamination in a pipe, or through crafting buckets together, you would get mixed blood, which can be used but it is the lowest tier of blood.
The tiers would go something like this:
Mixed<chicken<pig<sheep<cow<villager<horse<ocelot<mooshroom<zombie<spider<creeper<enderman<wolf<pigman<blaze<wither skeleton<cave spider<witch<etc, etc.
This blood will be saved for later for specialised crafting of items.
Items:
Blowgun: can be loaded with different darts to produce potion effects, fires immediately but has less range
Macuahuitl (Mack-wah-hwee-tul): look it up if you don't know what this is like. It can be crafted using three tiers for its edges: stone, flint, and obsidian. It's much more damaging than a sword, but it is slower. It is also much more effective against Mayan mobs.
Spear - this is a weapon with a strength a small amount less than a sword, with the same tiers as the Macuahuitl, and it can also be thrown fair short distance.
Atlatl (at-la-tul) - this can be used with spears as ammo (yes I know real atlatls used darts, shush you again!), to make them much more long-range much closer to the range of a bow. This takes a moment to draw back.
Monster:
Quetzalcoatl (Kwet-zal-coat-ul) - the mayan winged serpent, this is a boss only summoned by a very specific ritual. This would involve a wither star, and the blood it drops when killedwould be ichor, for thaumic tinkerer, or if it is not installed, it would drop two wither stars.
Random ideas:
Blood magic support (maybe the whole mod could be an add-on?)
Infusing oneself with blood to get powers
Grinding hearts and such
Hides (e.g. ocelot)
Worldgen
Self-pseudo-sacrifice
Godly powers
*Ugh* I'll ad more later, suggestions would be awesome!
So I had this idea while thinking about the Mayans and the Aztecs, and all the culture they had, particularly the sacrifices and the popular myths of the end of the world and ancient technology. I thought that that could make quite a cool mod to play around with. I'm not going to lie, half the reason I wanted to do this was because of how many people will have their brains melted trying to pronounce some words.
Sacrifice:
So, the first thing you would do would be to trap an animal in a sacrifice cage. This is a block which you have to place down, then when activated by redstone, it will close, trapping the mob. You then can break it, pick it up, and take the cage and put it on top of a sacrificial altar.
The altar would be something made of sandstone, a flat topped pyramid, with an altar with a blood collection hole in it, with different tiers having elements like a larger shape, and decoration would be possible, some for aesthetics, some for making the sacrifices different.
You would use a special dagger to kill the animal, and then you would get blood of the animal in the altar's blood collection hole. Using a bucket, or pipes from another mod, you could then take it away. Each species of animal has a different blood value and tier, as in some would be better than others, and some do different things to others.
If blood is mixed somehow, be it through contamination in a pipe, or through crafting buckets together, you would get mixed blood, which can be used but it is the lowest tier of blood.
The tiers would go something like this:
Mixed<chicken<pig<sheep<cow<villager<horse<ocelot<mooshroom<zombie<spider<creeper<enderman<wolf<pigman<blaze<wither skeleton<cave spider<witch<etc, etc.
This blood will be saved for later for specialised crafting of items.
Items:
Blowgun: can be loaded with different darts to produce potion effects, fires immediately but has less range
Macuahuitl (Mack-wah-hwee-tul): look it up if you don't know what this is like. It can be crafted using three tiers for its edges: stone, flint, and obsidian. It's much more damaging than a sword, but it is slower. It is also much more effective against Mayan mobs.
Spear - this is a weapon with a strength a small amount less than a sword, with the same tiers as the Macuahuitl, and it can also be thrown fair short distance.
Atlatl (at-la-tul) - this can be used with spears as ammo (yes I know real atlatls used darts, shush you again!), to make them much more long-range much closer to the range of a bow. This takes a moment to draw back.
Monster:
Quetzalcoatl (Kwet-zal-coat-ul) - the mayan winged serpent, this is a boss only summoned by a very specific ritual. This would involve a wither star, and the blood it drops when killedwould be ichor, for thaumic tinkerer, or if it is not installed, it would drop two wither stars.
Random ideas:
Blood magic support (maybe the whole mod could be an add-on?)
Infusing oneself with blood to get powers
Grinding hearts and such
Hides (e.g. ocelot)
Worldgen
Self-pseudo-sacrifice
Godly powers
*Ugh* I'll ad more later, suggestions would be awesome!
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