Necro Update - Public Testing

Heyho folks,

We hope you had a great Christmas and are hyped for New Years Eve. To bridge the time until 2017 there is a semi-major Necro rework lying around on the servers for you to test! It was worked on by our overlord @NomNuggetNom over the past three months. The rework plans were leaked a while back if you remember and haven’t notably changed since then. The original concept was created by WiKi_KiKi and bits of Miskeys and lasertagfighters old Necro reworks from the forums were implemented. Nevertheless, here are the changes:

• No more spawner: The spawner was changed to mob eggs which you can carry around and spawn mobs to your desire.
• Blazes are back: Laughable Spiders were replaced with blasting Blazes.
• Mob beacon: The redstone torch is a mob beacon structure that your mobs will be attracted to, but will fight an enemy when in their proximity.
• Buffing mobs: Dealing damage to players awards you XP which you can spend on your mobs to give them buffs. The healing aspect of the golden sword was removed.
• Pickaxe: Without an important structure to defend, the pickaxe has lost its knockback.
• Steak: Necro now only has five steak instead of six.

Example hotbar of Necro with all the mobs


The necro beacons

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A bit of information on the mechanics:

Mob eggs:
The spawner was removed to remove stationary gameplay, instead you can now directly bring your mobs into combat. You may have up to 5 zombie eggs, 4 skeleton eggs or 3 blaze eggs in your inventory. The eggs spawn in your inventory every 30 seconds. You may only have one mob type on the field, placing down another will remove all of your previous mobs. Zombies have average speed and strength, skeletons are faster but easier to kill, blazes can only move vertically (!) but are resistant and deal a lot of damage. The predetermined buffs reflect this. If mobs happen to get stuck somewhere, you can kill them using the /despawn command.

Buffing:
Dealing damage to players gives you a certain amount of XP. Buffing a mob costs one XP level. Each mob has three buff tiers that it will keep until the mob or the necro dies, so stay close and defend your minions!

Mob beacon:
The mob beacon attracts your mobs in a certain radius which they will immediately head to. They will however prioritize fighting enemies on their way. Sadly, the beacon radius cannot be as large as the whole map because of vanilla Minecraft restrictions. Structure placement restrictions apply to the beacon as well. The mob head will change depending on the mob type on the field. Since blazes can only move vertically, their beacon is useless and was just added for the sake of completeness.


We invite you to play on the CTF servers and test this Necro. Is it viable in combat and fun to play? Do you feel it is too strong or too weak? Are there any smaller or larger changes you would like to see? Feel free to put your feedback here, as Nom is willing to do changes if the community asks for it.

On a last note, Wave XII is done and can be launched as soon as the trailer is ready. Hopefully it will be done by the end of this year, otherwise it will be released in early January.


Enjoy playing!

~ The CTF staff and committee