What The Badlands Biome Update Might Look Like – Minecraft Animation

Hey there welcome to block excel artistry ah the badlands a biome that was in competition against two other biomes for the chance to be updated and the winning biome would be updated with the features to introduce some new and fresh excitement to the player when visiting that biome and while the winning biome

Wasn’t the badlands this time around if i’m correct i believe that mojing has stated that the features that were showcased in these biomes will eventually be added to the game sometime in the future we just don’t know when that will be so i thought it’d be fun to talk about

Some of those features and how they might work starting off with the badlands now the three features that were showcased in the badlands animation were the tumbleweed this fancy new cactus and the vulture and before we begin i’d also like to introduce to you mellow mode it’s basically the counterpart of this

Video that makes watching at night more enjoyable check it out by clicking the info card or the link in the description to watch this video in melo mode if it’s not available yet i should be posting it soon so let’s start this video off with the tumbleweed in the badlands update animation it

Seems like the tumbleweed almost bumps into yens because of their reaction to it rolling near them so i imagine that the tumbleweed will have some sort of collision mechanics such as bumping into the player more than likely dealing the same amount of hearts to the player that would be

Proportional to walking into a berry bush but i’ve been thinking about these badlands features and how it could be kind of fun to connect some of their functions to each other so we’re going to talk about the vulture for a minute and in the badlands pixel animation yen said that the vultures are

Drawn to loot left behind by the player but this puzzled me a bit because if you were to lose a battle in the badlands and respawn way back to where your bet is more than likely you’d be responding far away enough from the badlands that you would probably unload any chunks that

You dropped any loot in and by the time you got back to your items the likelihood of the vulture interacting with any of your items is somewhat minimized as it’s mainly a foot race back to your items once you’ve loaded those chunks but i could be wrong

But if that is the case let’s think of a solution to make this feature more engaging let’s jump back to the concept of the tumbleweed now so besides tumbleweeds rolling around in the badlands and occasionally buffing into you what if when the tumbleweed rolled into you not

Only would it poke you but also cause you to drop an item therefore causing you to try to pick up any treasures that you dropped that a nearby vulture might try to take maybe once you enter the badlands a vulture will begin tracking you and perch on any nearby fancy cactuses in

Efforts to grab any treasures that you might have dropped that’s why i like this tumbleweed idea as it makes the likelihood of a vulture being drawn to your loot a bit more likely but i will say that how likely is it really that a tumbleweed is going to roll into you

Because in minecraft you are oftentimes constantly moving around so in addition to the tumbleweed possibly being able to hit you what if the longer amount of time that you spend in the badlands the more likely it is that a vulture will try to drop tumbleweeds onto you in attempts to

Make you drop loot i feel like these concepts are fun as it ties some of the tumbleweeds and vultures functionalities together therefore making these biome features feel more connected enhancing the badlands experience overall that’s actually pretty funny i’m parked and it looks like a very small tumbleweed is in the corner

Of this spot that i’m at so now let’s talk a bit about the fancy cactus and what its functionalities might be so in the badlands pixel animation jens touches the cactus and it kind of pokes them and that’s mostly all the information i got about the fancy cactus

From the animation so this should be interesting but i will say that the vulture did use the fancy cactus as a place to perch on in the animation with the ins and agnes so maybe a fancy cactus might be the place a vulture returns to once it successfully obtained

One of your items perhaps approaching the vulture when it’s perched on a fancy cactus will cause it to fly away and that would cause the fancy cactus to shoot out spikes almost like the fancy cactus has a defense mechanism that it uses whenever it’s detecting something interacting with it

Maybe this is something that the vulture knows and even uses to its own benefit perhaps to make a vulture drop an item that it’s carrying you could throw a snowball at the vulture as the badlands is seemingly a dry place so a snowball would probably startle the vulture resulting in it dropping

Whatever it’s carrying now back to the cactus when yinz touches the cactus it almost looks like the result of the cactus poking them sort of has a lingering effect so maybe if you run into a fancy cactus or get hit by a needle that it shoots

Out it would poke you multiple times if you touch it or get hit by it but if you get hit by a fancy cactus needle you could even drop an item each time it pokes you furthering the mechanic of vultures being drawn to loot they don’t call it

The badlands for their good manners remember some people also pointed out to me that what i thought were cactus flowers might actually be cactus fruit so i decided to keep some of the flowers since i did like the look of that but i still added some cactus fruits and that’s what this

Is here perhaps trying to grab one of the cactus fruits would also cause the fancy cactus to shoot spikes at you but if you used a pair of shears on the cactus fruit you could successfully obtain it without any trouble and sure you could use it as a food

Source but i have a bit more to say about the cactus fruit later on so now let’s take a look at the concept of the vulture i’ve actually been thinking about how the vulture could actually be useful in simple early game fast travel and here’s how so this here is what i’m

Calling the treasure glove and it can only be found through archaeology making this a very unique item i’ve encased it in terra cotta to hint at it being found in a tougher block that you would need to use the amethyst chisel to retrieve the amethyst chisel is a concept item

From my minecraft archaeology concept which is my previous video which you can watch here by clicking the info card or the link in the description you may also notice different mineral types being displayed here with the treasure glove and i’ll talk about why that is in a bit

Now the treasure glove is used for securely locking a mineral in place on top of the glove and usually the treasure glove will be found with an empty mineral slot and equipped like this now this concept is going to need some balancing to make sure it’s not too

Overpowered but first i’ll explain so what would this treasure glove do well we all know that the vultures are drawn to shiny loot so basically you would want to place the treasure glove on the ground and wait for the vulture to perch on it you would then quickly run up to

The vulture and in doing so would make the vulture fly away with your treasure glove and if you timed it right and successfully equipped the treasure glove before the vulture flew off it would take you up with it and because that vulture really wants that shiny diamond it’s not going

To let go but over time it will begin to glide back down and once you’ve reached the ground the vulture will fly off but you’ll still have your treasure glove and you’ll have traveled a good distance now the actual distance that the vulture could take you is certainly a tricky one to solve

Because this is meant to be a method of early game fast travel like i said it’s not at all meant to be better than the elytra but we can just say that the vulture would fly to a far enough distance that it would still be worth using

I’d also like to mention that you wouldn’t be able to control the direction that the vulture was going you could only choose the direction that you wanted to take you by facing the direction that you want it to go when you place the treasure glove on the ground

And my next idea is to balance the treasure glove a bit more and that is after about four uses of the vulture fast travel method the mineral will break and you’ll need to replace it with another singular mineral so the fact that there’s a bit of risk

And reward you need to pick a predetermined direction to go that isn’t controllable and you need to pay a bit of a fee to use the vulture fast travel express i feel like these concepts for the treasure glove make it a fun and balanced method of early game fast

Travel now let’s take another look at the cactus fruit in this concept maybe the vulture actually really likes the cactus fruit but just doesn’t know it because it’s never eaten one as a result of the spikes on the cactus fruit maybe you could even tame the vulture

With the sheer cactus fruit and in doing so would allow you to simply fly up with the vulture without needing to sneak up on it and the way that i’m imagining people using a tame vulture might be for a simple traveling method between bases i’m also thinking that the fancy cactus

Could almost be used as a landing location for the vulture for each location that it goes almost like a spot that your feathery friend could relax maybe if you tame a vulture then you could control its direction i feel like these concepts make the vulture a fun mob type and gives you

Incentive to take care of your feathery friends now i’d also like to introduce the concept of using other minerals instead of diamonds with the treasure glove my idea behind this concept is that the vultures flying will behave differently depending on the type of mineral that you’ve added to the treasure glove

Basically displaying how much the vulture wants that mineral by how far how fast and how high the vulture will go before dropping you off so i’m thinking because amethyst geos are located deep underneath the ground we could flip that and the vulture could take you very high up into the air

Before gliding back down this could be very useful if you have a sky base that the vulture could fly you right up to possibly diamond could have the vulture fly you fast and far away while gold could allow the vulture to fly you a shorter distance at a slower pace because

It’s more common and maybe an emerald would allow the vulture to take you high up into the air but not as high as amethyst each mineral could have its own unique purpose and situational use i hope everybody likes a new sound quality i don’t know if you can hear a little

Bit of background noise but it kind of reminds me of like nice trees in the wind it’s kind of a nice sound