just something related to trial chambers as a whole

[wintry mountain]

attached files are of a turtle-trial spawner mob concept i had, feel free to grab it

ars doesnt really have anything related to trial chambers and dungeon loot at the moment
wouldnt something like loonium from botania be fun?

the basic concept of a mob that i thought of is:
feed it source or keys and it will make its own arena with extended mageblocks and spawn a couple mobs
when the mobs are dealt with, it gives trial spawner loot, (and maybe more loot if it wasnt hit in the crossfire)
as a familiar they occasionally grant some mobs resistance III but also makes them drop dungeon loot on death

[atomic ermine]

I really like this idea, kinda like an Ars version of Gateways of Eternity

This could fit in Additions

[wintry mountain]

nice

[tidal gate]

Yeah the closest one is Additions and you can also put one into a library room (single spawn in the NBT not structure spawn pool)

If it spawn in deep caves it's fine as it is, like an oretoise

If it gets added to trial chamber structure spawns maybe it could get a few coppery details

With oxidation colors as variants

Otherwise the variants would just be between the two kinds of trial spawners playing with the particles

[wintry mountain]

pallette swaps

[tidal gate]

Codewise, it should probably be like the copper golem. An entity that turns into a block (while spawning stuff) and back into entity

Should allow to be a bit more consistent with the arena thing

[atomic ermine]

I'm actually considering having it as a walking spawner, when you get near it, it starts spawning trial spawner stuff, and then when defeated it drops its token

[tidal gate]

It's annoying to track stuff on entity data tho, and most spells have aoe that will kill it too

You can make it almost invulnerable in a similar way to inactive Flarecannons I guess

[atomic ermine]

It shouldn't be too hard, and yeah invulnerable while spawning waves

[daring plaza]

Please mother Reader i need this

[atomic ermine]

I think it could be interesting to incorporate the source spawner functionality also

[tidal gate]

Could use it as house block, lol

Routing the source to the turtles

[wintry mountain]

i do feel like having the turtle be damageable makes it less likely for "haha nuke go brrr" tho

[tidal gate]

Doesn't help that 80% of damage stuff is aoe

[wintry mountain]

fair

[fiery tundra]

why not just make the turtle receive less magic damage?

[wintry mountain]

like i think large AoE spells are used wayyyy too much

so i wanted a creature that rewards you for not getting it caught in the crossfire

[wintry mountain]

but honestly considering that this is the case it might be a good call to not do that

[atomic ermine]

What about making it invulnerable but having a negative when it's damaged

So it doesn't take damage and die, but it does something else

[wintry mountain]

o

works

[atomic ermine]

Now the difficulty is thinking of what else it could do

What about some sort of casting fatigue? Or regen block

I considered buffing the mobs, but I like the idea of a debuff more because once you reach a certain point in Ars, the health of a mob makes no difference

It could potentially block regen and spawn another wave of mobs

Makes the fight a lot more difficult

[wintry mountain]

oo

how about some mobs having reactive armor

since ominous trial spawners do summon linger potions and mobs with trimmed armor

[tidal gate]

Chance of spell damage reflection similar to thorns?