[Minecraft] Fort Wars!

Wol

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
Following up from a post on reddit I saw, I thought I'd throw the idea up to people on here.

Minecraft fortress wars!

Basically bunch of people on the server, two teams. Have like 10 mins / 15 mins setup time, and then play what is essentially capture the flag.

Ideas:

"Flag" is a golden apple or normal apple - Something thats not found in game normally. Apple is in a chest / dispenser somewhere in both teams' bases.

Teams either start off in a skylands map to prevent direct tunneling into the other base, would mean youd have to build some bridges to get to the other peoples base. No tunnelling though.
OR - they start off in a normal map. This at least provides some method of tunnelling rather than running.

Both teams start off in a randomly generated "fort" (basic castle style structure) which has the apple chest in, along with chests full of resources (so basic materials to build with, fences, possibly bows/arrows/swords. things like lava buckets / redstone / pressure plates for traps).

Given 10 or 15 mins or so to build various traps and defences to stop the other team stealing yo apple.

Repeats for three rounds, where you get a few minutes to reset traps / improve / tweak / repair in between. Runs as a "best of three" thing.

When you die, you respawn in your original fort building but without your items.

Chest with apple in would have several so if you have the apple and jump off the side of the map, someone will have to repenetrate the base to get the next apple.

Thoughts?

Have put this in here, rather than in the minecraft group, as theres likely others who have thoughts about CTF style gaming who don't necessarily play minecraft, but who would still contribute ideas :)
 
Ki!ler-Mk1

Ki!ler-Mk1

Active Member
Perhaps allowing use of creative mode for set up? And the rule is it must be possible to reach the flag with a wooden pick without passing through a block made of something harder than stone bricks?
 
Wol

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
Ki!ler-Mk1 said:
Perhaps allowing use of creative mode for set up? And the rule is it must be possible to reach the flag with a wooden pick without passing through a block made of something harder than stone bricks?
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well obsidian would definitely not be in the chests to start with. I guess it wouldnt be too tricky to lock down placing obsidian or something like that to stop things like that being used. Most other blocks are fairly easy to get through with a stone / iron pick.

Creative mode would be a bit tricky to integrate to stop people getting access to some restricted items. Not sure how that works. e.g. I'd put say 5 bits of TNT in a chest, so youd have a limited amount of TNT, rather than just turning the entire thing into no mans land! Same with normal building materials. E.g. you could encase the flag with a big cube of stuff, but then other things would have to be sacrificed.
 
Ki!ler-Mk1

Ki!ler-Mk1

Active Member
Well i actually meant it so that obsidian could be used. Although we could ban picks, what i mean is whats to stop one team destroying the other team's base?
 
Wol

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
Ki!ler-Mk1 said:
Although we could ban picks, what i mean is whats to stop one team destroying the other team's base?
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That's sort of the point :p Have fully destructable environment rather than just some bits that can go splodeyboom.
 
Wol

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
Ki!ler-Mk1 said:
How are you going to determine tech level?

Wood, stone, (Leather), iron etc?
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well stone and wood and iron will be default materials you get when you start, so it depends what you want to use the iron for. Thats a tactic you have to play; do you go for lots of people with iron armour, but stone swords, or iron swords but only with leather, and then use iron elsewhere (flint and steel anyone....)
 
Chuchurocket

Chuchurocket

In Cryo Sleep
Maybe limit the picks/swords so you have some people that can dig and some that can fight, kind of get a class based system going. Maybe even have a medic who can only hand out food? Sniper that has bow but is confined to a specific overlooking tower?
 
Ki!ler-Mk1

Ki!ler-Mk1

Active Member
Just 1 bow with no supply of string :) and how about a dungeon spawner too to put in a pit with a metal door.
 
Chuchurocket

Chuchurocket

In Cryo Sleep
Or have a pre-built base map made out of obsidian with an option to customise your side with a certain amount of cobblestone/sand? Even give the chance for sand traps. Just spitballing around the idea of a CTF in general.
 
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