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mrfe :
Snowdeath :

Two ideas that came up were a fighting mini-game and a boat race.

I'm currently leaning towards the latter because the mob spawning is not working currently.

Water parkour was another idea that we can incorporate into the second idea. Thoughts?

EideticMemory : Why not both? There's enough space both above and underground to build some sort of an arena.

zanderlex : The idea was to have the mob battle arena below, and the boat race parkour above. 

The actual problem is the fact hostile mobs can't exactly spawn properly nowadays, so the idea is CURRENTLY out of the picture.

However, I'd really love a mob arena battle. Maybe even throw in bosses. :3

Snowdeath : What do you mean by can't spawn properly? What if they were on different sides of the island?

I'd be up for both, whenever mob spawning works properly.

We would have to make the mob battle arena a teleport, since mobs wouldn't be able to spawn in Vizzed Ville.

It could be made to feel fairly seamless though.

EideticMemory : Yeah, of course. You could even set up some kind of command where once it detects that the monster is defeated, the next door swings open revealing a portal to the next level.

... Yeah, that sounds complex but cool.

Snowdeath :

I think that mrfe and I learned a technique that could make that exact idea work.

So I think it could definitely be done.

We could go ahead start making an arena, and test whether mobs spawn from the command blocks when things are fixed.

I've started learning commands and some certain mods, so I've started to get what you guys have been doing. 

I have a couple of ideas at this point. 

1. In boat parkour, you could add in pressure plates where they do both positive and negative stuff, at random if possible. 
- such as tp'ing near the start of the race, or more further in. 
- receiving a diamond sword or get a dispenser to throw a Splash Potion of Harming if negative.
- maybe something that kills you, or randomly kills other players. 

2. For the creature maze arena, I just thought of something. Remember the chest game in most of Legend of Zelda games? Especially Ocarina of Time?
- Make it so the player has to CHOOSE which path to go after defeating the monster. It could be 3 or even 4 pathways at once.
- the rooms could contain treasures, or a really hard mob, or a entire group of mobs. Or simply empty... 

What do you think?

Snowdeath :

Those work.

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Miscellaneous_circuits?cookieSetup=true#Random_number_generator

^ That is a way we can make it randomized pretty easily, if you want to keep up.

The only thing that might be problematic is dispensing diamond swords in Vizzed Ville, since it could become a server money issue. Although, I'm not quite sure what use a sword would have in boat parkour, and mobs in the water might end up destroying more boats than the game could handle. We'll need to think about it.

EideticMemory : Oh, sorry, I meant if you were racing along with other players, then the swords come in handy...

ohhh! That makes a lot more sense.

How do Iron Swords sound?

mrfe :
Snowdeath :

EideticMemory : Yeah, iron is reasonable if everyone isn't armored. 
If we're gonna go far and add in armor, then I'd just suggest to make it randomized.