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Minecraft 1.4.7

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Minecraft 1.2.5

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1.2.5 or lower

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Old versions:(Better dungeons, for the items look below)

Minecraft 1.2.5

Download Better dungeons version 0.94

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Minecraft 1.2.4
Download Better dungeons version 0.924

Minecraft 1.2.3
Download Better dungeons version 0.923 (Reuploaded)

Minecraft 1.1
Download Better dungeons version 0.922
v0.92
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Minecraft 1.0
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v0.8
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Adventure items
Minecraft 1.2.5
Adventure items 1.3

Old versions:

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Minecraft 1.2.5
Adventure items 1.2

Minecraft 1.2.4
Adventure items

Minecraft 1.2.3
Adventure items

Minecraft 1.1:
Adventure Items 1.1 download
Adventure Items 1.0 download

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Instalation: copy the downloaded zip into your mods folder. This mod does NOT add any new item sprite, for item IDs configuration check at better dungeons config.
To get the items you will need to search for them in dungeon treasures(only dungeons created with the mod instaled), some items can be empowered, put 9 in a crafting grid to and you will get a epic item.
Items for treasures, they are a first version of magic scrolls with special habilities, right now there are 4 types. They consume hunger as energy to cast them.
Healing and hunger scrolls:
Healing scroll will heal you at a small hunger cost
Hunger scroll will restore you hunger bar overtime, , or you can use it to recover hunger.


Teleport scroll: jealous about the endermen? Now you can teleport too.(The cost will be 3/4 steaks, not like in the video)


Vamp scroll: like necromancer spell, will heal you depending on the damage done, at more time charged, the spell will be more powerful (limited to your max hunger).


Carcaj: stack arrows in a carcaj, can be crafted into 9 arrows, or craft it with 9 arrows.
Long bow: fires arrow stronger than the vanilla bow, its enchantable like the normal bow, and you can also attach some poisons(dyes) to it, to give the arrows different properties like poison(green), slow(blue)...Each shoot have a chance of removing the current poison from the bow.
Arrow transformer: transform items in your inventory into arrows/carcajs, consumes dirt, cobble/stone... and more.
If you put 4 Arrow transformers in a crafting grid you can get the magic carcaj, magic carcaj can be used to craft arrows like arrow transformer, or as an infinite arrow resource for long bow.
Walker scroll: Right click to activate ir, wile activated gives you a speed and jump boss, put 4 in a crafting grid to get a walker spellbook, gives more boost and autoclim 1 block slabs.


Feathers: Right click to activate it, while activated you can fly, golden feather gives a speed boost and prevents falling damage.


Mining scroll: Press R to toogle its function,
lucky mining: mines a single drop with hight drop chances(try it with lapis, coal...)
power mining: mines 3x3 blocks in front of you.
You can craft the mining spellbook with 9 mining scrolls in a crafting grid, mining spellbook have reduced use cost;



Magic orb:
While activated gives you different pottion effects, press R to toogle the effect, right click to activate/deactivate.
You can craft it into a powerful version, in the same way as the other items.

And more: nature scroll, bounce scroll, fire scroll, summon scroll...discover their effects. Most of them will have a description in game, and are very intuitive.

A video showing previews of some dungeons, by the nice Etalyx

More videos:

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A trailer by awesomedude1012

A minecraft with mods trailer by azert123(fr)


A nice video about the mod by PhobicBus

Installation guide:

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Instalation: Copy the content of the folder in the downloaded zip into your .minecraft folder, delete the old config file to reset it, backup it if you have edited it.
Required: Risugami's ModLoader
A video tutorial by Infired:


Configs:
Dungeons rarity: determines how rare is a dungeon, as bigger the number is, morare the dungeon will, if set to 0 that dungeon will be disabled.

For having other mod items, or just your desired items to chests, go to .minecraft/Chocolate/ChestConfig file and look the files in there, each file reprent a kind of chest, open any file and look in the comments how to add new items.

FAQ

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My game its crashing, can you fix it?
I can probobablly fix it, but I need some information, first you need a crash report(if the post don't have it, you will be ignored), some information about how it happened will also help, and the mod version.
Hey 'X' mob its acting very strange, have bugs...
First of all check what version are you using, if you are using an older version, update. If the problem its persisting, then report the whats wrong.
Its this mod compatible with 'X'?
This mod its compatible with almost all mods
Can I disable X feature in the mod
Probablly yes, check at the configuration file, I tried to made everithing configurable.
How can I add objects to the dungeons chests
You can find this information on the Installation spoiler.

Achievements:

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Be the first completing one and get an honor place in this post
Post a video defeating the pyramid boss:
kanokarob

Post the first image/video of the slime boss(first secret boss):
Mauricio_Pocky
Image

Post a video defeating the spider boss:
tokmak333

Post a video defeating the necromancer:

Post a video defeating the Liche:
ipoder

Post a video defeating the King pirate:
Habigo16

Pics:

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Volcanoes, stay away from the core, or not...

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Siege castles to get settlements for your travels! Look for them in plains.

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Assault pirate ships

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The mod comes with little ships templates, a big galeon and a treasure island.

Strongholds, try to find the entrances at taiga biomes.

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And thats supposed to be under the towers:

Jungle caves are very big, and with some flowers!!

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Nether cities (Caution, secret rooms inside)

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Nether holes, you will see red sky, also removed bedrock from top.

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A default dungeon(In the download version dungeons will be at layers 18-60, this was just for testing)

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A big one(size configurable in properties, look top)

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Nether dungeons:

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And the list of mobs:

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Human-like mobs:
"Human" mobs, they look human like, type depending in biome.
There are 3 classes:
Armored: scales their hp and attack depending on the dificulty and the armor/weapon they wear.
Archer: basic ranged unit, equipped with a bow.
Grenadier: medim ranged unit, equipped with a sword and grenades.
Healer: equiped with a healing staff will heal hurt mates!

Units/biome:

Plains:
Skeletons:with a discomposed corpe those warriors are the weakest warriors of the dark forces of minecraftia, their special unit is a necromancer.(base armor index 1)

Taiga:
Zombies: corpses in descomposition state, they follow their liche master orders, and are looking for brains! their special unit is a liche.(base armor index 2)

Ocean:
Pirates: their special unit is the king pirate.(base armor index 4)

Swamps:
Giant turtles: giant and agresive turtles.


Forests:
Giant monkeys: giant and agresive monkeys.

Jungles:
Goblins:These creatures life in swamp caves, be care if you find one, they don't use to go alone.

Mountains:
Dwarves: This little steves will attack you in a big group, and if you find their dungeon at the core of the volcano you may find some golems, and of course a lot of valuable stuff, but, at what price?

Ice plains:
The others: not many its known about them, don't get close if you are not able to siege a skeletons castle.
Snow biomes:
Ice bull: lifes in caves on cold biomes, some investigations says that those cave are not naturally generated, probablly if you find that bull you may ask him what happened there or just run away.
Nether:
PigZombies: renegades, ex-humans, or ex-pigs, or ex-zombies, where they come from? Ancient stories tell that they are zombies that renegated to its master, and now pig curse its eating them, their special unit is a pigman mage. (base armor index 6)

Other mobs and bosses:
OverWorld:
Bosses:
Slime boss: slimes everywhere.
Pyramid boss: a boss inside pyramids, throws fireballs, and its inmune to direct player damage.
Spider boss: you can find them in swamp caves.
Necromancer: its the special of the skeletons, live in castles, its protected by an horde of skeletons. Have 3 diferent attacks: normal attack its a basic mele attack, cause confusion; Vampiric ball, a proyectile, heal the caster if the ball collides with any entity; Summon skeleton, summon a skeleton near him, the damage the skeleton does its returned to the necromancer as health.
Liche: a semi-death necromancer who gave his life to dark rituals, there creatures are dangerous, have more powerful versions of the necromancer attacks, and extra spells.
King pirate: the king of the pirates, open your eyes fighting him, he will trick with your vision.
Other:
The Exterminator prototype: its one of the biggest secrets of dwarves, you can find it at the end of their dungeons. But it is a prototype, may not work very well.
Summoned skeleton: summoned by a necromancer, weak attack , weak health, but will heal his master doing damage to his enemies.

Special thanks:

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kanokarob:For the nicest textures on the mod.
reinhart: For translating and formating the exporter info.
Awesomebob74:for the given feedback.
Vakarain: for the flying ship home of the pirate king.
Xiraxis: for his bizantine templates.
Seanniboy: he made the amazing jungle temple.
g0dk1ller123: portuguese(from portugal) translation.
Capiel: portuguese(from brazil) translation
crafteverywhere: Simplified chinese translation
Liquid Metal Slime: English translation.

Mojang team: Obviosly.
And for all of you who give me feedback, thank to you we can play with balanced mobs and bugfree.

Building exporter, customize your dungeons

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Instructions
Enable it in the config file, setting the exporterEnabled option to 1.

Exporter Block:

First you need to get the exporter block and place it, if you click on the block, this interface will pop up:

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You can change the bounding box right clicking on the the block.

If you click on the Export button the game will export the building into \.minecraft\BetterDungeons\Exporter\[insert name here] in the file name text field.

Directions example:

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Paste function(Unimplemented in 1.4.7+, use capsules to test dungeons)

Be careful when using this, or you could loose hours of building.

Pressing the paste button will paste the template placed at \.minecraft\BetterDungeons\[insert name] in the file name text field. This can overwrite your buildings and you won't be able to undo it if you dont have a backup. The paste function has some bugs with buttons, torches or blocks that requires other blocks to be placed, or you can use 'J' key to directly paste the template named template (take care with this too).

The building from previous picture paste in the terrain in the first picture, results in the following:

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You can also paste your templates by pressing 'J', this will copy the template saved at \.minecraft\BuildingExporter\template , be careful when using it as it can overwrite your work.

Rename and copy it into \.minecraft\BetterDungeons\* to have it spawning in the world.

Custom blocks

Creative maps, you can find these at the end of creative items list.
The blocks have changed, now they look like this:

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Old blocks:

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These special blocks will be pasted in a special way.

• Armored human: will spawn 1 armored human, the class depends on the biome, and the armor will be the armor weared by the "block".
  
• Human archer: will spawn 1 archer with bow, the class depends on the biome same for the armor.
  
• Human mage: will spawn 1 special unit depending on the biome, in the lasts version its the human block without texture.
  
• Null block: this block is skipped while the template is being pasted(only in Better dungeons mod).Useful to generate natural caves walls, in newer versions this block looks like glass.
  
• Tools chest: will spawn a chest filled with armors and weapons, probablly enchanted.
  
• Food chest: will spawn a chest filled with food/potions.
  
• Minerals chest: chest with minerals: diamonds, iron, gold, flint...
  
• Treasure: special chests, with great tresures(ender eyes, diamond blocks, golden apples) and will have a lane in the config file to add your mods expesive items.
  
• Boss block: will spawn a boss depending on the block.
  
• The slime block its the secret boss, the spider.

Normal chests will be filled with dungeon rewards(chests in config file). Spawners will have random mobs (like dungeons).

Templates/Folders:

pigcity/: Uses 15x15 templates, entrance must be at 8th position, and is recommended to leave at least 1 block to be able to walk around the building. No more than 20 high or the game will crash. To keep in style with the architecture it's recommend to use nether bricks to build them.

swampCaves/: Uses 15x15 templates, no pre-defined entrance. Recommended to leave holes at the sides. Can crash the game if the height is more than 20.

desert/: Uses 15x15 templates by default, can use any size. They are pasted in the overworld, at the best estimated height. Requires an entrance to underground from block 7 to 9, example:

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You can extend it, but the entrance must be at the same position(7 to 9, not the center) recommended to use sandstone to build for this folder. These buildings are entrances for desert mazes.

dungeons/base/: Same as desert, but recommended to build with stone. These are overworld structures in taiga biome, entrance of the strongholds.

dungeons/dungeonRooms/: The folder depend on the direction of the rooms, you can use this image as a guide or download the templates map to view all the examples.

Direction/folder guide:

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Next version folders:

ships: No size limit. Will spawn on oceans at layer 61(base ocean layer - 3). Those -3 blocks represent the submerged part of the ship, and it's recommender to fill them with water or the "null block" (see blocks explanation).

castles: No size limit. Will spawn on plains at the best estimated layer overworld - 20. Requires 20 blocks underground (a little dungeon or filled with null blocks). Castles with more than 70 in height (including underground portions) can prevent the top blocks from be copied if they exceed the max map height (127) while pasting, but will not crash the game.

Additional

The map I used to build, filled with empty templates, and mod buildings: Link.
(Requires exporter enabled in the config file, and the default exporter block ids)




If you want to help there is a list of what I need for the mod:

Sounds: horse, pirate phrases, or anything you think the mod its missing
Custom buildings: the mod have a good amount of buildings, but as more variation better.
Or if you apreciatted my work you can donate me with this button:



Copyright(
This mod (plugin, a patch to Minecraft source, henceforth "Mod" or "The Mod"), by the terms of http://www.minecraft.net/copyright.jsp is sole property of the Mod author (, henceforth "Owner" or "The Owner"). By default it may only be distributed on minecraftforums.net, mcmodcenter.net. It may only be mirrored or reposted in other modpack as long as they provide a link back to this post.

[kanokarob]

What version of MC is this for? I like it, and Ill download it once I know what version its for.

Fun! Make a version for 1.9pre5 and maybe fix the gen code so it isnt on the surface? or is that configurable?

[Revize]

Lookin' Good.

[kanokarob]

Just tried it out, and its frickin BOSS. I fully support this mod, and please make a 1.9pre5 version!

[Meta98]

Holy mother of jesus. These should be less rare. Plus, epic mod by the looks. Need to try it out xD

[ChE_clarinetist]

Some friendly advice to not get your thread locked/deleted (see the section rules announcement posted by Beltir):

• You are required to have an installation guide for your mod posted in your OP (original post).
• You are required to have a licensing statement/terms of service in your OP.

In general, please read announcements and stickies before posting so you know the rules.

[Cremonstonter2525]

Looks awesome, but 1.8.1 makes me lag, so i cant wait until a 1.9 pre 5 version comes out

[Chocolatin]

ChE_clarinetist: edited, thanks for the advise.
Meta98: will make it more rare next version, set chance to 1 in config.
Revize: thanks!
kanokarob: just wait to minecraft final release, it requires modloader, and if it's not updated i cant do it.

[username_not_taken]

This is a very good start. make sure to find a very good default configuration setting. as may rooms and paths close to each other as shown in the images now are just too much. 1 block thick walls in large dungeons are too thin if there are creepers or traps planned.

the small dungeons in the first image look just about right.

Add furniture, floor-types (with alternating tiling patterns), torches, doors (metal doors with levers not always on both sides) and paintings, all with their rarity configurable.

traps are good, but at first add some code to use more materials for floors and walls, or traps will be spotted way too easily.

hollow places with no connection to the outside must be filled with rock or dirt, if there was air water or lava in that place before.

and please, make sure that there is little to no water flowing trough the dungeons and that most paths are at least 3 blocks high. water in low areas is not only very annoying, not too realistic, it also lags the hell ot of the game for larger dungeons because all mobs constantly jump in the water and move a lot more.

[Firespread]

Hmmmm, why are the dungeons in the pics aboveground? Does this mod make dungeons more common? Do they spawn above ground now? How difficult are they?
Read updated infobox

[DJEN]

What the...

[DjGyarados]

kanokarob, on 28 October 2011 - 04:32 AM, said:

Just tried it out, and its frickin BOSS. I fully support this mod, and please make a 1.9pre5 version!

He can't make a 1.9pre5 version until MCP comes out , and it's only coming in 1.9 full release.

kanokarob, on 28 October 2011 - 04:01 AM, said:

What version of MC is this for? I like it, and Ill download it once I know what version its for.

Fun! Make a version for 1.9pre5 and maybe fix the gen code so it isnt on the surface? or is that configurable?

He can't make a 1.9pre5 until MCP comes out, and it's only coming when 1.9 is fully released.

Cremonstonter2525, on 28 October 2011 - 05:03 AM, said:

Looks awesome, but 1.8.1 makes me lag, so i cant wait until a 1.9 pre 5 version comes out

There's not gonna be a 1.9pre5 release until MCP gets updated, which will only happen in the 1.9 full release.


Jeez.

[ThatOneGuy5]

Dayum,son!Those things are huge!
Might try it later.
I'l give you some gold for your troubles.
        

[Chocolatin]

username_not_taken: added floor, I wont add torches player must do it! and torches = less mobs.
Firespread:
Does this mod make dungeons more common? Yes, its configurable
How difficult are they? Depending on your skills

Uptdated to v0.2, can someone tell me how to put images in spoiler?

[twannie1997]

I think there should be level dungeons.
The lower, the harder dungeons get. Is the loot also configurable?

Image in spoiler is done like this:

[spoiler][IMG]Image link here[/IMG][/spoiler]

[Chocolatin]

twannie1997: thanks, more lvl will be added in later versions, im working in a new algorithm to generete dungeons, im not happy with the current, it makes more mazes than dungeons, the new generator will include levels, entrance, and basically a more linear dungeon, with maybe a final boss at the end, like a resized, and op zombie, something easy till final minecraft uptade.
And yes, drop its configurable, default from dungeons, gold ingots(rare), + diamonts(very rare) and config file items

[killkill85]

Swamp caves=Terraria-esque underground jungle,woo!

They just need vines all over the place and a few jungle-themed mobs and it'll be so much better!

This looks really cool,by the way.

[natepc]

Absolutely brilliant! Will try this when 1.9 comes out (I have too many mods atm, will lag if I add more...)

In short, many diamonds for you:  

[Smepic]

The large dungeon looks amazing.

[vvenaya]

This mod is not usable if you have any ore generating mods install ... the ores from the other mods are generated AFTER
your dungeons are (I am using industrial craft and Red power, both generate ores)