Right now, Giants are fairly weak with their inability to really hit anyone, their slow movement speed, massive hit box, etc. On our server we'd like to enable rare Giant spawns for use with our economy system (something several other mods do fine), and make them into a sort of rare world boss with very nice rewards, but as it stands they would just be far too easy to farm. What I'd like is a mod that makes Giants genuinely dangerous, even to decently-sized groups of unprepared people. Other mods can handle the drops, the spawning, etc, but none of them do a decent job of making them dangerous. NaturalGiants tries at least by giving them a fire attack, but it's completely negated by just standing in water. The mod wouldn't really need much of anything in terms of commands, settings, etc... It just needs to make Giants a force to be feared. If there's another plugin that already does this, that's great too. But I didn't see any when looking. Some ideas include: - Giants shooting ghast fireballs - Giants with a lightning attack - Somehow fixing them to actually be able to consistently melee people - Giants acting as a mob spawner, spawning an army of smaller zombies or skeletons or whatever around it when attacked - Some sort of explosive attack - Whatever else you can think of! This request is pretty open-ended, the only requirement is that giants become a world boss that will genuinely be feared... and that people will want to organize to kill for a large reward. I'm pretty new to coding bukkit plugins, but if there are no interested developers I'll probably end up trying to code this myself. I'm sure a seasoned developer could do a far better job at this point though. All I ask that if anyone does pick this idea up, please make it open source. Thanks!
I was thinking of something too, we had this idea of making it target a person, and starting to do damage, that increases over time, so trying to take it down alone would not work at all. Also giants should do two or more attacks at the same time, like shoot fireballs and ignite you, deal damage and spawn mobs or w/e That would be cool.
I'm doing something with Giants too. The problem is that sometimes they ignore you and won't try to fight you. More danger would be nice. I use other plug-ins already to edit their health and drops. (bMobs and CookieMonster) So just giving them special attacks or speed increase would be cool.
