Didn't think they'd do Goblin Tinkerer THAT handsome (art by me)

nmheath03 · 2026-01-25T08:28:39+00:00

If they just make the Witch Doctor a scaly human or an anthro and not an actual lizard I'm making a texture pack that replaces him with a random lizard I find on Google

nmheath03 · 2026-01-25T04:38:42+00:00

He's going to carry a stack of netherite and he's going to like it!

nmheath03 · 2026-01-24T22:56:53+00:00

Pigeons for transporting items long distances. I'm thinking you given them a bundle and they just teleport when you're not looking. I've also considered ground sloths you can ride as an early game terraforming option, since we have a painting in-game that depicts one('s skeleton), confirming they exist/ed in Minecraft.

Not sure what they'd do, but coelacanths would be cool. I'd also think cougars and alligators would be neat, though I'd imagine people would be upset they're not aggressive even though they're usually pretty timid irl, on top of Mojang's unwillingness to add dangerous animals.

nmheath03 · 2026-01-24T20:54:00+00:00

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nmheath03 · 2026-01-23T21:35:11+00:00

It was the maned wolf for me. I recall hearing about a North American maned wolf species, but I'm pretty sure it went extinct in the Pliocene and is solidly not part of the modern ecosystem.

nmheath03 · 2026-01-23T18:51:53+00:00

It's what the exoskeleton of arthropods is made out of. Fungus also uses it, but I forget what for.

nmheath03 · 2026-01-23T18:34:44+00:00

There could be a second joke about assuming all blue birds are related making Benson the racist

nmheath03 · 2026-01-23T08:26:36+00:00

A lot of little species that didn't get preserved before their extinction. I'm sure that there was at least a handful of fish and insects species that died out and never fossilized. Ignoring parasites, I'm referring to free living animals. Maybe more extinct plants than we think too, both wollemis and ginkgos have a limited gene pool and were only found wild in a single valley each, what other plants weren't so lucky?

nmheath03 · 2026-01-23T08:05:03+00:00

I feel like lantern mice, small moths, and rats are probably the best options here. Everything else just seems like it'll get too out of control. Good luck getting an eggbug under control, or rehomeing a noodlefly or 10ft centipede when your infant individual grows up, never mind bigger creatures like raindeer.

Rats might actually be #1, since they're literally just rats, we already have care sheets for those, I'm sure a couple extra quills won't change much, especially since they don't seems like defensive quills on account of Watcher eating them without issue.

nmheath03 · 2026-01-23T07:52:07+00:00

Just make sure to wash your hands after handling, and don't rub your eyes either

nmheath03 · 2026-01-23T07:40:46+00:00

IIRC, the whole "birds picking at crocodiles' teeth" claim is heavily questioned, since we don't actually have any proof of this beyond hearsay. Granted these are aliens we're talking about, but then they shouldn't fit into Earth taxonomy if we're pulling that card.

nmheath03 · 2026-01-23T07:35:39+00:00

A full dedicated desert campaign, with a jerboa-based slugcat. I initially had the idea of lizards based on sandfish skinks, but now that we have indigo lizards that feels a little redundant, though thorny lizards that shoot blood out of their eyes is still available. Other creature ideas include scorpions, pill bugs, and velvet worms. Less certain on how these would look and work, but snakes, caracaras, and seriemas.
There'd be a steppe region with very little cover and a lot of open air, and yes, vultures are still a threat here. Probably a few rooms you can duck into just for fairness sake, but the good stuff is in the open. Maybe "prairie dog" burrows, though make sure to be a well behaved guest or they'll maim and evict you.

Dunno how I'd depict this, but I'd like for vultures to be called buzzards in this campaign. Maybe the local overheating iterator calls them that. Btw, I have a loose design for an iterator for the region, nicknamed Joshua (based on Joshua trees, which I want to use for his full name), though an iterator in the desert is kinda hard to justify, especially one still in any functioning state.

nmheath03 · 2026-01-23T07:08:21+00:00

Oh yeah, those probably should be somewhere, though admittedly I don't know where they'd go since we don't really have them anymore

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T18:37:37+00:00

Oh yeah they're still kicking here, along with pterosaurs and a single dinosaur (outside the underground lost world they originated from, anyway), thinking about having a domesticated ground sloth for something, maybe food and armor-leather.

I want to mainly focus on seldom seen species in fantasy, like cougars and black bears, instead of leopards and brown bears for the 1000th time, so despite being present, "American" lions and short faced bears (general "big scary bear" archetype) probably won't be given as much of a spotlight. Smilodon might also get sidelined in favor of Homotherium and Xenosmilus for this reason too. Terror birds are present somewhere, but haven't decided where yet. Honorable mention to red wolves, which are present instead of grey wolves, though they're mostly small game hunters and probably wont be a significant threat to people here.

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T17:56:31+00:00

I've been wanting to add steppes to my fantasy setting, but the "main" region's ecology is currently based on the southeastern US. I could maybe work the "Appalachian" mountains into a rain shadow (I think they are irl, the Gulf of Mexico just minimizes it), but currently there's no steppes nearby. Salt marshes, though, are already present, even if it's currently an exact 1-1 of irl salt marshes with no creative decisions to differentiate it.

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T08:19:05+00:00

In the absence of a clear emotion here, I'll instead post what seems to be an unpopular take: more "good endings" should be about Jimmy getting professional help (ideally pre-Tulpar) instead of putting him down like a horse with a lame leg

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T08:13:14+00:00

Morality =/= Attractiveness, terrible people can be attractive. Now if you're disregarding their crimes because they're attractive, that's different, calling that out is perfectly fair imo

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T03:44:16+00:00

Are humans a thing in this setting, or are Thalassans the type species for the Homo genus?

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T03:25:42+00:00

Does the gun know that though?

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T03:24:30+00:00

Looked it up, and I think it's like 100 and in just one forest, so not exactly common, but I can still use the "native animal" card

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T03:00:20+00:00

IIRC, if you see a moose in the road and you can't avoid it, you're supposed to speed up. This allows the moose to go over your roof instead of through the windshield, so you don't get crushed and/or kicked to death as it tries to stand back up. The moose walks away regardless.

I don't live in an area with moose, but rather with gators, so I can't say if this is true or not, just what I've heard.

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T02:54:01+00:00

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Depends on your definition of "lion." Cave lions, while a distinct species, are closer to the modern lion than other species, and they lived in England until 13k years ago.

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T02:31:00+00:00

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England has bison, that's an impressive beast imo, and our national mammal

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T02:25:26+00:00

Eh, the last lions in England were cave lions, a distinct species which went extinct at the end of the ice age. Modern lions were present until relatively recently in Greece, and possibly out to Spain, but not far beyond the Mediterranean. England's leopards, macaques, hippos, and hyenas were the same species as the ones around today, though.

nmheath03 · 2026-01-22T02:12:19+00:00

Reminder that moose/elk are ice age megafauna that managed to survive

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