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Icebergs

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Wurm has always been both deceptively simple and complex at the same time. With basic mechanics it manifests many wonderful things, and I would like to add one more to that list.

 

Icebergs.

 

These would have the following attributes:

 

-Spawn at a certain rate in the waters to the north and sound of a map

-Perhaps only spawn at certain times of year, but migrate

-Icebergs would be like ships in water, extending both above and below the waterline, they would float and move

-They could be surface-mined with a Pick-Axe for Ice Shards, or with Digging and a Shovel, for Snow(balls)

-As an Iceberg was mined or dug on, it would get lower to and then below the waterline and eventually no longer be accessible for either action (this violates physics but best we can do)

-If it were not too hard to code, they could  A ) Cause damage to ships that hit them   B ) Shrink in size as they age/move south

 

Besides looking cool and adding some life to the seaways (also homes for seals, polar bears etc), they could provide a source of Snow(balls) (and perhaps the new longer-lasting Ice) for the new Larders. In their most basic form they could be done with 100% of their resources using existing code, and with some minor additions they could have the more advanced features. Their spawn rate could also be controlled, perhaps even tied to the number of snowballs in the world, or the time of year, to balance overall Larder usability.

 

If for now other reason, do it just for that first moment when you sail into a field of icebergs out under the moonlight at night...

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Sounds cool.  Be like a rare spawn like a sea serpent or avatar but doesn't move around and only in the water.

 

If they don't add it ......eh oh well..... but would be another cool random thing to find while out exploring.  Just something fun.

 

Finding a sea serpent last month for the first time was awesome in itself.  Thinking about finding an iceberg.  Need a portable ice box though to store the ice once you mined it.

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I'd love to see more stuff in the ocean honestly, sometimes you can sail for hours and not see anything but swimming horses and bear sharks..

 

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Mmm maybe if we have servers with certain temperature and climate extremes: deserts, frozen northlands, oceans with atolls, etc.

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