Hey. ~
So, I’m here to talk with you of one of the things that really hype me the more in HYtale but seems really underrated: Corruption. (And by this, maybe give new ideas to the Hytale teem to do a really AWESOME corruption. ~)
First, what is it in Hytale?
We can see it in some concept art :
Source : https://hytale.com/media#conceptArt-25
In short, it seems like it’s a sort of purple goo that corrupts everything it touches to make it purple a strange (As you can see with the plants). it can also corrupt (= destroy, more or less) builds. Does it sound familiar to you? Because, it should!
Minecraft Thaumcraft’s Taint :
Corrupted living forms :
Do you know Thaumcraft’s Taint? Thaumcraft is a Minecraft mod about magic, and in this mod, there is a sort of corruption called “Taint”. Here is what it looks like :
Source: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3739257&pagenumber=38&perpage=40#post450622626
So, the Taint is a sort of purple virus that spread on blocs but also mobs and plants, turning passive mobs into aggressive mobs and aggressive mobs into…even more powerful and aggressive mobs. The Taint spread everywhere, contaminate everything, and never stop. It can change living form to corrupted form. These new corrupted forms are made to defend the taint by attacking the player, but also spread the taint by attacking many other mobs but also just by moving around.
Source : https://ftb.gamepedia.com/Tainted_Creeper_(Thaumcraft_5)
Source : https://ftb.gamepedia.com/Tainted_Villager_(Thaumcraft_5)
Source : https://ftb.gamepedia.com/Tainted_Pig_(Thaumcraft_5)
Source : https://ftb.gamepedia.com/Taint_Seed
So, as you can see, the taint is TERRIFYING ! It infects mobs and plants, turning them into living weapons and workers.
New Living Forms, a whole ecosystem:
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, Taint can create new life forms!
Like tentacles :
Source : https://www.eclypsia.com/fr/minecraft/guides/guide-thaumcraft-environnements-creatures-et-enchantements-17337
Spore and swarm :
Source : https://www.eclypsia.com/fr/minecraft/guides/guide-thaumcraft-environnements-creatures-et-enchantements-17337
Taint seed, that spread the virus in a certain zone :
Source : https://ftb.gamepedia.com/Taint_Seed
And many, many other living forms that have many utilities. All of these life forms seem to be a part of a complex ecosystem.
(What I mostly HATE in the recent version of Thaumcraft is that they removed many tainted living forms so the feeling of a great ecosystem with many different living forms all corrupted and all work together to feed and spread the taint is less powerful now)
HOW COOL WOULD IT BE TO HAVE A SIMILAR SYSTEM IN HYTALE ?!
So, here what I want to talk about :
In video games, even in Minecraft, most of the living forms seem very “scripted”, and don’t really change, evolve as you play.
That’s why I’m particularly hyped for things like “nests”, “hives”, this sort of thing in video games. Many living creatures that live together as a sort of super being, with their own ecosystem, and that change the world. Building nests, hives… Especially if they are some sort of parasite. It makes the thing feel much more… “alive”. A biological, living being need to have some scripted behaviors, but also needs to evolve, change the world around it.
That’s why I hope the corruption in Hytale will be a little like the Thaumcraft’s Taint, but with many more improvement.I want the Hytale’s corruption to be able to corrupt ALL the creature, as if it was a big parasite. I want it to change the behavior of creature that it has corrupted to make them useful for it (like spread its virus, defend it, but also defend some important points/builds for the virus like seeds or thing like that, or why not capturing other living form and bring them back to the “hive” to corrupt them or use them to create some special living forms…), I want it to be able to create special living forms like big tainted, parasite creature, I want it to form a whole ecosystem… I want it to feel like a true, big living parasite.
What do you think of it? What are your ideas for corruption in Hytale ? Don’t hesitate to share your ideas and discuss all together about these amazing things that are corruption, parasite, and ecosystem!
FIRST EDIT : What I was also thinking about is the possibility for Hytale’s corruption to not only infect mobs and plants and act like a big living thing/ecosystem that creates new forms of life, but also USE the forms of life that it infects to create new things! Like, how cool would it be if a big amount of corrupted creature could be able to be used as “organic material” to form like, I don’t know, BIG corrupted Tentacles or Monster? The more there will be infected organisms, the more new living forms such as tentacles will appear? Maybe why not creating a sort of corruption heart in a hive, a little like the WitherStorm’s heart (from Minecraft Story Mode) ? What interests me the most in this is the fact that I would LOVE to feel the corruption as a living thing. Infecting corpses and living organisms, not just to corrupt them but also to USE them as work (like, to build a sort of hive) or use their organic corpses to create new forms of life, corrupted ones. IT WOULD BE JUST AWESOME. Like a big ecosystem, infecting organisms, creating hive and other living forms… It will feel SO ALIVE. You know, what of the things I don’t like in video games, even in Minecraft, is not only the fact that every living forms just have some cool behavior and that’s it, they should feel alive… No. There is something else: The security feeling. In Minecraft, if you just stay in your house, you are good. Nothing will attack you. And it’s just boring after a while.
I thought about solutions to this problem. It can be solved by things such as monster raids (you know, a faction of monsters attack your faction, your base, can break blocks more or less slowly depends on the solidity of the block or efficacity of your defenses…) but also… Corruption. Imagine: a whole living ecosystem with corrupted living forms or totally new ones, created by a sort of virus that spread… And the virus is coming to you. It wants to infect your base, your animals, but also…you. IT WOULD BE SO COOL GOD-
GUYS, DON’T HESITATE TO SHARE YOUR IDEAS AND DISCUSS! MAYBE IT WILL INSPIRE THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM!
