@donkbonk5430

2 weeks ago

I think the issue with the end is the simultaneous "it should be empty and eery" and "It should be equally exciting as the nether" they aren't easy to do at the same time, the nether was basically just as empty as the end before the nether update, and people liked the additions to the nether which took it from a desert of red stone to a lush new world with amazing variety. The end right now is a vast desert of beige stone and purple, and clearly people want it to be more exciting. I think there's merit to the idea of not just making it more lush, but honestly I think if anything what the end needs is more variety. It's got the vibe already of being vast and mostly empty, so I think making the new additions somewhat more rare is a good thing, but I think it would be nice to have the rare chance of a lush beautiful biome in the end as well, surrounded by a vast nearly endless horizon of desolate islands. Basically, finding a "end forest" would be a rare sight like a mushroom forest in the overworld. Other than that I think adding an ore variant and a wood type would be nice, I also think that you should be able to craft stone tools from end stone, the nether had gold that you could use for tools after wood, but the end would have just wood until you get the fancier late game stuff, and adding a variant of iron or some other ore would just be redundant and forced, but stone would be simple and it's also quite abundant. For a food source I think they should repurpose popped chorus fruit as a food item that doesn't teleport you around, and add a neutral entity that pollinates chorus plants that you can slay and eat, one idea could be basically a bee like creature that produces "end honey" and can be killed, giving bug meat or whatever, and they naturally spawn around an end bee hive, which would be a much larger structure nestled inside of an end island that you could if you so choose enter, fight off and steal end honey which can be used for potions or something idk. I think also purpur blocks should be made using popped chorus and end stone, basically treating purpur as a type of dye. Another issue is how drab the end is, I think what they should do is to add more complimentary colors to the shades of purple and beige, so more orange, yellow, violet, avoiding green, blue, etc to make the vibe more distinctly "the end", so like, the beehive wall material could be an orangy color, so you occasionally come accross that, you could have maybe the metal being a light violet, not highly noticeable, just basically violet tinted iron, and maybe just specifically for the aformentioned rare biome could break that overall vibe a bit and use blues and reds for highlights with a core color palette of purples, beiges, and orange or something. Overall I think at least having more structural diversity in the end would be nice like what was mentioned in the video, an end peaks biome would be really cool, and maybe you could even have "megastructure" type things that vaguely look like things in the overworld, I think it would be eery and you can connect that to lore by saying that endermen over time organized blocks in the end into the general forms of structures and things in the overworld on a large scale, effectively vaguely familiar monoliths of endstone, their original idea lost but yet familiar enough to be striking. So imagine a "desert temple" or a "villager" or a "cow" but entirely made out of solid end stone, maybe even so old that purpur grows on it, and maybe you could vary the amount of "weathering" each structure has to make it feel like over time the endermen have truly forgotten what the original purpose of those structures were

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