Haunted mines with treasures

[linuxas 4]

So my idea is to bring back mines and add some scary stuff in them.

Mines should be from 1 to 5 layers thick, like one tunnel which descends into other layer. In the mine there would be vertical and horizontal supports like:

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X= supports

o= air

In the mines should be 3 types of storage rooms, connected with railways with surface. First type of room would be with mining supplies, like helmets, pickaxes, shovels, supports, some logs and sticks (because torches shouldn't be lit forever in chest). Second room would contain minecarts, some rails and storage carts. And third room would be largest. It should have forge, bloomery, hammers, anvils, and quite a lot of metals.

There would be three types of mines. First one in a cliff of the mountain with warning signs, second buried underground with cave-in signs, third collapsed mine in a cliff.

Now about haunted stuff.

There would be 5 types of ghost.

1st type:

Shady figure which appears and disappears at 0-3 ligh level and can be sighted in first type of mine.

2nd type:

Brighter figure which makes scary but silent noises and rarely appears. It can be sighted in every mine at 0-5 light level. Hearing those noises 5mins wiil get you first type of headache. In first type of headache you will suffer 1 sec blindness every 5 minutes (real time).

3rd type:

Gray ghost which puts out torches. It can be sighted in third and rarely in first type of mine at 0-8 level and at max level for 2 seconds.

4th type:

Glowing at 5 light level ghost which makes louder noise, time to time puts out torches. This type of ghost will give you second type of headache. 2 seconds blindness every 3 mins. It can be sighted in second and rarely in third type of mine at 0-10 light level.

And 5th type:

Bright glowing ghost which makes loud noises, puts out torches, and sometimes hurt player. It would give you third type of headache which make you move slower, a bit dizzy, and get blind for 3 seconds every 2 mins.

Seeing a ghost will give you scare effect for 10 seconds, which makes you move faster, but the more times and more powerfull ghost you see the more headache you get. Seeing a lot of ghost will give you 4th type of headache - blindness for 1 second every 30 seconds and half hearth damage every 10 seconds.

Seeing sunlight will cure this effects and burn ghosts.

Now about metals in mines , there would be few sectors with ore veins. Those sectors would be started to mine, collapsed or closed because of ghosts.

You can choose if you want to risk to get tons materials or mine in old way.

Sorry for long post.

[EternalUndeath 1,208]

Or... y'know... not.

The scary spooky stuff in TFC should be reserved for an alternate realm, like Jed's 'Lament'

and if it MUST be in the overworld, it should at least have some measure of subtlety, not just 'ghosts' that put out torches and scream. That's like calling Dead Space scary, which is just sad.

If you absolutely MUST add a haunted feel to generated mines, randomly have the falling dirt sound play from a few blocks away in a random direction. Cause random very small caveins at a certain minimum distance from the player. Force lighting glitches at certain points. Have the players walking sound rarely play when the player isn't moving.

The word to shoot for is 'subtle', not 'BOO'

[fred da kiko 28]

Those sound more annoying than scary. most of them aren't even malicious, so you could just ignore them and keep moving.