Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27587913-20160529193448/@comment-27130828-20160604175951

Adding on to the teleporting mobs. Maybe if the location is close enough the NPCs would march there. Also perhaps you could draw on the map a formation for your NPCs to take i.e. a square for infantry or a line for archers. All of the blocks that are marked for the troops would then be filled as best as possible, e.g. evenly spaced. This would work well if the table used actual maps of the area. Minecraft maps on the smallest setting give a one pixel equals one block definition. The player could make maps of the area and then 'store' them in the table of command. Then the player could zoom in and out like the large map of Middle Earth. However if this was used maps would have to be easier to make. Redstone is hard to get and that much iron is expensive. A more realistic and easier option would be to use a pen (made out of feathers and charcoal/ink sac) and paper. The use of horns to make formations would also be useful too. this could be done by using a horn of command. This horn could then be assigned to a command option instead of a halt or foward option. Then whenever it is blown another gui comes up giving the options of square, rectangle, or line. The player picks one and the NPCs form the shape each on a separate block, so they are not bunched together. I couldn't find if the horn idea was banned, so if it is ignore it. Sorry for the rambling but there was a lot of material.