Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32013442-20180413150815/@comment-32013442-20180414065543

TheblueWizard wrote: Sildarflame wrote: TheblueWizard wrote: A great idea to try and do, buuut its not what the mod is looking for sadly, so I wouldn't waste your time :( Why? What is the mod looking for? No idea, but since its on the FAQ... A fully fledged flying, fire breathing dragon is on the FAQ because it requires many hours of work coding and modeling to create such a beast. You would have to create the fire breath, where it has its source from, and the flying is the worst. You need to give the dragon sufficient AI so that it doesn't try and fly through a solid rock face or tree, and if you wanted to do the dragon properly you would also need to add a landing mechanic where the dragon actually stops flying, lands on the ground, and wrecks your face for a few minutes before taking to the sky again to laugh at you.

With a Cold-Drake, you do not need to do most of this. Just model a large lizard and give it simple walking code with a bite animation when it attacks you. The Cold-Drake would also be much smaller, almost ender dragon size. A Long-Worm is even easier to code and model. It is a long snake that doesn't even need to do the regular snake wiggle as it moves, (although it would be cool if it did). Just raise up several segments of the worm's body to give it a striking pose as it moves like the snakes in the more creatures mod. Fairly simple. You could really just take the naga from the twilight forest and give it an ender dragon head and you are done. Of course, the naga's ability to delete blocks is a definite no no.