Please add Lava :)

I do agree that some maps should have SOME natural hazard you can fall into, though having builders able to move lava or tar around may cause too many problems. I'd love to see some CTF or TTH maps with some kind of lava or tar pits. Hell, even bottomless pits like we have in deathmatch would be cool.

 

That could be arranged

 

http://www.solarmovie.so/link/play/1995916/

Watch that. You will know why adding lava would be the greatest thing ever.

 

Lava works the best for a few reasons.

It is the most identified with instant death.
It looks better than any other insta-death liquid/plasma.
It makes the most sense than any other options.

There is a reason why Minecraft and Terraria have it in their games, because it works. Just because could use it doesn't mean we are copying, just that we are smart enough to have done what is best rather than putting something crappier to be different.

There is a word for people who do that.

Spoiler

HIPSTERS!

 

Lava would be nice for mapmaking... Keep it near bedrock, with a nice big pit leading down to it, and watch as people try to figure out ways to bridge it without falling in and toasting themselves.

 

What about tar AND lava.

WOAH CRAZY IDEA I KNOW RIGHT.

That way you can have cool splashing people with buckets utility (although that would be arguably be inbalanced but that's for a different place, and how would you fill the bucket anyway without dieing?) or maybe some sort of tar traps or whatever you want. AND we can have cool volcano maps and something that makes more sense to be in the bedrock.

And/or maybe poison water like starbound. It would slowly corrupt the water blocks around it into poisonous water, had they collided (also maybe a bucket of poisonous water could turn all water blocks into poison water in a certain radius). Should also spread slower to make sucking it up with sponges more effective(BP oil?). Basically you can use it against the enemy team so they NEED to use boats, but eventually you will need to use boats too if you don't take measures against it. Is also the only dangerous liquid that makes sense to use boats in.

 

Again, please, tar, fire arrows, do the math

 

Do you mean oil and fire arrows?

because then you get burning oil.

 

Well when I said tar I ment tar but burning oil is close enough.

 

Lets also throw in some creepers, skeleton archers, diamond ore and a new crafting system for making new weapons. Hell why not change the games name to Kagcraft!

Honestly though I don't think we need to add lava to the game. As the game should evolve around the player creating death traps from scratch and not be given a hole filled with lava, where they can just put a few trap blocks over and create a death hole in mere seconds.

 

Lava would fit more into a "story mode" of KAG. Maybe if Zombie Fortress made it's triumphant return (very unlikely to happen) then finding the "zombie spawn" would be like entering a hellish dimension, and there'd be lava all over the place. But of course, this is very much like terraria...

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I'm pretty sure the devs are trying to keep it original

 

I'm not a demon

Plus, half of that doesn't make sense... How would a SPAWN be a PORTAL? You can only come out of a spawn, so the objective of the "story" would be break the spawn (that was the goal of classic Zombie Fortress) . And story mode wouldn't really be like survival. Story has a beginning and an end (maybe with different opportunities for a variety gameplay). Survival has an objective of survive.

 

It would be amazing to add like boiling water that you can tip on people.