Board Thread:F/A Discussion/@comment-26248987-20160516034617/@comment-6040659-20160521014404

Snowviraptor wrote: I partially did this because of the comment ASDFGirl left on the Minecraft Forum thread, but I'd had this idea for a while anyway.

When you suggest a creature for the mod, something to think about is how different it is from other creatures. Sure, there's nothing to stop you from suggesting they add Monolophosaurus, but is it really the best thing they could add?

Currently the mod has thirty-three prehistoric creatures (including the two fish coming in the next update)

Out of thirty-three prehistoric animals fourteen of them are Dinosaurs, which is a bit under a half. (If we include dinosaurs as birds then it is twenty, which is over half.)

Of those; nine of them are Theropod Dinosaurs. A bit over half of them. That's if we don't include the birds  that are technically Theropod Dinosaurs too, (in which case it would be 15, just under half the creatures in the mod, and three quarters of the Dinosaurs in the mod.)

If we look a bit closer, both Ceratosaurus and Dilophosaurus are close relatives of Monolophosaurus. Dilophosaurus even looks a lot like Monolophosaurus.

Is Monolophosaurus still the best idea you could suggest.

Think outside the Theropods, think outside the Dinosaurs all together if you like.

The mod has no:


 * Large Fish


 * Amphibians


 * Arthropods


 * Ornithopod Dinosaurs


 * Synapsids

And is lacking in:


 * Non-Theropod Dinosaurs


 * Molluscs


 * Non-Dinosaur Reptiles

So why not suggest creatures from there?

Think about what the mod needs, and that's where you'll strike gold with suggestions. Very true.