Minions The Cerulean Lagoon: New Island and Minion Paradise - New Sea Creatures, Mechanics, and an Assortment of Amenities For Any Freed Minions

Hello fellow minions!

Are you tired of being stuck in a cramped wooden chest all day? Have you worked 168 hour workweeks for years on end? Has your employer recently promoted you to customer and you have no clue what to do now? Are you stuck imprisoned in an underground labyrinth of the undead?

If any of these describe you or your loved ones, worry not, for we here at MinionCorp have the solution to all your qualms. Introducing, to all dejected, neglected, rejected, unselected minions in need, our award winning resort:

Cerulean Villas and Suites

This majestic island is the perfect paradise for any free spirit, offering a beautiful scenic Lagoon at the center of the island, completely surrounded by lush foliage dense enough for the most daring adventurer. But if that isn’t your style, feel free to enjoy the nature from afar in our esteemed Canopy Suites or at ground level with our professionally maintained walkway around the perimeter of the island.

Any free minion can book a vacation to stay for a whole season, and enjoy the amenities. Daring combat minions may be found sparring with each other in our state of the art underground athletics facilities, where mining minions may be perfecting their physique, while fishing minions might be found at the lagoon docks and foraging and farming minions will often admire the local flora together.

A well renowned boatman, Captain Baha, will be your chauffeur on a relaxing afternoon ride, backdropped by scenic views of the void, he may provide his one of a kind storytelling to pass the time provided the void isn’t too turbulent.

Though only minions can book stays at our resorts, some curious travelers may come from time to time. If you happen to see your previous employer, please feel free but never obligated to offer them a gift or ask a favor. At Cerulean, we promote kindness and smiles above all else.

Some Cerulean Exclusive activities include gathering exotic flowers, fishing up treasures, collecting clay from the Lagoon Basin and gravel from the vast underground deposits, and there are stories of a hideous monster that lurks deep in the depths. But those are just rumors.

So, come one, come all, to the Paradise we’re sharing with you. Haven and sanctuary, where you can relax more than ever before. Welcome, to MinionCorp’s Cerulean Villas and Suites
Just more specific stuff about the suggestion

It’s a new island accessed the same way as the bayou.
It is slightly larger than the bayou, with buildings and pathways forming a c around the lagoon. There will be about 32 blocks of dense jungle between the resort and the lagoon. The lagoon will be fairly large and deep, with semimineable* clay at the bottom, with a river flowing from it, through the gap in the c, and into the void.

The Resort itself will be minion sized, so it won’t be very spacious. It will have like 2/3 floors beneath the canopy and up to 2 more above, with the rooms above having balconies and being the largest and nicest.

There will be kinda athletics areas , so like some small tennis courts, pools, idk what else is really at resorts ngl.
These will all be along the promenade formed by the resort buildings and pathways.

The will also be an underground area under this promenade which will have like little fighting arenas, combat dummies, workout equipment, etc.

This underground area will have walls that match the above ground walls, annd along the interior walls, because it’s c shaped like the resort, it will have sets of doors and windows. The doors will open into a massive donut shaped room filled with mineable* gravel.

*semimineable=turns to bedrock
mineable=fully disappears
The resort will always be full of a selection of minions. Most of them will have simple and boring dialogue. Some of the dialogue will relate to the Lagoon Monster Myth however.

Every season, the minions there are shuffled.
The first step of the shuffle will be to determine the number of minions. This will be done with this calculation.
15+round(5(4((r-0.025n+0.05)-0.5)^3+(0.5+s)))
where n=the number of minions this season last year, and s=+0.1 in summer and winter and -0.1 in spring and fall.

r is any random number 0-1

this will produce a typical variation between 16 and 19 occupants, rarely going up to 22 or 23 and rarely going down to 14 or 13.

Once this is done, 10-12 random minion types, all different, will be selected. These will all be below level 9 and are found in common places like the promenade. These are low level minions.

Next, up to 6 more minion types will be randomly selected. These minions are gonna be levels 9-11 and can be found in more exotic locations like in the Canopy Suites. These are high level minions.

Then, if there are any remaining slots, They will be filled with random tier 12 minions and exotic minions. These are neither high level or low level minions.

If a minion that has left you via free will is of the same type and level range as a minion visiting Cerulean, then it will be that minion.

For example, say I free willed a t12 pig minion. If one of the low level minions is a pig minion, it will not be mine and have that unique dialogue. But if one of the high level minions is a pig minion, then it will be mine and have the special dialogue.
If you encounter a minion you’d previously employed, you will be able to interact with it and get new dialogue.

This dialogue will detail some of their adventures since leaving, some challenges, some discoveries, potentially comments about the current mayor or something

I suck at dialogue so I’m gonna skip to the functional bit. They will have a chance to have found an item along the way that they may give to you. Among other things, this would have a chance to be

  • A yellow pebble of love
  • A pouch of gold(10k-100k)
  • Treasurite(if mining)
  • Goblin Eggs(any)(if mining)
  • Water Orb(if fishing)
  • Summoning Eye(if combat)
  • Flowers(if foraging)
  • Wood Singularity(if foraging)
  • Cropie/Squash/Fermento(if farming)
  • Revenant Flesh(if combat)
  • Bobbin Scriptures(if fishing)
  • Large Bag of Gold(100k-250k)
  • Flower Crown(if T12 Flower)
  • Bed Rock(if mining)(it’s just a bed)
  • Common Scatha(Kat cant upgrade it:hypixel_evil:)
  • Various Minion Skins
  • Lost Dye(777192)
  • And much more
Alternatively they can ask you to fetch some item for them. In return they will give you a bunch of their specific resource.

Or they could challenge you to some duel of skill. For example, foraging may be picking as many flowers as you can in a minute. Fishing could be like the carnival minigame. Winning will role you a reward from the loot table above, along with some of the minion’s respective resource. Losing will just get you the resource.

These are unobtainable minions with unique dialogue. Some of them would be the Pelt Minion, Gemstone Minion, Dirt Minion, Dragon Minion, Soup Minion, Doe Minion, etc.
The lagoon is home to a wide array of various treasures discarded by guests, and a few new sea creatures as well.
When fishing at the lagoon with a Junk Sinker or its upgrade, there will be 4 unique junk catches in addition to the previous 3.
  • Cracked Children’s Shovel
    Pink Flip Flop [Good]
  • Discarded Diamond Ring[Great]
  • Really Rusted Watch[Outstanding]
  • Soggy Letter in a Bottle[Good](Req fragile hook)
Joel’s brother, an avid advocate of one man’s trash, another’s treasure, plays the same role as his brother here. His wares are as follows
  • 1 Fragile Hook=1 Shovel
  • 1 Junk Relic=1 Artifact, 8 Watches, 32 Rings, and 256 Flip Flops
  • 1 Cerulean Helmet=1 Backwater Helmet, a watch, and 4 rings. Same for every other piece
  • 1 Hotterspot Radar=1 Hotspot radar, 7 Broken radar, 16 rings, Very Moist Blueprints
  • Shiny Junk Sinker=1 Junk Sinker, 8 rings, 64 Flip Flops
  • Common Seahorse Pet=8 Flip Flops
  • More…
Bought from Junker Joseph, Can catch items that require a more delicate hand. Breaks easily.

It can catch the Soggy Letter in a Bottle, however has a 50% chance to shatter once you catch one.
Epic, grants 9 Treasure Chance while in the backwater bayou or the Cerulean Resort.
Double the base stats of Backwater, Rare.
Ability still tiers with Swamp Soldier, however there is additionally full set bonus if you have 8/8 Cerulean:

Lagoon Lieutenant
Take 15% less damage from sea creatures and deal +10% more damage to sea creatures.

This means with full 8/8 Cerulean, you’d have
Swamp Diver 8/8
Deal 40% more damage to sea creatures

and

Lagoon Lieutenant FULL SET BONUS
Take 15% less damage from sea creatures and deal +10% more damage to sea creatures.

but if you had 7 pieces of cerulean and 1 piece of backwater, you’d still have Swamp Soldier maxed, you’d just lack Lagoon Lieutenant.
An upgrade to the hotspot radar, the Hotterspot Radar gains a new ability: Tuning.

It allows you to track not just the nearest hotspot, but by left clicking, you can cycle through the different hotspot buffs and track the nearest hotspot with your selected buff.
Same as before, just shinier.

Gain +15 Treasure Chance while in Backwater Bayou or Cerulean Resort
[Lvl 100] Seahorse
33 Fishing Speed
15 Sea Creature Chance


Patient Hunter
Gain 5 Sea Creature Chance and 4 Treasure Chance along with knockback immunity if you haven’t moved for 20 seconds.

Anchored Hook
Your fishing rod will not move through water or lava, instead stopping right where it first lands.

Spiky Armor Plating
Take 15% Less damage from sea creatures and deal 100% of your melee damage to them when they damage you for more than 5% of your max health.


You can only catch this when you have a fragile line and junk sinker.

Right Click to Open
The bottle shatters as you pull the letter out

There are several torn up letters. 9 total
Each individual note is randomly missing around two thirds of the letters written in it. You can combine two of the same note in anvil to create a more complete version with all the letters the two progenitors had.

Completing notes will not only give you lore, but also new npc interactions, recipes, and more.

Now, onto the notes themselves.
3 of them will be the journals of three different sailors all on the same boat, which was attacked and sunk by an unknown entity. Each one of these will give the player hints of the nature of the monster that killed them.

2 of these will be the research of one scientist. The first would detail how she heard of a mysterious shipwreck, her observations of the shipwreck, the specific damage, the measurements, etc. The second would detail her journey to follow the route the ship was coming to try to find more evidence and potentially the creature that did it. She would record that she saw something and was gonna dive down to get a better look. This would be her last entry. If you ask around, few remember her existing, and those that do refuse to talk about it.

The next note would be a letter written from someone who has survived a shipwreck but is stranded on a lush island. The events leading up to the shipwreck are described.

The next note would be a handwritten flyer or advertisement for an island retreat of some sort
It would include denial of a claim about disappearances around the island, as well as a now-hiring segment.

The next note would be a written complaint by a guest complaining about eyes in the water, strange noises at night, a skeleton washing ashore, and about the poor customer service and terrible state of their room.

The last note is incomprehensible save for a few words here and there.
The island is home to just a handful of sea creatures, however the 3 it has are pretty cool.

The classic dory fish. They’d be Rare sea creatures with 250k health. They attack normally and do a thrashing attack every two seconds which does damage to everyone who’s damaged it in a 2.5 block radius. They can be caught in the Cerulean Lagoon during daytime.

They’d drop 1-2 Tang Meat, which would be used for blue bait, which gives 10 scc at the cost of 10 fs.
An Epic catch in the Cerulean Resort, this 1.5 million health bird is agile and flies around pecking and scratching you. It throws its razor sharp feathers from a distance and swoops in close till you kill it.

It sometimes(20%) drops a kingfisher feather and rarely(0.05%) a hooked claw.

The Kingfisher’s Pendant can be crafted like this. Give it whatever stats you want it to.
Frozen AmuletBraided Griffin FeatherTera Shell Necklace
Braided Griffin FeatherBraided Griffin Feather
64 Kingfisher Feathers

The Hooked Claw can be used to craft the Hunter’s Hook

You obtain the waterlogged apparatus as a rare drop from Deep Sea Protectors

You obtain the Canary Carcass as a rare drop from Abyssal Miners.
Waterlogged Apparatus
Canary Carcass
Hooked Claw
Halves Sea Creature Chance
Halves Fishing Speed
You Can No Longer Catch Common Sea Creatures

Definitely not balanced. It came to me in a vision in part or in whole fueled by fever and ambition.
Mythic sea creature. Invulnerable. Swims around for a minute before disappearing back under the water. Grants everyone within 20 blocks 10 DHC. Any items dropped or caught within the radius over the duration have a 20% chance to also be obtained by the catcher
More to come.
 
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Are you tired of being stuck in a cramped wooden chest all day? Have you worked 168 hour workweeks for years on end? Has your employer recently promoted you to customer and you have no clue what to do now? Are you stuck imprisoned in an underground labyrinth of the undead?
relatable
The lagoon will be fairly large and deep, with semimineable* clay at the bottom
ooh new way to get clay? I like this! it also provides a use for the aqua affinity enchant lol
The doors will open into a massive donut shaped room filled with mineable* gravel
epic more gravel!!
The first step of the shuffle will be to determine the number of minions. This will be done with this calculation.
where n=the number of minions this season last year, and s=+0.1 in summer and winter and -0.1 in spring and fall.

r is any random number 0-1

this will produce a typical variation between 16 and 19 occupants, rarely going up to 22 or 23 and rarely going down to 14 or 13.

Once this is done, 10-12 random minion types, all different, will be selected. These will all be below level 9 and are found in common places like the promenade. These are low level minions.

Next, up to 6 more minion types will be randomly selected. These minions are gonna be levels 9-11 and can be found in more exotic locations like in the Canopy Suites. These are high level minions.

Then, if there are any remaining slots, They will be filled with random tier 12 minions and exotic minions. These are neither high level or low level minions.
lol so complicated
If you encounter a minion you’d previously employed, you will be able to interact with it and get new dialogue.
honestly I like the concepts here, but some of the items, such as:
Flowers(if foraging)
are kinda disappointing lol
Or they could challenge you to some duel of skill. For example, foraging may be picking as many flowers as you can in a minute. Fishing could be like the carnival minigame. Winning will role you a reward from the loot table above, along with some of the minion’s respective resource. Losing will just get you the resource.
honestly i kinda love this
These are unobtainable minions with unique dialogue. Some of them would be the Pelt Minion, Gemstone Minion, Dirt Minion, Dragon Minion, Soup Minion, Doe Minion, etc.
this could get really funny if expanded upon!! imagine a sven slayer minion, or a timite minion, or even a glacite minion!
Cracked Children’s Shovel[Good]
how do you plan on making this stackable?
Bought from Junker Joseph, Can catch items that require a more delicate hand. Breaks easily.

It can catch the Soggy Letter in a Bottle, however shatters once you catch it.
huh... that's an interesting mechanic!! I would say it should have 2 charges before it breaks though
Epic, grants 9 Treasure Chance while in the backwater bayou or the Cerulean Resort.
yep
An upgrade to the hotspot radar, the Hotterspot Radar gains a new ability: Tuning.

It allows you to track not just the nearest hotspot, but by left clicking, you can cycle through the different hotspot buffs and track the nearest hotspot with your selected buff.
seen this idea before but LOVE the name!!
Same as before, just shinier.

Gain +15 Treasure Chance while in Backwater Bayou or Cerulean Resort
honestly really cool
Ima be honest i haven’t playtested the backwater set so just imagine this is balanced. i’ll fix this later
just double the stats of backwater armor
There are several torn up letters. 9 total
huh this is interesting I guess?
thrashing attack every two seconds which does damage to everyone who’s damaged it in a 2.5 block radius
kinda a low radius but ok
They’d drop 1-2 Tang Meat, which would be used for blue bait, which gives 10 scc at the cost of 10 fs.
honestly I like this, but it should be 8 scc for 16 fs
The Kingfisher’s Pendant can be crafted like this. Give it whatever stats you want it to.
64 of a 5% drop is a bit much...
Canary Carcass
ok where is this item?
Halves Sea Creature Chance
Halves Fishing Speed
You Can No Longer Catch Common Sea Creatures
pretty interesting!
Mythic sea creature. Invulnerable. Swims around for a minute before disappearing back under the water. Grants everyone within 20 blocks 10 DHC. Any items dropped or caught within the radius over the duration have a 20% chance to also be obtained by the catcher
genuinely extremely creative!!!
Overall Rating: 8.2/10

Definitely could be expanded upon!
These are unobtainable minions with unique dialogue. Some of them would be the Pelt Minion, Gemstone Minion, Dirt Minion, Dragon Minion, Soup Minion, Doe Minion, etc.
I'd like to see more!!
What other wares are available?
More to come.
Yes please

For example, what is the "hideous monster that lurks in the depths"? A new boss perhaps???
 
lol so complicated
thx lol

i put an unreasonable amount of effort into it
are kinda disappointing lol
Wanted to add more but waiting for foraging update.
I also didn’t want it to be like a guaranteed good item, so there’s a bit of intentional clutter to avoid oversaturating the game with a bunch of semi-rare kinda niche items.
honestly i kinda love this
Thanks.
tbh when i started making this post it was gonna be a semi-joke post about a minion nursing home, but it was around here where i started actually kinda vibing with it and went back and revamped the whole thing into this.
this could get really funny if expanded upon!! imagine a sven slayer minion, or a timite minion, or even a glacite minion!
yeah, this is exactly what i’m envisioning. It has so much potential.
how do you plan on making this stackable?
…ok that’s a good point

i don’t have a great answer, but I have 2 solutions

1. Having the item not be a shovel, but something shovel shaped.

My best two options would be either the arrow maybe, or a blaze rod or stick to be like the handle with the shovel head broken off.

2. Replacing it with the Pink Flip Flop, which would be some kind of meat, mutton or beef or pork prolly


huh... that's an interesting mechanic!! I would say it should have 2 charges before it breaks though
Maybe, or like a 50% chance to break when you catch a bottle

just double the stats of backwater armor
Aight bet

kinda a low radius but ok
Tbf it’s literally Dory from finding Nemo. Blue Tangs don’t have that much combat prowess.
honestly I like this, but it should be 8 scc for 16 fs
idk, i haven’t seen many people use spiked bait over minnow or fish, and once you get to a point where it’s worthwhile, you should already be using whale or hotspot bait. I’m open to changing it, but i’m not sure how much it’d be used in the game as it is now or with the proposed changes.
64 of a 5% drop is a bit much...
I made the kingfisher epic didn’t I?

That was balanced as though it’s a rare sea creature and i just forgot to rebalance it.
How’s this sound:
10% Chance to drop 1
1% Chance to drop 2-3
ok where is this item?
new rare drop from abyssal miner.
the table did something weird, there was supposed to be a third item above the carcass, obtained rarely from the deep sea defender, a waterlogged apparatus.
For example, what is the "hideous monster that lurks in the depths"? A new boss perhaps???
This monster will be a boss, however the challenge will not just be in fighting it, but researching it, studying it, tracking it, and trapping it.

The 9 notes will be the first step, each one revealing information about the nature of this creature.

Im not going to promise anything, but I may elaborate on this monster further in my upcoming Alchemy Overhaul or in an edit/reply to this thread.


I’m so glad you liked this idea, it was a little rushed and unfinished because wrote it all in one sitting and my phone almost died before i finished. I’ll be back to polish it up sometime soon.
 
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