Talk:Ocean Monument

Initial Technical Details
Decompiling the 14w25a code (bdi.class) reveals that internally, this structure is referred to as a "Monument". It can only spawn in a chunk whose coordinates satisfy an equation (similar to Villages) and which has the biome Deep Ocean at its center point (+8,8 from the chunk corner). It also requires an aquatic biome (regular/Deep/Frozen Ocean, regular/Frozen River) everywhere within a 29 block square radius around the center point (i.e. a 59x59 square, not a circle). Taleden (talk) 20:20, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Capitalization of all these new 1.8 blocks and things
I take this question here specifically, because by now this is a well-edited page. Pardon me if I was supposed to put this kind of thing somewhere else.

I have been wondering about the capitalization standards. Reading through the style guide, I got the idea that the new blocks and items ought to be referred to in the lowercase, as 'prismarine shards', 'prismarine', 'prismarine blocks', 'dark prismarine', 'prismarine crystals', 'sea lantern', 'sponge' and 'wet sponge' -- except when in the title or at the beginning of a sentence, then it's sentence case. Would that be right? I know 'prismarine' is an invented term, but style guide indicates only capitalizing invented species, so I am stuck on that.

Furthermore should 'ocean monument' be all lowercase? I know it has a biome name in it, but does that matter?

And since 'Guardian' and 'Elder Guardian' are invented species (unlike 'bat' or 'pig'), they are supposed to be capitalized, correct?

Oops, that was me: – Sealbudsman (Aaron) (talk) – 18:45, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

I dunno who wrote this (I do " 216.7.78.195 18:35, 20 June 2014 (UTC), er ~ ~ ~ ~ minus-spaces " after a Post /Comment, and am-subject to being "Edited" into Oblivion, like "anyone), but I do more than capitalize for Emphasis. My short-hand rule of Gaming thumb is that if a Game has a specific-term, which within that -particular Game's context(s) has a specifically-different meaning, than R L, then it gets-capitalized.

This even means I'll Re-capitalize things, after-already Ref'd. This is because often assumptions people make about R L /(a) Game(s) inter-bleed until they really Can't understand a given, particular set of Game (singular) Mechanics. Yilante 216.7.78.195 18:35, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Capitalizing makes no sense, guardian is not a proper noun, so there is no reason to capitalize it. Moreover, there are a lot of guardians, a lot of endermites, a lot of ocelots. If you want to somehow highlight the fact it's an invented species, you can italicize it. IllidanS4 (talk • contribs • [ logs]) 10:32, 21 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I wasn't really saying that I was looking for alternatives to the style guide.. I fully intend on writing in conformity with the style guide.. I was just trying to figure whether or why the stuff already written about the ocean stuff was or wasn't in conformity to it. But it looks anyway like someone went ahead and fixed the majority of it. – Sealbudsman (Aaron) (talk) – 16:43, 21 June 2014 (UTC)