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Goblins in Minecraft! 😀

These unique mobs would be thieves. They would steal from you by maybe punching you one time. Any sort of valuable loot that you have on you would be taken, and the only way to get it back is to chase them down and kill them. However, it is challenging to do this because they are a little bit faster than players but a little bit slower than ocelots. These mobs would be one block high or a little bit taller than one block. Their mob sound would be kind of like the witch’s laugh, but more high pitched and fast and crazy. These mobs would spawn in any biome, and don’t burn in day. However, the color of their clothes acts kind of like how rabbits change color. Their color depends on whatever block they spawn on. If they spawn on sand for example, their clothes would be kind of sand colored. If they spawn on grass, their cloths would be kind of brown and green colored. Their drop (besides your stolen loot) would be other kind of valuable things. Since they are thieves, that being their drop makes sense. If you see one just standing around by itself, they shouldn’t be a big problem. If you see a herd though, you should just back off! Don’t go for that loot if their in a herd! If you hit one of them when they are in a herd, they have the same affect as zombie pigmen and dolphins. THEY WILL ALL COME AT YOU. If they are trying to kill you instead of stealing from you, they can jump onto your back and your leg and your face, making you not able to see. Goblins can also have little goblin villages. There will be little shacks, but they will look not really built well. There could be little broken down stone towers around the corners of the goblin village. Their would be goblins that throw poison potions. These goblins would wear a bandanna around their mouth, because, well, IT LOOKS AWESOME! Also, in some goblin villages, (this would be very rare by the way) there would be a trap door. This trap door would lead down the boss. A giant goblin, or like a troll or something. The troll or big goblin would be surrounded by chests filled goodies. If you kill this boss, you get a special drop. If anyone sees this, put what you think the special drop should be in the comments of this. Also, goblins have a chance of spawning with those poison dart blowing things. Like if a drowned spawns with a trident, they have a rare chance of dropping it. The same would go for goblins that spawn with the poison dart blower things. For bows, you need arrows for it to work. For poison dart blower thingys, you need poison darts. I think that’s it. I hope people like this idea! 😀

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    I would suggest that their main feature actually be that the can interact with containers such as chest or shulker boxes. This would be completely unique to the Goblin and would give a reason for the defense of your storage other than players.

    If Goblins do spawn with some random loot make sure that even the most advanced mob farms would get diamonds in less than 0.1% of each Goblin that spawns. This way, everyone will accept that even mining with an unenchanted iron pickaxe is more effective than an Ilmango-designed 0.7 diamond per hour Goblin farm (I do not have Ilmango's approval to post this and will not profit over this comment/reply). 

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    I like this but I would rather they spawned underground and were able to come up to the surface to raid your storage boxes necessitating the need for security in your storage rooms/mine shafts. 

    Perhaps Goblin stashes should spawn underground too with a chest of random loot mostly low value but occasionally something cool.

    Hostile mobs should be neutral towards the goblins but goblins run away from them anyway and if you kill a goblin after it has stolen from one of your chests the item should be dropped.

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    I feel like this is less of an animal and more of an NPC or humanoid. Love this idea though.

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    I think they should be underground with their own villages, but great idea!

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    The a Special Drop Should Totally Be A Load Of XP And A “Goblin Egg”. When You Hatch The Goblin Egg By Placing It On Mycelium, You Get A “Pet Goblin” Of Sorts. It Will Stay Put Unless You Right Click Your Pet Goblin With A Block Or Ore. It Will Consume The Block, But Lead To To More, In The Same Kind Of Way A Eye Of Ender Leads You To A Stronghold. I Think There’s A 1.12.2 Mod That Adds Foxes With The Same Purpose Of Hunting Ores- But These Goblins Can Hunt Blocks As Well, And Won’t Have Little Fairy Wings And Are Always Sitting Unless Working. 

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    Maybe the goblins could come to a village in a raid, and their goblin village could be raided by normal villagers.The tides have turned!

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    I think the boss item should be a enchantment that makes it impossible for the goblins to steal from you.

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    @WastingBag6155 pillagers would raid them not villagers

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    This sounds like an awsome idea! I think that the chests would be filled with mostly gold because goblins LOVE gold.

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    I think the drop of the boss should be a enchanted sword, why beacuase their goblins!  :)

     

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    They will spawn in a group of max 4 and they will chase you around. They will not attack but very innocently they will try to pickpocket you. Maybe they can give you some sort of item they own so you lower your guard and think they are of trust. When you turn your back to them they will steal some random item from your inventory. Maybe they prefer certain items and disguard others. This will balance the mechanic as they cannot steal, for example, your tools, armor etc... Maybe they focus on stealing food, precious orbs and things like flowers (because they never saw one underground). When the mischievous little goblins steal they will emit a laughter so you know something is up. Maybe, in a addition on the laughter, a backpack/chest sound so you know it relates to your inventory and go check it. After they steal your Item they will run back with it on their tiny hand to their home. Their home will be a hidden small stone hole with maybe a paint they stole and a chest of loot. To retrieve our items you better chase them around and corner them. If you show your sword when they are cornered they will drop whatever they stole. If you kill them they will not drop nothing so its not encouraged to rampage on the little fella. The spawn rates need to be quite rare so you are not consistently getting stole. Chasing them around it's an imersive fun interaction and will result on you getting lost and in need to discover your way back.