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Solar/lunar eclipse

Everyday there is an increasing chance that a solar eclipse is coming  and so every few Minecraft days a solar eclipse in high everything is very dark and special mobs come out. Like sun guardians who drop sun dust and sun dust can upgrade armor and weapons which make them stronger during the day vice versa with lunar eclipse and moon guardians which make items stronger during night.  Or during eclipses normal mobs could wander out but be morphed and 3 times stronger. 

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    Please keep suggestions focused on a single idea per post. There are really interesting suggestions here, but they really belong in their own posts. https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360003401232-Posting-Guidelines

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    every few days is too common in my opinion, should be more realistic like 1/100 or 1/200 minecraft days at least

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    A solar eclipse would require the sun and the moon to travel at different speeds in the sky. Currently they travel at exactly the same speed and are exactly opposite in the sky, so a solar eclipse is impossible.

    That said, it would be cool to have the sun and the moon travel at different speeds (very slight) and that on rare occasions the moon actually moves in front of the sun causing a solar eclipse. Special mobs could appear on these days, or special magical effects happen.

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    I agree that it can’t be this often and I think the monsters could be a bit too difficult to defeat although it does sound like a cool idea

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    Good idea, but this sounds like just a cool mod...

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    so sooomething like the Red Sun and Lunar Moon?

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    This would be cool because you could have the clock in an item frame send a redstone pulse if an eclipse happends

     

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    Good idea

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    every few days is too common , make it happen that there is like 3% chance of it happening 

    so every 100 days , 3 days of those have a lunar / solar eclipse

     

    make this completely cosmetic, make it so it does not affect the game by any chance

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    I like the idea but the guardians shouldn't be too hard  to beat  I mean, what would happen if someone only had an iron sword and a solar/lunar eclipse happened?

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    I think the idea is good but you had a few too many requests. Just having solar/lunar eclipses would still be pretty cool.

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    how about it depends on the moon phases?

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    So, like Terraria?

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    Yes. Good idea. Do it mojang.

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    Maybe ten days (perhaps 9 on hard and 11 on easy) after the last solar eclipse or the start of the world there is a quickly (quicker on higher difficulties) increasing chance of one happening. During an eclipse the light level is one fourth of the normal daylight and all night mobs including phantoms (weather you've slept recently or not) will spawn slightly faster than at night. To make an eclipse fluid with the day-night cycle (so an eclipse wouldn't be visible before the moon set) the moon could travel slightly faster (not obvious though) although only graphically though so game play wise it'd still be night although the moon would've set, therefor the eclipse would make a bit more scene.

     

    Sorry this post is so long! I hope it makes scene!

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    Eclipses would be a great addition to the game.

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    It would be cool but makes no sense. The moon and sun are always on exact opposite sides of the planet. 

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    not togglable

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    @ObsidionWarrior, they could change the code so that the moon travels faster than the sun.

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    It’s a good idea and solar eclipse is awesome but we already have lunar eclipses

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    i would love a solar eclipse in minecraft 1.17 i would love it  guys vote for this plz dooooo there is one in terraria why not minecraft 

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    VOTE FOR THIS PLZ 1.17WOULD CHANGE THE GAME FOR EVER IF THEY HAD A SOLAR ECLIPSE

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    Where can i find these special mobs? Then how do i upgrade it properly?

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    As much as I would love to see an eclipse in minecraft, it's simply not practical for the current game. The cycle of the sun and moon helps players track the time during day/night. It's a constant cycle that's a core part of the game. Having eclipses would require differentiating speeds of the sun and moon, and would completely remove the ability to track day and night (particularly night). Having a more unrealistic version of an eclipse, like a small random chance that the sun happens to be eclipsed when it rises would be more fitting. This would be the only way I would see it realistically possible without changing core elements of the game.

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    That's a great idea! I reckon the whole organisation of the world should be changed to get eclipses in Minecraft. Since they are rare events, would be really nice, if hostile mobs could spawn as they want without caring about the time the eclipse is taking place. Some of them could also be more powerful and agressive than they usually are. It would also be more difficult trying to kill them, even thought we're going to use weapons that might have been earlier boosted or just enchanted. 

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    I think on lunar eclipses a witch variant should come out and attack and the moon should turn super red but it lasts only 1 night, and I think that on solar eclipses it should be 24 hours of darkness (in game equivalent of course) and the moon sets with the sun after that, the night should be far darker since there is no moon illuminating the night sky until it’s over where it goes back to normal over the course of a few days.

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    i think every times theres a new moon theres a 6/10 chance for a solar eclipse and every time theres a full moon 7/10 chance for a lunar eclipse 

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    I cannot wait!

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    Spyglasses currently have little use in the game, so maybe they could be used to predict this.

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    Yes, but they would be rare, maybe every 100 mc days