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Shulkers should Spawn Naturally: Shells Need to be Renewable

Anyone who's played on a multiplayer server, and especially those who have modded or run one, know how out of hand The End can get. Players rush for the purple cities, clearing out all the Shulkers and blazing off to the next one, leaving the remaining structure void of anything but Endermen, which aren't exactly an uncommon sight. 

Those players lagging behind the first few waves of explorers are doomed to travel for eons, no wings to help them, just trying to find an End City that hasn't been pillaged and left behind. At the end of a 4 hour run, they might still be empty handed, and have to walk all the way back or throw themselves into the Void in despair.

As more and more players venture farther and farther, the world folder bloats and increases in size. Loading specific parts of The End can cause devastating swings of lag.

End Cities need to have their own Biome where Shulkers can spawn naturally. I'm not sure why they were gated to begin with. Shulker Boxes are powerful, yes, but they've grown to be common staples in the average explorer's pack. They shouldn't be hoarded and taken be the fastest players. The whole concept goes against the spirit of togetherness that Minecraft tries to promote. 

If I'm planning on some big projects, and need a lot of stuff, why would I ever join a big server already in full swing if I know I'll never get my hands on any Shulker boxes? We shouldn't be gating new players like this.  

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• June 20, 2018 20:43
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  ClayGoddessSari commented

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  • June 20, 2018 21:23
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  Maybe a gamerule?  Because the current system is fine for single player worlds, or even servers with only a handful of friends.  But you're right that a large server is in trouble.

  I wouldn't object to them just naturally being able to respawn, but their lack of respawning encourages looting more and more cities in single player worlds, rather than camping the first large city found.

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  TheIronSniper1 commented

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  • June 20, 2018 21:44
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  I agree, it also makes interesting new concepts like shulker farming possible.(which is why it probably won't be added)

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  ClayGoddessSari commented

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  • June 21, 2018 00:28
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  What servers usually do, at least with java, is to use an external tool to delete most (or all) of the end and have it regenerate fresh.  Maybe an internal method for resetting the end would help?  That way it's not as exploitable as having shulkers respawn, but it's a lot more straightforward to have fresh shulkers available.

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  • June 28, 2018 19:42
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  MAYBE there could be a type of Enderman called the Regen it has green eyes and is neutral but does not care if you look at it. The Regen will Regenerate the End Cities by placing blocks. Regens have island s of their own and on these islands shulkers are used as pets but are normally Shulkers. Once city or boat is Regenized Shulkers will spawn on it, but Regen islands are 12 blocks above the Void and are in between the center islands and the cities, making them hard to get to.

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  • April 25, 2019 17:08
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  I was thinking about this. People go to the cities to get more elytra anyway and the loot. Suggestions: Make the loot more valuable. Allow Shulkers to spawn anywhere. Keep traveling and you'll find random Shulkers on the ground or on sides of purpur plants. Maybe they should have a small chance to respawn. But at least, while you are wondering and exploring, you'll see Shulkers around you without finding cities. I would appreciate that. Maybe a small chance they respawn, if new plants were sown? Or instead of respawn, you could breed them with the fruit? Just don't get killed in the process!

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  Ule Tir commented

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  • August 25, 2019 07:51
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  I agree. Non-renewable items shouldn't be for the extremely useful items. Shulkers are way to useful they need to be respawnable

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  DoggoneDeer1318 commented

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  • February 03, 2020 22:15
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  Good idea

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  Angel Gabriel Astudillo Santamaria commented

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  • February 04, 2020 13:27
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  It's a good idea but.... Who says that the multiplayer server would not use it as a farm... I mean in survival alone maybe it's useful but in Multiplayer servers the one who made it its gonna share it with other players? That must be a condition

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  Tetsu To Yori Oku No Hanashi commented

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  • March 27, 2020 17:18
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  I agree, just yesterday I had to get about a stack of shulker shells, and I couldn't find a new end city, like really, making shulker farms wouldn't be op at all, maybe making them spawn no as common as endermen, but I mean a shulker farm that produces 100 shells per hours is not that op, just think about enderman farms, they need a heck ton of storage and sometimes having that many pearls in the floor lags, making shulkers renewable is something that we need