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(Swamp) Leeches Should be Added to the Swamp Biome

       In the recent update minecraft 1.13, many types of fish were added including cod, salmon, pufferfish, and tropical fish. I think swamps should get their own underwater mob, the leech.

       If you get in water while in a swamp, all leeches in that same body of water will start to latch on to you (sort of like zombie pigmen except you don't have to punch one of them). If a leech attaches to you, you will get the nausea and poison effect. The only way to take off a leech is by jumping up and down until one pops off. The leech would only have as much health as a chicken but it would be very fast which would make it hard to hit, and when it dies it will drop a leech tail which could be used for brewing.

       The leech tail could be used to make a blood potion. When drank, the blood potion could give you extra hearts (the amount of hearts would increase depending on the level of potion).

Frappuchino77 shared this idea.

• July 25, 2018 22:26
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  Mc Rat commented

  • December 16, 2018 22:31
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  Great idea. I'd love to see some hostile fish in this game

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  wizkid744 commented

  • February 08, 2019 11:02
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  I like the idea of leeches, but I would put forward a couple of slight changes in the suggested game mechanics:

  - they spawn in both swamps and rivers in clumps of 4-16 (or whatever)

  - they are like skinny black silverfish and sit on blocks at the bottom of the body of water; when you are within 3 blocks on the same Y, they will all release and swarm towards you.

  - they latch onto one location (arms x2, legs x2, back/torso) and can't latch on if there is another one there. (They just randomly swim around you waiting to get an opportunity to latch on.)

  - after X ticks they drain 1/2 heart and drop off.

  - X would depend on armor at that location.

  - If you have a potion effect, it ends when you take leech damage.

  - they all drop off whenever you take non-leech damage.

  - dropped leeches will become fat (like silverfish) and half speed. They will drop to the bottom of the water block and rest for X ticks until they become skinny again and ready to feed... perhaps this is a breeding cycle and that leech splits onto an adjacent source block when it becomes skinny.

  - they don't do well out of water and will just take damage/die when they drop off in air.