Endermen, as well as the dimension they come from, have lots of interesting potential. They're powerful interdimensional travelers. But in current versions of Minecraft, they just scream and run at you until you die when you pick a fight with them. Here are some ideas I came up with to make endermen feel more powerful and intelligent in combat:
- Simple buffs
Very simply, give endermen more health and attack damage so they can actually pose a threat to more advanced players.
-Strategic attacks
As I mentioned earlier, endermen in their current form tend to use the advanced strategy of screaming and running towards a player. I think that endermen should have a guerilla warfare tactic. They will teleport to a player, attack, and once they've dealt or taken a significant amount of damage, they teleport away, and regenerate a bit of health, before attacking again. They should also have a tendency to teleport behind a player when attacking.
-More able to reach players
The current easy counter to endermen is simply to stand in a 2-block tall space. Endermen should not be outwitted this easily. My idea to fix this is to give the endermen a secondary attack with the same effect as a chorus fruit. This would either be a ranged attack, or a long-range melee attack. This would deal no damage, but teleport the player out of their 2-block high defenses, leaving them vulnerable to the enderman. This attack should have a cooldown time, just so the enderman can't repeatedly spam it at the player.
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