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Invert the behavior of phantoms.

Phantoms should spawn when you have slept a lot instead of when you haven't. This is because right now the player has 2 options: 1. Sleep, don't get any phantoms and skip the night or 2. Don't sleep, dont skip the night and get phantoms. It would be a lot better if the player had to choose between fighting mobs at night or phantoms, this way the player would he faced with a far more interesting dilemma: do you fight the mobs of the night or do you skip the night but get attacked by flying beasts?
Phantoms could also slowly become stronger the more you sleep, so if you sleep for 10 days in a row the phantoms come in massive packs and kill even players with full diamond armor.

This does present 1 probem though, if the player skips the night, when will phantoms spawn? Well since its always day the phantoms would have to spawn during the day, so they can't burn anymore. This would probably require a reskin with a lighter texture to make more sense.

From a lore perspective maybe the phantoms come when the mobs of the night cant spawn, and this casues wherever the mobs come from to create these flying beasts.

Minecraft survival mode is a game about surviving, but right now you only really need a bed to do so, nerfing beds with phantoms would make the game a lot more about surviving.

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• July 16, 2019 04:09
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  PurpleHearts133 commented

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  • July 19, 2019 02:37
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  This is good! It forces the player into one bad interaction of another

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  GiantEvilPickle commented

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  • August 03, 2020 17:20
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  Not to be rude, but that's rather absurd. The phantom was suggested as a "Monster of the Night Skies," and is probably intended to stay that way. It's also intended to give more incentive to players to sleep, which I think it does, given a vocal minority of users want its demise, giving the evidence that they like to go on expeditions and can't sleep then. (They can, and probably should, given they are less likely to die when they sleep and do the thing they're most afraid of: respawn away from their stuff.)

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  • September 19, 2020 17:16
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  I think there is already a cost of sleeping while you are out exploring: it resets your respawn. So if you want to respawn at your base, you have to deal with exploring at nighttime, because if you bring a bed, then you'll be in the middle of nowhere if you die. A risk some people are willing to take. 

  The reason phantoms are sometimes considered annoying is because if you want to do something at night with an open sky, you can't block them off with fences and well lit areas (and don't tell me to cover my base with cats like I already have to with torches; i love cats and all, but that seems absurd). Now if they also spawn during the day, and there's no way to block them? Forget it. 

  The fix for phantoms that I am looking for is you should be able to control most everything inside your base late-game, including protecting yourself from all hostile mobs. But if you want to have a base open to the sky, you can't do this, because not sleeping for many in game days is useful for various reasons, such as increasing chances of a thunderstorm.

  Sorry but I'm not in favor of this idea for phantoms.