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Phantoms should scare off horses

When phantoms are nearby horses, horses should ran off scared. That’s it.

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    I love this idea, it's unique and gives a reason to protect your horses/build enclosures. Though maybe it shouldn't stop there.

    But in order to make this truly useful, I think phantoms should spawn uncommonly and not just when you don't sleep for a while, similar to Witches or Endermen. This fixes phantom spawning issues and introduces a new flying mob.

    This abundance of a new flying animal adds something else too, a reason to build shelter for your animals.

    Imagine if that instead of targeting players they should attack all domesticated animals, this means that cows, sheep, chickens and pigs would need protection, encouraging defensive building. On top of this phantoms could deal damage to all the mobs it swoops next to, encouraging spaced out building and housing for mobs.

    This gives a new reason for defensive building and adds some much needed danger from the empty skies.

     

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    I very much agree with aslangames, as a big issue I have with survival mode is the lack of reason to build. I know all players aren’t devoted builders, but it would make the game‘s environment feel so much more alive if animals reacted with each other, such as horses being scared of phantoms.