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Please make Guardian less scary

My daughter (8 yo) and I love to play minecraft. I struggle through survival, she creates endless worlds, and sometimes I invite her to share my survival world. We both enjoy the game experience immensely.

But we have one thing we'd both like changed: We do not like jump scares. Minecraft is a game blessedly free of jump scares. Expect for the occasional zombie that got through the defense, of course, but that is another matter.

And whenever encountering a Guardian, a huge image of it apperars on-screen. It gives a scare, especially to my daugther. We'vecompletely abandoned exploring the sea monuments because she dislikes that scary face. It's not just that the Guardians are scary in themselves (they are), but especially making the Guardian face take up most of the screen is scary. It's gotten so bad she's become afraid of swimming in the oceans.

Please make Guardians less scary. Thank you.

 

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    You should just play in peaceful so you can just play with no dangerous mobs. The guardian jumpscare is a bit like the pillager one and it symbolises mining fatigue. It is there to warn players that they are close to it. And it is only elder guardians who do this.

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    I agree that this effect needs to be changed a bit. It even makes me jump and I'm 17 years old. Something about the way the Elder Guardian wriggles and its spikes move in and out of its body startles me a lot. I wish it would have a less surprising effect, like, maybe a little effect around the border of the screen, similar to when you freeze in powder snow? And the sound should be less ominous too, maybe more just like, a deep tone sounding like a bellowing from the deep instead of something more fitting with the spooky cave sounds.

    The Elder guardian is literally the scariest thing in minecraft for me.