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Crawler (New Nether Mob)

While looking at an article about the strider, I saw a picture of an early strider design (referred to as a crawler) created by Jasper Boerstra (picture below). The design of the animal looked cool, and I thought it would be nice if it was introduced as its own mob. The main idea that I had for its behavior was an enderman hunter. I always found it annoying how endermen would slowly destroy the terrain in the warped forest. It would be a nice feature if the crawlers would kill the endermen, pick up any blocks they had, and place the blocks back where they came from. When interacting with players, piglins, and hoglins, crawlers would be neutral. However, when attacked by any of these mobs, the crawlers would defend themselves in two ways. The first way would be by spitting flaming spit balls. The second way would be with a plate of scaly armor (not shown in original design) covering it’s back. This plate of armor would be special, since it would deflect ¼ of any damage back onto the attacker. If a crawler failed to protect itself and died, it would drop a food item and crawler scales*. A few other attributes would be that, because of their short stubby legs, they would be slow moving and get stuck in soul sand. Also, they would be in between the size of a ravager, and would only spawn in warped forests. *Crawler scales could be used to make crawler scale blocks. These blocks would increase fall damage when you landed on one, and would be found in bastion remnants as traps.

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• July 18, 2020 02:14
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  • July 23, 2020 00:35
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  I really like the idea of an Enderman hunter who's goal is to preserve the terrain. But I don't think this design would be the one to do it. If there were to be a type of mob to hunt Enderman, I'd think it'd be more agile and swift since Enderman aren't easy to catch if you're sluggish. I think the mob would have to be some kind of camouflage mob that'd take place in the Warped forest. Since that's where a lot of Enderman spawn.

  I think a snake-like mob would be good since snakes are known to be quick and quite good at blending into their environment. Although snakes can't be animated well in Minecraft's current aesthetic.

  I think if Jasper's design was to be an Enderman hunter, I'd think they would have to be blended with the warped forest and have to be VERY rare since killing them would drop a lot of enderpearls. And I think their tactic of attack would be rolling whilst in an armored ball like a Pangolin.

  I think a cool design would be when being attacked by a player or some other threat, they'd curl up in an armored ball as they do for defense and the only way to damage it or break it's hide would be by using a pickaxe. Or it could be similar to a shulker box and leave small time periods where you can strike.