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New Neutral Mob Idea: 'Deep Sea Spyfish'

Currently, the deepest parts of the Minecraft ocean are empty. I think a neutral fish type mob would add some interest and a mysterious variation to the deep ocean ravines. This would not directly change the danger/balance dynamic of the ocean biomes, but add some ambience to the lowest parts of the ocean. As an example, I have designed one kind of mob that may inhabit these dark regions.

The Deep Sea Spyfish:

"The Spyfish may look intimidating from a distance, but up close it seems (mostly) harmless."

The Spyfish is a medium/small deep-sea fish which would inhabit the deep ocean ravines. The design was intended to be something more fantasy/less realism based, to follow the theme for non-peaceful mobs. It has fake eyes, which would be a weak light source. This seemed more unique than the usual anglerfish style feature. The glowing 'eyes' also mean the fish can drop glowstone powder, which provides a more reliable (still slightly dangerous) overworld source of glowstone, than witches or villager trades. This opens possible potential for farms.

Spawning: Groups of up to 5 in water below roughly y=25. This would mean it primarily spawns in ocean ravines, and provides a dim light to underground cave pools.

Behaviour: Will attack a player if hit. Nearby Spyfish will also target the player. This could prove dangerous to careless players, but it should not be hard to avoid accidentally aggravating them.

Health: ❤️ × 4 (8)

Hit: ❤️ × 1 (2)

Drops:

  • 0-2 Glowstone Dust
  • 1-2 Bone Meal (5%)
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    Sounds good to me I like the idea of the ocean getting harder the lower you go

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    I think the mob should be larger since small hitboxes brought a lot of complaints. I see them as basically silverfish (should be more dangerous though, since low attacks and health but having to deal with a bunch of them is just annoying and they're in deep underground or oceans where unprepared players don't go to), jump like slimes when they're on land and like fishes in the water.

    Seeing how they're lapis-colored, they could drop some lapis in addition to glowstone dusts. They're neutral, but like the Warden, they attack sound sources as potential food, similar to piranhas but with sound instead of scent. They'd be at a deeper/different area of underground caves than the warden (they have eyes, but realistically, fishes in the deep parts of the ocean sense vibrations rather than have actual eyes). Because they spawn in the water, players don't have to fight them too often.

    They have a follow range of 16. In deep oceans, they are neutral and are distracted by nearby fishes. In caves where there are less food sources, they feed on nearby mobs and players. The neutral part is that the whole swarm attacks players who attacked (without killing) one of them while vibrations make only one hostile. 

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    Where did you make your texture for this mob?

     

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    I used Blockbench to create the model and textures.

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    Unique idea, and I believe the ocean could benefit from more "fantasy" type mobs, since the only such mobs are now are the two guardians and the drowned. Though I think this mob could benefit from a slight buff (maybe deal a bit more damage).

     

    Also, instead of only being in the ravines, there could a be a separate biome(s) for the deep sea, which could have it's own structures and other types of mobs to go along with the deep sea spyfish.

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    Cool creature concept. Should also be a predator of glow squids, which could be another source of their bioluminescence.

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    More aquatic life is definitely what Minecraft needs.