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Hostile Mobs Adapt to the Depth

The basic hostile mobs (Zombies, Skeletons and Spiders) should strengthened below Y=0 giving them a different look to flesh out the lower levels.

Zombies

Zombies could have a slightly darker tone of green for their skin and make slightly more vicious sounds. These creatures have been subject to the dark caves for so long that their sight has been harmed, (yes like the Warden) however, rather than having the same ability as the Warden they are just less smart and have worse pathfinding, for example, they may fall off bridges crossing chasms in the depths or may accidentally fight each other. These zombies are attracted to soul light due to its odor, if you hold out a soul torch or place a soul campfire, they will attempt to follow it. They will be slightly larger than the average Zombie signifying their added strength. They have 1.5x the hearts of a normal Zombie but do 2x the damage with their disease ridden bodies. 

Skeletons

Skeletons at this depth use pickaxes for their weapons, primarily wielding iron picks with 3% drop rate but may spawn with a gold pick, giving them the possibility of dropping rare ores. They wear ripped clothing like the Stray's and their bones have black ash sprinkled over their body. If one of these Skeletons spawn without a pickaxe (low chance) they can steal your bow upon hitting you with their flailing arms, the bow has a guaranteed drop after you defeat the Skeleton. 

Spiders

Make spider boss fight please.

 

 

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• February 18, 2021 09:37
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  • February 18, 2021 09:38
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  The reason thats all there is in the spider section is because I ran out of space but that pretty much sums up what I want done with them.

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  • February 18, 2021 15:43
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  I like the ideas for the zombie, but how about skeletons have a chance to use shields, rather then them using a melee item (which makes them less hard) The spiders at this depth could become "depth spiders" like cave spiders but stronger and the size of a normal spider.

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  • February 18, 2021 17:09
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  I really like the idea of making the grimstone depths more difficult on average (the Warden helps, but it only spawns in the Deep Dark, so it's a relatively rare encounter).

  However, I think the changes you suggested are a little too much to still fit the iconic mobs of Minecraft. The mechanics described would be a better fit to entirely new mobs (especially the soul fire, which I really like, just not for zombies.)

  I'd personally go down the route of

  A) Adding a zombie variant that has more natural armour and damage but the same AI, keep the skeletons as they are, adding a chance for cave spiders to spawn instead of spiders (maybe 1 in 10) and adding a new, rare type of creeper who's explosion treats grimstone like dirt.

  Or

  B) Keep all mobs the same, but add a new "common mob" for the region below y=0 that is a real danger to the players and is encountered often, unlike the Warden. Maybe some sort of ghoul that has a chance of inflicting weakness and faintness (an effect that is basically the reverse of resistance).

  Overall, the concept you proposed definitely has potential. I hope Mojang sees it.