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Changing the behavior of spiders

Spiders are interesting mobs, but they can be made better by changing a couple of things

  • New climbing mechanic. 
    Now, when trying to climb in, spiders will play animation, as if they really climb. Because now it looks very strange.You can also give the opportunity to climb the ceiling, and a special animation will be played.But the movement of the spiders on the ceiling will be quite slow.

 

  • New attack mechanic 
    Spiders, unlike other hostile mobs, do not have a pronounced special attack. Skeletons shoot, creepers explode, and endermen teleport. Spiders can now make their special attacks using the new climbing mechanic.

    There are 2 types of attacks.

    The first type is a quick attack. If the spider is directly above you, then it can jump at you. In this case, you will receive damage, but he will not.
    The second type is a gentle slope. The spider uses the web to descend towards the player and then attack.

  • Daytime inactivity

    In the daytime, the spiders are inactive, but you can make the spiders almost do not move if the 2 parameters converge.
    The time of day is day and the lighting level is more than 10. If these conditions are met, the spider will move very slowly, so the spiders in the sun will be frozen.

  • Spider hunt

    Spiders are hunters, so they should behave accordingly. Spiders will now hunt animals other than humans. The diet will include bats, bees and, in rare cases, other spiders.
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    Now this would be horrifying in the new caves, imagine you're caving and in a massive cave and you hear a spider hiss, look up, and it's falling towards you.

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    I would like to see spiders climb walls sideways like the picture shows instead of just looking like they're floating right now, but they shouldn't be able to climb ceilings too, they would be too annoying to get keep them away, like when you're building up or something.

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    Yes, please. The caves and cliffs update promo picture thing even shows spiders climbing on walls and stuff with their models turned accordingly. Though, if they climbed on ceilings, it might break some people's spider-proof walls?

    Also, perhaps they could have some kind of web attack similar to the spiders in Minecraft Dungeons? Maybe it could use a mechanic like the ice generated from frostwalker boots where the webs would degrade over a few seconds.