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Mob who extinguishes torches in deep dark

Imagine passive mob who spawns in deep dark, and instead of attacking player - "attacks" torches. It tryes to avoid player, and will act far behind players postion. He extinguishes torches that were set by player. Imagine - you run away from Warden, and can not find way back because tourches are gone! Pretty creepy, isn't it? I see this mob as some kind of ghost (levitates). It spawns near special block. This block looks almoust like grimstone, but has slight different texture. So it is hard to notice this block from far distance (it blends with surounding grimstone). But to eleminate this mob you need to find this block and destroy it with pickaxe. You can not kill mob itself, you need to remove its spawn block. You hear mobs presence because of special noise it produces. You start to examine cave walls to find this block and destroy it.

It will not extinguish light emitting blocks like Glowstone, Jack lantern, Sroomlight, and "closed" light sources like Lantern. Only "open" light sources like torches and campfire.

Obviously, chance to spawn should not be very high. This mob has to be rare.

P.S. It could be Centipede. They live undeground / in wall cracks, they creepy, they can climbe walls and ceiling. Fits pretty well.

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    I picture it being a small, thin little goblin thing and a smaller counterpart of the warden. It would be about 1 or 1 1/2 blocks tall and slouching, with one short arm and one long arm with a joint in it. When it stands straight and reaches as high as it can it reaches about 2 1/2- 3 1/2 blocks high, it will do this to extinguish torches. It will try to extinguish redstone torches as well, but they will only extinguish for about 1 redstone tick.

    It moves slowly except when running away, it can also detect sound (like the warden) and will try to avoid the player.

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    I would prefer Goblings to be kind-a undeground villagers, peacfull society living in villages. But why not! Sounds interesting. Centipede is more creepy, though. It can climb whalls and ceiling, live in grimstone cracks

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    I like your Idea. I think these mobs shouldn't fly and will spawn naturally (rarely) like every hostile mob, but they will spawn only in height light level instead of low light levels. If there are no more torches nearby him he disappears and leaves particles behind. Very Creepy.

    I think this mob should be less like a fling ghost and more like walking warped creature, like an enderman but more warped ant fits to the deep dark biome. and when you get close to them they will run away.

    An other cool idea for this mob, when you get close to it it will run away.