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Phantom Cliffs

Since this is the caves and cliffs update and the world height was just increased, I feel that this would be a perfect opportunity to fix phantoms while staying true to their design. Phantoms should spawn only at high altitudes and the higher the difficulty, the lower they spawn. And considering the new ore distribution, hunting for emeralds at mountains could consider to be a high risk and high reward. This prevents them from spawning in places that are already polluted with too many mobs(e.g the plains at night.) It also gives you an option to stay low to the ground if you are aware that you've been away from you base longer than 3 days and don't want to reset your spawn point by sleeping.

 

TLDR: Phantoms should only spawn at high y levels and it will spawn slightly lower depending on difficulty.

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• February 22, 2021 22:41
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  • February 23, 2021 18:57
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  The one problem is that emeralds are so easy to get already via villagers for basic things like wheat. I agree but it should have a new reward.

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  • February 23, 2021 21:04
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  That is a really cool idea!

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  • February 24, 2021 14:03
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  Not a bad idea . . . a flying overworld mob seemed great but people were already skipping the night more often than not and we needed some incentive to go out and adventure rather than sleeping. What we got was the phantom to punish us for not going to bed on time.

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  • July 28, 2021 17:49
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  Honestly, I think that beds and phantoms have a lot of intrinsic problems that arise from two common but totally differing gameplay styles--half the players want the challenge of surviving the night, half the players want to skip it so they can focus on building and resource gathering without constant interruptions. I think phantoms sort of occupy a worst of both worlds, harshly punishing the former half and making the latter half even more desperate.

  I think this change would make phantoms much more interesting, and would encourage "dogfights" and other high-elevation open-air phantom combats, which are very fun, while cutting back on phantoms getting stuck on trees and roofs while you obliviously gather logs for your next build.