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The Wraith

The Story

The Minecraft Update 1.17 rolls around.

"You're simply minding your business, exploring the newly generated cave structures for the first time. You've beaten countless zombies, skeletons, creepers and spiders. But as you descend deeper and deeper into caves, minding your own business, probably exploring that mineshaft...

You hear it.

That low, droning, disembodied moaning of something inhuman. You don't know what it is, but it's not very good. You decide to keep mining, cautious, but now you hear chains starting to rattle around you alongside that moaning. In the distance, you can faintly see something through the glow of your Lantern.

What is it? Where did it come from?

It's gone by the time you come to it, but the moment you go back to mining in the deepslate caverns, it finally appears, moaning directly behind you. You turn around, now horrified of the sight before you, a new mob simply known as the Wraith."

The Explanation: What is the Wraith?

The Wraith is a special hostile mob that spawns in the deepslate caverns, mineshafts and nighttime woodland areas, which resembles a robed humanoid figure with a sack around its head and its arms chained together as it shambles towards you. It deals a severe amount of damage and takes a lot of punishment to go down.

When killed, it drops Chains, Rotten Flesh, or even an Amethyst Shard.

Whether or not you take on the challenge of fighting it is up to you. Personally? I'd rather run and survive another night, thank you very much!

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    The idea behind the Wraith is simple. Add another hostile mob that is intended to keep players on their toes in caverns, especially Deepslate Caverns. These mobs are meant to be terrifying, they're meant to be durable, and they're meant to drive players away. In my initial post, I didn't really detail a lot of their gameplay, since I wanted to build them up as an interesting mob, but below is how they function:

    • Wraiths have the highest health value of any non-boss mob at 200 (or 100 hearts)
    • Wraiths are a very slow moving mob, as they move slightly faster than a walking player.
    • Wraiths have a slow attack, but deal a severe 20 hearts worth of damage, making them the most powerful non-boss mob to fight in the game, beating the Warden.
    • Wraiths also have a charge attack if the player gets too far away, and it'll deal only 15 hearts of damage, which matches the Warden's strength.
    • Wraiths have the ability to jump upwards of 15 blocks high, though the time it takes for them to lift off is slow.
    • Wraiths are particularly persistent, but very rarely spawn even in areas they're supposed to. You'd have to be extremely unlucky for one of them to spawn.
    • Wraiths can be warded off by placing down Candles, Soul Torches or Soul Lanterns.
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    Their drop seems a bit bad for such a hard mob. For example it could drop enchanted books or a trophy item.

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    Just why? There is just the Warden, and it's enough. If we have another mov that can one shot us, none would go exploring caves