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Fixing Two Controversial Mobs, the Phantom and the Glow Squid.

I've recently been playing a bunch of singleplayer and hardcore mode, and wow, phantoms are annoying. It made me think to how in both mob votes, the community was left unsatisfied. Now personally, I really wished mob A, "The Barnacle" and the Iceologer were added. But instead of the generic "durr remove dem!" I feel revamping these 2 mobs, could actually provide a better experience.

First off, let's address the phantom. Mostly everyone agrees that phantoms are a pain, so I asked myself what I found most annoying about them. Generally it's their respawn time and the fact they attack in hordes. Maybe 2-3 phantoms a night would be manageable, but when I kill one, it just seems another respawns to take its place. So, if we were to add a cap to their spawning and reduce that time so that it's more spread out over the night, maybe they'll be better to deal with. I wouldn't mind even buffing them and reducing their encounters to once a night.

Next, addressing the glow squid. Nobody likes it. Mainly because it sits around doing nothing, and is a pretty lazy and tired addition. I feel like if it were revamped to become a threat reminiscent of mob A (Totally not biased). Maybe, just maybe, people would actually like it. Of course that means it would warrant better drops. Glowing calamari? Anyone? Of course I'm kidding. I think a good idea would be to add some kind of glowing heart or something similar, that when combined with armor and tools, cause them to emit light when held and worn.

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• August 16, 2022 01:52
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  • August 19, 2022 02:37
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  Phantoms could certainly use a behavioural rework, they were not designed well. Maybe they could only spawn during certain moon phases instead of punishment for not sleeping enough? There's no real reason to force players to sleep all the time. And they could spawn in groups of random numbers every certain moon phase.

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  • January 30, 2024 23:24
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  At first, I was hating the phantom, but I understood recently the phantom itself isn't the problem. The problem is the insomnia feature that oblige peoples to sleep every 3 days, but it's annoying, stupid and useless.
  
  I'm playing minecraft since beta 1.2, and monsters can be annoying at night, but if you wanna enjoy night outside, you have to enlight perfectly your area to be safe, in calm. Beta 1.3 added bed, to pass the night if it annoye us, it's optional. It became also a way to fix a spawn point.
  
  Now imagine, you prepared your ground for a big building and don't want to be interupted. You enlightened  to prevent mob spaning and not be annoyed, and also to not have to run to your bed, because you don't want to be interupted. Now, you have no mobs that spawn, but today, you have 2-3 flying things that come from nowhere, you can't prevent them from spawning, a waste of time to kill, you can't ignore them, and you must do something that was optional to make them leave you alone. That's so stupid ! where is interest in that case ? ! it goes against minecraft rules ! why keep this ? ! knowing peoples hate this ?
  
  My solution : no need to rework the phantom, but just give up this stupid useless idea to oblige players to sleep without any benefits in return, and change the way to get insomnia to make it optional (like killing an unusual cursed mob ), phantoms must be bonus and optional content, it don't have to affect players that didn't want this mob.