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Put spiders in line with the recent direction of mobs

Over the past few years Mojang has taken up the ethic that mobs based on real animals should not be encouraged to harm.

Two of the most glaring exceptions to this are the hostile mobs 'silverfish' and 'spider'.

Spiders don't chase people. They only bite when they can't flee and they're always venomous. They should only hurt you if you step on them, and aggro if you attack them.

I also propose a new way of dealing with spiders: buckets. You can scoop a spider up, and place it somewhere outside so you don't step on it. Many recent mobs can be scooped up.

Many recent mobs also have colour variations. The world of spiders is brimming with colour and adding some could intrigue people who otherwise are repulsed by spiders. it could be based on biomes like the frogs, or random like axolotls. Traveling the world to capture exotic spiders could be a fun thing!

I think this would greatly improve the game for people who like and dislike spiders a lot

This does not refer to cave spiders, who I think should keep their hostility but should change into a fantasy mob.

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    I think it actually makes more sense the way Minecraft is with bugs. Silver fish only get angry because their friends were attacked or their house was broken, and spiders in game are about human sized so they would go after humans as prey, though they only attack at night in game anyways.

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    Note that spiders in Minecraft aren't meant to be reflections of the tiny ones in real life, but more the larger-than-people spiders you can find in various mythological stories, like Aragog in Harry Potter. Spiders are about twice the size of a player you know!