quote=Jeb q.v. java devs talk update aquatic
“The Phantom spawns around players who haven't slept for five in-game days, so it's about an hour of gameplay,” explained Jens.
First think, I expected better: five (5) "in-game days" is 100 minutes so "about an hour of gameplay” is hardly accurate…
RE: Who doesn't sleep for 5 days?
Add me to the list, I use beds (basically*1) only to reset spawn. I see an advantage to "time-porting" through the night only if one sleeps early enough to prevent spawns – which means always needing to keep one eye on the 'clock'. [Clock-watching is not something I consider an improvement to my play experience.]
Rain is just a good time to fish and – unless you want interrupt your game to run home and huddle under the covers (despite being twenty meters underground) every time it thunders – you need to slap roofs over anything lightning can damage anyway.
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I would not call this a useless mob; it seems quite well designed to ghettoize a community of players MS/Mj thinks are having BadWrongFun™
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Combined with an attack pattern (as shown in some of the early snapshot reviews) that makes MobB largely unkillable without a top end bow (or possibly trident), this reinforces my opinion that MobB is designed to coerce a certain "approved" style of game play.
This "approved" style requires:
As to why anyone voted for MobB:
I suspect most looked at it and went "Cool!" [which it could be, IF it were implemented without attempting to coerce one "approved" style of play],
but didn't think through the consequences of the announced intended behaviors.
[Given that Mojang doesn't appear to know the length of a MC day, much less recognize the chilling effect this mob will have on both exploration and large, complex builds; I think the typical player (younger and younger these days) may be forgiven the oversite.]
From the comments about the [now hopefully abandoned] plans to grief sticky pistons and water physics, it would also not surpise me if there were a small minority of votes for MobB from players who would be all too happy to see redstone and auto-anything removed from the game…
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*1sleeping during the early development/hardening of a village is the main exception
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I'm running a villager breeder and am finding consistently that -at least- 75% of the white coated villagers are cartographers. Combined with the green coats this has massively slowed down librarian production. Having 25% of white coats cartographers would seem at the high end of reasonable. But Nearly every one is a cartographer. Very, very disappointed in this. No one needs -this- many maps.
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What if it's 1/11.
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Most definitely doesn't make the ender chest obsolete. The great feature of that is no one else can see what's in yours. Also accessible any where you can craft and place one. Secret stash, and all.
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Culprit has been found. Apologies for my anger. Honesty would just be nice. But, this is my first time hosting a realm, so live and learn. World is all set now, nothing destroyed, all where it was. Katie, Paige and Ella, you're fine.