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I rigged up a simple 'block zombie switch' that pushes a block in the way if any zombies manage to get through the door. It's quite funny as they turn back, the block retracts, so they try to get in again and get blocked. Rinse and repeat. You activate it before night fall and you should be fine.

Someone better with redstone should perhaps invent an anti-zombie wooden door for those who don't like iron =o

==EDIT==

Quick question...does sleeping affect how fast the zombies break through? Can zombies break through WHILE you're sleeping? Can you even sleep when zombies are knocking on your door?

Ima go have a look =o

==EDIT 2==

Apparently sleeping does nothing to the progress of the Zombies kicking down your door. You can sleep and they'll still be kicking it down when you wake up in the morning. So I kinda doubt they can interrupt your sleep by kicking it down (kinda hard to test this one). So yeah, my own question answered. Maybe in the future they'll be able to interrupt our sleep T_T

Since this new guy joined Mojang, Hostile mobs have been getting more and more terrifying. I like it! We lost Notch (RIP), but I think Jeb and this new guy are taking Minecraft in a very good direction! Just keep doin' what you're doin'!

From my testing experience I got a Iron sword, iron pants, and 2 iron helmets from zombies. Not telling what i found from creepers and skellys. Endermen dont drop anything new i think. Pig zombies ( all im telling ) is gold ingots.

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I rigged up a simple 'block zombie switch' that pushes a block in the way if any zombies manage to get through the door. It's quite funny as they turn back, the block retracts, so they try to get in again and get blocked. Rinse and repeat. You activate it before night fall and you should be fine.

Someone better with redstone should perhaps invent an anti-zombie wooden door for those who don't like iron =o

==EDIT==

Quick question...does sleeping affect how fast the zombies break through? Can zombies break through WHILE you're sleeping? Can you even sleep when zombies are knocking on your door?

Ima go have a look =o

It depends on where your bed is. As you are most likely aware, you cannot sleep whenever mobs are a certain distance from your bed (I don't know how far away they have to be) but if you manage to get in bed BEFORE a zombie breaks your door down, then your golden. The world is not simulated when you go to bed, all that happens is a change in time, and a reset of your spawn point.

no i like my loot good sir

The sound of a Zombie breaking your door down is utterly terrifying if I ever heard that sound in real life I would crap my pants! good job mojang

zombies. make. punching. sound. on. door. and. chase. villagers.

This is from the minecraft wiki:

Added rare Item drops for mobs.

* Zombies have a rare chance to drop a Iron Ingot, Iron Helmet, Iron Shovel, or an Iron Sword.
* Skeletons have a rare chance to drop a Bow or an Enchanted Bow.
* Zombie Pigmen have a rare chance to drop a Golden Helmet, Gold Ingot, Golden Sword, or an Enchanted Golden Sword.


That's all that's currently known. Does anyone know how exactly the villagers "socialize"?

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Zombie thing is awesome. Any idea what the item drop is?

They drop iron tools (minus iron hoes), iron ingots, and iron helmets.

I love this new snapshot, it is like the old days when i was terrified in caves finding a zombie in front of me coming from nowhere in my backside !
Yay, continue like that it' s very great !

It's about time something other than you can draw the ire from mobs (right now, just zombies). In later updates, I'd like to see skeletons take being assholes to a new level. (They should sometimes kill passive mobs on purpose and like Mo Creature BigCats and various other Mo Creature mobs, they sometimes destroy the drops in the process.) Hell, maybe they should even eventually make certain hostiles hate each other. I can't think who would hate each other though, besides maybe zombies (kill flesh and brains) and skeletons (kill the player for the sake of killing him and because of some evil magic). Basically, I'd like mobs attack each other sometimes. Maybe, regular spiders could see their smaller blue cousins as tasty little morsels and vice versa.

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It depends on where your bed is. As you are most likely aware, you cannot sleep whenever mobs are a certain distance from your bed (I don't know how far away they have to be) but if you manage to get in bed BEFORE a zombie breaks your door down, then your golden. The world is not simulated when you go to bed, all that happens is a change in time, and a reset of your spawn point.

Yus, but I wanted to see if they'd changed any of that xD

Sounds great.

Im just gonna put 2 dirt blocks at the place of a wooden door.

i figured out what "socializing" means among villagers and mobs


staring contest

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I rigged up a simple 'block zombie switch' that pushes a block in the way if any zombies manage to get through the door. It's quite funny as they turn back, the block retracts, so they try to get in again and get blocked. Rinse and repeat. You activate it before night fall and you should be fine.

Someone better with redstone should perhaps invent an anti-zombie wooden door for those who don't like iron =o

==EDIT==

Quick question...does sleeping affect how fast the zombies break through? Can zombies break through WHILE you're sleeping? Can you even sleep when zombies are knocking on your door?

Ima go have a look =o

==EDIT 2==

Apparently sleeping does nothing to the progress of the Zombies kicking down your door. You can sleep and they'll still be kicking it down when you wake up in the morning. So I kinda doubt they can interrupt your sleep by kicking it down (kinda hard to test this one). So yeah, my own question answered. Maybe in the future they'll be able to interrupt our sleep T_T

They already can interrupt our sleep.

To the guys asking y they dont make it into a huge update. Bugs, they need us to test so they can get the bugs fixed, soon enough it will be out, i mean they cant keep doing snapshots forever. i mean you modders will have 1.2 out when they are pretty sure all the bugs are fixed, give them some credit for even releasing snapshots, i mean they could go a few months and nothing, and then boom a big update with game crashing bugs and what not, i am actually glad that Mojang is keeping us informed on the updates, although i dont play the snapshots because i dont know how, i appreciate the work and effort that everyone at Mojang AB puts in, for us, the players, now shutup with your stupid mods and wait, and thats just my 2 pennys,

Zombies break iron doors too, so don't count on that.