1. The wither skulls are a rare drop, stone sword drops are much more common than skulls because it's much easier to obtain.
2. I give you that one, but then again I haven't checked my nether fortress since snapshot 12w36.
3. You also have to maneuver these same grounds to get blaze rods, nether brick, soulsand, ghast tears, etc
4. You don't NEED to use potions to defeat withers. I killed a ton of them in iron armor, a diamond sword and brought 3 buckets of milk.
5. Who says you need to farm wither skeletons with some special method? Just walk around and kill any that you find.
6. Once again, you don't NEED to enchant. You can kill wither skeletons with your fist, wooden tools, stone tools, iron tools, gold tools, and diamond tools! Hell, slap them with wool for all I care.
7. No you don't. Just keep killing a ton of wither skeletons.
8. Not always, you could get coal, bones, or maybe a wither skull! O:
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I'm all about hard.
I'm against early game almost broken tool drops in late game.
I'm also against oh so boring drone grinds...
Mojang didn't factor solo play and drop rates - more players equals more chances, but for solo, 2.5% is a tad small, especially if you can get a stone sword as a rare drop...
1. The wither skulls are a rare drop, stone sword drops are much more common than skulls because it's much easier to obtain.
2. I give you that one, but then again I haven't checked my nether fortress since snapshot 12w36.
3. You also have to maneuver these same grounds to get blaze rods, nether brick, soulsand, ghast tears, etc
4. You don't NEED to use potions to defeat withers. I killed a ton of them in iron armor, a diamond sword and brought 3 buckets of milk.
5. Who says you need to farm wither skeletons with some special method? Just walk around and kill any that you find.
6. Once again, you don't NEED to enchant. You can kill wither skeletons with your fist, wooden tools, stone tools, iron tools, gold tools, and diamond tools! Hell, slap them with wool for all I care.
7. No you don't. Just keep killing a ton of wither skeletons.
8. Not always, you could get coal, bones, or maybe a wither skull! O:
1. Wiki states that the sword is a rare drop too. And every skelly has one, so...
2.
3. As much as that is true, skeletons rarely spawn, and they ALWAYS walk along the edges of bridges of fortresses. It's not a problem if you knockback a blaze, you'll find another, and the pig, and the ghast, and the magma cube, but these guys...
4. I actually find it the easiest way to spam healing II pots on wither at 50% hp. And I meant you need at least a lot of fire protection potions when you farm wither skeletons. Add a lot of running, sou you'll prolly use speed potions etc.
5. Yeah, but a rareish mob with a rare drop for a hard boss in a dangerous place that might or might not appear, and if it does it might be a normal skeleton. It's more of "RUN IN CIRCLES AND GRIND" that annoys me...
6. True, but you do want looting enchantment right? And if you accidently hit a pig in non-diamond armor, well...
7. There isn't a ton. And in one of my 2 fortresses, one of them being underground tunnel kind, they don't even spawn. The other one is a lava floating death trap, for which I am more than satisfied in regards to difficulty. I am considering another go at hardcore difficulty, but I'm still "recuperating" from losing a world not long ago.
8. I don't need bones. Really. Coal is useless since you probably use blaze rods later. I have 6 ovens with 64 rods most of the time
I just hate to see them drop something other than coal and bones, and it's a broken stone sword. My disconnect button starts itching really bad...
Triple post for the fail? They don't make the skeletons drop the weapon because they think you need it, it drops because of the armor/weapon mob equip system. Making an exception to that would be a waste of time.
Triple post for the fail? They don't make the skeletons drop the weapon because they think you need it, it drops because of the armor/weapon mob equip system. Making an exception to that would be a waste of time.
@triple posting: Damn, I thought I was editing my post, multitasking is a *****
@making an exception: sword can be simply made as a part of skeleton graphically or something. Having it as a drop is a waste of time and nerves At least a sword and head simultaneous drop, which actually happened once to me OR make them a non-pickable mobs, like pigs or bosses?
This won't change. They drop it because the equipment system as stated above. Only having the sword graphically would destroy the whole point of them. The sword makes them do more damage, without that equipment they would be horribly easy and even more boring to farm.
If you dont like the spawn rates build it bigger.
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Don't play vanilla? You don't know **** about minecraft.
It is a bit strange that the lower-level enemies drop iron swords, and the higher-level enemies drop stone swords...
And why do zombies drop ingots, anyway? Are they robot zombies?
Yeah I'll give you that much. But I think its because the zombies use to be miners, and as such have an ingot in their pockets sometimes. I mean they do have armor as well sometimes.
Then again remember how much sense drops use to make? At least now they're trying to make it seem right lol
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Don't play vanilla? You don't know **** about minecraft.
I said this in the suggestions forum, but I'll repeat it here. The stone swords should come with a unique enchantment which causes withering on the creature you hit with it.
I would rather see Wither Skeletons being a bit rarer but have the head drop more frequently. Or make it so you need to kill them in the correct way (like getting records from Creepers). Random rare drops just mean grinding.
As for the stone swords, they're pointless but not actually harmful - AFAIK, it's not like they appear instead of a head, they drop when a head wouldn't. Having some kind of purpose for them would be nice though - maybe allow grinding or smelting them to get a component for a wither potion.
It is supposed to be difficult to get the skulls from them. Most of the people are whining nowadays, this is too difficult to get, remove that, this is pointless, blah blah.
I like Minecraft, but the only thing that annoys me is that it has become too easy, there's no challenge anymore when you get you base done. You get the skulls to fight a BOSS, you can't expect to fight a boss every 5 minutes.
Haters should really quit Minecraft.
It's not difficult to get the skulls it's just time consuming. I spent two hours with a looting 3 sword to get the 3 skulls I needed to fight the wither.
I said this in the suggestions forum, but I'll repeat it here. The stone swords should come with a unique enchantment which causes withering on the creature you hit with it.
This. They should add a enchantment to the sword to make it worth while, it would also make sense cause of how the Wither and Wither Skeletons are.
2.5% for a rare drop to to get a broken stone sword instead of a skull? Really?
You need to find wither skeletons,they spawn almost never.
You need to maneuver on a higlhy dangerous high lava filled fortress grounds.
You need to spend potions.
You need to spend A LOT of diamonds OR A LOT of iron for the iron golems to farm them.
You need to spend levels on enchanting.
You have to hope for that LOOTING prefix.
And you get a stone sword for it.
Just remove it.
2. I give you that one, but then again I haven't checked my nether fortress since snapshot 12w36.
3. You also have to maneuver these same grounds to get blaze rods, nether brick, soulsand, ghast tears, etc
4. You don't NEED to use potions to defeat withers. I killed a ton of them in iron armor, a diamond sword and brought 3 buckets of milk.
5. Who says you need to farm wither skeletons with some special method? Just walk around and kill any that you find.
6. Once again, you don't NEED to enchant. You can kill wither skeletons with your fist, wooden tools, stone tools, iron tools, gold tools, and diamond tools! Hell, slap them with wool for all I care.
7. No you don't. Just keep killing a ton of wither skeletons.
8. Not always, you could get coal, bones, or maybe a wither skull! O:
I'm against early game almost broken tool drops in late game.
I'm also against oh so boring drone grinds...
Mojang didn't factor solo play and drop rates - more players equals more chances, but for solo, 2.5% is a tad small, especially if you can get a stone sword as a rare drop...
1. Wiki states that the sword is a rare drop too. And every skelly has one, so...
2.
3. As much as that is true, skeletons rarely spawn, and they ALWAYS walk along the edges of bridges of fortresses. It's not a problem if you knockback a blaze, you'll find another, and the pig, and the ghast, and the magma cube, but these guys...
4. I actually find it the easiest way to spam healing II pots on wither at 50% hp. And I meant you need at least a lot of fire protection potions when you farm wither skeletons. Add a lot of running, sou you'll prolly use speed potions etc.
5. Yeah, but a rareish mob with a rare drop for a hard boss in a dangerous place that might or might not appear, and if it does it might be a normal skeleton. It's more of "RUN IN CIRCLES AND GRIND" that annoys me...
6. True, but you do want looting enchantment right? And if you accidently hit a pig in non-diamond armor, well...
7. There isn't a ton. And in one of my 2 fortresses, one of them being underground tunnel kind, they don't even spawn. The other one is a lava floating death trap, for which I am more than satisfied in regards to difficulty. I am considering another go at hardcore difficulty, but I'm still "recuperating" from losing a world not long ago.
8. I don't need bones. Really. Coal is useless since you probably use blaze rods later. I have 6 ovens with 64 rods most of the time
I just hate to see them drop something other than coal and bones, and it's a broken stone sword. My disconnect button starts itching really bad...
@triple posting: Damn, I thought I was editing my post, multitasking is a *****
@making an exception: sword can be simply made as a part of skeleton graphically or something. Having it as a drop is a waste of time and nerves At least a sword and head simultaneous drop, which actually happened once to me OR make them a non-pickable mobs, like pigs or bosses?
Being a player of Terraria, I can say that what this person is ENTIRELY TRUE.
If you dont like the spawn rates build it bigger.
And why do zombies drop ingots, anyway? Are they robot zombies?
Yeah I'll give you that much. But I think its because the zombies use to be miners, and as such have an ingot in their pockets sometimes. I mean they do have armor as well sometimes.
Then again remember how much sense drops use to make? At least now they're trying to make it seem right lol
As for the stone swords, they're pointless but not actually harmful - AFAIK, it's not like they appear instead of a head, they drop when a head wouldn't. Having some kind of purpose for them would be nice though - maybe allow grinding or smelting them to get a component for a wither potion.
It's not difficult to get the skulls it's just time consuming. I spent two hours with a looting 3 sword to get the 3 skulls I needed to fight the wither.
This. They should add a enchantment to the sword to make it worth while, it would also make sense cause of how the Wither and Wither Skeletons are.