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Saw this documented on the Wiki's changelog, tried it out for myself.

Turned out to be true. I don't know the chances, nor all the potion effects.

Here's a spider with Regeneration:


Here's another one that spawned with Invisibility. You can still see the eyes.

Invisible spiders ftw.

So that's the things and stuff probably. This really should've been for the regional difficulty. The beginning part of the game is fine, I would rather more endgame difficulty.

Interesting that this is only for spiders. Why not endermen? (seeing as they are the only mob that can be detected w/ invisibility)

Quote from WoeUntoYou

Invisible spiders ftw.

I'm still torn between whether I find being chased by Spiders or floating glowing red eyes more frightening.

Is the effect permanent? I would like a ghost spider as a pet.

This should be in the game FURTHER into experience, not from the beginning.

Quote from aary33

This should be in the game FURTHER into experience, not from the beginning.

Exactly how I feel. This would've been a perfect trait for stronger spiders in regional difficulty.

So the game will get more intense for staying in your house? Or will it take SOME time to increase the regional difficulty?

Quote from oCrapaCreeper

Saw this documented on the Wiki's changelog, tried it out for myself.

Here's another one that spawned with Invisibility. You can still see the eyes.

NOPE!

As if those things weren't annoying enough... Oh well, it's still not as annoying as rapid-fire skeletons. But invisible spiders are going to be a real pain.

Unless you are surrounded by 10 of them and you have no armor, I really can't see how anyone would have any difficulty with vanilla mobs. If you say 'oh beginners still have trouble with mobs', when I was beginning it wasn't difficult to figure out that if you swing your sword a lot that stuff has a hard time getting to you, unless you consider skeletons, but that's really the only exception. I do find it interesting that spiders do this though but I can't really see it making it more 'challenging'.

Love this, makes you wonder if they were rogue experiments from witches in the swamp...

Was just starting a hardcore world... Had barely started when this killed me:


This guy had some strength effect and he killed me in 2 hits. I was rather saddened by this.. as you see my completely unused bow I had just crafted. :\

This must be incredibly rare. I havn't seen a single one of these guys and this update has been out for... about 3 weeks. Either I've just been really lucky or I'm in for a really bad surprise next time I'm out at night.

Oh boy, more artificial difficulty.
When are they going to actually implement new mobs with better AI and attacks rather than buffing the starting mobs to be able to take end-game players on, screwing over starting players in the process?

Putting invisible or strength wither skeletons in hardcore mode would make the game alot more difficult.