Now that 1.8 is out, it has introduced the new ailment system. Currently, there is just hunger to reduce health (to 8HP (four hearts)) and poison (to 1HP (.5 hearts)). After hearing of the Moo-shroom, the possibility of a new mob, let us discuss its survival tactics.
If the Moo-shroom is decided to be neutral (passive unless attacked) like the zombie pigmen or the 1.8.1 Endermen, it will fight back. What will it do? What could it do? That is where this ailment comes in.
Now, you may have heard of being shroomed as an ailment in a popular RPG known as EarthBound (please, keep all "I love that game!"s out of this thread.) where if any party member got affected by any mushroom-based enemy, they would be confused in battle and, should it be the leader, will rotate the controls. Easily remedied by rotating the controller for a bit until it rotates again. There is no definite cure for this unless you got it sold to some hippie in hospitals.
Let's get back to Minecraft, people. Just bear with me here. The same effect would happen to the player if the Moo-shroom charged into the player. To explain this into logic, which exists as little as Notch's working hours anymore, some spores from the Moo-shroom will be sent flying, and will land on the player, digging a root in and being all peachy.
What happens then? I'll tell you what happens, boy! You see those four keys on the left of your keyboard? W, A, S, and D (Subject to change on DVORAK keyboards)? Those directions will rotate as well. W would be D, D would be S, S would be A, and so on. After, let's say, a minute, it rotates randomly again. The key is that it doesn't scramble the keys' array, just rotates it.
"But Stone, you bungus, now I've been shroomed real hard, cave spiders poisoned me, and creepers are after me!"
Sorry, kid, can't help with the poison or your number one fans, but as _Jeb said, he may include a feature to cure poison: milk. Let's use something as weird as that and say SHEARS can remove that mushroom on your head.
If you were to press E, whatever armor you had on your head will be placed back into your inventory and will be replaced with a mushroom, irremovable unless you were to drag shears up there and take it off. The mushroom plops back in to the world in item form, the shears go back in your pocket, and all is well.
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If the Moo-shroom is decided to be neutral (passive unless attacked) like the zombie pigmen or the 1.8.1 Endermen, it will fight back. What will it do? What could it do? That is where this ailment comes in.
Now, you may have heard of being shroomed as an ailment in a popular RPG known as EarthBound (please, keep all "I love that game!"s out of this thread.) where if any party member got affected by any mushroom-based enemy, they would be confused in battle and, should it be the leader, will rotate the controls. Easily remedied by rotating the controller for a bit until it rotates again. There is no definite cure for this unless you got it sold to some hippie in hospitals.
Let's get back to Minecraft, people. Just bear with me here. The same effect would happen to the player if the Moo-shroom charged into the player. To explain this into logic, which exists as little as Notch's working hours anymore, some spores from the Moo-shroom will be sent flying, and will land on the player, digging a root in and being all peachy.
What happens then? I'll tell you what happens, boy! You see those four keys on the left of your keyboard? W, A, S, and D (Subject to change on DVORAK keyboards)? Those directions will rotate as well. W would be D, D would be S, S would be A, and so on. After, let's say, a minute, it rotates randomly again. The key is that it doesn't scramble the keys' array, just rotates it.
"But Stone, you bungus, now I've been shroomed real hard, cave spiders poisoned me, and creepers are after me!"
Sorry, kid, can't help with the poison or your number one fans, but as _Jeb said, he may include a feature to cure poison: milk. Let's use something as weird as that and say SHEARS can remove that mushroom on your head.
If you were to press E, whatever armor you had on your head will be placed back into your inventory and will be replaced with a mushroom, irremovable unless you were to drag shears up there and take it off. The mushroom plops back in to the world in item form, the shears go back in your pocket, and all is well.
That is all.