I see this new mob as spawning in flatlands mainly or even deserts. The idea behind them comes from Zelda if I remember that correctly, they are this mobs that come out of the ground and circle around you and attack you. That's in Zelda of course this is Minecraft. Anyway the Popper's spawn at night--like all hostile mobs do--and they have a chance to drop watermelon or pumpkin seeds upon being killed. They move around quickly so it's hard to kill them and much better to use a bow from a distances without alerting them. They spawn in groups of 2 to 4, never alone and as I said in Zelda, they attack by circling around you. They are relatively weak, easy to kill with 2 full-drawn shots of a bow in normal for comparison They also drop flows or anything they may have picked up, but you can see what they have picked up, so a luck of the draw, sometimes nothing, sometimes seeds and sometimes seeds and maybe a iron helmet. As for damage done to you if attacked, pretty weak as well, maybe half a heart, in easy, and up to 4 hearts in hard.
They spawn on flat surfaces at night, they can't go down hills so there movement is limited. So they need a pretty large flat land to spawn on. They can't spawn on stone, or anything hard like that, only dirt, gravel, mycellium, and sand.
This is what they look like in the Zelda game, so something more roundish and brown with black spikes at the top like a mouth. Kind of like a shell is what I am imagining.
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Seems like a lot, but if we look at it, there they are divided between two places, and hostile and passive. Considering that we don't have many hostile mobs in the overworld as we do in the Nether. Popper belongs in the overworld.
And every now and then, a bigger one should pop up.
*Ahem* Kidding, anyway:
I actually like the idea of something like the leever (that's what it's called in Zelda games). I'm not too sure about the name "popper" though. Popper sounds more like a name for a baby creeper. If they can't jump or fall off ledges though, their movement would be rather limited...
And every now and then, a bigger one should pop up.
*Ahem* Kidding, anyway:
I actually like the idea of something like the leever (that's what it's called in Zelda games). I'm not too sure about the name "popper" though. Popper sounds more like a name for a baby creeper. If they can't jump or fall off ledges though, their movement would be rather limited...
Popper came to mind immediately when this idea came to mind...really I was just playing MC when I saw a batch of Wheat at night, and I thought it was one of these things for what ever reason, then I thought, why not suggest it. As for the limited area it can spawn in, I really don't see any way if it going from one surface to another. Makes it that much harder to find one, it would be like a second Slime, only with this one if you make a large enough flat land area out of dirt you'be be able to make a farm of them. That probably makes them over powered though...
Anyway the name can always change but I like Poppers'.
Edit: Well lets say they can fall and jump, then what?
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I've been thinking on the fall and jump of these things, they can do that, it gives them more freedom and it doesn't see all that over powering. They are pretty weak to begin with, just their speed is the thing you need to deal with. Maybe I should try to get someone to make a mod of this and see what we get from there...I'll go look into that now.
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They spawn on flat surfaces at night, they can't go down hills so there movement is limited. So they need a pretty large flat land to spawn on. They can't spawn on stone, or anything hard like that, only dirt, gravel, mycellium, and sand.
Seems like a lot, but if we look at it, there they are divided between two places, and hostile and passive. Considering that we don't have many hostile mobs in the overworld as we do in the Nether. Popper belongs in the overworld.
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I actually like the idea of something like the leever (that's what it's called in Zelda games). I'm not too sure about the name "popper" though. Popper sounds more like a name for a baby creeper. If they can't jump or fall off ledges though, their movement would be rather limited...
Popper came to mind immediately when this idea came to mind...really I was just playing MC when I saw a batch of Wheat at night, and I thought it was one of these things for what ever reason, then I thought, why not suggest it. As for the limited area it can spawn in, I really don't see any way if it going from one surface to another. Makes it that much harder to find one, it would be like a second Slime, only with this one if you make a large enough flat land area out of dirt you'be be able to make a farm of them. That probably makes them over powered though...
Anyway the name can always change but I like Poppers'.
Edit: Well lets say they can fall and jump, then what?
I've been thinking on the fall and jump of these things, they can do that, it gives them more freedom and it doesn't see all that over powering. They are pretty weak to begin with, just their speed is the thing you need to deal with. Maybe I should try to get someone to make a mod of this and see what we get from there...I'll go look into that now.