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Absorption and Regeneration may help a bit fighting wither. These two slows down the wither effect and you can also use Strength to quickly kill wither in the provided time. Otherwise, there is no way to avoid that effect, no armor can do it (according to me).

Note: Even in Absorption and Regeneration your health decreases as a result of the wither effect, but slow.

I just kind of got this idea that would allow people with worlds made before 1.4 to have witches without going really far into new chunks.

Witch children!

There would be a 1 in 60 chance that a baby villager would be born as a baby witch-villager. Witch villager-children look like this:


Witch-villager children would behave like normal villager children, except that they wouldn't play tag and would attempt to avoid the other children. After 20 minutes (the normal grow-up time), they would turn into adult witch-villagers.

Witch-villagers!

After 20 minutes, witch-villager children would grow up into this:


Witch-villagers would behave like normal villagers, except they would not socialize with the other villagers, and would tend to hang around the outskirts of the village during the day. At night, instead of grouping with the other villagers in a couple of houses, they would find a different house and stay in it alone. They would also trade. Here are their trades:





Witches!

60 minutes after growing up, witch-villagers would age into a normal witch. There would be a couple of slight changes with witches to accompany the new method of obtaining them:

1. Iron golems would no longer attack witches.
2. Witches would be able to open and close doors, along with going inside houses at night (witch huts would be modified to have a door, and stairs up the the door)
3. Normal villagers would attempt to avoid witches
4. Zombies would attack and infect witches

Constructive criticism is welcome!

This idea sound good. I've heard about mushroom island though so maybe another island is a good idea. Now i dont think having the island explode is such a good idea but maybe just erupt, with alot of lava. Anyway i think this is a wonderful idea that they should add to vanilla minecraft