God I hate these guys so much it's unreal

Skeleton bow shot timing is extremely predictable

No it isn't, it changes depending on how close you are to the skeleton, at close range it's basically a hyper-accurate minigun.

CHICKEN JOCKEYYYYYY

Skeletons would have absolutely no threat if you could dodge them easily while faffing around. Zombies can still be a threat when you don't pay attention, get flanked or get overwhelmed. Creepers can heavily punish people quickly if they lose awareness. You dodge skeletons at the closest range you can then rush them after they fire their shot. If you could just dodge them whenever you want at any range in any situation then they would never be able to pose a real threat.

Minecraft combat has no middle ground. Everything is either braindead easy or actively infuriating hard. There's nothing in-between. The first night would be ok (for a newcomer) if there weren't skeletons who knock you out of your ass when try to climb 3 blocks high.

After you get your full armor and a bow&arrows, almost nothing in the Overworld can kill you. Then you reach the Nether and suddenly the cannon fodder is doing 4 hearts of damage to your iron armor. Or the Hoglin carefully stalking you from behind to knock you out of that pit. Everything in the Nether is at least double the difficulty of the Overworld:
- Magma Cubes: simply disgusting, damage on touch, damage when they die, damage. Damage. Respawn forever.
- Ghast: dies to one arrow, but God help you if you don't have a bow.
- Piglin Brutes: after you understand the trick of wearing a piece of gold armor, they throw a fucking miniboss at you. They're very easy if you just approach slowly, but you can just quit if you fall down one of the holes in a Bastion and two find you at once.

Withers and Blazes are ok, as long as you're not caught near a spawner.

Then you get to The End and everything becomes braindead easy again.

Then fucking rush them and kill them.

It's better to just rush in, "enter" the skeleton and keep flailing wildly instead of trying to time your attacks. The game doesn't bother to show you this, but there is actually a window between pushing the button to raise the shield and it actually protecting you.

dude just run into the arrows

magma cube

It is extremely obvious where they're going to land and it takes ages for them to land. How can you struggle against them by the point you get to the nether?

ghast

Did you never find out that you can just swat their fireballs back at them? You don't need a bow.

piglin brutes

You outrange them. Get knockback on your sword.

If you didn't get hit by the arrows when you could dodge them while sprinting, then you would be able to close in the distance and kill them.

If you had kept reading after the part you quoted you wouldn't have made this post.

Actually reading the second sentence it seems you just have shit reading comprehension so please work on that.

You didn't even attempt to address my post you fag

ruins your fun

No it isn't,

Yes, it is, they fire at fixed intervals

Did you never find out that you can just swat their fireballs back at them? You don't need a bow.

They don't stay in place for the fireball to hit them back 90% of the time. People hate Ghasts for a reason: they stay floating just out of the way while pestering you with the equivalent of a Minecraft tactical nuke. One of the foremost death prompts in the Nether is getting wrecked by Ghasts as soon as you step out of the portal.

You outrange them. Get knockback on your sword.

The issue is that (at least the first time), you aggro the whole Bastion if you hit a Piglin Brute.

It is extremely obvious where they're going to land and it takes ages for them to land.

Try to track 5 of them at once, or emerge near a Fortress that has lave nearby. You're getting knocked into that lava and raped by cubes. And the old-and-tried "kill room" (surround yourself with blocks and make a 1-block opening) doesn't even work properly against those fuckers because their death explosion randomly hits you.

How do you respond without sounding mad

The interval changes when you get near them. Just try this: go right up to them with your shield raised, and strike them right after their arrow is blocked. There is a pretty good chance they'll fire back (and hit you) while being knocked back, before you can even raise the shield again.

YOU FUCKING N-

Aren't skeletons scared of wolves? Just bring one with you.

skill issue, just side step and rush after cooldown

alt-F4

just git gud and roll

place two dirt in front of you

Wow that was hard, you cumguzzling faglords

You know if you tame wolfs they will attack them

If you want a cosy Minecraft experience, play Alpha or Beta versions. I don't know what you're smoking if you think modern Minecraft is """cosy""" given how much work you need to put in now.

Truth. Why the hell do you need to clear like 90% of the game before making fucking POTIONS?
Reminds me of TES Daggerfall, where you needed to join a guild and level up in their quests to just be able to BUY potions. Not even make them. BUY.

Recent dungeon crawling april fools ruined by these guys several times

One of the boss dungeons is literally spawning in 50 skeletons and withers to kill you

Who designed this garbage?

I wish hitting them would cause them to stagger or something. Infinite ammo and insane dps are already bad on their own but the fact that even bumrushing the damn things or going for a sneak attack won't stop a guaranteed arrow up your ass is ridiculous.

They know Skeletons are infurating, that's part of the fun. It's that stupid meme of "that guy woke up today and chose violence".

esc

peaceful

I kill the Ender Dragon and just go Peaceful. Every time. I have full Netherite Armor with enchantments, I don't need to have to worry about Skeletons firing their sticks at me or those boar fuckers stealthly knocking me off my skybridge.
Or not sleeping for 8 days and having like 10 Phantoms spawn in all at once.

Dig down three blocks, cover the hole, dig forward, dig back up to surface

Didn’t they used to miss if you stood still? I remember that’s how I fought them; wait for them to shoot and miss, then move

For me its

dig one block down

enter swim mode

swim away

If im playing on hard mode its

pull up middle finger

use middle finger to hit altf4

Their should be a one percent chance of a skeleton spawning that uses the original machine gun arrow firing bow Mechanics

What are some good modpacks?

those things used to have lazer targeting, you zoomers have it easy

JIGGIN JOOGGY

i just

you'd probably drown by then

cover the hole,

Ghasts

You can aim the fireball. Lead it to where the ghasts move. They're slow and big. It's a very easy thing to hit.

Piglin brute

That's why you get a sword with high knockback, so you have better capability of preventing getting swarmed.

Magma cubes

Tracking 5 things at once isn't a difficult task. They also jump to land where you were, so just walking back and getting them to group up will stop them from overwhelming you. If you let yourself get in a position where you can run into a cube then get knocked into lava, you are playing very recklessly. They are very loud so you should be able to hear them from far away. Block off lava if you need to cross a corner or something.

somehow i forgot water doesnt work like water

I've seen people build improv barriers out of dirt or whatever. Then the skeleton comes in close to get around it and bingo.

Phantoms are the single most miserable, anti-fun part of the game. They add nothing but a nuisance. They aren't fun. They aren't engaging. They aren't challenging.

I hate ghasts. Too scary and their fireball sucks

parry it back

too hard and it explodes if you fail and you die.

use a fishing rod if you dont have arrows

Dodge and BUILD, dumbass. There's a reason why skeleton arrows stick to blocks despite being impossible to pick up.

Good thing there's a toggle to turn them off and nothing of value is lost

it's harder to repair elytras!

I don't know of a single person who doesn't immediately slam unbreaking and mending on their elytra.

better light up your cave system so you don't get mobbed on your way back to your death area, shitter

I feel like, even if enchants weren't available, for whatever contrived reason, getting a whole new elytra would be easier than trying to repair the one(s) you have with phantom membranes.
Phantoms really are worthless, aren't they? Even armadillos are more welcome.

the only time phantoms bother me is if im trying to build at night. i dont really understand the upsetti unless doing just that thing is very important to more people than i realized.
or maybe its just the thing to latch on to since theres hardly any reason to complain about hunger any more.
i wouldnt be unhappy if they changed phantoms, but what should they do short of removing them from the game? maybe if the player is in a sufficiently high light level they dont spawn on you, or add another way to sleep that skips day instead of night.

overworld traversal has prgression and phantoms shit all over it. Want to travel around at night early without forcing yourself to get iron armor as soon as you make a new world? Phantoms fuck that idea up, back to the mines.. Want to build at night and you've done a good job light-proofing your base? Too bad, phantoms will divebomb you constantly. Trying to hunt random mobs like slimes in swamps, but haven't set up farms? Guess you need to sleep first, hope you didn't waste the correct moon day.

Every other monster can be handled or avoided with proper movement, or terrain management. Phantoms have terrible hit detection and kill undergeared players in a few impossible to dodge dives, they're a constant nuisance even after you get diamonds, and they have no useful drops.

The best thing would just be completely remove them. Barring that, put heavy restrictions that aren't based on being awake for X days. Only spawns in specific biomes, only dives you if you look at it like an enderman. Give it a very gratuitous hitbox so you can actually hit the fuckers. Make them very fragile, dying in a single hit. Something, anything.

All I want is a modifier for Bows that puts them back to the way before they had drawback, and you could rapid fire them.
You could even balance it and make it so you can't do heavy damage with the modifer.

Creepers are one of the most bullshit enemies in video game history.

If they just emitted a slight noise while alive, they would be totally fixed. It would also make them scarier.
To be slightly late going to bed shouldn't put your homestead at risk of a random unforseen item-deleting explosion while you are busy harvesting something. The time it takes for them to detonate once they emit noise is not fucking fair at all.

FUCK CREEPERS FOREVER
GAME RUINING ENEMY

If they just emitted a slight noise while alive, they would be totally fixed.

pretty sure they do though? they emit a quiet "tss" that puts you on alert.

the correct moon day

what is this advanced autism I didn't know about

They don't at all. They are dead fucking silent until they activate their explosion timer, which is too short to matter.

You are literally wrong. You need to get your hearing checked.

now that you mention the hitbox it is a little strange. the other flying enemy, ghasts, have an enormous hitbox and very little hp. granted, ghasts are typically fought in urgent situations at very long range but a standard 20 hp isnt necessary for phantoms to fulfill their evil bat theme.
since he mentions swamps i imagine he means how slimes spawn in swamps more often on full moons.

Creepers are meant to punish players for being inattentive because they can easily be dealt with when you are paying attention to your surroundings, you only have yourself to blame if you die to one.
You don't get to not care at night or in caves if you aren't playing on peaceful or creative.
The only times creepers should be obvious is when they're charged by lightning.

the skeleton owns me, simple as i only play on 1.12.2

Nooo you’re going to derail a cool skeleton thread!

Do they really need to have such brutal knock back? Trying to climb a couple blocks to get to one or cross a little water is a nightmare early game before I get good shit to counter them.

I build a dirt wall between me and him and camp the corners for the fucker

you use a bow and arrow and you out range them, if up close, instagib them with any axe with a smite 3 enchant crit swing

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Yeah man, like, just use full netherite gear with projectile protect 4, whats the issue, you have that stuff in like two sleeps.

this is early game survival stuff

Literally just move to the left.

play creative and stop ruining survival experience for everyone else with your skill issue complaints

CHICKEN JOCKEY

Make a crossbow faggot

Any currently showing movies that would be ideal for someone who hates PC gaming and has never played Minecraft?

who hates PC gaming

go back

Aaaaarrrrggghhhhhhhh! Nooo, my popcorn!!!!!!

I'm sorry, but playing on PC is blasphemous to me, and Steam is filthy shit.

adventure update fucked it up. pre adventure, enemy mob walk speed was much closer to player speed, making them a credible threat. if you're surrounded on all sides by zombies in 1.7.3, you're not getting out without taking damage, but in modern you just hurrrr sprint bunnyhop away to the nearest village and take their food.
1.7.3 is so cozy.. at night I hide in my house and look out the window and feel safe. there's none of that in modern, only if you have a modpack that makes enemies dangerous again.

phantoms are horrendous. horrible horrible game design

Or if you just go do more dangerous shit like ancient cities, ocean monuments, trial chambers, pillager raids, etc.

Nope. Nether sucks, game becomes bad after getting diamond armor. Full set, btw.

CLEAN IT UP, BOBBY

Chip in, Johnny!

Guess you need to sleep first, hope you didn't waste the correct moon day.

Just getting in a bed resets the phantom timer. You can hop out without skipping the night.

we need a new mob, what we thinkin?

idk meth psychosis?

holy fuck. holy fucking shit. that's the best idea i've ever heard

in early versions you could just attack as fast as you clicked. zombies were more of a threat because of player speed as you mentioned but dont oversell them, youd be juggling your way out of a surround without too much risk.

even iron armor with prot 1 makes overworld mobs pretty much a non threat

What even is “The End”? Is it just called that cause it’s literally “The End” of the game?

going up waterfall while in a giant underground cave

get shot by an skeleton

knocks me out of the waterfall and fall 80 blocks

die and see all my shit get pushed by the water into a nearby lava pit

this, anytime i do modern i get bored by all the game shit they flood you with and i deliberately ignore it and build while friends do that junk
beta is so zen. no goals, no structures, like tending a garden.

missing the point. modern minecraft misses that sense of retaking the wilderness. the overworld was a much more oppressive threat at night requiring more careful insulating of exits and lighting things carefully, now you just sprint away from everything and never run out of food because of villages or because all animals drop meat. you can steal a village house or honestly just place a bed in the middle of nowhere, it makes no difference

player speed isn't just related to mobs, it also affects the scale of the game. the faster the speed, the smaller relative scale of everything, including mobs. the slower you are, the greater every distance in terms of travel. to explore the same distance from your base is much more of a journey before sprinting, which results in you becoming more familiar with the terrain, how you design footpaths, etc. each block is more meaningful.
and then modern doubly affects this by making world-gen gigantic.

true, but it adds up, considering that any distance out at night is effectively greater, so the same trip out just to cut some trees down is riskier. and while zombies aren't the toughest things, skeletons and creepers are affected by this speed thing too. skeletons take longer to get out of range from, and you can't strafe or get close to them nearly as easily. creepers too, you basically have a smaller window to escape if one starts going off near you.
spiders are still weakshit tho

there are plenty of uncommon mobs that keep things dangerous. huge caves tend to be swarming with mobs, baby zombies suck, especially with grass around and can consume your attention giving other mobs a chance to get closer. witches are horrible if you dont get the first strike and force them to drink a healing potion, trident drowned are shit heads.

Is it just called that cause it’s literally “The End” of the game

Yes, but people speculate it's also far future, the end of time

spiders had their role too being faster than other mobs kind of like hostile wolves nipping at your heels and demanding your attention if you were trying to flee. that role has kind of been replaced by baby zombies those little shits.
slight segue but on the topic of classic difficulty bonemeal used to be leagues more powerful, a bone was a guaranteed bread until bonemeal was nerfed. same for trees, you might not have to leave your lit up area to chop trees at night if you have a couple of bones lying around but in modern versions youll be doing more waiting for things to grow, so youll likely scale up any farms you make too, work not unlikely to last into several nights.

Warden

why is this such a niggerfier?

Opinion on Pillagers?

they literally get one-shot by jumping stone axe attacks, nigger

shield

Holy skill issue.
Shields were a mistake, if you use it or use totems - you're NGMI

items designed to help you make it

using them prevents you from making it

why are game devs like this

Once again, skill issue. Those items don't even exist in the latest version of Minecraft (1.7.10)

I look like this and say this (I'm in my twenties)

I don't even know how to make a shield LOL