Notch reveals new mob

[Iron_Fang]

ill have a bunker please
also we should make a obby air cruiser
wonder if they are fire proof

[vallorn]

Lol, structural supports in MC. Yeah, noone uses supports.

i meant causing the resident Magma to flood the town...

[Laptop_mini]

[xidontcarex]

lol thats fake though XP, although its an well done fake
cuz once it turns aggressive it wont stop being aggresive XP

[vallorn]

they only freeze if you put the recticule on them Notch said so thats FAAAKED

[Iron_Fang]

Yes. http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8208212863 ... feeling-of
Also they should make no sound

[arogon343]

Slenderman isnt scary, Mr well done is. Google him, you know you want to.
Also, i cant wait, having something to interact with in single player is a nice addition.

[Pinmissile]

Thank you, Notch. For dealing with idlers when we're all busy.

[Tehbeard]

DAMM U AROGON!
It's 1am here :S

[Skunk_Giant]

Slenderman isnt scary, Mr well done is. Google him, you know you want to.
Also, i cant wait, having something to interact with in single player is a nice addition.

Googled him... Just found some imfamous troll on a bunch of forums. I'll have to try again!

[arogon343]

The youtube video is a start. He was what slender man was based on apparently :3
Have fun sleeping beard ;3

[Skunk_Giant]

That youtube video? I saw it, but had no sound, so it was kidn of boring. Description was interesting...

[Wildwill002]

That pumpkin recipes lookin a bit expensive now eh?

[MrWhales]

I wonder if they can teleport between worlds... My idea is to just /home when/if my reticle happens to fall on them.
And since I slenderman-proofed my new home.

[Laptop_mini]

I think I grew a monocle just by watching that video.

[Wildwill002]

If the endermen manage to steal wokkas hub perch then thats it. Game over. We're all gonna die! No survivors whatsoever! Infact it'll probably turn the server into a black hole.

[Sti_Jo_Lew]

We must all divide by zero to escape this immenent turture and cruel death!

[aflycon]

I think I grew a monocle just by watching that video.

[EricSmarties]

Fear is one of the easiest emotions to evoke, but doing so in a way that doesn’t frustrate or fatigue the player is more difficult. I find this fascinating. What parts of fear are fun, and what parts aren’t fun?

One of the biggest game design decisions in Minecraft is that all (well, most) negative things that affect the world or the player should happen near the player, and be clear to the player. That’s why creepers only explode near players, and that’s why fires stopped spreading indefinitely. This is somewhat related to my dislike of mazes in game design, where the player has no way of knowing or figuring out before hand what decision is the correct decision. Don’t penalize the player for things they can’t control.

Last weekend, I started working on a new mob because I was frustrated with the slow progress on some town code I was writing, and for some reason I decided to make yet another creepy one. It’s dark, it has long and narrow limbs, moves very slowly, and will pick up blocks and move them around. I wanted this to be a mob you only saw in the distance and a mob you’d be afraid of, but when I playtested it, it mostly felt like a regular zombie. There’s was a distinct mismatch between looking creepy and not actually playing creepy. When I made it move faster towards the player when attacking, and deal more damage, it got more difficult and I started respecting it, but it never felt creepy or scary.

So I thought some about what “creepy” actually is, and it’s more about trying to avoid something from happening than it is about actually having that thing happen. If you know something bad can happen if you do the wrong thing, you will start thinking about your actions, and that might make things more scary.

So I made it passive until you looked straight at it. And that was scary. Suddenly you could walk up to these looking beasts (they’re three meters tall) and watch them as they moved their blocks around, but as soon as you happened to look straight at them, they’d attack. And by “straight at them”, I mean putting the reticle on top of them. You can keep them visible on screen and actually look straight at them in real life, but as soon as your in game character looks straight at them, boom.

Still, that was more scary than creepy. It’s like a jump scare in a movie. You know it might happen at any time, and when it happens you freak out a bit. I wanted something a bit more psychological. So to really drive home the point of looking at them being bad, I made the Endermen freeze and turn towards you when you look at them. As long as you look straight at them, they stand perfectly still and look straight at you. As soon as you look away, they will run (very fast) towards you.

And they teleport. If they’re too far away to reach you in a short period of time, they will teleport about once per second. They try to make sure they always teleport to somewhere you can see, as I don’t want to confuse the player as to what is happening.

When they attack, you know it’s your fault. When you happen to look at one, you can keep looking at it to figure out how to deal with it, but you know it WILL reach you very fast once you stop looking at it.

And that, my friends, is creepy. Possibly too creepy.

This was taken from notches tumblr hope it makes things clear :3

EDIT: oops only just saw the other pages please dont rip my head off :p

[jonnybo72]

i think i found it

[Milo_Windby]

yay, you found the silverfish =D

[Wildwill002]

Can somebody try and put that together? Please?

[vallorn]

its an aquatic mob Windy. shaped like a fish. and colored silver

[Wildwill002]

Found a hd version of it XD

silverfish.jpg

[jonnybo72]

i also found this

[Wildwill002]

Thats in the stats menu silly jonny

[jonnybo72]

oh :L didnt know that
stats menu?

[Wildwill002]

When your ingame press ESC and there should be a menu saying stats next to the achievements menu

[jonnybo72]

oh poo missed that

[Sti_Jo_Lew]

FAIL.

Anyways, if both farlanders and silverfish are in 1.8, we are screwed. Silverfish eat wood, and farlanders steal blocks... no more safe houses.