I had a dream last night I was playing in my survival world when suddenly I found two charged creepers! I thought it was real! I've only seen a naturally-spawned charged creeper ONCE in my whole Minecraft history.
But what about you guys? How many times have you seen a charged creeper legitimately in survival? You could tell me to make a creeper farm so I can get them easily, but I, personally, am against that play style.
I had a dream last night I was playing in my survival world when suddenly I found two charged creepers! I thought it was real! I've only seen a naturally-spawned charged creeper ONCE in my whole Minecraft history.
But what about you guys? How many times have you seen a charged creeper legitimately in survival? You could tell me to make a creeper farm so I can get them easily, but I, personally, am against that play style.
I have found zero charged creepers out of all the times I have played Minecraft survival which doesn't surprise me at all since its an extremely slim chance for a creeper to be hit by lightning, and you finding it before it despawns.
My world is approaching 11500 MC days old, and for the first 7000 or so I had three bases in Desert, Mesa and Ice Spikes biomes - which don't get rain or lightning strikes, so that probably contributed to me never seeing one. However my fourth base is at a roofed forest biome I levelled, near to an Ocean Monument I drained and turned into a farm.
I needed slime blocks for helping me with the monument clearance, so I set up a tower in a nearby swamp biome which I levelled so I could see the slimes easier. It was here during a storm I got my first charged creeper. I detonated him with a mob to collect the mob head (the only legit way in Survival to obtain Creeper/Zombie/Skeleton heads as a token to go in my base. After that whenever there was a storm I'd drop everything and race to the tower, and in the course of 15-20 more storms I got three more charged creepers. I have the whole set of heads now; one creeper is still out on the plain glass blocked in, awaiting use.
Back at my first base in the desert which I've been recently renovating, I built a villager trading hall but didn't get may zombie villagers as most of the zombies in deserts are husks. So again I levelled an area in an adjacent forest/forest hills biome and built a tower in the middle to watch out for zombie villagers. But during storms I also look our for charged creepers. About ten storms in I've had what looked like a charged creeper on a ridge inbetween some trees just outside the levelled area, around 100 blocks away, so I raced out to tag him but I couldn't access the ridge without mining up to it (and being attacked by other mobs as well at the same time) and by the time I got up there he'd despawned. Bit annoyed, so I've made the ridge more accessible and keep some ender pearls in the tower now.
So I've defo had four, pretty sure another one too. If you put yourself in a good set-up to find them during storms, your bound to increase your chances.
Below is a pic of the last one I got, who is currently waiting in his glass prison
My world is approaching 11500 MC days old, and for the first 7000 or so I had three bases in Desert, Mesa and Ice Spikes biomes - which don't get rain or lightning strikes, so that probably contributed to me never seeing one. However my fourth base is at a roofed forest biome I levelled, near to an Ocean Monument I drained and turned into a farm.
I needed slime blocks for helping me with the monument clearance, so I set up a tower in a nearby swamp biome which I levelled so I could see the slimes easier. It was here during a storm I got my first charged creeper. I detonated him with a mob to collect the mob head (the only legit way in Survival to obtain Creeper/Zombie/Skeleton heads as a token to go in my base. After that whenever there was a storm I'd drop everything and race to the tower, and in the course of 15-20 more storms I got three more charged creepers. I have the whole set of heads now; one creeper is still out on the plain glass blocked in, awaiting use.
Back at my first base in the desert which I've been recently renovating, I built a villager trading hall but didn't get may zombie villagers as most of the zombies in deserts are husks. So again I levelled an area in an adjacent forest/forest hills biome and built a tower in the middle to watch out for zombie villagers. But during storms I also look our for charged creepers. About ten storms in I've had what looked like a charged creeper on a ridge inbetween some trees just outside the levelled area, around 100 blocks away, so I raced out to tag him but I couldn't access the ridge without mining up to it (and being attacked by other mobs as well at the same time) and by the time I got up there he'd despawned. Bit annoyed, so I've made the ridge more accessible and keep some ender pearls in the tower now.
So I've defo had four, pretty sure another one too. If you put yourself in a good set-up to find them during storms, your bound to increase your chances.
Below is a pic of the last one I got, who is currently waiting in his glass prison
I've only seen one in more than 5,000 hours of gameplay, which is not really surprising when you consider how I play; the only time I am above ground is when traveling to/from the area I'm currently exploring underground and building the occasional base, neither of which take much of my time (in my most recent world 86% of the entire time was spent caving, and much of the rest was spent branch-mining and exploring a stronghold and in the Nether. The biomes around my main base were also mostly water and forest, not great for spawning or seeing a charged creeper):
For comparison, I've seen 7 mobs in diamond armor in my first world, most recently just the other day (the first time in around 525 hours of gameplay) and pink sheep in 3 worlds (two of these were modded with a bugfix to MC-2788, which actually makes it easier to come across them, if only one at a time instead of the numerous sheep in one area you often find in vanilla, including my first world. My modded worlds also greatly increase the chance of diamond armor, such that I saw 18 in 1/5 the time in my most recent world but I don't count those).
I've been playing since beta 1.8.1 in 2011. My current world has about 108 (real)days of total playtime. In the entire time I've been playing, I have never seen a charged creeper legitimately in survival mode.
I don't think I've ever seen one in straight survival play. Can't be because of an absence of lightning, because I've encountered quite a few skeleton horsemen.
I played a couple worlds using dungeon generators (MCDungeon, Tyrus Woo's Game Changer.) Those do occasionally add creeper spawners, and I've seen some charged creepers that way.
I've been playing since the 1.6 release version, and I've only seen one... today!
A couple of days ago I tried making a Minecraft Server out of a Raspberry Pi3 (which works surprisingly well, btw) and I copied my Mushroom Peninsula world to the server for testing. Tonight I was playing on the server, just hanging out in my mushroom tower pad watching a lightning storm, when <crack-sizzle> lightning struck right in front of me, just on the other side of the railing. If it had hit 1 block south I would have been toast. Then a moment later another struck just outside the fenced perimeter of my base, and afterward something was sparkling out in the plains biome beyond the fence.
I couldn't believe my eyes, a charged creeper! I rushed down the ladder and quickly slapped a nametag onto the anvil, then I jump-launched into the air and soared out over the plains with my elytra. Not really worrying about the fact that I was wearing my best gear, I was trying to nametag that creeper befor it despawned. Through the rain and lighting I flew, lining up my approach, and when I had him in my sights I swooped down toward the sparkling menace. Just before placing the nametag the creeper started his ominous flashing and hissing, but I was moving so fast I had him tagged and was out of range before he could detonate!
I landed back at my base and jumped into bed to end the storm and darkness. The next morning I went to my forward lookout tower and picked off the remaining hostile mobs, then I went out to the plains and used myself as bait to lure the charged creeper over near my base entrance.
From there I stood on top of the fenced wall and dropped gravel around him to keep him from wandering off. Then I approached ever so carefully to double check that the nametag was in place.
And now I just have to decide what to do with him.
Well... you might wanna keep him, but also death from a charged creeper is the only legit way to get skeleton/zombie/creeper heads.
Oh yea! But only 1 head per explosion. Too bad they nerfed that. Considering how rare charged creepers are, it would be nice to drop all 3 in a hole with a charged creeper and get one of each head.
Now what to do with my sparkly friend...
I could build a guard house near my main entrance and have him inside.
There's a design for a display case in my test world. I might look around my base for a suitable location.
And then there's the Temple of the Crying Creeper...
Oh yea! But only 1 head per explosion. Too bad they nerfed that. Considering how rare charged creepers are, it would be nice to drop all 3 in a hole with a charged creeper and get one of each head.
Now what to do with my sparkly friend...
I could build a guard house near my main entrance and have him inside.
There's a design for a display case in my test world. I might look around my base for a suitable location.
And then there's the Temple of the Crying Creeper...
Must've been hard getting him in there in survival. I couldn't imagine doing that myself.
I wasn't really happy with the guard house idea, so I decided to move Sparky into my base, which involved stairs and several obstacles. I used fences to cordon off a path and created the glass box with the back open and an eye level hole in front. Once I was ready, I broke the blocks between Sparky and myself and let him chase me into the glass enclosure, and right before he got into trigger range, I ender pearled through the hole and used a piston to push a glass block in behind him.
There was a bit of a pucker moment after I ender pearled through. I had to make sure he would move all the way into the enclosure, so I was standing by the hole and as he approached I tried to back up, but something was blocking me and Sparky started to hiss and flash! I dodged sideways before he went boom and discovered that a mooshroom had walked behind me right when I tried to back up. That freaky cow gave me quite a scare (but he was tasty).
Once I had Sparky trapped it was simple to fill in the rest of the glass and do some cleaning up. The plain glass box was rather bland, so in the spirit of my "mushroomy" build style I grew a giant mushroom and pushed the top blocks in place with pistons. I had also pushed some stem blocks under him, but decided I didn't like that and restored the mycelium.
So here he is in his (likely) permanent home, keeping my dogs and skeleton horses company (click for larger pic).
I say likely because it occurred to me that it would be ironic if lightning struck his enclosure and killed him.
I had a dream last night I was playing in my survival world when suddenly I found two charged creepers! I thought it was real! I've only seen a naturally-spawned charged creeper ONCE in my whole Minecraft history.
But what about you guys? How many times have you seen a charged creeper legitimately in survival? You could tell me to make a creeper farm so I can get them easily, but I, personally, am against that play style.
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I have found zero charged creepers out of all the times I have played Minecraft survival which doesn't surprise me at all since its an extremely slim chance for a creeper to be hit by lightning, and you finding it before it despawns.
My world is approaching 11500 MC days old, and for the first 7000 or so I had three bases in Desert, Mesa and Ice Spikes biomes - which don't get rain or lightning strikes, so that probably contributed to me never seeing one. However my fourth base is at a roofed forest biome I levelled, near to an Ocean Monument I drained and turned into a farm.
I needed slime blocks for helping me with the monument clearance, so I set up a tower in a nearby swamp biome which I levelled so I could see the slimes easier. It was here during a storm I got my first charged creeper. I detonated him with a mob to collect the mob head (the only legit way in Survival to obtain Creeper/Zombie/Skeleton heads as a token to go in my base. After that whenever there was a storm I'd drop everything and race to the tower, and in the course of 15-20 more storms I got three more charged creepers. I have the whole set of heads now; one creeper is still out on the plain glass blocked in, awaiting use.
Back at my first base in the desert which I've been recently renovating, I built a villager trading hall but didn't get may zombie villagers as most of the zombies in deserts are husks. So again I levelled an area in an adjacent forest/forest hills biome and built a tower in the middle to watch out for zombie villagers. But during storms I also look our for charged creepers. About ten storms in I've had what looked like a charged creeper on a ridge inbetween some trees just outside the levelled area, around 100 blocks away, so I raced out to tag him but I couldn't access the ridge without mining up to it (and being attacked by other mobs as well at the same time) and by the time I got up there he'd despawned. Bit annoyed, so I've made the ridge more accessible and keep some ender pearls in the tower now.
So I've defo had four, pretty sure another one too. If you put yourself in a good set-up to find them during storms, your bound to increase your chances.
Below is a pic of the last one I got, who is currently waiting in his glass prison
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Nice! I'll try what you do.
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I've only seen one in more than 5,000 hours of gameplay, which is not really surprising when you consider how I play; the only time I am above ground is when traveling to/from the area I'm currently exploring underground and building the occasional base, neither of which take much of my time (in my most recent world 86% of the entire time was spent caving, and much of the rest was spent branch-mining and exploring a stronghold and in the Nether. The biomes around my main base were also mostly water and forest, not great for spawning or seeing a charged creeper):
For comparison, I've seen 7 mobs in diamond armor in my first world, most recently just the other day (the first time in around 525 hours of gameplay) and pink sheep in 3 worlds (two of these were modded with a bugfix to MC-2788, which actually makes it easier to come across them, if only one at a time instead of the numerous sheep in one area you often find in vanilla, including my first world. My modded worlds also greatly increase the chance of diamond armor, such that I saw 18 in 1/5 the time in my most recent world but I don't count those).
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Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
In over five years of playing, I've never seen one. I think it's the only Minecraft thing I've not yet seen.
I've been playing since beta 1.8.1 in 2011. My current world has about 108 (real)days of total playtime. In the entire time I've been playing, I have never seen a charged creeper legitimately in survival mode.
I started playing sometime right before the Horse Update, so sometime in 1.5, around March, 2013.
I've never seen a charged creeper. Never went looking for one, either.
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I don't think I've ever seen one in straight survival play. Can't be because of an absence of lightning, because I've encountered quite a few skeleton horsemen.
I played a couple worlds using dungeon generators (MCDungeon, Tyrus Woo's Game Changer.) Those do occasionally add creeper spawners, and I've seen some charged creepers that way.
I have never seen one before. I've been playing for years. I guess there still some things in the game I've never come across before.
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I've been playing since the 1.6 release version, and I've only seen one... today!
A couple of days ago I tried making a Minecraft Server out of a Raspberry Pi3 (which works surprisingly well, btw) and I copied my Mushroom Peninsula world to the server for testing. Tonight I was playing on the server, just hanging out in my mushroom tower pad watching a lightning storm, when <crack-sizzle> lightning struck right in front of me, just on the other side of the railing. If it had hit 1 block south I would have been toast. Then a moment later another struck just outside the fenced perimeter of my base, and afterward something was sparkling out in the plains biome beyond the fence.
I couldn't believe my eyes, a charged creeper! I rushed down the ladder and quickly slapped a nametag onto the anvil, then I jump-launched into the air and soared out over the plains with my elytra. Not really worrying about the fact that I was wearing my best gear, I was trying to nametag that creeper befor it despawned. Through the rain and lighting I flew, lining up my approach, and when I had him in my sights I swooped down toward the sparkling menace. Just before placing the nametag the creeper started his ominous flashing and hissing, but I was moving so fast I had him tagged and was out of range before he could detonate!
I landed back at my base and jumped into bed to end the storm and darkness. The next morning I went to my forward lookout tower and picked off the remaining hostile mobs, then I went out to the plains and used myself as bait to lure the charged creeper over near my base entrance.
From there I stood on top of the fenced wall and dropped gravel around him to keep him from wandering off. Then I approached ever so carefully to double check that the nametag was in place.
And now I just have to decide what to do with him.
Oh yea! But only 1 head per explosion. Too bad they nerfed that. Considering how rare charged creepers are, it would be nice to drop all 3 in a hole with a charged creeper and get one of each head.
Now what to do with my sparkly friend...
I could build a guard house near my main entrance and have him inside.
There's a design for a display case in my test world. I might look around my base for a suitable location.
And then there's the Temple of the Crying Creeper...
Must've been hard getting him in there in survival. I couldn't imagine doing that myself.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC21Z2rupws5IulGQMxB1Plg
The display case and temple are ideas I was working on in my test world, which is a creative world.
In my SSP world Sparky is currently residing in a guard house of sorts outside my base entrance.
And it wasn't too hard getting him in there (although I'm thinking of moving him inside my base).
I wasn't really happy with the guard house idea, so I decided to move Sparky into my base, which involved stairs and several obstacles. I used fences to cordon off a path and created the glass box with the back open and an eye level hole in front. Once I was ready, I broke the blocks between Sparky and myself and let him chase me into the glass enclosure, and right before he got into trigger range, I ender pearled through the hole and used a piston to push a glass block in behind him.
There was a bit of a pucker moment after I ender pearled through. I had to make sure he would move all the way into the enclosure, so I was standing by the hole and as he approached I tried to back up, but something was blocking me and Sparky started to hiss and flash! I dodged sideways before he went boom and discovered that a mooshroom had walked behind me right when I tried to back up. That freaky cow gave me quite a scare (but he was tasty).
Once I had Sparky trapped it was simple to fill in the rest of the glass and do some cleaning up. The plain glass box was rather bland, so in the spirit of my "mushroomy" build style I grew a giant mushroom and pushed the top blocks in place with pistons. I had also pushed some stem blocks under him, but decided I didn't like that and restored the mycelium.
So here he is in his (likely) permanent home, keeping my dogs and skeleton horses company (click for larger pic).
I say likely because it occurred to me that it would be ironic if lightning struck his enclosure and killed him.
Hello,
I have only seen it once in the entire time I been playing... and thats a VERY LONG time
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