It happened in 1.9 and above, though I don't really ever remember top-down dress ever happening in 1.8 or below. Of course, I play modded more than I play vanilla so beyond adding a lot more armor to choose from I dunno if/what mods changed regarding this.
It happened in 1.9 and above, though I don't really ever remember top-down dress ever happening in 1.8 or below.
Thanks, I skipped 1.9 and 1.10 so I didn't see it until now.
I definitely remember it being top down, I was collecting chain mail armor and I had something like 7 helmets 7 chest pieces and 4 leggings before I finally got the boots. Of course now, I'll have to kill loads of mobs to get the helmet so no real difference.
Mobs definitely wear armor from the top-down in older versions (1.6.4); perhaps they changed it because helmets prevent mobs from burning in the sun and too many people didn't like it (baby zombies are often cited as being a major annoyance because they don't burn at all). Personally though, I think it adds a bit more of a challenge (in my mods I've increased the chances of (full) armor and other variables so that Normal difficulty is similar to or harder than Hard in many aspects); the protection provided by, say, boots + leggings is also less than helmet + chestplate, so armored mobs are a bit easier to kill in 1.9 (armor penetration also affects mobs, offsetting the reduction in the effectiveness of weapons).
It may also be an inadvertent change caused by reversing the ordering of an internal index (armor slots?), similar to how they made dungeons much rarer in 1.7 after they doubled the y-range they can generate over (erroneously attributed to changes in caves in the Wiki), or making ocelots much rarer after changing the spawn chances for hostile mobs to accommodate witches (I checked the bug tracker and was unable to find any reports on the armor being reversed).
I've just switched to 1.11 from 1.8
As I remember it, from playing 1.8, and reading the Wiki confirms this, zombies and skeletons dress from the top down.
If they had armor they always had a helmet, if they had boots they had the whole setup.
But now I've come across two zombies wearing gold leggings and boots but no other armor.
Any ideas about what's going on? Does the Wiki need updating?
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Did this happen in 1.9 and 1.10 as well?
Just testing.
It happened in 1.9 and above, though I don't really ever remember top-down dress ever happening in 1.8 or below. Of course, I play modded more than I play vanilla so beyond adding a lot more armor to choose from I dunno if/what mods changed regarding this.
Thanks, I skipped 1.9 and 1.10 so I didn't see it until now.
I definitely remember it being top down, I was collecting chain mail armor and I had something like 7 helmets 7 chest pieces and 4 leggings before I finally got the boots. Of course now, I'll have to kill loads of mobs to get the helmet so no real difference.
Just testing.
Mobs definitely wear armor from the top-down in older versions (1.6.4); perhaps they changed it because helmets prevent mobs from burning in the sun and too many people didn't like it (baby zombies are often cited as being a major annoyance because they don't burn at all). Personally though, I think it adds a bit more of a challenge (in my mods I've increased the chances of (full) armor and other variables so that Normal difficulty is similar to or harder than Hard in many aspects); the protection provided by, say, boots + leggings is also less than helmet + chestplate, so armored mobs are a bit easier to kill in 1.9 (armor penetration also affects mobs, offsetting the reduction in the effectiveness of weapons).
It may also be an inadvertent change caused by reversing the ordering of an internal index (armor slots?), similar to how they made dungeons much rarer in 1.7 after they doubled the y-range they can generate over (erroneously attributed to changes in caves in the Wiki), or making ocelots much rarer after changing the spawn chances for hostile mobs to accommodate witches (I checked the bug tracker and was unable to find any reports on the armor being reversed).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?