Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, the Dresden Files, Supernatural, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Once Upon a Time, Oz: The Great and Powerful, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. All movies, books, television shows, and games that have witches outside of Halloween. All are non-Halloween oriented. Just saying.
The witches in Harry Potter, Skyrim, and Buffy don't follow the cliche "ugly, magic, hats, and green skin" witch, which are the witches to which I was referring. Plus, The Wizard of Oz is over one hundred years old so it falls into the same category as Macbeth, and is allowed to have campy witch ****.
I have to say that I am a little disappointed to see that the witches are of the pointy-hat, wart-on-nose variety. I was hoping for something a little more creative. But I guess that's what texture packs are for, right?
The witches in Harry Potter, Skyrim, and Buffy don't follow the cliche "ugly, magic, hats, and green skin" witch, which are the witches to which I was referring. Plus, The Wizard of Oz is over one hundred years old so it falls into the same category as Macbeth, and is allowed to have campy witch ****.
When you said that witches are restrained to Halloween, you just said witches without distinction. Sorry for the slight misunderstanding, though I disagree with comparing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with Macbeth and placing them in the same camp. One is 3 centuries older than the other. That and the whole Oz series technically being continued for years with movies, books, spin-offs, etc. It is still a part of popular culture.
I love the new stuff. My favorite "holiday" has always been Halloween/Samhain. As long as they don't add a fat kid that kicks you and steals your candy, then all with be good.
I think that witches will be a great addition to Minecraft! The whole idea that they attack with potion is, in my eyes, genius. Now if they had some other random magical attack, that would have been a bit lame and RPG-ish.
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I guess everyone has there definition of this game because its so open which is what makes it so fantastic.
To me they are a bad idea because I see MC as a Zombie Apoc Sandbox, Which without personally created mods would not give a true "Zombies have taken over" feel and we all know witches are not apart of the Zombie Apoc
But once again this is MC I am not sure if the owners are ignorant or the nicest game producers in the world at the moment(Meant to be a testament to how good the game is not insult said company). But if you do not like witches learn some pretty simple programming/coding and remove them.
Honestly, what I don't like are the beams and the bats. The beams are generally hard to make, so I can understand that, but the bats look like they come from some bad mod. Witches I GUESS are okay, but something about it isn't right with me. I examine it part for part and I'm alright with the idea, but as a whole I just don't really like it.
Witch doesn't seem too farfetched. It's not like magic is non-existant in minecraft, I mean there's enchantments after all.
I'd personally love to just see a crazy lady
doesn't even have to be a witch, just some crazy lady in ragged robes that runs at you and screams non-stop, haha, now that would be scary o.O
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Yes, Minecraft is a little bit of all. And that is ok. But in the latest few updates Mojang mostly focussed on new mobs. The loose somewhat what the people are doing. If you google for minecraft you will find a lot of phantistic constructions. I have seen the mines of moria, an enterprise, the world, sailing ships, ... And very interesting PvP-Maps are available too, like obsidian defenders. What do they do for these professional players? What new blocks have you seen in the past month? Smaragd ore and some decorative things. That's all.
I do not want to cancel a witch or a wither or a wither skeleton, but I hope that's not all we get.
Hmm what did they do for all the builders? Well lets see, they added upside down stairs, side ways wooden blocks, emerald blocks, upside down half slabs, upside down leavers, more colorful wooden planks, more coloful wooden plank stairs and slabs, sandstone stairs, a new stone brick, two new sandstone blocks. Oh 1.4 specifically? Beacons, which can be used as usefull lights that beam into the sky, easier placeable wooden logs, improved superflat options so those who want to build a mine in a stone world can, wooden buttons, item frames, plant pots, cobblestone walls, new paintings, and heads. Anything else? All these are for those builders out there to perfect out there builds.
They really shouldn't be called 'Witches' in my opinion. They're more like Villagers that learned how to brew potions. If anything they should be called "Brewers"! Well, I'll be fine with this as an addition as long as they do something with the hat. I don't know why but it just bothers me...
If you removed the top 2 segments on the witch's current hat, they would look a little better IMO.
EDIT: My poorly made image to demonstrate what I mean: (Never posted an image before I'll try to get it to work)
Its out of place because all of the hostile mobs before were either neutral appearance wise(zombie,slime) to mildly disturbing(ghast,enderman,creeper,wither), but when i look at the witch, i just chuckle a bit at how stupid it looks. Its not threatening at all. Not to mention that it has a VERY conventional witch look, devs missed the mark there. If it had black circles(rectangles?) under its eyes, no hat, the coat is blood red , a giant scar on the side of its head, and had a more threatening posture, then i would except it. When i first saw witches were being added, i thought it was like hagraven type witches, not this silly costume bs. I LOVE the bats though, its about time we got some new cave content, although they could use some fleshing out.
I'm a bit disappointed that the witches don't cast spells and look non-threatening. It would be pretty cool If they could freeze you or hit you with lightning. Still, it's cool that there an enemy that utilizes potions. They should add spellcasting to minecraft.
Honestly, the testificate model needs to be scraped and replaced with the player model, that would fit in so much better.
When you said that witches are restrained to Halloween, you just said witches without distinction. Sorry for the slight misunderstanding, though I disagree with comparing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with Macbeth and placing them in the same camp. One is 3 centuries older than the other. That and the whole Oz series technically being continued for years with movies, books, spin-offs, etc. It is still a part of popular culture.
SH maps beaten: Sea of Flame II, Infernal Sky II, Kaizo Caverns, Nightmare Realm, Sunburn Islands, Spellbound Caves, Waking Up and counting....
To me they are a bad idea because I see MC as a Zombie Apoc Sandbox, Which without personally created mods would not give a true "Zombies have taken over" feel and we all know witches are not apart of the Zombie Apoc
But once again this is MC I am not sure if the owners are ignorant or the nicest game producers in the world at the moment(Meant to be a testament to how good the game is not insult said company). But if you do not like witches learn some pretty simple programming/coding and remove them.
I'd personally love to just see a crazy lady
doesn't even have to be a witch, just some crazy lady in ragged robes that runs at you and screams non-stop, haha, now that would be scary o.O
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Hmm what did they do for all the builders? Well lets see, they added upside down stairs, side ways wooden blocks, emerald blocks, upside down half slabs, upside down leavers, more colorful wooden planks, more coloful wooden plank stairs and slabs, sandstone stairs, a new stone brick, two new sandstone blocks. Oh 1.4 specifically? Beacons, which can be used as usefull lights that beam into the sky, easier placeable wooden logs, improved superflat options so those who want to build a mine in a stone world can, wooden buttons, item frames, plant pots, cobblestone walls, new paintings, and heads. Anything else? All these are for those builders out there to perfect out there builds.
You know, I'm not quiet sure which answer I should choose...
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If you removed the top 2 segments on the witch's current hat, they would look a little better IMO.
EDIT: My poorly made image to demonstrate what I mean: (Never posted an image before I'll try to get it to work)
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