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So what do you mean by "you literally can't exit the End without breaking the spawn point" before? I know "Once you change your respawn point, it forgets your previous one.", but the meaning of the phrase "you literally can't exit the End without breaking the spawn point" in front of you does not indicate whether it is the original respawn point or the newly created respawn point, and I have already said "If the player sets a spawn point on the ender respawn table of the End, they will return to the original spawn point after entering the exit portal."

Who stipulated that End’s mobs must be completely different from Overworld and Nether’s creatures?

The fact that it's different is a good thing, it gives it its own vibe, its own uniqueness, its own ecosystem and actually be a DIFFERENT DIMENSION. And you're killing that. Not to mention how it's stupidly easy and unoriginal to say "haha end skeleton go brrr" especially since this pretty much has no effort put into balancing.

Similarly, isn't it boring to get the "How Did We Get Here?" advancement?

Generally speaking, the raid doesn't belong to the boss.

It quite literally has a boss bar, as I said before lol.

I'm not too active here so I didn't see this before but my two cents:

This post has so many problems, it's kinda difficult to count.

Part I: The skeleton.

1. Why? And why? And why again? The End is literally a blank canvas rn, the mobs in it are diverse and unique. Why would you kill that by adding a skeleton? It's really just uninspired.
2. It's brokenly OP. It can literally one shot a player in hard.
3. The marrow only drops when you have looting and it's rare even then? Why would you possibly do that?
4. Why are you forced to build a trap or go through the rigmarole of getting turtle master, swiftness and so on? This isn't even a mini boss lol, and even the bosses in the game are easier.
5. Why is there a skeleton in the End? There are no (truly) humanoid mobs around, so why would there randomly be a skeleton? (Please don't go on about Matpat's ancient builder theory if you were about to do that, it's not canon and has too many holes anyway)
6. Why does it use swords and axes? Especially diamond ones? Why doesn't it have a unique attack with its own identity?
7. The Ender marrow isn't textured well, but that's really just a nitpick.

Part II: The respawn table.

1. Why is it a table you're using to respawn at? All tables in game are used for crafting, improving or performing any such action on items, not the player (except for the fletching table, but that will get something in the future, as said by jeb in the AskMojang video).
2. Why do you need a netherite pickaxe to mine it? Everything you use to craft it can be acquired with diamond... (Oh, and imagine someone mines it and it drops nothing. The only End respawn table in the world is gone.
3. Why, oh why does it need a dragon egg? There's literally only one per world, so only one player (and his team) can use this in a world. That's a terrible choice. Oh, and the dragon egg is a trophy item, and isn't meant to have a use anyway.
4. Respawning in the End is broken, you literally can't exit the End without breaking the spawn point, and that sets your spawn point to world spawn. So for all the high cost, this impacts the player negatively.
5. Why do you need the bone marrow to craft it? It makes no sense...
6. The Netherite beacon? That's not only expensive as hell, but it's boring to make. There's literally no reason to craft it. And it also happens to be ugly as hell. Imagine that sitting in an End base lol.
7. There's pretty much zero reason the craft it. Woo hoo, another type of respawn point, but this one turns on a gamerule for the cost of months of boring, boring grinding.

No support.

So first impressions of the glow squid (as a mob itself, and not the false fantasies of dynamic lighting) have been a bit disappointing, and I'd like to make it more interesting (and give it a use) by giving it a tangible theme:

XP.

The logic behind it is that although irl scientific explanations for bioluminescence exist, the game should have a more light hearted reasoning behind it. So, the lore is that these squids have stuck around for years, absorbing xp from adventurers, drowned, etc., compacted it under their scales and eventually starting glowing because of the xp.

But you might not want to get too close. They've become a bit too good at absorbing xp, and will (very) slowly drain your xp too! They will also gladly pick up and store any xp orbs they find lying around. To indicate the amount of xp they have stored, their texture changes in stages, becoming glowier as they absorb more (credit to Badprenup in comments). Attacking them makes them drain xp faster (based on feedback on this thread).

1. This mechanic is dead useful, because it allows for the creation of highly effective albeit time-inefficient XP banks. Just get one of these guys to your swimming pool, AFK for a while, and name tag your new friend! There will, of course, be balances such as a cap on max XP.
2. Killing them will drop a lot of xp, and not necessarily anything unique apart from the normal ink sac. I'd be down for a unique ink sac, but I don't think it's necessary.
3. This would give the mob a unique reason to exist and look for, while also negating the need for a unique drop, such as glowing ink and the like, which have been doing the rounds on Reddit, Twitter and the like.
1. Imo, the xp bank utility is a lot more useful than any drop, which just seem forced, and don't fill a niche.
2. Just to be clear, I am 99% sure that dynamic/coloured lighting is not happening.
3. This is also better than other suggestions I've seen, such as them pacifying hostile mobs, specifically because this fits so well with its aesthetic and general vibes.

An alternative is to make it a kind of "pinata" of xp, i.e., it drops a lot of xp on death. It could spawn near shipwrecks, indicating that it got its xp from the drowned sailors of the shipwreck. I personally prefer the above concept though.

So yeah, that concludes my post. The main point of it is to link the squids' glow to XP and then build a "character" and uses around how much they love XP.

Thanks for reading, and have a good one!

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Well, mycelium can spread over normal grass.

False!
It spreads only on dirt that has nothing grown on it.
Make a creative world full of grass, type in /gamerule randomTickSpeed 1000, place some mycelium, and then place unclaimed dirt near either.
They will claim fresh dirt in split second, but won't take over each other.

That just seems like challenge for challenge's sake. There's no point to making it that hard to enable respawning in the end.

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Uh... we already have flower-related insect, bees. If anything, we should make these appear way more often in flower forests.

And? The fact that we had Nether pigs (piglins) didn't stop the devs from adding hoglins. The 2 mobs fill completely different niches (one being ambient and another being utility), and it's frankly somewhat silly to compare them. Moot point.

Also, have in mind that single-use stinger on bees is not only realistic feature - it is also balancing feature. Otherwise the angry bees would sting you over and over, and instead of dying, they would get their weapons reloaded by these bugs.

I literally explicitly said in as many words that they will NOT regrow the stingers. Read it again. Also moot point.

Also, lack of active lighting means that instead of watching nighttime spectacles as you intend, you'd either be sitting in big, artificial tower made of cooled silicon oxide slag, or too busy killing everything else that moves at night to stare at some glowing bugs.
They would also make spiders, endermen and phantoms less noticeable, further increasing the danger level in those areas, as well as decreasing visible contrast between creepers, zombies and foliage due to random bright color influx.

What? Hostile mob spawns have a cap, and they aren't so bad. And no player is going to stop and stare for minutes on end, this isn't a Disney movie. It's a nice spectacle is all.

And again, what? That's like saying that you can't see Endermen in the End because there are too many and their eyes glow....

Again, both irrelevant points.

Additionally, AFAIK the moobloom is more of delayed than canceled. Leave place for the mammal.

They've been non-committal about it, with their general attitude being "We'll see later".

If we need more arthropods, I think a better candidate would be water-striding spider for swamps, scorpion of the deserts or maybe some giant ant.

No. Not one of them is original or unique in any way at all and wouldn't improve the game. If anything, their animations (for the spider) or their models (scorpion) would look out of place in vanilla.

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Wow! Super neat idea.

Full Support. =3