The one who shall not be named... needs a buff

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I've been playing Minecraft (vanilla with some minor mods.) and Tekkit. In both I have always felt bad for a NPC that is made by stacking two blocks of snow and then putting a pumpkin on top of it. It wanders around areas and can attack hostile mobs, but it only knocks them back and does not do any damage. If you don't know what NPC I am talking about then please actually play the game and pay attention .

I was wondering if the one who shall not be named deserves a small buff so. Maybe allow him/her/it to do some damage and give it more health or simply should we leave it as is?

[Industrial Miner]

Wouldn't it be overpowered then, as it is easy to build out of renewable resources?

[Maxis010]

The unspeakable one actually does do damage, but it's takes so long that you don't notice it

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Wouldn't it be overpowered then, as it is easy to build out of renewable resources?

Well Pumpkins are not that common at all. They are not rare, but they are uncommon to say the least. To answer your question I think the fact that the Pumpkins are a pain to find (unless you get lucky and stumble upon them) that evens it out. Snow on the other hand is easy to find a make into blocks.

The unspeakable one actually does do damage, but it's takes so long that you don't notice it

I didn't even realize that. I think a Skeleton would be able to kill it before it could do anything if that's the case though.

[Lothos]

pumpkins can be grown...no shortages there. and clearly you have not witnessed the awe and wonder that is a 75 snow golem defense perimeter.

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The player is not spawned into the world with them. In order to get them (the seeds) you have to find a mineshaft then raid some chests and hope there some seeds while you fight mobs. If the seeds were in over abundance like grass (which makes sense that grass is) then I would say it would be too easy, but currently its not.

[Teraku]

Pumpkins grow in the wild.

[JakeVH]

Just to clear something up, snowballs don't do any damage to normal mobs. They can hurt blazes, and will blow up the ender-crystals as well as the ender dragon, and can destroy paintings. They can not hurt normal mobs at all. Source

[Xylord]

The player is not spawned into the world with them. In order to get them (the seeds) you have to find a mineshaft then raid some chests and hope there some seeds while you fight mobs. If the seeds were in over abundance like grass (which makes sense that grass is) then I would say it would be too easy, but currently its not.

Still, once you get your hands on some seeds, you pretty much have an infinite supply, thanks to farming.

[lukeb28]

If you really want to make them do damage, go and modify some code to make them do some damage.

[ampayne2]

Are you sure Jake? I know ive had battles between them and skeletons before in creative and both sides had casualties.

[lukeb28]

Are you sure Jake? I know ive had battles between them and skeletons before in creative and both sides had casualties.

These battles you speak of, are they like villager vs zombies?

[Mr.Hotkeys]

The player is not spawned into the world with them. In order to get them (the seeds) you have to find a mineshaft then raid some chests and hope there some seeds while you fight mobs. If the seeds were in over abundance like grass (which makes sense that grass is) then I would say it would be too easy, but currently its not.

You can find a pumpkin on the surface and craft it into four seeds.

Are you sure Jake? I know ive had battles between them and skeletons before in creative and both sides had casualties.

Friendly fire between the skeletons?