A NEW MAGIC SYSTEM for MINECRAFT!

What is going on Crafters welcome back to another episode of dig straight down with me your host Rebel J C uh thanks for tuning in right off the bat I gotta say it’s a very very windy day where i’m recording right now so if you hear the wind howling outside

Um that’s what it is it’s just the wind nothing to worry about it’s just a very very windy day today it’s actually really crazy I just want to say thank you for tuning in if this is your first time tuning in to dig straight down and

You don’t know what the heck this thing is well this is a podcast that is all about Minecraft updates whether those updates or things that are actually coming to the game one day or these are things that we would like to see added to the game one day so there’s going to

Be some news there’s going to be some speculation but it’s all speculation this episode because there is no news that is worth mentioning at this point I tend to only share the more exciting news the more I like hey this mob is being added to the game and not so much

Hey they fixed this bug so if you’re coming to this podcast for Minecraft news it’s the bad a bad place to get it go to the withering effect or go to the spawn chunks for that this is all about the the the new Mobs the new what

Weapons the new armor the new biomes that kind of thing so if that appeals to you at all you are absolutely in the right place and I’m glad to have you here uh this episode we’re going to be talking about everyone’s favorite removed mob the illusioner now the

Illusioner was added to the game quite a long time ago but was never fully implemented you will not find the illusioner in Survival Minecraft without using cheats or commands and here is the description of the illusioner from the Minecraft Wiki an illusioner is an unused illager that is

Armed with a bow they mainly attack by shooting Arrows with it but they can also attack with an illusion or blindness spells and these are the spells that the illusioner can cast upon first engaging a new opponent an illager casts a blindness effect that lasts for 20 seconds

As long as an illusioner is engaged in combat it casts an invisibility effect on itself that lasts 60 seconds and refreshes the effect whenever the invisible invisibilities time runs out when an illusioner becomes invisible through this or another method it creates four false duplicates of itself these hover and waver at Short distances

From the actually invisible illusioner though they do not space themselves out until the first time the illusioner is attacked they face in exactly the same direction as the illusioner and move somewhat in step with the original appearing to no clip through blocks like a Vex does despite using the shooting of

Animation whenever the original uses its bow only the real illusioner can shoot and be damaged when the real elusioner is damaged its duplicates all snap back to where the real illusioner is then quickly snap back out to new positions making a teleporting sound signaling the hit so the illusioner in my opinion is

One of the more creative mobs Mojang has ever made just the way it fights the spells that it uses and the combination of all of those things together it’s really really interesting it’s really engaging and I really think it should be added to the game properly so that we can find this

And we can you know encounter it fight it experience that fight I know anybody can experience this fight if you just spawn it in using commands but I mean we I I’m the kind of player who doesn’t like to use commands I want I want to

Play the game the way the game is presented to me right off the bat and using commands to spawn in fun experiences maybe that’s fun but not for my normal Minecraft experience that’s not what I really want to do I want to see these added to the game properly so

That we can find them in the wild and fight them because it sounds like a lot of fun this is sort of my idea uh for adding the illusioner to the game and improve giving it a little bit making it a little bit more interesting maybe

Making a little bit more lore around it because a handful of episodes ago hopefully you listened I talked about adding more futuristic elements to Minecraft I went into this whole thing about what if Minecraft went into a more science fiction Direction and I think that that’s viable

I think that there could be something in the future of Minecraft where Minecraft can become futuristic to a certain extent but what if we kind of went to the opposite direction what if we fully embraced the fantasy of Minecraft the the the genre in which Minecraft already exists which is

Basically fantasy uh I mean everything’s pretty much medieval everything is very Magic based everything is very much um primitive um you do have some more modern stuff in there you have essentially a redstone is electricity and then you have um concrete you know and things like

That so you do have modern stuff but the majority of Minecraft is fantasy um and medieval so what if we fully embraced that I think the illusioner could be a good Gateway into a magic system that is beyond enchanting in potion so we have enchanting impotions those are magical um but

For those of us who want to role play as a wizard or something um they don’t really fit because I can’t um when I’m enchanting something I’m enchanting my tools or I’m enchanting my armor items and then I’m putting those on and I’m basically a knight you know I’m basically like a warrior

Um and then when it comes to potions I mean anybody can drink a potion right anybody who knows anything about fantasy knows that fantasy characters no matter if they’re a wizard or if they’re a just just a hobbit they can all drink a potion that you don’t have to be magical

To do that um so they they while these things are magic they don’t feel like magic systems you know they don’t feel like you’re actually a magic user you’re just sort of throwing things together and um and and magic stuff happens but it doesn’t come from you as the player I

Think this could be a way to introduce a new magic system to the game so let’s go into this so Woodland Mansions have a chance of generating with an illusioner’s Lair which is a basement like extension underneath the main structure the layer is a large room lit

By candles and lined with the new chiseled bookshelves which are coming in the so far unnamed 1.20 update these are the bookshelves that you can actually store books in it’s really really cool if you have if you don’t know what it is go check it out it’s one of my favorite

Things is coming to the game so far let’s say that the illusioner spawns in this room this like basement Lair illusioners dungeon underneath the Woodland Mansion so you’ve raided the Mansion you’ve gone through everything you find the door that leads down into the basement to where the layer the

Layer is and you encounter the illusioner now you can try to look for the loot without fighting the illusioner but it’s probably going to be easier to actually fight the illusion so once you have defeated the illusioner the player is then free to safely browse the bookshelf so most of the bookshelves

Will have normal books in them which would be great honestly because books are kind of a headache to craft I guess you can trade for them maybe I’m not quite sure if you can or not but they’re really a headache to craft and so if we

Can find a place where there’s such a treasure Trove of books that might be really nice maybe a few random enchanted books that might be okay too that’s kind of a normal loot thing but in this illusioner’s lair in these bookshelves there will always be at least one spell book now you’re asking

Me what in the world is a spell book is that just an enchanted book nope it is not an enchanted book The spell book gives the player three magical abilities the book has three pages one for each spell to use it the player turns to the spell

That they want to use and then right clicks on a target with the book to trigger the spell the first spell is freeze it’s just an ice attack and it encases the Target in a block of ice for five seconds dealing freezing and Suffocation damage after five seconds the blocks break and then

Your Target’s free to move the second spell is bolder and it fires a stone block at the Target the stone block crumbles on impact dealing damage the stone block actually crumbles and it gets destroyed because I don’t want this to be a way just to get free Stone the

Third spell is switch which swaps positions of the player and the Target now this could be used for many things not just for combat I could imagine maybe making a really really weird elevator out of this with just a bunch of mobs going up a hill and you’re

Just constantly using this spell to switch places with the one in front of you I don’t know this there could be some pretty cool uses for this um but yeah those are the three spells that would be found in this book now Minecraft definitely leans in the

Direction of fantasy and even though you know like I said even though we have potions and enchanted books we still haven’t been able to really role play as a wizard or a sorcerer or Another Kind of Magic user this spell book would be a simple useful thing that could fill that void and

Utilizes the illager to bring it into the game thus justifying why the villagers should be in the game in the first place that brings us to the end of this episode if you have any questions comments or ideas send me an email at digstraightdowncast gmail.com you can

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