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Another snapshot coming soon, rumors of new mob that defends villagers.

Looks pretty cool cant wait for this update. Those iron golems are a neat addition.

Kurathedog wrote:

More iron golem stats!

Crafted out of 4 iron blocks and a pumpkin. They also naturally spawn in villages with enough villagers.

They drop 3-5 iron ingots when killed. This plus natural respawn means yet another iron farm coming in 1.2

They have 100 health (50 hearts), and hit for anywhere between 8 and 20 (4 to 10 hearts). They also throw their target up into the air

They are a reference to Laputa: Castle in the Sky. They pick up roses and offer them to baby villagers, who occasionally take it from the golem. Golems also drop 0-2 roses.

They can't swim, and drown. They also burn, but are immune to fire damage.

They attack zombies, spiders, endermen, zombie pigmen, blaze, skeles, silverfish, and silverfish in their line of sight. They also attack the player if the player attacks it or a nearby villager.

So if you attacked it would it attack you back? Because if you attack snow golems they wouldnt attack. If they do attack it not worth killing those things with 50 hearts just for 3-5 iron ingots. I wish they would have droped the 4 iron blocks that they were made out of. This would make it more reasonable to try and attack the iron golems.

Kurathedog wrote:

They also attack the player if the player attacks it or a nearby villager.

Answers two questions at once yay!
For a bit more detail, attacking a villager "counts" as attacking it, where they attack the most recent entity (mob/player) to attack either it or a nearby villager. So say you punch it, it chases you. Zombie hits a villager. it leaves you to kill the zombie.

They take 36 iron to build because they are so durable. 5 times as much health as you, and up to 10 hearts of damage. Haven't done much with the natural spawning. I know it is in villages with certain number of villagers, they spawn, and respawn.
But building them is for when you are endgame anyway and want to screw around with them. Or for a major defensive investment. Because they are powerful.

For an iron farm, I haven't tested either, but just having "spawning pads" in a village, with water canals in between them, into a pit of water. Golem spawns, eventually falls off, drowns in pit. Another one spawns. Wanders into canal, drowns, more free iron.

I highly doubt they will drop xp. They are like supercharged snow golems, essentially.
Edit: checked and confirmed. No xp dropped.

Existing XP farms are a one time investment for tons and tons of xp. Maybe a little bit of "upkeep" for cost of splash potions, if you want to speed it up. But those are pretty much going to outclass 36 iron per golem cost for any sort of XP farm based off of them.

This is hilariously amazing. If they add a small amount of functionality combining these guys with snow golems, so they could coordinate... (and better snow golem AI).
Fully auto castle.  These guys as ground forces, damaging any mobs that come near. Snow golems on towers alert Iron golems to mobs, and keep mobs at bay with knockback. And villagers roaming around within the castle walls.

Last edited by Kurathedog (2/23/12 4:22 PM)

Do you know what their dimensions are and how much do these things need to fall before they die?
And when I say dimensions I mean like, spiders are 2x2x1 and skeletons are 2x1x1

50+3 right?