Minecraft:Mega Spud

Template:Joke feature Template:Infobox entity The mega spud is a joke Minecraft:boss mob found in Minecraft:colosseums in Minecraft:24w14potato.

Spawning

One mega spud spawns in each Minecraft:colosseum upon generation. If it can, the mega spud always stays in proximity to the place it spawned at.

Drops

On death

Mega spud drops Minecraft:Potatiesh, Greatstaff of the Peasant and Template:Xp xp when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf. It is crucial to remember this during the final stages of the battle, as mega spud can inflict damage on itself with its own attacks. Therefore, the player must ensure that they are the one to deliver the finishing blow.

Behavior

Mega spud moves around similarly to a Minecraft:slime. When it detects a player, the mega spud starts shooting Minecraft:fireballs at them. This fireball is stronger than that of a Minecraft:ghast: it has an explosionPower of 2, and can destroy Minecraft:stone-like Minecraft:blocks, which ghast's fireball cannot.

Besides fireballs, the mega spud also uses a melee attack, which deals Template:Hp damage on Easy and Normal, and Template:Hp on Hard.

Mega spud has 10 phases, plus the initial "zeroth" phase. When damaged for the first time, it instantly switches to the first phase, but its health remains the same. Each next phase requires dealing Template:Hp points of Minecraft:damage to the mega spud, but it can receive a maximum of Template:Hp damage at once, no matter what weapon or buffs are used.

Whenever a new phase begins, the mega spud performs the following actions:

• Creates a shield around itself, similar to the Minecraft:wither's armor, and becomes invulnerable to all forms of damage, except for Minecraft:void damage and the Template:Cmd command.
  • During this shielded state, any mobs that are engaged in combat with mega spud typically cease their attack. Even if the mobs are then directly attacked by mega spud, there is no retaliation.
  • There are occasions where the mobs do not cease their attack. In such cases, the mobs can inflict damage on mega spud as per usual, without the repercussion of having the damage reflected back at them, as is the case for players. It is unclear how or why this occurs, but it is likely to be a glitch.
• Shrinks by about half a block, and gets slightly faster.
• Drops a number of Minecraft:corrupted potato peels.
  • On average, in each next phase it drops less peels, but always drops at least one.
• Spawns minions. Number of minions is equal to the number of the started phase. Each next phase has a stronger mob as a minion.
  • Minions are spawned in a 8×4×8 box around the spot that the mega spud spawned in. This mechanic uses the same particles and sounds as Minecraft:trial spawners.
• Changes name, as seen on top of the bossbar.
  • This action is not always carried out properly, and sometimes mega spud changes its name too early.

While in the invulnerable state, the mega spud reflects every attack that the player does back at them. This is different from how the Minecraft:Thorns enchantment works, because the mega spud reflects 100% of the incoming damage: for example, shooting the boss with a bow with Minecraft:Power V can instantly kill an unarmored player. Attempting to damage the boss in this state also causes all of its minions to gain the Minecraft:Glowing effect for 10 seconds, which indicates that minions must be defeated first.

If the player dies, the current phase is reset, and a new set of minions is spawned.

When all minions from a given phase are killed or moved to unloaded chunks, the mega spud roars angrily and loses its shield. It can then be damaged like a normal mob. Unlike the Minecraft:wither or the Minecraft:ender dragon, the mega spud is not immune to Minecraft:status effects, Minecraft:fire, Minecraft:suffocation or Minecraft:drowning.

Phase	Name	Health	Hitbox size<ref>Hitbox is always a cube.</ref> (blocks)	Mobs spawned	Combined health of all spawned mobs	Average number of peels dropped
0	Potatolord of the Fried Legion	1024	5.20	-	-	-
1	Clucky Contaminator	1024-921.6	4.68	One Minecraft:chicken	4	15.061
2	Toxic Talon Talus	921.6-819.2	4.16	Two Minecraft:armadillos	24	11.250
3	Venomous Vagabond	819.2-716.8	3.64	Three Minecraft:poisonous potato zombies	60	8.200
4	Arachnid Administrator	716.8-614.4	3.12	Four Minecraft:spiders	64	5.823
5	Spud Scavenger Stray	614.4-512	2.60	Five Minecraft:strays	100	4.037
6	Creeper Kingpin	512-409.6	2.08	Six Minecraft:creepers	120	2.758
7	Poisonous Piglin Potentate	409.6-307.2	1.56	Seven Minecraft:piglin brutes	350	1.900
8	Ghastly Ghoulmaster	307.2-204.8	1.04	Eight Minecraft:ghasts	80	1.380
9	Plaguewhale Patriarch	204.8-102.4	0.52	Nine Minecraft:plaguewhale slabs	720	1.112
10	Giant Green Globule	102.4-0	0.52<ref>Size does not change in the last phase.</ref>	Ten Minecraft:giants	1000	1.014

Adding the 1024 points of boss health to combined health of all mobs that mega spud spawns, player must deal 3546 points of damage in order to defeat the boss.

Mega spud can enter Minecraft:minecarts, and from phase eight it can also enter Minecraft:boats. A Minecraft:fishing rod can pull the mega spud.

Besides the player, mega spud is also aggressive to Minecraft:iron golems, Minecraft:villagers, and Minecraft:wandering traders.

Peaceful difficulty

On Minecraft:Peaceful, the mega spud does not despawn, but is harmless to the player. Any minions beyond phase 2 despawn immediately, so mega spud loses its shield quickly after gaining it.

Sounds

Mega spuds use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Data values

Entity data

Mega spuds have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

• Template:Nbt Entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit/entity
  • Template:Nbt inherit/mob
  • Template:Nbt: How big the mega spud is. Mega spuds summoned using Template:Cmd default to 0, while naturally spawned mega spuds default to 8.
  • Template:Nbt: Whether this mega spud is on the ground. Is used in conjunction with OnGround to create landing sounds and particles.
  • Template:Nbt: The X coordinate of this mega spud's home.
  • Template:Nbt: The Y coordinate of this mega spud's home.
  • Template:Nbt: The Z coordinate of this mega spud's home.

Trivia

• The Mojang employee Minecraft:Jay Wells is known online as Mega_Spud.
• The mega spud's spawn egg uses the Potato Minecraft:rarity, a rarity exclusive to snapshot 24w14potato.
• The mega spud has the most health of any Minecraft:mob added in all snapshots including joke versions.
• Its initial name, "Mega Spud, Potatolord of the Fried Legion" is a reference to Lord Jaraxxus from World of Warcraft who exclaims "You face Jaraxxus, Eredar Lord of the Burning Legion!" when his boss fight begins.

Gallery

Texture

• The texture of the mega spud. In game, the model and texture are stretched vertically.
  The texture of the mega spud. In game, the model and texture are stretched vertically.

Screenshots

• A mega spud naturally spawned in a colosseum, with a group of Minecraft:plaguewhale slabs.
  A mega spud naturally spawned in a colosseum, with a group of Minecraft:plaguewhale slabs.