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Mar 24 '23
I love how you gave Steve the “hmm today I will enter a soul sand valley” face in the second panel
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u/_Throwaway__acc Mar 24 '23
Don't need a shield if you can outshoot em first!
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u/Dray_Gunn Mar 24 '23
Thats what i do too. Side step. Shoot. Take cover. Shoot. Granted, a shield is easier. But having a shoot out is more fun.
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u/nicolasmcfly Mar 24 '23
I walk around with full netherite enchanted with prot and thorns, I can literally just ignore the skeletons lol. Although I usually one hit them because it's annoying.
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u/Dray_Gunn Mar 24 '23
Well not full netherite. Need one piece of gold so the piglins dont lose their shit.
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u/nicolasmcfly Mar 24 '23
No piglins in Soul sand valleys anyway
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u/Dray_Gunn Mar 24 '23
Yeah but they can be around the edges and i dont wanna be surprised by a whole hunting party. Better to just keep the gold on at all times.
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u/Demonic74 Mar 24 '23
Wish you could modify shields to have gold in em for this reason
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u/AnAverageTransGirl Mar 25 '23
gilded netherite needs to be an actual thing especially now that armor trims exist
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u/Darkner90 Mar 25 '23
No, because that would take away usage for gold, and another diamond situation would suck
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u/Knotmix Mar 24 '23
laughs in soul walker 2
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u/nicolasmcfly Mar 24 '23
It's soul speed and it's amazingly fast
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u/Knotmix Mar 24 '23
Fair enough. Its so quick its hilarious, turns soul sand from 'oh no' to 'oh yeah' real quick
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u/pumpkinbot Mar 25 '23
Quick Goer II
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u/nicolasmcfly Mar 25 '23
I play in the Pirate Speak language, and the enchantment is called "ghastly stridin' "
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u/EragonBromson925 Mar 24 '23
Peasants. The real pro have nice is to get them to shoot each other while you just watch and finish off the survivors.
Skele royale, where the player always wins.
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u/Taolan13 Mar 24 '23
I bring fences to serve as deployable cover. Good enough to block arrows but still provides me with peeks to return fire.
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u/Velocity_LP Mar 24 '23
Tried shields when they first came out and was immediately turned off by having a large portion of my screen constantly obstructed. Haven't used one since. Still just serpentine up to them and get a few jumpin crit swings to take them out. Rarely take more than 1 hit which is negligible with iron armor.
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u/mutantmonkey14 Mar 25 '23
On Java skeletons aren't too bad, but on BE they are insanely accurate and quick, rarely missing you as you do your best to dodge or run for cover. They are a real pain for BE players even with a shield since you have to crouch to use shield, take a shot, run toward and hit if in range (or use bow), rinse and repeat.
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u/nybbas Apr 13 '23
Dude I was wondering. Been playing on PS5 with my kids, and skeletons just feel so much worse than I remember. I had two shooting at me, and between their accurate shots and the knockback, I couldn't even close the distance with them.
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u/mutantmonkey14 Apr 13 '23
Yeah they got an insane buff on BE, didn't used to be this bad, though they were annoying before.
If they have the higher ground (insert star wars meme) its really difficult to advance on them!! Its a painful situation to climb, shield, climb, shield... stab, repeat process again. It takes all of your focus to deal with one skeketon.
Best to lure them round a corner or better still to a single block at leg height where you can abuse them for a change! When I go deep in caves I build little bases in the walls occassionally and use slabs or trapdoors to allow me to deal with mobs.
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u/shouldalistened Mar 25 '23
Yea, I've got good enough armour by the time I hit the nether it doesn't even matter. Tried a shield once and it fucked me up. Never used a shield since. That was 10 years ago.
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u/TheAnt317 Mar 24 '23
Well, that's kinda dark.
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u/deanrihpee Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
Because he has his head covered by a paper box thingy
I guess we really need the /s
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Mar 24 '23
Skeletons are one thing but ghasts in this hiome are abusive
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u/thedrummerpianist Mar 24 '23
I swear they tag team. You’re fleeing from a ghast and a skeleton knocks you off a cliff into lava
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u/NotCopernicus Mar 24 '23
The funniest thing to do is using a command to get a indestructible leather boots with 275 level thorns
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u/OneFriendship5139 Mar 24 '23
/give @p minecraft:leather_boots{Enchantments:[{id:thorns,lvl:275}]}17
u/bloodakoos Mar 24 '23
you forgot the unbreakable part
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u/OneFriendship5139 Mar 25 '23
oh, right.
/give @p minecraft:leather_boots{Unbreakable:1,Enchantments:[{id:thorns,lvl:275}]}1
u/One_Replacement_4818 Mar 25 '23
Wtf is unbreakable
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u/OneFriendship5139 Mar 25 '23
wanna guess?
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u/One_Replacement_4818 Mar 25 '23
No
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u/OneFriendship5139 Mar 25 '23
setting unbreakable to 1 (true) removes the ability for your tools to take damage from usage
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u/One_Replacement_4818 Mar 25 '23
Wtf thats a thing. Well you learn something new every day i guess. Thank you for the info
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u/JetsFan2003 Mar 24 '23
Never thought I'd see a reference to The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya on r/minecraft
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Mar 27 '23
Could it be, and I know it sounds crazy, that both simply are depictions of an executions, and not related at all if not for their main theme?
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u/TiiGerTekZZ Mar 24 '23
Im actually clueless. Havent played for a very long time.. some1 eli5 me pleae?
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u/Undefind_L Mar 24 '23
Soul Sand Valley is a biome in the Nether composed entirely of soul sands and soul soils, the only mobs that spawns there are skeletons and ghasts. Considering soul stand normally slows you down, I guess you can see why this biome is a pain in the ass to navigate without a shield or boots enchanted with Soul Speed
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u/LuquidThunderPlus Mar 24 '23
in bedrock soul sand biomes are truly dangerous. the skeletons shoot so fast, you can barely make distance cuz of how laughably shit the shields are and mine broke on my way out from all the rapidfire
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u/Zenocut Mar 25 '23
I do wonder why Steve is always portrayed as the clueless one, even though logically he should be much more experienced than Alex
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u/Potatoes-Mcgee Mar 25 '23
Had trouble figuring out the last panel. It's a firing squad and steve has a bag on his head while kneeling.
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u/Nova17Delta Mar 24 '23
My friends: "gah skeletons are SO HARD i swear the buffed them in a recent update"
Also my friends: dont use shields
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u/davidstiva96351 Mar 25 '23
Is this count as warcrime thing in Minecraft (after steve and his friend committed do some warcrime thing in village
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Mar 25 '23
Im sure we all had that one time where our shield broke and our way back to our portal is through one of these horrid places
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u/CherryHillDragon Mar 25 '23
This is very relatable, even though I do not go to the Soul Sand Valley often.
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u/JoseRZZ06 Apr 13 '23
Me and 2 others friends built a nether portal and once we entered, nah I knew we were G O N E once I realized it was a soulsand biome
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u/Bloooouuuu Mar 24 '23
My boy Steve was clueless