Specter

Specters belong in the Unknown tier.

Spawning

• When an Infected Wandering Trader is linked, it will become a Specter.

• Spawned from Arena Tendrils as a special mob during a raid.

Unique Behavior

• When locking on to a target, the Specter will go fully invisible and run towards the target. When in this state, it won't make any idle noises and sculk detectors won't notice it. Once it gets within ~7 blocks of the target, it will become visible again.

• When finding a chest that has food items in it, the Specter will run up to it and eat the food inside. When eating the food, for each item it eats, it adds the hunger and saturation values together and adds that to its 'stomach' variable. Every 10 seconds, if the stomach variable is above 10, it decreases the value by 10 and adds 1 kill point.

• Whenever damaged, the Specter has a 10% chance to spawn a Scent. It also entirely ignores the local Scent cap.

• The Specter will target and break light sources, CDUs, and TNT.

• 30% of the Specter's damage pierces through armor, meaning it ignores it.

• Inflicts the Blindness effect for 5 seconds when dealing melee damage.

• When damaged by fire, the Specter will give itself Fire Resistance.

• Enhanced swimming: the Specter can move quickly underwater.

• Able to breath underwater.

• The Specter has very high knockback, having 10x the knockback of a basic infected, with a value of 3 for knockback.

• Like horses, Specters are capable of stepping up blocks, meaning they don't have to jump to go up one block.

• Is able to climb up blocks.

• Is completely ignored by the despawning system.

Behavior

• Specters are melee combatants, attacking mobs with Infected forms, golems, and most hostile mobs.

• Specters inflict Mycelium Infection II for 10 seconds when dealing melee damage.

• Has a follow range of 48 blocks.

• Can perform low leaps/dashes to chase prey quickly through water.

• Able to use kill points to give themselves buffs, such as strength or speed if the target is running away. They can also give themselves regeneration if they are low on health.

• Capable of breaking blocks with a hardness of 3 or below.

• Present a weakness to the cold, like all spore mobs.

Related Advancements

• Meet the Team

• Meet the Spy

Drops

• Armor Fragment

• Claw Fragment

• Innards

• Mutated Fibre

• Mutated Heart

• Tendons

• Tumor