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I decided to go for a less traditional witch look and have an "offshoot villager" kinda thing. It has a magical nose that wiggles, too.

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Witches are hostile, ranged mobs commonly spawning in Swamp Huts. They're the second hostile ranged mobs to spawn in the Overworld - the first being the skeleton.

Appearance

Witches have a similar appearance to the villager mob, and they wear purple and green robes with brown leggings underneath. They have large noses (which moves slowly around on the Witch's face, as stated in Dinnerbone's tweet) with a single wart and have lavender colored eyes. They wear a stereotypical witch hat with a green buckle on it, and their skin is slightly paler than the normal villager. However, witches periodically give off purple star particles similar to the villager's green stars.

click on the number 1 for a video about the minecraft witch! ---> [1]

Combat

The witch mob uses splash potions of poison, weakness, damage, and slowness to fight the player. The current order of potions thrown is; slowness, poison, they will then proceed to throw potions of harming until the player is no longer poisoned which they will rectify by throwing another splash potion of poison and will continue to do this. The splash potion of harming will occasionally be substituted by potions of slowness. These potions will affect other mobs - not just the player. The witch does not burn in sunlight and when set on fire, drinks a potion of fire resistance. This can be seen when a bottle appears in the witch's hands. Iron Golems will attack witches as most other hostile mobs.

Witches are immune to splash potions of poison, slowness, and instant damage. When damaged, they will drink potion of regeneration, healing themselves. When drinking a potion, a witch's nose will point straight forward (instead of down). While healing they can't attack the player. If lit on fire by lava or fire, witches will quickly drink potions of fire resistance, making lava and fire ineffective ways of killing witches.

A bow will likely be the best weapon for dealing with a witch, as the splash potions have only a short range (at most nine blocks) compared to arrows (which, when fired straight at full charge, travel 24 blocks). If a bow is not an option, however, a direct melee charge is the best option. Due to the Witch's slow attack speed, if the player runs in a straight line and manages to get a quick sword strike in, the Witch will try to heal themselves with a potion of regeneration, leaving the player to attack them without fear of retaliation.

Upon death, witches rarely drop potions of healing, swiftness, and fire resistance.

History

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September 13, 2012Dinnerbone hinted that the witch mob would be added in the Pretty Scary Update,[1][2][3] and that the witch's texture would be some variation of the villagers'.[4]
12w38aWitches were added. They do not naturally spawn, and can only be spawned in Creative mode using spawn eggs.
The witch uses splash potions, such as poison, weakness, damage, and slowness, to fight the player.
Though witches are modeled after villagers, they do not share any attributes of villagers, such as utilizing housing, and are unable to open doors.
12w38bWitches now have common drops including sticks, redstone dust, glowstone dust, gunpowder, spider eyes and water bottles.
Witches now can't hurt themselves, and their texture changed slightly.
September 21, 2012Dinnerbone confirmed a suggestion made by Mr_Pennybags in Reddit's r/Minecraft subreddit that witches are to live in Swamp Huts.
12w39aFixed bug causing witch to be white for some, and changed texture size.
12w40aWitches now spawn in Swamp Huts.

Bugs

  • If a witch gets stuck in a wall, then it will not die.
  • When a witch drinks a potion, the bottle will not show the drinking animation; only the bottle itself.

Trivia

  • If a witch shoots another witch with a potion, the witch who is hit will become angry but will not kill the other witch; instead, it will hit the offending witch once with a potion.
  • Though it's not actually a villager, the witch's skin is found in the Villager folder in minecraft.jar.
  • Witches have more mob drops than any other mob in the game.
  • Witches have the most health of any normally aggressive mob other than boss mobs. However, maximum-sized Magma Cubes may take more hits to kill due to their high armor value, and may also spawn numerous smaller versions whose collective health combined with that of their full-sized progenitor is well over that of one witch.
  • Witches are the only non-boss mob to naturally regenerate health.
  • Unlike villagers, witches do despawn when the player is out of range since they are hostile mobs.
  • Witch Huts are similar to the hut of Baba Yaga (a famous witch in Slavic folklore) that stood on chicken legs.

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References

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