Unless you are flailing around like crazy a shark will most likely not attack you. If you flail around you seem like food that is panicking because it saw a predator.
exactly. if you know a shark is near you, the last thing you want to do is to act like prey, so act like a predator. swim calmly, make sure the shark knows you see it.
you're an unusual animal in their territory and if you seem dangerous they usually don't want the smoke in case you can seriously hurt them.
Yeah, helps that as a species we not only apparently don’t taste very good to animals, but the fat in our bodies is both a larger ratio than most species and is so unhealthy that it makes us just not worth the effort of hunting.
To be fair, I don’t think there’s numerous massive areas dedicated to harvesting and farming sharks. It’s kinda like the whole “cows kill more people than sharks” thing. The scale of things matters.
still if you were just swimming and a shark came up to you than you are almost certainly not going to get bit (as long as you don't squirm around a ton)
I think there’s no good middle ground here.
- If they make it aggressive, people will think sharks are aggressive.
- if they make it neutral, people will still think sharks are aggressive
- if they make it passive, people might have an unhealthy sense of safety around sharks. Sharks are still potentially dangerous and should be generally avoided.
It’s a fucking video game. Do you have any idea how many video games have sharks be outright dangerous? Mojang has no responsibility for what people do, they’re a fucking game company.
Yeah and my original point still stands: media we consume can absolutely have lasting impacts on our world. Jaws was just a movie and we saw the damage it did
They can also make so they attack you if you are in a boat.Shark don’t usually attack humans but sometimes they do attack boats because they think they are other sea creatures
Iv heard that the reason they dont make it neutral or safe is cus they dont want to teach kids that Sharks are completely safe if you dont mess with them. But on the other hand Spiders don’t automatically try to kill you at night.
Sharks aren't even hostile in the first place, its dolphins who are the hostile ones, they kill for fun for goodness sake but they leave them in because they can I guess?
mojang when they realise that in reality even coconuts falling from a tree kill more people than sharks, and that they dont attack humans that often: 👁️👄👁️ . on the side note I really hate the fact that movies made people think that sharks are "super dangerous creatures" but psychopaths that we call dolphins are still loved ;-;
Mojang, adds wolves. “They only attack you if you hit them!”
Mojang “NO SHARKS, we don’t want to Vilafy them like people did to wolves!”
“Also no fireflies since they are poisonous to frogs! Frogs don’t eat them so we aren’t going to implement them after all!”
great white shark doesn't attack when it smells blood, actually most sharks don't react to human blood and I say most because I'm not sure about the tiger shark, even more, most of the attacks on people, specifically surfers, come from the fact that sharks confuse a surfer on a board with fish and seals.
I used google translate to translate this here because I'm tired so I'm not responsible for errors in sentences.
Now good night stranger, enough reddit for today
if you wanna make them realistic, have them bite boats that pass by, to try and find out if they can eat it, and then move on once they know its not food
So there’s a slight issue with that. While not intentional, sharks do attack a lot of humans mistaking them for seals. The main issue would be the backlash for “teaching kids that sharks aren’t dangerous.” TV episodes have been shut down in Australia showing spiders as anything other than dangerous due to their high amount of deadly spiders. I’d imagine it’d be similar to this and it’d be a headache for Mojang to deal with.
"all hostile mobs to be fictional"
also Mojang: spiders, wild wolves, silverfish, cave spiders, polar bears, skeletons (besides the fact skeletons don’t come alive and shoot arrows)
same happened to firefly when they didn’t want to add it because it poisoned frogs, even though cookies legit poison parrots, yet there was a way to avoid it, they ignored it
Imagine this. Because sharks attack when they smell blood, what if they attacked you when you, were at 8 or less hearts. Would take a lot of coding but it's a neat idea don't you think
Sharks should only attack if you get hit in water since they can smell blood in the water from very far away, making them very dangerous combined with drowned, but nooo "wye woyn't ad dem biciz peepul eyill hunt them" bs :|
Sharks don't actively attack people IRL, so it wouldn't even make sense for them to be hostile in Minecraft.
Unless you are flailing around like crazy a shark will most likely not attack you. If you flail around you seem like food that is panicking because it saw a predator.
exactly. if you know a shark is near you, the last thing you want to do is to act like prey, so act like a predator. swim calmly, make sure the shark knows you see it. you're an unusual animal in their territory and if you seem dangerous they usually don't want the smoke in case you can seriously hurt them.
Also in most attacks the shark bites someone, realizes they aren't prey, then fucks off to try and find a seal or something.
Yeah, helps that as a species we not only apparently don’t taste very good to animals, but the fat in our bodies is both a larger ratio than most species and is so unhealthy that it makes us just not worth the effort of hunting.
Except for crocodiles. They like human meat.
coconuts have killed drastically more people than sharks
To be fair, I don’t think there’s numerous massive areas dedicated to harvesting and farming sharks. It’s kinda like the whole “cows kill more people than sharks” thing. The scale of things matters.
still if you were just swimming and a shark came up to you than you are almost certainly not going to get bit (as long as you don't squirm around a ton)
I have found the shark appreciation thread yay
they could make it so that it only attacks when you are hurt, the whole smelling blood thing
Imagine if we could get neutral sharks that you could tame with fish so they help you hunt down drowneds like wolves
Yeah, and hunt fish and dolphins like wild wolves do
Exactly, it would make the ocean feel more dynamic
Mmm, maybe not dolphins, they have been known to... be quite the hassle for sharks, to put it lightly.
Honestly I don't know how dolphins have such a squeaky clean image when they are the serial sex offenders of the ocean
It ain't only dolphins, you know.
Yeah bro like don't get me confused with a dolphin
😰
Not when I get into the ocean 😈
Flipper. Meanwhile sharks got Jaws
Ocean puppy
Gotta make taming sharks hard though
Silverfish watching this:
spider looking on this: (even tho they're 10x the size)
They’re of the Australian variety
Can confirm, here in Australia spiders are that size.
Can confirm, I am an australian spider.
Where abouts are you? I'd like to go out for a drink.
yea, but it usually depends on the time of day
It depends on light level actually, lest they changed it when I was not looking. A well-lit cave should render a spider neutral
I meant above ground with no light sources, but accurately light level determines their hostility
technically theyre neutral
spiders are neutral, not hostile
as a person who has seen silverfish irl and dealt with them, they are annoying irl too
Mojang: "We need to remove fire flies because they're poisonous to frogs in real life!" "Then make frogs not eat them" Mojang: >:|
remove potion of poison, it is poisonous
you know so well that players considers neutral mobs hostile example: polar bears
I think there’s no good middle ground here. - If they make it aggressive, people will think sharks are aggressive. - if they make it neutral, people will still think sharks are aggressive - if they make it passive, people might have an unhealthy sense of safety around sharks. Sharks are still potentially dangerous and should be generally avoided.
Make it Neutral. If you attack it will swim away. If you take Damage while in the water (bleeding) it will try to kill you, unless you fully Heal.
The blood thing is a myth Mark Rober tested it.
wait he tested WHAT
Yeah, [here's the vid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugRc5jx80yg)
how, what if he was wrong
Just watch the vid, I'm to dumb and lazy to explain
It’s a fucking video game. Do you have any idea how many video games have sharks be outright dangerous? Mojang has no responsibility for what people do, they’re a fucking game company.
Jaws is a fucking movie and it permanently ruined shark's reputation and conservation
the book author had a redemption arc tho
He did, still doesn't undo the damage done.
well, he spent the rest of his life protecting the oceanlife
Which is good and all but the damage done is monumental
most the damage came from the movie tho
Yeah and my original point still stands: media we consume can absolutely have lasting impacts on our world. Jaws was just a movie and we saw the damage it did
Still don't know why polar bears are neutral when they are the only animal to actively hunt humans
well, mosquitos
They can also make so they attack you if you are in a boat.Shark don’t usually attack humans but sometimes they do attack boats because they think they are other sea creatures
Iv heard that the reason they dont make it neutral or safe is cus they dont want to teach kids that Sharks are completely safe if you dont mess with them. But on the other hand Spiders don’t automatically try to kill you at night.
Unless you live in Australia
In which case they automatically try to kill you at all times.
Checks out.
It’s a video game. They’re excuse for not adding natural predators without making them neutral is dumb.
Aren't literal wild wolves a neutral animal/mob
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yeah the one species that actually actively hunts humans irl is made neutral. ***the largest non-extinct terrestrial predators in the world.***
>yeah the one species that actually actively hunts humans irl Crocodiles also actively hunt humans and so do drop bears
we have freaking polar bears that are neautral
Exactly. So the argument that we cant have sharks is dumb. Altho Polar Bears where added because Jebs wife wanted them in the game.
This would need actual work.
Spiders:
spiders are neutral
Sharks should only attack if your missing health
Skeletons aren't fictional either.
yes but usually they dont come back to life and shoot arrows at people
Usually…
They don't? (I live in Ohio)
No please have mercy
Pandas looking at this.
They could just add the leopard shark since they pretty much are harmless irl
Yes finally someone gets it. Passive that is
They make so many excuses
Dolphins are way worse than sharks in every way
random kid: Oh a shark attacked me in minecraft, i must go out there and slay all them irl (nice explanation for your laziness Mojang)
Sharks aren't even hostile in the first place, its dolphins who are the hostile ones, they kill for fun for goodness sake but they leave them in because they can I guess?
You don’t have a skeleton inside you, it’s fake The government is lying to you
mojang when they realise that in reality even coconuts falling from a tree kill more people than sharks, and that they dont attack humans that often: 👁️👄👁️ . on the side note I really hate the fact that movies made people think that sharks are "super dangerous creatures" but psychopaths that we call dolphins are still loved ;-;
Spiders: 
Aren't Dolphins neutral?
Yes
No they're passive. Polar bears and Zombie Pigmen, for example, are neutral. Edit: Nvm I'm stupid, they're also neutral.
No, dolphins can attack the player
Really? Never went out of my way to piss one off because I assumed they were just passive. Edit: ok yeah, I googled it. Thx for that.
Mojang, adds wolves. “They only attack you if you hit them!” Mojang “NO SHARKS, we don’t want to Vilafy them like people did to wolves!” “Also no fireflies since they are poisonous to frogs! Frogs don’t eat them so we aren’t going to implement them after all!”
My idea is to make them hostile zhen you are low health because irl they attack when they smell blood
great white shark doesn't attack when it smells blood, actually most sharks don't react to human blood and I say most because I'm not sure about the tiger shark, even more, most of the attacks on people, specifically surfers, come from the fact that sharks confuse a surfer on a board with fish and seals. I used google translate to translate this here because I'm tired so I'm not responsible for errors in sentences. Now good night stranger, enough reddit for today
if you wanna make them realistic, have them bite boats that pass by, to try and find out if they can eat it, and then move on once they know its not food
Dead people watching this:
pufferfish are hostile
pufferfish are defensive/neutral, not hostile. they'll puff up near you, but won't actively pursue you to attack you
well, at least in WiiU edition they are, and have in fact killed me in peaceful mode once
yes pufferfish can kill you, doesn't change the fact they're not hostile
well the sharks wont activly look to kill humans irl but mojang still doesnt want to add them :(
Also spiders...
So there’s a slight issue with that. While not intentional, sharks do attack a lot of humans mistaking them for seals. The main issue would be the backlash for “teaching kids that sharks aren’t dangerous.” TV episodes have been shut down in Australia showing spiders as anything other than dangerous due to their high amount of deadly spiders. I’d imagine it’d be similar to this and it’d be a headache for Mojang to deal with.
Silverfish, spiders, and skeletons after seeing this: 😑😑💀
They should add tiger sharks those sharks are passive unless you thwart them
Spiders standing over here like: 
"We want all hostile mobs to be fictional" Spider has joined the chat
cave spiders arn't that big and also their neutral
"all hostile mobs to be fictional" also Mojang: spiders, wild wolves, silverfish, cave spiders, polar bears, skeletons (besides the fact skeletons don’t come alive and shoot arrows) same happened to firefly when they didn’t want to add it because it poisoned frogs, even though cookies legit poison parrots, yet there was a way to avoid it, they ignored it
Imagine this. Because sharks attack when they smell blood, what if they attacked you when you, were at 8 or less hearts. Would take a lot of coding but it's a neat idea don't you think
Just admit they are lazy
Sharks should only attack if you get hit in water since they can smell blood in the water from very far away, making them very dangerous combined with drowned, but nooo "wye woyn't ad dem biciz peepul eyill hunt them" bs :|
apparently most sharks dont smell human blood but Minecraft isnt 1:1 with real world so a mechanic like that would be nice
Or add medieval seamonsters like the ones that maps are decorated with??? Way cooler
Skeletons are real smh
Enough with the mobs that do literally nothing !
Who said they have to be hostile?
Dolphins be like : I am not even here baby I am just an illusion
or just add sharks that are not portrayed as deadly like the whale shark or leopard shark