Mega Spud

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The mega spud is a joke boss mob found in colosseums in 24w14potato.

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

Mega spud drops Potatiesh, Greatstaff of the Peasant and 50XP xp when killed by a player or tamed 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.

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

Besides fireballs, the mega spud also uses a melee attack, which deals 2HP👁 ❤️
damage on Easy and Normal, and 3HP👁 ❤️
👁 💔
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 102.4HP👁 ❤️
× 51.2 points of damage to the mega spud, but it can receive a maximum of 100HP👁 ❤️
× 50 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 wither's armor, and becomes invulnerable to all forms of damage, except for void damage and the /kill 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 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 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 Thorns enchantment works, because the mega spud reflects 100% of the incoming damage: for example, shooting the boss with a bow with 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 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 wither or the ender dragon, the mega spud is not immune to status effects, fire, suffocation or drowning.

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

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

On 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.

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

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

Issues relating to "Mega Spud" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".

• The Mojang employee Jay Wells is known online as Mega_Spud.
• The mega spud's spawn egg uses the Potato rarity, a rarity exclusive to snapshot 24w14potato.
• The mega spud has the most health of any 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.

• 👁 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.

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