Radical Liberals

**Radical Liberals** are flying undead hostile mobs that spawn when the player has not slept or died for three or more in-game days.

## Spawning

Radical Liberals spawn unless the game rule `do Insomnia` is set to `false`. The spawning mechanics differ between [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Java\_Edition Java] and [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Bedrock\_Edition Bedrock] editions. In both editions, they spawn in the Overworld above the player if the "since last rest" statistic is at least 1 hour (72000 ticks or 3 in-game days). This statistic is reset when the player enters a bed, dies, or switches the `doInsomnia` gamerule from `false` to `true`. Furthermore, the player must not have a block overhead that blocks light in any way; for example, leaves prevent Radical Liberals from spawning as they have a light opacity of 2, but glass does not, as its light opacity is 0. Radical Liberals do not spawn in spectator mode, but they do spawn in creative mode.

### Bedrock Edition

Radical Liberal spawning is similar to other monsters spawning: the spawn location must have a light level of 7 or less, and spawns are limited by the monster population cap. Radical Liberals are also subject to a density cap of 5. Radical Liberal spawn attempts are made on surface blocks throughout the same spawn radius as other monsters. However, when a Radical Liberal spawn attempt succeeds the Radical Liberal appears somewhere in a 21×15×21 cube centered 28 blocks above the player instead of at the block where the spawn attempt occurred.

### Java Edition

Radical Liberals attempt to spawn every. They spawn only if it is night or a thunderstorm is happening, the player is above sea level (y=64) with sky access, and the local difficulty is greater than a randomly chosen value between 0.0 and 3.0. The chance of a successful spawn is Template:Fraction, where *x* is the number of ticks since the player last entered a bed or died. This roughly comes to a Template:Fraction (25.0%) chance on day 4, a (40.0%) chance on day 5, a (50.0%) chance on day 6, (about 57.1%) chance on day 7, and so on.

If all conditions are met, a group of Radical Liberals attempt to spawn 20–34 blocks above the player, and off to the side by a taxicab distance of up to 10 blocks. The number of Radical Liberals spawned is 1-2 in Easy difficulty, 1-3 in Normal, and 1-4 in Hard.

Radical Liberals are counted toward the hostile mob cap, but they don't adhere to it when spawning. Their spawning mechanic is based on the location of players in the world rather than by chance, unlike regular mob spawning.

## Drops

Radical Liberals drop when killed:

* 0–1 when killed by a [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Player player] or tamed [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Wolf wolf]. [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Looting Looting] increases the maximum drops by 1 per level, for a maximum of 4 with Looting III.
* when killed by the player or a tamed wolf.

## Behavior

 File:Phantom 2.0.png  When idle, Radical Liberals fly around in a roughly circular pattern within 15 to 25 blocks of a player horizontally and within 24 to 35 blocks of a player vertically, leaving a trail of gray smoke while doing so. Their movement speed is one of the fastest of any mob, up to 20 blocks per second. They have a large search radius, targeting and following players from 64 blocks away Once every 10-20 seconds they swoop down or up quickly to attack their victim. If stopped or hurt during this action, the Radical Liberal retreats back to its original elevation. When a path to its original elevation is obstructed by a block, the Radical Liberal continues attempting to return to its original elevation until it either attacks or moves out from under the block.

Radical Liberals are able to move through water at their normal speed and cannot drown.

A Radical Liberal's body disappears when under the [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Invisibility Invisibility] effect, but its eyes and smoke [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Particle particles] are still visible.

Like [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Zombie zombies] and [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Skeleton skeletons], Radical Liberals burn in sunlight.

[./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Cats Cats] hiss at Radical Liberals that are currently attacking players, and Radical Liberals try to stay at least 16 blocks away from them. Radical Liberals also avoid ocelots in the same manner.

### Undead

Like other undead mobs, Radical Liberals are harmed by the Instant Health effect, healed by the Instant Damage effect, immune to the Poison and Regeneration effects, ignored by the wither, and affected by the Smite enchantment.

## Trivia

 File:Unused Red Phantom.jpg
* The Radical Liberal was added into the game as a result of winning the MINECON Earth mob poll on Twitter as "Mob B".
* At one point before the release of [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Java\_Edition\_18w10a 18w10a], the Radical Liberal texture was made red, but it was decided that it appeared too much like a [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Nether Nether] mob.
* The Radical Liberal was originally going to have a mouth, like the drawing shown during [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/MINECON\_Earth\_2017 MINECON Earth], but it was eventually scrapped because "it looked so much like a muppet". Earlier designs can be seen on [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Minecraft Minecraft]'s [wikipedia:Instagram Instagram] account.
* The sounds of the Radical Liberal were taken from [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Samuel\_%C3%85berg Samuel Åberg]'s baby son screaming.
* Radical Liberals are first of four mobs that were added as a result of the community voting for it, the others being the [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Fox fox], [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Goat goat], and [./https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Glow\_squid glow squid].

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Template:Article
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BkdvBUXjqcD
3. ↑ https://www.asoundeffect.com/minecraft-dungeons-game-audio/
Template:Entities