Gorgon Stone Gaze

Quickstart

• For a quick test, get the Gorgon Stone Gaze Spawn Egg from the Creative inventory and use it to spawn the Gorgon. You can also use /summon com_gorgon_stone_gaze_d6yn67a4:mycustom.
• Try it near other mobs: keep them within about 20 blocks, with a clear view of the Gorgon, and watch them turn into stone.
• Protect yourself by keeping a shield in your main hand or offhand. If the Gorgon meets your gaze, look away or get behind a block to break eye contact.

Overview

Gorgon Stone Gaze adds a hostile Gorgon that hunts nearby creatures and can petrify them. It is most often encountered underground in dark, shallow Overworld caves. Its gaze can turn mobs—and even players—into stone.

What It Adds

• Gorgon: A hostile mob with 60 health. It pursues players and other mobs and deals 8 damage with a melee attack.
• Gorgon Stone Gaze Spawn Egg: A way to place the creature yourself.
• Petrification: Eligible targets are replaced by ordinary stone blocks shaped roughly to their size. The Gorgon can also leave stone in place of some ground blocks as it moves.

How To Use

There is no crafting recipe for the Gorgon or its spawn egg. Use the egg in Creative, or summon the Gorgon with the command in Quickstart. Player-spawned Gorgons can be placed outside caves.

Naturally spawned Gorgons appear alone in dark Overworld caves with enough room, no more than about 20 blocks below the nearby surface. To encourage an encounter, explore suitable caves.

Abilities And Mechanics

• Mobs: A living mob within 20 blocks can be petrified if it has a clear line of sight and is facing the Gorgon for about half a second. Breaking sight or turning away interrupts the gaze.
• Players: You and the Gorgon must both be looking directly at each other, with a clear path between you and within 20 blocks. Maintaining that eye contact for about five seconds petrifies you.
• Shields: A shield held in either hand protects you from petrification while the gaze continues, but it wears down during exposure. Continuous exposure can break it after about two minutes. A shield does not prevent the Gorgon’s melee attacks.
• Stone remains: Petrification leaves stone blocks where the target stood; it does not create a collectible statue item. The blocks are ordinary stone.

Progression And Strategy

Keep solid blocks between you and the Gorgon to break its line of sight. If you are caught in its gaze, look away or retreat behind cover; don’t rely on a shield indefinitely. It is also dangerous at close range, so avoid letting it reach you.

If you defeat a Gorgon, a player kill yields 1–3 stone and five Totems of Undying, with a chance of spider eyes. Looting can improve the stone and spider-eye drops.