Mega Spud

Mega Spud
Health points	1024HP × 512
Armor points	5 ()
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Monster, Potato
Attack; strength	Melee:; Easy: 3HP; Normal: 4HP; Hard: 6HP; Impact: ; Easy: 4HP; Normal: 6HP; Hard: 9HP; Explosion:; varies by proximity, maximum:; Easy: 8.5HP × 4.25; Normal: 15HP × 7.5; Hard: 22.5HP × 11.25
Spawn	Colosseum

This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.

This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.

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

Spawning

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.

Drops

On death

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.

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Potatiesh, Greatstaff of the Peasant	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Potatiesh, Greatstaff of the Peasant	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Item		Amount	Probability
Item		Amount	Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Potatiesh, Greatstaff of the Peasant	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
	Potatiesh, Greatstaff of the Peasant	Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)

Item		Expected Drop
Killed		1
Item		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Potatiesh, Greatstaff of the Peasant	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Behavior

Mega spud moves around similarly to a slime. When it detects a player, 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, 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, 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, mega spud reflects every attack that the player does back at them. This is different from how the Thorns enchantment work, because 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, 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, mega spud roars angrily and loses its shield. It can then be damaged like a normal mob. Unlike the wither or the ender dragon, mega spud is not immune to status effects, fire, suffocation or drowning.

Phase	Name	Health	Hitbox size^[1] (blocks)	Mobs spawned	Combined health of all spawned mobs	Average number of peels dropped
0	Potatolord of the Fried Legion	1024	5.20	-	-	-
1	Clucky Contaminator	1024-921.6	4.68	One chicken	4	15.061
2	Toxic Talon Talus	921.6-819.2	4.16	Two armadillos	24	11.250
3	Venomous Vagabond	819.2-716.8	3.64	Three poisonous potato zombies	60	8.200
4	Arachnid Administrator	716.8-614.4	3.12	Four spiders	64	5.823
5	Spud Scavenger Stray	614.4-512	2.60	Five strays	100	4.037
6	Creeper Kingpin	512-409.6	2.08	Six creepers	120	2.758
7	Poisonous Piglin Potentate	409.6-307.2	1.56	Seven piglin brutes	350	1.900
8	Ghastly Ghoulmaster	307.2-204.8	1.04	Eight ghasts	80	1.380
9	Plaguewhale Patriarch	204.8-102.4	0.52	Nine plaguewhale slabs	720	1.112
10	Giant Green Globule	102.4-0	0.52^[2]	Ten giants	1000	1.014

↑ Hitbox is always a cube.
↑ Size does not change in the last phase.

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.

Peaceful difficulty

On Peaceful, 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.

Sounds

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

Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Mega Spud plays big	Hostile Mobs	Randomly	`entity.megaspud.idle`	`subtitles.entity.megaspud.idle`	Varies^{[sound 1]}	0.8-1.2	16
	Mega Spud is peeled	Hostile Mobs	When a mega spud is damaged	`entity.megaspud.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.megaspud.hurt`	Varies^{[sound 1]}	0.8-1.2	16
	Mega Spud peels away	Hostile Mobs	When a mega spud dies	`entity.megaspud.death`	`subtitles.entity.megaspud.death`	Varies^{[sound 1]}	0.8-1.2	16
	Mega Spud fires	Hostile Mobs	When a mega spud shoots a fireball	`entity.megaspud.fireball`	`subtitles.entity.megaspud.fireball`	1.0	1.0	16
	Mega Spud challenges you	Hostile Mobs	When a mega spud summons minions	`entity.megaspud.challenge`	`subtitles.entity.megaspud.challenge`	Varies^{[sound 1]}	1.0	16
	Mega Spud spawns minions	Hostile Mobs	When a mega spud summons minions	`entity.megaspud.summon`	`subtitles.entity.megaspud.summon`	Varies^{[sound 1]}	1.0	16
	Trial Spawner spawns a mob	Blocks	When a mega spud summons minions	`block.trial_spawner.spawn_mob`	`subtitles.block.trial_spawner.spawn_mob`	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Mega Spud is upset	Hostile Mobs	When all of a mega spud's minions are defeated	`entity.megaspud.upset`	`subtitles.entity.megaspud.upset`	Varies^{[sound 1]}	1.0	16
	Mega Spud flops	Hostile Mobs	When a non-tiny^{[sound 2]} mega spud jumps	`entity.megaspud.jump`	`subtitles.entity.megaspud.squish`	Varies^{[sound 1]}	0.64-0.96	16
	Mega Spud flops	Hostile Mobs	When a tiny^{[sound 2]} mega spud jumps	`entity.megaspud.jump_hi`	`subtitles.entity.megaspud.squish`	Varies^{[sound 1]}	2.24-3.36	16
	Mega Spud flops	Hostile Mobs	When a mega spud lands	`entity.megaspud.jump_hi`	`subtitles.entity.megaspud.squish`	Varies^{[sound 1]}	2.0-3.0	16

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ 0.4 + 0.4 × size
↑ ^a ^b A mega spud is tiny when its size is less than or equal to 1

Data values

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Mega Spud, Potatolord of the Fried Legion	`mega_spud`	`entity.minecraft.mega_spud`

Entity data

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

[NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
- Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
- Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
- [Int] Size: How big the mega spud is. Mega spuds summoned using /summon default to 0, while naturally spawned mega spuds default to 8.
- [Byte] wasOnGround: Whether this mega spud is on the ground. Is used in conjunction with OnGround to create landing sounds and particles.
- [Int] homeX: The X coordinate of this mega spud's home.
- [Int] homeY: The Y coordinate of this mega spud's home.
- [Int] homeZ: The Z coordinate of this mega spud's home.

Issues

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".

Trivia

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.

Gallery

Texture

The texture of the mega spud. In game, the model and texture are stretched vertically.

Screenshots

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

Navigation

[1] Hitbox is always a cube.

[2] Size does not change in the last phase.

[volume-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ 0.4 + 0.4 × size

[tiny-4] A mega spud is tiny when its size is less than or equal to 1

[1]

[2]

[sound 1]

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