Talk:Floater/@comment-33973370-20171219142043/@comment-34471373-20180126033513

i believe they count as passive because they lack enough brain power to intentionally attack the player. they're not really sophisticated enough for aggression. They just naturally attach to anything they encounter, and so its more pure instinct more than anything else. Yes, they can, supposedly, attach to and kill a leviathan, but that seems to be by pure coincidence more than anything. Its like jellyfish. yes, they are predatory, but seeing as they are squishy lumps of tissue at the mercy of the currents, they dont really *hunt*. they dont have enough sensory organs to track something, which is kind of important to hunting.

(i say supposedly, because i used the debug commands in creative mode to spawn over 200 of em and got a reaper to swim through and it did not stop it, much less kill it. )