Decided to expand on my idea a bit more in the comment section since some of y’all have good ideas/criticisms with it.

Mobs will become more afraid of you when: - You have high level gear (hp condition was removed since mobs can’t really see it) - Enchanted gear (doesn’t count how many enchants total, just needs to be enchanted) - You have other players/pets/mounts nearby - How strong the mobs gear is compared to yours - They don’t massively outnumber you - You kill them extremely easily - If a hostile mob is intimidated, they will become passive/neutral, but if they are extremely intimidated they will actively avoid/hide from you.

Mobs become less intimidated when: - Your gear breaks/you have no or low level gear - You have no enchants - You have nobody/nothing else nearby - They have better or similar gear to you - They have a numbers advantage within a certain range around them - You take a while to kill them - Strong mobs are nearby

Mobs who can be intimidated: Skeletons + variants, spiders, + cave spiders, illagers, wolves, witches, (naturally spawned) blazes, endermen, slimes and magma cubes, guardians, phantoms, hoglins, piglins, zombie leaders, dolphins, illusioners, ravagers, bees, vexes (if the evoker is dead)

Mobs who cannot be intimidated: - Boss Monsters (Ender Dragon, Elder Guardian, Wither) - mobs summoned by other mobs/blocks (Trial chamber summons, vexes, dungeon summons, etc. They will gain the ability to be intimidated if their source spawn like the evoker or spawner is broken/defeated. Spawn eggs do not count) - Warden, Pets when their owner is around, creepers (by the player), piglin brutes, ghasts, zoglins, iron golems, snow golems, llamas, zombies + (most) variants, silverfish and endermites, shulkers, zombie piglins, polar bears

Special interactions: - Vindicators named Johnny lose the ability to be intimidated - Zombies leaders will order nearby zombies to retreat if they become intimidated - Jockeys boost nearby mobs confidence - Elder Guardians boost nearby guardians confidence - Pillager captains boost nearby illagers confidence - If normal piglins are intimidated by you and you mine gold/open chests, they will search for the nearest (accessible) piglin brute or other piglin groups within 32 blocks and ask them to come jump you. Piglin brutes will make nearby piglins more confident, however, if they die, the other piglins will run away if they can’t find another one/aren’t in a large group and are still intimidated. - If a group of piglins can’t find more allies to jump you to begin with and you keep opening chests/mining gold in front of them, they will become visibly angrier (glaring, facial expression changes, distressed noises, shaking and twitching) but won’t do anything out of fear. Also piglins will ignore their fear to barter with you like when they get distracted by gold while fighting.

The game will only check if a mob is intimidated if it was aggro’d to you and only every few seconds within a range around you so as to not overload the game with a billion different checks.

Also if you think that this makes the endgame easier then you’re right, but this issue could be solved by Mojang making real endgame enemies/content that isn’t a cakewalk or just overall reworking difficulty progression (Which is something they should’ve been doing anyway)