My lil' brother and i finally got a beacon fountain in the middle of our crappy self made village.
Defeating that wither is not super though if you got some sturdy armour and good weapons.
I mean really, we were fighting in full iron armor (i only had my chestplate enchanted with Protection I), had an enchanted bow (i think both Power I) and an enchanted diamond sword (brother: fire aspect I, me: Sharpness I or II, not sure).
After the fight the area was quite demolished and my (almost full health at the beginning) armor was quite low. :P
Strange enough we didn't get the wither effect from it's projectiles..
Might be a bug in the latest snapshot. :/
Still pretty intense, especially when it went into rage mode after we got it's health to like half of it.
But we pulled it off.
The amount of villagers in our village is a huge amount, 1 villager. :P
We have a legit village nearby, but we decided to make our own and convert villager zombies.
We even have a trap to safely convert them (without them burning down or being attacked by creatures afterwards). :)
Overall, fun times.