It does really help us control the amount of animals we want, either that or Notch would have to go to the trouble of making some long frustrating breeding system just so we don't have a mountain of cows in a pot hole. Really, I am seriously convinced this is the only way to make breeding as easy as possible. After all, look at Dr.Zhark's method of breeding. Yeah, try farming with those mechanics on a massive scale.
I actually like this idea for one simple reason. I am a huge BTW fan and with the "love mode" animal breeding, it is almost impossible to fully automate but using eggs, one could automate a complete farm and even auto hatch the eggs in a mob grinder with a lava blade for insta-cooked meat. So yes, I believe this is a good idea because I love automating everything. It takes more skill to set up complex automation contraptions than to feed two cows and then stab the baby in the face.
I think the eggs can be good if they are done right. Just having monsters / animals spawn random eggs after awhile might be a little intrusive? Think along the lines that if animals reproduce with eggs... well I don't like the idea of running into them constantly. What I do like is that we can build an incubator and hatch the eggs ourselves thus creating domesticated animals!
So we can have our own pet cow. (Will have commands; sit, follow, wander)
I personally believe Notch was just joking about that. He does joke once in a while, I do remember him tweeting a picture about "Ultra Hardcore" (based off hardcore) settings that if you died you lose premium status. Oh and heres some 's for people that want to be creeper farmers!
When I first heard of breeding I envisioned baby animals that would have stages of growth into an adult animal. Also, only one animal would be produced every time two adults went into what is now "love mode". I don't know about the whole egg thing. I am inclined to believe it is just a joke. I came here to see if this thread didn't hold more information on the subject. If breeding did produce eggs instead of baby animal I was curious as to how that would work.
I do not think I will believe that Notch is going to implement eggs as a part of breeding, short of chickens, until I see Jeb leak screenshots of such things. It sounds too much like Notch is trolling us AGAIN. I am still interested in speculating how eggs would function as part of breeding. Chickens at least might get this, even if the other animals do not. Would they be an item, or an immoveable block, ect.
I would love egg's for these reasons.
1.Transportable animals
2.easy food
3.WOLF EGG's.This would be awesome so when you find a wolf you can get ton's of egg's when the wolf dies you caan just get another one instead of going another 7 biome's over to get a new one.
Oh my gosh I did not even think about transportation. That solves SO many problems for me(in my world where I killed off many animals and the rest fell in holes and are trapped forever)
I'm all for eggs, but I'm also okay with more 'realistic' breeding! Whichever is fine by me!
I like the egg idea. I mean the minecraft world is already weird; we have exploding cacti (won't go with the other common description) that run around on 4 legs, we have weird beaky villagers, and hell everything is made of blocks. Having these weird animals lay eggs just seems to fit into the universe.
I definitely agree with you. I too don't complain much, but just imagine a cow egg! Just a tad too far! I think notch is trying to make things too complex, and he should just keeps things simple. Let the animals mate at the most and that's it.
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I dont care if it is eggs. I just want breeding in for some reason
Yeah, it's really awkward and kind of stupid, but it allows for similarity and simplicity, and makes everything less stupid and complicated.
Which is pretty contradictory, but oh well.
So we can have our own pet cow. (Will have commands; sit, follow, wander)
The possibilities are endless...
You sir... are a genius. This was probably one of the most random posts I've made in my whole life. Yay! Here's some 's for you to farm.
+1 and a for the subtle pokemon reference.
How about a smaller animal spawns next to the parents if there are two of them together?
How is that such a terrible idea?
I do not think I will believe that Notch is going to implement eggs as a part of breeding, short of chickens, until I see Jeb leak screenshots of such things. It sounds too much like Notch is trolling us AGAIN. I am still interested in speculating how eggs would function as part of breeding. Chickens at least might get this, even if the other animals do not. Would they be an item, or an immoveable block, ect.
1.Transportable animals
2.easy food
3.WOLF EGG's.This would be awesome so when you find a wolf you can get ton's of egg's when the wolf dies you caan just get another one instead of going another 7 biome's over to get a new one.
I'm all for eggs, but I'm also okay with more 'realistic' breeding! Whichever is fine by me!
This is an awesome idea
Micromanaging eggs in minecraft
VOTE YES FOR EGGS!
But he's using a techinique called "joking" on that tweet. Fyi.
Or you know, just a quick check of the chunk, if their are more then X of animal Y *(or Z animals in total) in the current chunk do not breed!
this need to be atleast a bit more realistic...