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I think they need to add more mobs to jungles, because basically the only mobs that spawn there are ocelots and sheep. And they also need to add more flying mobs. So why not a parrot? They have 6 half-hearts, and are passive, so they don't attack. They look like birds, are rainbow coloured, and about the same size as a bat. They fly around and when they die, they drop rainbow feathers, which I will explain later. You can tame them using cookies, so they actually are useful other than a useless food item. Plus, the main ingredient in cookies is cocoa beans, which you also find in the jungle. After giving them 2-3 cookies, they get tamed. Then, if you right click them while holding shift, they open up a little chat bar, and you can type something in it. Then, if you're close to them, they repeat what you typed in them. If you change it, then they say something else.

<parrot> - Polly want a cracker!

My other idea is that they repeat what you say in the chat repeatedly.

<mr_enderman77> - Hi
<mr_enderman77> - Hi
<parrot> - Hi

If you rename the parrot, the chat shows the parrot's name instead.

The parrot only talks once every 3 minutes or so, to prevent spam.

Vote and tell me what you think!

The rainbow feathers are used to make special arrows called healing arrows. The crafting recipe is the same as an arrow, except using a rainbow feather. They heal 2 and a half hearts at a mob when you shoot it, and it makes a rainbow trail that stays for a few seconds if you have particles on "all",

If you right-click on a parrot without holding shift, the parrot will perch on your shoulder. You can also craft a perch like this:



If you right-click on a perch with a parrot on your shoulder, it will fly to the perch and sit there. If you right-click on a perch with a parrot on it, or if you destroy it, the parrot will fly off. If you have a parrot perched on you, sneak, and the parrot will fly off.

I re-textured the bat and made this!

Here's a banner I made:
http://i.imgur.com/5CRFUfQ.jpg

(I can't make it so that if you click on it, it brings you here).

I think this is a good idea, except I honestly don't think you should be able to tame them, sure it would be cool and all, but I would rather have them follow you if you have an item. Maybe a new item could be added so they would follow you. You could also use a lead on them for them to follow you. Great idea though! Maybe they could drop different colored feathers, which you could use for a new type of hat!

Here are some screenshots!

How about they follow you if you have a cookie?

Cookies need to have some uses, because they are bad food that only heals like 1 hunger drumstick.

About the feathers, maybe they are used to make fancy arrows that heal instead of damage?

This sounds like a generally cool idea, if a bit too "Mod-y" ... On the other hand, alot of features lately have been like that.

Quote from Amperz4nd

This sounds like a generally cool idea, if a bit too "Mod-y" ... On the other hand, alot of features lately have been like that.

Yeah, the bunnies are basically the same as these.

What do you think of my model, this is my first mob re-texure.

Quote from mr_enderman77

How about they follow you if you have a cookie?

Cookies need to have some uses, because they are bad food that only heals like 1 hunger drumstick.

About the feathers, maybe they are used to make fancy arrows that heal instead of damage?

Great idea! You have my support for this, also maybe the arrows could have different effects, Fire, Poison, Healing, Possibly and OP arrow created using all feather types?

Also the parrot looks great, maybe change the eyes and beak color to better resemble a bird. Great work!

I based the parrot off of this:

So yeah, I will add the heal arrows to the post.

Mojang once suggested a quiver to hold arrows, maybe you can choose what type of arrows there are.

Great idea!

They should add flying mobs in the nether as well (Aside from Ghasts)

Firey bats, like on the orespawn mod?

Make a thread of that before I do!

Ok! Btw nice work on the feather/arrow

Quote from trollsack

Good idea!

Do you mean good idea about the thread or that I should change the eye/beak colour?

It would be amazing if the parrot could perch on your head or shoulder.

That would be pretty cool

Or a craftable perch?

Maybe like this:

The parrot would perch on your shoulder if you right-click on it without shifting. If you have a parrot perched on you and you right-click on a perch, the parrot goes to the perch.

Quote from Bruno_11

You Should add more variant skins for parrots like the horses and rabbits .And Model needs to be fixed ,its more like a bird than a parrot .

But not just the different colour on the macaw parrots make different species like = Toucans , Amazons , lorikeets , conures ( loud parrots ) that won't be very good to keep at home and the none lousy parrots/Birds = africangrey , parrotlets etc ...



What's Parrot's Health ?

Btw i don't like that Parrot's can chat cuz if a spammer spam the parrot will do too , so i suggest that parrots can only mimic , sounds so if u play a mudic disc or not block he can mimic it .

To make him mimic you should give him like a bread?

Make more imformation :/ .

The parrot's health is 6 half-hearts. I already said that.

My parrot creation is just a texture, I don't know how to create a model. I re-textured the bat to make it.

The parrot only talks once every 3 minutes or so, so spammers wouldn't use them to spam. The text is also in red, so you can't rename it a player's name and make it look like they said it. The mimicking music discs would be cool, but that would defeat the purpose of jukeboxes. If it mimicked mobs, that would be annoying, and it would also require a lot of coding.

The cookie is it's favorite food, not bread.

Not every tamable mob needs to have different skins. The wolf only has one. The one for the parrot is fine to me, but, like you said, the model should be changed. Maybe there should be more birds (robins, eagles, sparrows), but I think that one parrot would be enough.

If you can create a model, do so and post it on here.

I support this idea. I've wanted birds in this game, and I was just thinking how to do that.



I want to be able to breed them. And maybe I could find two blue ones, so I could have Blu and Jewel. Have the two stars of the movie RIO as pets.

It could be like this. Rainbow when they start out, but when you tame them they get one of three colors,

40% Red

40% Green

20% Blue.

This is just like the cats where you can get one of three colors when you tame them.