Pretty simple. Using the 1.8 mechanic that charged creepers make mobs drop their heads upon death (basically zombies, skeletons, creepers, and wither skeletons), you can create spawn eggs.
For the crafting recipe, owner_101 suggested an egg and the mob head, shapeless. Considering how hard it is to get a mob head anyway, it might already be balanced. It would yield 4 spawn eggs. If you think the crafting recipe should be different, post your idea.
Finally, I am expecting some people to say that spawn eggs are for creative, and should stay that way. Why? I see no reason that they shouldn't come into survival. Since charged creepers are rare, and there are only 4 mob heads in the game, I feel like the spawn eggs you could create would not be too overpowered. The mobs are pretty easy to kill anyways, and killing them with a charged creeper is hard, and should yield a higher reward (4 spawn eggs per head). In SMP, you could make mob traps.
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To craft them you could just combine an egg with the head.
To be honest, spawn eggs are for creative and should stay that way, and even if you did get a mob head, why would you waste it to craft a single egg that can only spawn a single mob? It is not cost effective or useful in my opinion.
No support.
Thanks for your input. And you're right about it not being cost effective (taking into consideration the luck/work it would take to even get a charged creeper to blow up another mob). So I changed it, and put your crafting recipe in the post.
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Nope, that Yoshi eggs should stay in creative, I think that's kinda cheating, I prefer to craft a rope and bring an animal to my farm, to be honest, it's more realistic.
There are only 4 mob heads in the game: Zombie, Skeleton, Creeper, and Wither Skeleton. You can't get animal skulls.
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No support. Not because spawn eggs are for creative though. Not really, because you can kill a bunch of mobs and in return get 1 back to respawn and make traps and other things. But someone can spend hours of their time at a skeleton spawner grinding their heads and build tons of spawn eggs, and when another player logs in they'll be spammed by the arrows of tens of skeletons.
No support. Not because spawn eggs are for creative though. Not really, because you can kill a bunch of mobs and in return get 1 back to respawn and make traps and other things. But someone can spend hours of their time at a skeleton spawner grinding their heads and build tons of spawn eggs, and when another player logs in they'll be spammed by the arrows of tens of skeletons.
You need charged creepers to get the heads, and that's a very tough thing to do. Even if you trap the creepers, you have to spend time doing that, getting name tags so they don't despawn, creating cells to hold them, and waiting for a thunderstorm. And getting lucky. It would take a while. Outside of that, you would just have to get really lucky. And you can get only one head per charged creeper explosion (even if more than one head-dropping mob is killed). Even if someone did manage to get a lot of eggs, skeletons and creepers will kill each other, and zombies and wither skeletons are only melee, which are easier to kill (wither skeletons are rare anyways, and I don't think people will waste their heads by making spawn eggs too often). Besides, lava already does what you said. When someone logs out, lava them. (if you want their items, hostile mobs are not the way to go either, as some of them can pick up items)
However, thanks for your comment.
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No support, I don't see the point, all the difficulty to get a mob head just to be used in a spawn egg? Spawn eggs are completely unrealistic in survival anyway.
For the crafting recipe, owner_101 suggested an egg and the mob head, shapeless. Considering how hard it is to get a mob head anyway, it might already be balanced. It would yield 4 spawn eggs. If you think the crafting recipe should be different, post your idea.
Finally, I am expecting some people to say that spawn eggs are for creative, and should stay that way. Why? I see no reason that they shouldn't come into survival. Since charged creepers are rare, and there are only 4 mob heads in the game, I feel like the spawn eggs you could create would not be too overpowered. The mobs are pretty easy to kill anyways, and killing them with a charged creeper is hard, and should yield a higher reward (4 spawn eggs per head). In SMP, you could make mob traps.
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Thanks for your input. And you're right about it not being cost effective (taking into consideration the luck/work it would take to even get a charged creeper to blow up another mob). So I changed it, and put your crafting recipe in the post.
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There are only 4 mob heads in the game: Zombie, Skeleton, Creeper, and Wither Skeleton. You can't get animal skulls.
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Spawn eggs are for creative, and it's unrealistic to use them in survival. Do it the old-fashioned way by luring a monster into a trap and naming it.
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You need charged creepers to get the heads, and that's a very tough thing to do. Even if you trap the creepers, you have to spend time doing that, getting name tags so they don't despawn, creating cells to hold them, and waiting for a thunderstorm. And getting lucky. It would take a while. Outside of that, you would just have to get really lucky. And you can get only one head per charged creeper explosion (even if more than one head-dropping mob is killed). Even if someone did manage to get a lot of eggs, skeletons and creepers will kill each other, and zombies and wither skeletons are only melee, which are easier to kill (wither skeletons are rare anyways, and I don't think people will waste their heads by making spawn eggs too often). Besides, lava already does what you said. When someone logs out, lava them. (if you want their items, hostile mobs are not the way to go either, as some of them can pick up items)
However, thanks for your comment.
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