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So, something that occured to me is that there are really only 2 mythical biomes in Minecraft: Ice Plains Spikes and the Mushroom Island. These two seem very distant from natural things, and are very rare. And for that reason, I consider them parallels. That led me to think of this: There is a mob exclusive to the Mushroom Island, while the Ice Plains Spikes gets nothing. So I thought up an IPS-exclusive mob. Here we go!

The Boarealis is a variant on the Pig, with translucent, color changing skin (like when you name a sheep Jeb) and two ivory tusks. It also grows a coat of snow on its back, which you can shear off of it to get 1-3 Snowballs. It will regrow its coat by eating Snow layers. It has the same stats as a Pig, with the same ability to ride it. However, when riding it and using a Carrot on a Stick, it moves about 3 times faster than the normal Pig. This can make for extremely fast travel on player-made paths, but it isn't very useful on normal terrain due to the sheer speed. Also, it cannot jump more than 1 block high.

It drops 0-2 Raw Porkchops and 0-2 Prisms. Prisms can be used as rainbow dye, creating a rainbow gradient (does not change colors) on wool, leather armor, wolf collars, clay, banners, glass and fireworks (creates several multicolored particles). This also means that you can dye Leather Armor with Prisms and then another dye to make gradient armor of other colors. Crafting 3 Prisms with the 6 main color dyes (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Lapis, Purple) will make 3 Superprisms, which look like Prisms, but with an Enchanted-style glow. Superprisms will make things change color as "Multicolored X". This cannot be applied to Sheep, but naming a sheep "jeb_" will now make it produce multicolored wool.

What do you think? (If anyone would be kind enough to make a model, I would love that!)

This idea has potential, and the name is also pretty creative from the particular biome its in. What I also noticed, is that this mob doesn't produce anything useful for the player, unlike the Mooshroom. And I don't feel as though having one of its drop be necessary item to brew a special potion. Everything else seems quite fine to me. But the other drop I have certain doubts for.

Partial support.

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This idea has potential, and the name is also pretty creative from the particular biome its in. What I also noticed, is that this mob doesn't produce anything useful for the player, unlike the Mooshroom. And I don't feel as though having one of its drop be necessary item to brew a special potion. Everything else seems quite fine to me. But the other drop I have certain doubts for.

Partial support.

Glad you (somewhat) like it!

Not bad, potion of haste would be awesome. Rainbow colored blocks would be cool (even though i wouldn't use them). Nice pun for the mob name to .

Support.

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It's mostly just a rainbow pig, it's cool but not much use from it.

I think it would be cool if it was Hostile to the player, but could be tamed by feeding it something. It's attacks could be like charge, pounce, and strike. Charging would be where it runs at you, and if it hits it does like 5 hearts. Pounce would be it jumping at you and doing 2 and a half hearts of damage, and strike would do 3 hearts.

When it's tamed, it could be fed a Nether Star and then grow wings and be able to fly. Then you could saddle it and control its flight with a Golden Carrot on a stick :D.

the whole rainbow effect doesn't appeal much to me, I love rainbows as much as the next guy but it would be very out of place, especially in an ice biome. the rainbow sheep thing was mostly just an easter egg, nothing serious. I think a large, blue-white yeti-like boar would be more appropriate that (potentially) drops some sort of food source along with porkchops (or something that can be made into a food source, like the mushrooms from a mooshroom)

I like the idea of having it drop a tusk used in potion brewing, very useful. I don't think players farming it would be a concern because they would need to run around smacking boars, there are much easier means to farm other potions. partial support, just take out the rainbow thing.

the whole rainbow effect doesn't appeal much to me, I love rainbows as much as the next guy but it would be very out of place, especially in an ice biome. the rainbow sheep thing was mostly just an easter egg, nothing serious. I think a large, blue-white yeti-like boar would be more appropriate that (potentially) drops some sort of food source along with porkchops (or something that can be made into a food source, like the mushrooms from a mooshroom)

I like the idea of having it drop a tusk used in potion brewing, very useful. I don't think players farming it would be a concern because they would need to run around smacking boars, there are much easier means to farm other potions. partial support, just take out the rainbow thing.

edit: 2.5% chance to drop a tuck is very small, I'd go for about 20-25%

edit 2: mc forums is apparently spamming my posts, sorry about that

Haha, puns... Ok, I like the idea reasonably, but I dislike giving the creature a special ingredient drop. The mooshrooms don't drop a special mushroom or anything.

I'd say that the Boarealis acts like a normal pig, but also has a chance to drop a random color wool. So it's sort of a sheep/pig combo that is fun to get, but not essential.

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I've already given you support in my head for that excellent name pun. I like that.
AS for the idea itself; you're very close to creating an excellent idea, but this mob needs something that's truly helpful for the Player, making it worth tracking it down.
Partial sup-boar-t

Okay, good point... how about a perk of being able to sprint disorientingly fast while riding? It is a psychedelic pig, after all.

Just had an idea. How about the Boarealis would be able to "glide" above the ground when ridden? It can only glide for a short time (like, 3 seconds), after which it would fall down and need to recharge for a short time.

Between the pun and the idea I'm not sure which I like more. Full Support

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Between the pun and the idea I'm not sure which I like more. Full Support

Alright! Glad you like it!

A few people have pointed out that there is no reason a player would actively seek them out, so I was thinking that there should be a special perk for riding them. Perhaps the ability to hover for short periods of time, as a reference to "when pigs fly"?

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Alright! Glad you like it!

A few people have pointed out that there is no reason a player would actively seek them out, so I was thinking that there should be a special perk for riding them. Perhaps the ability to hover for short periods of time, as a reference to "when pigs fly"?

If you were to be able to hover, it would need to be balanced. I do like the haste potion, but what if instead it made a resistance potion, since ivory, which most tusks are made of, is a fairly strong material. Just ideas

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Okay, good point... how about a perk of being able to sprint disorientingly fast while riding? It is a psychedelic pig, after all.

That's not a bad idea, but it should be controlled the same way a normal pig should be controlled, with a carrot on a stick.

For an idea this idea and original, it's very hard to come up with a good number of uses to help the player.

Wow, this is very interesting. I find it to be quite unique. It's kind of like a polar opposite to the Mooshroom. ("polar", see what I did there?)

I also find it an interesting way to implement rainbow dye, or rainbow anything for that matter.

I do have a small issue however. It provides nothing particularly important or useful to the player. That doesn't seem to deter my support, since it's still unique and interesting.

Support; has little to no cons and is quite interesting.

Updated with a new feature where it travels extremely fast when ridden! Also, the Boar Tusk now creates a Potion of Endurance.

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Question! What does the Potion of Endurance do?

Crap. I believe I meant Resistance. Sorry :P.