It's a very common suggestion - animal genders. Roosters, bulls, baby animals, and more. I'm posting HOW it should be implemented, because a suggestion will go nowhere if all of them are pointless and not very detailed.
First is the cattle. When a cattle spawn, it has a 50-50 chance to be a cow or bull. A bull has larger horns and a brown hide. Just like any other animal bulls are peaceful. Of course, Minecraft can't have gore to keep it's E-rating. Every time you damage a bull, it turns around and rams into you. It just knocks you back, but you don't get damaged.
A cow cannot produce milk until it has had a calf.
Next are chickens. Just like cattle, there is an equal chance of spawning either gender. Hens are what we have now, and they still drop white eggs every few minutes. Though, once you breed a hen with a rooster, the hen will stop dropping white eggs and drop brown ones instead. White eggs can no longer spawn hens, but brown eggs have a 100% chance of spawning a chick. After about a whole Minecraft day, the hen will stop dropping brown eggs and go back to white ones until it breeds with a rooster again.
Brown eggs cannot be used in crafting recipes.
Sheep and pigs are quite different. There are no gender differences: a sheep can breed with any sheep and a pig can breed with any pig. A sheep will spawn lambs and a pig will spawn piglets.
Baby animals - calves, chicks, lambs, and piglets - each have only have 2 hearts (chicks have 1). Upon spawning they will never despawn, but they will grow up after a few Minecraft days (maybe a week?) A baby animal will drop nothing upon death.
Wolves will hunt down sheep and baby animals. Keep your baby animals sheltered and away from wolves.
An animal starts with a 10% chance to breed. Every time an animals bumps into another animal that it can breed with, if they don't breed, the percentage will go up by 5%. Once they finally do breed, they will stop moving and have the heart particle effects above their heads. The animals need some time - it might take about half a Minecraft day.
What's the purpose of baby animals? Well, in 1.8, animals won't despawn. If you kill all the pigs in your area, your chance of getting pork is near impossible. If you breed pigs on your farm, you'll never run out of pork! You can also keep breeding sheep to get the right wool color. If you need a medicine to poison (milk) you need to breed a cow first. There are many uses.
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This is a fantastic suggestion, training to be a programmer myself this would be very doable, the only thing is the amount of mobs they'd have to add. My favorite is the heart particle effect. Hope this is added :biggrin.gif:
I like this idea. The only issue I see with this is the pig and the sheep being able to breed with any other pig or sheep. Since there aren't any big physical differences between pig and sheep genders to go by, maybe there could just be a slight (but noticeable) difference in color between male and female pigs and sheep.
For example, maybe male pigs could be a bit more tan in color while female pigs could remain the classic pink.
For sheep, males could have black-colored skin (faces and legs - not the wool) while females have tan colored skin, or vice versa.
Also, the roosters could have the big fluffy tails and bright red combs on their heads (like this)
I like it. I like how animal breeding is going to be implemented, but as you said, If i'm running low on health and I need food bad, Im going to kill a lot of pigs. So If there are none left I have to go find some and bring them back to where my house is. I dont want to push them the whole way so how about an intem that makes animals (excluding wolves) follow you?
Animal Genders don't appeal to me they just seem over complicated.
Got to agree here. Lots of games have done breeding animals or somehow getting them to reproduce, i don't think I've ever seen a method so complicated. It doesn't need to be complicated, especially since this is going to be a major source of food.
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First is the cattle. When a cattle spawn, it has a 50-50 chance to be a cow or bull. A bull has larger horns and a brown hide. Just like any other animal bulls are peaceful. Of course, Minecraft can't have gore to keep it's E-rating. Every time you damage a bull, it turns around and rams into you. It just knocks you back, but you don't get damaged.
A cow cannot produce milk until it has had a calf.
Next are chickens. Just like cattle, there is an equal chance of spawning either gender. Hens are what we have now, and they still drop white eggs every few minutes. Though, once you breed a hen with a rooster, the hen will stop dropping white eggs and drop brown ones instead. White eggs can no longer spawn hens, but brown eggs have a 100% chance of spawning a chick. After about a whole Minecraft day, the hen will stop dropping brown eggs and go back to white ones until it breeds with a rooster again.
Brown eggs cannot be used in crafting recipes.
Sheep and pigs are quite different. There are no gender differences: a sheep can breed with any sheep and a pig can breed with any pig. A sheep will spawn lambs and a pig will spawn piglets.
Baby animals - calves, chicks, lambs, and piglets - each have only have 2 hearts (chicks have 1). Upon spawning they will never despawn, but they will grow up after a few Minecraft days (maybe a week?) A baby animal will drop nothing upon death.
Wolves will hunt down sheep and baby animals. Keep your baby animals sheltered and away from wolves.
An animal starts with a 10% chance to breed. Every time an animals bumps into another animal that it can breed with, if they don't breed, the percentage will go up by 5%. Once they finally do breed, they will stop moving and have the heart particle effects above their heads. The animals need some time - it might take about half a Minecraft day.
What's the purpose of baby animals? Well, in 1.8, animals won't despawn. If you kill all the pigs in your area, your chance of getting pork is near impossible. If you breed pigs on your farm, you'll never run out of pork! You can also keep breeding sheep to get the right wool color. If you need a medicine to poison (milk) you need to breed a cow first. There are many uses.
For example, maybe male pigs could be a bit more tan in color while female pigs could remain the classic pink.
For sheep, males could have black-colored skin (faces and legs - not the wool) while females have tan colored skin, or vice versa.
Also, the roosters could have the big fluffy tails and bright red combs on their heads (like this)
He has breeding in his siggy but I think it was another guy with the same image.
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ModeratorGot to agree here. Lots of games have done breeding animals or somehow getting them to reproduce, i don't think I've ever seen a method so complicated. It doesn't need to be complicated, especially since this is going to be a major source of food.
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