I had this pretty simple idea, but I think it's pretty good.
A 'Scarecrow' or 'Dummy'
Not sure about a crafting recipe, or if you would make it like a golem, but it's a scarecrow that kinda resembles the default skin. It has a name above it (which you choose) that is seen by other players through walls. If a monster sees the dummy, it will walk towards it and attack it. It'll have a health bar, like you. I think it should also scare away animals. This was just an idea I came up with, not sure how useful it would be, I think it'd be good because you could make traps and such. I welcome criticism and comments.
If it scared away passive mobs it would mean I wouldn't have to fully inclose my farms against those annoying pigs. Which would be nice. Of course I would also have to adjust my field designs accordingly. I'm not sure about it attracting mobs or having a name plate but I don't really have anything against them. But perhaps making a Scare Crow for the farms and a dummy for the other uses. Just so you aren't scaring away passive mobs just to attract creepers.
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I can picture it now, a scarecrow in the middle of some sort of moat or ditch. Every hostile moves toward it to fall into some inescapable trap, and the scarecrow can't be fully reached so therefore can never be damaged. A permanent mob grinder that exists forever, giving infinite easy loot.
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Like the idea but not the execution. Scarecrows should repel mobs. Maybe adding a straw/wheat block, then snow golem recipe except with the straw block? A static golem, but the head still moves maybe?
EDIT: Oooh....what if you could right click it with armour in the hand and it would wear it? Purely for aethetics, but I'd like to have a runway of "fashion" models
Well instead of dummies, which sounds pretty OP the way you suggested now, a similar thing could be an armor rack, just like a dummy, but you put your armor and/or weapons on it, just decoration. I think there was a mod for this too, it would be pretty cool if they added this in vanilla.
EDIT: The scarecrow idea is pretty good imo too.
A 'Scarecrow' or 'Dummy'
Not sure about a crafting recipe, or if you would make it like a golem, but it's a scarecrow that kinda resembles the default skin. It has a name above it (which you choose) that is seen by other players through walls. If a monster sees the dummy, it will walk towards it and attack it. It'll have a health bar, like you. I think it should also scare away animals. This was just an idea I came up with, not sure how useful it would be, I think it'd be good because you could make traps and such. I welcome criticism and comments.
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EDIT: Oooh....what if you could right click it with armour in the hand and it would wear it? Purely for aethetics, but I'd like to have a runway of "fashion" models
EDIT: The scarecrow idea is pretty good imo too.