I have recently started playing on servers instead of modding my own game, and I like to farm. I plant everything, i collect animals, all of it, but there has been one problem i keep running into. Animals despawn when a person gets too far away. I have been wondering if there is any way to change this, perhaps by having some sort of in game flag added that causes the animals to become "tamed" in a way. maybe the pig could use the saddle, as the item is already there, a cow could have a cowbell, and the sheep could have perhaps a tag or something, I don't know what to do for sheep. chickens could maybe also get a tag of some sort. Anyways, this would be kind of cool, allowing for the ability to NOT have animals disappear, while adding a new, small aesthetic to the game.
a few ideas I have had are a cowbell crafting recipe involving string and iron, perhaps leather. a pig saddle recipe can easily be made with string and leather or something, there have already been ideas out there for a while. new sounds could be added. for instance, a small chiming of a bell every once in a while. many different things could be done with this. there could even be some achievements for it, for those who try to do all of them.
I had no idea where to put this, so I put it here, and I hope someone forwards it to someone in mojang at some point, because this would be really nice while not adding anything super extravagant to the game.
-thisismy0name
{edit} perhaps sheep farming could bring up another use for tamed wolves ;P
Animals already don't despawn.
The correct place to put suggestions is in the suggestions forum, directly below the discussion forum.
If they don't despawn, wouldn't you eventually get a massive number of mobs running around in the world? Especially if you have explored a lot / used creative to fly around.
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a few ideas I have had are a cowbell crafting recipe involving string and iron, perhaps leather. a pig saddle recipe can easily be made with string and leather or something, there have already been ideas out there for a while. new sounds could be added. for instance, a small chiming of a bell every once in a while. many different things could be done with this. there could even be some achievements for it, for those who try to do all of them.
I had no idea where to put this, so I put it here, and I hope someone forwards it to someone in mojang at some point, because this would be really nice while not adding anything super extravagant to the game.
-thisismy0name
{edit} perhaps sheep farming could bring up another use for tamed wolves ;P
If they don't despawn, wouldn't you eventually get a massive number of mobs running around in the world? Especially if you have explored a lot / used creative to fly around.