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The Raccoon - Thief of night.

A nocturnal, neutral animal that mainly spawns in the Swamps. They have a higher spawn rate in Swamps, but still can spawn in other biomes.

The Raccoon would makes a variety of noises like chittering and purring, Baby Raccoons would make more of a whining and crying noise. Unique from the rest of the animals in the game and mainly would run away from the player, unless provoked.

The Raccoon being known for their bandit like stripe across their eyes, are thievery and will attempt to break into any nearby unguarded chests and steal items before scurrying away. Making a chittering / laugh like sound just as they swipe it, attracting attention to nearby players. They will also try to trample any crops that are unguarded. Easiest way to deter the raccoon is to fence your, in the open chests and or farms. Mainly being attracted to food and misc, things.

How many items they take, could depend on the difficulty. Say for instance, x3 items on Easy, x5 on normal and x8 on Hard / Hardcore, maximum. The chance you have on getting those items back could be also affected by difficulty as well as the luck enchantment.

Additionally, with the raccoon, it could introduce a new effect.

Rabies - Causing animals to attack aggressively. This would mainly affect Bats and Raccoons but could also appear in any farm animal and wolves.

Rabies could also be a hard mode exclusive. If we're following a bit more towards IRL. Bats were recorded a couple of years back that at least 90% of them to have it. Raccoons a quarter of that.

Rabies could also be made into a potion. Fit for a PvP element. Mainly being used as a splash potion, any animals that the splash potion hits would cause the animals to aggressively attack any nearby players. This could be used in multiple situations especially if you face someone with a pack of dogs with them. As a counter measure against that. If it hits a player, would give a minor strength affect with severe nausea or poison damage.

  • 7 Hearts, so 14 Health points in total.
  • Damage Easy: 1 Heart (2 points of damage.)
  • Normal: 3 Hearts (6 points of damage.)
  • Hard: 6 Hearts (12 points of damage.)

Drop - The Raccoon drops from a loot table of randomly mob drops from every overworld mob. To simulate that they have picked up the drops over time from scavenging. This is overridden if, the raccoon encounters your chests or farms as then they will drop anything picked up from them instead.

Raccoons wouldn't be tamable as in only 7 out of the 50 united states, raccoons aren't illegal to have as pets. Raccoons are in general dangerous, a health risk and giant slobs and Usually come from exotic pet breeders, not straight from the wild.

The more I thought about this idea, the more I fell for it. I think would a good way to add a little bit of mischiveousness to MC. Also, it's loot table would be a good way to obtain things that normally would be difficult to get in Peaceful mode.

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    I love the idea of Raccoons stealing crops and food items from chests, however I wouldn't be on board with the idea that they steal all items.  This isn't normal Raccoon behavior, and Minecraft often wants to convey a realistic message about animal life.  Raccoons aren't "thieves" ... they just gain that moniker due to their appearance and their natural inclination to scrounge for food.  (Which humans have a lot of)

    In addition, I don't think introducing "Rabies" is a good idea.  Rabies is responsible for the death of many pets.  Introducing it could be opening old wounds for some, and using it as a "tool" for pvp gameplay could be seen as bad taste.

     

    In summary, I think raccoons are a great idea.  Especially if in the process of scrounging for their food, they come across a player's chest.

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    I like this idea but i think that they should also take dropped items too

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    Love the idea of raccoons. Scrounging through chests and stealing a small number of items is perfect. It does make sense that they'd mostly take food items, and just individual items (no stacks). They could also be attracted to houses or villages at night, like real raccoons looking through trash for scraps (even though there's no "trash cans" in Minecraft).

    Besides the random drops, other drops could include a raccoon tail (or coonskin cap). Not sure what the tail could be used for - a potion ingredient maybe? Also, IRL raccoons catch fish, frogs, etc., basically a lot of their food comes from the water, so another drop could be fish and/or fish bones.

    Rabies does sound like it's probably bit too much.

    Since Raccoons live near water, the Swamp biome does sound good for their main spawn area. Also Forest biomes in general, especially near rivers.

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    I like the idea but they should be tameable and the player can send them to take things

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    Like other comments mentioned, I also think rabies might be a little too much, as it paints raccoons as evil and dangerous, while that's not true. 

    Other than that, I love the idea! Maybe they could steal 1 item from a chest, but then hold it in their mouthes. In the same way that pillagers can join raids, raccoons could join other raccoons that have targetted a chest. They could have "preferred" foods, like fish or eggs, which, if given to them, will be swapped out for the stolen item, so the player can get it back without having to kill them. I also like the idea of them being able to "trust" players, like with foxes: if you breed them, the offspring don't run from you anymore.

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    Can we tame them, too? :) Like if you agree

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    I think that's an awesome construction for a mob, however, personally, I'd still prefer them to be tamable (especially since I thought the number of states in which is legal to have a pet raccoon was actually zero... Emphasis on "thought", because it isn't). To have a number of states where domesticating a raccoon is possible makes them worthy, at least for me, to be domesticated them also in Minecraft, but to stay accurate with their "reputation", I'd make them HARD to tame, also make them be very high maintenance, and even maybe have positive and negative consequences to taming the mob (idk, having to work out a way to be more sociable if you plan to have more than one tamed mob, like a fox, or a dog... Something like that).
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    I agree exept they shouldn't spawn in swamps

     

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    Although I'm iffy on the "Rabies" idea, I really like the rest of what you said. I do think a great touch of realism would be Raccoons dwelling in villages, as they thrive in urban environments. I would also prefer raccoons being peaceful, as humans typically scare raccoons. Looting crops is a good parallel to looting dumpsters, so that is a good idea. I find that spawning in swamps is a bit odd as well, and would prefer a Forest spawn.

    Overall, I hope to see these guys in the future!

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    Rather than being tamed maybe "taming" them will simply stop them from stealing your stuff.

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    They could also be attracted to composers (the closest Minecraft thing to trach cans)

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    What if raccoons could be bred with banana peels? 😄

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    I believe that the rabies and the raccoon is a great idea but how about having a button in the options menu that stops them from spawning because people will be very mad if one comes up and steals their hard work. How about in the Taiga Biome we make it so 1 out of every 50 foxes that spawn another raccoon spawns.(but still keep the swamp idea) Another thing is how about if a raccoon stole your stuff you have to kill it to get your loot back. Another idea is that you can tame it to be your walking trash can. You tame it with skeleton skulls from a charged creeper who killed a skeleton.(this makes it almost impossible to tame a raccoon.) If you throw any item at a tamed raccoon it disapears like a trash can.(minecraft REALLY NEEDS a trash can and taming a raccoon could be a trophy that just shows how OP you are.

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    I love the idea of raccoons being in the game, but I think it could do without the rabies because it seems a little dark.

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    Lo necesito ahora

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    If Raccoons get into Composters they should be able to bring it down a level

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    I think Rabies are an interesting idea, especially if it affects normally passive and neutral mobs. It should make mobs hostile toward every creature that doesn't have rabies unless it accidentally attacks them. It could be altered to be more of a zombie virus instead of rabies, without turning the mobs into zombies.

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    I love the idea, however I feel they should be tamable. In exchange for food, they will go scurry out and over time bring back a found item from a loot table back to a certain point, like a food bowl. They can range from sticks and saplings, to iron tools and gold nuggets, or potions (benefiting) or a emerald. At the rarest, it could find a diamond, however it would be the same rarity as finding a pink sheep in the wild. I also think similar to foxes, the raccoon can only steal one item from chest and can be traded for food. Love the idea and was just about to submit it before seeing yours.

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    Please. I need my little trash pandas!

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    This idea is alright, though the Rabies effect seems unpleasant and uncomfortable to me. What would be more preferable is something like what cranzag suggested (a zombie virus) but even more distanced from IRL rabies - Mojang could choose.