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The deer

The deer is a new mob found in Redwood forests. It is hard to catch due to its speed. It comes in a variety of skin colors like horses do.  When killed, it will drop leather and horns. 

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    (FYI, redwood forests have been moved to Previously Considered Feedback upon consultation with the team. ~nb)

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    It should be very fast, but with low enough health to be killed by a fully charged arrow.  Also, it should spawn in all forest biomes.

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    And it would be cool if you could hang it's horns on your wall.

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    Yes!!! I've wanted deer in minecraft since I first started playing. I think there should be different designs for bucks, does, and fawns, and you should only be able to get antlers from the bucks.I think they should appear in all forest biomes though, not just redwood.

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    could be neutral? I mean, if we attack them it will counterattack with their antlers and also it could drop raw deer

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    Why just in forests? IRL deer range pretty much anywhere? Also should not drop leather, but perhaps some meat that could be cooked. Antlers a good idea but then what are those used for?

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    Minecraft could always use more wildlife, I'm on board

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    I think it should drop venison (Deer meat).

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    Raw Venison, Ability to drop antlers and possibly provide two bonemeal, hide/leather, hooves used for something, Bucks will run you off if you get too close or flee if hit even if charging before they are attacked, doe protecting fauns, small herd ability, run from wolves, foxes could only attack fauns, variations of deer colour like chestnut/darker browns/dust colour/tan,using the sinew/whatever you want it to be called to possibly make leather armour or if added backpacks. Similar to Mo's creatures because I am not dealing with the new horse models being implemented onto deer if this happens.

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    Suggested Changes:

    1. All forest biomes

    2. Antlers not horns. Antlers can be used in brewing to create animal friendship potions (animals that run away, such as cats, rabbits and deer no longer do, bees and wolves are not aggressive when attacked, and farm animals have a chance to follow the player as if they held wheat/carrots)

    3. Antlers craft into bonemeal like bone, and you can craft two antlers with wood to create mounted antlers which can be placed on the side of a block. If the block it is placed on is destroyed, moved, or activated by redstone, the antlers fall dealing 4 (2 hearts) of damage to anything it drops on and breaks, dropping 2 antlers.

    4. In lush caves, a variant of deer have a chance of spawning called glow deer, which have an altered texture similar to glow squid but purple. When killed they drop amethyst as well as antlers, and if sheared they turn into normal deer dropping 5 amethyst clusters of various growth stages. 

    5. Naming a deer Rudolph gives him a red nose and cute eyes. :)

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    Maybe you could make the deer trust you and only males should drop antlers 

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    That is a great idea. I think they should have big antlers. Maybe there could be a white stag found in one of the biomes, but is very rare. Maybe it could drop one of the rarest items in the game.

    I just had a thought, what if there was a way to make jerky, that would be awesome. Maybe that is something you could do with the recently added smoker.

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    Deer should drop antlers which can be hung on the wall and possibly used for other types of decorative items. They should move quickly and run away from you making them difficult to hunt unless you stand very still. But maybe retrieved antlers could be used to help with luring or taming. Tame deer could be rideable like horses but would also aid in fighting with their antlers as long as you are riding them (not when you get off)

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    They could drop venison and deer heads to put on your wall. I also think they should spawn in any forest biome. Since they are fast, you would only be able to come up to them when sneaking. I also think they should have different genders and can't breed if both have antlers or both have no antlers. So the ones that have no antlers are male and ones without are female

     

     

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    Stag & Doe Deers. They drop venison but a random chance for stags to drop antlers and the doe drop leather. Rare spawn of a white stag, that allows for taming so that fantasy lovers can have a mount (like a horse). Antlers can be mounted or grounded down for potion ingredient. As for health, strong like a cow but fast, making it an effort for the reward. Might even be worth adding a trap or bait feature. Might work well for rabbit catching as well.

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    The deer should also spawn in the mountains too.

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    On christmas they should have Christmas lights on their antlers and should have a winter skin

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    Deer are nice to be added, but make their spawn rate low which will make them rare to be found. Stags would occasionally rub their antlers to trees that would turn the tree trunk become its striped version. Stags will also occasionally fight each other just like irl - fight for does and dominancy in their herd-, and about the antler thing I guess after two stags have a fight one of them will drop its antler as if it break, so you don't have to kill them. Albino deer would be even rarer to be found. It is possible to breed albino deer, and perhaps their breed mechanism would be like pandas (something that deals with genes)
    Now that's a challenge

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    Yes! Deer are so common I’m very surprised they are not in the game. Perhaps there’s could be a tundra version called an Elk that lives in packs? Also Elk are larger. This would be so cool and would be so cool to see in the distance!

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    Nice. I'd keep 50 in a house and raise them as my pets xD

     

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    What about Deer Meat when killed?

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    It could be cool if there’s deer added to Minecraft and maybe you could use the antlers of the deer to craft a deer hunting bow or you can mount it’s head on a wall to for decorations

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    Deer would be fast and somewhat sturdy, and drop leather and raw venison, which could be cooked, perhaps giving 7 hunger or something like that. Deer should drop more food than other animals but rare (little pun there) and would spawn in forest-like biomes. They could be useful if you have a fire-aspect sword, if you're travelling through a forest or taiga most of the way to something, you could forego taking food with you.

    They might also help if animal farms were going to be balanced.

    Also they should NOT be tamable, deer are infamous for their timidity, although there have been cases where deer have become trusting of human neighbors, so perhaps you could feed deer and get them to trust you.

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    Where I live we have white-tailed deer, which the babies have white dots on them. Maybe we can breed deer and the babies look like or similar to white-tailed deer. If you kill a deer, they can drop there meat- called Venison.

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    I think you should also be able to find them in birch forests

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    I like this idea but I think it should also drop venison and u should be able to craft armor or a weapon or something out of the antlers

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    I think they should eat apples

     

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    It should be able to be lured and breed but not the same way as other animals so you can catch and spread them in a place you seeded with redwoods

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    Maybe it could also drop venison when killed, which would give a player something to eat. Maybe you could make venison stew with a bowl or just cook it in a furnace to get cooked venison. It would add a new food option to the game that would come with the new mob.

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    Hey this a great idea I thought it was weird deer weren’t already added to Minecraft. I think it’s antlers should be able to be ground into bone meal. Maybe it could spawn in all forests?