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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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    Yes I like this idea deer meat is called venison

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    I think it should like in dense forest/woodland. After all the effort put into the other biomes the woodlands seem empty. Adding deer to the woodlands will liven up the place a bit. Making baby deer hide would also be a nice touch (hiding like the fox)

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    antlers bud, not horns

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    I think deer would be great to add, I think they should be found anywhere and fast but not to fast. I also think they would drop antlers that you can hang on your wall and also drop meat

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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?

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    Deer should be added to minecraft because minecraft would be more like the real world we don't need pandas in minecraft because they do nothing and are useless

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    The deer could also act like a cat and run away as you approach.

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    Maybe, it should drop a new meat type that when we kill them. Deer meat can be cook and restore 8 hunger point like porchop or beef.

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    They should come in 4 varieties: whitetail, elk, moose, and caribou (reindeer). Whitetails live in all mountains, plains, badlands, forests, and taigas (other than snowy taiga), caribou are slightly bigger than whitetails and dwell in snowy taiga and tundras. Elk live in mountains and taigas. Moose would be massive and live in taigas of all types, tundras, and mountains. They would all be enemies of wolves and live in herds (moose live in groups of only up to 4). Stags in whitetails, elk, and moose would sometimes live alone, but not always.

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    Make it so deer have a new meat venison and you can get a trophy head from them like an item frame. Also they should eat berries maybe as well or mushrooms and could have a new biome to mainly live in like an open highland moors type biome like Scotland. Also could have then highland cow.

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    Yes and they should be tame able like a wolf sow when you attack a mob/player it will attack the mob/player but you should be able ride it like a horse. I think you should babble too put chests on them and wolfs that are not tamed will attack them but the deer will fight back. It will be a great mob for the wild update. This is just what I think. 

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    I think the deer should spawn in herds of up to 15-25. If you attack one of the members, the does and fawns would dash away, while the bucks would stay and attack. I think it would add a large amount of strategy to hunting, as venison (deer meat) would be very supplementary and healthy. But maybe you could even track the herd with a compass, so you could stay with them until you feel as if you have enough food.

    Another thing is that they should be able to jump over 3 block heights and pits, so you couldn’t just trap them. They would be designed to evade and have you lose your stamina.

    Finally, I think that they would interact with one another if not disturbed. The males could joust and spar with each other, the females would graze, and the babies would chase other kids around the group. This would all be in a mega taiga biome, with podzol and coarse dirt.

     

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    I think they would be a good mob for oak forests, because (at least) in the USA the forests are always full of deer.

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    Fast as a bunny and able to jump over one block high fences. Drop raw venison and antlers which can be turned into bones with a crafting table. Spawn in forests and in clearcuts. Reproduce with berries like foxes.

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    This could be a mob found in the forest or taiga. I think its a solid idea that needs improvement.

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    Can it also drop venicine

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    Please do this!!!! You should also be able to turn the horns into bone meal!

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    and a new meat venison

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    It should also drop a new meat called venison.

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    It should drop venison instead of leather

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    If this gets added, can we please get a variety of them? Moose, reindeer, pudu, and elk would be cool.

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    I would love this in minecraft! Cows and pigs and sheep make the forests feel...  Weird. Wildlife native to forests is something the game lacks, and deer could make the forests seem more unique, more complete, and of course more beautiful in my opinion.

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    Cool Idea, How about variants like taiga Whitetail deer Mesa mule deer, brocket for jungle, plains roe, swamp (and mangrove swamp) marsh deer, tundra musk deer, and forest red deer. Also male and female variations would be cool (make males only breed with femals and vice-versa).

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    I think the deer should be a mob that spawns naturally in forest biomes (especially spruce), and when killed gives raw deer meet and a chance to get leather. Unlike other edible mobs I think it shouldn’t be breed-able in order to separate it from other mobs.

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    If this gets added with multiple biomes to spawn in, they should have variants based on where they spawn

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    Ice spikes and snowy plains biome is very empty.
    I think they should spawn there and it would be cool if we can use it with slides