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Gopher tortoises

Gopher tortoises are an endangered species that live in Florida that live in sunny areas, that being said gopher tortoises would spawn in plains biomes and would live in burrows that can be up to 14 blocks long and 3 blocks high and would have sand inside them, the gopher tortoise would be bred with tall grass and mushrooms and when pregnant would go back to their burrow to lay their eggs, The eggs would be functionally the same as sea turtle eggs but would spawn baby gopher turtles, when baby gopher turtles grow into adults they drop yellow skutes that could be used for any of the following:
• gopher tortoise shell: it would be grafted with 4 yellow skutes with 3 yellow skutes in the middle and 1 on either the left middle or right middle side, this would go in your chestplate slot and would be used to store items making it an alternative to back packs, however a downside to using it would be that it makes your hunger go down faster because of how heavy it is.  The crafting recepie would be

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With the x being the yellow scute

• gopher tortoise helmet: this would be like the sea turtle helmet but instead of giving you water breathing for 10 seconds it gives you a new effect that would reduce your speed but gives you 0.5 times more regen and 0.5 more resistance

When killed they drop nothing, not even exp.

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    I feel like gopher tortoises are too obscure for Minecraft.  Things that would be great in Minecraft, but are too obscure or too overpowered should be made into mods, not updates.

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    Ok, after my post not getting aprooval to get posted, I think this is the post that fits best my idea!

    I think that Tortoises should exist in general. Not only Gopher Tortoises, but depending on the biome there should be different spieces of Tortoises. I think they should be not just another turtle. Thats' why, it would be nice to have a bit more "character".After some thinkkng, I realised that my idea was, the mechanics of villagers(their schedule), of dolphins(they will need both sunlight and shade to live) and,surprisigly, of bees!(being able to dig and get inside blocks!). Also being able to get inside their shell when threatened.I also think that they should actually place their eggs inside the earth(if that's possible). Maybe,the Tortoise scute could be used tocreate even a new type of block!I think tortoises should also actually sleep at night, and their baby form should e exetremely vulnerable to anything that walks over them, unless they are hiding in grass :-) Also, they should also be bred using flowers.