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Giving a new use for Bats! (Tameable, new effect, new food)

As everyone knows, bats in Minecraft are pretty useless except being part of the cave decorations.

That is why I wondered if we could add something totally new to them.

The whole point of my suggestion is about how bats could help the player in an original way once they're tamed.

 

1) How to tame them:

First we would have to gather a spider eye (since spiders are close to insects and silverfish don't drop any loot) and put it between two pieces of bread in the crafting table in order to make the "Gross Pie" which would be used to tame the bat

2) Once tamed, what they would do:

They would follow the player like the parrots do and maybe even sit on their head (or their shoulders).

As long as they're on the player, they would give the player a new effect the  "Infrared Vision" , it would allow the player to see living mobs in the dark (So the living mobs will be highlighted in red while the undead ones won't be highlighted at all or maybe highlighted in blue). The effect would stay during 5 seconds if something prevents the bat from staying on the play.

Here's an example of how the effect would look like:

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    machandler commented
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    I think bats should be able to deliver items (Only at night) to a designated player. Once tamed bats should also be able to have a craft-able 2x2 sack to hold items!

    https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360040718292-Bats-tame-delivery- 

    This topic has more info on how it would work.

    You have my vote! anything for bats not to be useless!

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    Fer9721 commented
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    also when you tell them to sit, they fly up to the ceiling and do that curled up animation.

    Tamed bats can have a brighter fur color as-well for easy differentiation.

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    BarrelYak115703 commented
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    nice suggestion! My idea for bats is that there would be a new variant that lives in the jungle. The Flying Fox, when killed they would drop BAT WING! India, lets go uindia! Africa!

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    A fox Named Bryce commented
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    After people discovered the cause of this one virus, maybe you can’t eat them.

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    ngeier17 commented
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    Bats should stay fairly passive and uninvolved, IMO, because they're supposed to be more "scenery creatures" than anything.

    However, my idea: Instead of taming bats, bats should offer a strictly passive benefit. My idea is that bats nearby enchanting tables actually make the enchanting tables give more information on the enchants offered, reducing uncertainty. This would encourage "spooky bat-filled library" builds!

    Another idea could be that bats react differently to certain mobs, allowing for complex detection systems, or tend to travel in the direction of mobspawners and other underground structures, sort of like dolphins.