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The Alarmadillo, a noisy and well defended mob of the Mesa.

**Size:**

**Uncurled:** 2.5 blocks in length, 1 block in height and width.

**Curled up:** Exactly 1 block in height, length and width.
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**Behaviour:**

The behaviour of the alarmadillo is slightly different to its real world cousins, instead of walking, it’s preferred way of moving about is curling up and rolling there, at terrific speed too, about as fast as a sprinting player. When attacked they will use their large digging claws to inflict damage, but if the aggressor turns to run they will cry out (their call the reason for their alarmadrillo name) to summon other alarmadrillos, curl up, then give chase.
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**Drops:**

**Armour bands:** When it grows up from being a baby, it’ll drop an armour band, much like a turtle drops its scutes. The armour band can then be crafted into an armour ball (four armour bands in a square shape) and kicked about by just walking into it or you can also craft it into a block (using 9 armour bands) which when placed above a note block will amplify its sound by 5x.

**Claw:** When attacking a creature/player, a claw may occasionally fall out (they grow back), these claws can be crafted with an armour ball (4 claws around an armour ball in the crafting table), these can be shot out of a dispenser to deal damage to low blast resistant blocks like sand, dirt, wood, etc. However these armour balls are not retrievable.

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    This idea is super cool! It’s a great idea Mojang should add into the game

     

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    I'm not a fan of the dispenser armour balls but the rest of the idea is solid.

    I would prefer pangolins to armadillos because they're basically the same but pangolins are being poached to extinction. There's a lot of illegal trafficking in southern China and now Minecraft has a lot of Chinese players so maybe this can do some good in the world.

    That said the exciting ball rolling and spawning more alarmadillos after an alarm, they are good ideas but unrealistic. In general the passive Minecraft mobs stick to realism. I'll support those mechanics anyway coz it sounds fun.