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Skeleton wolves

Skeletons wolf packs (5-10) will occasionally spawn during a night of a new moon and will track down and attack the nearest player. If a wild skeleton wolf kills a wolf tamed by a player then the tamed wolf will turn into a tamed skeleton wolf. A lightning strike and some howling immediately after will be used to indicate the spawn of a skeleton wolf pack (even if not in a thunder storm). The skeleton wolves will occasionally howl(which could be heard from long distances). Wild skeleton wolves will fade away once it becomes day time (unless named with a nametag).

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    I fear there is a bit of, conflict of interest with the existence of this mob. Wolfs chase skeletons for there bones, these Wolfs are skeletons, why would they not chase eachother in the same way?

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    Skeleton wolves are in Minecraft Earth.
    But Minecraft Earth is running out, so it should be added to the original Minecraft.
    They should spawn in the Soul Sand Valley biome and in the ordinary world, but only during a full moon.
    They would have the same mechanics as in Minecraft Earth and it would be impossible to tame them.

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    Connor Schultz, I think like this: normal wolves would attracted to solid cruncy bones, while skeleton wolves would attracted to fresh juicy living creature's meat. Sounds make sense

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    I like it, but I'm confused about the whole "skeleton wolf killing your dog" thing.  It seems like in order to get a tamed skeleton wolf, you must force your doggy to get killed by a skeleton wolf... doesn't make the most sense.  I think maybe it should be a situation similar to the skeleton horse, where the skeleton wolves have skeleton owners and you have to kill their owners without killing the wolves themselves, and then you have a pet... or something like that.  The Nether skeleton wolves should be wither skeleton wolves.

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    Really terrifying but cool and creative idea

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    Skeleton wolves are my favorite Minecraft Earth mob, and I hope it gets added to vanilla Minecraft! It could be a hostile mob in the Nether's Soul Sand Valley, and can spawn rarely in the overworld during new moon nights. It should be tameable like normal wolves, making it the first tameable hostile mob!

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    If lightening strikes a wolf or a tamed wolf it will create a skeleton wolf. 

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    cool idea

     

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    With the new wolf variants in today's snapshot, this is the perfect time to add Skeleton Wolves from Minecraft Earth! I think they could spawn whenever lightning strikes a wolf of any variant, or be a Nether exclusive wolf variant. They should be hostile, like MCE, but be tameable if not attacked and fed enough raw meat/rotten flesh (not cooked meat!). It could pose a unique challenge to players that want every variant, with the need to tame a mob that is aggressive.

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    Love the idea of skeleton wolves. Think it might be nice is the spawned in the soul sand valley in the nether or when a regular wolf wolf is struck by lightning. They would be hostile until tamed and work similar to skeleton horses (don’t burn in sunlight and can walk/run around on the ocean floor or in water and be immune to drowning)

    Would love there to be a rare wither skeleton wolf that you get by breeding 2 skeleton wolves at a nether fortress. This wither wolf will give the wither effect to creatures it attacks and will be immune to fire and lava damage because it is a nether mob.

    Both types of wolf would be marked as undead mobs (meaning they are healed by harming potions and harmed by healing ones)

    I think adding these two new skeleton wolf types would make the game more interesting and add more reason to want wolves. Plus lots of people like collecting mobs and this would add two new undead ones. Also I would love to create Grimm from Dantdm in vanilla and I have wanted a lava proof dog for ages.

    If this feels like too much to add minecraft could just make the skeletal wolf a cosmetic thing (like the toast name tag on rabbits) where if you name a wolf or dog “Grimm” it becomes a skeletal version.

    Just my ideas on this.

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    I think they should only spawn in the soul sand valley naturally or if a wolf gets struck by lightning, not that regular wolves that get killed turn into them.

    I do think though that there should be a zombie wolf that you can tame and your wolf can become zombified if they are attacked by another zombie wolf. You should be able to heal them just like villagers though so you can turn them back if you don't want them undead. And maybe if they do turn you would have to tame them again if you wanted to keep them as a zombie.

    One thing that I think would balance this is if tamed wolves protect whatever livestock and cats you have tamed or bred, vs zombie or skeleton wolves will attack your livestock so you would have to keep them separated from your other pets and your farms.