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Zombie Pigmen Soldiers

I want zombie pigmen to be tamable using a certain item (golden carrot, golden apple, etc.) for several reasons:

1. Making the Nether easier to be in. If you tame a zombie pigman in the nether, if you hit them they won't attack back, but if you are attacked by any monster, they will fight them for you.

2. Making armies! If you tame a bunch of zombie pigmen and give them name tags, you can have them follow you around and attack whatever you target. This can bring a lot of flavor to player versus player, not to mention make raids a little less of a threat.

Here are some specifications that can give this feature more utility:

1. Armoring Pigmen. If you grow attached to zombie pigmen, or just want to have stronger pigmen, you can place armor on them and remove them like you would an armor stand by crouching and right clicking on them while they are not in attack mode.

2. Pigman Potion. Wolves naturally follow you once they are tamed, unless they are sitting down. However, if you want pigmen to, for example, walk around your home and act as a guard like iron golems do, then you don't want them just sitting in one place. So, you can make them follow you with the Pigman potion (name not certain) and it will last until you use a bucket of milk to take the enchantment away. Then they will follow you wherever you go, except without the teleportation ability wolves have, that would be too powerful.

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    Not a bad idea. It seems a little overcomplicated once you get to the pigman potion stuff. you could just have it so you right click them and have the option to put armor on, have them guard, follow, or wait, and even have a little inventory space so they could be like a backpack you don't actually carry.

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    -I disagree with them being tamable, but maybe as an armored pigman that becomes a hostile mob under certain events. 

    -Pigman being tamable takes away from the players gameplay. In ways where people will rely on the pigman to do all the work. The ddifficulty levels will plummet making it hard to enjoy that one moment you accomplish through skills and effort. 

    -As for the Nether it is still easy with almost no uses. Besides quartz,  blaze rods, and a boss for a star.

    -Pvp it doesn't give flavor, but unfair advantages. Fighting players is by far the hardest thing in Minecraft. Smarter than any Ai... Adding pigman to support you makes a players death inevitable.

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    Well PvP is taken much more seriously on custom servers, so there would be an easy choice to restrict it and reserve a skill-based gameplay. But at times on normal Survival mode where you are obviously outmatched in numbers by players, having a castle guarded by entities that are much more dispensable than Iron Golems would help. This idea is much more centered towards realms, where there are not enough players to enforce large scale battles.

    As well as other aspects of the game, like single-player survival, they can easily be balanced with some nerfs, such as pigmen (tamed or untamed) attacking villagers and animals, forcing you to separate pigmen from other areas like farms, villages, or in some cases, your home.

    Another nerf would be making pigmen unable to survive in the End, punishing players for attempting to make fighting the Ender Dragon easier. How would that work anyways? They are landlocked!

    Please someone take off the excess characters for my post so I can transfer these revisions to the post itself!

     

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    With the new nether update ther would be some conflicting behaviors, but it would be cool to have a mob that xan be made into an army, not consisting of pets, like wolves.
    To nerf them maybe if the can only use leather armor and stone weapons.