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Silk and Silkworms

Along with bees, silkworms are one of the only insects domesticated by humans and seem like a nice addition to minecraft. The silky cocoons can be found in a certain type of tree leaves and when right clicked with shears will release a moth and drop 1-3 silk. After harvesting of the cocoon, the moth will fly around until it finds another moth and breeding with it to produce 2 new cocoons on the closest leaves. Upon the killing of a moth the player will not receive one experience orb but no other drops.

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    https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360048049372-Silk-Silk-Block

    You may want to edit your post to just include silkworms. :) Just look for the wheel/cog option at the top of your post and edit it.

     

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    I love this, although I would prefer that Silkworms be added as a new cave mob, and their silk could glow in the dark!

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    Actually, a long time ago, during the time of the silk road, silk was good for trade, So it should make you more popular with the villagers.

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    When silkworms are mounted, silk and silk thread processed from it are also mounted, from which clothes can be made.

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    Love the idea, but think string would work better as a drop. This would be peaceful mode friendly way of obtaining string without harvesting webs from mineshafts. And, spider farms are quite frankly tedious. String is notoriously hard to farm a large quantity of.