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Flute of Charming

My idea for this was inspired by the well known tale of the pied piper (although I decided to make this item a flute to avoid confusion with the word pipe and make it more recognisable as an instrument). In a similar way to the legend this item's use would be to charm mobs around the player.

To play the flute the player would have to hold use on the item while targeting a mob for 2 seconds, during this time being unable to attack. After this the mob would become passive towards the player for 2.5 seconds. After this the item would have a cooldown period of 10 seconds. During this time the mob would have a particle effect of stars around their head. This effect would not work on all mobs (bosses) for obvious reasons.

The flute can be enchanted with 4 enchantments. Only one could be applied to a single flute though to avoid it becoming overpowered.

  • Persuasion - For each level an extra surrounding mob would be charmed (to a lesser effect depending on their distance)
  • Proficiency - The wait before the effect would be shorter for each level.
  • Charming - The duration of the charm would last longer for each level.
  • Allying (Rare loot enchantment) - The mob would fight against other hostile mobs for the duration of the charm.

Bonus perks for the flute include that if used on a villager they would trade slightly longer for that day (this would use 3 uses) and tameable mobs would be more likely to be tamed for the duration.

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    Goos idea!

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    I like this idea but I think that you should also be able to use music disks on the flute. When you hold the flute in your off hand a menu that’s similar to the enchanting menu. The player would have to put the music disk in one slot then they’d have to select who the effect would be for, surroundings mobs 5 block radius or themselves, after that they have three options each option costs a different amount of exp the first is 5 the second is 10 and the third is 15. Each music disk has a different set of effects. Once the player is done they select charm the flute will then play the music disk for five seconds for the effect to work. I feel like the flute should have a gem that slowly looses its color the more you use the flute. This would work as the flutes durability (also when a music disk is in the flute the gem is the same color as the center of the disk).