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Mandrake.

Mandrakes could be a sort of enemy that would only appear in mostly in flower plains (Also other plains and forests). The Mandrake would burrow itself under the ground and hide itself as any flower that is the game such as lily of the valley or a poppy. When a player would come near the mandrake, it would get out of the ground and start to attack the player with a ranged attack that seem to be leafs. The mandrake would occasionally burrow itself under the ground once again and appear somewhere else but near the player still to avoid anymore harm. The mandrake would have around 10 hp to not make it too strong, Where its dmg would do 0.5 hearts of dmg on easy, 1 on normal and 2 on hard. Mandrakes on death would drop the flower it burrowed itself as, sometimes maybe seeds. But the main drop of the mandrake would be mandrake seeds, where planted it would have stages as a normal crop but when it reaches its last stage, It becomes a mandrake wich will be friendly towards the player and attack anything that attacks the player. Giving the mandrake a flower would change the flower ontop of its head, some flowers maybe giving some new stuff to their attacks or their hp or burrow speed. The mandrake can be set to either follow the player or stay in its place. Its appearence wouldnt look humanoid or something but maybe something of a plant-like creature, maybe slightly resembling venus flytraps.

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  I just came with an alternative Mandrake idea too. I'll post mine here as a comment :)

  Found in Woodland Mansions, it is a plant-like creature with magical properties which can be used to make potions.

  It is very rare, similar to enchanted golden apple.

  The Mandrake can be planted on crying obsidian and can spread to nearby free crying obsidian blocks, during full moons.

  Uprooting one planted sample, 1-3 Mandrakes will drop alive like mobs, they will give out a cry and would try to attack nearby players, poisoning and confusing them. If they see nobody nearby, they would return to nearby free crying obsidian blocks and become planted.

  Mandrakes which cannot find a free block, would drop as an item.

  The confusion effect makes mobs and bosses to stop attacking for 5 seconds and would drop equipped armor and weapons. Creepers would abort explosions.

  If the creature is a player, the confusion effect would mix half of his inventory and hot-bar. Equipped armor pieces which have curse of binding, would be unequipped. Normal items will stay equipped. Shield slot item would always remain equipped.

  Shield can be used to block Mandrake's attacks.

  Uprooting of planted Mandrakes can be caused like for normal plants but also by fire or explosions (even if the crying obsidian is not destroyed).

  Potions made using Mandrakes give the confusion effect which can be used to calm mobs and retrieve their armor without killing them and to unequip bound items. It may have some PvP use too on special maps.