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Aging in Striders: Youthful, Wisened, and Elder Striders

So I saw the new striders, and they’re pretty cool. However, I couldn’t help but make a suggestion: aging. Looking at the striders, it seems like if there are any shores that aren’t at the lava height, you can’t get off of them. So, I think that the older a strider gets, the longer its legs get, and the higher it stands. Their hair will become fuller as they age as well. There are three stages to aging:

-Youthful: the current mob we have now

-Wisened: two blocks high now, with more hair. Has less health than the youthful strider. Additionally, its speed will be 1.5x the speed of the youthful strider.

-Elder: This one is five blocks tall, and has some unique features. This one has small, stubby forearms (kinda like a t-Rex). Additionally, this one has a full mane of hair and two small, stubby horns. It does not need a saddle or warped fungi on a stick to be controlled, either. It runs double the speed of the youthful one as well. However, it has even less health.

Striders will not age unless they cannot despawn. It takes one real-time hour to age by one stage.

This may seem strange, but I think that this can increase the diversity of the striders!

 

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    I like it! This would be another behavior that'd make the striders even MORE unique!

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    I love the idea!

     

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    Great idea, I can imagine being on a ledge a few blocks above the lava and specifically searching for a taller strider.

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    I think that Wisened and Elder strider should be able to carry more one entity (Wisened two, and Elder three). Also it would be cool if they could spawn with piglins on them like oliphants from LOTR. But i think that they shouldn't be that much faster

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    I think an idea to go alongside this is that some striders are more willing to let you tame them than others. Maybe the younger they are, the more likely they will allow you to tame them.

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    It is a very neat function, it would also be cool to have a bit of a different texture fo the baby striders, like no hair.