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Please Update Bats :(

Bats are incredible animals that are both beneficial to our environments and incredibly misunderstood. If the axolotl, bee, sea turtle, and panda mobs were all added to help spread awareness of their conditions in real life, then bats should get the same treatment. 

Players have made it clear that they feel the bats are a waste of space that add nothing to the game. You can't even breed them. But in real life, they control pests, pollinate, spread crops, create substances used as gunpowder... there's SO much potential to make these iconic creatures become legitimately useful mobs that highlight how cool and helpful their real-life counterparts are. 

Make them gain the ability to echolocate, or be tamed to attack arthropod mobs, or act as nocturnal bees, SOMETHING, ANYTHING. I've loved bats my whole life and want the rest of the world to understand how amazing these creatures are, especially since they're facing so many threats. 

The potential is endless. There are so many bats on Earth, with so many abilities. They could be some of the most unique, helpful mobs in the game. Please, update bats. 

-A bat lover who's played the game since 2011 

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• October 16, 2020 16:50
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  • October 16, 2020 18:34
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  totally agree, right now bat's are useless it would be cool to have them do something. Maybe they would swarm hostile mobs, or if you wack them they bit you? 

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  • October 16, 2020 22:14
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  They could drop a substance so that you could make night vision

   

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  • October 19, 2020 13:47
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  they should drop gunpowder every 5-10 minutes like chickens. also :'(

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  • November 05, 2020 21:32
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  There could be guano deposits from bats in caves which would be used to make fertilizer.  

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  • November 23, 2020 15:10
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  This makes me on the bridge of crying every time I read this.

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  • February 12, 2021 14:37
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  This is the very right time to update the bats along with the cave

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  • March 03, 2021 19:50
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  I also agree that bats should get an update and maybe more of a use as would benefit perfectly from it during this update! A couple of ideas I added to was from this post!
  
  Please vote it higher for better bat AI and hopefully a new cave biome! 

  https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360077154731-Guano-Caves

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  • March 07, 2021 08:15
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  some specific mechanics i've thought of are;

  bats hunt arthropods (siders, cave spiders, silverfish, and bees) helping the player out with surviving underground.  to protect your bees from bat attacks, place some berry vines/bushes near the hive to distract them. 

  bats hunt spiders for their eyes, which they eat, giving us a non player based method of gathering spider eyes. (if you manage to wrangle up one)

  bats pick and eat berries allowing for tall glowberry farms, and they pick up and eat apples, golden apples, melon slices, and glistening melons.