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Pests (boll weevil)

So what I was thinking of adding a boll weevil, or some kind of pest in general. It wouldn't have to be in every mode, it could just be in hard mode to make it more difficult or it could just appear more in hard mode. Like what the boll weevil does in real life it would destroy crops or make them not usable as food, the left oversee could be used for fertilizer or some crafting/potions, but it would be really cool & create an added layer of difficulty to Minecraft. This could be one of many pests added to the game! I believe they would have a higher chance of spawning oh crops that are not in a village or not near one. With the introduction of the boll weevil there could also be another villager type added too to combat the weevil, which would explain why they have a lower chance of spawning in villages. These villagers could be like a sort of pest control, however if not then the farmer class would just have an extra job of taking care of the boll weevils & possibly other pests added.
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    The idea is great but I don't think there should be a new villager.

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    instead of it spawning natrauly it could spawn from poison potatos and make potatos poison

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    Maybe it shouldn't spawn naturally but have a small chance of spawning(maybe 5%), when a crop is broken by piston, player, due to low light, or anything other than water/usage of hoe - water and hoes would have 0% chance to spawn them. 

    About villagers, they could have a role of pest killer, or just a farmers could either lower the chance of pest spawning(by half or more) or have secret meter going up from 0 to idk, 250 that when filling would gradually lower the original spawning chance (in this case 5%) to 0%. In naturally spawned villagers/with commands this meter would be randomly filled, in the ones that gain proffesion thanks to the player, it would start at 0. This meter would thou be either locking villager in it's farmer profession, be lost while changing it, or saved even, if profession changed.
    Oh, this meter btw would go up by one per every crop destroyed by the invidual villager.