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Update bats in 1.17

Since bats aren't used for much at the moment, and there is no good food source easily attainable in caves, updating bats would be the perfect solution, and 1.17 would be the perfect update! In my idea, bats would breed if fed glow berries, be put on leads, and follow players who hold glow berries. Bats would spawn in all cave biomes (other than the deep dark?). Bats would drop raw bat, which you can cook for 5 food points, sometimes bat hide, similar to rabbits, which you could craft into bundles also using string similar to how you can craft them with rabbit hide and string. You could also craft bat stew with a bowl, cooked bat, glow berries, and two mushrooms. Once in a while they would drop bat wings, which can be crafted into a special new item or brewed into a new potion. One last thing you could do to improve bats would be to improve its AI so it doesn't fly into lava constantly. I love this game so much, and I appreciate all the time and hard work the developers put into it. I want to help and do my part to make this next update as good as possible before it releases! Thank you!

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    I think to craft Bundles you still need 6 Rabbit Hide, and to craft 1 Rabbit Hide you need 4 Bat Hide. This way you don't interfere with the effort needed to obtain Bundles.

    Regarding to use Bat Wings [rare drop] it's not that simple to find a new potion you can brew into, because there are already so much of them

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    Idea for the bat potion:

    Echolocation:

    Allows you to see the glowing outline of mobs up to a certain range, even through walls.
    The level of the potion determines how far you can see them. 

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    If you combine bat meat with a bowl and a carrot and eat it, you have a small chance to get an effect called Covid that gives you a greater urge to go outside, you can turn other villagers to zombie villagers, you lose half a heart every minute until you die, and also you can't wear a helmet

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    Even if it is only bat hides which can also be used to craft bundles, I think this is a good idea to add some drops to bats. The biggest complaint I've seen about bundles (and it makes sense) is how few biomes you can find rabbits in. But you can always find a cave with bats, and they are similarly difficult to chase and kill as rabbits. A lot of people have pointed out that bundles don't seem useful and I've seen Mojang point out it's goal is to be useful in the early game, but if your early game has no deserts nearby (or the other, rarer biomes), then it's only a benefit during the early game sometimes on specific seeds. Bats are everywhere (underground) and therefore with some effort it is always possible to get bundles during the early game if a player wants to.