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Goat Improvements

I think goats should be made slightly more interesting and maybe useful and here are some ideas I brainstormed:

- Have them drop mutton, making them more useful, but still less efficient than cows. Then they aren't purely aesthetic like bats.

- Allow them to ram down doors and/or fence gates for more challenge containing them, and have it possibly have it happen if they're in a small pen or if attacked to escape.

- Make it so attacking them prompts them to attack back once and then try to flee quickly.

- Add goat horns, like the ones already in the Bedrock betas. But also allow the horns to regrow either other time or if fed something, so your goats aren't permanently hornless. It's also more realistic as in real life goats can regrow them if broken off.

- Allow some mobs to fight back? I understand Iron Golems not fighting back as it could show them having a sympathetic side toward animals, but all other mobs all being passive to goats when rammed is kinda strange.

- Have wolves attack goats, similarly to sheep.

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• June 18, 2021 17:37
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  • June 24, 2021 04:59
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  I agree with everything posted here. The goat just feels so lackluster when compared to some of the other passive mobs in the game. There's no unique drop to cause someone to seek them out yet (I imagine the goat horn will change this when it's finished) but they also don't provide any food. Like you said, as of right now they serve no purpose besides aesthetics and all of these changes are great potential solutions. I actually wouldn't mind them becoming the most valuable passive mob over cows since they can only be found in mountains where as cows spawn nearly everywhere. Plus mutton is inherently less valuable than cooked beef so it balances out pretty well.

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  • August 16, 2021 04:26
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  Thanks, and yeah. Mutton isn’t a very valuable meat, so it’d be pretty balanced for them to drop some. Have them drop like one mutton each so they’re less worth farming than other animals and more for emergency situations. The idea of them having multiple kids at once which was temporarily in the beta was kinda cool and unique too but could be better on an animal like pigs which realistically have large amounts of babies, balancing the fact they don’t drop any leather.