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Less violent alternatives to fighting

I had the idea to add a way that pacifist people can enjoy the game without losing out on the challenge of navigating the problems you may encounter with hostile mobs. I’d like to see a way that pacifists can work out ways of not fighting mobs but finding a way to work around them without unnecessary violence, like in the case I’m mining in a cave and I die to fall damage and my gear gets picked up by a mob instead of killing it I’d like to in someway put the mob to sleep and get my stuff back without hurting it, I was thinking of something like a splash potion of sleep or splash potion of confusion that makes the mob drop my things without having to hurt it. Also I was thinking I would also settle for a way to KO mobs after them taking a certain amount of damage from my punches or a knock out stick of some sort to make that same thing happen, for me it would make the game much more enjoyable if I had a way to avoid killing unnecessarily, I enjoy the challenge that hard mode brings but it’s difficult sometimes to navigate the world on low hp when I feel like I have no way out of a situation than to fight and kill things when I really don’t want to. Please consider this idea and feel free to improve on it In a Minecrafty way to make it fit better into the game as long as it has the same core idea I’m cool with whatever.
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    For more than a decade, I have advocated for Minecraft as a creative, thoughtful, sustainability-oriented, and non-violent game in an ocean of First-Person Shooter (FPS) and Role Playing Games (RPGs) with war, conquest, and battlefield settings. 

    I have been playing the same Minecraft instance now for 12 years, which is 25 gigabytes huge given how much exploration, terraforming, and building that I’ve put into the game. 

    Unfortunately, at the end of 2025, Microsoft pivoted to militarize Minecraft, particularly with the Mounts of Mayhem campaign, with challenger tournaments that promote weaponization and killing that celebrates participants as our ‘bravest and most adventurous heroes’.

    I am profoundly disappointed in Microsoft for aligning Minecraft with the barbarity of killing others in the name of entertainment, undermining its position as an educational platform popular in classrooms for math, science, and STEM learning. 

    Anyway, I'm with you. I play for the creativity and exploration factors, not for the unnecessary violence.