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Parrots Can Breed and Lay Eggs in Nests

Summary:
Parrots currently cannot breed, which makes them feel more like decorations than real animals. This suggestion adds a simple breeding and nesting system that fits Minecraft’s existing mechanics.

How it would work:
• Parrots can be bred using Mango Slices.
• When bred, parrots search for the nearest parrot nest (natural or player-crafted).
• One parrot lays 3–5 eggs in the nest.
• Eggs always hatch, but only 50% hatch into parrot chicks.
• When eggs are successfully laid, the player receives a small amount of XP.

Nest behavior:
• Wild parrots defend their nests by hissing and pecking if the player approaches too quickly.
• Each peck deals ¼ of a heart of damage with no armor.
• Parrots calm down once the player backs away or moves slowly.

Why this fits Minecraft:
• Other passive mobs already breed and lay eggs (chickens, turtles, frogs).
• This gives parrots more purpose while keeping damage low and non-lethal.
• Nesting makes jungles feel more alive without forcing players to farm parrots.

This post focuses only on parrot breeding and nesting behavior. Other jungle features (such as mango trees) could support this system in the future.

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    Along with this, phantoms should also be able to swarm parrot eggs that are out in the open. This incentivizes the player to sleep regularly without being too much of a headache. This creates more balanced gameplay. If the phantoms can't attack the player then they will look for parrot eggs out in the open and swoop down to either crush them or eat them where they disappear one at a time. The phantoms should be the only mob in the vanilla game that is hostile toward parrot eggs while every other mob ignores them. What do you think of this?

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    To clarify, both tamed and untamed parrots can be bred using Mango Slices.

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    To clarify, I imagine parrot nests as Minecraft’s first stick nests that can naturally spawn throughout jungle biomes — on trees, on the ground, in shallow caves, or even on jungle village buildings (buildings of villages that generated in other biomes that spilled over slightly into a jungle). The natural nest could look similar to (or slightly different from) a player-crafted version. Players could craft a nest from sticks to encourage parrot breeding near their base. While this isn’t perfectly realistic to real parrots, it keeps the system simple and convenient for gameplay. 1/10 of naturally spawning parrot nests will contain a parrot family. 9/10 will be empty. Parrot families will be made even rarer by the fact that once they spawn and you leave the area, they will despawn permanently with the nest they occupied left behind. And to keep the parrot families spawned in, you have to sneak to them with the entire family inside and name tag them to permanently calm them down even though they are wild. This prevents players from killing the family or running away from it and gives players a peaceful choice. Players can also break and obtain natural parrot nests for their own use, ideally with Silk Touch. Parrot families are what natural wild parrots that spawn in 1/10 of parrot nests are called. They are the ones that were mentioned in the post that deal 1/4 a heart of damage.

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    Parrot eggs can be silk touched and picked up but will no longer hatch. A parrot egg can be sold to the wandering trader in exchange for 3 emeralds.

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    Parrot nests in general could have a limit of up to 10 parrots inside its nest block at one time like how there is a maximum amount of bees that can be in one bee nest. The wild parrot family will enter love mode on its own like villagers would every 10 minutes and lay 3-5 eggs every time they breed. One parrot will get pregnant like a turtle (or not depending on what Mojang chooses to implement) and then lay eggs. If the natural parrot family breeds, you will get no XP as you did not breed them. The natural parrot nest will have up to 15 parrots total before they automatically stop breeding on their own. You can destroy a parrot nest and all parrot babies and adults will fall down and all eggs currently inside will break without hatching. Baby parrots at stage 1 of being a baby cannot fly but stage 2 onwards can fly. Baby parrots are always born untamed and the earliest chance you will get to tame them is at their third and final stage of being a baby parrot when they show their adult colors and are slightly smaller than an adult parrot. This would still require parrots to be tamed the same way we know now.