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Chickens molt feathers + why you should be rewarded for being nice to mobs

My idea is that chickens should occasionally molt a single feather every 2-3 days or so.

This may sound pointless or OP, but keep in mind that Mojang usually likes to add mechanics to the game that rewards you, or at least benefits you in some way for being nice to animals instead of killing them.

For example, cows give milk, sheep give more wool if sheared, chickens lay eggs, etc.

Even some vanilla + mods follow this philosophy:

  • Alex's mobs' bear can be killed for 1 hair of bear, but keeping them alive will allow them to shed hair of bear every so often for an infinite source.

  • Autumnity's snails can drop snail slime upon death, but feeding them mushrooms will cause them to produce snail slime, giving you a more resourceful and friendly method to obtain the slime.

So, what I'm saying is that Minecraft should introduce even more mechanics to the game that reward players for being nice to animals. Because most passive animals in Minecraft should not exist only to be killed (Except of course rabbits, squids, and glow squids, but hopefully there can be changes to them as well)

So IMO, giving chickens the ability to molt feathers will add a more friendly way to obtain feathers, and it would be a good start towards adding more pacifist options to Minecraft for those who prefer that sort of playstyle.

Kill a chicken, and you'll have feathers for a day. Keep the chicken alive and you'll have feathers for life.

 

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    I use a datapack that sets chickens to randomly shed feathers, which is a logical thing, chickens do shead feathers in real life. It makes for a simpler life as I don't need a lot of chicken meat but I do like to have arrows. I would love for more mobs to have such features, 

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    This post is kinda old but parrots could molt feathers too, as well as any future bird mobs.