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Basking Sharks & Shrimps

Basking Sharks & Shrimps Just an idea me and a couple of others had for a fun ambient mob to roam the seas. Basking Sharks, Shrimp, and an interaction between the two Basking sharks - non-aggressive sharks in real life meaning they would not contradict Mojang's rule on sharks. These basking sharks are also endangered so bringing attention to them would be nice. They would add more to warm oceans (spawning in them), being a peaceful mob with no drops. They'd be ambient and just swim around. Sometimes they would open their mouths a bit just as a fun idle animation. They also have another animation where they’ll occasionally rise to the ocean surface and jump up a few blocks before falling down again. No real reason, it’s just a thing they do in real life to get rid of parasites and would be pretty cool to see around the world :) Shrimps - very small mobs, possibly like fireflies. They spawn in a group. They could be right clicked to pick up and eat similarly to berries. They also drop on death. If this would be too easy of a food source, you'd have to mix them and dried kelp in a crafting bench to make a new food source. Interaction - basking sharks swim towards a shrimp group with their mouth wide open and eat them. After seeing the Wild Update and how it adds to the overworld, I think it would be a great opportunity to bring attention to this species that certainly needs it, along with adding a new food source it can interact with.
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    Great idea! I think it should have around the same life points as a player. Same thing could be done to the whale shark. I think it should attack shrimp, and swim away when attacked.
    The shark will avoid contact with you around a minute when attacked. Also, I think it shoukd be rare (for every 10 dolphins, around 1 basking shark)

    Shrimp, on the other hand, may be eaten by cod, and swim really fast. There would be 2 shrimp for every 1 fish (cod, salmon and tropical fish. Puffer fish wouldn't count).

    Also, adding shrimp would add the possibility of adding shrimp as a food item! 

    Maybe, they could drop from 0 to 1 shrimp. Shrimp could be smelted to have cooked shrimp. In this case, cooking it will be the only way to eat it. 

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    This is a great idea that opens up so many possibilities. For example I think having shrimp makes foods such as tempura shrimp (which could either be made by cooking shrimp directly or instead by combining cooked shrimp, a bucket of water, eggs, and wheat together), if coconuts were to be added coconut shrimp (which could be made by either combining cooked shrimp and a coconut if cooking shrimp turned into tempura shrimp or by combining cooked shrimp, coconuts and bread together if tempura shrimp is either made with other ingredients or not used at all), and if rice were to be added also ebi sushi (which would be made by combining dried kelp, shrimp, and rice together) as a possibility. These ideas along with the friendly sharks would be some very welcomed additions.

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    Best idea ever

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    I have an idea for this it if you eat the shrimp raw it will give you the poison effect so you have to cook it just an idea