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Bat spawn and utility in 1.19

Bat spawn location should be limited to above the Sculk blocks in caves with them present as if to resemble guano. This would also aid in locating Sculk blocks while mining past them and the ancient cities as the number of bats would be more frequent from the spawn association.

I found the behavior of the warden entertaining with bats present, so i would want to see more opportunities of that happening in game. It would also show as a visual tutorial once entering the biome to see how the warden is spawned and how it behaves while you're still in a safe area of the caves above. 

This would allow for more functionality or behavior to be added to bats, who have never been given any update treatment over the years since their addition. It would be troublesome if the large number of bats in the caves and cities were constantly calling wardens or making too much trouble, so after a small amount of the larger bat population have been killed they could swarm to the ceiling of caves to hide perched away. Seeing swarming or flocking too would look cool.

Because of its possible association with guano, it would be hard to add functionality in that regard as its somewhat of a crude detail, but I'm sure some sort of item could be gained from these new behaviors, if they stay perched for long enough maybe liquid sculk pools or completely untouched blocks could be turned into sculk. Alternatively, there could be a Bat skin or hide of some kind to aid in making bundles without finding rabbits. 

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• February 18, 2022 05:16
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  • February 18, 2022 05:58
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  An alternative to the movement behavior of bats, they could instead stay largely inactive and perched above sculk areas until the player makes a noise that would even alert the bats as a warning before the warden comes. they could gravitate to a specific area of blocks to flee to, and multiple bats can share the same area to mimic flocking behavior.

  the player still being able to locate the bats by sound despite not immediately calling a warden could be explained by things in certain frequencies just cant be heard by sensors and the warden. they would otherwise live simi-peacfully, or lore wise even dependent on each other, unless a player interferes with the bats in a way that alerts the warden to attack with 0 prejudice, to even the bats. 

  killing the minimum number of bats yourself to make them flee and perch again before they give away your location by sound could be another layer of interactivity.