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Recommendation: Add Ants to Minecraft.

I noticed that in a snapshot for the upcoming Chaos Cubed update (26.2), The Chiseled Cinnabar block resembles the shape of an ant. Since there is a block   (Chiseled Sulfur) that resembles the sulfur cube already added in the snapshots, it has brought a lot of speculation about Minecraft introducing a mob (an ant) for the first time in almost 15 years since full release.

They Would come in 3 main variants: A queen ant, a soldier ant and a worker ant, and would spawn at the surface in the plains and forest biome. They spawn as a neutral mob, meaning they are friendly, as long as you don't attack them or mine their ant nest (a new feature found in the plains and forest biomes).

The Utility: They could pick up items that the player drops (or from the meat of a dead mob) or interact with other bug mobs.

The Interaction: Allow users to use Silk Touch on ant hills to collect them.

 

 

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    Sorry, I meant 'Food' items, not items in general.

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    The Chiseled Cinnabar block is meant to be a Cave Spider, which naturally spawns in Sulfur Caves

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    I was watching a YouTube video from a YouTuber named Xisumavoid about the 26.2 drop, and they mentioned the Chiseled Cinnabar brought a lot of speculation about ants. Oh, I didn't know that was actually a Cave Spider.

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    I thought the front legs looked like antenna. Spiders have 8 legs and ants have 6 legs. I wasn't sure if those front legs were antenna or not.