Mob Cores

Mob Cores allow you to take on aspects of any mob in the game, giving you access to their strong powers, but also their tricky weaknesses! You could think of it like "enchanting" yourself. For instance, a zombie core will give you an attack bonus and a speed boost while breaking wood, but make you catch on fire in sunlight, as well as take away your ability to swim! Some mobs, like Blazes and Ghasts, let you use certain abilities like fireballs, and some even let you fly! The real magic though is when you combine two mob cores to get a brand new set of powers. Just be careful not to combine two mob cores that counteract each other! The cores must be crafted to a chest piece with both curse of binding and curse of vanishing, so once you start using a core, you'll have to be committed to it for quite a while. Mob Cores come with certain rarities as well, so the best Core will be one that has all the rarest powers, and also avoids all the most inconvenient de-buffs. Mob Cores give players more ways of interacting with mobs other than simply killing them to harvest drops, and the powers they grant give more creative ways of interacting with the world overall. The requirement to create a mob core could be anything imaginable, like curing a zombie villager, or exploding a creeper with TNT. It would also be exciting every time a new mob is introduced- players would ask "what new powers can we get from this?"