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ANTS AND HOW TO TAME THEM

Ants are some of the most intelligent and resourceful creatures known to man. With their ability to coordinate attacks, find and gather resources and survive in a multitude of environments, adding ants to Minecraft might be the single biggest meta change since the creation of The End. Ants should be able to spawn in any biome or dimension, including the nether and end. The lore behind why could be explained as easy as why German cockroaches are in New York City. Ants come in many species but most important, each colony possesses multiple types of ants. Minecraft should introduce 3 types; Workers, Fighters, and The Queen for obvious reasons should be the most offended mob in Minecraft history. I'm not talking just look at her and she throws a Karen level tantrum. I mean if you step within the chunk of a queen unprotected you should be met with the entire force of that colony, fighters and workers. Workers should be able to trigger help from the fighters and fighters should bite with the force of a vindicator. Now how to tame them? This should be linked with drops. Killing fighters should get u ant parts, enough parts and you craft ant armor. This grants you access to the Queen. Kill her, she drops a Queens gland. Finally feeding the Queens gland with Honey to another Queen results in that Queens loyalty and inturn her colony. Now back to Workers, they should drop any resource located in the chunk. Allowing you to know what resources are near by. Cool huh?
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    Just the start of the idea. Obviously there should be color variants to add more colonies that can war against each other for territory. I was also thinking that unlike other mobs, ants should only be able to reproduce feeding the Queen a Queens gland after she's been tamed. This makes each ants life worth more as you ultimately will have to end several other ant colonies to make your own stronger. Maybe you can use a lead to capture enemy worker ants and bring them to your Queen so they can swear their loyalty but Fighters should fight to the death. Also one Queen per colony and no cooperation between two or more any colonies. This should lead to some epic ant v player v ant scenarios underground in these cave systems that are already dangerous as it is.

    WE'VE SEEN WOLF ARMY'S, NOW LETS SEE ANT ARMY'S

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    One thing I forgot to mention. Since ants are not looking for food to reproduce they should be auto mining valuable resources from the subsurface. The Queens chamber should look like a treasure room full of ores still cased in stone and deep slate. Maybe everything besides amethyst? Or maybe Queens only spawn in amethyst geodes to begin with. That way the Queens chamber truly looks spectacular!!

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    Taming Ants? Ew, no! I like the ant idea but taking them? That’s odd.

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    Just to reference the simplest reason why taming ants or being near a hive would benefit a player. Worked ants would be carrying ores by like endermen. Seeing these ants walk past u can gage the direction they got the pre from and if ur skilled enough u can take the ore from the Workers. Imagine just starting a world and u pop in along the pathing of an ant colony. Your chances of obtaining iron and or diamond in the first 10 days are now very high. What's the alternative?

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    Taming them would be more difficult than the current methods of fight withers. It's not like it's easy to do or cheasy. If ants make ur skin crawl stay away from them. Wouldnt be the first mob that can pick up blocks that many player try to ignore.