I live on an island in an ocean biome where no animals spawn and even though I have lured animals onto my property the occasional butcher spells mass genocide for my farms... I was thinking since animal/mob eggs are being added into the game sk8 might be able to heelp me and others protect themselves from this and allow the sales and trade of livestock. here's how i envision this . I walk up to Mr. Cow and left click him with an egg this replaces my egg with a cow egg and removes a slime ball from my inventory (this is to add an extra expense to storing animals) then i may store the animal egg and or sell/trade it to others. I'm sure opening livestock trade would help keep things interesting and allow farmers to protect themselves from the occasional /butcher I am also a proponent of nerfing butcher to only run within a predefined radius (unless otherwise defined) of the issuer using command helper maybe a radius of 16 as this covers 2 chunks in all directions.) /butcher [$amt=16] = /butcher $amt
1. I think /butcher only kills Aggressive Mobs 2. I love the egg idea, but I'm not sure how these eggs work completely yet, but if its possible, this is a good idea.
It might be possible to use the eggs included in Minecraft 1.1. Of course, the server will need to be updated first.
the 1.1 eggs were what i was thinking of the chicken eggs being replaced with on click and farmerdave I'm not sure why but my animals keep despawning/dieing on my island.... someone said /lag might be the reason
