Many times in Minecraft, it's really annoying when you want to make a large farm and you have to hoe every single block you want. So want not add the Oxen mob?
They could plow larges amounts of land when harnessed.
Recipe for Harness:
You would be able to tell them to stop or go by clicking on them.
I just think it would be a simple but efficient addition to minecraft.
That would be pretty cool for those of us that build realistic farms. Unfortunately most people (that I've seen on the internet) just build farms as a series of rows with water between them. That would result in the ox falling in the water and thrashing about awfully to try to move between rows. But it would be pretty cool. Perhaps he would move down the row and move to the next row whenever he ran into a fence or 2+ block high wall.
Wait, what if they start to wander around? You should tell them which way to go by right-clicking them, then riding them, or making them follow a trail of wheat, or lead them in a path holding wheat, or something.
Farming is easy enough by hand, I'd rather have oxen as pack animals or something.
Why not allow them to be both? Use a chest and some leather to make a saddlebag and it would work like a second inventory that follows you around. Or use the harness to dig up plants.
= leather
Another idea might be that you can take the harness and add like 2 chests and some wood and a diamond or something and that would make a combine, which would collect the crops up into itself and replant seeds it picks up (might be a bit overpowered)
= harness
Kill oxen for Ox hides which you could use to make Ox Hide armor. Dunno what it would be good for. Probably moderate defense and some sort of unique property, like it makes passive mobs not run from you when you hit them.
Ox hair could also be a viable material for making rope, which if course has many uses. (I swear, if you could tie a length of rope between 2 points in minecraft I would have a nerdgasm)
You could also milk and Oxen, and Ox milk should heal 1 heart in addition to the normal effects of milk.
Ox would also try and attack you if you attack them.
So if thats not enough reason to add them as a mob independent of cows, I don't know what is.
I like the idea but this mob would make farming not fun anymore.The mob could be added in a mod instead. I like to go around by hand a wither all the crops.Minecraft is meant to be creative. I find the oxen to be mod sorta thing not an in game thing.
They could plow larges amounts of land when harnessed.
Recipe for Harness:
You would be able to tell them to stop or go by clicking on them.
I just think it would be a simple but efficient addition to minecraft.
No loafing.
Your awareness of your surroundings rivals that of Dora the Explorer.
Why not allow them to be both? Use a chest and some leather to make a saddlebag and it would work like a second inventory that follows you around. Or use the harness to dig up plants.
= leather
Another idea might be that you can take the harness and add like 2 chests and some wood and a diamond or something and that would make a combine, which would collect the crops up into itself and replant seeds it picks up (might be a bit overpowered)
= harness
Kill oxen for Ox hides which you could use to make Ox Hide armor. Dunno what it would be good for. Probably moderate defense and some sort of unique property, like it makes passive mobs not run from you when you hit them.
Ox hair could also be a viable material for making rope, which if course has many uses. (I swear, if you could tie a length of rope between 2 points in minecraft I would have a nerdgasm)
You could also milk and Oxen, and Ox milk should heal 1 heart in addition to the normal effects of milk.
Ox would also try and attack you if you attack them.
So if thats not enough reason to add them as a mob independent of cows, I don't know what is.