Imagine how great the game would be if we could build some kind of Roomba-like robot pet that would follow you around and slurp up all of the drops, with a full chest of inventory space? Or have it where you can put it on "roam mode" and tether it to a post so it acts like an area-of-effect collector? You could easily make it customizable as well by allowing players to dye it and perhaps have different shapes available, like circular, boxy, triangular, etc. Maybe you could have it change its appearance based on an applied banner, so banners also get a new purpose?
I would personally be able to use a small army of these behind or below me when I'm working on a cave build or mining for resources. It would just be the most useful pet by far to have anyway.
XD one of the mods has uh golems? That can do various jobs. Like picking items up and putting in a chest. Very very cute. A Roomba is an even better idea it would be super neat to have colored ones too D: Finally someone to organize all the stuff I mine xD ...I mean a cute new friend
That just means you aren't a heavy miner, or don't do anything with concrete. Having portable pets that can constantly vacuum up drops around you could be useful for mining literally anything or picking up drops from mobs, while also having the utility of a donkey/llama that will move with you so you don't have to stop to get stuff out of it or make another trip.
Basically, the short of it is a functional donkey/llama with a double-chest inventory in addition to hopper functionality, while being more compact and more intuitive than either of those mobs.
Shulker boxes are basically backpacks already. That doesn't address the issue I'm talking about where your inventory would fill up, then you'd have to place the shulker box, unload into it, then go back and scoop everything else up that you left behind you. My roomba pet idea would make it so that you would be able to go a significantly longer time digging without stopping at all, because your Mobile Chest Squadron would be sucking it all up for you.
We basically just need more useful pets anyway. Dogs absolutely suck, cats are quite useless, parrots are both useless and far too annoying, horses are completely invalidated by Elytra, donkeys have only a niche use, and llamas are just doofy-looking worse donkeys.
Imagine how great the game would be if we could build some kind of Roomba-like robot pet that would follow you around and slurp up all of the drops, with a full chest of inventory space? Or have it where you can put it on "roam mode" and tether it to a post so it acts like an area-of-effect collector? You could easily make it customizable as well by allowing players to dye it and perhaps have different shapes available, like circular, boxy, triangular, etc. Maybe you could have it change its appearance based on an applied banner, so banners also get a new purpose?
I would personally be able to use a small army of these behind or below me when I'm working on a cave build or mining for resources. It would just be the most useful pet by far to have anyway.
I dont ever find myself needing something to help me pick up items aside from our hopper
I dont see any real quality of life changes coming to the game with this.
A backpack feels like it would make this idea feel useless too yea? I think this idea needs a different function or it needs more
That just means you aren't a heavy miner, or don't do anything with concrete. Having portable pets that can constantly vacuum up drops around you could be useful for mining literally anything or picking up drops from mobs, while also having the utility of a donkey/llama that will move with you so you don't have to stop to get stuff out of it or make another trip.
Basically, the short of it is a functional donkey/llama with a double-chest inventory in addition to hopper functionality, while being more compact and more intuitive than either of those mobs.
Shulker boxes are basically backpacks already. That doesn't address the issue I'm talking about where your inventory would fill up, then you'd have to place the shulker box, unload into it, then go back and scoop everything else up that you left behind you. My roomba pet idea would make it so that you would be able to go a significantly longer time digging without stopping at all, because your Mobile Chest Squadron would be sucking it all up for you.
We basically just need more useful pets anyway. Dogs absolutely suck, cats are quite useless, parrots are both useless and far too annoying, horses are completely invalidated by Elytra, donkeys have only a niche use, and llamas are just doofy-looking worse donkeys.