Could we make farm animals buyable?

[Androcks]

Since 1.1 has come to our servers, we now have the option to use spawn eggs for mobs.
Since these spawn eggs exist, why dont we make animals like pigs, wolves, cows, sheep, chickens, and squid
( you never know if u might need one.).
They can be made expensive, since you can now breed them. THis way,
it would allow people to buy a farm animal if they somehow can't get one.
This would also allow more people to get access to mooshrooms.
Please reply with what you think of this idea.

 

[useruser3]

More likely a plugin that emulates a dispenser firing egg X when you pay

 

[YourMacManDan]

I believe I requested this before. I believe it was put on hold.

 

[andrew61]

Buying villagers from the shop seems awkward yet cool.

 

[Androcks]

At least we dont need to buy iron golems.

 

[Yennage]

I'd certainly +1 the idea of buyable eggs from the shop (it works with coloured wool so I assume it would also support eggs of differing types). However, as you can imagine setting the price could be quite tricky, too cheap and we end up with loads of massive scale mob farms that we need to keep an eye on. On the other hand, too expensive and nobody will bother buying them.

As for iron golems, I'm afraid there's a chance they will be disabled when we go to 1.2 (both spawning and crafting) due to the ability to farm iron on a large scale from them.

 

[Godspeedz]

Make them expensive, buying a mob shouldn't be moderately priced at all. It is a commodity that only the upper echelons of the server should enjoy, or those who would work hard to be able to afford one.

As far as iron golems go, I see no harm in allowing them to stay. What's the worst that could happen? People start building with iron blocks (which looks good most of the time), people start making iron armor and weapons (and get wrecked by the guys with diamond sets)? The shop will just have to adjust the price for iron accordingly.

 

[Androcks]

You lose more iron than you put in, and the spawn rates have been nerfed. No worries for iron farms.

 

[Yennage]

Ah wasn't aware their spawn rate had been nerfed, thanks for the heads up