Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-30638886-20161219031615

Right now, in the mod, birds are active both day and night. They chirp and sing their songs ceaselessly. However, this is not the way birds act in real life. Birds normally go to sleep, stop singing and sleep in their nests, which brings us to our next topic.

A new block should be introduced, called a 'Nest Block.' This block should be implemented in one of two ways:

Firstly, it could be a block that rarely spawns on the tops of leaves. The block would be like a cake block in that it would not be the size of an entire block. This block, when broken by any means other than shears, will spawn one bird and drops 1-4 Bird Eggs, and 0-2 Feathers. If broken with shears, a Bird Nest will drop. This nest can then be transported and placed like a normal block. The Bird Nest will proceed to occasionally spawn a bird if there are none within 30(ish) blocks. The Bird Nest, like Berry Bushes can also be right-clicked to drop 0-2 Bird Eggs. At night, when birds sleep, they can, and will, sleep in Bird Nests. Birds will simply alight on top of the nest and stay there until morning, or when they are disturbed by a player walking near (10-20(?) Blocks) the nest. If a bird is sleeping on the nest and is destroyed by some means (e.g. Exploding Termites) it will not spawn a bird in addition to the one that was sleeping on it. As a side note, this block would be affected by gravity, and if it drops more than 6-10 blocks it has a 10%*(Blocks -1) chance to break, like an anvil. When the Bird Nest breaks in this way it will drop 1-3 Feathers and 0-1 Bird Egg.

Secondly, the Bird Nest could be a version of leaves that rarely spawns on trees that has a bird nest on it. When broken by hand it would drop, like the first, 0-2 feathers, 1-4 Bird Eggs and spawn 1 Bird. The block would act like normal leaves in that it would decay when no wood is present. If it decays it drops 1-3 feathers and 0-1 Bird Eggs. It could be harvested by shears, leaving a Bird Nest block in its wake. This item could be placed like normal leaves and would not decay. A Bird Nest could be right-clicked to give 0-2 Bird Eggs. Birds would not sleep in these nests, but could rarely spawn from them.

Bird Nests, of both types, would stack up to 64. These blocks would function like Berry Bushes in two ways: They would generate another egg(s) once every 12000(ish) ticks (Roughly 10 Minutes). Each would also have another texture that would show if they had eggs in them (However this would mean another block, Full versus Empty Nests).

Bird Eggs would operate in an identical manner to Vanilla Eggs in that they can be thrown, breaking upon impact. This breaking would have the same chance as Vanilla Eggs to spawn a Bird, or 4 (1/8 and 1/256, respectively). They would look slightly smaller than Vanilla Eggs and have a speckled brown texture. The Bird Egg can be substituted for Vanilla Eggs in any recipe incorporating them.

Thanks for reading! Give a comment if I forgot something, or a Kudos if you like the idea!  