I’m thinking they would stop hostile animals from spawning in a ~9×9 area centered on it (so within 4 tiles). Decay over about 3 days. Wood Yarn tinder Dye for mats
It really sucks that farm animals die out overnight because a wolf hornet or snake spawns and kills your chickens.
This is actually a nice idea, although I feel like it would have to decay more quickly and be more expensive or people would cover the map in them. 🙂
I always figured this is what dogs should do. Have them stand guard somewhere and kill hostile mobs that spawn in your farm. But scarecrows is not a bad idea. maybe instead of having it decay add a rule you have to repaint it every day so the animals dont grow used to the colours. A different dye each day.
An expanded list of commands for dogs would be amazing, but would probably have to be part of an entire UI update since your commands affect all your dogs on screen.
Repainting a different color daily seems like it would be a good way to slow down people spamming them.
+1, or adjust the dogs to guard (untrained dogs might die, but, that’s just encouragement to train a dog). I think this one has been proposed before, it would definitely be helpful though.