Animals suffocate when packed together

[DNoved1]

Basically, have animals check if there's a ton of other animals next to it, and if so, have them suffocate.

Why I believe this is a good and necessary change:

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As it stands, I can have a couple hundred cows in a 6x6 area and simply kill them whenever I need leather/beef, and toss in wheat whenever it's available. Due to this I have no need to build any sort of automated cow farm.

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Same thing with chickens. I can fit about 30 or so in a 1 wide hole on top of a hopper and never worry about eggs/feathers/meat.

[Sarudak]

This has already been discussed a significant amount in the past...

[MoRmEnGiL]

Huh, weird, I thought this was addressed already.

[ThePuzzleMasher]

I think I remember this being added but only for animals in breeding harnesses.

[DaveYanakov]

The issue here is that adding a check to every mob to see if it met suffocation conditions would have brought any computer you could reasonably build to its knees. Think how you tend to lag when you walk through a room with a hundred tile entities, like chests. Now imagine that each of those chests are each checking 27 other blocks around them constantly. And that chests checking space around them are also spawned randomly through every single loaded chunk and you can never actually get away from them.

It's not a terrible idea, it's just completely unfeasible for something as widespread as standard mobs. Also it has been covered before but we all know the forum search has limitations if you don't word things the same way as previous posters. Please let this thread die, guys.

[MoRmEnGiL]

I think I remember this being added but only for animals in breeding harnesses.

Oh right, now it makes sense.