Ideas for the 26.3 Dappled Forest Update

I’m a fan of mojang’s 26.3 update, but I feel like the biggest missed opportunity was making the forest more lively with the addition of new animals and plants, so I’ve put together a handful of ideas for OR’s iteration!

Raccoons - Upon being given food, they’ll enter a temporary tamed state. When in this state, they’ll interact with any of the 3 trash bin furnitures (trash bin, recycle bin, dumpster) on your realm and gift you a specific balloon loot item. (other than a crate, of course). They’ll only do this on occasion, and only 1 raccoon can be in the tamed state per player at a time.

Owls - Once tamed, they can sit on your shoulder like a parrot. Whenever a hostile mob aggros onto you (within a range), they’ll make a call to alert you. They will also scare away baby zombies and rats. Wild owls only spawn at night, and will make sounds when a mob or player is nearby. Spawns most often in dappled forests, less often in other forests, but a special variant can spawn in pale gardens with glowing eyes.

Deer- If you give them an apple or carrot, you can attach a lead between them and a sled for a fun but niche movement option. Can move at a similar speed to zebras by default, can move even faster on ice/packed ice/blue ice. Default variant spawns in the dappled forest, but reindeer variants can either spawn in snowy biomes or be created with festive serum.

Moose - A neutral mob towards players much like polar bears, but will charge at any basic hostile mobs nearby. If thrown wood logs, it will eat the bark and leave stripped logs on the ground. Spawns sometimes in dappled forests, but also in old growth spruce forests, foothills, or by snowy forests/rivers.

Reindeer lichen - A new pastel-green lichen, which will grow on the sides of poplar trees and fallen logs. Can be eaten by deer, much like how swets in the aether eat glowshrooms. Can either be a new item placed on top of regular logs, or a special poplar log block entirely (like gleaming skyroot logs, or peering pale oak logs)

Sedums - A new light peach colored flowering perennial that would bloom in the dappled forest, maybe rarely in maple forests too. I really enjoyed the new pale garden flowers kio added, so i thought it’d be nice for the dappled forest to get something similar

Misc ideas

- Larger patches of coarse dirt, and patches of podzol too (much like old growth spruce biomes) Placing a poplar sapling on coarse dirt will guarantee it grows red, placing the sapling on pozdol will guarantee it grows yellow, placing the sapling on packed dirt or dried silt will guarantee it grows orange.

- More ground shrubbery, patches of leaf blocks on the ground much like a lot of other OR biome remasters. More large/small ferns too, like in spruce biomes (since spruce trees do spawn in poplar forests), and a lot more leaf litter.

- Taller poplar trees, and of course a new improved OR design for the trees in general. If the dappled forest will be replacing cold maple forests, i think it’d be neat for maple trees in regular maple forests to get a bit of a redesign as well, to get them more in line with a lot of the newer improved tree designs.

- Much like the recent pale garden changes, I think OR’s dappled forest should be larger than its vanilla counterpart.