Craftable item:
Tar and Feathers
30 feathers
3l tar
1 bucket
Turns into tar and feather bucket.
Uses:
Can use on unconscious person, covers them in a black sticky substance and feathers. Making you very self conscious, stupid looking and the stickiness is debilitating.
Debuffs on nearly all stats, duration and strength determined by qualities of the Tar and Feathers bucket.
The idea behind this:
When there's trouble with villagers, enemy villages, people bothering you, or you just want to have a good laugh.
But you feel that killing them is too steep a price to pay for their stupid behavior or your giggles. Spite them by making them look stupid and take away some of their stats for a while.
Pros:
Adds flavor
Takes away some incentive to kill (this is a pro for people that would otherwise just have lost their char)
Gives players a way to punish people for stupid behavior, or have a laugh with some unwilling victims.
No direct fear of retribution due to lowered stats.
Possibility for dank in house memes.
Cons:
People whining on the forums that they're being tar and feather'd
Another novel idea, with some practical appliance.
Don't expect it to be high in the priorities, but it's an idea!