Shepherd's Crook

[DaniAngione]

During some random chat in the most recent update thread, motivated by the addition of the new hat, I came up with a couple of ideas for a new cool tool:

The Shepherd's Crook!


As old as animal husbandry itself, the shepherd's crook has been an incredibly useful and important tool in our history.
Basically a longer and sturdier "walking cane" of sorts, it is used - as the name suggests - for herding animals.

Very basic in terms of crafting, I see it as an early game item requiring Carpentry and Animal Husbandry and made solely with blocks.

Here's a couple of uses that the Shepherd's Crook could have:
- Faster Animal Taming (perhaps 2 sessions instead of 3)
- Required to take wild animals home/offer them clover
- Auto-shoo when close to animals (actual herding - you would function like a gate opening ) - or, perhaps, at least "trigger movement" on animals when close to them, allowing yourself to unstuck easily from situations where even shoo doesn't work (clusters)

I've also had the idea of a more expensive, mid/end-game Shepherd's Crook (perhaps gilded with metals or even a couple of nuggets of gold or something), requiring Druidic Rite; something more similar to a papal ferula than a hermit shepherd's crook, something a bit less fancy than this:


For mainly two reasons:
- Less importantly, to look funny with the new hat
- More importantly, to make Animal Taming even faster - a single session.

And the main arguments behind this are:
- When such tool becomes easily available, there will be hardly any taming still going on for the people that can produce it.
- This could make "Tame animal" Credo quests actually useful, and not just a quest that everyone will always abandon (because that's what currently happens, no offense )

That's it

[Onep]

I just want to beat wild animals into submission with one.

[viznew]

yes i like it, i tried being a "herder" in my early days and its impossiable (thou its not usefull really to herd in that way (mabye one day grass will have q))

[AntiBlitz]

wouldnt it make more sense that the animals that you have tamed follow you while you possess the crook? I mean, even with the sense of religion, that is the idea and semblance of the crook. It wouldnt make as much sense to beat them with the crook lol.

[jorb]

Wouldn't mind, but I'm not sure I agree with the suggested uses.