I saw something on reddit and I liked it, so I tried to expand on the idea.

[AllenWL 186]

So, while going thorough the minecraft subreddit, I saw someone post something called 'The ranger challenge' And being a ranger's apprentice fan, I went in.

 

The general gist of it was that it was a challenge where you where supposed to never kill mobs. Well, not directly anyways. Instead, you had to tame mobs and have them do the fighting for you. I liked the idea, but it was deleted for whatever reason, so... Yeah, I tried expanding on it.

 

Here are the rules I came up with.

You cannot directly damage mobs. You cannot hit them, shoot them, fire magic at them, throw potions, or hurt them 'intentionally'.

Basically, you cannot engage in combat with mobs

But other then that, anything goes. this means you can set traps, dump lava on them, drop tnt on them, set them on fire, or push them off cliffs.

You can also hit mobs to make your pets attack, but you cannot do it with a weapon(and no axes or shovels either), and you cannot repeatedly hit them. Try to deal less than 4 points(2 hearts) of damage.

Animals such as cows, pigs, etc can be killed by you. It's just the ones that fight back that you can't fight.

 

Pretty simple, right?

 

I was thinking that some mods might be used for this. Namely,

A damage indicator-type mod, to make sure you do not deal too much damage.

Mods that get you fighters/pets without being too OP.

Possible wolf-enhancing mods.