If you haven't seen jeb's picture of the new bears look here. If your like me your absolutely pumped bears are my absolute favorite animal. As of now they are neutral unless their cub is around and the cubs are peaceful all the time. Now as I looked at this I really liked how that was implemented. Feel free to discuss below but here are a few things I would like to be added alongside of them.

• There is a mod called the camping mod that uses bits of fur around leather armor to make fur armor that could maybe have a higher durability than iron but had a little less protection or possibly the other way around. And maybe even have the head over the top like that. Either way it would bring back leather as a viable armor set to use again and would differ possibly to different bear skins or other animals that could be added.

• Could give warning before attack by standing on its back legs and roaring to signal to the player that it is usually passive but not now because it is on baby watch. After waiting a second or two it will charge the player as bears are incredibly fast killing machines peaking for polar bears at about 25 mph and grizzly bears at about 30 mph whereas you probably top out at around 10 mph.

*Possible drops could be the clumps of fur for the fur armor or full pelts depending the quality of the coat it could be a percentage game. The full pelt could be laid down like carpet but a 2×2 or could be tanned or something to get 4 leather? And it should drop bear meat 3-4 pieces since it is such a large animal. And you could have it so if a bear is killed by a charged creeper then the bear would drop its head.

*There is a great number of different skins and ways bears could be implemented into the game as for species there are Black bears, Grizzly bears, Pandas, and maybe even an always agressive Dire bear