Greetings, all! I was recently thinking of how Shulkers were a non-renewable resource in Minecraft. I thought of Quark, by Vazkii. There is a feature in Quark that allows endermites to tunnel into purpur blocks and turn into Shulkers. I have replicated and expanded on this feature.

Overview

With ShulkerMites, endermites will, when idling (yes, their idling animation is spastic. Not my fault.) tunnel into purpur blocks or pillars and "metamorphose," for lack of a better term, for 2 minutes. During this time, you can throw dyes at the burrowed mite (indicated by ender particles around the block) to change the color of the eventual Shulker.

The Shulkers produced are default in every way except the color, and will be purple if no dye is thrown.

Install

To install this, navigate as follows:

\saves\<worldname>\data\functions 

Here, if you have not installed any scripts before, it will be an empty folder. Download this, and unzip it in the functions folder.

This gives you essentially the standard format of functions as of 1.12-pre3; a scripts namespace, and a main function to run as gameLoopFunction. If you already have this set up, add the following line to the main.mcfunction file:

function scripts:ShulkerMites/main 

Now, download the ShulkerMites file, and unzip in the scripts folder. Note that there are two folders: ShulkerMites and ST_PRNG.

All done with the files! To finish up, open the world, and run the command

/function scripts:ShulkerMites/init 

And you should be all set!

Please, if you have any feedback, specifically related to bugs or balancing, let me know. I'm unsure if 2 minutes is a good period of time, or if it should be longer or shorter.

First time scripts install download

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Edit: Also, many thanks to /u/TinyBreadBigMouth for checking silverfish behavior for me.