Hey! I am very new to modding and very very new to these forums.
What I'd like to do is add a new mob that is essentially a variant of a default vanilla mob. Say, for example, I wanted to make a new parrot that spawns in the nether and has a different texture from the original parrots but still retained many of the attributes and animations that the vanilla parrots have. Modeling and texturing is no problem, but outside of that, I am lost.
Is there any way to do this without completely rebuilding the mob from scratch. Once again I am new to modding and Java, so any help is very much appreciated!