How To Make Mobs Hold A Default Items

[SwiftyChickens]

I've been trying to figure out how to make a mob hold an item and render it but i couldn't get if to work if you know how to do this please comment

Also Thanks in advance

[Groxkiller]

If you do the above and it doesn't render it is because weapon rendering is only ever called if the mob's Render class extends/is RenderBiped. Simply refrence it in your own Render class if it doesn't extend RenderBiped. (It DOES have to extend at least RenderLiving to do this, however)