An idea to suggest: make the skull decorations scare barbarians!

[Wastefield]

So, I have this nice collection of 37 skulls stored in a Barrel in my camp...
("No, it's not what it looks like - THEY were trying to kill ME! It was purely self-defence, you have to believe me!!")

Planning now to try those crafted skull decorations - I think there were the normal and "on-the-stick" versions? - to make my defences look more intimidating!

Then I came up with this idea that what if they could actually be of use as a deterrent to scare barbarians off? Say, a barbarian steps within a 1-2 block radius of the "scare trap" skull decoration, it sends him running off in terror! (and a while later he could even try to return a different way to avoid it after the first contact?)
It would even fit them - making them look primitive and superstitious, eh?

Could also add the Jack-o-lantern as an alternative that doesn't need those skulls beforehand.

[Wastefield]

Oh well, I put some "impaled skull"s (isn't crafted afterall, just an item placement variation) on both sides outside my gate and it seems to work fine just as well by drawing in those barbarians that are completely fascinated with smacking down the mocking decorations, so they leave my palisades alone, haha!