Create Mob Corpse

Is it possible to create a mob's corpse?
My line of thought would be to use a process similar to that of creating custom mobs:
Clone the Mob class, remove all pathfinding/AI logic and you should have an empty husk, right?
Then all that would be left is to "rotate" the mob so it lies on its side/back. Is this even possible to do?

 

You cannot rotate a mob I'm afraid, unless you're using a forge server (will require clients to use a mod in order to join)

 

@Feindbild @jeussa I don't think it's impossible. Hacky, yes. Can you do this with NMS? Honetly, idk.

I don't know if this would be possible in 1.7 though.

 

Does a mob have the sleeping animation?

 

@ChipDev Well you can put players to bed but I don't know if you can do the same to mobs using packets or NMS.

 

I found a "solution" that works at least partially for sheep, cows and pigs: calling it "Dinnerbone" and setting the name visibility to false.