I need to put this at the bottom of all of my posts on these forums 
Also welcome! A lot of solid ideas here and many are things that we’ve bounced around a lot! So your head and heart are definitely in the right place.
Pets/tame creatures were one of the original ideas discussed so hopefully still something they’re considering.
Races have been explored in art such as in this devlog post
And I really like your number 5 and 6 suggestions! Keep up the great work!
Edit to include links to hunters and ground bashers (each word is it’s own link there), two of the potential future enemy types we might see.