What if Old Minecraft Mobs were Created Today?

[@TheRealStewpid]

Microsoft thirsting over the idea of fundamentally changing the creeper but not being able to because it's too iconic

[@jwalster9412]

I mean they already hurt some of the classic and iconic Minecraft features over the past couple of years, so I wouldn't be surprised if they at least try at some point.

[@Mega-Brick]

@@jwalster9412 It's all Mojang. Microsoft has been very hands-off with Minecraft's development, as per Mojang developers. They're the ones with the strict development standards.

[@TeeB-fc4ot]

I wouldn't mind that much, as long as they didnt change the shape. I would prefer them to make new creeper for other biomes, keeping the original one like they did with wolves

[@arkaua]

People really will keep forever blaming Microsoft for Mojang's decisions, huh?

[@xm214-aminigun9]

​@@arkauasame thing for Popcap and Ea. Ea wasn't the only ones in fault.

[@LanternLightexceptasavie-wq6gc]

if you make the spiders non-scary australia will ban the game. this has happened before. Teaching kids that spiders are ok and safe is NOT a thing mojang would want to do. because many spiders are indeed unsafe and dangerous. (a peppa pig episode was banned in australia because it told people spiders are safe and friendly)

[@QUBIQUBED]

his spider remodel has six legs... ew.... spiders are ARACHNIDS meaning they have EIGHT LEGS DID THIS GUY GRADUATE KINDERGARTEN!??!?!

[@yuviaro3511]

At the very least, make it attack or bite and poison you like Cave Spiders. Spiders are territorial enough and don't like being killed. Also, the way spiders hunt / have a home as ideas in this video feel too much like wolf spiders. I'd rather not have a brown recluse nest biome but it's the worst idea easily

[@n_art_cissist]

I remember that, cuz I’m sure British spider are safe but we have redbacks and funnel webs just chilling in our yard

[@allanorme2093]

Make it so they can be tamed but if they aren't tamed they act normally

[@chiyannadanielle5849]

Huh, interesting. I'd say having spiders be neutral mobs still would be good. They only attack if you attack them, though, not if they're in the dark. Because spiders WILL bite if they think they're in danger.

[@smpritchard]

Sculk "zombies" don't really mesh with the lore of sculk, which isn't actually an infection that takes over mobs, but more of a weird superorganism that feeds on souls and takes over blocks.

[@tanyapattersonjohn2846]

Roided out mold basically

[@niydfass1060]

I could see skulk infesting the bodies of dead villagers, much like the fungus in Last of Us. Although that does make curing villagers a bit odd.

[@vodooboy7772]

it still work in the idea if u think sculk create the warden from "soulmass" so it helps sculk collecting more souls how about if sculk tried other ways of creating warriors from the organism infestation like fungus

[@dfprod.]

true. but what do mobs have? souls. i can personally see it working just fine

[@observingeye9579]

@@niydfass1060 couldnt you just make mushroom-infected zombies then? mushroom biomes are already a thing + mooshrooms

[@PKMN649]

Hi. About chickens, they in fact do lay eggs without breeding that's what we eat, the unfertilized eggs they constantly lay if they are fed a lot. It's why we domesticated them in the first place. Honestly a more realistic change would be for feeding them a few times to make them lay an egg

[@t-eehee7057]

Tbh that would be kinda fun to do. MC farm sim

[@DanielPereira-ey9nt]

I think teaching children that spiders are completely harmless it's actually more problematic because of places where venomous spiders are a problem. Take Brazil for an example which ranks 4th in number of Minecraft players and is also where 2 very dangerous species of spider can be found throughout most of the country. The ministry of health would ban it immediately

[@n_art_cissist]

Same for Australia, we have funnel webs and redbacks commonly enough you’ll probably find at least one in your backyard here

[@tarynkottelenberg2732]

Yea I heard some episodes of kids shows were banned in South America and Australia because of this lol

[@auxin903]

Hey. Got news for ya: the U.S. (#1 minecraft users) has the most venomous spiders on the planet as well and both are extremely common: The Black Widow and Brown Recluse. The existence of venomous spiders, doesnt negate the lesson of learning to appreciate - not fear- them. People dont get bit because they were trying to cuddle one - they get bit when they aren't aware of their habitat and hiding places (such as shoving a foot in an old boot or a hand into a old stack of wood). People dont look up this kind of info about spiders because they are afraid of them and dont want to see or talk about them. Likewise we also dont talk about or prepare for things like Death, or snakes. Knowledge cant operate in the same room as fear.

[@Radical_Larry]

maybe minecraft shouldn't bear the expectation of teaching children things about the real world

[@Dabouse2007]

there was an episode of Peppa Pig that was banned in Australia because it taught that spiders are safe

[@P-i-n-h-e-i-r-o]

I see an issue with your rework of the spider. While it shows that spiders shouldn’t be feared, it doesn’t emphasize the need for caution. In regions like South America and Australia, there are large populations of venomous spiders. Making spiders fully passive might suggest that it’s safe to approach them. I’d suggest making them neutral mobs that attack back if provoked or if the player stays inside their hitbox for a while. Afterward, they would return to their neutral state, and adding biome-specific venomous variants.

[@MDDM_Poseidon]

And the spiders in the video have six legs… like cmon

[@skaithespirit1184]

I mean Cave Spiders exist. Why not just rename them to "venomous spider" and have them be a more aggressive variant that has that sort of defensive behavior? Its not like that *isn't* a feature in Minecraft already, Polar Bears don't actively seek out the player but instead attack if you get too close to them or their cubs.

[@tjpprojects7192]

I honestly hate your logic, and I've seen other people use it as well. NOBODY is stupid enough to look at a Minecraft spider and think, "Minecraft spider is friendly, therefore real-life spider is friendly". If that was the case, then GTA and Payday would have made bank robbering skyrockets, and PETA would be correct about Pokemon causing animal abuse. Neither are true. Plus, I can apply your same logic to other parts of Minecraft. In Minecraft, you can walk around a horse with ZERO issues, but in real life, if you walk behind a horse, there's a chance you could be kicked in the head and instantly killed. So is Minecraft teaching people that horses can't kill you? No, because nobody is dumb enough to think, "Minecraft horse is same as real horse". Your false kind of logic is what lead to the Firefly being removed from Minecraft, "pEoPlE wIlL fEeD tHeIr FrOgS firEfLiEs!".

[@mousedeer7837]

​@tjpprojects7192 I mean.....parrots were originally meant to be tamed witb cookies, but chocolate was posionous for birds, so they removed it..

[@krankarvolund7771]

@@tjpprojects7192 Australia banned an episode of Peppa Pig because it said that spiders are friendly. "Nobody is stupid enough" is a very bad logic applied to 3 years old media, and Minecraft target more 3 years old than adults ^^

[@jkcv_ncrew]

For the chicken, you could also add preening as their side thing to do (like how sheep eat grass occasionally). Where they clean themselves with their beaks, and when they do this they have a chance to drop a couple feathers in the process.

[@SawBSketch]

that's actually genius

[@RRandomStuff]

I’ve wanted this for a while now, although with the caveat that they need some sort of condition-such as standing on top of Haybales-to actually drop the feathers, otherwise thats just even more item entities that chickens drop. (Preferably I’d also want this for Eggs, which is actually possible with Datapacks now, yayyy!)

[@Wertyhappy27]

​@RRandomStuff perhaps even shorter despawn timer, rather than 5 minutes if not on hay, finding a wild chicken and then waiting for the feather after doing hay takes way less time then just, murder

[@therealTemitope]

Genius, that's so smart!

[@trued7461]

I remember in like Minecraft 1.6 I had a mod that added this and we ended up with a barrel of like 16k chicken feathers because we were constantly walking past and picking up an entire inventory of feathers

[@Robosium]

tbh as for silverfish: 1. not endangered 2. spread disease and risk food contamidation 3. are sign of unclean living space 4. most don't know they are real 5. would you rather have some fantasy cockroaches?

[@Zentailium]

Honestly replacing silverfish with roaches woud be a good move

[@eternadash]

That's Assuming Rational Thinking. Mojang (or microsoft) Is Not Rational.

[@genericuser984]

@@eternadash "fireflies are poison to frogs :(" "chocolate kills birds :(" "pandas are endangered :(" *The literal undead hordes, deadly eldritch abominations, freakish nightmare creatures, and actual dragon:*

[@FunnyFany]

​@@genericuser984those are meant to deter harmful behaviours irl, not for making the game "realistic"

[@greatandmightykevin]

@@FunnyFanyi was gonna go out and shoot some pandas in the zoo and ride some dolphins on my escape but thankfully i played minecraft and realized that both of these things were wrong :)

[@rileymahoney4118]

0:53 I'll have you know that I cared about the bat change DEEPLY

[@yoshicraft6470]

Same

[@C9LD]

same with the vex too

[@thewizardofozzie1668]

I haven't played Minecraft in a while that sucks I liked the old bat 😭

[@thespaceman4808]

Same

[@radiostoneworks9290]

Yeah new bat and new vex suck.

[@justadude450]

19:25 I think they should stay spiders so kids learn that not all spiders are OK. Like how Australia blocked that one Peppa Pig episode about spiders because there are a lot of dangerous ones over there.

[@spookyblook]

I think there should be multiple versions of spiders so kids can be educated on how to differentiate them, and be aware of which ones you shouldn't go near compared to ones that wouldn't harm you. Maybe some versions can have certain markings on their abdomens compared to the friendlier spiders, indicating that they're more dangerous.

[@JustAManOnTheMoon]

@@spookyblook id love to see a spider that runs on water like the fishing spiders we get near where i live!

[@robynthegemini]

I think for skeletons to be "Illager Constructs" it would be fitting if they kept the humanoid body but maybe had animal-skull heads? This would provide a more unique appearance to them, and you could say they were assembled out of various bones. The most classic of skulls used could be Horse skulls (my favourite) but you could also make them vary between each skeleton for that ramshackle-undead feel that'd make them feel a bit different from regular fantasy skeletons (which are largely human).

[@lyanbs4770]

I actually had a similar idea to this, where instead of constructs, skeletons could be the "failed" experiments of the illagers. Basically, think of them finding out about the undead magic, but failing to master it, and what comes out of it is a bunch of "re-animated undeads" rather than "reanimated pillagers".

[@Altered_Aether]

that sounds awesome!!

[@bbittercoffee]

That would be terrifying! Can you imagine a horse skull on a relatively human shaped body?!

[@alexhb7949]

@@lyanbs4770 along this vein, maybe skeletons could have randomized features like tropical fish

[@skapaloka222]

i like this idea, and you could swap out the skulls for different kinds of skeletons, like strays could have polar bear skulls, etc.

[@hiddendesire3076]

I also feel chicken nests should act as roosting locations. So that way in the night chickens would have a similar behavior to villagers and go to their nests at night.

[@skapaloka222]

i think in general giving mobs sleep cycles would be a good change ngl

[@nachgeben]

If you want it realistic, you wouldn't see the chicken leaving the nest until the eggs are taken or hatched. Otherwise, they would sleep in coops/on perches.

[@nickrustyson8124]

​@@nachgebenThat would be pretty good, make egg farming way easier

[@therealTemitope]

Smart

[@CLOWTISMS]

I would love that. I enjoy building farms and zoos :)

[@CyanSoups]

I actually thought of something for Squid, too. I think modern Mojang would make it leave behind a cloud when you go near it, and you would have to collect the cloud with bottles like dragon breath to get ink instead of killing them.

[@jwalster9412]

Make that ink toxic so it's harder to get.

[@Zentailium]

This is actually a good rework for them because oh my gosh it is beyond annoying to get ink sacks I would much rather just spamclick bottles on an inkcloud to get 8 of them then kill 10 squids

[@prcervi]

that would probably be more efficient use of time too (if you didn't want to build a squid farm)

[@RngGm]

Wouldnt they have done that for the glow squid?

[@maxezzy1282]

@@RngGm Mojang probably wanted to keep the glow squid consistant with the regular squid.

[@elisehalflight]

Respectfully, from the perspective of a Spider enthusiast, the spider rework was terrible, not only was it so separated from spider morphology and behavior that it stripped the mob from it's potential as an educational tool, it is also based in a poor understanding of how spiders work, from webbing to hunting. I think the best way to make spiders work as an educational tool would be to make variants based on actual real world spiders that showcase the difference in their behavior. And there are so many cool mechanics you can do with that. Weavers could make huge nests that would attract flying mobs (like phantoms) towards them to be trapped and eaten (maybe dropping the loot)? they'd retaliate if attacked but not bother with you even if you settle next to their nest, weavers also have quite intricate designs in real life so you can get whimsical with them and make them glow around the edges (which can also explain why they can attract phantoms to their web), you can even turn nesting into a mechanic by introducing male variants of the species, which would be small and helpless but if you escort them to the nest of a female spider they could lay an egg sack that then you can harvest and place somewhere else so it can spawn a new spider with her respective nest generated. (Or you can kill the spider and harvest the web, you do you.) Jumping spiders would be the cutesy ones, they also have quite intricate designs in real life so you can get creative with them, plus their big eyes would make them very approachable even if you make them big, you'd find them roaming around and pouncing on wildlife (maybe chicken) the same way wolves attack sheep, them being neutral to the player otherwise, making them tameable would be a no brainer, which could be done with meat or honey, as there is a species of jumping spider that developed a mutualistic relationship with acacia trees, feeding on the buds of nectar the tree produces. Actually making this variant native to the taiga would also make that biome way more interesting. Also they could drop string whenever they pounce on a prey, as jumping spiders tend to create drag lines whenever they make a jump. For the cave spiders if you want to be educational I think separating them from the real spiders is a bad idea, as others have pointed out, so I'd just make them more similar to actually venomous spiders like the black widow, funnel spider or brown recluse, while keeping the red eyes for fear factor. I think tarantulas should be huge and spawn them in nests covered with cobweb, making them a scary predator during the night and then making them return home at dawn, which would be covered in cobweb, a player who finds a nest during the day may be able to harvest the cobweb in stealth without waking the tarantula up, but if they accidentally hit it, the tarantula will wake up and attack both with it's fangs and by shooting the sharp hairs they have on their back (as they do in real life), alternatively if a player manages to sneak in a nest during the night, while the tarantula is out they might be able to steal a tarantula egg, that they may turn into an endless source of cobweb. There are so many more variants and I think they are all cool, and regarding something you said in the video, there is a species of spider that actually learned how to swim and builds a nest underwater that uses webbing in order to create a pocket of water, seeing those hunting fish and making nests that the player can use as respiration pockets during underwater cave exploration would be so cool, and of course making them fluorescent would add even more life to that biome.

[@gandrilyoseff515]

Agreed

[@t-eehee7057]

TRUEEEEEE. I just feel real life has so many inspirations for Spider variants and it's behaviour, it's so weird ppl are still think of them like they were an actual fantasy creature

[@peachr384]

You had me at tameable spiders 🥺

[@YujiUedaFan]

Also they have 8 legs instead of 6...

[@krinkovrequired9279]

Watching this video made me realize I would hate modern Minecraft's approach to old mobs

[@mousedeer7837]

I still think the old passive mobs still deserve animation, texture, and model expansions. Like maybe biome variants for the cow and chicken, like they did with the wolf. Like in spruce forest you could have the regular cow, plains has bison, savannah has buffalo, and jungle has Bali cattle and so on and so forth. Like I feel they deserve it.

[@t-eehee7057]

Tbf it's kinda obvious the guy still needs experience and there's better ways to approach those changes.

[@vinceontheweb]

He turned spiders into insects!? Why do they have six legs?

[@minimaster0328]

he literally did a "screw it this is too hard" when modeling it and ripped off two of its legs so theyd fit better

[@niydfass1060]

they all lost their fourth pair of legs at some point and kept trucking along i spose

[@superlagbro192]

And the cave spiders are four-legged, I suspect this guy might just hate arachnids.

[@feralporpoise37]

He just hates spiders

[@LemonbreadSC]

Also making spiders that big not at all a threat was not the play. It would be better to make them hostile if you were in their nest.

[@yureiotakughost9464]

I find it funny how the chicken update was amazing, all positive changes. Then the spider update entirely changed what they are and honestly put them on the level of pandas. They became "They exist ig" tier

[@benismann]

welcome to the modern mob design

[@Sebosek.]

How was spider "They exist ig" you literally have cobweb farming from them. Have day night cycle, fight with angry bees and making cobweb their home.

[@Kevoc_Studio]

​@Sebosek. Because that doesn't really fit the average Minecraft experience, the spider is already simple and perfect. Want strings? Here, kill some spiders on look for them in the mineshafts, want spider eye? Here, look! Spiders...and Witches ig. Having to go specifically to the caves to harvest string and spider eyes is more complicated, same thing with the cylce of the spider. Having it just spawn during the night is easier and fits with the fantasy theme of Minecraft, i don't see anyone complaining about changing the overall structure of the spider so it means it's virtually perfect.

[@theworthysoul]

@Kevoc_Studiohe did that because spiders are based on a real animal and nowadays Mojang’s philosophy is not making real animals hostile mobs. That said, I’d quite like if his friendly spider was added on top of the current one, as a more realistic spider, while the current one remains as an aggressive, less realistic fantasy creature.

[@sdaniaal]

The guy making the vid is living in the virtual world instead of the real one. Let him believe what he wants.

[@gaidencastro9706]

A thought: Hostile frogs that are two blocks tall. If Spiders get a pass for being hostile because they're much bigger than normal spiders, giant evil frogs would be cool.

[@josiebianchi3481]

Hell yeah, me and the homies getting murked by Beelzebufo tryna get our hands on Mangrove Boat With Chest

[@stm7810]

and they can swallow mobs including the player, but for players only if you're grabbed whilst jumping, in water or on a slippery block.

[@Old_Man_Miku]

the stone toads from metroid prime would be such a cool minecraft mob.

[@cd7677]

Alex mobs warped toads i really like because they eat the same mod's annoying mosquitoes

[@yes_and_so_what]

My mind immediately went to dont starve and how they can empty your inventory if they swarm you (aka spring time 8/7)

[@EvilGeniys]

This video perfectly describes Mojang's modern strategy for content implementation, the total dominance of visual- and narrative design over gamedesign, and the fact that the real developments of a large studio correspond to the average person's ideas about game development - very sad.

[@t-eehee7057]

Not really lol. This is just some guy attempting to do something that Mojang clearly understands it's not necessary. Be fr

[@A76noname]

The main takeaway I got from this video as someone who only sporadically follows what's happening with Minecraft is that Mojang's current design philosophy is extremely self-sabotaging, hypocritical and worst of all, incredibly *lame.*

[@sallytheuselessbird]

Yep. They better never change our old stuff.

[@sora2339]

The issue with spiders being friendly is there is precedent of games getting banned in Australia (especially considering their larger that house spider size) Giving them an incredibly small agro range might distance itself enough Alternatively you could make poisonous spiders appear similar to the new spider so some spiders are dangerous and others not Then have giant spiders (or crawlers) as a completely different third mob

[@eternadash]

I Think More Accurately Is Anything Being Banned If It Says Spiders Are Friendly. Understandably. I Live In What Is More Accurately Called Hell And I Have On Multiple Occasions Found Spiders The Size Of Large Plates Right Above Me As I Enter A Room. No Bueno.

[@stm7810]

heck that could be their names, British spider and Australian spider, British spider is the wimp who ain't bothering anyone, the Australian spider deals poison damage, has a chance to have potion effects like invisibility, speed or strength and leaves a web wherever it kills.

[@SirDemone]

What games have been banned due to spiders?

[@e-xmile1044]

@@SirDemone idk, but for example: There's one episode of peppa pig banned due to spiders being shown as friendly creatures.

[@russianvalkyrie2358]

​@e-xmile1044its rediculous because generally spiders are rather friendly even venemous ones. They dont bite unless they feel threatened. And often times they will try to run away and only bite when they feel they cannot escape danger. I can see why australia would have an aboundance of caution on the subject. But teaching people to not touch animals they cant identify would solve the issue truly.

[@dr.bentenjaminoctaviusocto1658]

Bees are not the only bugs. Silverfish are a real bug, and endermites are arthropods, but I think it would be close enough that moans would consider it.

[@venom_candy]

But undermites aren't real

[@dr.bentenjaminoctaviusocto1658]

@venom_candy I never said that, I just meant that they're another bug the spiders could eat

[@Beelzemon.]

i mean sure but silverfish dont spawn abundantly or really naturally. same with endermites

[@dr.bentenjaminoctaviusocto1658]

@@Beelzemon. That doesn't mean spiders can't target them. You could also bring a spider with you into the stronghold

[@justnoob8141]

@@Beelzemon.try mining, they’re EVERYWHERE, if you mining stone and it’s slow, go grab silk touch because that one is silverfish

[@stuckonaslide]

now we need to see new mobs in the old design philosophy. like warden just spawns in your basement and beats your ass.

[@amir_shaban_80]

LOL

[@B.L.U.S]

Oh so RL Craft?

[@devinonearth]

Hahaha

[@PomumExstInterdum]

The fact that all the music used is credited in the description is enough to earn a like. (the video was good too, especially the chicken part)

[@Alfimation]

2:25 the creeper *actually does* follow that rule, what mojang means is that like if a creeper blows up it will only blow up if a player is near meaning it was the player’s fault and it won’t blow up near anything else because that would cause the world to destroy itself

[@ryceq8578]

i was looking for this, that bothered me so much

[@swipefounddead]

Hi, bird owner here, i own cockatiels, so it may not be accurate, but I know MY birds “shed” (maybe there’s a different word for shedding feathers, but I don’t really care) feathers every once in a while, so the feather drops could just be the exact same as the old egg drops, also, spiders DEFINITELY WILL attack humans if they feel threatened, so I think making them attack after being hit would work, similar to bees or polar bears.

[@krankarvolund7771]

Yeah all birds shed feathers, and preen themselves regularly to get rid of old feathers and open the new ones. It's like you losing your hair ^^

[@yeet6362]

Not all spiders, i do live where there are some dangerous spiders, but, majority of spiders we have don't really do anything, at best, run away when feeling threatend. The Only time I've had a Spider square up to me was a random house spider and i didn't even do anything to it. It was so far away from me on my wall and i ignored it and lil bro came over to me in a fighting stance and i flipped out because, idk, it was freaky to have a random spider that is peaceful randomly try and start beef with me when i didn't do anything.😭 The only time I've been bit by was a spider was once and it was actually like, 3 months ago and i noticed the bite when i woke up, just, big ol knot where i would sit. Idek why honestly, they got on my bed and got rolled onto, not my fault they went somewhere they shouldn't. But, that's really it. Not every spider will fight. Making only some would make much more sense and have some just run away too, because just like humans, we run, fight or freeze up, spiders are often the same from my experience.

[@Kevoc_Studio]

​@@yeet6362 think it like this, you are a comically small creature and suddenly there's a fucking colossal titan in front of you, what you do? I'd run away, same thing with small insects but some spiders probably know their venom is potent or that specific spider was hatemaxxing on you.

[@m4xiyj3ssendirecto]

​@yeet6362 My house has a problem with wolf tarantulas, usually they don't do anything and we just take them out on containers, but this one time when I was 12 (around when the problem started btw) I was in bed, trying to go to sleep with my emo cringy thoughts and felt observed. My room was a long rectangle and the bed was at the end of it, 3 sides of it touching the walls. There was a light switch on the wall in front of my face, I turned on the light and turned around to see if there was someone, as I am turning around I see a spider, the size of my hand right in front of my bed. I jumped out of bed and called someone to help me, as I'm entering the room again I see the giant ass spider running towards me attack mode. It didn't bite me, but still to this day I feel the fear of seeing that creature running towards me.

[@B.L.U.S]

​@@yeet6362that spider woke up and tought it was playing shadow of the collosus

[@Feranogame]

14:55 cut to the goat, *the* oldest farm animal and they didnt give it a meat drop (to be fair it is mostly inspired by the mountain goat, which is not actually a goat, but still)

[@obi6127]

oh hey its ferano game

[@Feranogame]

@obi6127 OBI NO WAY

[@Clovenstone-Blue]

To be fair, adding yet another mob with a unique meat drop seems rather pointless at this point in time as that’s just another item to clutter ones inventory without any significant benefit to it (akin to how Hoglins were planned to have a unique meat drop which was later switched to pork chops. I don’t know if any of the existing meat items in the game would make sense for a goat to drop).

[@saltwatersiren]

ferano appearance...

[@Feranogame]

@@saltwatersiren No way that's the second one 😭

[@AzuRemilia]

I think it'd be neat if Spiders attacked Silverfish. That way they'd be great companions (pets?) for caving and mining since they'd detter them and potentially apply weaving to enemies? Also, non-lethal ways of obtaining food would be neat. Chicken have eggs, pigs have truffles (providing oil) and sheep and cows could provide cheese (sheep wool could be used to make a cheese cloth). In general, we could really use a food update bc we are missing so many basic foods

[@GoatHerdt]

Yes! And silverfish are bugs, as are endermites! It could even be a good idea to have them be neutral but tameable, like wolves! After all, people do keep pet tarantulas, so it’s not out of the realm of believability either!

[@stm7810]

also more fruit options, interesting fruit, like oranges which can be used for a sailing potion (scurvy pirates reference) makes you faster in boats and lets the front of the boat deal damage. or grapes as a luxury hard to grow can be gifted to lower villager prices for a day given statistics Minecraft has like 5 million vegan players and about 20 million more vegetarian players so options are good.

[@realtwovo]

​@@GoatHerdt tameable spiders would be a bad idea for the real world as spiders can still be dangerous. Would be much better if you could do a "spider in a bucket" and carry them with you.

[@hasanyigitsar6264]

we really dont need more useless food that's objectively worse than other choices in the game. we dont need the hunger mechanic in general but that's a whole other conversation...

[@theworthysoul]

Surprised they don’t already tbh. Spiders are effective silverfish predators in real life. Mojang should add more predator-prey interactions.

[@silvertears9395]

This only makes me realise how much minecraft nowadays seems soft. it's less about interesting amusing beasts, but to make it all soft

[@mousedeer7837]

Like imagine if goats, camels, and even frogs dropped meat!

[@t-eehee7057]

@@mousedeer7837 Honestly, I still want goats to drop some kind of meat. We already have mutton, and even Rabbit meat, idk why stop with goats.

[@t-eehee7057]

Didn't we recently get two beasts like the Warden and the Creaking? What beast did old MC had?

[@tibimarin]

ah, yes, my favorite educational game, Minecraft, where humans only need a 1x1 space with no food access to live and are happy to be part of forced labor.

[@jart1984]

Something something live in a pod eat ze bugs

[@SuperWiiBros08]

That creeper redesign is actually good

[@BananaBoog]

i like it too

[@joliealbury6936]

"Spiders are now fully passive." Australia: MINECRAFT IS NOW ILLEGAL

[@Etainytain]

omg yes it bothered me so much that he pretended like dangerous spiders don't exist lol

[@theworthysoul]

@Etainytaintbf there’s no spider in real life that will chase you down and try to kill you. All spiders only bite in self-defence, and some are more dangerous in doing so than others. He could’ve perhaps made them neutral and like llamas; in biting ones and inflicting poison when hurt, and then running off? Would teach people to respect them and leave them be but also not to kill them for no reason.

[@mrlampy]

5:40 skulkers (skulk is a verb like “shamblers” too y’know)

[@I_Stole_Your_Toast]

Bit too similar to Shulkers imo (not that Skulk wasn't to begin with, but hey ho)

[@Umbreon-ln7fe]

As an Australian, it is important that you teach kids a healthy fear of spiders here. Our dangerous spiders are not going to seek you out like a hostile mob, but you should still be wary of them.

[@zeanone9257]

Only few spider are venomous

[@Umbreon-ln7fe]

@@zeanone9257 Here you teach kids about the danger of redback and (when I was young) white tail spiders, because they're probably the most easy markings to spot for a non-expert. While no deaths have been confirmed to be due to spider bites since the 70s, I still want my kids to be aware and not to mess with things they don't fully understand and know how to keep themselves safe. Australia banned an episode of Peppa Pig for teaching that spiders can't hurt you and you should be friends with them. Clearly other countries with less common venomous species have an approach to minimise fear and hope to minimise phobias developing, but it's important to know that is not universally accepted.

[@WASDLeftClick]

I live in the American South and I grew up being taught that any spiders I saw in the wild here are safe except two; the Black Widow and the Brown Recluse, both pretty easy to identify by their color, shape, and size. Still, they’re uncommon ish and you only really have to worry in warm months.

[@YujiUedaFan]

I don't get why you can't have a spider farm where you milk them for their venom, which could be used on various potions.

[@HeavyMoonshine19]

This video has been… enlightening, and not in a particularly good way. I’ve always wondered why Mojang has been floundering when it comes to mob design for years now, and it just turns out that Mojang’s design philosophy is flawed. They’re not focusing on the right things; they desperately need to focus on functionality and usage instead of worrying about these borderline arbitrary constraints that only limit creativity.

[@bookwyrmbaneoftheplothole8500]

This times 100. He said it best when talking about old mob design. Why is there a cow in the game? Because it’s a survival game, you need food to survive. Why is there a skeleton in the game? Because it’s a survival game, you gotta have something to threaten your survival. Mobs were added to fill a purpose in the game, instead of being added and then a purpose found for them later if at all. They’ve gotta add back distinct mechanics to the game that actually give you a reason to interact with these mobs. Hell if you want to keep the naturalist angle for some of the real world creatures, give us a beast-totem system like potions or enchanting where you have to go find the creature in the wild and interact with it somehow to connect with the animal to get some kind of ability assigned to a totem item for later or something like that. Literally anything that provides actual GAMEPLAY as being the primary focus.

[@Klick404]

Hot take: I like how the creeper is designed. Minecraft is a game about creation, so it make sense for it's most iconic enemy to be a destroyer

[@ambientNexus]

Cool, that isn't relevant to the video. The entire point of the video is to show how Mojang's own design rules don't make sense with the earlier mobs.

[@Softcustomer2]

@@ambientNexus Makes sense since Minecraft was just Notch messing around with Java and had no idea it would blow up

[@tinyetoile5503]

You should play dragon quest builders 2

[@t-eehee7057]

we need more destroyers tbh

[@sudotto]

One problem with the new chicken model is that those tail feathers, are rooster tail feathers, hen feathers are smaller and straighter than the big curved rooster tails, this goes against the gender neutral rule, but it could probably be fixed by picking a design somewhere in between the two.

[@asmallphd9648]

the chicken lays egg

[@sudotto]

@@asmallphd9648 also the cow produces milk with or without having a child, honestly I think the gender neutral rule kind of just causes more issues with realism specifically for the animals, I've always thought the inaccuracy was weird, but I grew up and around on farms, so I get it if it doesn't bother some people :\

[@martinmethod427]

Separate entities for Hens and Roosters? Hens lay the eggs, and the Rooster roosts and fertilizes the eggs. Roosters would also Cuckoo every morning when the sun rises (probably conveniently when the player gets out of a bed after sleeping through the night). I’m going all Education Edition on this, I know…

[@KenikoB]

@@martinmethod427 Breaks the gender neutral rule

[@WASDLeftClick]

Wouldn’t the presence of a mix of primary and secondary sex features actually be perfectly in line with that rule?

[@197inch3wheelelectricforklift]

17:00 - Just because you forgot to add a 4th set of legs doesn't make spiders insects, Kazoo.

[@hotboxhearse]

also put the legs on the abdomen instead of cephalothorax lol

[@himynameishelen]

The reason new mobs don’t drop anything useful is because Mojang is too lazy to actually integrate them into the game long term; they exist only to be advertised as a new thing in updates to build hype; it clearly shows there’s an update when a new creature is shown in a banner/header image, while being completely useless/empty and undeveloped in terms of actually doing anything in the wider game. Nothing new effects anything we already had, basically ever.

[@ovite1240]

I'm sorry but that's not true. just see how bees interact with copper, or how the breeze interacts with redstone contraptions, or how pillagers interact with villages, or how piglins interact with...a fuck ton of stuff, actually.

[@Temac000]

⁠@@ovite1240 it isn't specifically about breeze or pillagers. Turtles' only purpose is to craft a single helmet, bees originally didn't had any interactions and honey blocks were originally another texture for slime blocks (until redstoners forced Mojang to make them unique), sniffers only function is to grow pretty but useless flower, goats are there to be pretty on mountainsides. And that's not even talking about polar bears which literally don't have any even the simplest interaction with anything else

[@ovite1240]

@@Temac000 i'm saying that stating "they only care about advertising the game rather than having to think about the design of the mobs" is a very wild statement when there are still plenty of mobs that interact with past features in different ways, even if i do agree some are pretty underwhelming (and to be fair, the polar bear is a old asf mob, and minecraft do have a lot of useless old mobs like silverfish and bats)

[@16m49x3]

@@Temac000 The goat horns are pretty cool to be fair.

[@16m49x3]

I know the glow squid has a lot of hate, but the glow ink feature is actually very useful.

[@alfredandersson875]

Spiders are not insects, and they all have 8 legs.

[@AceDestro]

0:21 **Zombie Pigman would like to know your location**

[@thorbcrafter997]

my thoughts exactly

[@prodin_20]

6:14

[@AceDestro]

@@prodin_20 I am aware, but he didn't mention it until then, and I still thought it was funny within the context of the timestamp lol

[@sirpootsman1048]

zombie pigmen aren't very iconic

[@DangerDurians]

For squids, the change would probably be like collecting dragons breath You gotta scare a squid, or feed it fish to make it ink, then collect that ink with an empty bottle

[@savviathan]

This video is SO interesting! I love your thought process and designs and you managed to mimic modern minecraft so well. Specifically your talk about creepers no longer matching the landscape really got me-and the texture change looked amazing. Real camouflage! But it also made me realize just how out of place all of the old mobs look in the new minecraft, which is so oddly… dystopian and a little sad! Minecraft has slowly gotten more “alive” in its concept over the years, which is really interesting when you realize just how lonely and sort of post-apocalyptic old Minecraft was. I’d be really interested in seeing a backwards version of this, making modern mobs into old Minecraft mobs. Really well put together video overall!

[@essurio]

I hope he'll do a reverse video as well. I don't really like the game anymore because of how they do the updates (a bunch of basically useless things that I wish I could really use in stuff, but they are designed to not be useful in the least, like the dino thing), but if I ever have the time I really want to make a mod that turns everything more similar to the game I fell in love with.

[@sourMaxipoo]

@essurio I know there’s an ongoing mod project that has the goal of going a sort of “alternate timeline” for updates that kept the beta feel, it’s called “Better Than Adventure”

[@stm7810]

everything would be meat or a killer that drops some mid tier gear, the end cities wouldn't be a thing, flight and enchanted diamond gear go against what the transphobic billionaire wanted. I prefer the complexity.

[@artturisairinen3255]

Another channel called ImNotaCasualty has actually made that video, though it's not as in-depth as this one

[@EdmundBombardieri]

@@stm7810 In a game like Minecraft, complexity ought to arise primarily from the player and their interactions with the world. Minecraft's more recent design philosophy has made their world itself more alive, but it has done so in a way that largely exists for its own sake, with little to no player input. It's interesting, but is often not as fun. Also, 2 things. First, enchantments were added while Notch was still present in a leadership role in Mojang, what are you even trying to say? Second, "transphobic billionaire" is not germane to the conversation, what is being discussed is the philosophy of game design, not the moral worth of the guy who began producing the game.

[@thathispanic]

Now you need to make "What if new mobs were made in the old style?"

[@Froggsroxx]

Mojang's new design philosophy basically prevents any interesting "normal" hostile mobs. The new ones are all very biome specific and limited which means they're basically not a factor for normal gameplay

[@Yuti640]

That creeper design is actually really good

[@BinghesHeavenlyPillar]

it's very recognizable but some aesthetic changes like making the colors less bright would go a long way imo

[@MysteryKar]

i think its very telling of mojangs design rules that this is just making the hostile mobs kinda worse, which isnt your fault, you were very creative with these and your ideas are well done, i especially love the visual redesign for creepers, but still also gotta love a fellow cunning ham stan, a cunningstan if you will

[@stm7810]

how is this worse? making skeletons only show up when you're closer to surround you from the ground, making cave spiders more dangerous, giving creepers and actual use, I do wish the pollen could chain though, that'd be cool since the griefing is player induced. perhaps still let charged creepers destroy blocks, but have a better drop so you can combine creeper spawning with lightning rods and channelling tridents.

[@Hemogg1]

​@@stm7810 all of these redesigns wouldn't be as iconic as the og mobs, even if they were added this way since the beginning.

[@stm7810]

@@Hemogg1 I don't want iconic, the Mcdonalds logo is iconic, I want fun.

[@Hemogg1]

@@stm7810 These mobs are Iconic for a reason

[@elliswebster7041]

@@Hemogg1what’s the reason?

[@wuhoh5277]

Silverfish rework: Remove them

[@randynimmons7583]

But shiverfish are real

[@F1zzee]

@@randynimmons7583 not when I'm done with 'em

[@wuhoh5277]

@@F1zzee ^ this guy gets it

[@emjakos3548]

Consider, 1. fill a hole with them 2. add poison and regen 3. watch them dig a hole

[@Sigma-m2y1e]

I forgot those existed

[@HaoHaki]

22:44 I'm pretty sure thats spreading spores not pollen but whatever

[@hedgehog3180]

23:48 Back when names were first added in Beta gunpowder was actually called sulfur.

[@slime-studios]

I think the animals kind of look too realistic, I mean look at the armadillo it’s literally just a cube with four legs, a head and ears but I love the concept of having mobs if they’d been made in the minecraft we know and love today, nice video def subbing.

[@Kat_Underscore]

tbf irl armadillos are just blobs with four legs, a head and ears too

[@prcervi]

that is just what real armadillos are kinda like, certainly more round than in minecraft but that's the only major thing

[@RedShadowAMV]

Completely unrelated but your avatar sona thingy has a really cool character design

[@NixityNullt]

8:25 actually this wouldn't work because Piglins and Wither Skeletons canonically have beef with eachother.

[@_aWiseMan]

Because the wither skeletons are specifically human skeletons. They hold their grudges. That's what's implied

[@bmprimer7809]

​@@_aWiseMan "even when only bones remain, my blood will still beat with my hatred of you"

[@yes_and_so_what]

@@bmprimer7809okay why does that quote go kinda hard

[@GoGoForIt]

@@_aWiseMan Honestly between the height and color, it always felt like wither skeletons could be enderman skeletons, even if that doesn't make any sense with how they behave.

[@captainobvious.29yearsago70]

​@@GoGoForItcolour? racist pigmen is Canon?

[@PasteIie]

ah yes. real life animals must be friendly. the stupidest rule in all of minecraft design that can be summed up with one dumb mob...the Polar bear. and yes I am taking this moment to vent because its been a thing thats been bothering me for literal months. Theres this thing with bears, a fun little rhyme. if its black fight back, if its brown lay down, and if its white, good night. Polar bears are genuinely the closest thing we have to a confirmed to be real horror movie monster. they can and will track down humans by scent for M I L E S, and are nearly impossible to put down before they get to you first, which means that if you see a polar bear then it has already seen you, smelled you, and probably has been stalking you for miles to make you into its next meal. I genuinely love these creatures but by GOD did they do them dirty in minecraft by making them only hostile when a cub is nearby, because polar bears only need an empty stomach to go full ride or die on hunting someone down, they are legitimate man eaters that we probably would've driven to extinction a long time ago if they were more prolific across continents and we had to deal with them more often, they are not the soft white teddy bears with teeth that the game makes them out to be. I appreciate the sentiment that they have with wanting to portray real life animals in a realistic way, but as a wise man once said, there is no church in the jungle and nature doesn't nurture kindness. not all animals are cute cuddly friends and a lot of them are extremely dangerous, and it would do people a lot more good to show them as accurately as possible even if it means they are aggressive enemies (Im looking at you tiger sharks). EITHER WAY! this video was awesome and I loved the concepts put forward here. very interesting thought experiment.

[@approximated_nerd]

heavily agree

[@zbignief2788]

a seal wrote this

[@thepanman3449]

Honestly the zombies and skeletons in the game give it a nice vibe like there isn’t anyone that looks like you as the player and it’s like you’re the last of a species trying to survive

[@CallofFreaky]

I think the idea is that wither skeletons are the remains of the people whose souls are in the soul sand. Soul sand has souls in it, wither skeletons are, well withered skeletons. And the wither is a combination of them both

[@elbuhogrunon8957]

this idea is great, maybe the wither skeletons only appear close to the soul sand areas in the fortress and have a chance to reappear when a soul sand block is placed in the nether

[@CyanSoups]

Some things *have* been overhauled, like Villager trading and Zombie Pigmen becoming Piglins and Zombified Piglins, as well as the ocelot becoming useless.

[@blackholeJ_Media]

Question Ive been playing this game For Years WHEN HAS THE OCELOT BEEN USEFUL?!?! Has it ever been useful? besides keeping creepers away? i dont think besides getting a cute cat that does nothing i dont think the ocelot has ever been used by anyone besides being on creative and putting them down next to creepers

[@littlehorn0063]

Ocelot has been just as useful as the wolves. Time for BTO, naj?

[@TheTrollyBlogger]

At that point, if BTW adds gregtech but not advanced, BTO is literally quantum computing in minecraft​@@littlehorn0063

[@voidedwinner1478]

Ocelots were untamed cats in the older versions. So if you wanted a cat you had to find ocelots.

[@tundra4331]

@@blackholeJ_Media they had a use, that is becoming cats. but now they are quite literally useless- without a use. the use doesn't have to be creative to considered a use,

[@twistedkitty]

I see a lot of praise (and rightly so, don’t get me wrong) but I see the design documents Mojang is currently working off of are the antithesis of Minecrafts original design and its charm.

[@TankieBoi]

The thing with Minecraft Zombies and Skeletons and cliches is... The zombies/skeletons in minecraft have kinda become cliches in of themselves. Minecraft zombies go "brrr" and green mean dumb mobs, while skeletons use bows and have aimbot. Goes to show how simply following a design book isn't necessarily everything, and might explain people's general disdain towards modern mobs

[@michaelwashboard2323]

Having the courage to challenge a design philosophy, or the rules from a brief allows more critical thinking to be a part of the game design. Mick Gordon, the music composer for the 2016 game Doom at a 2017 GDC panel talks about this very topic, and talks about how having the courage to do a different process leads to a better result. I would recommend anyone reading this to watch the video if you're both interested in these concepts, and the music behind Doom (2016).

[@VeeFerns]

in regards to an updated creeper design, we already got that in minecraft dungeons. and in regards to the slenderman point, no, slenderman's creator is was and continues to be an entirely anonymous 4channer making slenderman effectively public domain, slenderman didn't originate from the slender and the 8 pages game that was something inspired by the original 4chan posts just like every other slenderman thing that has been made

[@datrtzhush3734]

What are you on slenderman's creator isnt anonymous and it didnt come from 4chan It originates from a photoshop competition on the something awful forums and was made by Eric Knudsen

[@DreamBrover]

Slenderman wasn't made by an anonymous 4channer, he was made a Victor Surge, his real name being Eric Knudsen, on the forum SomethingAwful as part of a contest to create fake spooky story to trick those who believes in the paranormal and the 8 pages stuff while popularized by the game was an idea first used in the ARG / Found Footage webserie Marble Hornets that was created by Troy Wagner and Joseph DeLage just 9 days after the original post on SomethingAwful. The SCP Foundation was created by an anonymous on 4chan and it is effectively public domain through the Creative Commons License.

[@blueclouds315]

I expected you to just go "new minecraft bad old minecraft good" but you actually did a good job designing the mobs! Great video

[@dasoftieguy]

You actually could make Cave Spiders resemble real-life poisonous spiders so kids learn to differentiate them

[@KudoRedfox]

Venomous

[@LemonbreadSC]

Make it so Cave Spiders attack you when you enter their webs and not a moment sooner. It would be WAY more realistic!

[@dasoftieguy]

@KudoRedfox mb, english is not my first language so thats still something i find confusing lol

[@FrozenFennekin]

@@dasoftieguy if you did actually want to know the difference: poisonous things poison you when you bite them, venomous things poison you when they bite you

[@stm7810]

@@FrozenFennekin actually poisonous just means poison is involved you can also be poisoned by breathing, touching or being spat on.

[@ComicBoi11]

I really enjoy how you pointed out what “rules” are really just community perception/pattern recognition and what Mojang actually has as solid rules Also IS THAT THE ANTONBLAST SOUNDTRACK I HEAR????? Based af, but I honestly think that soundtrack jams so hard its hard to focus on the actual video lmao

[@gnbman]

I never realized how wimpy certain aspects of Minecraft are. (Still love it though.) I hope the current devs realize how much less popular it would have gotten if it had been designed with their modern rules from the start. I love your Creeper ideas.

[@The_Konester]

I don’t like any of your overhauls, but I think that’s good. You’re trying to shove old mobs with old standards into a new paradigm where they end up being overcomplicated and weird. Just goes to show that mojang really needs to go back to the basics and add normal video game stuff instead of trying to innovate on every niche idea.

[@coryinthehouse5250]

or Mojang just needs to finally admit that the game is done. they're adding stuff that feels like bottom of the barrel ideas. like they sat around a table and had a boardroom meeting desperately trying to come up with the next idea. archeology? copper dungeons?? like the game has been in development for 15 years. its time to say "its over. Minecraft is complete and all updates from now will be security and maintenance updates released on a as needed basis" to both A allow the studio to move on to other projects. and more importantly B, allow the modding community. on both java and bedrock to settle on one definitive and final version. instead of this new approach of their constant little micro updates that just brick everything on a bi-quarterly basis.

[@kuil]

@@coryinthehouse5250no, Microsoft needs line go up, and Minecraft players(the loudest ones at least) are constantly begging for more content despite it making the game worse. There are two things Minecraft needs, official mod support and updates making the existing features more intuitive and useful. There are so many random things added that do nothing and interact with almost nothing.

[@KenikoB]

@@coryinthehouse5250 Agreed, I don't even want to play anymore because they keep adding more stuff and I'm sick of having to relearn the game.

[@ovite1240]

@@coryinthehouse5250 Why would they stop updating a game that is clearly being profitable. Minecraft is still popular and as a game, it has room to grow pretty much infinitely with new structures and new biomes and such. And if you don't like any of that, you can play on a older version, so there's literally no harm in that. Also they wouldn't just give the game to the modding community (specially since we were proven time and time again that the community can be pretty stupid sometimes). Also how is archeology a bottom of a barrel idea, or copper dungeons? those seem like very reaseanable things to add. One would incentivizes exploration and the other incentivizes combat. Sometimes minecraft fans seem to be "I don't want new content into the game, SO NO ONE CAN HAVE IT!" when minecraft is one of the few games that literally lets you play the older versions if you want to, there's no harm in adding more stuff into the game.

[@heitorpedrodegodoi5646]

The problem is execs at Mojang fear change so you will end up with the most generic ideia to the game.

[@Something_Maybe]

Minecraft pigs look really cute with ears

[@Mikelaxo]

They should update pigs to make them look like piglins

[@mogusman3]

It might be the Minecraft fatigue talking, but I would love for your Creeper idea to be ported 1 to 1 into the game. It's dynamic, interesting, and keeps the same Creeper vibe while not being as annoying as the current version. Also, Boomflowers are a great idea for making gunpowder actually fun to get in multiple different ways, and the burst on harvest could be used for a lot of fun stuff. The only things that feel a bit anti-Minecraft are the duplication Creepers have, and giving players easier access to TNT, but everything else is fantastic!

[@funlandbuilder]

i hope they add more creatures that spawn everywhere in the overworld, nowadays everything is just like in one specific biome or structure

[@therealTemitope]

Idk about the spider change, its commonly that spiders only bite if you freak out. I would have kept spiders the same with them defending themselves and just get rid of attacking at night.

[@JinxeBlaq]

12:27 Honestly, it’s not very “Modern Minecraft,” to have things connect back to other mechanics in the game these days unless it’s a block or an ore. These days they kinda just make single use items and one and done additions.

[@ovite1240]

idk man, after the trails & tales update, a lot of features tie back into past features. like how the trial chambers have stuff like new pottery sherds and new armor trims (and the pale garden has a new ore for the armor trims), and they reworked how bad omen works as well

[@JinxeBlaq]

@ @ I mean. They’re just pottery sherds.. That adds nothing to improve the mechanic, it’s just another picture for the pot.. Also, reread what I said, I said unless it’s ore, or a new block, they don’t connect back to other mechanics much. You mentioned a new ore. Not a lot in recent updates greatly ties back older mechanics like this man did with the chicken. Maybe you can count Bad Omen, but were the ones figured out how to use them in contraptions, Mojang didn’t add it for that purpose. Usually new items and mobs are used to do one or two things, and usually don’t do much to add to old mechanics..

[@SamFam-dw5dz]

17:53 this is such an adorable concept ❤😭, I love how cute the spider looks in it's little web home

[@doot4246]

his name is dave

[@SashaDoesStuff-1]

@@doot4246spider dave better behave

[@leoschunn996]

That chicken redesign is so sick for gameplay, please make it a mod along with the crawlers and new creeper pleaaase

[@catkoicalico]

I know I'm not your chickenkeeping friend, but as a chickenkeeper myself... great job!! I'm now deeply sad minecraft chickens arent actually like this. The texture you made is adorable and I love the nesting mechanic. My one note would be to add things like hay bales and leaves to what they can nest in or on. Chickens will nest basically anywhere cozy. Maybe you could even add a priority list to what blocks they'll seek out, so players have even further control over where chickens will move to build nests with hay at the top, grass in the middle and leaves at the bottom.

[@johndexterzarate6663]

....It would be extra funny though if they'll peck you if you get closer to their nest while roosting

[@catkoicalico]

@@johndexterzarate6663 YOU'RE SO RIGHT ACTUALLY i've been bitten by one too many a broody hen to say that wouldn't be accurate

[@ShionWinkler]

The fear of spiders is not caused by video games, it is more primal and something a lot of people are born with. Our ancestors evolved to fear spiders and scorpions, and this has been passed on to us.

[@theworthysoul]

True, though media and experiences can worsen it sometimes. It’s a shame arachnophobia exists, spiders are often such chill little animals and their bad reputation and persecution as a result of the irrational fear is tragic to me.

[@tinyetoile5503]

Actually, there's almost no fears we are "born" with! Most of them are picked up from the behavior of people around us when we're young and impressionable. Another animal you might think we've evolved to inherently fear are snakes, especially since they can also be venomous, but an experiment was done where, when they stuck a bunch of babies in a room with (trained!) snakes, the infants showed no signs of fear at all.

[@coryinthehouse5250]

this video just made me hate how pussified the modern Minecraft design rules are. there is something inside me that just despises it when people (who did not make the original) set up rules that would prevent them from making the original idea that allows them to be in the situation they're in to begin with. like i get not teaching kids to go kill pandas and bees or whatever. but also, it's a game. who's average player is a 24 year old male according to google. not a 6 year old. the kids are playing Roblox and fortnight. not Minecraft, and the kids that used to play Minecraft are now adults who still play Minecraft on occasion. you can add more fun and interesting stuff. you don't need to treat the player base like preschoolers. because people under 15. only make up a little over 20% of the total active user base

[@marshalllee6376]

I mean, they’ve said that’s quite literally the exact they focus on mobs getting drops in different ways rather than killing them, because it’s more interesting to get stuff from says bees by making a bee farm than just bonking them once. Plus a big reason newer mobs don’t drop say meat is cuz, we’ve already got meat mobs every that give the best food already.

[@tjpprojects7192]

I kimda hate Mojang's, "friendly mobs" policy. It's like, I don't care if pandas are endangered, let them drop something useful like panda pelt. I don't care if bees are friendly, let them drop something like stingers for stinger arrows when killed. I don't care about dolphins, let them drop something that can be used in a swimming potion. I don't care about how the Warden, "sHoUlDn'T bE fOuGhT", make them drop something useful like an ingredient for a silent potion or something. Rabbits already drop paws, cows, chickens, sheep, etc drop meat. Stop with the mob safety crap.

[@shawermus]

Surprising how much i had to scroll down to find this kind of opinion. This video opened my eyes to the fact how much modern design philosophy of mojang completely sucks with no justification. Just because the basic needs were covered doesn't mean that you can't add more needs to the player. Make more unique loot that player would want to get, make more things that player would desire outside of building blocks with stupidly annoying acquiring methods. With creepers justification you could justify zombies breaking blocks by adding the most basic AND EFFECTIVE base defense methods.

[@stm7810]

killing an animal that doesn't fight back like a dolphin isn't interesting gameplay, sure the warden having a drop might be interesting but they're already guarding treasure and the dragon herself has the most useless drop in the game, even if pandas dropped pelts, congrats, it's another leather source when better armor already exists, poison arrows, already a thing, I'm sorry you only find fun in mindless violence and wish you luck in every other game ever.

[@tjpprojects7192]

@stm7810 I'm sorry that you're so insecure about a game where you're supposed to obtain resources by mining and killing mobs, and them build, that you completely write off an entire third of the game because you can't handle make-believe violence. If YOU don't want to kill dolphins in Minecraft, then YOU don't have to. But for those of us that want usable resources from every mob, YOU should not be the opinion that Mojang listens to, and if YOU don't want to kill dolphins but still obtain their items, Wandering Traders and Villagers exist for a reason.

[@stm7810]

@@tjpprojects7192 why would I kill dolphins who don't fight back when there could be a leviathan and teeth monsters in the sea to fight, I love killing for resources but I want the kill to be earnt, killing a passive mob is just hitting a slightly more annoying block that moves and screams.

[@MasterGhostf]

@@tjpprojects7192 Honestly dolphin is fine, it gives a speed boost which is useful for travelling. Pandas make no sense why they were added same with foxes.

[@LynxTheUnrelated]

I can't believe you redesigned a 9(?) whole mobs, with an additional few reworks to their behaviour! Most would just go for like 2 or 3, but you went for that many!? And all of the ideas are so well thought out, aaaa! The concept for the video was great and the execution for said concept was phenomenal! Amazing work! This video screams of passion!

[@JoviJoviJoviJovi]

This video is actually so incredible. I don't understand how you manage to hit every nail in the head with not just redesigning how each mob interacts with the player and world but also how you design the new looks of them. The chicken rework is top notch and that creeper design is so insanely well done. Great work!

[@Zentailium]

My only issue was the spider only having 6 legs but other then that these were all really cool mob redesigns

[@jacobgoodrich6984]

this video illustrates how Mojang's arbitrary rules suffocate a lot of good game design

[@stara6662]

You really thought this out and your designs are amazing! Well done!!

[@Its_me_6]

13:40 just let the player occasionally pull loose feathers off of all bird mobs with shears, not only letting you get them passively, but allowing you to get more exotic feathers from parrots and such, which can then be worn as headgear or used for potions.

[@mrult28]

I don't think Mojang would add that considering that chickens feel incredible pain when their feathers get removed in real life

[@theworthysoul]

@@mrult28better idea: using a brush like currently with armadillos to get more scutes. To imply you’re just brushing loose/detached feathers off (birds do shed!) and not plucking all the healthy feathers from the poor bird.

[@kcaBsretteLnevelE]

13:25 Are we going to talk about how Berdly's theme plays when chickens are being killed in various ways?

[@wantedbird55srandomchannel28]

Lavagrave

[@thematriarch-cyn]

*throws chicken into powdered snow*

[@lettibates2412]

I mean, you have to melt the frozen chicken to get normal chicken

[@Billbobs678]

Watch what happens when i cast a spell i dont know...

[@lettibates2412]

@Billbobs678 alternate, ending she snow graves herself

[@RockylarsYT]

I think the frustration of a creeper makes Minecraft unique. It is avoided in terraria due to it being more work to build and mobspawning being hard to prevent especially during events. Removing creepers just removes the intensity that we all remember.

[@Daniel-jm7ts]

I dont understand why mojang is so strict concerning how real life animals are depicted in the game. If they are worried that kids are going to copy their game behaviour regarding animals on real life then they would have to redo most animals. For example the polar bear is one of the only animals that would actively hunt humans yet the game depicts them as neutral? Or you can literally tame wild horses by just climbing on them? Do that in real life and you will get your jaw dislocation

[@marshalllee6376]

So are they strict or not cuz u said they are strict then said times they were flexible with their own rules

[@Daniel-jm7ts]

@marshalllee6376 yeah my comment is kinda shit i guess my point is that mojangs design philosophy doesn't make much sense since it restricts most of the new mob design while also not applying at all with the older ones anyways

[@marshalllee6376]

@@Daniel-jm7ts doesn’t really restrict new design either they have axolotls fight the undead and camels have a super dash ability

[@Inkyink]

Based use of Grimm's Hollow music. Genuinely caught off guard once I recognized it.

[@misterbigspoon]

amazing video as always, great ideas and you made them look really good!

[@kaelanimacoes]

I really love your Creeper idea, kinda wish it was real tbh

[@octanproductions6492]

Minecraft probably wants to change the creeper texture to blend in like it used to because that's the texture of it in dungeons and legends but are scared of backlash Also they justify the fact iron golems don't attack them because of the no mob damage without player input Technically being too close to a creeper IS the fault of the player

[@skyt-cl4si]

18:46 Silverfish: Am I a joke to you?

[@Opal_TheGoat]

Tbh I love the Creeper design, but the Skeletons and Zombies are my least favorite. You still could make them villagers!!! Just check Minecraft Legends, it does show them being Villager/Illager like in appearence, just with a Iron Helmet to not die in the sunlight (Which can be removed for enemy purposes for base Minecraft)

[@muimega8523]

"ever been removed or even changed" MY ZOMBIE PIGMEN LIVE ON, NEVER FORGET!

[@slappybio1686]

yeah, they just got plastic surgery

[@basically_boring]

I just want them to update the animations to fit with modern mobs. Like if you were to put a frog next to a cow, it is very clear how different their joints move.

[@Drawceress]

My only problem with the new mobs is how they are usually far more detailed and animated. It makes them feel out of place in their own game. Seriously why is the camel animated far better than the horse? The lack of consistency bothers me

[@thekailwolfsinshow8374]

ngl all you did was prove that old minecraft is better than new minecraft objectively

[@LandyRShambles]

I'm thinking Squids could literally "taint" water blocks with harmless ink, and these ink pockets could be harvestable with a glass bottle, restoring the water color. You could also make this work with buckets - imagine bucketing some glowing water for a fancy build. You'd maybe have to tiptoe around the idea of infinite ink sources, but ink isn't crazy useful, so maybe making it THAT renewable would be fine.

[@somethingforsenro]

for squid, since a lot of the most commonly found squids are shallow-water creatures and they also have a reputation for being highly intelligent, i think it'd be fitting for them to be at the heart of a beach update. you could add an in-universe reason for the nautilus shell beyond conduits, and have squid (and glow squid) occasionally wear them as a piece of armor. (it is accurate, after all, that some species of squid will use shells and other things they find to protect their squishy little bodies - though they usually don't WEAR them.) squid are also generally predatory animals, so they could hunt cod and salmon for food. just add passive respawns of those mobs so they don't... y'know... all die. maybe the fish mobs could spawn in mainly rivers, and the squid mobs could spawn in only oceans, and the fish regularly move from river to ocean biomes, where they breed but are also hunted by squids. squid could also be hostile to the notoriously annoying pufferfish (so could dolphins, for that matter), and while the two battled, squid could avoid getting poisoned by squirting ink at the pufferfish. ink could be an underwater projectile that gives blindness and slowness, allowing the squids to attack the prey directly. when ink projectiles miss a mob, they float to the surface as an 'ink slick', which can be harvested with a bottle to get a bottle of ink (an equivalent to ink sacs). the same could be done with glow squids and glow ink, though they would instead interact with cave creatures. maybe they'd hunt a new fishy animal unique to cave biomes called the cavefish? that's a real category of fish - we could make it pale white and blind, design it after the northern cavefish. it could be hunted by axolotls, too! and as for the hostile mob... individual guardians (but not elder guardians) could spawn in flooded deepslate caves, and glow squids could gang up on them to use their prismarine shards as armor, just like normal squids wear nautilus shells. they could hunt guardians like piglins hunt hoglins! most common squids are also a lot smaller than they're depicted in game - so small, you could carry them in buckets! that includes glow squids, too, so if you wanted you could bring a bunch of glow squids to an ocean monument. they could hunt the local fish to regen health, then fight the guardians, creating renewable glow ink and giving a little more reason to go back to an ocean monument after it's already been looted.

[@Acronta101]

'I made string harvesting from spiders ethical by momentarily drowning the spider every thirty seconds'.

[@TheGateShallStand]

Zombie change kinda sucks ass, also give the skeleton their bow back. You've just turned all of the Chickens into Hens instead, you didnt change anything. Also, the snouts look kinda mid, and the requirement for a nest is unbalanced and shit. All this means is that theyre just gonna breed pigs instead lol. Ever single thing you have done to the spider is a sin, and i wish for you to rethink your life. (Especially because real spiders will bite you if you try and hit them, and thus they should poison you to death.) I will end my life over these creeper changes. Its true, you've changed a lot without doing anything meanigful, and also made the game experience more needlessly tedious. You have perfectly recreated the Modern Mojang experience in this video, thank you for the insight, and great video.

[@9hoot789]

Summed up my exact thoughts.

[@hasanyigitsar6264]

✅️✅️✅️

[@fragrantshirt6302]

Least miserable Minecraft fan.

[@TheGateShallStand]

@@fragrantshirt6302 Have you ever considered that you can be comfortable with being incorrect.

[@GetPsyched6]

You sound like a boomer and an edgy 12 year simultaneously. Congrats.

[@WASDLeftClick]

I would change Creepers to drop sulfur, change the name of gunpowder to black powder, and give it a shapeless crafting recipe of 1 sulfur, 2 charcoal, and 2 bonemeal to yield 5 black powder. Keep TNT’s recipe the same.

[@VeryRGOTI]

The creeper idea is very nice and i'd accept it as some weird branch of "less destructive" creepers that spawn during the day and peaceful mode. Maybe even cut down the damage if it gets re-purposed as a weird evolution of creepers that explode to spread their seeds, but for that they need their old extinct of blowing something up.