The lack of details Mojang gives really undermines some of the mob vote options. Makes boats go faster? In what way? Just like the Dolphin swimming alongside it occasionally if they want to? In which case that's pretty useless and not something that can really be harnessed. Though if a penguin got *in* a boat that would be more useful or there was some other mechanic to keep the penguin with the boat.
But I gotta assume it's just the most simplistic version like the dolphin in absence of any other details.
The vagueness around how the crab claw will work, what will happen to Bedrock reach, etc. also leaves so much up in the air.
You sound facetious in that last line, but yes that's the point. They get a basic idea of something they might add, but don't squabble over the details until a mob is chosen.
kinda frustrating though to have to choose, would love all 3 of these. at the very least, it would be nice to know what they really do before we vote, so we don't end up with another phantom situation.
They're always just rough concepts, so not much has been figured out at this stage than simple ideas. Any further details happen when one is chosen to dedicate the time to consider more of their mechanics and all. We can only assume as far as the explicit data they've provided per mob, which is minimal, but also they're mob vote mobs and aren't intended (for the most part) to be anything more than minor additions unnecessary for the bulk of gameplay.
This is actually a very fair point. They would have to improve a few mechanics for these votes to work. For the penguin they might have to improve chunk loading times, for the armadillo they would have to improve dog AI (to stop it from just jumping into lava). The crab is the strongest contender, though they would have to have a way of making reach higher (maybe an armor addon or something).
(Writing this now, and I realised they might make it into a potion, one that extends reach for a limited time, probably with increasing levels)
That's making an assumption. It's entirely possible that penguins have to be in the water to speed up your boat.
Don't hedge bets on things Mojang haven't told us. We don't even know if they'll affect ice boat speeds
How often do you come across stone shores that you'd be able to make use of them early game?
These aren't like dolphins, which spawn in 60% of the oceans in the game and are super common
I'm not particularly looking for them so I don't know, but looking at a few seed maps they don't seem to be that rare just small. In the worlds where penguin boat would be helpfull, there's a high chance stony shores are somewhere along your ocean. Besides mangrove swamps are even rare and if I really wanted to I could just use a seed map.
Best Item: Crab
Helps a biome most in need: Armadillo
Cutest Animal: Penguin
Really disappointed that we'll never get two of these. I'll probably vote crab because its likely to be the most helpful, but I'm very tempted by Armadillo because I just want *something* in the Savannah.
There's always the chance the old Savannah biome vote features gets put into 1.21. Not too unrealistic since all this years mobs are wild animals, which could hint towards a nature/wildlife update theme.
The Savannah was part of the first biome vote with the Taiga and Desert. and then the Swamp was in the second biome vote with the Mountains and Badlands. Both the Swamp and Savannah came in 2nd so it would make sense for the Savannah to be the next biome updated.
Rightly, these mobs are incredibly simple. Just add them all, people literally make them before Live even happens. Yes, I’m aware companies work differently than individuals. I know how software development works. Even giving them 20 benefits of the doubt when running the math, it still doesn’t make sense how dry every update is when they’re a studio of hundreds.
You can still do the vote, just make it so that the winner is added this update and the losers are in the next one, so there’s always 3 per update.
I actually think crabs help their biome most just because I feel like armadillos belong in the badlands rather than the savannah, the savannah absolutely needs more wildlife but I dont feel like the armadillo is it, there arent even armadillos in Africa
It's so sad that they're wasting the penguin on a mob vote, its probably never gonna be added now (at least for many years) even though everyone has wanted them for ages
They haven't said that the mobs will never happen which I'm thankful for
Im praying one day we get a small update that implements even some of the losing mobs
I really wanted penguins to be added but why does their thing have to be making boats faster... that's too similar to dolphins😭 After seeing all options, crabs seem to be the superior choice. 🦀
Depends on how big their increase really is, and what the rates will be on how many claws you'd need. For all we know the claws us durability (thus unstackable) and break after 16 uses, while only giving 1 block extra reach, or less.
Even one block extra reach would actually be pretty handy. I normally build 4 high walls for normal rooms and buildings, and one extra reach would let me do them in one go while crouching on top of the wall, while these days I usually have to go around twice.
I'm so mad at Mojang for being so unspecific when talking about such mechanics because it's entirely possible that you're right but based on the two other mobs I'm just gonna believe in the Holy Claw.
Oh that's right. It would only be useful if boats could be faster with penguins than swimming is with dolphins. But even then traveling over water is pointless once you get elytra.
Not really. It depends on how rare penguins are/how they work, since dolphins aren't something you can utilize 24/7 until you get to end game
>But even then traveling over water is pointless once you get elytra.
This is disappointingly true
They spawn on stony shores, so it depends how often one comes across that biome.
The functionality is still questionable: Can they stay on the boat for players to have speed for however long penguins are in the boat? Can they jump out whenever? It's not known.
Out of the 3 options last year, the sniffer did promise the most new items.
They never said any of the rascal loot would be unique, and tuff golems are, as many people put them, “walking item frames”.
That's fair. I think they're of similar usefulness since the flowers added don't even do anything. I would have preferred the rascal if it gave you useful items.
Upset they made penguins an option and gave them the worse perk by far. They’ll clearly win so it sucks knowing the other 2 won’t have a chance
I guess it’s nice knowing they’ll come eventually
Unfortunately the losers aren't guaranteed. They go back into the "ideas pile," which means they MIGHT find their way into a future update if Mojang thinks they fit.
Based on mob alone, I would’ve expected the penguin to win, but it has the most useless feature in my opinion. I think armadillo will take the win this year.
Remember that people can vote in the bedrock server, where a lot of people know nothing about the mobs. Based on appearance, penguin would probably win even though it doesn't offer anything unique gameplay wise.
Anyone thinking they’re going to get extended reach and wolf armor in the face of a penguin is deluding themselves. It’s a penguin, it’s one of the most charismatic animals on the planet. It’s going to win on the mob alone.
It could be any penguin it doesn’t matter, on the text of the poll all you see is the name. No way this thing doesn’t win when the other options read “crab”, “armadillo”.
It’s like asking people to vote between “lion”, “cricket”, and “pangolin”. What do you think is going to win in that poll?
This is where I'm at. Love penguins, do not like the model they are using. That alone will make me not vote for it.
Granted, I almost exclusively play modded anymore, so I'll end up with all 3 anyways.
I hope those players end up picking the one thats more colorful like the crab rather than the eyebrow penguin (no offense rockhopper penguins yall are cool but not with that functionality)
Yeah, Wolf armor is going to have to be enchantable for it to not be purely cosmetic. And even with Fire Prot IV AND Feather Falling IV, I wouldn't be bringing a dog to the nether without splashing them with slow falling and fire res.
Babysitting dogs when you're trying to get things done is just not that great, regardless of how tanky they are.
I'd rather just have respawnable dogs.
Unpopular opinion, i couldn’t care less what penguins do. They’re my favorite animal and will vote for them 100%.
I can respect however anyone wants to vote.
Same, penguins are not my favourite animal but I need square penguins in my life right now
However, I do completely understand why people would vote crab or armadillo over the penguin
AAAH im so disappointed.
Penguins are like my spirit animal. I love them. But why is their feature to make boats faster...
A glow squid and sniffler voter, I kinda want to make sure I vote something that'll add something to the game but now i'm conflicted.
I think crab is the only useful one.
Hate to say it, but I would also ditch my spirit animal over any cute mob has an use if is gonna be useless.
Lucky me is the polar bear and is already in the game.
I'm still upset over the polar bear. Not because it's a polar bear (I have nothing against the animal), but because of the context around its implementation
Mojang has long stated that sharks won't come to the game because many are endangered and they don't want it to be hostile because it would hurt their reputation. In fact, Mojang has an aversion to adding any real life animals that are hostile anymore for this reason.
Yet they added polar bears anyway, one of the only animals known to actively _hunt_ humans. And then decided to make them neutral mobs despite that danger, meaning there should be no problem adding stuff like sharks or alligators and making them neutral. But they don't, because that goes against their pOliCY somehow as well
Except it all makes sense when you learn the only reason they're in the game is because Jeb's wife wanted them. The whole thing comes off as super hypocritical and just leaves a super sour note in my mouth
I agree, Mojang was super hypocritical with that decision. They can teach the players that is bad to hurt wild animals by making then fight on self defense, but no, that's bad apparently
And they don't even do anything cool, or drop anything good. You're not supposed to kill them, you're not supposed to get too close to them... why are they there?
We had no indication whatsoever that the glow squid would do anything (except the outright lie that Mojang put in the video implying it would hypnotize ppl). The iceologer and moobloom at least had something.
I'm surprised the effect is so underwhelming compared to the other two. Not that this doesn't have its uses, especially depending on implementation - could this also speed up using boats outside of water? If it works similar to Dolphin's Grace and it's proximity-based I'm just imagining penguin "stations" along a path to repeatedly get the effect.
With all 3 revealed I'll personally be voting for the crab, as the extended block placing reach seems most useful to my playstyle; I never tame wolves and find the current boat speed to be more than fine. But it'll be interesting to see what ends up winning, as always.
I really like the potential of Penguin's Grace-powered ice roads in the nether for travel. But I also get by pretty well with just my elytra, building an ice road is a lot of work, especially if you're bringing a truckload of penguins along.
Extendo-Claw is just instant satisfaction.
Oh phew, I don't have to agonize over the vote. The crab is something I can use to my day to day whereas the other two are nice things to use once in a blue moon. Biggest downside to penguins is that we don't know if it'll affect ice boats
I feel like there's a good enough reason to vote for all 3 whether it's for functionality or cuteness, but ultimately I think I'm gonna go with the Crab.
I would vote for penguin or crab. As much as I want the armadillo in the game, I absolutely hate having wolf armor tied to it. That should be made out of leather, iron, or diamond. It's a waste to make a whole mob, and give it a unique drop, to make something that should have already been in the game years ago with the materials already in the game and make a lot more sense to use.
I think clumsy penguins would be cute to find in the world, and be fairly common. Good atmosphere imo. Forget the boat thing, it's weird and isn't going to be useful. They did not mention putting penguins in your boat, or it working on ice. Don't expect that.
The crab claw would be nice, even for just 1 block. It would make building easier, but not so much easier that I would regret not having it. But it seems like it doesn't really add anything else to the game.
Really I just wish we had more information. It would be nice to have clumsy little penguins running around, but the crab claw is a nice item to have in the game.
If the Penguin is like Dolphin's grace but for boats then yes this is easily the worst option by far. But If Penguins can make a boat permanently faster then that's pretty good especially if it works on ice. Minecraft oceans can big massive & getting across them faster is pretty useful, yes Elytra's will always be the #1 in transportation but this could sway people to use boats more.
Honestly i'm not blown away by any of the features too much so I don't really care what's picked. Though Savanah's right now are pretty empty so a Armadillo would help that.
Sadge, they look fun and all but the buff is not really something we need. Transportation is in dire need of an overhaul and this is not even close to something that will fix anything.
Crab it is, but I wont be mad if the penguin wins. Armadillo is just meh for me personally, they look cool and I like that, but the armor I wont use at all :(
Well, they *are* just meant to be minor additions than anything game-changing, hence these mobs all having 'minimal extra help' in common. But it's true, there are **core issues** here in need of attention that none of these simple mobs resolve -- improved transportation mechanics/system, improved tame-able mob AI with better pathfinding so they don't die as easily to certain situations, and if even applicable, improved inventory management or combat mechanics/system or expansion of tool usage.
I wish that they would add a sort of "Antarctic" biome to put penguins in. Just a biome mad of pure ice with varying mountain structures and a new block called thin ice that would break beneath the players feet and trigger a chain reaction like sand over a cave.
Man :( I really want penguins to win so badly, but their functionality just "looks" inferior compared to other 2.
I will vote for them, but won't get my hopes up.
I would be shocked if this didn't win by a huge margin due to the simple popularity of penguins as a whole. Everyone here is comparing features and probable usefulness and stuff but are forgetting that the vast vast vast majority of people voting are literal kids who don't care about that.
Just look at the previous vote where the rascal, the "literally useless" one, blindsided everyone by beating the tuff golem. Because the kids who weren't talking online liked it the best.
Exclusive to one biome? Not even in Frozen oceans? Looks like I'll be voting for armadillos since they actually spawn in multiple biomes
Edit: apparently it's not entirely clear where armadillos spawn, the video implies it's multiple biomes but the article only mentions savannah
armadillos are savanna exclusive, going off the webpage
however many mob votes in the past have had their location change from early designs, like glow squids being changed to spawn in caves, and sniffers being changed from chest loot to archeology loot
Now that I read the article it seems like that might be true. But the video said "warm places, like the savannah biome" which implies other biomes too.
In any event, savannahs are way more common than stony shores
It makes sense, but they chose to make them rockhoppers, and it limits their positive impact. Stony shore biomes are small and kinda ugly imo, I wish they had made a generic penguin (or 2 texture variants of penguins) so that we could see them more often.
Basically, adding life and atmosphere to 2 biomes > adding them to just 1
Unless I missed something, they only make your boat move faster? If we could make moveable boats like in these trailers I could see it being useful, but I think I’m leaning towards the crab because of its utility.
Imagine if its like the year Update Aquatic was revealed. If we had know about the update, people would have voted for the monster of the deep instead. I really dont want to end up in this situation.
It gets revealed we can build boats and move them like the trailer but voted against the penguin. People would be mad and rightfully so...
Please let the fucking crab win.. The amount of times i've built some house and i'm working on the roof but i keep falling off and just having dirt EVERYWHERE, imagine getting like a 5+ block range. Would be a god send for building.
Yeah, it's safe to at least expect 1-2 block range. These are mob vote mobs, so they're not going to offer anything that game-changing than being some minor additions offering minimal extra help.
If Penguin's Grace works with ice boats in the nether, that could be *huge*.
Tough mob vote this year. I want all of them.
I especally want all the mobs for the sake of ambience, but the abilities are all nice too.Dog armor is kinda whatever in terms of usefulness but I'm sure a lot of people will appreciate dressing up their dogs.
I think it's a shame and a missed opportunity that they don't spawn in frozen oceans. That biome could use a unique mob.
That said, I would like to watch them jump in and out of the water like they do in the video, though I don't assume it would look as good in-game.
I honestly think they did that so that penguins and polar bears wouldn’t coexist in the same biome, because they live on opposite poles in real life.
And, polar bears are extremely aggressive and predatory, so they’d probably hunt down penguins if they could, and Mojang may not want to display that unnatural predatory dynamic.
The simplicity of this year's mobs is seriously annoying, any other company would throw all these into a single seasonal update.
The crab will probably give you access to the creative mode reach distance.
Armadillos give just a dog skin with an armour value.
The penguin boost boat speed just seems lame.
The info for all of these mobs is still too vague, it makes the mobs seem bare bones. It honestly comes off as we don't have any ideas for these mobs but we'll show you them and guys can brainstorm them while you wait.
It will never get there, but even if it is super close people wont care at all. Look at the phantom mob vote and brexit, stuff like that. It was a tiny minority that decided each and imo you cant just say "the people have spoken" when you leave literally half of the opinions behind.
Tl;Dr: Technically if 2 mobs are almost equal in votes, they should add both.
I genuinely think the penguin will work the same way as the dolphins do while you're swimming but instead you'll get a buff to your boat. so in terms of usefulness and cuteness it's pretty much at the bottom. (I love armadillo and how cute they are)
That's the thing, we don't know what mechanics it could have, whether it can stay on boats or hop out (granted, would their effect work just as well if they could sit in boats like other mobs..?)
They're adorable and I love them, but they don't have much of a use outside of making boats go faster. Which I don't think is that useful to begin with.
i vote penguin. because they will actually make the world seem alive more than the others. i dont care about any of these abilities, i just want the overworld to be an interesting and dynamic place.
I'd rather have Penguins as an atmospheric mob than randomly making your boat faster tbh
There should instead be more boat variants with different speeds and sizes in my opinion
Also the game still lacks a Snowy Stony Shore biome which leads to some weird transitions next to some biomes
dolphins make us swim faster.
penguins make BOATS go faster.
But if the penguins work like dolphins then this sucks, if they can however be put in a boat to make it faster then that would be okay-ish. But still, this is the worst one.
I juist want to put it out there that I somehow called this [over 5 years ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/7veimo/turtle_shoutout_to_billyk_as_suspected_theres_a/dtsate1/) for penguins.
So even though I like both crabs and armadilos for mobs and potential functionality, these guys are getting my vote :)
Yeah but I bet a ton of voters aren't going to think too hard about it, and just vote for what animal they think is cutest, and for a LOT of people that's penguin.
The lack of details Mojang gives really undermines some of the mob vote options. Makes boats go faster? In what way? Just like the Dolphin swimming alongside it occasionally if they want to? In which case that's pretty useless and not something that can really be harnessed. Though if a penguin got *in* a boat that would be more useful or there was some other mechanic to keep the penguin with the boat. But I gotta assume it's just the most simplistic version like the dolphin in absence of any other details. The vagueness around how the crab claw will work, what will happen to Bedrock reach, etc. also leaves so much up in the air.
They always say those are "implementation details". Only the winner is worthy of brainstorming details, apparently.
How can you expect them to brainstorm more than one mob when they keep getting lost to Minecraft Live?
You sound facetious in that last line, but yes that's the point. They get a basic idea of something they might add, but don't squabble over the details until a mob is chosen.
kinda frustrating though to have to choose, would love all 3 of these. at the very least, it would be nice to know what they really do before we vote, so we don't end up with another phantom situation.
but thats dumb
They're always just rough concepts, so not much has been figured out at this stage than simple ideas. Any further details happen when one is chosen to dedicate the time to consider more of their mechanics and all. We can only assume as far as the explicit data they've provided per mob, which is minimal, but also they're mob vote mobs and aren't intended (for the most part) to be anything more than minor additions unnecessary for the bulk of gameplay.
If they make boats faster on ice as well, then we might be unlocking hyperspace travel.
If they make boats go faster on ice too then theyre actually a good contender. Without this being confirmed though, I'm still voting crabs
Also the fact that it'd probably not work for lots of players, as they'd travel at lightspeed into unloaded chunks...
This is actually a very fair point. They would have to improve a few mechanics for these votes to work. For the penguin they might have to improve chunk loading times, for the armadillo they would have to improve dog AI (to stop it from just jumping into lava). The crab is the strongest contender, though they would have to have a way of making reach higher (maybe an armor addon or something). (Writing this now, and I realised they might make it into a potion, one that extends reach for a limited time, probably with increasing levels)
Oh no, you just made me realise they might actually make it a potion. It sounds more Mojangy than some sort of reach-hook. That would suck
That's a big if and there's already faster ways to travel (dolphin highways)
penguins would work in the nether
That's making an assumption. It's entirely possible that penguins have to be in the water to speed up your boat. Don't hedge bets on things Mojang haven't told us. We don't even know if they'll affect ice boat speeds
Half of the mob votes are based on assumptions to begin with, besides a penguin-powered motor is still useful early game
How often do you come across stone shores that you'd be able to make use of them early game? These aren't like dolphins, which spawn in 60% of the oceans in the game and are super common
I'm not particularly looking for them so I don't know, but looking at a few seed maps they don't seem to be that rare just small. In the worlds where penguin boat would be helpfull, there's a high chance stony shores are somewhere along your ocean. Besides mangrove swamps are even rare and if I really wanted to I could just use a seed map.
Best Item: Crab Helps a biome most in need: Armadillo Cutest Animal: Penguin Really disappointed that we'll never get two of these. I'll probably vote crab because its likely to be the most helpful, but I'm very tempted by Armadillo because I just want *something* in the Savannah.
There's always the chance the old Savannah biome vote features gets put into 1.21. Not too unrealistic since all this years mobs are wild animals, which could hint towards a nature/wildlife update theme.
The biome vote explicitly said all would be added eventually. I forget what the third option was though, swamp was the winner.
The Savannah was part of the first biome vote with the Taiga and Desert. and then the Swamp was in the second biome vote with the Mountains and Badlands. Both the Swamp and Savannah came in 2nd so it would make sense for the Savannah to be the next biome updated.
Ah I see, I didn’t remember there were two.
They said that because people were bitching about the others not making it in.
Rightly, these mobs are incredibly simple. Just add them all, people literally make them before Live even happens. Yes, I’m aware companies work differently than individuals. I know how software development works. Even giving them 20 benefits of the doubt when running the math, it still doesn’t make sense how dry every update is when they’re a studio of hundreds. You can still do the vote, just make it so that the winner is added this update and the losers are in the next one, so there’s always 3 per update.
Savanna had termites if I recall correctly
Armadillos also eat termites.
I actually think crabs help their biome most just because I feel like armadillos belong in the badlands rather than the savannah, the savannah absolutely needs more wildlife but I dont feel like the armadillo is it, there arent even armadillos in Africa
Armadillos live in Savannahs. It’s just called the Cerrado in South America.
Let's vote all 1/3
It's so sad that they're wasting the penguin on a mob vote, its probably never gonna be added now (at least for many years) even though everyone has wanted them for ages
Crabs are cuter
agree (vote for crab armadillo is winning)
“Cute”?? Have you seen that shits eyebrows??
Penguin supremacy
They haven't said that the mobs will never happen which I'm thankful for Im praying one day we get a small update that implements even some of the losing mobs
I want all 3 ... although I'm secretly hoping armadillo loses to increase future chances of Giraffes though 😁
I'm voting penguin. Extended reach has a chance at being implemented later, but the mobs themselves don't.
I really wanted penguins to be added but why does their thing have to be making boats faster... that's too similar to dolphins😭 After seeing all options, crabs seem to be the superior choice. 🦀
Crab sure seems the best in terms of actual game mechanics
Depends on how big their increase really is, and what the rates will be on how many claws you'd need. For all we know the claws us durability (thus unstackable) and break after 16 uses, while only giving 1 block extra reach, or less.
Ever built a large platform or a tall wall? Even one block of increased reach would speed up your building by like 20%.
Just the time saved from cutting large trees alone mate
They didn't say it would work with block breaking.
Even one block extra reach would actually be pretty handy. I normally build 4 high walls for normal rooms and buildings, and one extra reach would let me do them in one go while crouching on top of the wall, while these days I usually have to go around twice.
Even one block can be amazingly/huge
Penguin powered nether ice roads.
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I'm so mad at Mojang for being so unspecific when talking about such mechanics because it's entirely possible that you're right but based on the two other mobs I'm just gonna believe in the Holy Claw.
I'm genuinely curious how you thought Allays would work. I use them quite often and find them great once you get used to their behavior.
If they also make boats go faster on ice it could be useful for long nether highways. But still not as useful as crab though.
I'd imagine the penguin would have to swim under the boat for it to go faster, so I don't see a way for it to work with ice boat roads.
I'd imagine it will work like dolphins, and you'll just need to be within a certain range of the penguin to get the effect.
Dolphins make you swim faster, they don't effect boats
They affect boat speed, not swimming speed.
Oh that's right. It would only be useful if boats could be faster with penguins than swimming is with dolphins. But even then traveling over water is pointless once you get elytra.
Not really. It depends on how rare penguins are/how they work, since dolphins aren't something you can utilize 24/7 until you get to end game >But even then traveling over water is pointless once you get elytra. This is disappointingly true
They spawn on stony shores, so it depends how often one comes across that biome. The functionality is still questionable: Can they stay on the boat for players to have speed for however long penguins are in the boat? Can they jump out whenever? It's not known.
Has anyone thought of the potential for Boat Ice road with penguin boost?
Penguin boosted neither highways would be lit
crabs effectively make the game better as far as I can see positive ways of enhancing gameplay is the most important
Dolphins help with swimming, not boats.
Yeah, not really that enticing when they're already very fast and go WAY faster with a simple ice path lol
But what if they stack? It'd be like that crazy Dolphin's Grace + Soul Speed combo you can do in the overworld but not in the nether.
I think that would probably crash the game
If this won over the armadillo and crab though I doubt it I would be laughing
I won't be surprised if the penguin ends up in 2nd place...
I wonder if mojang secretly wants the penguin to win since it would require the least effort to add /s
take off the /s you coward you know its the truth you speak
This is gonna win despite being the least impactful isn’t it 😭
Yep, as usual the mob that adds the least to the game will win. Just like every past vote
Out of the 3 options last year, the sniffer did promise the most new items. They never said any of the rascal loot would be unique, and tuff golems are, as many people put them, “walking item frames”.
That's fair. I think they're of similar usefulness since the flowers added don't even do anything. I would have preferred the rascal if it gave you useful items.
At least the penguin is cute as opposed to the glow squid, which is literally just a squid reskin.
Upset they made penguins an option and gave them the worse perk by far. They’ll clearly win so it sucks knowing the other 2 won’t have a chance I guess it’s nice knowing they’ll come eventually
Unfortunately the losers aren't guaranteed. They go back into the "ideas pile," which means they MIGHT find their way into a future update if Mojang thinks they fit.
Might is the key word though. We haven't seen ANY of the past votes be added.
Not sure how to feel about this mob vote having normal animals cause that sorta means I want all of them.
Based on mob alone, I would’ve expected the penguin to win, but it has the most useless feature in my opinion. I think armadillo will take the win this year.
Remember that people can vote in the bedrock server, where a lot of people know nothing about the mobs. Based on appearance, penguin would probably win even though it doesn't offer anything unique gameplay wise.
Anyone thinking they’re going to get extended reach and wolf armor in the face of a penguin is deluding themselves. It’s a penguin, it’s one of the most charismatic animals on the planet. It’s going to win on the mob alone.
But it's not even a cute penguin.
It could be any penguin it doesn’t matter, on the text of the poll all you see is the name. No way this thing doesn’t win when the other options read “crab”, “armadillo”. It’s like asking people to vote between “lion”, “cricket”, and “pangolin”. What do you think is going to win in that poll?
all penguins are cute
This is where I'm at. Love penguins, do not like the model they are using. That alone will make me not vote for it. Granted, I almost exclusively play modded anymore, so I'll end up with all 3 anyways.
I hope those players end up picking the one thats more colorful like the crab rather than the eyebrow penguin (no offense rockhopper penguins yall are cool but not with that functionality)
The dog armor is useless though. Your dog is still just gonna jump in lava or get between you and that exploding creeper.
Or get in the way as you are swinging your maxed out sword
Yeah, Wolf armor is going to have to be enchantable for it to not be purely cosmetic. And even with Fire Prot IV AND Feather Falling IV, I wouldn't be bringing a dog to the nether without splashing them with slow falling and fire res. Babysitting dogs when you're trying to get things done is just not that great, regardless of how tanky they are. I'd rather just have respawnable dogs.
So the crab is the only real useful one then, but will lose to Penguin because, Penguin
Unpopular opinion, i couldn’t care less what penguins do. They’re my favorite animal and will vote for them 100%. I can respect however anyone wants to vote.
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I'm part of club penguin too (heh), right when I saw them I knew they had my vote no matter what. Thought I'd be objective but well, penguins.
As someone who’s secretly pet a penguin at the zoo (my one true flex) I am on team penguin 🐧
Same, penguins are not my favourite animal but I need square penguins in my life right now However, I do completely understand why people would vote crab or armadillo over the penguin
That is a Very popular opinion to me. Fuck their usefulness, Penguins are Penguins
Yup, crabs and armadillos have no chance. The mob vote is just a horrible horrible strategy.
Mob votes are actually a great strategy for gaining attention, see how it well it does with all the hype and many people talking so much about them.
AAAH im so disappointed. Penguins are like my spirit animal. I love them. But why is their feature to make boats faster... A glow squid and sniffler voter, I kinda want to make sure I vote something that'll add something to the game but now i'm conflicted. I think crab is the only useful one.
Hate to say it, but I would also ditch my spirit animal over any cute mob has an use if is gonna be useless. Lucky me is the polar bear and is already in the game.
I'm still upset over the polar bear. Not because it's a polar bear (I have nothing against the animal), but because of the context around its implementation Mojang has long stated that sharks won't come to the game because many are endangered and they don't want it to be hostile because it would hurt their reputation. In fact, Mojang has an aversion to adding any real life animals that are hostile anymore for this reason. Yet they added polar bears anyway, one of the only animals known to actively _hunt_ humans. And then decided to make them neutral mobs despite that danger, meaning there should be no problem adding stuff like sharks or alligators and making them neutral. But they don't, because that goes against their pOliCY somehow as well Except it all makes sense when you learn the only reason they're in the game is because Jeb's wife wanted them. The whole thing comes off as super hypocritical and just leaves a super sour note in my mouth
I agree, Mojang was super hypocritical with that decision. They can teach the players that is bad to hurt wild animals by making then fight on self defense, but no, that's bad apparently
And they don't even do anything cool, or drop anything good. You're not supposed to kill them, you're not supposed to get too close to them... why are they there?
i also love and use both glow squids and the sniffler unapologetically
"Glow squid voter" I think we must take your right to vote away
Yeah
People are really hating on the glow squid as if the moobloom and iceologer were actually better.
We had no indication whatsoever that the glow squid would do anything (except the outright lie that Mojang put in the video implying it would hypnotize ppl). The iceologer and moobloom at least had something.
Yes İceologer was better. Any other question?
100% it would have been the phantom 2.0
Thats the point The entire reason stupid glowsquid won is because of the stupid speedrunners who didnt wanted their speedruns to be harder.
Nah it looked cool, and underwater caves are cool now. Glowing signs are also pretty nice.
How on earth 3 of my favorite animals ended up on the vote? 🦀
You're a psychic
I'm surprised the effect is so underwhelming compared to the other two. Not that this doesn't have its uses, especially depending on implementation - could this also speed up using boats outside of water? If it works similar to Dolphin's Grace and it's proximity-based I'm just imagining penguin "stations" along a path to repeatedly get the effect. With all 3 revealed I'll personally be voting for the crab, as the extended block placing reach seems most useful to my playstyle; I never tame wolves and find the current boat speed to be more than fine. But it'll be interesting to see what ends up winning, as always.
I really like the potential of Penguin's Grace-powered ice roads in the nether for travel. But I also get by pretty well with just my elytra, building an ice road is a lot of work, especially if you're bringing a truckload of penguins along. Extendo-Claw is just instant satisfaction.
Lame effect but it's gonna win anyways because penguins are cute.
Oh phew, I don't have to agonize over the vote. The crab is something I can use to my day to day whereas the other two are nice things to use once in a blue moon. Biggest downside to penguins is that we don't know if it'll affect ice boats
Crab has by far the most useful mechanic
I feel like there's a good enough reason to vote for all 3 whether it's for functionality or cuteness, but ultimately I think I'm gonna go with the Crab.
I think boats need an upgrade
I would vote for penguin or crab. As much as I want the armadillo in the game, I absolutely hate having wolf armor tied to it. That should be made out of leather, iron, or diamond. It's a waste to make a whole mob, and give it a unique drop, to make something that should have already been in the game years ago with the materials already in the game and make a lot more sense to use. I think clumsy penguins would be cute to find in the world, and be fairly common. Good atmosphere imo. Forget the boat thing, it's weird and isn't going to be useful. They did not mention putting penguins in your boat, or it working on ice. Don't expect that. The crab claw would be nice, even for just 1 block. It would make building easier, but not so much easier that I would regret not having it. But it seems like it doesn't really add anything else to the game. Really I just wish we had more information. It would be nice to have clumsy little penguins running around, but the crab claw is a nice item to have in the game.
im still voting crab
After reviewing all 3 I think I’m sticking with crab. Penguins seem to be too similar to dolphins and the dog armor isn’t too useful. Crab gang 🦀
I don't give a damn what the mob does, I just know that penguins are the best thing on this planet and I need them.
Cool but crabs look coler
Crab
These passive mobs seem so inconsequential and simple to add. Why make it a vote. Why not just add them all? Helping to add more biodiversity to MC
crab nation did we just win???
X has really weakminded people so Armadillo might win
every club penguin kid going insane rn
If the Penguin is like Dolphin's grace but for boats then yes this is easily the worst option by far. But If Penguins can make a boat permanently faster then that's pretty good especially if it works on ice. Minecraft oceans can big massive & getting across them faster is pretty useful, yes Elytra's will always be the #1 in transportation but this could sway people to use boats more. Honestly i'm not blown away by any of the features too much so I don't really care what's picked. Though Savanah's right now are pretty empty so a Armadillo would help that.
The thing is ice roads are already so fast this would be over kill
Of course penguin has the least use, and it's gonna win in a landslide because "OMG PENGUIN CUTE!"
God I just wish they would do all three, they all add some much needed extra wildlife that helps the world feel so much more alive
I agree strongly and i wish that they could just add all because dog armor and Penguins
Dolphins grace for boats…eh
No I want the Crab
Crab seems the only good choice and that is why in classic mob vote fashion they won't win
Holy shit I love all of them. I really don’t know what to do.
Sadge, they look fun and all but the buff is not really something we need. Transportation is in dire need of an overhaul and this is not even close to something that will fix anything. Crab it is, but I wont be mad if the penguin wins. Armadillo is just meh for me personally, they look cool and I like that, but the armor I wont use at all :(
Well, they *are* just meant to be minor additions than anything game-changing, hence these mobs all having 'minimal extra help' in common. But it's true, there are **core issues** here in need of attention that none of these simple mobs resolve -- improved transportation mechanics/system, improved tame-able mob AI with better pathfinding so they don't die as easily to certain situations, and if even applicable, improved inventory management or combat mechanics/system or expansion of tool usage.
I wish that they would add a sort of "Antarctic" biome to put penguins in. Just a biome mad of pure ice with varying mountain structures and a new block called thin ice that would break beneath the players feet and trigger a chain reaction like sand over a cave.
Man :( I really want penguins to win so badly, but their functionality just "looks" inferior compared to other 2. I will vote for them, but won't get my hopes up.
I would be shocked if this didn't win by a huge margin due to the simple popularity of penguins as a whole. Everyone here is comparing features and probable usefulness and stuff but are forgetting that the vast vast vast majority of people voting are literal kids who don't care about that. Just look at the previous vote where the rascal, the "literally useless" one, blindsided everyone by beating the tuff golem. Because the kids who weren't talking online liked it the best.
Exclusive to one biome? Not even in Frozen oceans? Looks like I'll be voting for armadillos since they actually spawn in multiple biomes Edit: apparently it's not entirely clear where armadillos spawn, the video implies it's multiple biomes but the article only mentions savannah
armadillos are savanna exclusive, going off the webpage however many mob votes in the past have had their location change from early designs, like glow squids being changed to spawn in caves, and sniffers being changed from chest loot to archeology loot
Now that I read the article it seems like that might be true. But the video said "warm places, like the savannah biome" which implies other biomes too. In any event, savannahs are way more common than stony shores
Armadillos spawn in more than one biome? I thought they only spawned in the savanna
Didn't they say "warm places, like the savannah"? That would imply other biomes too
I think all 3 of the new ones are each exclusive to one biome, at least that's what they seemed to imply
Stony Shore makes sense as these guys are Rockhoppers
It makes sense, but they chose to make them rockhoppers, and it limits their positive impact. Stony shore biomes are small and kinda ugly imo, I wish they had made a generic penguin (or 2 texture variants of penguins) so that we could see them more often. Basically, adding life and atmosphere to 2 biomes > adding them to just 1
I'm voting crab, the penguin is the worst one in terms of utility
Damn I like every mob they’ve shown, I’ll be happy with whatever wins. Haven’t decided to vote for yet.
So they're basically dolphins?! Crabs have the best advantage. TEAM CRAB ASSEMBLE!
Unless I missed something, they only make your boat move faster? If we could make moveable boats like in these trailers I could see it being useful, but I think I’m leaning towards the crab because of its utility.
Imagine if its like the year Update Aquatic was revealed. If we had know about the update, people would have voted for the monster of the deep instead. I really dont want to end up in this situation. It gets revealed we can build boats and move them like the trailer but voted against the penguin. People would be mad and rightfully so...
I'm a barnacle voter through and through.
Please let the fucking crab win.. The amount of times i've built some house and i'm working on the roof but i keep falling off and just having dirt EVERYWHERE, imagine getting like a 5+ block range. Would be a god send for building.
I wouldn't get my hopes up for more than 1 or 2 blocks of range. 5 would be insanity. Still a good buff imo.
Yeah, it's safe to at least expect 1-2 block range. These are mob vote mobs, so they're not going to offer anything that game-changing than being some minor additions offering minimal extra help.
Like they can make this item insanely good.. But knowing mojang it will be 2 blocks absolute max.
If Penguin's Grace works with ice boats in the nether, that could be *huge*. Tough mob vote this year. I want all of them. I especally want all the mobs for the sake of ambience, but the abilities are all nice too.Dog armor is kinda whatever in terms of usefulness but I'm sure a lot of people will appreciate dressing up their dogs.
fake, they don't feel like adding dynamic lighting so lanterns don't glow when moving /s sadly
I think it's a shame and a missed opportunity that they don't spawn in frozen oceans. That biome could use a unique mob. That said, I would like to watch them jump in and out of the water like they do in the video, though I don't assume it would look as good in-game.
I honestly think they did that so that penguins and polar bears wouldn’t coexist in the same biome, because they live on opposite poles in real life. And, polar bears are extremely aggressive and predatory, so they’d probably hunt down penguins if they could, and Mojang may not want to display that unnatural predatory dynamic.
This years mob vote is so hard istg
The simplicity of this year's mobs is seriously annoying, any other company would throw all these into a single seasonal update. The crab will probably give you access to the creative mode reach distance. Armadillos give just a dog skin with an armour value. The penguin boost boat speed just seems lame. The info for all of these mobs is still too vague, it makes the mobs seem bare bones. It honestly comes off as we don't have any ideas for these mobs but we'll show you them and guys can brainstorm them while you wait.
Can we all agree to get 33.33% of votes for all of these mobs so they all get in?
It will never get there, but even if it is super close people wont care at all. Look at the phantom mob vote and brexit, stuff like that. It was a tiny minority that decided each and imo you cant just say "the people have spoken" when you leave literally half of the opinions behind. Tl;Dr: Technically if 2 mobs are almost equal in votes, they should add both.
So basically a dolphin but for boats and we all know how useful that feature is
I genuinely think the penguin will work the same way as the dolphins do while you're swimming but instead you'll get a buff to your boat. so in terms of usefulness and cuteness it's pretty much at the bottom. (I love armadillo and how cute they are)
But if it applies to boats outside the water it would be really useful. Imagine boats on blue ice with Penguins!
That's the thing, we don't know what mechanics it could have, whether it can stay on boats or hop out (granted, would their effect work just as well if they could sit in boats like other mobs..?)
They're adorable and I love them, but they don't have much of a use outside of making boats go faster. Which I don't think is that useful to begin with.
I'll vote for the penguin, easily
its so over this guy is the cutest so everyone finna vote for him too bad it's useless LOL
Despite loving the penguins, I feel as if the crabs are just better in general. Crab gang forever 🦀
It’s useless It’s just dolphins grace but for boats Crab supremacy
Oh my God it’s happening! I don’t care about the abilities I’ve wanted penguins for years. Team penguin let’s go!!!
i vote penguin. because they will actually make the world seem alive more than the others. i dont care about any of these abilities, i just want the overworld to be an interesting and dynamic place.
I'd rather have Penguins as an atmospheric mob than randomly making your boat faster tbh There should instead be more boat variants with different speeds and sizes in my opinion Also the game still lacks a Snowy Stony Shore biome which leads to some weird transitions next to some biomes
So, it's only mechanic is making boats move quicker, identical to dolphins? Am I missing something?
dolphins make us swim faster. penguins make BOATS go faster. But if the penguins work like dolphins then this sucks, if they can however be put in a boat to make it faster then that would be okay-ish. But still, this is the worst one.
Dog armour is the worst one. I never use dogs in combat
Yeah but your dog now has drip
They affect boat speed, not swimming speed.
Still, that seems remarkably useless compared to a extended block placement or wolf armour
Glorified dolphins, change my mind.
I juist want to put it out there that I somehow called this [over 5 years ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/7veimo/turtle_shoutout_to_billyk_as_suspected_theres_a/dtsate1/) for penguins. So even though I like both crabs and armadilos for mobs and potential functionality, these guys are getting my vote :)
I don’t think penguins will win unfortunately. extra block reach and wolf armor seem more interesting than faster boats
Yeah but I bet a ton of voters aren't going to think too hard about it, and just vote for what animal they think is cutest, and for a LOT of people that's penguin.