AVNJ – Fish Biologist reacts to Minecraft Fish

So as you may be aware I’ve been playing a lot of Minecraft lately in fact my stream lately has been primarily Minecraft just speed runs all of the time it’s been like my last 12 streams has been Minecraft speedruns and while playing Minecraft I noticed that

Although Minecraft has a lot of fish in it some of them are not very accurate or have some issues or might have some interesting things to talk about and yes I realize they are pixel art and they are total like 10 pixels like I mean

Look at the image of the Cod it is totaled like you know probably 50 pixels so I understand that accuracy isn’t exactly the easiest thing however I thought it would be a cool thing to go through and fix them and see what Minecraft fish should actually look like

So we’re going to start with the Cod so the thing about Cod is cod as a word doesn’t really mean anything so where the word cod comes from is basically when settlers or colonizers whatever you want to call them came to uh North America and they asked the natives

Because there were a lot of new fish species and they asked the natives what is this fish you know they would catch a fish and they would ask what is this fish and the natives said it’s a Cod and so they said okay and the British or

Whoever it was started calling it a Cod and then they caught another fish and they brought it to the natives and they said okay but what is this fish and then the natives again said COD and this cycle continued until the colonizers realized that Cod was not a

Name of a species Cod was a name for a good eating fish Native Americans called any good eating fish a Cod and so what ended up happening is that a lot of things got called Cod that aren’t necessarily particularly related however in the modern day we’ve tried to fix

That a little bit and cod usually have whiskers and three Dorsal fins that’s like the defining feature of a Cod so I think it would it’s it’s white needle actually that we give this thing three Dorsal fins that is more clearly a Cod because that is like the most distinct

Feature of a cod get rid of the dorsal fin so we’ll put like the the first dorsal fin like right behind the head this looks awful by the way but don’t worry about it I’ll make it look better later and then the second dorsal like right here

And then the third dorsal like right by the tail all right and now it clearly has three Dorsal fins kind of I don’t know about clearly but it has three wow this looks awful [Laughter] everyone’s saying never mind everyone was like can we make it a texture pack

And then everyone suddenly goes no never mind actually don’t make that a texture pack yeah it’s it’s cool guys look it looks good and then we just need to give him some whiskers because that’s also a Cod thing grab this color again we’ll just kinda whisker him up this looks so bad

But it’s better it’s more accurate this is a more accurate Minecraft Cod than the one that is in the game right now so I think we should all start using this texture let’s do the next fish the next fish is the puffer fish puffer fish isn’t bad it’s like it’s blown up

Clearly in the in the image it’s blown up so it’s meant to be circular and that’s fine but I don’t know what the blue is meant to be if it’s meant to be the pectoral fins I don’t know why it’s blue maybe there’s a species that I’m

Not thinking of that has blue pectoral fins and a yellow body but I actually can’t think of a single one like that so what I’m gonna do is remove this now I might be wrong and there may be a species of puffer fish that has blue pectoral fins and yellow body

But I don’t know that that exists so I’m going to just match the pectoral fins to his body color I feel like that makes more sense you know I really should be more organized about this it’ll look better if I’m more organized I feel like look that looks wonderful see doesn’t that look

Dumb that looks nothing like Minecraft okay well I’m not doing the exact pixel art but like if you imagine that I did what I did but I did it correctly in pixel art so incredibly bad okay it’s not that bad you have to be rude about it it’s not that bad

I admit it’s not great but it is a puffer fish with pectoral fins which is how a puffer fish should look so you know next up we have the salmon now this one’s interesting because this like red color with like the skull and the pointy beak and all that is what

Salmon have the color they have like right after they breed and they’re dying which means that every single salmon that you catch in Minecraft is dying it’s like right about to die it has just reproduced and it’s about to die um so with that in mind I thought it

Would be cool to to do like a live salmon like one that’s living its life though it isn’t the worst accuracy because I believe you can only find the salmon in rivers in Minecraft like in rivers and like where it opens up to oceans and that is where salmon go to

Reproduce and die so it actually makes sense but what I thought would be even better would be to make a salmon which is not dying so watch as my amazing art skills come to fruition let’s go ahead and see look it’s not that bad so far

Hey hey you know what not that bad okay now the body shouldn’t be red well I mean I guess it could be but it should be like a lighter red you know like I should take this red and I should like ink it up a little oh I’ve started going off track

Everything is suddenly going poorly because I’ve gone off trap it does not look like a turkey leg okay I guess the tail does kind of look like the club on a turkey leg I’ll give you that but overall look how much it’s improved and now you have a live salmon

See it’s beautiful imagine catching this in the river isn’t this so much better than the dying salmon that you could have caught why’d you cover it in pink sauce you know I realized halfway through I don’t really remember the color of a salmon because I have a

Really bad recall of like colors and stuff so this is this this looks right to me I’m not skinning it this just yeah you write it it’s flushes that color okay anyways last one which is a clown fish which actually looks pretty good I don’t

Know if I have much to say about the clownfish do you guys have anything to say I mean the white would like be continuous like they’re lines you know they’re bars they’re not that’s my only issue so I would like take this and I would the fish more clearly barred like that

It has no pectoral fins how are you supposed to indicate a pectoral fin with like 10 pixels here I feel like it looks good best Improvement so far yeah see I just made the white lines more white liny so that it made more sense all right let’s see them all side by side

Let’s see the new the new Minecraft fish textures and you guys can tell me have I have I improved the game or have I ruined it now imagine it’s your first playthrough of Minecraft just imagine for a second this is your first playthrough of Minecraft and this is what you catch

Are you gonna be upset or happy you’ve definitely changed the game improved instantly uninstall more educational happier is it in like the MC style or exactly like this exactly like this this is exactly what the texture looks like make the colors better no I won’t probably would think the same as I did

When I saw the original fair enough I wouldn’t fish on my first playthrough fair enough compare them to the real ones nah we don’t need to do that I think we all know in our head that this is just absolutely the greatest you know representation of them that exists

Do a realistic version of the cooked ones and once they’re cooked who really matters they can be covered in spices or whatever it actually isn’t that bad thank you hey one person’s on my side the Cod looks good I think the Cod looks fire he’s got whiskers he’s got three

Dorsal fins I don’t know how anyone could ever complain about the Cod puffer fish you know maybe the pectoral Fin’s not Blended the best salmon you know maybe he looks like he’s skinned but clownfish are pretty good and I think the Cod is pretty good picks the real

World Sprites next that requires too much skill and effort I’m not doing that Thank you