JoshBlueMoon – Mojang removed this scary mob… so i recreated it

Imagine you were exploring a cave and then you hear a noise you quickly turn around just to be met with a pair of white glowing eyes and a shadowy figure there is something stalking you you try to approach it but it vanishes you may be thinking that I’m talking about

Herobrine however this is the description of an official mob that was planned to be added to the game but was later removed this mob that not many people know of would have been able to produce terrifying hallucinations these are not my words these are the words of

The same developer who made the warden if you were like in the caves you would see these glowing eyes looking at you and then you walk towards it was a bit too evil very much focused on Visual and auditory hallucinations the name of this creature is shade and I

Am Josh and today we will learn more about it and I will attempt to recreate it following the description of the developer to put it back into the game the shade was a mob that began being developed for the caves and cliffs update to add more horror and spooky

Ambience to the caves and as a way to explain the source of the cave noises we all know and love maybe even tying it into the cave noises that you hear the shade has some special abilities that make it stand out from even the most popular modded mobs out there on this

Interview with King B dogs done by the Minecraft ideas Academy Channel he also mentions that this mob would have been able to create hallucinations mimicking the sounds of other mobs to confuse players and make them feel paranoid and he also briefly describes how it was supposed to look like a transparent

Humanoid sort of like the end of a dark transparent world would have glowing eyes this mob really does sound terrifying sadly was removed because back then the idea was to add a blind mop and the shade was not that so the warden took its place instead and then I

Stumbled upon this concept art and I will be be honest most of these look kind of silly but this one caught my attention because it looks the creepiest and it matches the developers descriptions the best and I guess it goes without saying but my main sources of inspiration for this are the popular

Cave dweller mod by gargan which became very popular and sparked the interesting scene more Horror in Minecraft which I’m a big fan of so I began by creating a very simple humanoid figure similar to the player then I stretch its arms until they reach the ground and I stretched

Its legs to make it look like an Enderman I was pretty happy with the overall shape so I jumped right into texturing according to concept art the shade is very dark blue and purple so I painted the bottom half bright and the top half dark that should help the white

Eye stand out in the darkness making it look a little bit more creepy it seems like it’s wearing some kind of tone robe so that’s what I made next then I added some extra details and I began to paint the eyes at first the eyes were too

Similar to an Enderman so I made them pure whites to match the description better and I gave it tears just because the face was too empty now it’s time to make it semi-transparent like the developer said cool looking very scary and ugly in my opinion he also looks a

Little bit like me doesn’t he do I look like that I mean actually don’t respond to that looking back at the concept art it seems like the shade had some sort of big mouth on its stomach so that’s what I added next I also added a couple rows

Of teeth that stick out of the mouth and I can animate the movie later on it’s coming great so far but now it’s time to do scary stuff one of the things me and a lot of Minecraft players have always felt is that Eerie sense that something

Or someone is observient and since this mob is all about stalking the player I decided to make it be able to peek from behind blocks to observe you here’s how it works every time you hear a cave noise the shade has a chance to randomly appear somewhere in the cave around you

Stalking you and when you look at it it hides quickly I feel like this really makes the mob feel different and almost intelligent like as if it didn’t want to be seen by you you never see a mob rack this way so this should catch anyone off

Guard the intent of this is to create a sense of paranoia because the caves are so dark and spacious whenever you hear the sound the shade may or may not be close you will never know unless you’re very quick and you take a glimpse at it

And the moments the shade wants to it will just appear in the distance standing still and just like the developer said he also Fades away the closer you get to it now back to the concept art I noticed something very interesting right here if you look very

Closely on these tiny letters I think it says subscribe to Joshua Blue Moon oh wow I can’t believe Mojang actually included this but I’m gonna pretend that it says transforms into this so this thing apparently could transform into a four-legged creature this form is supposed to be when the mob goes into

Its attack mode but how am I gonna do that and I read here that one of the reasons why this mechanic was removed is because it looked silly and not scary but I will prove Mojang wrong and oh um it actually does look kind of silly

So to not make it look goofy I decided that the mob will give you Darkness so that you don’t see it transforming I guess it will also be scarier because now you can’t see this thing coming towards you and now that all that is done it’s time for the hallucinations I

Will say that these turned out to be quite terrifying here’s how this is gonna work the more time you spend in the darkness the harder the chances of the shade showing up at first it will just stalk you from afar and as time goes by you may start to hear mobs that

Aren’t there routine gone you may even see fake mobs like this creeper for example or the skeleton with stretched limbs in the form of the body you cannot kill them all you can do is hide from the mash you may see strange things too the shade may also summon

Shadows to hunt you down and launch towards you in a sudden attack the more afraid you are the more aggressive it becomes here you can see the shade luring you into a cave in here the shed has cornered me and it pulled its own head off which gains life

Of its own and starts flying towards you these are all hallucinations but it may come to a point that the shade decides that enough is enough and it transforms chasing you down the mines but if you thought Minecraft horror ended here then I’d suggest you to watch

This video where I create three monsters and terrify my friend with I’ll see you next time bye bye