Minecraft Armadillo Drama: Mojang’s Shocking Response!

Back on December the 13th as a part of Minecraft preview 1.20 6023 the armadillo was officially added to Minecraft however not everyone was too happy with its reveal leading to quite a bit of backlash and even a response from Minecraft’s art director in this video we’re going to be covering all of the

Latest information that you need to know about straight from mang Studios itself so if you’re hyped do not forget to subscribe for more Minecraft news like this and let’s dive straight into it so then just in case you’ve been living in the nether let’s start with a very quick

Recap as to why the Minecraft Community is so upset with the new armadillo mob on December the 13th it was announced by Jay Wells Minecraft’s Community manager that the armadillo and wolf armor are ready for experimental testing in this week’s Minecraft Beta And preview this is where the issues did actually start

To shine through not only did the armadillo’s appearance get changed making it look very out of place but also the Long awaited Wolf armor one of the main reasons people voted for the armadillo turns out to be a lot weaker than we initially thought this obviously resulted in a ton of frustration but

Also led to the creation of a ton of memes which I guess is a positive however it does actually seem that this frustration made its way back to Jappa a game art director and pixel artist working at majang Studios who responded on December the 14th saying the eyes of

The armadillo are in the front because when they are on the side you’re looking at an empty forehead it’s difficult to create a connection with it considering it is a mob which you all interact with possibly quite often I felt like this was important this response is key

Because it does highlight how japper as an art director in some way did play a part in the armadillo’s texture being updated which will explain why as we go further into the video we appeared to see Jappa gets slowly more and more upset at the responses from the

Minecraft Community Jappa then came back with with another response saying its head Peaks out and it’s bowled up because we thought it would be funny or cute but apparently people prefer realism as you can probably tell it does appear that this feedback is actually beginning to frustrate japper in my

Opinion this post made it even worse where jeer says before giving your feedback make sure to play with the feature for a while looking at images or videos of new things is not the same as experiencing and interacting with it as you can see despite large parts of the

Minecraft Community being in agreement that this just does not look right Jappa is continuing to double down on the art team’s decision most recently on December the 18th s slim the tech lead for Minecraft Java Edition at majang did announce the latest Minecraft Java Edition snapshot 23w 51a where we

Finally get to play with the armadillo on Java Edition and as you can see in this image provided by selime the armadillo eyes are still in the same place so despite for once the entire Minecraft Community being in agreement about this one thing it does appear that

For right now at least japa is refusing to change this as you can see on screen the reason for this is that the team fears that if they do move their eyes back to the side of the armadillo’s head they fear that people will ask them to

Move the eyes back which let’s just say does not make too much sense japa just to be completely honest I really do not think anyone will give you this feedback if the change is made unless they are trolling as you can see on screen I did

A poll on my community tab asking if you would like to see the armadillo’s texture be updated and a stunning majority of around 90% did agree that yes the texture should be updated and I do understand that this does not represent the entirety of the Minecraft

Community but it does just give you an idea at least as to what the Minecraft Community currently thinks about the armadillos updated texture finally though to end on a bit more of a positive note Jappa does say I do really appreciate the passion we have around

The position of I is of one mob here still though as of when I’m recording this it is very unclear as to whether the armadillo’s texture is actually going to even be updated I skimmed over this earlier but going back to Sly Slim’s previous post we did just receive

The armadillo in Java Edition and there is still no sign of the mobs texture being updated so despite the vast majority of the Minecraft Community agreeing that this is a change that should be made will japper and the entire rest of the Minecraft art team continue to ride out this feedback and

People do not care anymore or will they do the right thing and just to admit they made a mistake and fix it it seems to me that japa made this change thinking it would be better for the mob realized people did not enjoy it and now jeer is trying to convince people that

The right change was actually made the reason I shown you all this meme at the start of the video is just to highlight how inconsistent some of Mal jang’s decision making can be at times although the logic behind the change makes perfect sense it just does not fit with

The rest of the game and just to highlight another inconsistency that I mentioned in my previous video the fact that the armadillo’s food source is spider eyes a food that actually damages you when you eat it makes even less sense especially when you consider Malang did not add fireflies to the game

As to Frog’s food source because in real life they can be harmful to frogs it just seems that some of Mal jang’s developers can have a tendency to massively overthink certain aspects of a Minecraft update if you go back to the original reveal trailer for the

Armadillo as well as some of the most recent concept art we have received there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that the armadillo’s eyes would be at the side of its head but for some reason as you can see the change was still made the legend EO did respond to one of

Jaa’s previous statements saying when it’s based on real animals yes yes we want realism when it comes to recreating a real world animal in Minecraft of course the developers should not mess with the way it looks and yeah just to give japper a bit of credit here I do

Kind of understand the reasoning behind this decision to make the interactions more personal but that brings up another Point japa does say will most likely be interacting with this mob quite a bit but I completely disagree with that I do not really think anyone will be spending

Too much time with this mob apart from when they want to go and collect scoots thankfully for us though the armadillo is still in very early development so there is still plenty of time to get this changed so please drop your thoughts and opinions about this Dem

Blow in the comments would you like to see the armadillo texture be updated we’ve already saw the developers at mag Studios made changes as a part of Minecraft 1.21 more specifically with the breeze there’s an amazing team at mang Studios of people that really want to make the game the best it can

Possibly be one lesson we could all learn from this entire situation is that if it’s not broke don’t fix it no one had an issue with the way the armadillo looked in the reveal trailer or the concept art so it’s quite unfortunate that this change was made despite no one

Really caring about it at all and hopefully very soon we will see the different color variations of the armadillo as shown in some of the early concept art I just hope this will not take too much away from the development time but I’m starting to be a bit

Concerned if we will even see this fixed before the end of the year the latest snapshot we just received was dropped on December the 18th and around this time mulang does go on vacation for the holidays so potentially we could be looking at a wait all the way until late

January or early February for more Minecraft news and information be sure to check out this video on screen right now before it disappears off your screen where we talk a lot more about the armadillo and some more recent Minecraft 1.21 news