The History of Minecraft’s Forgotten Mobs

When you think about Minecraft one of the first things you might think about are the numerous mobs that can be found in the game some of them are visually iconic and can be recognized by people that don’t even play Minecraft but there’s an army of mobs out there that

Couldn’t quite make it into the game for one reason or another mobs that made it far enough into planning that they actually had visual designs and proposed behaviors today I’ll be showing you the mobs that were created by Mojang but were never officially put into the game

I’ll also explain why each mob failed to make it in to qualify for today’s list a mob had to make it far enough into development to have an actual appearance in official Minecraft artwork or media some of these mobs had amazing concepts which is why longtime minecraft players

Have been confused as to why they were never added since there’s a lot of these mobs we have a lot to talk about today so let’s get started the sea monster was a mob designed by Mojang to make the oceans more dangerous the creature had a long tongue like tentacle and sharp jaws

Its overall appearance was similar to squids but a nightmare version of them according to minecraft lead developer Jeb the mob would have used its tentacle to pull players underwater from the surface in order to drown them even pulling them out of boats and it would propel itself forward using its jaws the

Monster was part of the now infamous 2017 mob vote where players were able to choose which new mob they wanted in the game for the next update the content in the update was kept secret until after the voting had finished and a winner had been selected the flying phantom mob

Ended up winning the vote immediately following its announcement it was revealed that the next update was going to be a major overhaul of Minecraft oceans completely changing the look and feel of them had players known that the update was going to include ocean content I’m convinced the sea monster

Would have received more votes think about how cool it would have been to fight this monster with a trident after the vote was over the sea monster was shelled and hasn’t been spoken about since a sad fate for what could have been an amazing enemy to encounter Mojang designed the hovering inferno to

Be a more powerful version of the blaze mob in the nether the design included blazing shields that would protect it from attacks had it been included in the game it would have been the first mob to be able to use shields of any kind it’s assumed that axes would have been able

To disable its defenses similar to how axes disable regular shields in the game the master blaze would have likely been added as a mini boss instead of a fully fledged boss fight a random encounter in the nether it would have been able to use a shock wave attack while the master

Blaze never made it into the game Mojang has stated that they plan to allow mobs to spawn with shields in future updates in the game meaning the infernos intended shield functionality has been given a regular mobs instead like the sea monster because it lost the vote the mob hasn’t

Been spoken of since since Mojang’s next major update is going to be the nether update could we finally see the hovering inferno in some capacity fingers crossed I’m always down for more enemies to fight the great hunger was a reptilian based mob designed with a huge mouth

Had it been added it would have been the first lizard mob in Minecraft unless you consider dragons to be lizards I don’t know are they lizards I mean I guess they are but that’s not what this video is about with its mouth open the great hunger would sink into the ground in

Camouflage itself if enchanted items would be thrown into its mouth it was designed to be able to remove those enchantments while this mob lost the vote and was never added the enchantment ripping functionality it would have had was moved to the grindstone item that was later released in the village and

Pillage update so while the mob never made it into the game its ability did but still think about how much money Mojang could have made by making a plushie of this bad boy missed opportunity if you ask me in 2018 Mojang held another vote for the community this time instead of just a

Mob it was a biome vote that allowed the playerbase to vote for a biome to be updated in the next version of Minecraft ostriches were a proposed ma for the savanna biomes much like their real-world counterparts they would be large bird mobs that were able to bury their heads in the ground

In my opinion if we could have added saddles to ostriches Donkey Kong style they would have been the best mob in the game hands down the taiga biome ended up winning the vote so the ostriches were never added it’s also notable that termites would have come along with

Ostriches but these likely would have been an animated texture on blocks not an actual 3-dimensional mob but I just thought I’d mention them since they’d still be creatures in the Minecraft world there’s no telling whether it ostriches are gonna make it into the final version or not there’s still no

Word on if they’re actually coming to the game meerkats were also included in the biome vote for 2018 they would be found in desert biomes and would have the ability to stand on their hind legs like their real-world counterparts if their size and their artwork was to scale they

Would have been a little over one block tall while standing up straight their behavior was never elaborated on but it’s assumed that they would hide if they felt threatened after losing the biome vote meerkats were put back on the shelf and are awaiting their time to

Shine are you starting to see a pattern here Mojang comes out with all these great ideas and then never uses them well if it’s making you upset it only gets worse from here so buckle up just a few months ago for 2019 motioning held another biome phone where players

Decided which biome and therefore which mob would be added to the game next frogs would have come along with a swamp update based on what we know they would have been passive mobs that would hop throughout the swamps and eat invisible flies with their tongues it’s a safe bet

To assume that lily pads would have had some sort of connection with this mob since they are so abundant in swamps as it is frogs would likely hop towards the player if they were close enough frogs in the swamp ended up losing two goats on top of mountains who knows what uses

Frogs could have had if any The vulture was a mob intended to be included with updated deserts it would have been a flying mob that would perch on top of cacti in the desert one unique feature it was planned to have was the ability to loot the corpses of dead players picking up their items and then

Flying around with them if a different player wanted into that biome at a later time even if the original items despawned vultures would retain items that they picked up a very cool novelty that was sadly never realized due to deserts losing the Vote vultures would have made an eerie addition to deserts

And it’s sad to see such a novelty put back on the Shelf unlike every other mob in this video so far the illusion er is one of the few mobs on the list that actually has code in the game the mob has been in the job editions code for

About two and a half years and can even be spawned into the game using commands although the mob is not quite finished it was designed to be a powerful image or that uses a combination of archery and magic to defeat opponents it can cast the blindness effect on a player

Making them unable to see and can also turn itself invisible while creating copies of itself to confuse the player the mob definitely gives off a mini-boss vibe when fighting them it’s unknown why this mob has been unused for over 2 and a half years so far despite it being

Unused it has continued to be updated periodically and has even been hinted at becoming a part of village raids in a future update so out of all the mobs listed in today’s video so far the illusion er has the highest chance of actually making it into the vanilla game

I decided that for the last part of the video I’d mentioned the mobs that have been discussed by Mojang employees as being a possibility but never actually made it to the visual planning phase the most famous of these mobs is the red dragon which was originally supposed to

Be released alongside the ender dragon in the 1.0 release of the game back in November of 2011 but it was delayed to the point where minecraft developer dinnerbone stated that they had no plans for it and we never even got a visual though the community has recreated the

Idea in several mods and resource packs throughout the years the Red Dragons have been considered a never ever as far as mobs are concerned going back an entire decade the creator of minecraft knotch joked about adding hamsters to the game while the game was still in the

Alpha development phase it was clearly a joke but hamsters did gain a small cult following in 2010 so I thought I did at least mention it otters seals and orcas have been hinted at on Twitter in the past but at this point there’s nothing concrete about them now at this point I

Just don’t understand it Mojang had all these great ideas why abandoned them these mobs could have added so much immersion to the Minecraft world Mojang held all these votes and I understand wanting to make the community part of the game but why shelf the content that didn’t receive as many votes why not

Give it to us anyway just give all of it to us I understand that the developers of Minecraft want to keep the game simplistic but at the same time minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time even beating Tetris couldn’t they hire an extra do to make frogs

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