Minecraft’s getting marginally cuter with its next update, as it continues to pretend it isn’t designed for the express purpose of teaching innocent children that in order to survive, you’ve sometimes got to beat some pigs and trees to death with your bare hands. Baby farm animal mobs, long just mini-mes of their adult versions with slightly different head/body size ratios are getting their own unique appearances.
Revealed via a blog post clinically certified to make anyone who’s ever liked a cat video go ‘awwwwwww’, there are eight of these revamped baby farm mobs, with countless variants of each having gotten individual attention to boot. For example, the game’s got nine different wolf pups and eleven varieties of kitten.
The changes generally revolve around fresh textures and models, plus the addition of single pixel eyes which help set the little fellas apart from big fellas. Piglets, calves, baby chickens, baby ocelots, lambs, and baby rabbits round out the list of affected critters, with Mojang promising they’re “even chunkier, floofier, and more charming than ever before”.
That about that as you strap one to a pile of TNT, or listen out for the custom baby animal sounds the devs have swapped in to replace the previous pitched-up versions of adult animal noises. Smile gently as the tiny chicken you’ve named Tim – the update makes name tags craftable with paper and any metal nugget, so that bit’s easier than ever before – crumbles into dust.
Wonder absent-mindedly whether spending too much time as the blocky deity of a world struggling to resist having your grubby fingerprints pressed into it in ways which disfigure the landscape and occasionally result in the sun setting over giant phallic structures has gone to your head. Ask yourself if building that nice little hut or conquering the Nether was worth the forced sacrifice.
Then, test the new baby animals out by enabling previews/beta for Minecraft’s Bedrock Edition, or snapshots if you’re a Java Edition crafter.
