Mojang: "Fireflies are poisonous to frogs so we're not adding them." Also Mojang: "Take a frog to the Nether and get it to swallow a living cube of molten magma to get a new light."

Honestly, more mobs in this game should take on how the sheep was developed. The sheep drops wool on death but you gain so much more from trapping it in a 2 x 2 hole & sheering it for the rest of its life. If you do kill it though, you sacrifice the portion of wool for food which is far more useful early game.

For Frogs I would even say dropping frog legs would make sense, for brewing jump boost and a bit of food when cooked.

Fun fact about strider string: the string is the little bristles on the sides of their heads! The drop was added after players were curious where piglins would get string for crossbows :)

Honestly, the polar bear is what gets on my nerves. It cannot be that strong and do that much damage and drop absolutely nothing and get Agro randomly when you get near a small one that you can’t see.

Mojang: We don't want to encourage animal cruelty. Also Mojang: You can instantly cook your food if you set your livestock on fire before killing them. Also Mojang: You get an achievement for riding a pig off of a cliff. Also Mojang: The best way to get rare items is to lock several villagers in your basement, you can also get free iron by doing this.

I think one of the biggest contributing factors to this is that they never return to these mobs, they only add more to the pile. They'll add a mob with 1 use and then never expand on the idea, even if it would be super easy. The sniffer and the turtle feel the most glaring to me... you could absolutely add more worth to these over time, but they end up abandoned in pursuit of the next cute marketing mob.

I think the “wholesome” direction the devs are taking may cause the downfall of the game

the slimeball thing with frogs would literally make any early game survival redstone so much less tedious... it might even... MAKE THE GAME MORE FUN?? 😮

Don't forget how turtles used to drop scutes. Now you have to wait for them to grow up, which is 100x more tedious to collect now. It makes the turtle helm go from a niche item that is kinda cool, to a useless item that I have no reason to go out of my way that far to get

I'm still a little angry at Mojang for removing fireflies. They would've been a cool ambience mob, and the argument doesn't make sense to me. When Mojang found out that chocolate is poisonous to birds, they didn't just remove cookies, they made them poison parrots. How about adding the firefly but make frogs just NOT eat it? How hard is that to code?

How tf they managed to leave a game with infinite update possibilities in such a dry state?

8:32 I think a good way to put it is that the complaint is not that the game is getting worse, but rather that the improvements are getting smaller. A savana with a useless mob *is* better than an empty savana, we just don't want the mob to be useless.

You can do anything in Minecraft, but don't you DARE kill the heckin wholesome fictional creature!

I bet if the rabbit were added today we would have to obtain the rabbit foot in a different, tedious way. Also, I think the other reason why Mojang wants turtle scutes to be dropped when a baby turtle grows up is so they can make the player collect turtle eggs and raise them. In that case, why not make them hatch faster? The sniffer egg hatches way faster. So why not make them hatch at the same rate?

its always family-friendly, you never kill newer mobs for loot it always only drops something if it does some kind of action, for example if they were to add chicken today, it would probably drop feathers while walking or something and it wouldnt drop any meat

Camels dropping bones might make sense. Camel bones were used to produce the chemical lime years ago in my hometown.

They should re-add the realistic drops, it removes from the game. Also, instead of adding new things to the game, they should update and rework old unused mechanics

I always thought it was weird when sheep did not drop any meat. It’s an animal in a game (partially) about surviving. I should be able to eat it. So my favorite addition to Minecraft was the mutton chops. Probably a lame choice to be my most favorite addition since I started playing it but it really is. I think the goat would benefit from dropping mutton chops like it was supposed to.

years ago, when the game was in it's bare bones, it made perfect sense to add an ore or a mob that had literally no use, because each new addition made the game feel bigger no matter how small it was. in modern minecraft however, we're no longer playing an unfinished game trying to reach a playable state, minecraft is already a fully fleshed-out game, so adding copper and mobs without a drop or a use should be unforgivable, it's like getting half an update rather than a full one.

The glow squid could be fixed very easily by simply (first adding the glowing effect to bedrock (like why isn't it already there) and) making it possible to brew a potion of glowing with it. All the others could have pretty basic and easy fixes too - goats sometimes dropping wool, sniffers dropping moss-related blocks, camels dropping sand (and if they also made it so that camels can spawn in circumstances other than desert village generation, that'd add vanilla automatic sand farms!), etc

the funny part about "fireflies poisonous to frogs" is that you can feed a cookie to a parrot and it will die

I always liked the idea of glow ink being used as invisible ink in a book or something, bring it to a specific light source like a soul lantern or torch and have it reveal what is written - it could be implemented in generated dungeons or used in multiplayer/adventure maps

i like how the firefly frog incident could've been solved by making them eat glowberries instead.

I completely agree with you, Minecraft is fantastic! I think that the sniffer should for example drop moss and small (useless) drops would not give you a reward but make it more lively!

Ok, hear me out, Turtle Scute and Armadillo Scute should be used together to craft something, like an even better kind of wolf armor, or a kind of "netherite" wolf armor, like how netherite ingots in a smithing table with diamond make netherite stuff, the turtle scute could be put on top of Wolf Armor in the smithing table to make Reinforced Wolf Armor.

The glow squid sacs have so much wasted potential, It would be cool if they can craft more things such as glow sticks, and glow in the dark dye for blocks, armor, and dog collars.

I saw a comment on the short associated with this video and I'm inclined to agree: Mojang is turning a sandbox game into more of a nature preserve with some gameplay. They are so afraid of player choice that they de-incentivize the killing of the mobs. Your recommendations in the video are spot on. These updates are making the game boring, in my opinion. Not everyone is going to play the game the 'morally correct' way, and that should be okay. That's why it's a sandbox game.

5:40 I wish the Warden at least dropped a head or smth so you get a trophy from the fight. It doesn’t need to be practical or have any uses, just cool decoration

i wonder if armadillo scutes could be used for brewing resistance potions. kind of like how turtle helmets can brew turtle master potions but at a lower level of resistance and no slowness.

I feel that an easy way to give mobs more uses is to make their drops ingredients in potions, where we still have tons of effects that are unbrewable. Like someone else in this comment section pointed out, Glow Ink Sacs could be used for Potions of Glowing (which would in turn make the Radiant Arrow the Arrow of Glowing) Shulker Shells could be used for Potions of Levitation. Armadillo Scutes could be used for Potions of Resistance. That effect is quite strong and makes the Potion of the Turtle Master worse, but hey, makes seeking out the Armadillo worth it. The flower seeds that Sniffers dig up could be used for Potions of Nausea. Goat Horns could be usd for another "combo" potion, like that of the Turtle Master, which gives a higher level of effect than a regular potion, but also gives a negative effect to balance it. In the Goat Horn's case, it could give Strength, but it also gives Nausea / Blindness (simulating a rage effect)

I would love updates that add functionality to already existing stuff rather than add new superficial content, but hey, you cant sell quality of life shaped merchandise. Also, I absolutely agree that wolf armor should have been made with turtle scute. When making a custom resource pack for coins in my server, I looked for the most useless item in the game and eventually landed on using scutes as coins.

Can't wait for them to add a new boss mob that has slight animal features that drops nothing after defeating it.

I am on two minds on this. On one side I do agree that more of the mobs should have a use beyond the one niche one they do have (if any, really). Let them drop something if they don't already, give them some more use in this sandbox game. Like making the sniffers drop moss items for example. I could see a scenario where you need moss for a build, but have been unable to locate any. However you do have a sniffer egg, and aren't really that interested in the flowers. The frog (and I'd add Axolotl as well) dropping slime balls is another great one. Make it a chance, so it is less reliable than the literal slime mobs for farming, but still a good way to get it early game when you otherwise wouldn't be available. On the other side, I do see the use for mobs that doesn't really do much other than to add ambience and life to the world. Bats and Polar Bears are some good examples of these. They don't really add anything of functionality, but they do breathe a bit more life into the world, making it feel less empty. Minecraft wouldn't hurt from having a few more mobs that are just there to be there, like having birds that fly around or more biome specific creatures like Zebras in Savannas. However, i do think Mojang is taking the educational role of Minecraft too seriously, as highlighted with the Firefly debacle. It sometimes feels as if they think that their role is to help educate kinds and not influence them to do "bad" behavior such as harming animals moreso than it is to make a fun videogame.

i agree with your point. New mobs feel so useless because I can’t do much with them aside from wait an egg to hatch or watch a turtle grow

The fact that camels don't even drop leather (unlike horses, donkeys, and mules) is absolutely ridiculous.

Completely agree and I was complaining about this when I realized how hard it is to get slime early game in an SMP i recently played. I think mojangs idea with this is to try to do "silent game hints". They want to make the player consider a mob might have a unique usage, without outright telling them, or expecting them to know this in advance. If a new player saw a sniffer and tried killing it, they would just assume their purpose is to drop moss, and never think twice to check (I know I personally only learnt about goat horns after killing a few and asking someone about it). I personally disagree with this direction however and I think part of having a sandbox is just accepting that it can't truly be learned without a guide, I would love for them to spend an update just giving previous mobs more usages, all the mentioned mob drops in the video, like a potion for armadillo scutes, or new mechanics/items entirely.

Strider string is those gross little hairs on their sides lol

Dog armor could have easily been implemented as leather (which could be dyed), and chain for slightly higher defense. There was no need to add a new rare mob that only yields one item in one specific way that is only used for one recipe with one use. I agree minecraft has needed dog armor for years, but there was NO need to tie it to a mob vote. And unfortunately, since they did choose to go down this route, they have now put dog armor in a position where it would not make sense for it to be dyed, which is a something a lot of people would want.

I think the Warden is probably the worst mob added in the last few years. I know this is a bit long, but it's always been on my mind as something that goes against a lot of what the game has been over the years When you see an enemy that's so powerful they're oppressive, there's always one of three reasons: They're guarding some especially powerful loot, they are the loot, or they serve as a way of saying "you shouldn't be here". Any good example of this specializes in one of these things, but based on everything else in Minecraft, and the way it's presented, it's like the game wants to give the illusion that the Warden is all three To a new player, they're trained that the biggest, baddest, and rarest enemies give rewards to match. Bosses like The Wither and the Ender Dragon are keys to the strongest endgame tools a player could ask for, and rare events like raids or traps give you rewards like a unique mount or an extra life. The ONLY exception is the Warden. Minecraft is setting anyone not in the know for failure, as it trains the player to think the loot is relative to the enemy, only for a player to realize they have nothing. When you see it being the primary guard of Ancient Cities, you think those cities hold something great, and it does guard decent loot, but that's just it, it's only decent. Enchanted books are something that's available most of the game, and the diamonds are nice, but the sheer scarcity of the cities, and the tedium of exploring them thanks to the Warden will hardly make most players taking two or three times as long to find diamond gear than if they were mining instead worth it. At this point though, it's more of a problem with Minecraft not really innovating in gear progression and loot, but it still means the Warden is too strong a guard for a thing like an Ancient City, especially when things like Bastions, Strongholds, Ocean Monuments, and End Cites exist with much more appropriate force backing the loot. So that means the Warden is best in the third thing, deterring players. This is the worst thing, because the Deep Dark is fairly common at deepslate level. Anytime you see those blue specs on the ground, you know the game's pacing has come to a screeching halt. You can't move normally, have mobs around you, or even mine without constantly looking over your shoulder. It'll make most players just go a different way every time, no reason to explore when there's no loot, and the enemy just obliterates you literally only for walking. Suffice to say if something in *Minecraft* makes you want to actively avoid either mining or crafting, it makes the game feel much more like a slog.

Wow, Gerg transported his desk everywhere at this point.😂

While I understand that Mogang doesn't want you to kill armadillos, foxes or axolotls (yeah yeah, they're small adorable mobs yada yada yada) But Breeze? There is so much potential (something to do with for instance levitation potion which we don't have or some other things connected with wind or flight)

The problem isn't mobs having zero drops on death, it's that the things they actually do are boring and pointless. The sniffer is the best example of this. The Sniffer is a mob with an uninteresting design, that sniffs out uninteresting plants that add no real value to the game or the player. Not to mention that imo the plants themselves don't seem to match the rest of Minecraft's art style. Microsoft seems directionless when it comes to Minecraft and just keeps adding stupid mobs without much thought put into it because that's just what everyone expects now.

honestly it's about time someone talked about this, mojang has lost their spark and the game gets progressively worse because of these decisions.

The fact that they didn’t even make the Warden drop a Warden Head is atrocious.

The armadillo should drop it's scute and xp in my opinion. Armadillos scutes should also be used to upgrade your shield for higher durability. As well as turtle scute.

Does anyone also remember the copper horns that were added onto bedrock edition? Because they had such a unique use plus gives not only copper but also the goat horn more function.

i was trapped in an icy biome starving once, and hadnt interacted much with goats before. "no problem" i thought, "surely goats will drop some kind of meat i could cook up real quick, right?" right.

1:55 they literally have the most massive whiskers

Two mobs that should drop something are goats and frogs. Goats could drop Chevon (Goat meat), and frogs could drop Frog Legs

The Mojang devs are the type of parents who think killing people in gta will turn your kid into a school shooter.

It doens't help that a lot of the recently added mods have only a single active purpose when alive that has a limited lifespan - the frogs at least can constantly produce Froglights that can be used to ever-increasingly expand your base, but the Armadillo literally just drops scutes to make armor for the dogs that have no durability. And dogs have additional uses - you can use them for the normal combat reasons, but they also passively scare of skeletons, so you don't need them to be next to you to be useful. Compared to older mobs, though, they are much more limited - Creepers can break terrain, provide gunpowder, *and* interact with cats and ocelots, and also have interesting itneractions with the environment. Sniffers pop up special-looking plants that have no use aside from looks, and there's only 2 of them. Allays dance, help collect items (albeit poorly), and will sometimes intercept shots aimed at their player, even if only by accident. Cats will bring you gifts, interact with beds and sleeping players, and can scare away creepers, making them massively useful in the right setups. Pandas won't ever get drops because if Mojang gives any good reason to kill pandas then China will blacklist them and Microsoft, and no company wants that because of how much China buys up stuff.

The warden drop is actually also great because it gives players a reason to farm them. Sculk catalysts are a surprisingly useful item for portable experience dropping 20 exp each.

I’m still upset they hadn’t reverted the copper bulb change yet.

I’ve never encountered a frog, a Camel, a Sniffer. They may as well not even be in the game. It took me years to finally find a bamboo jungle.

6:20 which kills me cuz you can still feed parrots cookies and poison them. As for anyone that doesn't know chocolate is toxic to parrots. Not to mention apples from OAK Trees. Yeah Minecraft really cares for realism or whatever

3:30 Not to mention, once you reach the late game there'll be far more efficient ways to get slime so Mojang can still keep the E for everyone. Now THIS is actual game design. Not just shooting out ideas because you think they sound cool.

I have to say that every single time new update dropped I would start a new survival world with a bunch of friends, but since 2020 I only played vanilla when the cave generation was changed and then I haven't played vanilla since, only modded. I feel like they just keep adding very weird and niche features that I don't really use or encounter during my gameplay such as Allays or Armadillo. I remember how Mojang said that they would like to add new functions or uses to existing items rather than introducing new stuff and this doesn't to be the case anymore.

All mobs should have a USE. Maybe not loot upon death, but a USE. Maybe the Armadillo, when captured and lured to your house, can do something for you. It might not drop anything on death, but maybe it can attract zombies and curl up in a ball while the zombies waste their time attacking it instead of attacking you, or ... I dunno, _something._ That's my problem with a lot of this stuff they're adding. It's just fluff that has no usefulness other than just sitting there for looks. No loot, no uses, it's just a useless mob. Meanwhile, the game is sorely lacking in actual stuff to actually DO.

Yes! I was so excited for the archeology update, but it was disappointing. Yeah, the armour trims are absolutely awesome, and I love them, but there’s no reason for me to go after sniffers and suspicious sand. It feels detached

Striders string comes from their whiskers on the sides of their heads.

The camel should have a similar loot table to the horse tbh

6:52 Dude you cannot be serious

They should make it possible to use armadillo scute to make potions of resistance or something but have it being capped at leven 1 and last only 1:30 minutes normally and 2 minutes extended.

Mojang is acting like minecraft players are going to kill the animals in real life because they are killed in game. MORE than half of the minecraft fanbase is kids that don't even leave their house. Also nobody is stupid enough to do that. This is just a game! Where is the old mojang, with new mobs that drop something.minecraft is falling offf

The breeze should drop the Breeze Rod, which should be used with an echo shard and a trial key to unlock the ancient city portal

I remember being extremely disappointed when they removed the sniffer's moss drop.

I like how the warden is supposed to be a obstacle NOT just another boss to fight

they have already made turtle scutes make a resistance potion, it would make sense for the armadillo scute to do the same, because their ,,,shells?,,, in real life are used for defense. For turtles the side effect was slowness, for armidillos it would be blindness because their eyesight is terrible. Imagine the PVP implications, or the TNT launchers. with the crafter you can easily make a factory for brushes and farm just one armadillo and have renewable resistance

Turtle scute should be used to make axolotl armour

Useless mobs are sadly a common problem for a long time. We had foxes which picked up berries (Which were pretty useless) and killed chickens. Polar Bears, and then Panda's. The worst mob ever added though were Phantoms. Not only do they force you to sleep constantly to avoid them but their drop, the Phantom Membrane is pretty bad. First off it repairs Elytra, if for some reason you don't have mending on it. But it still limited to a set number of repairs. It also replaced the old method which was just Leather before the Phantoms existed.

A lot of the points you've made in this video are something I agree with a lot. Mojang's new additions seem to force people to play the game in a strictly specific way, even though Minecraft, a _sandbox_ game, is supposed to let you play how you want to be. And it makes a lot of mobs feel so useless that I tend to forget they were even in the game (I forgot goats existed because they _also_ drop nothing). For 4:54 , however, I personally believe the Warden's Sculk Catalyst drop is primarily more of a "trophy" item designed for people to show off and flex their achievements, similar to how killing the Ender Dragon gives you an egg or beating the Elder Guardian gives you access to the sponge.

4:43 agreed letting nostalgia drive your every thought on stuff is for the weak

I like mobs for appearances and diversity, not practicality.

I always thought it would be cool if there was a way to purify Skulk, say using an item you find in ancient city and maybe the warden dropped a piece needed to make purified Skulk.

Generally items added have basically only one use, I hate the heart of the sea and the nautilus shell. They just clog up storage unless you REALLY need a way to get water breathing.

Bruh the string on the strider is literally just the hairs on the side of it's head tho.

Mojang needs to find a middle ground between mob drops and tedious mob mechanics. Because in a way I think they need to make some mobs more interesting than just: 1. find mob 2. kill mob. Having mob drops on the side is a good idea, like moss from a sniffer. Nothing game changing but there as an alternate use. But they have to make getting the item from the mob less of a tedious task. Froglights and turtle scutes are just way too tedious for me to care. Also I agree Mojang needs to integrate new mobs more into the rest of the game. The Sniffer was promised to add so much to agriculture and exploration... we got two flowers.

Who tf is Minecraft trying not to offend being able to get drops from everything is literally RPG 101

Maybe the glowing ink sac could be used as a book and quill with invisible ink (except for the player who wrote it), and other players can only see it under a Blacklight (redstone lamp crafted with amethyst) on a lecturn. Idk, shooting out ideas I think might be cool

Honestly, I used to be excited for updates. Now I just ignore them. I wish updates would add more interesting mechanics like a redstone update

It would be really cool if a modder (boy i wish i knew how to mod 😭) did a poll to see what people think mobs that don't drop things or adjust bad drops, along with exp,

I drew the line at the auto crafter. That shit is 100% mod tier

Saw a good video recently talking about this sort of thing The TL;DR is that Mojang, under the direction of Microsoft, aren't able to take risks. They want to add content without complicating or adding to or taking away from the older versions and the core gameplay, which is probably why everything added recently feels like an isolated mod

I would like an April fools update oposite to the Love and Hugs update called Violence and death update where you can eat brains

personally i feel they should give wolf armors the option to be dyed and give them the new patterns that the armor can have, i feel it would make the wolf armor more interactive.

in my modpacks, i add 2 recipes that use Glow Ink Sacs: One that lets you get Cyan Dye, and one that lets you convert 2 of them into 2 Ink Sacs. i'll sometimes add mod-specific ones, but those 2 should really be in vanilla imo. even something as simple as letting you smelt scutes into dye would be good.

To be fair the warden thing IIRC is actually one of the best XP farms. Though yes I agree there should be more loot drops.

At least if a dog army is more practical with the addition of the armadillo, that’ll be something. I think mobs with one use are fine as long as it’s something the player has some reason to engage with and it’s worth their time. Things like froglights and turtle scutes are a huge hassle for minimal payoff

Fun fact: The warden originally didn’t drop anything. Mohammed went on record that they didn’t want to add any reward for killing him since the player is never meant to kill him. They later added the skill catalyst as a drop, solely for the purpose of making skulk catalysts farmable for tryhards.

4:25 You raise a very interesting point here about how players feel like all of the more recent updates are just mods for the game. A long, long time ago, when I was in high school and Minecraft was still in beta, there were a lot of mixed opinions on the beta 1.7 update. That was the day they introduced pistons into the game. Pistons were a wonderful invention for redstone enthusiasts and paved the way for all sorts of interesting automation projects for the game. The problem was, pistons had already been introduced in a mod released long before B1.7 and many players felt that Mojang had taken the easy way out by stealing that idea and making it an official feature. Then beta 1.8 came out and added sprinting, the hunger meter, among a huge plethora of other things. A lot of those features, again, were achieved by the modding community months or even years prior. You see where I'm going with this? Several major updates since the early '10s have borrowed (or sometimes outright plagiarized) concepts and functions from mods that have existed for ages and ages beforehand. That's why so much of the new content feels haphazardly stitched together. These complaints are completely valid.

6:05 LMAO thank you for sharing this meme with us

I agree with everything you said except for on the warden. Personally, I’m a massive fan of its lack of drop. It’s not making fun of the player so much as it is indifferent to the player, as the game is actively trying to dissuade the player from summoning the mob in the first place. It’s supposed to be an unkillable boss, like a monster in a horror game, which your only option is to run from because you weren’t careful enough. That, and it’s unique in this aspect because we’ve been conditioned to think that hard=good reward, but the addition of the wardens shriek attack making it so that just being near it will kill you makes it so that by killing the warden, you are rewarded with safety. While the idea of a cool drop from it seems reasonable, the difficulty of the mob would bar it from 99% of casual players anyways.

1:25 Snotty pandas can drop Slime balls!

What's also pretty prevalent is single-use items. Armadillos drop scutes, which you make into wolf armor, and that's the only thing that armadillo scutes do. Turtles also drop scutes (but only when they grow up, I think? Something obscure and inaccessible) which can be used for a turtle helmet, and maybe for making bowls, maybe I think? They can't make wolf armor and armadillo scutes also can't make helmets or bowls. That's the most egregious case, but there are lots of mobs which do a single thing and items which do a single thing. Phantoms only drop phantom membranes, which only repair elytras. Bats don't drop anything. Silverfish don't drop anything (but they do burrow into stone, which is neat)

3:08 I really like this idea plus it makes sense

I think the string from a strider comes from it's hair... Yea I hate it too.

This goes the other way too. Blazes for example, ONLY exist to drop blaze rods, they don't do anything else for the player. Actually, most hostile mobs don't do anything for the player, and are just there to drop loot. If we add the stipulation that what a mob does has to actually be good, then pigs are also just meat drops.

Bonemeal can also be used to get lots of flowers, or to decorate an area just by right clicking grass blocks. And its also used quite a lot in automatic farms. Thats about 3 to 5 uses for bonemeal depending on what you consider to be a unique usage.

Striders: *have string on the sides of their heads* gerg: "I don't know where they're keeping it"