• Mon. Oct 6th, 2025

Controversial new mob comes to Minecraft, and it’s available right now

Controversial new mob comes to Minecraft, and it’s available right now

Last autumn, the Minecraft community was incensed about the results of a mob vote conducted in advance of its 1.21 Update. Players were given an opportunity to vote on three options for the introduction of a new mob: a crab, a penguin, or an armadillo. The results were close, with the armadillo winning, and, once announced, caused some fans to raise concerns that bot voting interfered with the poll — concerns that creator Mojang addressed by assuring Minecraft players that it was “confident that this year’s winner accurately reflects the results of the vote” in an official statement. Now, months later, the controversial mob has come to the game, and we have the details.

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