So I know Minecraft isn't exactly a hot topic on Era but I found this too perplexing to pass up. In the upcoming wild update two of the features promised were fireflies and birch biomes. A few days ago they released this video explaining why neither were gonna be in the game now (consult 1:36)-
I can understand the birch biome stuff, it's clear they can't get it running right now or just don't care enough for it (probably shouldn't have shown it off even if it was concept art but I digress), but what kills me is the firefly stuff. Apparently, fireflies are poisonous to frogs, a new mob in the update and the fireflies were to be a food source, in real life and therefore won't be in the update because it's unrealistic. Instead, tiny slimes will be used as a food source now.
Now I'm not much an irl spelunker that touches grass on the daily, but I'm pretty sure Slimes aren't real. In fact I'm certain of it. It's just so bizarre to me that this is the explanation/ If you want to take a gander at the youtube comments you can see that the fanbase is pretty universally against this. My only explanation is that mojang didn't want to admit they couldn't get this to work in time because otherwise why say something like this?
I can understand the birch biome stuff, it's clear they can't get it running right now or just don't care enough for it (probably shouldn't have shown it off even if it was concept art but I digress), but what kills me is the firefly stuff. Apparently, fireflies are poisonous to frogs, a new mob in the update and the fireflies were to be a food source, in real life and therefore won't be in the update because it's unrealistic. Instead, tiny slimes will be used as a food source now.
Now I'm not much an irl spelunker that touches grass on the daily, but I'm pretty sure Slimes aren't real. In fact I'm certain of it. It's just so bizarre to me that this is the explanation/ If you want to take a gander at the youtube comments you can see that the fanbase is pretty universally against this. My only explanation is that mojang didn't want to admit they couldn't get this to work in time because otherwise why say something like this?
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