It’s a shame to think that fireflies won’t come to Minecraft after all, since they would’ve been a great help in improving the atmosphere of swamps. Hope isn’t entirely lost for fireflies, though. On the contrary, these insects would be an excellent new mob to include in a future Minecraft update that’s all about adding new wildlife. Mojang has floated lots of new mob ideas in the last few years without implementing them; it’s time for the studio to revisit these ideas and put them in the game. Minecraft deserves a major wildlife update that gives fireflies a new lease on life.
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Evolving the Minecraft Landscape
Over the last several years, Mojang has added a lot of new Minecraft mobs that make the game’s wilderness more engaging. Whether it’s the Update Aquatic’s fish and dolphins or Caves and Cliffs Part One’s axolotls and goats, all kinds of creatures have joined the ranks of Minecraft. Each of these mobs are crucial to the game. No matter how many unique block types a biome includes, a biome without special mobs to populate it is bound to feel barren. That’s why Minecraft’s upcoming swamp changes are so important. Swamps may already feature slimes in high numbers, but the frogs will make swamps all the more dynamic, and fireflies would’ve helped to do the same.
Mojang would be wise to give fireflies a second chance, especially if it comes in the context of a major wildlife update. The company has had plans to add new wildlife mobs to Minecraft for quite some time now; Mojang has floated plans to add vultures in a badlands update, ostriches and termites in a Minecraft desert update, and so on. Mojang could consider bundling these mobs into one big wildlife update for Minecraft, adding new life to a variety of locations rather than releasing an update that’s all about one specific biome. Fireflies could readily be added to this type of wildlife update, whether they still join the swamp biome or appear somewhere else in the Minecraft overworld.
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The Wild Update’s Ongoing Changes
In theory, Mojang could decide to add further mobs for biomes like deserts and badlands as a part of the Wild Update. The update’s name does imply an overall focus on Minecraft’s wilderness, so it would make sense if Mojang has further biome plans that it hasn’t revealed yet. Overall, though, the Wild Update will probably focus on swamps and the Deep Dark biome. If Mojang’s intention was to update many other biomes at the same time, it probably would’ve said as much when the Wild Update was announced. There isn’t a hard release date for the Wild Update just yet, so there may be time for major surprises to join the update, but nothing is certain.
Regardless of whether the Wild Update expands drastically in the coming months, it’s unfortunate that fireflies are out of the picture. Even if they no longer acted as a food source for frogs, fireflies would’ve been a charming addition to the Minecraft world. The Wild Update still has many other features for fans to look forward to, but fireflies will have to wait until Mojang finds a new purpose for them. Perhaps they can be the cherry on top of a future update that’s all about new Minecraft mobs.
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