Minecraft's official secret series: How Did Minecraft Successfully Invent a Frog?
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Back in 2019, Mojang offered the opportunity to add a frog to players in Minecraft, as in minecraft Live 2019, Swamp and Mountain lost to Mountain in the second round of voting competition. Therefore, the fact that frogs and box boats do not have goats and fine snow "incense" is also decided by the players themselves.
PS: In fact, looking back at the group voting in that year, it was also correct to take the lead in voting for "mountain" that year. The overlap of mountain and cave regeneration directly catalyzed the transformation of the world's building height, biome topography, and world seeds. Frogs and box boats really won't have such an impact.
When planning to start swamp renewal, Mojang's first thought was what kind of "new creature" should be added to the swamp biome? What kind of creatures are more suitable to put in the swamp?
The first creature: crocodiles
When considering what creatures to add to minecraft swamps, the first thing to consider is what creatures are in the real swamp. Therefore, the first reaction of many people is crocodiles. In fact, the crocodile is not the first time it has been mentioned in Minecraft, and in the vote of the panda to join the mc that year, the crocodile was one of the voting creatures.
The presence of crocodiles in the swamp was a matter of course, but why didn't Mojang choose to do so in the end?
First of all, crocodiles must be a dangerous and hostile creature if they join the swamp. There may not yet be a world in which a crocodile becomes a friendly pet. Therefore, once the crocodile appears in Minecraft, it will inevitably be the enemy of the player.
However, the development convention in Minecraft is that hostile creatures usually choose a virtual, fictional creature, such as zombies, skeletons, coolies, Warden, and so on. Reality-based wildlife is often friendly or neutral. So one of the underlying directions of the game is that hunting wild animals is prohibited, and any harm to animals should not appear in Minecraft as much as possible, but you can try to "raise" them.
So crocodiles may not easily appear in the game until there is a good and effective consideration of how to join a "hostile" wild animal.
The second creature: fireflies
The story of frogs and fireflies, there is no need to say more. It was after abandoning the idea of crocodiles that Mojang decided to join frogs and innovatively added fireflies and allowed frogs to swallow fireflies to perfect the frog's food chain.
Until someone reported that fireflies are not a good food for frogs, and they can be fatal. After Mojang did more research, he unexpectedly spawned the interesting property of eating small slimes and eating small lava monsters that give birth to frog lanterns. Mojang tries to avoid misleading players into harming wild animals in the game in the wrong way, including parrots eating cookies and frogs eating fireflies now, all of which have been corrected.
Firefly's first few plans:
Food for frogs;
Let mc have a more beautiful environment full of fireflies;
When a frog eats a firefly, it can craft a new light source block; so now, Mojang has to spend more time rethinking the use of fireflies. But now, officials are focusing on how to make frogs better.
Seeing this, do you still think that the "frog light" born of the frog eating the small lava monster was an accident? It's just based on fireflies, a different way of generating "lights".
The third creature: the frog
When a frog eats a firefly and removes not the frog but the fireflies, you'll understand how important they are in Minecraft. Another factor is that the frog actually underwent a lot of design iterations, including changes to the animation of legs, feet, mouths and other parts, and Mojang did not want to give up this interesting creature that was finally finalized.
There are currently three colors of frogs, orange, green, and white. But why isn't the white frog a "snow frog" born in a cold biome? Because the white color of frogs on the earth is more conducive to their resistance to high temperatures, there are frogs in Africa that will turn white in high temperatures to keep cool.
But in fact, there is a fourth "blue frog" design in Minecraft, which has not yet been added to the game.