As announced this week, Minecraft will soon integrate a new mob in its next update, and for that, you will have to vote for one of the three contenders in the running during the next Minecraft Live in October. After teasing the announcement of the three creatures, Mojang revealed the names of two of them, starting with the Rascal.
Vote for the Rascal
The mob seems hide in mineshafts and is not hostile by nature. This is the one who had been teased as “playing hide and seek” and snooping around in the dark watching players mine. Finding it three times, he also drop an enchanted pickaxe. Its full description can be found here.
Vote for the Sniffer
A few hours earlier, Mojang unveiled the Sniffer, a passive mob that visibly revives species disappeared. This animal from a distant past can sniff the flowery earth and take out seeds to grow ancestral plants.
This mob has given rise elsewhere to a meme since it looks a lot like the 2020 and 2021 proposals with the Moobloom and the Glare, all three being plant-based mobs, and quickly overshadowed by the presentation of the second suitor…
We’ll see if the curse of the mob-plant continues this year: Voting starts October 14 and the winner of the three will be added to the game, like the Allay during MC Live 2021.