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Minecraft adds axolotls in latest Caves & Cliffs snapshotADORABLE
ADORABLE
While Mojang continue to work onMinecraft’s massive Caves & Cliffs update, the latest Java snapshot build has introduced its very best feature: axolotls. These adorable aquatic amphibians won’t be live in the main game until the update’s full launch in mid-2021, but folks on the bleeding edge can now befriend them. More like amfriendians.
Mojang gave a peek at axolotls when they first announced the update:
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While Minecraft’s axolotls don’t naturally spawn in the world under this snapshot, you can grab axolotl eggs from the creative inventory. You’ll need to install the snapshot build to try that, mind. And not many people use snapshots. So the real excitement will be when this update actually launches. Or possibly even later, once mods are updated and servers finally follow. But my point is: axolotls!
I adore axolotls. I kept a pair as pets as a kid, and loved their combination of fascinating biology, chill vibes, happy faces, and ruthless predator instincts. Those smiling mouths don’t seem so sweet once you’ve witnessed them suck up an entire earthworm like a spaghetto. I like axolotls so much that I havea tattoo of twoin a place that’s incredibly awkward to take a good photo of without assistance so they look real wonky but they’re not, okay.
It is nice to see Minecraft add another endangered species, followingpandas, maybe getting the kiddywinkles interested in conservation. Axolotls were native to two lakes in Mexico, but habit destruction, pollution, and the arrival of invasive species of predatory fish mean they’re on the very brink of extinction in the wild, if they aren’t already. Plenty do still live in captivity as pets and, er, for scientific research.
Over in the Windows 10 version of Minecraft, Mojang last weekadded RTX raytracingbecause… reasons? idk
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