Minecraft's Wild Update Frogs Initially Ate Entire Goats
According to developer Mojang, the frogs added to Minecraft in the Wild Update could once eat an entire goat. The procedurally-generated survival sandbox's most recent expansion introduced a multitude of new features, including mangrove swamps and the terrifying Deep Dark. The Minecraft Wild Update added frogs as an adorable new mob, too, but at one point in development the amphibious creatures had much more voracious appetites.
Despite releasing back in 2009, Minecraft continues to enjoy regular updates from Mojang. The title's most recent expansion, the Wild Update, focused on fleshing out the title's block-based worlds by adding two robust new biomes. The game's new mangrove swamps are lush biomes filled with shallow water and overgrown with massive mangrove trees. A boat with a built-in chest helps navigate this new Minecraft biome, while frogs give it personality and life. Meanwhile, the Wild Update also added a new underground region that players can explore at their own risk. These Deep Dark cities turn Minecraftinto a tense horror game, with players able to find valuable loot if they can avoid the nearly unstoppable Warden mob.
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A Mojang developer diary, posted to YouTube by Minecraft, reveals that frogs in the Wild Update could once eat goats. Art director Jasper Boerstra and 3D artist Chi Wong explain that, while frogs eat small slimes and magma cubes in-game, one development snapshot had a strange bug that let the amphibious mobs eat goats instead. This is an extremely funny sight, considering the fact that the frogs are much smaller than Minecraft's blocky goats. While Boerstra points out that the frog's enormous mouth could reasonably fit
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