According to developer Mojang, the frogs added to 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 Minecraft into a tense horror game, with players able to find valuable loot if they can avoid the nearly unstoppable Warden mob.
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 a goat, the bug was nonetheless removed before the Wild Update's official launch.
While the recent expansion was quite robust, removed features from the Minecraft Wild Update led to some backlash when it went live on June 7. The Deep Dark and mangrove swamps were successfully delivered, but the update failed to add other promised features like fireflies and improved birch forest biomes. Even features that did make the cut were criticized, with some Minecraft fans claiming that mangrove swamps are too empty and the Deep Dark offers disappointing rewards. The backlash has even led some gamers to call it the Mild Update instead.
Frogs are an adorable addition to Minecraft that help make swamps and other biomes more atmospheric. While they currently eat slimes and magma cubes, at one point the frogs were so hungry that they could eat an entire goat. The bug was eventually fixed, but fans will always the infamous goat-eating Minecraft frogs of old.
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