- Aquatic mobs now have unique baby models and better visuals in Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5.
- The Golden Dandelion is a new flower that allows players to freeze baby mobs in their younger forms.
- The baby mob sounds have now been improved along with a few other technical improvements.
Minecraft 26.1 snapshots offer a sneak peek at the features coming in the next update. While these are experimental, you can still try them and experience new features in development. The Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5 is now available to download, and it shifts the focus from ground animals to aquatic mobs, remodeling their baby variants. There’s also a new flower. If you’re thinking Mojang is going to miss out on that for the Spring-themed update, well, you’re wrong. Here’s everything new in the Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5.
Aquatic Baby Mobs and Golden Dandelions Introduced in Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5
The Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5 is about making the oceans cuter with the refreshed baby aquatic mobs. These babies have unique proportions of head to body that don’t feel odd like before. The following baby mobs have been remodeled:
- Dolphins
- Squids & Glow Squids
- Turtles
- Axolotls
The above mobs now look noticeably different from their adult counterparts. These are now rounder and look more playful. Moreover, to match their new designs, the bounding boxes have been slightly increased to match their movement and collisions.
The next exciting feature is a magical flower, the Golden Dandelion. It is a rare, craftable flower that allows players to control whether a mob grows up or stays young forever.
Crafting a golden dandelion requires the regular dandelion flower and 8 gold nuggets. Put down a crafting table, place the dandelion at the center, and the eight nuggets surrounding it. This gives a golden dandelion that you can feed to your favorite baby mobs. It will stop their aging process completely, and they will stay as a baby forever.
However, you can’t use Golden Dandelions on hostile baby mobs nor on villagers. Apart from these, the baby chickens now have new sounds instead of reusing the adult audio. Even these small sound changes have a huge impact on making Minecraft realistic.
That completes all the changes introduced in Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5. What do you think about these features? Have you tried them out by downloading the latest Java snapshot? Let us know in the comments below.
No, the Golden Dandelions don’t work on the hostile baby mobs or the baby villagers.
The data pack version has been updated to 98, while the resource pack version has been updated to 79 in the latest Minecraft snapshot.
