Probably they are mistaking Armadillos with Pangolins
Pangolins are objectively some of the best animals and I will not stand for any pangolin defamation! Confusing them with armadillos is blasphemy!
I wholeheartly agree with you. Pangolons deserve all the good in this world and they are too pure and shy to accept it!
I remember watching a documentary on how endangered they are and being absolutely devastated because they’re so cute!
I knoooow, some people can be really cruel, but if I'm not mistaken they are bouncing back up in population numbers from what I've heard
I had a shirt that I loved wearing that said "Save Pangolins". It was from a national park in Vietnam that conserves pangolins, so I agree with this message. Pangolins deserve more recognition
pangolins are rad!
Giant Armadillo maybe?
Tho idk if they(Moyang) ever said they did it cuz they're endangered...
I see 3 dead ones weekly, they’re fine. Being said, they never dropped any scutes, maybe the item despawned
5 minute timer went out a second too fast 🫣
Narrator: "The dead ones were NOT in fact fine..."
Same, I'm north Oklajoma, and every few months Armadillos litter the roads.
I had never seen one that was still alive until I was like 14 and I’ve lived here almost my entire life
Hell in my lifetime they’re gonna spread to my state as well as to other places they never were living in before like Ohio
Yea, Texan here. I’ve seen quite a few. And I feel like if they were endangered someone would have told us how to keep them safe. (I was in scouts and would always go to camps with the little dudes around, learning about endangered animals was common, especially if they were an animal that was nearby)
Heck, one guy died when his bullet Ricocheted off one back at him
(they don't won't the kids to kill armadillos IRL)
I just kept killing them, assuming the scutes just didn't drop every time. It wasn't until I had killed about 20 that I realised something definitely wasn't right and I googled how to get scutes.
Should be like Sheep; Killing them gets some loot and is usually a reliable method early-game, but once you start to really ramp things up you need the specific tools to gather them renewably and/or more efficiently.
I believe the issue is that Microsoft care vastly more about investors than about consumers. Now, the player base might support such an action, Mojang might think it’s a good feature, but the CEOs want to appeal to animal rights lobbies and similar groups, so they add animals that are weird like this, with absolutely no reason to hunt them, yet also having little practical purpose beyond a niche use, so they can be “Environmentally conscious” without actually improving in a meaningful way.
They just want to make the brush more useful
If only there was an existing system that they could add upon to make it more useful.
paint?
Archeology
yeah but we’re talking about more additions
That’s not Wut the guy was saying, he said about existing uses and how to enhance it
Yeah but we’re saying that the brush doesn’t need more niche uses that are about as deep as a puddle and as fun as a cardboard party. Mojang should be focusing on expanding the brushes primary use (archeology) into a more useful feature.
Not a bad idea now that you mention it
Painting would make many blocks redundant, think wood blocks. Plus a painting system would probably be a lot to code.
pikuniku made a pretty good painting system
Hoes are used for tilling farmland and breaking blocks, and axes are also used for stripping and scraping. It’s okay to have multiple uses for tools.
Being a core part of farming and breaking certain blocks isn't exactly the same as getting an item with one use and interacting with 2 blocks with loot tables.
You’re overestimating the power of farmland. You can grow like 6 useful crops with it (5 if you discount beetroots), and 2 which you technically need the brush for.
I use it quite a bit but that's just me being in a skyblock world. Bread is a consistently good food source and you need carrots for the best food without villagers. Personally I've never crafted a brush before, skyblock or not, but my main problem is Mojang trying to find fringe cases for new items and tools that you use once or twice and then put away.
Hoes are likely the most useless classic tool but they're still pretty useful for breaking blocks and stuff consistently (especially in the nether), while the brush is something you use when you find a specific mob in a specific biome that you use to get a specific item to craft another specific item to use on another specific mob, or on a few fairly rare structures to get a disk, sherds, a way to spawn a new mob with one use, and a few armour trims.
I think the brush is meant to be more like shears.
You don’t need to shear sheep, break tall grass or cobwebs, or trim vines all the time, but it’s a useful tool to have sometimes. And, Mojang will probably find more uses for it over time, as it’s still brand new.
Honestly yeah, that's fair. The shears being an early-game way to use silk touch on certain things is still really good (especially for getting leaves), but it doesn't have too much.
I think my main problem with the brush is that it doesn't have any interactions with building, crafting, or mining, making it feel disconnected from everything else. Maybe if it had some interactions with more general things it would be more in place with things like shears, hoes, and buckets.
Buckets move liquids and have recipes, hoes break things and start farms, and shears give access to some very useful building blocks, so maybe the brush could interact with powdery blocks by reducing their layors like snow can? Or maybe you could paint with them and tint surfaces? Maybe add varnish to wood? Make mobs sneeze? Idk, anything that has use outside of a path to an item unrelated to it.
It would have just dropped 1 scute tbf
Which isn't useful at all considering you need 6 to craft the armor
The same deal with the sheep, in which is better to keep them alive than kill them
But shearing sheep is something actually done irl. You don't get shells from animals by brushing them
to be fair armadillos do actually shed scales regularly
Yeah but you can’t brush it off
You haven't brushed hard enough
Yeah but if they made the armadillo actually slowly shed shell and drop the scute players would complain about having to wait for it to shed to make armour
Like chickens already did with eggs? Sure, eggs are mainly used for cakes instead of armor, but there isn't a very easy way to get eggs faster other than just getting more chickens
Chickens, notably, can also be produced with eggs.
But it's easier, faster, and some would argue less resource intensive to just feed seeds to two chickens and let them mate, since that also works and is much more reliable than throwing 7 eggs on the ground to get 1 or 2 chicks.
Just don't question the fact that all mine craft animals seem to be hermaphrodites
However, it also means that only one chicken is needed to make more chickens anywhere, so less moving mobs long-distance(as is necessary to set up a farm for armadillos), and egg throwing can be automated pretty easily to increase the rate of egg production as much as needed without further effort by the player.
Also, all minecraft animals and characters are indeed hermaphrodites. Persson explicitly confirmed it way back when he owned the game, even going so far as to say that this means that they're all homosexual.(Which kinda makes the rabbit hole he went down after selling the game ironic.)
Turtle helmet
People complain about those, and nearly nobody uses them
I use them
You do not represent the majority of players. In a game with water breathing potion, enchantment that extends breathing time, and 3 blocks(soul sand, magma block, doors) for air underwater, a helmet that is a pain to get and gives only 10 seconds of extra time isn't very useful.
I’m just saying I use them
The solution is to make it a kill drop
Then you have to kill multiple armadillos to get enough scutes for your wolf army which is arguably more annoying than brushing
I don’t see why people are so mad about this
Farming exists
Then just brush them
It’s the same thing but now you get multiple scutes from a single armadillo
Then maybe they should have been kept the same way chicken are. But instead of dropping eggs they would drop scales.
... they do that already. They drop scales from time to time
An armadillo scute is more like a scale. It’s part of what makes up the shell. Not the shell itself. If you’re aggressive enough you can definitely brush them off
Armadillo farm. People already breed cows and pigs for their drops and you can’t get them without killing the animal.
Mojang hasn't added a real life mob that drops something when killed since Fish in 1.13.
Does anyone know why exactly that is?
They don't want to encourage killing real life animals.
That's stupid. It's just a damn game!
This is why I don’t play vanilla anymore. It’s just stupid.
And here I present: Armadillo farm
No, wait, not that one. But you get the point.
But sheep have a cooldown, there should be one for armadillos too
Minecraft today would have you shear cows for leather
I could sit here for 15 minutes thinking of what to comment, but I'll be lazy and just say "💀"
Well, I’m dead.
💀
That's 100% more brutal
Nahh what would skinning them alive even look like
Would have been pretty cool if it turned them into skeleton cows
Win win solution: being struk by lightning makes them drop cooked steak and leather whilst turning into an epic skeleton cow which when milked gives Bucket o' Bones
actually sounds cool
But what would you use a bucket o' bones for?
Drink it and you will get a new effect, “bad to the bone”. When you have the effect bad to the bone will play on repeat
Spawns 1 skeleton on death, increases to 3 at level 3
Hit it with an axe and peel it like a log.
that was a mod wasn’t it? back when they made the jaffa factory o think so probably 1.12?
Mojangs modern attitude of “killing fake virtual animals is bad” is to the games detriment; who tf would naturally try and brush an armadillo when no other mob in the game can be brushed.
It’s also hypocritical; the best way to get enchantments is to create slave camps and the best way to get beef is to inbreed a bunch of cows in a tight enclosed space.
I generally agree but the Armadillos is like one of the only exceptions I can think of, they naturally shed 'scutes' so it half-way makes sense for them to be able to be brushed off (maybe there's a few that are just barely not fully shed yet).
But yeah shit like the turtle hat, or the whole firefly thing is stupid imo. I guess the armadillos could be kinda neat gameplay wise if you had to sneak up on them to kill them, or else they'd hide and be hard to kill/ unkillable.
Mojang never said that, and they still like to kill chickens and they did even a video with them killing villagers
Well hear me out… the death sound of the armadillo had to be made somehow
They recorded the sound by hiring an actor armadillo and then killing it
best possible format was chosen
Lol endangered? My dogs have killed at least 20. They are pests.
your dogs bout to make them endangered.
Nah they keep finding more.
you got a Spawner near by dude, i would get some torches.
Can't find it:(
go into spectator.
Cheats disabled :(
Just enable them.
Don't have admin perms on the server.
Ask the server owner to give you admin
ah i see, them you need to strip mine everything.
Honestly they should drop a few when they die like sheep do for wool.
Same with turtles.
It would be better if it worked like sheep, if you could either kill or brush them for it (brushing being the sustainable but slower option)
Yeah but unlike sheep, you can’t just remove bits of the shell.
Mojang today is way too sanitized, now they wouldn't have even added the Nether
It feels like they only really care about adding things that are cute or endangered and make killing them useless in the game.
I can guarantee that something like the creeper wouldn't be added to modern day Minecraft.
yeah, imagine if they added a mob that was an overgrown, still living but in a less conscious state, human corpse, which you had to kill. imagine if this human corpse had mushrooms growing out of its skull. that would be too much. modern mojang would never do something like this. they are all clearly way too bogged in their own ways.
The parrot cookie fix was added before the Nether update.
The same update that lets you make torches and lanterns out of dead people.
And also added the biome where souls of the damned used in said torches and lanterns are imprisoned.
The literally expanded the Nether 3 years ago, what are you on about?
Expanding is different than adding. Mojang still expands on the creeper aesthetic but they’d NEVER add it in modern days, it goes completely against their mob design philosophy
OK. But appart from the fact it's currently to easy to get them. Is it that bad?
Making a kill armadillo farm would barely be too different from a brush armadillo farm. Like yeah it's different. But you don't need too many anyway. And the requirement would be low every time. Both need an anclosure, a few armadillo, and either a chicken farm from brushes, or a spider farm for breeding armadillo with eyes.
I'd rather have i'tresting way to get items than just drop on death.
That being said. Goats arnt endangered. Make them drop goat meat. Same for frogs. Same for other animals.
What do you mean by, “breeding armadillo with eyes?”
Spider eyes is the food used to breed armadillo.
Ohhhhh
Mojang could add frog legs, but you have to breed them with slime balls. Plus, frogs are quite small, so I don’t see them being giving you more hunger than chicken or rabbit.
Using wheat to breed up cows seems way more practical.
No but like. That's dumb not to do from mojang not more drop on irl animal kill is dumb since we already have animal drops on kill.
So while on endangered species it's a valid take. On farm animals... That's just dumb.
Minecraft players when they have to get resources through peaceful means and not slaughtering species to extinction
Yes
And yall are… complaining about this? I dont understand what the issue is
I love how people are discovering the disconnect that Minecraft has with itself. For some reason, Mojang doesn't want to expand upon the basis that Notch set when he made older features, despite the fact that it works just fine.
I feel like if there were issues with Pigs, Cows and Chickens dropping feathers and Leather and whatnot when they died, they would've changed it to fit "modern Minecraft."
Fish have to be killed to drop bones/bonemeal and their item form, hoglins drop pork, polar bears drop fish and salmon when killed, pandas drop bamboo when killed, obviously not evry mob will drop their flesh cuz let's be honest, that's overcomplicating and overall most of us wouldn't actually like eating their flesh irl, so why even bother? Dolphins drop cod and turtles drop sea weed, glow squids drop glow ink sacks and the strider drops strings. The armadillo's like, a one-off thing in a list of real life animals that do drop stuff, useful or not, they do have a killing reward.
Edit: I've been informed that goats don't drop mutton anymore, despite that, the rest should all be up to date and correct.
Goats used to drop mutton in a couple of development versions, but they removed that for an unknown reason
Is that so? Mb then.
Chicken being sheared for feathers is actually a decent idea.
I feel like this applies to many mobs
turtles for example.
so instead of the proofing out of existence after being hit, you brush them so harshly that their shells are ripped off?! bit harsh.
Armadillos do regularly shed their scales. Brushing was likely just added as an alternative to them leaving items wherever they walked.
Honestly prefer the brushing version. Adding new mobs only for the only form of gameplay interaction with them being ‘kill’ isn’t interesting
Yeah and especially when it's a cute silly guy like the armadillo. I don't wanna kill those guys :(
This is just a non-issue? Minecraft Fans really do complain just for the sake of complaining no wonder Notch sold the game to Microsoft
Or maybe because having the same farming/obtaining method is boring and repetitive gameplay and introducing a more unique way to obtain items adds more variety and depth the the game.
After starting a new world when 1.21 dropped I actually love the armadillos, and think they are a great addition to the game. I’m happy to actually take my dog on me with adventures and I get incredibly excited to come across one cause they are so cute, especially since our world was surrounded by savanna (which is also a biome which definitely needed something extra)
Really, this is what makes us question the message we send to our children?
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It would have functioned like turtle scutes I imagine.
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Thanks OP I've got two armadillos in a pen and I have no idea what they eat, how to get the scutes or what to be careful of.
They eat spider eyes
Everyone is out here helping me today! Thankyou kindly! That is gonna help me get my orange dog a nice suit of armour.
The only thing I knew about the update was the chambers, I went in basically blind other than seeing a trailer of the chambers and knowing I needed to get a map to find one.
The dogs are new colours, there is armour for them, there's armadillos, and what the heck is with the new swamp skeletons! They are so difficult when there's more than 1!
The breeze is absolutely awesome! Love him sm.
Also if you are more educated than myself on the update what's the purpose of the potion the pilligar patrol dropped when I killed them?
You can use them in trial chambers to basically make the spawners harder and give better loot. I'd recommend using them when you know you're prepared for the harder spawns, because the effect goes away on death, similar to any other effect
My goofy brain actually thought killing them was how to get scute
So your saying its bad there is no reason to kill them?
Yes it is annoying. What is even the point of stopping killing of digital animals that have no effect on the real world. Besides we kill 90% of the animals in the game already so what is the point of having these useless extra steps to get the animals signature item.
Y'all acting like 90% didn't already build a giant, ungodly farm that is just about efficiency
They should have at least added it so that it still drops on death, but drops more when brushed
minecraft players when the game isn't just holding a sword and spam-clicking for 100 hours straight (it simply must mean the game is badly designed)
Yes. And that's a good thing. It's more interesting, and there is nothing fun in killing animals.
I kill sheep and dont shear them
A meme that helped me to get the armor lmao. I always kill them and I wonder how low the drop chance is lmao. I dont think they thought this through
Alright imma say it:
Using brush for their scutes makes zero sense
Scutes drop off by themselves, if you want a way to think about it, your just helping the ones that are about to shed off do so faster. I mean yeah the rate at which that happens is unrealistic but it’s also a game so they wouldn’t actively try to make something monotonous.
No duh, the brush wasn’t in older updates 🤦♂️
Y'all are so obsessed with killing things for a drop, god damn. If anything, a mob is much less interesting when you reduce your interaction with them to killing them for the item inside them.
A mob that has personality and a couple unique interaction mechanics (brushing for scutes, scaring spiders) is much better than "I will never interact with this mob outside of killing them." I'd much rather have brushing for scutes than killing for scutes. I don't think that older updates always had the right idea.
In mincraft, we slaughter animals for theyr meat, some peolpe even set them on fire before killing them to get cooked food, and mojang is thinking of protecting animals
I like that you don't have to kill them since it would be a pain breeding 6 for one wolf armor
Turtle scutes are dropped when a baby turtle grows into an adult. You don't need to kill them and this was added in the aquatic update.
even more stupid.. a brush can extract like 4 scales from an armadillo.. meanwhile, a single brush can also dig up like 30 suspicious blocks..
In Florida where I live armadillos are pretty much just another type of raccoon and I see them around pretty often, is there a kind of endangered species of it?
I feel like all these "muh endangered species" is just a cheap excuse to be lazy
But when an actual endangered species shows up, ie. The great white shark? Nooo, cause fuck them apparently.
Yes, it’s been 6 years, I am still mad about sharks.
Armadillos are literally invasive in some places
Why are you so murderous? Do you have a passion for killing small creatures in video games? That’s weird dude.
(hehehe brush go brr)
Yknow killing them is a less efficient farm than brushing and afk right?
so instead of the proofing out of existence after being hit, you brush them so harshly that their shells are ripped off?! bit harsh.
Dementia
poor internet connection?
There are some fates more painful than death, and that is what Mojang chose
For real. If cows were added before they went in this vegan mindset shit you would just be able to kill them for milk instead of needing to right click with a bucket. What’s with modern mojang adding so many one use items like milk anyways? Old mojang would’ve actually given milk a use smh.
You had me in the first half. I thought you were being serious for a sec until you said “kill them for milk”
Old mojang would just have cows drop an udder on death that could be used in all the same ways that milk could. New mojang being scared to hurt any animal just has use wasting our time with buckets to do like 2 things ever.
Spitting facts here
Mojang has become so scared of accidentally encouraging animal harm that they become completely ridiculous
Goats don't even drop meat. AN ANIMAL PEOPLE HAVE REGULARLY FARMING FOR FOOD FOR CENTURIES DOESN'T DROP MEAT! Sheep drop mutin already, and goats originally did drop mutin, but it was removed! It's so stupid.
They want new mobs to be useful but give them drops that are completely useless outside of super niche situations. I've never bothered getting frog light because it's tedious to get, and shroom light looks better. And doon't get me started on sniffers
I don't even tame dogs so dog armor is useless for me. I'd give armadillo cute a second use, like being a brewing ingredient for resistance potions
It's built like a brick shit house but drops no meat at all. It's bigger than the cows. They seeds they dig up can't even be used as food. They have a plant called torch flowe, but it makes no light. Do you have any idea how useful a beautiful flower that can also be used as a light source would be? No more having to hide torches under green or moss carpet.
Homie made a career out of schitzoposting
I’m still convinced that wolf armour should of been made of turtle scutes, to give turtles a cool new use. Instead they burn development time on a new shallow mob with a niche use; it’s like Mojang is allergic to adding onto old features.
saying "allergic to adding onto old features." whilst talking about the update for wolves is an insane statement you realise that right?
They still could've done that even if it was turtle scutes instead of piling on more shitty mobs. There's nothing "insane" about what he said unless you're a dumbass.
I thought they did both? I thought they dropped one if they died and unlimited if brushed?
Huh
That explains why theyve become endangered 💀
Oh and they would have also come with termites if it was with the biome vote update probably
Armadillos aren’t endangered…
maybe that would have happened
Bro indeed
No, but seriously when was the last time that they added loot to a passive / neutral mob? Hell, even cats were given loot in older updates
no need hahah
Mojang ain’t got no balls anymore.
wait how are you supposed to get scutes then because my default for getting stuff in video games is killing
Gud boi
This is a much better way. We already have massive chicken, sheep, pig and cow farms with each having 10+ animals. Making that with every new mob (armadillos, goats, frogs) will cause lag and then you would have to move them far away, which is in unloaded chunks so you would have to be there to breed them and to stay there for them to grow up and then kill them. Unique mechanics are better for the game, doing the same thing every time when you find a new animal would get boring.
Is this really a problem though? I think its cute that there’s special ways to get mob drops, and it adds some nice variation to gathering resources. Plus it gives an extra use to a tool that really needs one.
They carry leprosy
Armadillo is 1.20 feature, one of the most popular 1.20 request
This is pretty much the truth
I think both brush and killing at the same time would make sense, just like with sheep's wool.
Currently you can argue that hitting the armadillo breaks it's armor. Although I'm not sure hoe can you brush off a scute
I haven’t played in a fat minute, we have armadillos now?
That's also apparently the reason why they won't add sharks: because kids would think that you can kill them.
Although i would really wonder how would a kid kill a shark all by themselfs
"Why do we have to brush Armadillos? Why can't we kill them?"
And people wonder why I've so little sympathy for people.
I brush my teeth daily but they do not drop teeth scutes weird
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Since when are armadillos endangered? They are thriving in Texas, other southern states, and throughout Mexico, etc. unless they did this because of some obscure armadillo species.