Oh goshdarnit, I was so confused why they made the wolf fur this weird salmon/brick color. Apparently, that's an armadillo shell...? They really turned Minecraft into modded Minecraft, didn't they?

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They did also add fur variants based on the biome they spawn in

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I can get behind that. It doesn't increase gameplay complexity and people enjoy having their doggos in different colors.

But adding a whole new mob and items for one specific niche purpose, that increases complexity quite a bit. New players will have no idea what to do with the armadillo drops, without looking it up or being told by that AI narrator thing, I guess.

[–] Iapar@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is it bad that you have to figure something out in a game?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying there shouldn't be puzzles. I'm criticizing that this puzzle is impossible to solve.
No one will wish to protect their dog and then realize they need to place 6 armadillo scutes in a chair-like pattern into a crafting grid.

Some might try to brute-force crafting patterns with armadillo scutes, but that is not fun.
And just looking up what to do with armadillo scutes, that is not fun either.

[–] Iapar@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago

I can see your point. Other have sad that it should follow the horsearmor pattern. Which would make it a guess like "I wonder if I can use this animal part like the other animal parts which fill the same role."

That way you could formulate an educated guess and be happy when it turns out right.

[–] ngn@lemy.lol 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

1.19(.4) was the last good version of minecraft change my mind

[–] pommes@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago

The one update when they broke the Community made minecart accelerstors (that actually was a Bug) was the worst. Must be 0.4 or sth. like that. 😛

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I really hate that this was the only reason Armadillos won the stupid mob vote.

No one (from chat and what I've seen) actually cares about the armadillo. They only wanted to wolves to be more viable hunting partners in survival.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I did not keep up with Minecraft over the years, only just looked into this now, but yeah, this seems so arbitrary. There's a mob (armadillos), then an intermediate item (armadillo scutes) and the only usage for that is crafting wolf armor.

Whatever happened to not having a million different items? Like, that's pretty much game design 101, to combine mechanics where possible. They could have allowed equipping a leather body armor on a wolf for the same gameplay mechanic.
But it really does look like they wanted to add some animal for the publicity and then needed to shoehorn any purpose at all for it.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They've been doing this for a while now. Panda and Polar Bear did basically nothing, but i'd argue it add to the environment.

[–] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago

Pandas can be used to build a slime farm in peacefull mode.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok but like let's be real who actually fights with their wolves instead of just leaving them sitting in their base somewhere. Can the armor be dyed? That might help a bit

[–] anas@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

People don’t fight with their dogs because they die too easily, that’s what they’re fixing.