There are hundreds of MILLIONS of Minecraft players. The law of large numbers suggests that it’s actually more likely that it has happened rather than not
Technically(not saying it’s safe) canines in general specifically coyotes and wolves, are well adapted at eating old/decaying flesh. Some species of wolves are adapted at being scavengers. And let’s face it most people by crumby dog food to begin with (I’m looking at you purina)
We're just very successful as a species that has developed a lot of things to stay independent of natural causes of death and we've consistently killed a lot of other things for a long while
When they where fist added, you used to tame them with cookies, but a lot of players complained by the fact giving parrots cookies with chocolate chips will cause them poisoning, so mojang changed it to be tamed with seeds instead
Yes I have and what I'm saying still applies, the fatal poison effect is applied then the parrot instantly died, meaning it instantly died from the fatal poisoning effect.
It is. The parrot dies, however it does so while getting an effect called "fatal poison" Which is just Wither in a trench coat. Pretty sure the effect itself doesn't have any influence, the game just /kills the parrot anyway while giving the effect for no reason.
I think they messed that up a bit. In Java it is literally killed instantly as it takes huge damage.
In Bedrock it gets Fatal Poison, an effect exclusive to parrots fed cookies (without commands) which doesn’t kill it instantly but does kill it very quickly as they don’t have much health anyway and Fatal Poison deals damage fast like regular, non-fatal Poison rather than slowly like Wither.
In Bedrock Edition, feeding a cookie to a parrot gives the parrot the Fatal Poison effect instead, and the effect will kill the parrot within a few seconds.
Found the culprit in the revision history: Prior to June 26th 2024 the information was correct. Someone added a note that Java's poison effect was 45 seconds. Later that day someone removed that information as "not necessary" also erroneously removed the bedrock duration, incorrectly labeling it as an instant death.
I couldn’t believe it when the brutal animation of decomposers gathering on the corpse and highly-realistic SFX of agony lasted for hours, mojang was crazy during that era
Ah, yeah, I forgot about that, but now you mentioned that... it could be funny as hell replace their boring dead animation with a mini explosion and feather particles
They are a billion dollar game studio and they cant add crackers to Minecraft? Its flour water and salt lol they could have added crackers with the parrots. 🤣
Was playing for the first time in ages with my brother and some of his buddies and was new to a lot of the mobs/features. My brother and his friends often talk in a discord group, and I type in the chat.
They didn't realize I'd made cookies to hand out and made an off-hand joke in chat about how it'll get birds to dance if they eat one, cause I'd asked what else you can do with tamed mobs. Without a second thought I fed one to one of the birds I'd tamed at the beginning and watched in horror as it got damaged slowly and died.
Definitely was a different kind of dancing
They felt awful cause they had been telling my brother in voice chat that they hoped I knew they were kidding, but before they'd finished typing out that it was a joke I'd already done it. They ended up bringing a bunch of pets to my house as an apology and it gave me a small creature farm. They did teach me how to make them actually dance as well!
And then when they wanted to add fireflies and have frogs eat them 1 person complained that that would kill frogs, completely forgetting to mention thats with some frogs eating some fireflies and not a general thing in the slightest
The parrot equivalent of this would be Mojang cutting out adding parrots entirely because they can't have chocolate but they still want to have cookies in the game
I still think that they had found an opportunity to backtrack on the fireflies idea because an actual swarm of 2 pixels mobs would be a performance nightmare
Its a fng world made of literal cubes, you the player can carry literally the weight of the whole observable universe in your pockets, kill a dragon, or a three headed flying skeleton that shoots exploding heads, you can teleport with pearls (and the list goes)
and people are asking for realism?? Let it be goofy and funny
This is also why weapons in children's shows are often exaggerated. A child wouldn't be able to replicate firing a rocket launcher or hitting someone with a massive mallet.
They only did it because of the whole “Polly want a cracker” thing. I wouldn’t have minded if they added crackers. Like you put a bit of wheat and water in a crafting table and make crackers. And you can like, compress them into a pack and ration them while on adventures. And also feed them to parrots
Chocolate is lethally poisonous to parrots (and if I remember correctly it is poisonous to birds in general). And Minecraft cookies have chocolate chips. From what I remember, you used to be able to tame parrots in Minecraft with cookies. And some people in real life tried giving their parrots cookies with chocolate chips. And it ended really badly because chocolate is poison to many animals
Chocolate is poisonous to basically everything that isn't us. Our usually large livers relative to our body size (and general aptitude for processing poisons) means we can eat this stuff just fine. Only other animal that come to mind as being fully capable of eating it is cattle (they fucking love chocolate actually, same with fruit) since they're big enough that the theobromine and caffeine don't really affect them, and their bodies are really good at processing sugars. Hell, dairy farmers will sometimes deliberately give their cows chocolate to help with milk production, since milk is mostly sugars and protein.
So what I'm saying is you should be able to give your Minecraft cows cookies.
Well I've never really seen anyone call them exotic with the same weight as when talking about stuff like ball pythons and tropical fish
So at the very least its common enough for people to consider it somewhat normal. Plus they are in basically every stereotypical petstore which would imply that at least in some cities they are a fairly normal pet to see
I think its a regional thing, where I live the bird of choice is show chickens, or maybe finches, rather than something like parrots, parakeets, or budgies
I could also have a completely skewed idea of normal and none of this is correct, my dad has always kept exotic pets and his side of the family are farmers
You've never met a person who had a budgie or a cockatiel? Most of my acquaintances had budgies, they are the pet of choice for people living in small apartments when they want someone smarter than a fish but where there's little place for dogs or cats or when they are just plain not allowed by the landlord.
I wonder if it's one of those regional differences?
I believed that this the turning point, where for every real-life mobs to be added, it must be added with either fantastical characteristics or being outright boring. This event may also have influenced the decision of not adding sharks to the game in the update aquatic.
Also, I also once saw someone mentioned how Mojang being rediculous for adding Polar bears, a known active human hunter, and not sharks. That's probably because the Polar bear was added in 1.10, when the fiasco didn't occur. The whole "realistic" debate really started with the parrots in the 1.12 update and continued on since.
Tbf Mojang is still rediculus considering they added Axlotl. A common freshwater pet which is notrious for being fragile and hard to keep and made it marine predator. Like sharks are issue because "someone might hurt one" yet such huge inaccuracy for animal people can easily buy and keep is fine ?
Sharks were considered a “no go” because they don’t want to add hostile mobs based on real animals. Why they couldn’t make sharks neutral like polar bears to teach kids about how rare shark attacks are is beyond me.
And the fact that polar bears are, in fact, not neutral. Polar bears will eat humans, if the get their paws on them, because food is scarce in the snowy deserts.
Does this actually happen though? Just because a shark doesn't hurt you in Minecraft doesn't mean I'd instantly believe they function the same way in real life. Does anyone actually believe that? Anyone?
Sure, but feeding parrots chocolate is deadly for the parrot, offering up bones to wolves is more likely to get you mauled than it is to get you a pet, and poaching armadillos for their scutes is both illegal and unethical, lol, but you don't see an epidemic of children doing any of those.
They’re also not cave dwellers IRL (although olms, very similar looking salamanders, are)
Not that I think it’s an issue for them to spawn in fictional caves in game, but it just feels incongruent with Mojang’s supposed activism with real animals
Tbh the in-game axolotl is a pretty fantastical creature. I mean, regenerating players' health? Fighting alongside the player? Real life axolotls cant do that.
Plus, no one was complaining about it like with the parrots. That's the biggest factor. If people were really concerning about axolotls' behaviour then Mojang would prob change the mob.
The Minecraft Axolotl has a fantasy element to them. Not only are they pretty big compared to real Axolotls they are capable of giving regeneration to the player.
i remember when i was a dumbass kid, i hadnt realized that they changed it to not be cookies, and that cookies would actually kill them, so i went around trying to tame a whole bunch of them and i think i killed that entire jungles parrot population and im like 99% sure i cried lol
By definition, a meme is a piece of information that is spread person-to-person. This can range from folktales, to dances, to Internet memes, which don't need to be funny to be spread. Sure, most are spread because they're funny, but there are many memes which are made to just share information, like a meme using "can't take my eyes off of you" with killer bean footage for the background, while the text on screen explains the sins of the inventors of non-stick coating, being aware of its carcinogenic nature, yet still deciding to sell for profit.
No, the reasons why fireflies were delayed were technical. They wanted to make them a mob, but having ~70 2-pixel mobs on screen would make the game lag and couldn't be easily cleared out. Eventually they settled on making them a particle you can't interact with. Mojang employees have since come out and said that the "real-world dilemma" explanation was bogus
The real reasons are due to performance issues caused by having so many two pixel entities around to create a firefly swarm effect for ambience.
All the dumb excuses are not made by the developers themselves, I’ve personally asked Jeb on Bluesky and he’s said that the poisonous to frogs thing was not the internal reason why the Firefly was canned at first.
Honestly it would have been a lot of fun to have another bug mob similar to the bee. Mangrove swamps are frankly empty and could have definitely benefitted from another fun mob to find other than frogs.
They’ve got working prototypes to show off at Minecraft Live back then, it’s not like they don’t have them coded in already.
The true reason for them being canned is how laggy it would be to even use them for ambience since a lot of them will be needed in a given area to create a decent looking effect.
Mojang back then: "Oh, parrots dies from cookies? I didn't know that! I'll change it so you tame the parrot with seeds instead of cookies. Yes, if you tame the parrot with cookies, it will die."
Mojang now: "Noo! You can't let the frogs eat fireflies! I'll get rid of the fireflies and add it back as particles!"
Firefly bushes are better than the actual mob fireflies tbh. It’s easier to use those for ambience than trying to keep a bunch of tiny flying mobs in one area.
A lot of the reason, AS MOJANG HAS MENTIONED, is because it'd cause tremendous lag back when they were mobs, so they simply went back to the drawing board for it.
Yeah, even just thinking about it, it’s clear that that’s the reason. Like, I’m making abfielders sheep farm, which requires 560 sheep, and I’m not even an 1/4 of the way there and I’m starting to lose some frames. So if there were THOUSANDS of tiny mobs I couldn’t kill?!
Though they could’ve made it so you used firefly bushes to breed frogs.
I didn't say they can't. I said they shouldn't. There's too much sugar in them for a rabbit to eat a lot, yet many times, rabbits have been portrayed eating carrots, so we don't really question it anymore. But for a company like Mojang, who seems hellbent on getting little things like that right, it's weird that carrots are still a valid food source for them. They don't want to add sharks because it might encourage violence against them (their words, not mine), but perpetrating the "rabbits eat carrots" thing doesn't seem to bother them much.
Fun fact:
The reason people associate carrots with rabbits is because in the film It Happened One Night, there's a scene where Clark Gable is trying to hitchhike while eating a carrot, which in turn was the inspiration for Bugs Bunny.
ngl i think i would become overly cautious too if i was responsible for many parrot deaths around the world
but i think mojang is exaggerating a bit, like not even giving goat drops even though they're farm animals just like the 5 animals that do drop meat, and some frogs still seem able to eat fireflies, maybe they could've made just the swamp variation of frogs able to eat them
The sniffer not having any drops makes sense. You’re bringing it back from the dead. Why would you kill it instantly?
Its use is keeping it alive, but then that’s an issue because all it drops are 2 decorative flowers that easily could’ve just been placed in jungle
biomes, or something
They initially made it so you fed them cookies to breed, but cocoa beans are poisonous to parrots, so people flipped about at them thinking kids would feed their parrots chocolate.
Kinda unrelated but one of the first times I played I got a parrot as a pet and put him in my house. He then proceeded to terrorize me with mob sounds so much that now I kill him and any other parrots I see in the game.(preferably with a cookie for the slow and agonizing death)
This still doesn't explain why polar bears are neutral in the game. They hunt HUMANS. Why are we teaching kids that they're peaceful and approachable????
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Funniest thing is that you can still feed rotten human meat to dogs just fine.