It is the end of the era wherein Minecraft players have seen it all- the cursed chicken-jockey glitch made its reappearance. You know, the one in which a baby zombie rides a chicken like an apocalyptic rodeo clown? It still baffles me as why this gruesome still trends.
With utter nonchalance, the original Tweet dropped the word “chicken jockey” like a grenade in a very quiet server. No explanations. No Chrismas posts. Just those two words on one line, along with probably a URL that would lead into a chaotic place where somehow twelve of these abominable creatures are shooting lucky fireworks at some poor tortured soul clad in diamond armor. Well, chaos happens. Classic Minecraft.
And, honestly, silence speaks volumes. Sometimes, the glitch itself is so traumatic that the community agrees to have no jokes, no memes, just thousands of players flashing back to their first encounter with these unkillable feathered demons, just in silence.
Remember the good old days when they spawned by the dozen? You’d be happily mining away, and then BAM-a tiny undead ranch hand was pecking your head to death whilst sitting on its steed and clucking at you in gleeful mockery. Years ago, Mojang “fixed” the spawn rates, but once in a while…
cue record scratch
What was I even saying? Oh right. That tweet. Funny how two words could summon a tidal wave of collective gamer PTSD across the ages. A new player witnessing it for the first time compared with veterans who still go to the lengths of building moats just to deal with these little terrors. And so the cycle continues.
Fun fact: Chicken jockeys can’t drown because the chicken keeps them afloat. And they won’t burn in sunlight if the chicken’s wearing armor. Probably the most efficient killing machine if nature was designed by a drunk coder at 3 am. Ever since then-not merely a bug, but one of the strongest entities with features in Minecraft.
And the silence? Poetic. At times, the trauma speaks for itself; no reaction is required. But now, I have to go back one more time to build another lava pit for good measure.
