Ever observed a villager floating mid-air as if performing an enchantment? Or considered a panda being driven wild through your bamboo forest? Or perhaps a squid airborne, forced into an audition for the next Superman? There have been some weird bugs in Minecraft over time. And some of the funniest glitches, some literally weirdly useful ones, were brewed into the game; the developers embraced them. Wouldn’t you say?
In the latest Dev Diary from Mojang, they bring the curtain down upon some truly famous bugs that occurred in the game: how they came to be, why some were fixed while others were not, and how players came together to aid in the solution. Because, let’s face it, the Minecraft community is almost an army for reporting bugs (with incredible meme skill as a side gig).
Take the infamous floating villager. It turns out it wasn’t just some random quirk; it was the game’s procedure on how villager pathfinding works near uneven terrain. The devs didn’t just get rid of it altogether; they altered it so villagers have a little better spatial awareness (though let’s be real—sometimes, they get stuck on just one fence post). Then there’s the flying squid, which was actually caused by weird interplay of water physics and entity spawning. Instead of removing it, Mojang went with the flow and now squids occasionally breach out of the water like tiny, tentacled dolphins.
And pandas? Oh boy, the pandas were an entire affair of derpy collisions when they first went into production. Players constantly intercepted them mid-tumble like they were eagerly auditioning for slapstick comedy. Instead of outright fixing it, the devs, well, embraced it as part of their character. Now, pandas have a rare ‘playful’ trait that makes them intentionally roll around. Glitch-becomes-feature, I tell you.
But the best part, really—they openly admit a lot of these fixes came directly from player reports. So if you’ve ever rage-quit over a bug and typed that angry bug report, congrats, your thanks might be due in part for shaping the game. The devs even dropped hints on how we can report effectively (spoiler alert: take screenshots and include coordinates).
So yeah, every time you see a cow glitching through a fence or a chicken moonwalking, don’t just laugh it off; maybe snap a pic and file that report. It might just turn into the next quirky feature. Or at least that will give the devs a good laugh before they fix it.
Check out the complete Dev Diary if you want to dive deeper into Minecraft’s crazy, wondrous world of bugs-turned-features. And keep those reports coming, because let’s be honest—the game wouldn’t be the same without a little chaos.
