Normally, bugs are known for game crashes and quest problems. But in Minecraft, one bug nearly had catastrophic consequences for wildlife.
Normally, Minecraft is known as an exceptionally peaceful game. Although there are some hostile contemporaries in the vastness of the world of bricks, such as the well-known creepers, zombies or even dragons, you can normally assume that you won’t have to witness any terrible acts of violence here.
But peace would have been just a hair away: In the recently released update 1.18.10, a bug was hidden, at least in the beta, that turned frogs into a highly dangerous species. The consequences were catastrophic – at least for the unsuspecting goats.
Incidentally, the consequences were also catastrophic for an entire country when a Minecraft tournament was held recently. Because suddenly all the inhabitants were offline.
Small bug, big consequences
What happened? At the moment, the frogs are still in the development phase and are only supposed to make their official game debut with the big Wild update aka version 1.19 (you can find all the info about it here). In the beta for the latest version 1.18.10, however, the angular amphibians were already included so that the developers could test their behaviour in the wild.
And one of these developers, Alexander Östman to be precise, revealed details about the curious bug on his account during a Minecraft livestream:
I developed the frogs and gave them the ability to eat other animals. To test this ability I thought I could use the goats for it. […] What happened: I forgot to remove this part of the code for the beta, so frogs were able to eat goats in the first beta. When I first saw a player post a video of this, I fell off my chair laughing because it was so funny.
You read that right: Frogs mutated into a merciless predator and did not swallow flies, which you might forgive them for, but whole goats in one piece, including skin, fur and bones.
The video referred to by Östman also made the rounds on Reddit, of course. Animal lovers had better look away at this point:
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But at least the developers reacted quickly, right? Yes, they did – but anyone who now thought that they rushed to the goats’ aid is mistaken. Because the community manager Jay even supported the frogs in their insatiable desire for goat meat and lined up the innocent grass-eaters so that the frogs would have an easy game:
Minecraft Frog vs Goat – who would win? pic.twitter.com/wJvY1Xe4gi
– Jay ⛏️ (@Mega_Spud) January 8, 2022
Hunting Instinct. This doesn’t help the already eaten dumbasses, but should please the survivors, who can now proudly order I survived the frogpokalypse jumpers.
If you are now strangely overcome with the desire to take a look at Minecraft again, there is some important news. Soon you will no longer be able to use your Mojang accounts to log in. You can find out what you need to do in order to continue stacking blocks (here).
