As of right now, all seems well in Minecraft world. Minecraft Live was a blast, the most recent Snapshots have introduced improvements to both long-range combat and to leashes, and the Minecraft movie is an enormous success. But like any and every videogame, Mojang's blocky builder has experienced its share of technical troubles. Veterans might recall the dancing Enderdragon. In fact, Minecraft's most iconic enemy, the Creeper, is the result of a glitch that twisted and elongated the original character model for pigs. Now, Jens Bergensten, Mojang's chief creative officer, explains the history of one of the best Minecraft bugs. Who here re squid milk?
With 2025 seemingly as busy as ever for Mojang's Minecraft's most legendary developers explains, this wasn't always the case.
"When I started working on Minecraft, I didn't really know exactly how everything worked," Bergensten, who has co-developed Minecraft since 2010, explains. "I wanted to add a new mob, so I added a squid. The best way for me to do that was to copy an existing mob, so I based the squid on the cow mob, but I forgot to remove the milking behavior.
"For a while, you could actually milk the squid, which was a bit silly and also… not the intended behavior. Again, the squid was my first mob, so I managed to add more problems to it. In the way I made the movement code, the server and client wouldn't agree on where the squid actually was. This caused a behavior where you would occasionally see squids flying around in the air, the 'flying squid' bug."
Squid milking (what a wonderful combination of words) was removed from Minecraft in 2011. Maybe, though, it could make a return. I'm not saying you should be able to get cow's milk from squids, but maybe black dye? Either way, I will agree that squids should remain in the water and not the sky.
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