Get ready, Minecraft adventurers! Mojang has just dropped a massive surprise, revealing two exciting new mobs that are set to shake up your desert explorations. While one might look familiar, don’t be fooled – the new camel husk and its dangerous companion, the parcher, are here, and acquiring them for your own stable will be anything but easy.
Minecraft continues to be a phenomenal sandbox game for good reason; it’s enormous, full of emergent moments, and it refuses to stop expanding. Rolling out for testing in the Java Edition today, camel husks are a unique variant of the familiar camel, designed to be ridden by desert-dwelling husks. Just like regular camels, they can carry two players and are passive, meaning they can be tamed with ease. However, there’s a catch: these magnificent creatures often come pre-owned by spear-wielding husks! You’ll need to brave these sandy adversaries, who are now armed with Minecraft’s increasingly powerful new spear, to claim your prize.
But the danger doesn’t stop there. Accompanying the husks on their desert patrols is the brand-new parcher mob. This hostile desert skeleton variant is an expert archer, ready to pepper you with arrows from a distance. To successfully commandeer a camel husk, you’ll need to contend with both close-quarters attacks from the husks and ranged assaults from the parchers.
Two fantastic new mobs in a single day – Mojang is truly spoiling us! But wait, there’s even more groundbreaking news for explorers: the ability for all mounts to swim is currently in testing. While your trusty steed might not be as speedy in water as on land, say goodbye to those frustrating detours around vast lakes and oceans. This is a game-changing feature that will undoubtedly delight adventurers traversing the expansive Overworld.
All these exciting additions are available for you to experiment with in Minecraft Java Edition if you’ve enabled snapshots. Mojang has also confirmed that these new mobs and the highly anticipated mount swimming feature will be coming to Bedrock preview and beta builds very soon.