Mojang just officially named their next drop: Tiny Takeover. If you’ve been tracking the snapshots, the name makes total sense. New baby mob variants are coming to pretty much every corner of the Overworld. We’re talking farm animals, horses, ocean mobs, Nether mobs, wild animals, and villagers. All of them. Redesigned from scratch.
What Is the Tiny Takeover Drop?
According to the Official Minecraft announcement, Mojang counted at least three dozen redesigned baby mobs. They are waddling their way into the game. New models, new sounds, new proportions. The update you boot into and instantly spend an hour just wandering around in.
Every Baby Mob Coming in Tiny Takeover
Farm Mobs
Puppies, kittens, piglets, calves, chicks, lambs, baby ocelots, and bunnies. The chicks are shaped like actual cubes. Mojang clearly added this detail knowing exactly what they were doing. Your farm is basically a petting zoo now.
Baby Mounts
Every horse variant gets a foal, including skeletal and spotted. Plus baby donkeys with ears that are comically oversized, and baby mules. If you’ve ever wanted to breed an entire herd just to watch the babies run around, now’s the time.
Aquatic Mobs
Baby axolotls have brighter colours. Baby dolphins now have rounder noses. There are two squid variants, regular and glow. Baby turtles are somehow even tinier than before. The ocean is no longer a safe place, for different reasons than usual.
Hostile Mobs
Baby zombies, zombified piglins, hoglins, zoglins, zombie villagers, husks, and a brand new one called the gurgle. Despite their adorable appearance, all of them are fully hostile. The baby strider is grumpy but harmless. The baby piglin is officially non-hostile, just mischievous, even though everyone assumes otherwise because of how adult piglins behave.
Baby Villagers
All seven villager variants are getting stubbier legs, button noses, and seven new outfit options, hoodies included. They look more like actual kids now, which just means they’ll get into more trouble around your village.
Wild Mobs
Fox kits, polar bear cubs, and panda babies. Baby bees, baby llamas, and baby armadillos. Baby camels, baby goats, and snifflets (baby sniffers, if you hadn’t guessed). Spread across tundras, deserts, jungles, and most biomes in between. Not all of them are tameable. All of them are worth going out of your way to find.
New Features in Tiny Takeover
The mob redesigns are the main event, but there’s a solid list of new mechanics coming with them:
- Golden Dandelion: Feed one to a baby mob, and they stay young permanently. Feed them a second one when you’re ready for them to grow up. The recipe is eight golden nuggets plus a dandelion, and it unlocks after you breed your first mob.
- Craftable Name Tags: Paper plus any metal nugget. No more hunting down a librarian and hoping they have one in stock.
- Bedrock Spawn Egg Trick: Java players have had this feature for a while. Use a mob’s spawn egg on an adult of the same species to get a baby. Now it works on Bedrock too.
- Custom Mob Sounds: Baby mobs now have their own distinct sounds. They include squeaky oinks, puppy yaps, tiny meows, playful whinnying, and little chirps. Adult pigs, cows, cats, and chickens also now spawn with random sound personality variations.
- Trumpet Note Block: Place any copper block under a note block to get a trumpet sound. The tone changes with the copper’s oxidation level.
When Is Tiny Takeover Coming?
No exact date or snapshot number yet, but it’s confirmed for both Java and Bedrock. Given where the snapshots are, it doesn’t feel far off. Worth stockpiling golden nuggets, dandelions, and paper in the meantime.
See you in the snapshots.
P.S. If you need us, we’ll be in Creative Mode building a baby mob daycare. It’s for research purposes.