Mojang has revealed details of the next Minecraft update, featuring redesigned baby farm animals with unique appearances and sounds. These changes aim to make the young mobs more distinct and adorable compared to their adult counterparts. Players can test the features early through snapshots and betas.
The upcoming Minecraft update focuses on enhancing the charm of baby farm mobs, giving them individual models rather than simple scaled-down versions of adults. According to the announcement, this refresh includes unique sounds such as oinks for piglets, yaps for wolf pups, and meows for kittens. Agnes Larsson, the game's director, highlighted the visual tweak: “Typically mobs in Minecraft have two-pixel eyes, but now baby mobs have just one which creates a new vibe for them, which is just adorable.”
The redesigned mobs encompass wolf pups with nine variants across biomes, kittens (11 variants) found in villages and swamp huts that can be tamed with raw cod or salmon, baby chickens in three climate-based variants, rabbits with puffier tails and floofier fur (credited to game artist Sarah Boeving), piglets varying by biome (fluffy in chilly, brown in warm, pink in temperate), lambs resembling wool puffs in 11 colors, calves with doe-eyed looks in five variants, and baby ocelots featuring big green eyes and blocky paws in jungles.
Additional features include craftable name tags using paper and any metal nugget, allowing players to name their mobs more easily. In Bedrock Edition, spawn eggs can now be used on adult mobs to produce babies, mirroring Java Edition functionality. Upgraded animations further emphasize the cuter, chunkier designs.
Players can access these changes early by enabling snapshots in the Java Edition launcher or previews/betas in Bedrock Edition, though final details may evolve. No official release date has been set, but following last year's March update for 2025, it could arrive in a few months. The update builds on Minecraft's ongoing efforts to enrich its blocky world with more engaging creature interactions.
