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With the minecraft cheese leak happening but cheese not being added yet, please remember there's 4 possibilities:

1) Cheese is coming in a future snapshot, or future update, and they are working on it.

2) They worked on it and decided not to add it.

3) It was just referring to the fact that cow variants were being added (the cheese leak DID happen before cow variants had been announced, but this would be an incredibly irritating way for the leaker to hint at this)

4) It was a honeypot to narrow down who the leaker is by having only certain parties work on the content. Basically, it could have been them trying to catch the leaker by giving specific people different fake content, see if it leaks, & then that confirms that it's one of those people. If half the company was working on cheese, and half was working on say fried eggs, then cheese were to be leaked, it would narrow down the cheese half and clear the fried egg half.

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does smeemo know i love them dearly and would like to forfeit all my wordly possessions to them

This is very sweet and if u want to prove this......... u could always help donate to help w our living expenses 😔 and I will get smeemo and stella. A new treat.

(You can find my paypal here, if not either way it is a very sweet sentiment & here is a smeemies for u)

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Chicken variants definitely coming soon, probably with tomorrow's snapshot.

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Not going to tag this as mc news / post officially about it until I have better confirmation, but it seems like chickens are next to get variants.

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does smeemo know i love them dearly and would like to forfeit all my wordly possessions to them

This is very sweet and if u want to prove this......... u could always help donate to help w our living expenses 😔 and I will get smeemo and stella. A new treat.

(You can find my paypal here, if not either way it is a very sweet sentiment & here is a smeemies for u)

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does smeemo know i love them dearly and would like to forfeit all my wordly possessions to them

This is very sweet and if u want to prove this......... u could always help donate to help w our living expenses 😔 and I will get smeemo and stella. A new treat.

(You can find my paypal here, if not either way it is a very sweet sentiment & here is a smeemies for u)

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We got two new cow variants as teased, as well as two new plants.

The new plants are the bush and the firefly bush.

Firefly bushes work similarly to spore blossoms, as they are a block that generates particles; with firefly bushes though, the particles only generate when very close to the block, and when the block is in darkness. Fireflies, in addition to being reduced to a block-based particle, are now only 1 pixel in size. The particle is emissive though.

As for the cheese leak, again, just because the leak is reliable doesn't mean it will necessarily be added to the game, as with the third sniffer plant back when that was leaked. We will see. The leaker did establish yet even more that they're legit by leaking fireflies (and previously, pig variants).

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For instance, if they added a new tiered weapon type, let's say daggers, and players don't like how the daggers play? It doesn't really matter how complex they are! For all the work they put into Maces, theyre... never really going to become a common choice that players engage with.

However, if they were to add, say, 10 new weapon types that are all FAIRLY mechanically similar to swords, but had decent variety in their stats? The amount of player choice would grow immensely, and mechanical depth could easily come later. 100% of players divided among 10 different categories experiencing and choosing to engage with this content as opposed to just 10% of players engaging with 1 category of content.

Maybe this is also a shallow way of thinking, that players just want More Content, but if so many people want this kind of thing, dismissing it outright I think isn't the move either. I think the pacing of meticulously retexturing the same item for 4 months and calling it Essential Development has historically just eaten up a lot of good faith and patience in Mojang, & its not like... wrong for people to just want things to feel fresh.

My hot take is that with minecraft content, people generally want 1 of 2 things, of which mojang usually tries to do both (and ends up doing neither):

1) if they're adding Shallow content (new flowers for instance), people want a Lot of it. With the Sniffers for instance, their flowers have no complex gameplay mechanics- there's no mechanical reason why they couldn't have added 4 or 8 ancient flowers, since they were purely decorative anyways.

2) if they're adding Complex content, people want it really intertwined with pre-existing mechanics.

Instead of this though, we get a small serving of semi-complex content that ends up satisfying very few critics, like Resin that is just.... a new block set + armour trim. despite being so mechanically unique the depth doesn't extend past the singular pond of content its added in.

I think this is why this newest drop is so promising: they're adding new pig variants, which are mechanically no different than pigs, but they're not Just doing that and calling it good, they're also adding new cow variants and Multiple new plants and who knows what else. & instead of a half-hearted attempt to make this surface level content more complex resulting in less content overall, we're just like... actually getting content that fleshes out the game more. This is also why I think every dyed-block-update has been so well received: instead of just "they added 1 terracotta block" or "they added 1 stained glass block" it's always been "they added 16 new variant blocks that aren't restricted to a singular colour palette". Applying this logic to other design features I think is just overall a good idea.

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My hot take is that with minecraft content, people generally want 1 of 2 things, of which mojang usually tries to do both (and ends up doing neither):

1) if they're adding Shallow content (new flowers for instance), people want a Lot of it. With the Sniffers for instance, their flowers have no complex gameplay mechanics- there's no mechanical reason why they couldn't have added 4 or 8 ancient flowers, since they were purely decorative anyways.

2) if they're adding Complex content, people want it really intertwined with pre-existing mechanics.

Instead of this though, we get a small serving of semi-complex content that ends up satisfying very few critics, like Resin that is just.... a new block set + armour trim. despite being so mechanically unique the depth doesn't extend past the singular pond of content its added in.

I think this is why this newest drop is so promising: they're adding new pig variants, which are mechanically no different than pigs, but they're not Just doing that and calling it good, they're also adding new cow variants and Multiple new plants and who knows what else. & instead of a half-hearted attempt to make this surface level content more complex resulting in less content overall, we're just like... actually getting content that fleshes out the game more. This is also why I think every dyed-block-update has been so well received: instead of just "they added 1 terracotta block" or "they added 1 stained glass block" it's always been "they added 16 new variant blocks that aren't restricted to a singular colour palette". Applying this logic to other design features I think is just overall a good idea.

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Here's the cow teaser video from the minecraft account on tiktok.

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Given the theme of this update/drop seemingly being (or at least including) mob/biome refresh, I could see cheese as an addition especially with cows being redone in some capacity

I’m just curious how and what they could do with cheese in the game given how broad of a food concept that could be

Yeah I have no idea tbh, I still think the entire food system needs a rework tbh, but it's hard to do that in a mojang way without overcomplicating things (obviously there's a million different solutions but they're very......picky).

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Oh the bogged guy okay that checks out, I’m just finding it more weird my usual sources haven’t commented on it then tbh

Yeah, part of the issue is that "John" has been very vague And private about his leaks; they only show up in a private discord server, and propagate out through content creators from there. This is to be fair the most secure way for a mojang employee to leak content, but it does make it pretty hard to find more sources on. As for the vagueness, so far for this update the main leaks have been:

🐷 <- before pig variants got announced.

🟨⬛ <- could be referring to fireflies, we'll see.

"Do you guys like cheese?" <- the cheese leak.

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This is also why I'll always follow any news with leaks with disclosure that they are in fact leaks, because even if they're reliable leaks, leaked content can still be revoked / removed, such as the third sniffer plant: Roger Badgerman leaked a third plant that sniffers could dig up, and was a 100% reliable leaker, so either that third plant was canceled, or was bait to draw the leaker out. It's important to note that any leaked content, even if the leak is confirmed from mojang directly (the third sniffer plant was found in minecraft.net web files), might not actually make it into the game.

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Also for what it's worth: I will never report on leaks that I don't 100% believe credible, as I'd like my posts tagged "minecraft news" to be fully reliable. Hopefully folks can eventually see this blog as The reliable source for minecraft news on tumblr, rather than just speculation / hearsay.

Either way, hopefully one day people won't leave tags like this on my posts because they'll see them coming from me & know that I've done my research properly 😔

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Can I ask where/whom the cheese leak is coming from? I’ve looked at my usual sources for relatively verified leaks and I’ve seen nothing about cheese

There's a very private leaker going by John who claims to work at Mojang, and previously reliably leaked:

-pig variants

-bogged

-trial chambers

-breezes

before any of these individually had been shown. Since the Tricky Trials leaks proved to be true, and now the pigs, him teasing cheese is as good as confirming it outright.

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The cow model also received a slight overhaul- they have snouts now. Additionally, one of the new cow variants has proper horns.

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Cow variants (confirmed) + new grass type plant (confirmed) + cheese (reliably leaked) coming in the next snapshot.