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Monster yuri

Two girls who smell like decay

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The creakerrrr

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how do you think sheep's colours work? ie. dyed sheep passing on the dye colour to offspring?

Must not be the dye that actually changes the color, is my thinking

Maybe the color change is a response to the environment, and the chemicals in the dyes induce those changes. So, they pass the colors down to their children - but in more like a gut biome or an immune system sort of manner?

The idea is if the parent is a color and survived long enough to have kids, then the color is probably advantageous. So, they transfer some of those chemicals to their offspring in utero, so they come out the same color as the parent!

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Why thank you!! I’m glad I could show you them,, then. They’re very cool :D

New ravager design just dropped

This time inspired more by extinct megafauna! Notably moropus (not any specific species) and the woolly rhinoceros. The markings are inspired by cave paintings, which often depict creatures with really stark markings. Whether or not this was an artistic choice, an effect of the medium, or actually accurate is probably questionable; but I like it so I did it regardless.

The lore of the previous design is basically the same, they’re just fluffy now :]

Bonus naked version:

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New ravager design just dropped

This time inspired more by extinct megafauna! Notably moropus (not any specific species) and the woolly rhinoceros. The markings are inspired by cave paintings, which often depict creatures with really stark markings. Whether or not this was an artistic choice, an effect of the medium, or actually accurate is probably questionable; but I like it so I did it regardless.

The lore of the previous design is basically the same, they’re just fluffy now :]

Bonus naked version:

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I’ve been getting into taxonomy lately and now I’m thinking about making a taxonomy tree for Minecraft mobs

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Constructs

Constructs are, well, creatures that are constructed. They don’t spawn normally like cows or chickens, they are manifested by some other being. This is usually a player, but not always. Some remnants of long dead civilizations still lurk their ruins.

Some common examples of constructs are, as you can imagine, iron golems and snow golems.

Some zombies, skeletons, and spiders could be considered constructs (as in the ones that are created by a spawner), but this is a whole ‘nother can of worms that we’ll get into later.

However! There are also some lesser known constructs. The complete list of constructs (excluding spawned mobs) are as follows:

Iron golems

Snow golems

Vex and allays

Wither skeletons

Wither

Ender Dragon

Creepers*

Endermen

Normal and Elder Guardians

Wardens and skulk and all that

Blazes

*Creepers, and all the mobs following in this list are suspected to be constructs, but are unconfirmed as of this date

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Ravagers, part 1!

Ravagers are ungulates (hoofed mammals + whales) similar to large tapirs or cattle - morphologically, probably not genetically/taxonomically - that stand at 2.2 blocks (2.2m/~7’2”) tall.

Ravagers are herbivores! They are not aggressive because of a hunting instinct, but rather because of a defensive instinct. If the fossils in the Overworld and the reemergence of sniffers is anything to go by, the minecraft world used to have much more megafauna. I don’t think it’s a huge leap to say this aggressive behavior came about as a defensive measure against very large predators that are now extinct.

This defensive aggression isn’t just an attack-everything-you-see kind of thing, though. Ravagers are extremely protective of their own herds (or, whatever they consider their herd) and are actually pretty gentle/docile around each other! This is how they were domesticated, and why they will never attack an illager.

Domestic ravagers often have their tails and ears docked by illagers to look more intimidating (tragic).

Ravagers have somehow been rendered extinct in the wild. Most likely by whatever took out their predators - which was probably quite a few factors.

Text transcripts for the first image (left to right, top to bottom):

ears + tail often docked

babey!!

most teeth are for eating plants, but they do have canines for violence purposes

undocked ears

Text transcripts for the second image (left to right, top to bottom):

old lady takin’ a snooze

[Image IDs: All are various sketches of Minecraft ravagers, which in my art are as described above. They are heavy-set with four hooves toes like a tapir. They have big, round bellies and sloped backs, making their shoulders and hips stick out a bit. They have trunks on their snouts, which are mobile and not much longer than the end of their snout. They have huge, long horns that stick out from the side of their heads and quickly bend upwards.

ID1: Four ravager drawings. The top right drawing is a side-on of a ravager, showing the whole body in rough detail. Its mouth is open and its trunk pulled up to show off its teeth, which are mostly flat save for 4 large canines (two on the top jaw, two on the bottom jaw). Its tail and ears are docked. The first and third lines transcripted pertain to this drawing. The top left drawing is just the head and neck of a baby ravager. It has a cute, round face and large eyes, with adorable round ears that haven’t been docked yet. It has little circular nubbins on its head where its horns will grow in. The second line transcripted pertain to this drawing. The bottom left drawing is a very very rough sketch, showing another ravager from the side. Only its head, back shoulders and front left leg are depicted. The bottom right drawing is similar to the drawing of the baby, but is of an adult. It’s showing what undocked ears look like on an adult, and is captioned with the fourth line of transcripted text as well as an arrow and a thumbs up.

ID2: Two ravager drawings. The top is more detailed, with wrinkles and scars that make the ravager look older. This one has huge horns and docked ears. She’s laying on the ground, with one leg tucked into her chest and the other stretched out in front of her. This is the only drawing that’s colored. The ravager is all grey, with lighter horns and scars, and there’s gold lighting and stark deep blue shadows. This is the drawing the other transcript pertains to. The bottom drawing is a doodle of about half a ravager, not the same one as before (this one’s younger and has no scars or docked ears). Its laying flat on the ground, pouting. One leg is out to the side, with their foot folded underneath their leg. Their trunk is goofily flopped on the ground.

ID3: One drawing of two ravagers. The left one is an adult, only pictured from the shoulders forward. The other is a very young baby, pictured in full. The baby is sprawled out on the ground like a baby deer, its head held up and eyes closed. The adult is leaning down towards the baby, one leg bent in front of it and the other underneath it with its foot folded under it. It’s reaching out to the baby with its trunk and touching them on the snout.

ID4: One drawing of a ravager. They’re trotting forward and to right of the viewer. They have a docked tail and ears. They’re lifting their trunk up (presumably in either excitement or aggression) showing off just a bit of their teeth.

/End IDs]

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White and red foxes are the same species. They tend to stick to distinct breeding pools within the same biome, which is why their differing colorations appear to be tied to their biomes. This is also why when a player breeds a red fox and a white fox together the offspring has a 50/50 chance of being either color. Where they were born/live doesn’t affect their coloration - it’s all genetics!

As a result of foxes spending their whole lives in a single biome they often have preferred prey. Usually, the ones they already know how to hunt, or have an affinity for. Red foxes prefer to hunt chickens, rabbits, and baby turtles; while white foxes prefer to hunt cod, salmon and tropical fish (presumably because they already know how to hunt fish, even though they are unlikely to encounter tropical fish).

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Alright! Thank you guys for voting in the poll :D

Foxes and ravagers tied, but the foxes are a short one so I’ll post that first, and then ravagers next!

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Okay okay okay, it’s been ages but!! I wanna do some work on this! I’m not gonna have my computer for a few days, but in the meantime…

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Hello, and welcome to mc-speculation! Blog run by @puddleorganism

About the Author

My name is Meta (they/it) but you can also call me Puddle - or anything you like, really! I do all of the art and writing for this account (including icon and header) unless specified otherwise.

About the Blog

I’m a huge fan of speculative biology, and I’ve done a bit of it for Minecraft creatures (among other things) in the past. I found it super fun and decided to do some more! That’s what this blog is; basically just an archive for all the lore and art I do about the silly block critters.

One thing to note though, is that I am no expert and I don’t like compromising fun for realism anyway, so there’s going to be a lot of inaccuracies on this blog! I still aim for realism, it’s just not a cornerstone of my worldbuilding.

Asks are open! Feel free to send stuff there any time - comments, suggestions, requests, whatever!

You can use my designs/lore whenever you like, but please credit me! I’d also greatly appreciate it if you tagged me to I could see it :D

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