Summary
While the frequent content updates forMinecraftare a great way to keep the game feeling fresh, they can often lead to older content becoming overshadowed and without real utility. This is especially true for the mobs of the title, with so many being added with each update.
It becomes hard to keep track of everyMinecraftmob as the game explores new content, with older mobs especially being pushed into the background. In particular, the ocelot was a once massively popular feature that has fallen into complete obscurity thanks to update reworks, leaving it in desperate need of a new purpose. Given how well-known the mob used to be, Mojang needs to implement some changes to push the ocelot back intoMinecraftrelevance.
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The Problem With Minecraft’s Ocelot and How to Fix It
The ocelot mob was added toMinecraftwith the 1.2.1 update in 2012, and it was a massively popular and useful creature upon its introduction. Originally, ocelots were the only way to obtain a pet cat inMinecraft, with players eagerly searching for jungle biomes to find them.
Players would then have to carefully approach an ocelot and feed it raw fish to tame it, turning the mob into a domesticated cat if successful. Likethe tamed wolves ofMinecraft, tamed ocelots would then follow the player and obey commands such as sitting, while also having the special bonus of repelling creepers and phantoms.
This all changed with the 1.14 update of 2019, ending the ocelot’s seven-year reign asone of the most prominentMinecraftmobs. Following the update, ocelots and cats were split into two separate mobs, taking away the purpose behind the taming element of the former. Cats now spawn around village structures and can be tamed in the same way as ocelots, completely negating the need to search jungle biomes for them.
In the current build ofMinecraft, feeding an ocelot simply makes them friendly towards the player, although they will not follow or listen to any commands. This has seen a sharp drop-off in popularity for ocelots, creating a clear need for Mojang to beef-up the purpose behind the jungle cat.
The best way to do this would be to appeal towards the wild nature of ocelots, giving them a use in exploration and battle. As it stands,tamed cats can guard areas fromMinecraftcreepers, but they don’t offer any real combat utility. Tamed ocelots could fill this gap by acting similarly to tamed wolves, exploring with the player and fighting any hostile mobs that they encounter.
This would allow cats and ocelots to co-exist inMinecraftwith equal amounts of purpose, while appealing to both the cosmetic and combat aspects of the game. These changes would also offer some much-needed variety to companion mobs, withtamed wolves having been the only combat allies inMinecraftsince their inclusion in 2011. Like tamed cats, a rework of ocelots could see the tamed mob transform into a number of different skins, giving further variety to how they function.
This potential rework could be easily implemented by Mojang, and could come alongside a major update without overshadowing the main new mobs and content of one. It is sad to see a once-great mob be brushed aside inMinecraft, and allowing them to become tamable combat allies would be a fantastic way to bring ocelots back to the forefront of the title.
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