Minecraft custom creations have ranged from the cool to the hilarious to the downright creepy, but one video of an Axolotl Turtle hybrid firing crossbow bolts takes the hilarity factor to another level. The classic open-world game holds a number of Easter eggs for fans to discover, in the form of enemies or items with a rare spawn rate, input commands that bring a secret to the surface, and rare encounters in the over-world. Glitch-hunting has also become popular.
Minecraft has long possessed a vibrant modding community. Since the early days under the direction of Notch, many have regarded it as one of the best games in history to mod. For fans uninterested in sinking time into mod development, playing around in Minecraft's creative mode allows anyone to design their own adventures and worlds. The command system adds to that customizability. Using commands, for example, a Minecraft player got an impossible enchantment for their sword. Players can also use commands to duplicate specific blocks, reload chunks of the map and change the appearance of blocks.
Redditor SGHQ has created a unit comprised of two Axolotls and a Turtle stacked one-atop-the-other. The golden axolotl in the middle wields an enchanted crossbow and fires it to lethal effect. When two villagers spawn into existence, it uses the crossbow to eliminate them in cold blood. As the video demonstrates, the Axolotl Turtle hybrid only needs two shots to down a villager. Repliers in the comments have suggested several names for the adorably vicious trio, with top names including Shootalotl, Staxolotl, and Hurtsalotl. Fans have long anticipated the arrival of Axolotls in the Minecraft Caves & Cliffs update, released in June. The update also brought Goats, Glow Squids, and updated biomes.
SGHQ comments on how they used the model for the standard Illager crossbowman, the Pillager, as the basis for their creation. Axolotls and Turtles alike normally constitute docile mobs. Players can even use a bucket to catch and tame the former, giving themselves an underwater companion akin to fight alongside them similar to Wolves. A player could technically create an army of Axolotls and lead their own undersea invasion. But no Axolotl can naturally wield a crossbow. It reminisces of Easter eggs like the Spider-jockey or Giant Zombie, two mobs that will only spawn under rare conditions or through commands. One of the weirdest Minecraft Easter eggs and discoveries lies in a secret boss battle only accessible through commands: a showdown against the killer rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Creations like these never cease to captivate the Minecraft fanbase, which has access to a near-endless catalog of mods, texture packs, and plugins. Perhaps fans will someday discover a Snow Golem throwing snowballs from atop the shoulders of an Iron Golem, or even a Wither riding the Ender Dragon.
Minecraft is available to play now across the Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Android, and iOS platforms.
Source: SGHQ/Reddit