Minecraftis certainly no stranger to strange bugs. Some of themhave been around ever since the game’s launch. However, the latest bug to strike Minecraft’s test version is certainly more asinine than your typical glitch.
As spotted by Reddit userQuantiBubbles, this “weird glitch in the latest snapshot” of Minecraft Java Edition is causing “the entire donkey texture” to be “displayed under every mob.” Further analysis revealed that it’s not just every mob either: “The shadows in the entire game have been replaced with the donkey texture.”
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Take a look at the image below and you’ll see what we mean. That grey and brown mess underneath this cow is actually the texture map of the donkey mob. It also looks like there might be some bizarre reflections going on a well since you may clearly see a few chests there too, but it’s the donkey that’s the weird part.
Why a donkey texture? No idea. Butone Redditor has a pretty good theory. “Some poor programmer accidentally deleted one of the textures maybe and that shifted the index of every one after it causing donkey to be next.”
This is only in the snapshot patch of Java Edition, which is Minecraft’s name for the ongoing public beta, so folks playing the main release won’t be treated to donkey skins replacing their shadows. If you want that (for whatever reason), you’ll need to download Minecraft Java Edition’s latest snapshot by opening up the Minecraft Launcher and enabling snapshots in the “Installations” tab.
Note that snapshots can corrupt your save file (even beyond merely making donkeys into shadows), so back up your saves if you plan to enable snapshots.
It’s not just Minecraft’s snapshots you’ll need to be careful of. Microsoft has issued a public statement warning folks of Russian intelligence agents trying to “penetrate gaming communities” in order to spread misinformation. The recent docs leaked from the Pentagonfirst turned up on a Minecraft Discord server, of all places, although analysts noted that the shared documents might have been doctored by Russian spies to make it look like Ukraine had suffered worse losses than it has.
“They’re just in part using this as a place to get information into circulation,” said Microsoft president Brad Smith at Semafor’s World Economy Summit. The leaked documents also contained information regarding British special forces deployments and defense assessments for US allies such as South Korea and Israel.
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