While the pre-show goes on I wrote down my thoughts on the mob vote legitimately just because I’ve gotten a temporary Twitter account just the vote. Y’all can vote for whatever you want, these are my thoughts, the usual disclaimer stuff. I know I’ve said stuff advocating for the allay but in the end, the choice is always y’all’s.
The glare is ADORABLE,,,, I love it a lot, it’s just this little dude that shows you dark places that hostile mobs can spawn in which is pretty useful!
I would’ve legitimately had a hard time deciding between the glare and the allay if the mob spawning changes didn’t exist. And, I actually did, until I double checked the changes. If the glare were a choice for previous updates or if the mob spawning change didn’t exist, it would’ve probably been the best choice for everyone considering how Bedrock players don’t have F3.
However, it only pathfinds towards dark areas which are already visible to the player, and it only gets grumpy at light level 0, which imo is already very obvious it needs to be lit up, rendering it probably the most useless mob in the vote. Cuteness would probably be 10/10, but I’m thinking long term because this is a permanent addition to the game.
The mob I’m voting for. This little dude has the cuteness of the glare and the function to back it up! You can give it an item and it’ll collect dropped items, which makes it like a mini hopper that picks up 1 kind of dropped items exclusively! I believe this also applies to unstackables, which opens up the possibility of it being used in sorting systems including non-stackable items.
It’s also useful when collecting items, like when you’re mining and your inventory’s full of ores and you don’t have space to pick up cobble, or when you’re building high up and items fall off the side of your building area onto the floor to despawn. It can and will collect it as long as you gave it the item previously!
I’ll be honest, I’m not a fan. I just don’t find it quite as cute as the glare and the allay and while it is more useful than the glare, it doesn’t come close the the allay. It’s made with copper, which is honestly quite an expensive material, particularly if you build with it. And, it’s only real use is to push copper buttons, essentially acting as a randomiser. Thing is, these already exist in the game, you can make them with droppers or chickens and they’d likely be as compact. Plus, those randomisers would be permanent, as opposed to the golem which oxidises over time (I’m assuming you can’t wax them).
I don’t even think randomisers are that common to warrant basically another redstone component that’s dedicated for it? I’m thinking back to observers because block change detection can be used in all sorts of mechanisms but there are so many redstone machines that have no need for a randomiser. If Mojang decided to add it in as a mob without the vote, I would’ve been okay with it, but I don’t think it’s worth giving up the allay for.
