#spawn eggs

Spawn Eggs [Vol 1 - 3]

I think the new textures look really fun and are more accessible, especially to new players who don't know the mobs yet, but I personally think they could've been done better. A lot of them still look way too similar to each other, and I think the lack of consistency with sizes and what parts of a mob are featured gets really crowded and muddled.

These are some ambitious spawn egg redesigns.

I'm really torn on this. On one hand it feels like something that would come out of old Minecraft, back when it was still an indie game. It's charming.

On the other hand, it's just so busy. If it was anything but pixel art, you could make these all look like eggs that just happen to have mob features, but in a 16x16 format all of the details like ears, wings, horns kind of distract from the egg shape. Especially since there's three different egg sizes.

Most of them look like eggs, but some of them would easily get lost among the other other items without it being obvious what they are. Especially when we also have three variants of chicken eggs, a dragon egg, and a sniffer egg.

Because I want baby Endermen in the game, the egg will hatch into a teeny cute lil Enderman. This is what I imagined the babies would look like (spots for camouflage in dark oak forests and blue eyes like kittens, blue sparkles, can’t teleport yet).

And customizability too… that’s important. So while I dislike the new mob variants for classic mobs like the chicken and the cow, I understand that they’re ultimately just adding variety to the game.

But then they do something like completely overhaul the spawn eggs and… ughhhhh….

Don’t get me wrong, I understand WHY they’re being updated. It’s the same reason ores were updated with unique textures. Helps them stand out and is accessible for people with color blindness. So like… on paper… makes sense.

But am I the only one who HATES these new textures? These don’t feel like Minecraft at all. They are WAY too detailed and smoothed and varied in design in ways that feel extraordinarily out of place.

If you’re going to stick to the egg theme, just fit the design inside the egg. Once you start breeching the confines of the egg shape it just becomes inconsistent and ugly. Also the emphasis on the village noses is… unsettling.

It really does boil down to the smoothness of the pixel art being inconsistent with the rest of Minecraft and the inconsistent ways in which some eggs are fine and others are designed to break the confines of the design and be larger or smaller or extend beyond. It’s too inconsistent and overly designed.

Here look… someone already made unique egg textures before and they stayed consistent with the theme and it’s 100x easier to view to me:

Some custom spawn eggs.

In order:

Me

Steve

Cacodemon