The recent Minecraft April Fool's snapshot lets Endermen spawn carrying any block, allowing the elusive creatures to turn The End into a vibrant landscape of color. Mojang's survival sandbox title launched back in 2009, but the developer continues to support the game through regular updates and expansions. This year's Minecraft April Fools update humorously altered the rules of the game, but one unusual change was actually kept secret.
While Minecraft has received plenty of actual updates over the years, the title's most recent snapshot is instead a tongue-in-cheek celebration of April Fool's Day 2022. The build, referred to as the "One Block At A Time" snapshot, strips away many of the survival simulator's quality-of-life features to bring things back to basics. Minecraft's experience-based progression system and item enchantment mechanics, which were added relatively late in the game's life, are completely removed. However, the April Fool's update also takes away the game's core inventory system, which renders the title virtually unplayable. While many players find humor in things like a Minecraft frog Multishot enchantment, Mojang has now had fun at the fans' expense.
While the April Fool's update made many bizarre changes to Minecraft, Reddit user Minerdomera recently discovered another unlisted change hidden in the snapshot. The game's unsettling Endermen can typically be found carrying around blocks, but in the quirky new snapshot they can spawn carrying any block. This means that blocks of various materials and colors will be randomly placed around a player's the world, with the bleak dimension of The End slowly transforming into a garishly colorful mosaic. The joke's on the Enderdragon, in this case.
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Mojang had plenty of fun with the Minecraft playerbase on April Fool's Day, and many other developers celebrated in equally bizarre ways. An Among Us April Fool's joke, for example, saw the introduction of Horse Mode as an extensive and hilarious reference to a joke from April Fool's Day 2021. The exclusive mode, available for one day only, allowed players to take control of four-legged Horsemates instead of the beloved title's typical crewmates. While the traditional Among Us social deduction gameplay went untouched, the event was an amazing throwback to an amusing April Fool's gag from last year.
April Fool's Day is a celebration of silliness and humor, and Mojang's Minecraft snapshot managed to deliver both. While removing the game's inventory was a bizarre decision, letting Endermen create beautiful works of art was another surprising twist to the typical survival sandbox experience. While this Ender Art is only possible in the April Fool's snapshot, it demonstrates the innate beauty of the terrifyingly violent Minecraft monster.
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Source: Minerdomera/Reddit
