THE NEW MOBS OF TRAILS & TALES
New mobs are always one of the most exciting parts of any update – and the recent Trails & Tales update has brought two of them! So with that in mind, here’s everything you could possibly need to know about Minecraft’s newest mobs: camels and sniffers!
CAMEL BASICS
The camel is a passive mob – meaning it’ll never attack you, You can only find camels in desert villages, where they’ll be roaming around near the village centre. They are only created during world generation and never respawn if killed, so the camel can be considered one of the rarest passive mobs in the game. If it weren’t for sniffers, it might be the rarest!
Camels will wander aimlessly, occasionally sitting, unless attacked – in which case they’ll run away as fast as possible! A camel that is sitting cannot be moved by the player, though it will stand up eventually! Unlike most mobs, camels can walk over obstacles that are 1.5 block height, meaning they can simply step over fences and walls!
If you do kill a camel, it’ll drop 1–3 experience orbs, and a saddle if one is already equipped on it when it dies. Breeding camels will cause 1–7 experience orbs to drop, and you can feed two adult camels a cactus block each to put them into breeding mode. As with other mobs, killing baby camels drops no experience orbs. You can feed a baby camel its desired food item – in this case, a cactus block – to speed up the time it takes to grow to adulthood.
RIDING A CAMEL
Riding mobs isn’t anything new, but camels have a unique ability: they can carry two players at once! To ride a camel, you can either use the saddle on the camel or get on its back, open the inventory, and place it on from there. You only need one saddle to carry two players, and the person in the front seat can control the camel’s direction using the standard walking controls. They can sprint as well as walk, and if you use the jump button you’ll make the camel dash for a couple of seconds.
Perhaps the best thing about riding on the back of a camel, though, is that you can’t be reached by many mobs’ melee attacks – you’re simply too high up! Most mobs will never deliberately attack a camel, though beware if there are zoglins around – they attack everything, even camels!
CAMEL SECRETS
The Minecraft camel is a dromedary camel, meaning it has just one hump – although when they were first proposed, they were Bactrian camels – the ones with two humps!
Camels are the tallest passive mobs in Minecraft, and the only passive
