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Wildfire
Mob D cutout.png: Infobox image for Minecraft entity 'Wildfire'
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The wildfire, originally known as Mob D or the "Hovering Inferno", was a proposed mob featured in the Mob Vote during MINECON Earth 2017, alongside the barnacle, the phantom and the great hunger.[1]

It was a type of blaze with its body parts looking like shields in order to defend itself from attacks. This mob would spawn with groups of blazes randomly to attack the player in the Nether with a dangerous shock wave attack. Jens Bergensten argued that viewers should vote for Mob D because it would make the Nether "even more scary and exciting".[2]

The wildfire received 24% of the votes in the first round and moved onto the second,[3] losing with 28% of the votes.[4]

Preview video

History

November 1, 2017The 2017 Mob Vote is announced.
November 16, 2017The wildfire, as Mob D, is announced by Jens Bergensten.
November 18, 2017MINECON Earth 2017 airs, and the wildfire loses the vote, being declared "gone forever."
April 28, 2022During an episode of Minecraft Now, it is clarified that the wildfire and other 2017 candidates are only a "maybe."
?Mojang stated that they will not be adding mobs to the game that lost the 2017 mob vote. The Hovering Inferno is specifically mentioned by name.

Trivia

  • The wildfire is referenced in Terra Swoop Force, one of the death messages joking about the player voting for it.

References

  1. ↑ "Announcing... MINECON Earth" by Owen Jones – Minecraft.net, August 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Choose which mob makes it into Minecraft during this year's MINECON Earth! Will you vote for Mob D, the Hovering Inferno? Here's why you might" – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), November 16, 2017
  3. ↑ "Three mobs remain but only one gets added to the game! Vote for the mob you want added to Minecraft now" – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), November 18, 2017
  4. ↑ "Two mobs! But only one can be the winner! Which of these mobs do you want added to Minecraft?" – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), November 18, 2017

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