Community Vote

The community vote was an annual event and community poll that took place during or just before Minecraft Live events. It allowed viewers to vote for a new mob to be added or biome to be updated. The winning option would be added into the game while the losing options got scrapped or shelved. Each option received its own video, explaining its impact on gameplay.

History

Starting from 2022, the vote took place before the show went live and players were able to cast their votes across three areas: a server on Bedrock Edition, via the Minecraft Launcher, and on Minecraft.net.^[1] In 2023, players could also vote in the China Edition launcher. Previously, the vote was held on the official Minecraft page on Twitter during the livestream. The results of the votes were released during the livestream. The community vote was discontinued on September 9th, 2024, making Minecraft Live 2023 the last official Minecraft event to have a mob vote.^[2]

The swamp revamp and the copper golem are the only candidates which have been selected to be introduced to the game despite losing their respective votes, reintroduced in the Wild Update and The Copper Age respectively. However, the devs have stated they are willing to rework old ideas if the theme of the update is right for the mob.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Iterations


Vote	Year	Event	Update	Version	Winning option	Losing options
Mob Vote	2017	MINECON Earth 2017	Update Aquatic	JE 1.13 BE 1.6	Phantom^{[note 1]}	Barnacle^{[note 2]} The Great Hunger^{[note 3]} Wildfire^{[note 4]}
Biome Chooser	2018	MINECON Earth 2018	Village & Pillage	JE 1.14 BE 1.10	Taiga	Desert Savanna
Biome Vote	2019	MINECON Live 2019	Caves & Cliffs	JE (1.17, 1.18) BE (1.17, 1.18)	Mountains	Swamp^{[note 5]} Badlands
Mob Vote	2020	Minecraft Live 2020	Caves & Cliffs	JE (1.17, 1.18) BE (1.17, 1.18)	Glow Squid	Iceologer Moobloom
	2021	Minecraft Live 2021	The Wild Update	JE 1.19 BE 1.19	Allay	Copper Golem^{[note 6]} Glare
	2022	Minecraft Live 2022	Trails & Tales	JE 1.20 BE 1.20	Sniffer	Rascal Tuff Golem
	2023	Minecraft Live 2023	Armored Paws	JE 1.20.5 BE 1.20.80	Armadillo	Crab^{[note 7]} Penguin

Trivia

An unrelated prediction poll was also held in China, teasing the announcement at MINECON Earth 2018 of a Chinese "national treasure" coming to Minecraft. Options in the poll were the Giant panda, Chinese alligator, Golden monkey, White-lipped deer, and River dolphin.^[7] The panda won the poll, was announced a few days later during the livestream, and subsequently added in Village & Pillage.
Though not officially considered Mob Votes, there have been other occasions where players could vote to influence the game. These include Jens asking to add either llamas or alpacas,^[8] and the cat vote featuring Jellie, Zach and Coco as options for a new cat skin.^[9]^[10]^[11]

Publicity

During Features That Got Cut, it is jokingly revealed that Narrator was a secret part of the original Mob Vote, referred to as Mob E.

Gallery

Miscellaneous

The word WINNER on the winners' screens.
Globe

Notes

↑ Referred to as The Monster of the Night Skies during the mob vote.
↑ Referred to as The Monster of the Ocean Depths during the mob vote. Similar functionality would later be added in the form of bubble columns.
↑ Similar functionality would later be added in the form of the grindstone.
↑ Referred to as The Hovering Inferno during the mob vote. Would later be included in Minecraft Dungeons.
↑ Would later be updated in The Wild Update in 2022.
↑ Would later be added with entirely different functionality in The Copper Age in 2025.
↑ Using the command /attribute <target> minecraft:generic.block_interaction_range base set <value> functions the same way as the crab's claw

References

↑ "Best Mob Vote Tutorials" by – Minecraft.net, October 14, 2022.
↑ "The future of Minecraft’s development" by Ryan Cooper – Minecraft.net, September 9, 2024.
↑ "Hi! For the mobs that don't win we will add them in the future if we think they add lots to the game at that point. So they are not gone forever, but also not promised because we want to make sure we add what we believe adds most value at that time :) Hope that makes sense! ^^" – @_LadyAgnes (Agnes Larsson) on X (formerly Twitter), October 1, 2020
↑ All the losing mobs go back to the Ideas Library. That means they won't come to the game soon but they might come in the future! – Reddit, u/Ulraf, October 14, 2021
↑ "That's literally what we already do, Frogs and Goats were part of previous votes and we added them slowly over time. The same for every other mob that loses the vote - they get added to the ideas library and when they make sense to add, we add them." – @kingbdogz on X (formerly Twitter), October 15, 2022
↑ "We decided a little while back to stop hosting mob votes. The mobs that were in the previous votes haven't been forgotten." – @jebox.bsky.social on Bluesky, January 26, 2026
↑ "国宝来啦！票选你最期待加入《我的世界》的国宝" – 《我的世界》官网-全新视界探索无限.
↑ "A friend is in urgent need of your help to settle this matter" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), July 26, 2016
↑ "Your cat could be in Minecraft" by Tom Stone – Minecraft.net, October 13, 2018.
↑ "Jellie, Zach, and Coco – these are the three final felines that remain in our CAT CONTEST! 😻" – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), November 16, 2018
↑ "Which cat do you want to see added to Minecraft? Cast your vote!" – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), November 16, 2018

[7] Referred to as The Monster of the Night Skies during the mob vote.

[8] Referred to as The Monster of the Ocean Depths during the mob vote. Similar functionality would later be added in the form of bubble columns.

[9] Similar functionality would later be added in the form of the grindstone.

[10] Referred to as The Hovering Inferno during the mob vote. Would later be included in Minecraft Dungeons.

[11] Would later be updated in The Wild Update in 2022.

[12] Would later be added with entirely different functionality in The Copper Age in 2025.

[13] Using the command /attribute <target> minecraft:generic.block_interaction_range base set <value> functions the same way as the crab's claw

[1] "Best Mob Vote Tutorials" by – Minecraft.net, October 14, 2022.

[2] "The future of Minecraft’s development" by Ryan Cooper – Minecraft.net, September 9, 2024.

[3] "Hi! For the mobs that don't win we will add them in the future if we think they add lots to the game at that point. So they are not gone forever, but also not promised because we want to make sure we add what we believe adds most value at that time :) Hope that makes sense! ^^" – @_LadyAgnes (Agnes Larsson) on X (formerly Twitter), October 1, 2020

[4] All the losing mobs go back to the Ideas Library. That means they won't come to the game soon but they might come in the future! – Reddit, u/Ulraf, October 14, 2021

[5] "That's literally what we already do, Frogs and Goats were part of previous votes and we added them slowly over time. The same for every other mob that loses the vote - they get added to the ideas library and when they make sense to add, we add them." – @kingbdogz on X (formerly Twitter), October 15, 2022

[6] "We decided a little while back to stop hosting mob votes. The mobs that were in the previous votes haven't been forgotten." – @jebox.bsky.social on Bluesky, January 26, 2026

[14] "国宝来啦！票选你最期待加入《我的世界》的国宝" – 《我的世界》官网-全新视界探索无限.

[15] "A friend is in urgent need of your help to settle this matter" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), July 26, 2016

[16] "Your cat could be in Minecraft" by Tom Stone – Minecraft.net, October 13, 2018.

[17] "Jellie, Zach, and Coco – these are the three final felines that remain in our CAT CONTEST! 😻" – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), November 16, 2018

[18] "Which cat do you want to see added to Minecraft? Cast your vote!" – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), November 16, 2018

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