Firefly (mob)

This article is about the scrapped mob. For the bush that produces fireflies as particles, see Firefly Bush. For other uses, see Firefly (disambiguation).
This article documents a feature that has been shelved indefinitely.
 
It is unknown whether this feature will be implemented in a future update.
BlockSprite blue-rose.png: Sprite image for blue-rose in Minecraft
This page describes content that has been removed and was only present in earlier versions of Bedrock Edition.
 
This feature was present in a private developer version, but it never saw public release before being scrapped.
Firefly
Firefly (mob).gif: Infobox image for Firefly the entity in Minecraft
Health points

1HP♥

Behavior

Passive

Mob type

Arthropod, Animal

Hitbox size

Height: 0.0625 blocks
Width: 0.125 blocks

Spawn

Swamp
Mangrove Swamp

The firefly was a scrapped mob that would glow in the dark and be eaten by frogs that was featured in Minecraft Live 2021. It was later repurposed as a particle generated by firefly bushes.

Behavior

Fireflies were two pixels in size, rather than the single pixel size of the implemented firefly particle, which would have made them the smallest mob in the game. Fireflies were originally going to be the mob eaten by frogs to produce froglights, later being replaced by magma cubes in this role. Frogs eating fireflies was scrapped because some species of fireflies are poisonous to some species of frogs in real life.[1] Fireflies themselves were scrapped for being a "performance nightmare", which was not outweighed enough by its positive benefits for ambience.[2]

Data values

ID

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
EntitySprite firefly.png: Sprite image for firefly in Minecraft Fireflyfirefly135entity.firefly.name

History

October 16, 2021 Fireflies are announced at Minecraft Live 2021.
May 10, 2022Fireflies are confirmed to have been scrapped.
Bedrock Edition
1.18.10beta 1.18.10.26Earliest known instance of firefly mentions in the code.
1.19.10Preview 1.19.10.20Removed fireflies from the code.[3]

Gallery

Development images

Concept artwork

References

  1. https://youtube.com/watch?v=a5Wd9ciTmTI&t=544
  2. https://youtube.com/watch?v=5BSQAVOSYOA&t=445
  3. MCPE-155827 — "firefly" appears in target selector type argument suggestions — resolved as "Fixed".

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