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Get to know glow squids in Minecraft’s latest snapshotThey light up your life and your signs
They light up your life and your signs
It’s been years since I’ve playedMinecrafton a regular basis but I still really enjoy when new features and creatures start showing up in game. Without fail, it means that the always creative Minecraft players will come up with unexpected ways to use them. The newest Minecraft snapshot adds some more parts of the upcomingCaves & Cliffs updateincluding the pretty glow squids and their glowing ink.
Mojang’supdate notesfor snapshot 21w03A explain what’s possible with the new glow squids and their ink. They’re meant to live in deep dark caves but Mojang say they won’t spawn naturally in this snapshot. For now, you’ll need to create a Creative world and use spawn eggs to summon them up.
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Naturally, I found a dark little pond and slapped down a whole handful of them and they’re quite pretty. They even make a sweet little tinkling sound as they float around.
The shiny new squids aren’t all that glows in the new update either. Glow lichen has been added too, a plant light source that can be found and harvest with shears inside caves.
If you kill a glow squid they’ll drop glow ink sacs which can be used to make the text on signs visible from far away. Apparently it can even be colored for some extra flair. I’m already interested in seeing whatever glowing displays players come up with.
If you want to meet the squids yourself, you’ll want to load up the Minecraft launcher and choose “latest snapshot” in your installations tab. It should be labeled 21w03A.
