Minecraft Fan Redesigns Some of The Game's Scariest Mobs

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Minecraft has many unnerving creatures, with fan artists often reimagining and enhancing their creepy features.
Recent additions like the creaking mobs continue to add to Minecraft's eerie vibe, keeping the game's fantasy universe rich.
Even older mobs like the ghast inspire fan artwork, with recent designs like the happy ghast becoming popular choices.

A talented artist from the online Minecraft community has shown off some of their latest mob redesigns, featuring the enderman, wither skeleton, bogged, and stray mobs. Creatures such as the wither skeleton and enderman are often considered among the creepiest of Minecraft's diverse range of mobs, both hostile and not, and have appeared in no shortage of fan artwork over the years thanks to their already eerie appearances.

Minecraft is actually home to quite a few unnerving creatures despite how peaceful the game looks on the surface. Every new fantastical monster, realm, and biome added to the game over the years further enriches Minecraft's fantasy universe, and even some of the game's more recent updates have added mobs that capture the same creepy vibe that the enderman brought in some of the sandbox game's early days. The creaking, for example, is one of Minecraft's newest mobs that was introduced along with the sinister pale garden biome, and are essentially ever-present tree monsters that will only ever move when they're out of the player's sight.

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By Jack Webster

One fan artist from the Minecraft community, known as Just_A_Normal_Palm, has recently shared their latest batch of reimagined Minecraft monsters. These awesome designs are focused on some of the game's creepier mobs, specifically the enderman, wither skeleton, bogged, and stray, sprucing up some of these mobs' existing features while adding new ones that fit the artist's fantastic art style. Another neat touch that the creator included is each mob's name written alongside them in both Illageralt runes, a language that was initially introduced in Minecraft Dungeons, and the Standard Galactic Alphabet, which is the font used in Minecraft's enchanting table interface.

These Minecraft Mob Redesigns Make Them Even Creepier

The reimagined wither skeleton is a particularly awesome design, with the mob featuring a much larger stone sword and even some raggedy clothing. It's also geared up with what looks like the skull of one of the Nether's hoglins as a shoulder pauldron. Minecraft's bogged and stray skeleton variants got similar treatments, with the stray redesign showing off what the mob's various pieces of clothing might realistically look like. The bogged, on the other hand, is shown as a skeleton overgrown with moss and mushrooms, and even has its own root-like arrows embedded in the growth.

Minecraft is seeing quite a few new mobs added to the game relatively frequently nowadays, though even its oldest critters continue to inspire fan artwork even more than a decade later. The recent reveal of Minecraft's adorable happy ghast and ghastling mobs have been particularly popular among artists, quickly standing out as new fan-favorite mobs before they've even been officially added to the game.

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