Another Wednesday has arrived and with it comes another Minecraft snapshot. This one affects the cute armadillo in Minecraft 1.21, as well as our favorite enemy mob Breeze. So if you're keen to learn about the changes, let's explore Minecraft snapshot 24W04A together in this post!

Thanks to persistent feedback from the community and suggestions that the armadillo needs to have some form of armor while coiled up, Mojang has listened and delivered perfectly. From now on, when the armadillo mob is unrolled, its shell will protect it by reducing incoming damage. For weak attacks, such as a regular punch, the armadillo will fully absorb the damage.

This can surprisingly lead to players inventing mini-games that include punching armadillos. Although it sounds terrible, remember that this cutie takes no damage in the process in Minecraft 1.21.

In addition, the armadillo now also comes with a kind of memory system, which is responsible for remembering the last attacker. So if you hurt an armadillo and just walked up to it slowly, it will still roll up.