Creepers are generally unsympathetic. Especially if they surprise you and leave a huge crater in the landscape – or in your laboriously built home. But maybe creepers are just plain misunderstood creatures? Minecraft fans are discussing this right now after an attentive gamer has discovered a detail on the walking bombs.
Are Creepers Truly Walking Plants?
Creepers used to have leaf skin: Reddit user dead_5775 found out that the Creeper’s original surface texture was just Minecraft leaves with a face. To prove it, he put a creeper head over the leaf texture:
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Under his post, Minecraft fans are now throwing around wild theories as to whether there is more to it and how that could fit into the official lore. We’ll introduce you to two of the most interesting ideas.
Creepers hide under leaves: The comment with the most upvotes asks itself whether the monsters are simply wrapping themselves in leaves and actually look completely different – someone suggests that perhaps there is simply walking TFT under the cover. Other players believe in a more morbid explanation: Under the camouflage suit, they suspect the undead that are full of explosives.
Creepers are plants: Other fans believe that they are walking plants. Their readiness to explode would also make sense: Maybe that’s how they spread their spores? And if they blow up a living being, there would be fertilizer for the new creeper plants. For the plant theory also speaks that Minecraft creator Notch once posted, Creepers would feel like dry leaves. And don’t forget, “creeper” can also mean “vine plant”.
As many should know by now, the Creepers were created through a small accident while programming. An input mistake distorted the model of a pig, which Minecraft creator Notch liked so much that he immortalized it as a creepy opponent.
You can find an exciting video about a possible origin of the creepers in the desert on the channel of The Game Theorists (only available in English):
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By the way: In the meantime, creepers have long since received a different texture that no longer uses the leaves as a basis. Minecraft is still being developed, soon the big update Caves & Cliffs, for example, will change the caves. We also recently fixed a bug that had been in the game for 8 years.
