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Well we know some things about the upcoming (But not close enough, close enough would be a year ago.) 1.7 Minecraft update! We have seen the Mesa biome pictures which look fantastic, I am partial to the mine shaft poking out of the canyon wall, and the other biome features look great as well, such as biome placement (Desert bordering jungle bordering snow tagia well classic Minecraft is still derp.) Frankly everything 1.7 is adding is long overdo but we must be grateful they are adding all of these items. http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Upcoming_features

Now, I saw nothing about any new mobs except fish, this is disappointing me somewhat. Will there be new mobs? I think it would make a lot of sense to add Jackals and Coyotes officially, Coyotes to the mesa and Jackals to the Savannah. The act and have the same stats as Wolves however they are different colors, much like the multiple types of horse. Add Yeti mobs to the enhanced mountains. They stalk the mountain ranges, hunting sheep. Now I hope that in secret we are getting some new mobs, and those are some basic possibilities.

Spider webs found in "Dark/black forest biomes", the roofed forest biome.

Ice stalagmites/stalactites?

Pre 1.7 updates are close to the end of their cycle, and the chance of any more large additions to the update at this point is low.

In this update I think its more important for Mojang to focus on the map generation and biomes.. Mobs could easily be added in a future update without effecting map generation.

No new mobs soon? Lame. This means the same boring conflict over and over

No new mobs - at least, not yet. 1.7's focusing on biomes, and possibly new blocks for those biomes (that have yet to be added in the snapshots with Jeb's absence), 1.8's focusing on generated structures for said biomes, and, if they do add mobs, it'll be at the earliest in 1.9.

They do when they have needed to add some new mob for quite awhile, and I don't mean aesthetic ones like the bat lol. I'm happy with what we have got, I would just prefer more unique blocks and mobs.

Based on some comments by Tommaso Checchi, currently various persons at Mojang are working on a means to be able to export Blender models directly into Minecraft. As in, mobs wouldn't need to be made by hand and hardcoded into existing, instead just needing conventional modeling, speeding up the process by a large margin and allowing for a lot more mobs within the future with minimal work. There's evidence that this system is the Super Secret Feature that has yet to be identified by Dinnerbone.