Are you ready for some bugfixes? There is a whole plethora of them! Poring over many of the bugs introduced in recent Snapshots, Mojang has been hammering them all out, one by one! While a new resource system is in development, it is not currently available for testing. Soon!
FEATURES:
- Villagers now have sounds
- Horses, donkeys, and mules now have sounds
BUGFIXES:
- Sleeping while in a Minecart produces a graphical glitch
- Argument "team" do not work with "!" for other players
- Scoreboard problem with "seeFriendlyInvisibles"
- Horse can climb ladders/vines
- Horses graze on non-grass blocks, also underwater
- Leashes break when riding a horse
- Cannot tie wild horses and foals
- Stacked Entity Spawner creating mass duplicate ghost entities
- Horse armor not keeping enchantments when dropping from a horse
- Crash due to corrupt pack.png in texture pack
- horses break lead when being lead when they stop to eat grass
- Unable to move previously ridden horses after reloading the world
- Problem with horse movement.
- Villagers can now ride on Grum
- Horses not running fast in creative
- Horse – Shift Key Locking
- IllegalStateException: Server tried to update attributes of a non-living entity
- Horse Speed does not remain constant
I think you are reading far too much into one character in a Twitter post.
Donkeys and Horses are as technically different as they are technically the same, so they could EASILY have been what he meant. He also could have meant a mob that we haven't seen yet, as you said.
The important part is he never said "1.6 will be the Mob Update"
I noticed that too. XD
They were probably going high
Well, Dinner did say...
Feh.
Misplaced hope indeed. I'd been caught by that one as well, thinking "FINALLY some new mobs! So many parts of the game barely have any! Particularly hostiles!" And instead..... horses. Not even unique horses either, but ones taken from a mod. *sigh* And then a couple of what I've been calling "horse palette-swaps".
Granted, I'm sure plenty of players like the horses, so whatever. I personally will continue just killing the stupid things off though, same as I tended to do with that mod. Never liked them much (to be fair, I dont like horses IRL either). Not to mention the whole "already have rideable pigs" bit.
Still, been a very uninteresting update so far. Dont get me wrong, I'm always appreciative for updates as a whole from Mojang, but this particular one.... normally I'm very positive about updates, but this one has even me not checking the patch notes until like 2 weeks after because I've lost interest. Here's hoping 1.7 will be better.
At least got coal blocks and leashes though.
Villager: Ahh,
Villager 2: Ahh, ahh ahh.
But the horses sound great.