Junglin

The junglin was the winner of the 1.21 mob vote on October 15, 2023. Its success was a surprise to everyone, beating the capybara by a landslide. Junglins are playful creatures which dwell in jungle treehouses. They can stretch their limbs to great distances, which the player can utilize as a sort of grappling hook. Junglins were added as part of a small jungle update. The primary reasons for this mob are to make mining/exploring easier, better mob transportation, and obtaining useful trades. This is just a fan-made concept! Mojang could add it if they wanted to, but at this moment it is just fanon.
== Appearance ==
Junglins have a darkish-orange color, with a head like a dinosaur, and they are small in size. Their clothing consists of a bamboo skirt and an olive-green shirt. They have a long lizard-like tail which can twist into the shape of a monkey-like tail. If it is equipped with a sword, then it will hold the sword with its tail.
== Health ==
They have 20 hearts which is equal to a zombie. However, junglins are capable of drinking healing potions to refill their health. They are immune to drowning, poison, freezing, and fall-damage. Junglins are also immune to enchanted items. Potion effects can still hurt them, but enchantments won't hurt them or impact them in any way.
== Drops ==
Commom: 0-2 bones.
Rare: 0-2 string.
It will also drop whatever item it is holding such as a blowpipe, a cookie, or a healing potion.
== Behaviors ==
* They can stretch their legs and arms to a length of ten blocks, and are capable of swinging from tree to tree.
* If attacked, all nearby junglins will use blowpipes with poisonous stingers to attack the player. One of the junglins will also start using a goat horn with a sound known as ‘Death’.
* Junglins are very playful with each other and will play games such as Hide-and-Seek, tag, monkey-in-the-middle, soccer using a melon as a ball, and they play sword fighting using wooden swords. 
* If they are in a snow biome, then they will have a snowball fight. 
* At night, sometimes they will jump on their bed instead of going to sleep. 
* They are not hostile towards any mob and remain virtually neutral towards everything. No mobs are hostile towards them, with the exception of the Ender Dragon, Wither, the Warden, and Cor. 
* They like to read books.
* Junglins are afraid of wolves. Their lupophobia is intended for lore.
* They eat cookies.
* They are able to swim.
* They can jump up to 10 blocks.
* It can wear armor and mob heads, but it will not spawn with it. It can rarely spawn wearing leather boots. When it is wearing a mob head, the head will look massive.
* It can hold and use any weapon you give it. It can hold up to three weapons.
* This is extremely rare, but it can extend its legs to be ten blocks in length, allowing it to walk faster and jump longer distances. 
* If the player is in a boat with a junglin on their back, they can put an additional mob in the boat. They can use the boat and the junglin’s elastic arms at the same time. This will make transporting animals easier.
* You can dye a junglin's shirt.
* They have hidden telepathic abilities, which allow them to communicate with mobs and villagers.
* They can walk on all fours, but they tend to only walk with two legs like a human.
* If it sees an enderman, it can extend its legs to become the same height as the enderman, then look directly into its eyes. They will have a very long staring contest.
== Taming ==
The junglin had a very unique form of taming. When the player gives the junglin a totem-of-undying, the junglin would become friends with the player and would follow them around similar to a pet. The junglin could ride on the player’s back and behave like a personal grappling hook, allowing them to quickly travel and climb blocks. They became especially useful in mining, so ladders were no longer necessary.
The player will not be able to trade with a tamed junglin. The junglin will jump on the player’s back similar to how a parrot will jump on their shoulder. However, unlike parrots, junglins will not abandon the player and will stick to the player. To use the junglin’s elastic grappling arms, the player will need to consume a cookie. Consuming a cookie will not refill any of the player’s hunger. The player can put the cookies in their off-hand if they want to. 
Junglins will only pull players directly to the block, so it won’t pull them over the block. The player could use a junglin’s pulling ability while riding a horse, boat, minecart, or any other rideable animal. The player could climb mountains while riding a horse, or pull themselves across rivers.
== Trading ==
Similar to piglins, the player can give the junglins books to obtain a random item. The player can obtain stone tools, blowpipes, poisonous stingers, healing potions, ocelot plushies, leather boots, string, milk bottles, bamboo rafts, and cookies. Junglins can also trade the player a new goat horn. This goat horn is known as ‘Death’. It makes screaming noises identical to an instrument known as a death whistle. Goats will not drop this horn. This will be a cheap way to get stone tools when in the jungle. 
Ocelot plushy 
The ocelot plushy would be an item which when placed on the ground, it will scare creepers away. This would provide ultimate protection for your base. Junglins sometimes sleep with this item. It can only be obtained by trading with a junglin.
Blowpipes
With addition of junglins, blowpipes were also added into Minecraft as a new weapon. These were crafted from bamboo and could shoot poisonous stingers from bees (referred to as stingers). They did a very small amount of damage, but could be an excellent weapon in some scenarios.
Milk bottles
Milk bottles function like milk buckets, but they can be stacked.
== Breeding ==
Similar to other animals in the game, giving two junglins cookies will cause them to breed. Because of their strange biology, junglins can only breed when in water, and will take damage if they attempt to breed when on land due to dehydration. After returning to land, they will build a nest out of vines, one of the junglins will sit in the nest, then an egg will appear in the nest. It will keep sitting on the egg for 4-5 Minecraft days until the egg hatches. An adult junglin is the size of a baby villager, so a baby junglin will be even more tiny. When the egg hatches, two baby junglins will appear from the egg.
Their egg and spawn-egg has a dark blue base like lapis and has orange spots. Most mobs are the same color as their egg, but for junglins it is intentionally different for the lore of the game. 
Junglins will not breed with a junglin who is effected with a negative effect. They will also not breed with a cured junglin (a junglin who was a zombie junglin). Breeding a junglin on Lazuli will just cause two regular baby junglins to appear, and it will not become a blue junglin. Twin junglins can only breed with each other.
== Other types of junglins ==
Blue junglin
The blue junglin is extremely rare. It is wearing an ancient junglin cloak instead of the typical junglin outfit. When it spawns, a bolt of lightning will appear then the junglin will appear. It will summon lightning and disappear if the player tries to attack it. It does not interact with the player or items. It can spawn in almost any biome or dimension. A blue junglin can be harmed by poison.
Junglin jockey
A junglin-jockey is a junglin which spawns riding an ocelot. It is one of the most common jockeys in the game.
Zombie junglin
The zombie junglin is a very rare junglin that can be found. It attacks villagers, players, and other junglins. It is fast and extremely dangerous! A zombie junglin can be cured and will act like any other junglin, but it does have a few differences. A cured junglin can be harmed by poison (unlike other junglins). Junglins will not breed with a cured junglin, or with any junglin how has a negative effect. Zombies do not attack junglins, and junglins don’t become zombies. Zombie junglins spawn like zombies and zombie villagers, but they are incredibly rare and this is the only way to find them.
Magma junglin
These junglins can rarely spawn in the Nether. They have skin similar to a magma cube and yellow eyes. Magma junglins will not trade with the player or interact with them. It will just ignore the player even if the player tries to attack it. Magma junglins are immune to lava and fire. They can also fly by shooting little fire particles out of its arms and legs. Magma junglins can sometimes be found riding a wither skeleton. Magma junglins ignore the player, ignore other mobs, and even ignore wolves. They just don't care about anything anymore and completely lack all emotion. They explode into a flaming explosion when the player kills it.
Gray Junglin
These junglins can only be spawned using commands. They behave differently and don't wear clothes similar to enderman. Gray junglins will telepathically communicate with villagers, causing them to plant saplings.
Enderrok (Cor, the evil junglin boss)
Enderrok is a junglin which looks like an enderman, but it has blue eyes. It is a hostile boss and can transform into a giant black wolf. It is only found in the Lazuli dimension.
== New Jungle Structures ==
Lazurite
Underneath the Jungle Temple another structure was added to the game which appears to be an ancient spaceship known as the Lazurite (inspired by the Malachor Sith Temple). It is made of hematite blocks. This spaceship contains a massive library which is the largest library in the game. Symbols of the totem-of-undying are found on pillars inside the spaceship. There was also a new type of tree growing inside the ship. These trees have glowing blue leaves and have a new type of blue plank. In the center of the spaceship, the player can find a block of lapis which powers the entire ship. The Lazurite is a junglin spaceship from their homeworld Lazuli. 
There is a secret room in the Lazurite which contains a giant wool ocelot statue. In this room there are a lot of ocelot plushies on the floor. 
Rations are a new type of food found in the Lazurite. It is a blue glowing snack bar. They can stack up to 64. A single ration can completely refill the player’s hunger, but they must be used sparingly because they cannot be crafted.
Jungle treehouse
The jungle village consisted of bamboo and jungle wood. This was a place where villagers and junglins could live together. The jungle village lacks iron golems because the villagers remain safe in their treehouse.
== Achievements ==
"So long, and thanks for all the books!"
Get effected with levitation while a junglin is riding on your back. In the Minecraft Marketplace skin section, you will unlock a belt with red healing potions on it. The belt will be black like the Lazurite.
“Knowledge is power!”
Trade with a junglin 100 times. In the Minecraft Marketplace skin section, you will unlock the ancient junglin cloak. It is a black cloak with glowing dark blue colors like the Lazurite.
“Restitution”
Give a junglin a totem-of-undying. In the Minecraft Marketplace skin section, you will unlock a back-skin item which is a junglin riding on your back.
There would also be a lot of free Marketplace skin items, and possibly more achievements too.
== Minecraft Lore ==
The junglins are aliens! They invented healing potions and the totem-of-undying to protect them from an evil junglin known as Cor. Their totems were stolen and now belong to the pillagers. Junglins are the most brilliant creatures in the game! They have all the secrets of the Ancient Builders hidden in their library.
== Trivia ==
* The creator of the mob Dominusanimum was awarded with a Minecraft junglin cape.
* They come from a planet known as Lazuli.
* A popular junglin card-game is known as Exploding Ocelots (It's like Exploding Kittens, but with creepers).
* The junglin’s behaviors mimic playful children and the behavior of monkeys.
* The player can ride a minecart and a boat while a junglin is riding the player’s back.
* Junglins write using the Standard Galactic Alphabet. The enchanting language is the language from their home dimension.
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