Minecraft: Mobestiary

The Minecraft: Mobestiary is a Minecraft book authored by Alex Wiltshire and illustrated by Anton Stenvall.
== Synopsis ==
A character known only as the Naturalist explains how each mob works in detail according to his perspective in the Minecraft world. Most of the writing focuses on the in-game mechanics of each mob, but it occasionally references things from outside the game, such as the the killer bunny being "immortalized in a popular comedic play", TNT in the anatomy of a creeper, the superstition of the chicken being a spy, and the origins of endermites being from between dimensions. There are also dissections of some of the mobs showing organs, bones, gas, magma, gears, and/or redstone depending on the mob.
== Compendium ==
== Naturalist ==
The Naturalist is a human scholar in the world of Minecraft and the in-universe writer of the Minecraft: Mobestiary. They have supposedly made it their life’s work to study Minecraft’s mobs and write their findings into an encyclopedia about all the creatures that have been discovered.
=== Credibility ===
According to Alex Wiltshire, the Naturalist is somewhat conjectured:
== Trivia ==
*The sketch showing the anatomy of the creeper was likely based on official Minecraft merchandise created by JINX.https://web.archive.org/web/20110630014033/http://www.jinx.com/p/minecraft_creeper_anatomy_premium_tee.html?catid=
**In Minecraft Dungeons, there is an anatomical model showing the same anatomy.
*The spy-chicken superstition mentioned by the Naturalist originated from a Minecraft Alpha tutorial video made by Paul Soares Jr.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5EC5ymLWHs
**In the beginning of the video, Paul was in a cave along with a chicken that seemed to watch him. Though he never mentioned it being a spy in the video itself, he jokingly stated in several comments on the video that the chicken was a spy sent by Sarumon and that it had to be executed.
== Notes ==
== Gallery ==
File:Pig Mobestiary.jpg|Pigs
File:Sheep Mobestiary.jpg|Sheep
File:Creeper Mobestiary.jpg|Creeper
File:Ghast Mobestiary.jpg|Ghast
File:Chicken Jockey Mobestiary.jpg|Chicken jockey
File:Enderman Mobestiary.jpg|Enderman
File:Magma Cube Mobestiary.jpg|Magma cube
File:Vindicator Mobestiary.jpg|Vindicator
File:Elder Guardian_Mobestiary.jpg|Elder guardian
File:Wither boss Mobestiary.jpg|The wither
File:Ender Dragon Mobestiary.jpg|The ender dragon
File:Creeper anatomical model.png|Creeper anatomical model from the house in the camp from Minecraft Dungeons.
File:Creepus Explodus JINX.jpg|A t-shirt design depicting creeper anatomy.
File:Creeper Anatomy JINX.jpg|A vinyl figure depicting creeper anatomy.
Mobestiary Cover.jpg|Cover art of the book.
== See also ==
*Mob
== References ==
Category:Fiction