Fireflies got removed from Minecraft due to being poisonous to frogs.
And the Minecraft community ain't happy about having two pixels gone.
The strange thing is I think the people who complain about useless mobs are a bit of a minority, and iirc there weren’t that many complaining about pandas and foxes (though I’m sure there were some, with some probably just not liking that foxes couldn’t be tamed). This time, a lot seem to want fireflies just for the atmosphere, and a Mojang dev mentioned loving the atmosphere they add. The frogs themselves aren’t really that useful either, they just poop out light blocks after dragging them to the Nether so they can eat a magma cube, though they’re still cool imo (as are the frog light blocks, but still, it’s less useful and more just cool light block textures).
Not only that, but they made it so frogs can be fed slimeballs instead, which you’d think wouldn’t be safe for frogs either. Of course, the slime monsters the items drop from aren’t real, but slime itself is, as is slime putty that kids play with, and if they’re worried about kids learning to feed frogs things that could kill them…yeah, adults may not be aware of fireflies being toxic, and would nearly be guaranteed to know not to feed frogs slime, but they’re not always going to be around where they’ll see their kid feeding their frog…(personally I don’t care what frogs are fed ingame, Mojang’s reasoning for removing fireflies completely was just weird imo).
Hopefully, fireflies can return as an atmospheric mob, maybe with jars we can put them in. Maybe they could also add poison dart frogs that could maybe eat them, since they eat other bugs with toxins in real life.
One of these days I'm hoping the devs add all of the mobs from the two Mob Votes.
All of them were good concepts, and I hear at least a few of them at least made it into Minecraft Dungeons instead.
I’d love for them all to get added, too. Thankfully they’re at least still in consideration for future updates (not sure if this includes 2017’s mob vote, but the Hovering Inferno (now called the Wildfire) was added into Minecraft Dungeons so maybe), though they don’t sound like they’re guaranteed.
My favorite is the Glare, which has come close to the creeper as a favorite mob of mine despite not even being in the game. I love its appearance and how it sounded like a tameable, fantasy pet mob, and I like the idea of not needing F3 to tell where monsters can spawn (while it’s easier to tell now due to them only spawning in light level 0, it’s hard for me to see the difference between 0 and 1 or so in smaller spots, and I like trying to conserve my torches. Though, I guess I also don’t really care about that much either, I just like the Glare lol).
I think they'll probably do that. Like I was pretty bummed out when my pick didn't win the mob and biome vote (Iceologer and Swamp) but hearing Swamp would be after mountains was reassuring.
Although RIP to the 3rd place biome update, what was that again?
The 3rd biome update was the savanna, I think. However, Mojang said all of them would be added, not just first and second place, though they still haven’t added the losing biomes from the first vote either :S (the badlands and the desert)