Many animal mobs can spawn in deserts in the new snapshots. This should be reverted because...
...It doesn't make sense. If pigs are bred with carrots and potatoes, what are they eating in the desert? Cows eat huge amounts of grass and are bred with wheat, which can't grow in the desert because of the lack of dirt. The thing that makes the most sense is having chickens in the desert, since they're bred with seeds and can eat the crickets you hear in them. Minecraft's sheep are way too wooly not to bake in their skins in the sorts of desert that have cacti.
...it takes away from the "interesting survival challenge" that Mojang mentioned in an official video (name of Desert of Doom). If you have food spawning in deserts, they become much more like plains biomes, minus the random trees.
...it's not accurate to the animals. Cows are from the colder regions of Europe, although they're now all over the world, and once again they need lots of grass and hay to eat. Pigs are naturalized in many parts of the world, but the few places they haven't reached are the hottest ones like savannahs and deserts. Chickens, while naturally living in hot climates, can't cool down effectively (birds don't sweat) and neither naturally live in deserts nor survive very well even when they're bred for hot climates. Sheep need grass and have to have very short hair in warm climates (fat-tailed sheep), which Minecraft's sheep do not.
Please revert that change for realism, the game's challenge, and logic. Thx.
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