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Minecraft update 1.21 will add the Bogged as a new mob

A poisonous skeleton archer

Marco Wutz

Minecraft update 1.21 will add the Bogged as a new mob
Minecraft update 1.21 will add the Bogged as a new mob /

Mojang has revealed that update 1.21 for Minecraft will feature a new mob called the Bogged. It’s a variant of the regular Skeleton Archer that lets poison arrows fly at players. This type of undead will appear in Trial Chambers – another addition coming with update 1.21 – as well as in Swamp and Mangrove Swamp biomes.

Appropriately, the Bogged is greenish in color and has plants dangling from its bones. These guys probably have a bit of a smell to them after being stuck in stinky swamp mud for too long.

While update 1.21 has not been published yet, players interested in encountering the Bogged can play a preview build of the coming version by participating in the current Minecraft snapshot.

Minecraft screenshot showing a Bogged in the swamps.
Bogged will be haunting swampy biomes in the future :: Mojang / Microsoft

How to play a Minecraft snapshot

If you want to try the snapshot containing the Bogged for yourself, you can easily do so from your Minecraft launcher by following these steps:

  1. Start the Minecraft launcher.
  2. Click "Installations".
  3. For snapshots: click "Snapshots".
  4. Start up Minecraft.

Player opinions seem divided on the Bogged. Some users are calling it a lazy addition like the introduction of the Cavern Spider, which is a similar reskin of an already existing monster. Other players are simply excited about having a new mob in the game they can encounter and want Mojang to provide even more variations of enemies.

As always with such a huge diverse player base as Minecraft’s you’ll get opinions in pretty much every possible direction – it’s no wonder that Mojang is playing it so safe and slow with updates.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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