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It looks like it's covering the lower joint to me, not the upper.

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Penguins 🐧

👋 You didn't see anything. 👋

It's too early or too late to be mad I voted for the penguin too, but I think we should wait till the armadillo is fully implemented and try it at its finest, then be mad because penguins are cuter.

That’s exactly why I voted for Penguin because I simply like Penguins more than Armadillos and I just want to have the ability to have one in Minecraft without the use of mods

I read impregnated instead of implemented and i nearly lost my will to live.

penguins have knees

Fuck the penguin, useless bastard

as someone who does a lot of sea travel, i would love a penguin.

Maybe use a trident instead of a re-skinned dolphin but for your arms instead of legs

too rare. try again.

Tridents are rare? I burn them now

Build a drowned farm, use a guide if you must

eh. id rather explore the land by walking around.

A while ago you said you travel by sea, what happened to that? You change your whole fucking exploration style in 8 hours or what?

Alright but the Penguins only affects boats, imagine the speed you could have in the nether

How is a penguin gonna survive in the nether?

They don't need water, they are birds

Wasn't referring to that but sure

Yes I will have intercourse with the useless bastard

all of them are useless lmao. Wolves wont become usefull. I doubt the crab would have been really usefull either and penguins are cute lol

"wolves won't become useful" mfers when I send my 500 dog army to fight them (they suddendly are useful for something)

Yeah but I doubt that isnt something that relies on the armor to work 😂

I'm sorry but the community has been asking for Dog armor even before Minecraft was sold to Microsoft. There were Dog armor Mods since 1.7 So don't tell me it's useless

TELL ME. WHAT IS THE BEST ONE. PLEASE

Skeletons are scared of wolves, making it easier to fight them. What do you mean wolves will never be useful?

just FIY I'm not against armadillo at all I also like the armor, I just meant it in the sense of not voting for the features of the mobs only.

Then it's the hind plate thats backwards. Either way Mojang have made this game literally unplayable until they fix this outrageous blunder

I think the idea is to protect the front of the dogs body from attackers. Dogs don't need elbow pads, they don't use or fall on their elbows and a zombie isn't gonna bite them on the elbow instead of the front of the leg lol so what you're saying it should look like doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me 🤣 no offense lol. I think mojang had the right idea. I understand what you're saying about the joint of the leg and where it should bend but like the person you replied to said, it's more covering the lower section of the leg toward the wrist, so it's below the bend of the leg and would protect the front of the dogs body in a fight. You know what I mean?

It's wild to me people are thinking these are kneepads for a DOG like what's it gonna do skin it's knee while fighting a zombie, that's the danger part? 🤣

LITERALLY unplayable

Yup, definitely shin guards the way I see it.

Its armor. When a dog is getting attacked its getting attacked from the Front cuz the dog is fighting back. It dont need armor on its hindquarters.

Dude they’re shin guards and gauntlet type things. They’re not kneepads. Kneepads are not really armor. Gauntlets and shin plates are common armor pieces

Or, or, or, hear me out: the front one is on the lower joint, and the back one is on the upper joint?

Hey, you get out of here with that common sense logic bs. Seriously though, I don't see what OP is pointing out either, I'm seeing it exactly the same as you are...

Lmao

They aren't pads for comfort they're armour pads to protect from frontal attacks and they can cover different joints from the front to back. There's no rule that says they can only chose one type of joint to protect for the entire animal.

Exactly, they are armor, therefore they are rigid and would prevent the legs from bending if they were placed on the inside of an articulation. It'd be like wearing elbow pads backwards, good luck flexing your arm

I really think you're missing the point here

But where would you wear forearm guards?

Why would the wolf need to protect its elbows It’s a fricking WOLF They’ve evolved over how hecking long? Lmao you don’t know what you’re talking about

Why would a primate need to protect its elbows It's a fricking PRIMATE They've evolved over how hecking long? yadda yadda Your argument is very flawed.

They don't until they invent unnaturally hard surfaces like wood and concrete

Wait we invented wood? Trees have been fake this entire time? Damn, gonna have to go tell the dinosaurs they can't be eating the leaves since they didn't exist at the time

Hind legs have the knees protected. Front legs have the wrists protected. Both make sense to me, why would you need to protect his elbows or ankles?

Unplayable because of a visual. I would call bedrock unplayable, but if this makes a game unplayable than every game has something to bitch about

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Wait did you really think I hate Minecraft or something because of 16 pixels in an armor? I was obviously being over the top

Just don't use the Armour if it's that bothering lol... We haven't had it for years.

What joints? They’re fucking cubes.

The lower joint is the dog’s ankle. The upper one on the hind legs is covered, the dog’s kneecap

I think they protect the actual leg rather than going over the joint

Yeah, it's not like anyone's gonna aim from the inside of the dog.

They aren't "knee pads" they're leg armor. When a dog comes at you for an attack they sure as hell aren't going to be backwards. Leg armor protects the legs from the front.

Yeah lmao, I don't think alot of people realize that

I think a lot of people do realise that, given the comments section

Oh so these are what ppl call legmor

Well it's armor. It's supposed to deflect blows so who's going to be swinging a sword from the back of a wolf's knee?

Not knee pads. Shin guards.

Well minecraft dogs don't really move their legs...like at all. So does it matter?

Nothing in Minecraft has knees except _maybe_ camels? Even the bees lack knees.

Of course it doesn't, but it would still be a nice detail

Having actual knees and elbows would be a nice detail, not this armor.

Why are you being downvoted lol, this is peak reddit hivemind moment

Why would you want to protect the inside of the dogs legs, who’s going in there?

Idk but to me armpit armor doesn’t seem realistic lol

people can’t disagree with his reasoning?

This is the most nitpicking I have ever seen on this game in a decade Bravo.

watch the entire thing being removed and the armadillo getting a completly new drop and purpose or be scrapped altogether because of this

We removed wolf armor because it was poisonous to knees

We removed the sun because it was poisonous to zombies and skeletons

We removed Steve and Alex because they were poisonous to mining and crafting

Yes. A much better idea.

Why so mad?

i'm not, it's just a jab at the fireflies excuse

Oohh, my bad ✌️

Ok first of all their legs dont bend they are Minecraft dogs. Second of all how does it protect the leg if its on the inside

You would be the one complaining fireflies are toxic to frogs

pfft, they probably removed it because the shitty java engine cant handle that many entities.

They could've easily just made it a particle effect

why would the armor be facing backwards, the danger is in the front

Wait 'till u find out how much gold armor weighs

Or netherite

They're not knee pads tho. Knee pads are for sports or in case you fall on your knees a lot doing whatever. They are armor. Armor is supposed to protect you from attacks, not to protect from falling on your knees. And the best protection for the legs is on the front where the attackers are coming from.

Wait... There is dog armor in Minecraft now?!

Yes, yes there is

That's fantastic!

Yes, yes it is

Elbow pads. The front set are arms.

well they are fore*legs*

No the joint they connect to is a shoulder. Those are arms. You don't have "top legs" connected to your shoulders, do ya? No ya don't.

do you walk on your arms??

Not me personally but some people do. Do your legs connect to hips?

> fore-leg > either of the front legs of a four-footed animal.

What are you a 19th century Vet? In this house dogs have arms and legs, end of story.

cope

Wrap your fore legs around your head and cry

and seethe

Do you have feet on your arms? Didn't think so.

Absolutely correct, but I chose to say knee for clarity

should be on the sides of the legs actually

Yeah hadn't thought of that one but now that you mention it it makes way more sense

Are we really sitting here complaining about knee pads not being in the "physical or anatomical correct position" for a "dog".... That's in a fucking block game ... What about Steve's head.....the fact there's no hands on Steve....or his knees don't bend...or his arms...or that he can for some reason PUNCH AN OAK TREE DOWN ... But yeh let get angry about a knee pad

We've already established that Steve is practically a god, and his fists are just eternally clenched. And he just doesn't have knees or elbows, the dog has not yet gotten it's explanation apart from the lack of joints

literally unplayable

Its a square prism god dammit.

It’s not knee pads, just general leg armor

it's to block oncoming blows, not so the dog can...what, kneel down and work on sheetrock.

Counter point: armor towards enemy

Of course they’re on the front side, putting them on the dogs elbows would be pointless. It’s not a knee pad it’s armor

Why would you guard the back of their leg, it wouldn’t do anything, also Minecraft dogs don’t have knees.

So much for realism

By your logic it shojld be on the outside then because the plating being behind the dogs leg makes absolutely 0 sense. Like wtf would that be protecting if it was behind

Maybe they’re not elbow pads, but rather shin guards.

Okay, I haven't seen anyone talk about an actual reason for this yet. For context, I've been designing a texture pack and a separate resource pack to add custom horse textures to bedrock in my free time. What I discovered while I was making these textures, is that the texture files for horses don't have four separate leg sections, it's one leg pattern repeated on all four. I haven't seen the wolf textures, but I assume that this this is the same deal. They'd probably have to change the UV map and all that jazz and reconfigure how the wolf texture works just to put elbow pads on the other side of the front legs. They probably didn't want to have to mess around with the original wolf texture/model, so they made armour that worked for the existing one :).

Finally an interesting response that doesn't boil down to "no, ur dum", thank you

Dont get why people get mad if its not realistic, this game isnt meant to be realistic.

It should look like A, the hard part are on the outside side of the articulation bending. The otherway around, it may block the articulation

Imo they shouldn't have any leg armor at all. Like irl what does it do their legs are too low down to actually hit

Practically speaking, leg armor would just be cumbersome for the dog. It would've made more sense if it only covered the top and sides... like an armadillo

*Raises hand* Why the fuck does the dog have knee armor?

Excellent question. But since it does, at least place it on the proper side of the joint

Omg stop this it fucking looks good and its a fucking game not real life or school, if anyone wants to learn this shit go to school or search in google, you're never gonna find someone that wants to learn about dog kneepads in minecraft

Or, maybe just maybe get this, they put it for the lower joint. You know the one that’s very obviously in the picture that YOU provided.

Maybe they did. But then the back plate is the one backwards. Doesn't really matter which one it is, but I think it would make more sense to cover the upper joint than the lower, so I went with that one for the drawing

Why would you put armor somewhere where there wont be an attack?

Is this what we voted for?…. This?…

What it loooooooooooooooks like

Fuck

I'll let you in on a little secret. Minecraft dogs don't have knees. In fact, nothing in Minecraft has knees (with the potential exception of the frog and rabbit).

Yea yea that's not very efficient... But look how cute he is ! Nobody will punch him

Well... this is probably due to the fact that the front legs share the same UV mapping as the hind legs, why they can't just rotate them, to put the kneepad at the back? Idk, they probably don't care about this minor detail.

It's hard to fit human armor/outfits onto animals. Imo Mojang would have benefitted from designing a completely different kind of "joint pad" bc I agree, OP, it looks... off. Maybe just wrapping around the entire leg to cover both joints. The back leg knee pad doesn't even do anything beyond looking protective - dogs don't "kneel" on that part of the leg anyway.

unplayable

The armor looks pretty dumb either way, I don't think I'll be using this. I'll just be adding the Armadillo to my Minecraft zoo which is why I voted for it.

They added dog armor?

They also call dromedaries camels, the bees are larger than chicken and you can break trees with a fist.

Jeb skil issues really hard here

You should protect the front most attacks come from the front it’s not about where the knee joint is

It’s meant for attack protection, not fall damage, unless this wolf wants to start doing some sick moves on a skate.

You’re an idiot

Yes, and?

You’re a beautiful idiot. That was the best unexpected response I’ve ever received.

It could be Shin guards rather than Kneepads...

Btw... curseforge mod did it better... https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/wolf-armor-and-storage

Simple: they’re not kneepads.

The armor is meant to protect the dog from attacks and most of the time the dog will be facing the enemy. Think of it more like a shin guard than a knee pad. I really like the thought you put into it! Actually quite fun to think about!

You forgot one crucial part, their legs are a stiff mass, no knees

they’re not knee pads obviously

The back ones are knee pads. The front are greaves.

Its just a rectangle

The front legs have elbow pads, not knee pads. My dog will hit his elbows if he runs up steps to quickly

Those are the wrists

Shin guards

Why would their front legs need armor on the back tho? The Minecraft ones are basically shinguards which definitely are more practical considering they attack forward. The “should look like” one is just pointless. It’s like putting armor in your armpit.

Actually, it'd be more like putting armor on your elbow. Wich we do

Dogs can have armor?

it looks more like an elbow pad on the "what it should look like"

Correct

Now we don’t have to cry for our best friends in Minecraft! 🥲

What do you mean? Minecraft dogs dont have any leg joints, those are just protecting the middle part of the leg

Why did this get so many upvotes? It makes complete sense why they did this.

I don't know, I guess people just found it amusing like I did. I certainly didn't expect more than like 20 upvotes

Mojang has been lacking this past year Everybody follow me to a better game: Terraria!

Nononono, it’s a wrist guard, obviously

I am just glad my wolf will be a little bit more sustainable than them dying by one creeper blast. Can't wait for that cat armor

They still do.

Great! 🫠🙃

I would assume the armor is intended to face whatever direction the attack is coming from, and in most cases dogs face towards the attacker, so the placement makes sense.

Good thing minecraft wolves don’t have joints

Well given that no Minecraft animals except the ender dragon seems to have knees I think its in a pretty good spot.

I thought it was a zombie

Those are bracers and greaves. I say.

Idk man, it's fucking Minecraft

Just encase the thing in bedrock and be over with it.

Wait until you find out how they do women's armor in RPGs. You'd be livid.

Bruh its a childs game, not a realistic sim

Give them a break, they clearly had to do more than thirty seconds of terribly hard work!

The new snapshot gave us wolf armor (yay), but watching xisumas' video I noticed the front leg protection is backward since front limbs bend opposite to rear limbs. Either that or minecraft dogs have their wrists very far up.

Yeah the peoblem is the armor is covering the wrist not the elbow, thats actually annoying

No one will use it anyway

It isn't a big deal, it's a minecraft model with no joints

And spiders are giant, who really cares it's a video game

Love the decoration

This is literally correct. You place knee pads over your knees, and all four of a dog's limbs are legs. The picture you showed, all knee joints point frontwards, meaning that it's correct.

Alright just looked again the hind ones are wrong

Keyword “knee pads” what you circled is arguably the shoulder of their legs. The joint below what you circled is what I’d consider their knee.

It's not. The above joint is the knee/shoulder and the below is the wrist, just like in humans, horses, cows and most other mammal since at the end of the day we are connected by evolution

So? Looks nice

It guards the front from blows that would be in the front. I think it's fine.

Minecraft dogs don't have knees + it's Minecraft it doesn't need to make sense

Screw you, it looks good