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Explain why the Mob Animator is only available to some users
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2025's April Fool's update, the [[Java Edition 25w14craftmine|CraftMine]] update, allows the player to use the new Mine Crafter to craft randomly generated levels, or "mines", to play through. The goal of each mine is to find the exit by finding the exit structure, marked by a blue beam of light, in the Overworld and craft the next mine. The mines appear to be generated similarly to the dimensions added in the Infinite Dimensions update in 2020.{{wip|section=1}}
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[[File:Mob Animator.mp4|thumb|The combination of spawned blocks and mobs in 2025.]]
[[File:Conveniently Placed.png|thumb|Background to drop mob and blocks]]
[[File:April Fools 2025 Large Mobs.png|thumb|Size comparison of several mobs and their large counterparts.]]
The home page for the [https://minecraft.net ''minecraft.net''] website was updated to announceinclude Mob Animator, with the [[splash text]] "How does it work? We don't know!". An option to spawn a [[mob]] was added and would summon a random mob, which was animated and could be dragged everywhere in the page.
 
The Mob Animator relies on a Microsoft [[w:A/B testing|A/B testing]] system that includes tracking, which means ad blockers, strict privacy protection mode in Firefox and rejecting cookies on Minecraft.net will cause it not to appear. There are also references to the rollout only being available to 66% users in the API responses, but this is not confirmed to be the case.
 
Combining a majority of mobs with the "animate mobs" tab by dragging the mobs and placing them in the empty slot would cause the second mob to disappear and the first mob to appear in the output slot, but with potion particles, which then shortly cause the affected mob to explode.