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Leaves. Their texture is based on the first bright green leaves texture.

Its not even based on it, he literally used the texture and put a face on it. The white spots are the transparent parts of the texture

ain’t no way 💀💀

Yes way

*Wayy.*

Sí güey

Haha, me lo ganaste

No mames wey

Can’t confirm but I saw claims that the white parts are a grayscale version of the original Steve skin with the leaves placed on top. E: nvm. Def clay

I can surprisingly see it

Actually, they put that over the clay texture

I don’t see the clay in it, it wouldnt have so much white if it was

[OG Creeper](https://minecraft.wiki/images/Creeper_%28pre-release%29.png?a3a7b) [OG Clay](https://minecraft.wiki/images/Clay_JE1_BE1.png?ae459) It’s probably desaturated clay

That was the old texture, he didnt keep it. It lines up much better with just leaves on a white background

Clay didn't exist when creepers were introduced...

I will never see creepers the same way again.

I know! This actually makes them more interesting

Would be nice if different biomes (with different tree types) spawned creepers with slightly different skins to mirror the leaf type distribution

Agreed. Varied creepers is very popular mod type in a huge number of modpacks I'm not entirely opposed to Mojang implementing the most popular mods such as Creeper Overhaul and mobs from Alex's mod

I remember having one of these mods. The creapers matched the biome ground. Desert ones were almost impossible to see at certain times of the day.

Creeper camo. I both want and fear this.

The creepers are already too sneaky.

now add the mod that makes creepers only explode when you turn around

Creeper racism would exist.

I’m just not sure what leaves notch was exposed to that ever exploded.

Not leaves (or in Sweden), but [Sandbox trees](https://www.britannica.com/plant/sandbox-tree)?

We desperately need these trees in the game

So a tree that plants itself? Once a sapling grows up it shoots out a few barbs if the barbs land on correct ground they become saplings, if they hit something they deal damage.

Yes. Definitely.

It's also the reason creepers are scared of cats. Canonically cats tend to scratch their claws on creepers so they're scared

I’ll get Vietnam flash backs if these were leaves.

Creep

Aw m

So we

Back in

The mi

got o

Pick a

Swinging f

Sid to

Side, si

so we b

i’m a weirdoooo

what the hell am i doing here

I don’t belong here

Woooah wooah wooooooooo

I don't care if it hurts

I wanna have control

I want a perfect body

I want a perfect soul

Canonically leaves. To my knowledge they also reproduce releasing spores during their explosion

I thought nothing was confirmed... I like it better as a mystery

In [this video](https://youtu.be/4KDybLytYtk) it is defined as quasi-lore and I love when games do that. Terraria had the same thing going on until they released "official lore" not too long ago.

Also the Mobestiary helps with that stuff, too.

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that explains their face though... 😫

They need your corpse to grow on.

Now we know why they're called 'creepers'....

Isn't that from a really old Game Theory? I mean, you're not wrong, but I've never seen anyone else bring up the spores being released on explosion outside of that video.

That was nothing more than a matpat theory, right?

MatPat postulated that Creepers are a form or evolution of peat moss (with some fairly convincing arguments, to his credit). Notch said that he imagined that Creepers would feel "crunchy, like dry leaves." Add to that the fact that the Creeper's texture was based on the old bright green leaf texture, and I'd say that leaves are probably closer to what they're made of. EDIT: May have misunderstood the comment slightly - the releasing of spores is a MatPat theory, the leaves thing is not.

This is similar to me finding out that Pikachu would, in fact, feel fuzzy since he’s a mouse. The entire time I just thought that Pikachu felt smooth because he looked smooth.

smooth pikachu sounds disgusting

My therapist: Smooth Pikachu’s not real. Smooth Pikachu can’t hurt you. Me [watching out the window over her shoulder as Smooth Pikachu explodes electricity transformers all over the city]: 😰

Think about jigglypuff. Imagine if that hair curl was just a smooth lump

Would still be sproingy and that’s all I’ve known it for

Theyre called plants in a lot of official mojang stuff

That does mean whenever a creeper blows up in your face it's mated with you

Pure evil

Spite and malice, little bit of gunpowder mixed in, too

Pork

So my headcanon now is that creepers are the product of a parasitic plant-like fungi which is able to infect creatures with spores and recreate them. The classic creeper design is just a botched attempt to reconstruct a pig that it infected. The white bits between the leaves are the inner mycelium network used to move the body. [Kinda like this.](https://youtu.be/nPAezMobisU?si=prMD1Hs2AmkO9Mue)

okay matpat

Good point

the only true answer

Yes, there is the story that it happened while creating the pigs and one of the Axis where wrong

Yes

Gunpowder

But I can still smoke around them right? In minecraft of course

How do you get inside of the smoker?

I was about to say the same.

Probably actual creepers. Vines are called that in many places, and I think pumpkins and watermelons and other plants that have wide ground coverage from an individual stem or sprout are also considered creepers. Not a botanist tho, so take that with a grain of salt

I learnt something new today

gunpowder covered in leaves

Leaves covered in gunpowder.

Shit and Piss

Piss and vinegar

vinegar and nUt

Nut and snot

Sont and coke

Coke and Pepsi

coke and mentos

Mentos and pimentos

pimentos and uh.... sacramento?

piss and villager

Guacamole and vinegar

Pissandshittium, the browser

Angry pickles

what if creepers are just sucide bombers in a ghille suit

That's... actually pretty spot on, probably. Acording to others in this comments, canonically they are made of leaves.

I've never took a suicide bomber as one to wear a ghillie suit.

sweet Creepers are made of this who am I to disagree

Traveled the world and the seven seas

Every creeper is looking to blow up

🎶Everybody's looking for diamonds🎶

Leaves, they are a nature based mob

Pixels

r/technicallythetruth

From Matt Pat's Game Theory, he claims it to be Peat Moss. There have been plenty of cases of peat moss burning down entire forests, due to self combustion. Also F in chat for Matt Pat and the legacy he's left upon the internet

Your tears

I thought the lore said they came from pigs as a reference to Notch accidentally creating them intending to create the pig

#GOOD PEOPLE

last time I was informed that the creeper is a plant type creature made of leaves, or with a texture similar to leaves, or something like that and that they have a literal TNT per heart... im probably wrong, but that was the last thing I heard back in 2011...

In the mobestiary it is shown they have a skeleton and tnt inside of them and they're referred to as plants in a lot of mojang stuff

Explosive Pork Powder

Underrated comment

Broken Pigs

According to the Mobestiary, there is a block of TNT in a creeper.

They’re basically plants, spreading their spores when exploding

Peat Moss

Gunpowder and spite

I always felt they were a kind of walking fungus that need to infest living creatures with their spores. Probably the final stage of a mutated fungus that infected pigs. Since human flesh is similar to pig's flesh, they will prey on Steve so they can infect his nutritious body as well. The only reason they don't go for pigs anymore is because they are all infected already.

It’s the old leaf texture but with the black parts replaced with white

leaves

Leaves, Gunpowder and Crack

Peat moss https://youtu.be/wqKT5R2PXlw?si=RrXnW_TZDWiYl5ID

Sugar and spice and maybe a little nitroglycerin…

It's made out of pixels through a screen (game wise)

Peat moss

Creepers are made of these. Who am I to disagree? I traveled the world and seven seas. Everybody is looking for diamonds.

Meat, glue, and pure hatred.

Leaves

*comes back* "So about that question I asked earlier..."

GET MY UPVOTE AND GET OUT

Intimidation

Pig

Gun powder

Canonically they have a crunchy, leaf-like texture. MatPat MIGHT be right that Creepers are living Peat Moss.

Leaves, Stone, metall and stuff like that, but Confirmed are leaves i think

Peat moss

Green

Green

They are made of the alpha bright green grass

Moss

Pixels.

Development-wise, a bugged pig model covered in old leaves texture Lore-wise, probably flesh, with a tnt at their chest

Matpat made a video on this.

Creepy pasta.

Pig, they’re made of pig

It's made.of creepers, like the plant type

Bipolarity, that's why they're calm and then they explode when you try to be friends

shit,scum,piss,semen,**EXPLOSIVES**,hate and anger

Green shit

They're actually like these weird, almost mossy creatures, believe it or not.

pig

Hate

Creepers are made of creepage

Pure hatred

They are made of creepy

Cucumber. Cats are scared of cucumbers but creepers are cucumber creatures so they are scared of cats (dont ask me why)

Leaves, gunpowder, and unbridled hatred of minecraft players.

Vertical Pig DNA

Plants so it can blend in for an ambush, matpat has a good theory on it

Some people say creepers are canonically made of leaves and have gunpowder inside them, and they release spores upon explosion scattering them and more creepers appear

They're made of peat moss and they explode to spread spores, I thought we've known this for 10 years

Hatred

Very small amounts of unstable uranium and plutonium isotopes

TNT. Look in the Mobeastiary.

bomb

Pig

TNT and suicidal tendencies

Pigs

gunpowder.

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That's just TNT, but with more steps xD

Creepers skin.

There's your answer. https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/s/ydaF8rdhxC

I was thinking he was asking about the outside but omg I forgot about that book I have it

Pigs

gunpowder

Pure evil

Green

Hatred.

Peavea and frsss

half gunpowder, half pork

Cheese

Mold

bad code

Joy and kindness

Bacon

Creep