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The second Minecraft Caves & Cliffs update is finally out. It brings quite a few new features to the game, such as new cave biomes, mountain biomes, and increased world height.
With all the new world generation features, quite a few changes have been made to Minecraft. The spawn locations of a few mobs, including the glow squid, have changed slightly.
Glow squids in Minecraft 1.18
Glow squids are unique mobs that look very similar to regular squids, but
they glow and drop different items. Compared to the regular squids, glow squids are a lot more recent, added with the Minecraft 1.17 Caves & Cliffs update.
Glow squids are passive mobs who don't do much other than swim around the ocean. Even though they glow, they do not produce light.
They were added to Minecraft as they won the mob vote 2020, where iceloger and moobloom were the other mob options players had.
Moobloom was eliminated in the first round, and glow squid ended up receiving more votes than iceloger in the last round.
Where do they spawn?
Minecraft 1.17 players will find glow squids in any dark area underwater that is below sea level (Y63). However, a few tweaks have been made to where they spawn in the latest version (1.18) of Minecraft.
They will now spawn below Y level 30, which is pitch dark. No changes have been made to the biomes glow squids may spawn in. They mostly spawn in schools of 2-4, and 5% of them will spawn as babies.
Drops
Like most other animals in Minecraft, glow squids will drop an item when killed. Gamers can get up to three glow ink sacs from this mob.
They can get more if they use a weapon with looting enchantment to kill it. Ink sac is a relatively new item required for crafting glow item frames.
What to do with Glow Squid drops
At the moment, glow squids are only useful for their drops. This is because Glow ink sacs are primarily used for esthetic purposes, specifically for crafting glow item frames. You can also dye the text on a sign with glow ink sacs.
You can also obtain the Advancement “Glow and Behold!” by using a glow ink sac on a sign.
Changes to Glow Squids
- Glow squids were first introduced during the 1.17 update to the Java edition of Minecraft in April 2021.
- Glow Squids were temporarily removed from a beta build of the Bedrock edition of Minecraft on February 18th 2021. It has since been reintroduced.
Unique Interactions with Glow Squid
Glow squids are low on the Minecraft food chain. They get hunted by axolotls and the two types of guardians. While baby glow squid can spawn naturally, you cannot breed glow squids yourself
