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In preparation for the upcoming Minecraft 1.20.5 update, Mojang released a behind-the-scenes video about some of the features arriving in the update titled the "Armadillo Update." Among them is the armadillo mob, which Mojang gameplay developer Marco Ballabio referred to in an interview as the "blockiest" mob available in the popular sandbox title.
But is the armadillo truly the blockiest mob of the bunch? Some other mobs might dispute that claim substantially. While the armadillo can certainly be pretty blocky when it rolls up to protect itself, other Minecraft mobs could be even more cubic by default. In this context, and compared to armadillos, it's hard not to think that shulkers, slimes, and magma cubes have the armadillo beat in terms of blockiness.
Minecraft's armadillos may not be the blockiest mobs, but they're close
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When armadillos in Minecraft are walking about, they might be a bit blocky, but the presence of their heads and legs detract from the cubic aesthetic. This changes substantially when they curl up in defense, as they become an almost perfect facsimile of a block. However, mobs like shulkers, slimes, and magma cubes are block-like from the beginning without requiring any outside stimuli.
Take shulkers, for example. Although they temporarily open to attack, shulkers ordinarily blend in with their surroundings in Minecraft's end cities by pretending to be ordinary blocks. Even when their shells are temporarily opened, the "real" shulker inside of the shell is just as cubic as the armor it uses to protect itself.
There are also slimes and magma cube mobs to consider. While these two Minecraft mobs have a few differences from each other, they both share a block-like shape that only slightly distorts as they hop around their environment. Even when they're attacked and broken apart, slimes and magma cubes retain their cubic shape, making them a very consistently "blocky" mob compared to most.
All of this begs the question: what is the blockiest mob in the game? While the classification is nebulous at best, if players are working with the premise that the mobs in question are closest to the shape of a block as possible as often as possible, it's hard not to see slimes and magma cubes as the blockiest. Shulkers and armadillos in Minecraft come close, but they tend to lose their blocky shape sometimes.
Marco Ballabio certainly wasn't far off the mark by naming the armadillo the blockiest mob available, but mobs like slimes and magma cubes have a stronger claim to this title. Shulkers, who temporarily lose their blocky forms when attacking targets, are almost indistinguishable from blocks when idle. Still, the armadillo does an admirable job as a blocky mob when it curls up.
