A new era of mounts, weapons, and mayhem hits Minecraft as Mojang drops its latest update, bringing a wave of undead cavalry, deep-sea creatures, and a brand new weapon.

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With 1.21.11, Mojang has introduced the Mounts of Mayhem update. New mobs, weapons, mechanics, and world behaviour. Following earlier 2025 drops, this update shifts the spotlight onto traversal and combat, giving players more ways to move and fight. We took a deep dive into every confirmed feature to break down exactly what’s arriving in this chaotic new chapter.

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What Is Mounts of Mayhem?

Mounts of Mayhem is the fourth Minecraft game update of 2025, following The Spring to Life (25 March 2025), Chase the Skies (17 June 2025), The Copper Age (30 September 2025).

This drop focuses entirely on mounts, riders, and mobility upgrades. It introduces new creatures across multiple biomes. It finally adds a way to get the classic zombie horse in survival, a brand-new weapon class, and refreshes how players navigate land and sea. Everything is designed around dynamic movement. There’s jousting with spears, diving into oceans on undead nautili, or thundering through deserts beside skeletal raiders.

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The Spear: Minecraft’s New Combat Style

Minecraft gets a new weapon: the spear, available in all main material tiers.

• Works with two attack modes: Jab for fast melee, and Charge for mounted or sprinting attacks.
• Introduces a fresh combat rhythm focused on spacing and momentum.
• Paired with a new enchantment, Lunge, which adds mobility at the cost of hunger.
  

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Undead Riders of the Desert

Camel Husks

A new undead camel-like mount found in deserts and badlands.

• Typically spawns with a rider.
  
• Can be tamed once the rider is dealt with.
  
• Behaves like other undead mobs (Smite-vulnerable, burns in sunlight on land).
  

Parched

A new skeleton variant for hot biomes.

• Uses a bow that inflicts Weakness.
• Often rides camel husks alongside spear-wielding husks.
• Does not burn in daylight.
  

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The Nautilus Rises

Nautilus

A brand-new aquatic mount found in deep oceans.

• Tamed with pufferfish, then mountable with a saddle.
  Grants the Breath of the Nautilus effect, freezing the oxygen bar so players do not drown while riding.
• Attracts drowned naturally.
  

Zombie Nautilus & Coral Zombie Nautilus

Undead variants appearing in regular and warm oceans.

• Can spawn with drowned jockeys riding them.
• Tamable once the rider dismounts.
• Behave as undead: burn in sunlight on land, react to Smite, etc.

Zombie Horses Return From the Dead

Long requested and now fully supported:

• Zombie horses spawn naturally in plains and savanna as part of new rider encounters.
• Can be tamed after unseating the rider.
• Can wear all tiers of horse armor, including the new netherite variant.
• Count as undead and burn in sunlight.

Mount Armor Overhaul

Two major additions expand mount customisation:

• Nautilus Armor – copper, iron, gold, diamond, and netherite variants.
• Netherite Horse Armor – now craftable via a smithing upgrade, making it the strongest armor for horses and zombie horses.
  

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How Gameplay Will Change

Mounts of Mayhem provides a lot of different ways to move around in the game.

• Spears transform both foot combat and mounted combat.
• Horses can now swim, making rivers and lakes far easier to cross.
• Underwater travel with mounts thanks to the nautilus family.
• Desert biomes become more dangerous with parched riders and undead cavalry.
  
• A lot of new ‘jocky’s’ were added giving mob collection players additions for their zoo’s.

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Full Feature Breakdown 

New Weapon

• Spear (all tiers)
• Lunge enchantment (3 levels)
  

New Mounts & Mobs

• Nautilus
• Zombie Nautilus
• Coral Zombie Nautilus
• Camel Husk
• Parched
• Zombie Horse (expanded features & natural spawns)
  

New Effects

• Breath of the Nautilus
  

Mount Armor

• Nautilus armour (copper → netherite)
  Netherite horse armour (craftable)
  

Major Mechanics

• Horses can swim
  New jockey encounters across deserts and oceans
• Undead mob rules applied consistently to new mounts
  

Technical Additions

• Updated data pack version
• Updated resource pack version
• Item component updates
• Item tag updates
• Entity texture updates
• Entity model updates
• Bug fixes and behaviour tweaks
  

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Final Thoughts

This drop adds a fair amount of new features, mobs and mechanics. There are more ways to traverse terrain now, along with mob-collecting opportunities and interaction for players (jousting.) Ever since the announcement that Mojang was releasing drops instead of slower updates, a lot has been added into the game. 

In anticipation of the upcoming Alien: Romulus, we’d like to revisit all the classics that came before. Here’s a list of all the Alien movies a fan might want to watch to get familiar with this universe. This list represents the movies chronologically as they were released, which means the timeline will be a bit all over the place.

Alien (1979)
In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma.

1. Aliens (1986)
   After floating in space for 57 years, Lt. Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) shuttle is found by a deep-space salvage team. Upon arriving at LV-426, the Marines find only one survivor, a nine-year-old girl named Newt (Carrie Henn). But even these battle-hardened marines with all the latest weaponry are no match for the hundreds of aliens that have invaded the colony.
2. Alien 3 (1992)
   Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor when she crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet’s maximum security prison. Once again, Ripley must face scepticism and the alien as it hunts down the prisoners and guards. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind, Ripley leads the men into battle against the terrifying creature.
3. Alien: Resurrection (1997)
   The saga continues 200 years after Ripley sacrificed herself for the sake of humanity. Her erstwhile employers are long gone; this time, it is the military that resurrects the one-woman killing machine through genetic cloning to extract the alien from within her. However, during the process, her DNA is fused with the queen’s, and then the aliens escape. Now Ripley must decide where her allegiance lies.

1. Alien vs. Predator (2004)
   When the wealthy and ambitious Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) funds an expedition to Antarctica, he hopes to find a mysterious source of heat that has been detected. Led by guide, Alexa Woods (Sanaa Lathan), Weyland and his team uncover a pyramid, but they also find malevolent parasitic aliens. Making matters worse, another extraterrestrial species, known as Predators, arrives to hunt the other aliens, with the humans caught in the middle of the conflict.
2. Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
   Following the events of the previous film, a Predator ship leaves Earth carrying Xenomorph facehuggers and Scar’s body before a chestburster with traits of both species emerges. It quickly matures into an adult Predalien and starts killing the Predators on board.
3. Prometheus (2012)
   The discovery of a clue to mankind’s origins on Earth leads a team of explorers to the darkest parts of the universe. Two brilliant young scientists lead the expedition. Shaw (Noomi Rapace) hopes that they will meet a race of benevolent, godlike beings who will, in some way, verify her religious beliefs, while Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) aims to debunk any spiritual notions. However, neither the scientists nor their shipmates are prepared for the unimaginable terrors that await them.
4. Alien: Covenant (2017)
   Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, members (Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup) of the colony ship Covenant discover what they think to be an uncharted paradise. While there, they meet David (Michael Fassbender), the synthetic survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition. The mysterious world soon turns dark and dangerous when a hostile alien life-form forces the crew into a deadly fight for survival.

And now, we are all caught up and looking forward to Alien: Romulus, coming out on the 16th of August. So far, the production team has been very secretive about the plot, but the trailer reveals the following: A group of young space colonists who, while scavenging a derelict space station, come face-to-face with the most terrifying life form in their universe.

We’re looking forward to watching it and getting the review out to you!

Deadpool & Wolverine has been unleashed into movie theatres across the globe! There’s a special thrill in seeing iconic characters from our childhood meet on screen for the first time and interact with each other. The last time I felt this level of excitement was watching the first Avengers movie (2012).

The nerd in me was so satisfied by the sheer amount of movie references throughout and it’s safe to say that the film provides a lot of laughs. The movie is best appreciated with a partner or a group of friends, as it’s definitely one you’ll want to discuss afterwards! Forums and groups are also deep-diving into the movie a lot at the moment!

This movie is marketed as a turning point for the MCU. It even references the decline in quality that fans have noticed since ‘End Game,’ showing that Marvel is aware of the criticisms. Kevin Feige announced this film would be the starting point for mutants in the MCU. However, without giving away any spoilers, I have my doubts that this will be the case.

Despite this, I fully recommend watching this film. It was an enjoyable experience, and I had a great time watching it. Overall, my opinion of the movie is positive. On my personal scale, I would give it a 6.5/10. This might seem low, but I believe a 10/10 is nearly impossible to achieve for any movie. To put that into perspective, this score reflects a film well worth watching.