Greetings.
I am a man in a suit who has fallen into the world of Minecraft.
Last time, I made a Torchflower and Pitcher Plant bed with the ancient seeds dug up by the Sniffer.
Today I am heading to the mangrove swamp I noticed during my recent trip to the ocean ruins.
This time, I am looking for frogs.
White frogs in the mangrove swamp
I spread my elytra and fly towards the swamp.
Flying between the clouds gives me quite a different view from the ground.
Soon after landing, I spot a white frog on the mud.
There it is!
It sits beside the tree, looking rather adorable.
Mud, vines, and lily pads surround me.
It feels quite different from the castle town.
I tumble into a pool while walking and get a fright, so I had better watch my step…
Slimeballs, frogspawn, and tadpoles
When I hold a slimeball, a frog comes towards me.
Its little face peering out from beside the tree makes me smile.
I gathered these slimeballs by finding and defeating slimes in the swamp at night, ready to breed the frogs.
The first night brought three slimeballs, and the full-moon night brought five.
I give slimeballs to two frogs, but my first attempt does not work out…
I try again, and this time they lay frogspawn.
Frogspawn appears on the water.
The little circles clustered together look quite different from familiar chicken eggs.
Minecraft’s official tadpole article explains that frogs bred with slimeballs lay frogspawn, which takes about ten minutes to hatch into two to five tadpoles.
Now I watch the eggs in front of me.
On this occasion, they hatch after five minutes and twenty-five seconds, producing four tadpoles!
Scooping one up with a water bucket gives me a bucket of tadpole.
I take two home and leave the other two in the swamp.
Being able to carry them in buckets, rather than transport the grown frogs, is a relief.
Home to the pond, then back to see the frogs
I fly home and stand in front of the fishing pond.
I still have a bucket of tadpole in my hand.
This is where I want them to grow up.
Once I release them from the buckets, two tadpoles swim through the pond.
The clear water makes their tiny shapes easier to spot.
The castle town has some new residents.
Later, I hold a slimeball and peer in from the bank, and both swim up near the surface.
Now I can see their round heads and thin tails properly.
Trying to look from underwater leaves me short of breath and rather alarmed, so I settle for watching from the bank…
After bringing the tadpoles home, I return to the swamp to see the frogs again.
There is a white frog nearby and another farther back between the trees.
I hold a slimeball and spend a little while watching them.
One picture alongside the two white frogs.
Surrounded by mud, roots, and vines, I almost feel like a swamp resident myself.
The official article explains that a tadpole’s frog type depends on the warmth of the place where it grows up.
What will the two in the castle town pond look like?
Next, I would like to watch them grow.
That is all for this time.
Greetings.