The Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem game drop was announced by Mojang in September 2025 during their regular live event. Every major update or drop brings a bunch of new stuff, some of which the community has been guessing about for ages, while other parts come completely out of nowhere and leave everyone shocked.
Here are five features from Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem that genuinely surprised us. Keep in mind this list is just one person’s take.
Netherite horse armor
Horse armor has existed forever in leather, copper, iron, gold, and diamond versions. Netherite came out back in 2020, and Mojang added netherite versions of pretty much everything else, but never horse armor—until now.
Seeing netherite horse armor finally show up in this drop was a real shock. You craft it the same way as other netherite gear: netherite upgrade smithing template + diamond horse armor + netherite ingot.
Spear
The Spear is a brand-new melee weapon coming with Mounts of Mayhem. Players have wanted an official spear for years (there are tons of popular mods that add one), so most of us had given up on ever seeing it in vanilla Minecraft.
Mojang went ahead and added it anyway, and gave it some unique mechanics too. With the new Lunge enchantment you can dash forward, and it has two attack modes—quick jab and a charged thrust—that work differently depending on the situation.
Camel Husk
The Camel Husk is another variant nobody saw coming. Mojang has been adding more mob variants lately, but camels already felt complete, so a desert-zombie version wasn’t really on anyone’s radar.
It spawns with a parched skeleton and a zombie husk riding it. Kill the riders and the camel itself turns neutral, letting you tame and ride it just like a regular camel.
Zombie Horse
Zombie Horses have been sitting in the game files forever, only available through commands or creative spawn eggs. Most newer players don’t even know they exist. Actually bringing them into survival mode after all this time was a huge surprise.
In the new drop they’ll start spawning naturally (still pretty rare) in savanna biomes, usually with a zombie rider carrying a spear.
Nautilus
The Nautilus is probably the biggest “wait, really?” addition. The ocean hasn’t gotten serious love in years, and when people asked for underwater updates they were thinking coral fixes or new fish—not a fully rideable shelled mob that can wear armor.
Yet here we are: a ridable Nautilus that can be equipped with horse-armor-style protection is coming to the game.
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