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Jordan Gerblick

Mojang hired a "cow whisperer" and "real animal voice actors" to record new Minecraft animal noises: "The cows started to speak to him immediately"

Pixelated cow looks toward camera in Minecraft.

Minecraft's adorable Tiny Takeover update and its mob overhaul includes all sorts of adorable new animal sounds, and Mojang really crossed its meows and dotted its oinks to make sure everything sounded as authentic as possible.

Talking to PCGN, Minecraft senior product manager Anna Lundgren revealed that Mojang hired "real animal voice actors" to add some authentic new variety to its baby and adult mob sounds. Tiny Takeover's baby mob overhaul is the highlight, with Lundgren explaining that new sounds were recorded "for kittens, wolf puppies, foals, piglets, and baby chickens," but adult animals also got new sound variants.

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