Minecraft Live 2021 has been and gone, most of the YouTubers have already put out videos with opinions and thoughts and the usual stuff, while mainstream/gaming media has done similar.

I sadly (for me) happen to be very lazy and opted not to post anything until my brain had made sense of it all and I have read and watched almost everything that can be read and watched every other video, I did actually manage to catch the live stream of the event - although I was about 30 minutes behind everyone due to watching another live stream (and I forgot...)

all in all, it came down to a mob vote which this year surprisingly was made of "pet" or "friendly mobs" all of which could easily fall under the tool category.

Mojang as always announced the new mobs a few days in advance and they were:

Glare

The glare based on the video and developer feedback would get pissy when it was in the dark, in short - it's dark here mobs can spawn light things up. While most people dismissed this one, Bedrock players could have used this one as well we have no debug screen so it was not entirely useless but it did feel a bit one dimensional/boring.

Allay

The Allay was an instant head-turner although it did instantly manage to anger some with what seemed to be an item duplication setup. It was confirmed via developers that this is not the case and was in fact just a crap example in the video. It turns out you give the Allay an item and it picked up other items that are the same and brings them to the player... or some form of note block setup.

According to the actual developer's feedback on Twitter, the Allay will carry a single item at a time, it will not mine, it will not duplicate - in many respects, it is a micro drone, although it can be used in conjunction with note blocks/hoppers and you seemingly can have multiples of them doing their own thing.

Copper Golem

The copper golem was quite interesting and had it come perhaps in the previous years vote it could have won (assuming no voting bullshit)... So what the copper golem did or was planned to do was randomly push copper buttons and over time would degrade to become stuck due to exposure.

Feedback on Twitter suggested that the lightning rod on top of its head could have attracted lightning allowing it to be unfrozen and get back to work pushing buttons (randomly)... or you could just axe the critter and back to work, he would go.

A lot of tech YouTubers pointed out the various ways and a few (Raysworks, LogicalGeekboy) went as far as to show how they can do things randomly without the golem so it wasn't doing much for them. This perspective of how was interesting, but as a lowly novice of the game, I was only aware of one of the methods (hopper signal reading).

ImpulseSV did say he was Allay all the way, later going on to say "make up your own minds" he knows what he wants! You decide for yourself but that he has been debating it with other members on Hermitcraft who suggested the golem was a good direction to go due to the fact it would bring a level of "life" to the world due to its random needs to push copper buttons...

and on the live stream, we got to find out who won

First, it was a simple eliminate one and have the other two go into a showdown vote, unsurprisingly or perhaps surprisingly given some suggestions of vote b/s (Dream) The Glare was voted off the island

Now that the Glare was gone and out of the way it was down to the Copper Golem and the Allay and it seemed that despite a lot of technical players complaints, users were voting for the Copper Golem and while it did not win, it was much closer than perhaps most (myself included) expected but the winner of the Minecraft 2021 mob vote was the Allay

It was confirmed that the Allay would be included in a future update, possibly 1.19 possibly not early in 1.19 although a good amount of development has already gone into the mob once it's in the hands of players in general all the bugs tend to come out (players do weird things)