A new Minecraft mob might have leaked thanks to a holiday decoration, and I already love it based on its name alone

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It looks like we may have had our first glimpse at an upcoming Minecraft mob thanks to none other than greeting card and ornaments company Hallmark, and I'm already in love with it based on its name alone.

Folks, say hello to Blub. Now, I don't know what Blub is, what it really looks like, or exactly how it's going to be added to the Minecraft universe, but what we do know is that Hallmark is going to be selling a holiday ornament of it for you to add to a Christmas tree near you later in the year. Nothing says Christmas like Blub, after all.

As highlighted on the r/GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit, a listing for the "Minecraft Blub Ornament" is visible right now on the Hallmark website. Hallmark says the product will be available on October 10, and that "fans of the popular video game will love to add this Christmas tree ornament to their collection as they explore and create in the newest version of the pixelated-style game."

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Interestingly, there is a product image attached, but it's only a silhouette – it's odd that the information has been semi-redacted, but not enough to hide Blub from the world entirely. Personally, I can picture some sort of quadruped design with what looks like a pair of bunny ears and a suspiciously rounded nub on top (which is so uncharacteristically curved for a Minecraft design I wonder if it might actually be the hanger for the decoration), but I might be way off the mark there.

Blub... from r/MinecraftLeaks

There's been some speculation amongst fans wondering if Blub could actually tie into the upcoming Minecraft Dungeons 2 rather than Minecraft itself, with the follow-up dungeon-crawler set to launch sometime this fall. That'd certainly line up with the October release date for the Blub ornament, after all. However, others believe that Hallmark referring to the "newest version of the pixelated-style game" debunks this idea, and that Blub will arrive in some upcoming update to the massive sandbox, instead.

Honestly, I could see it going either way – hell, the description doesn't outright say that Blub is even from this so-called "newest version" in the first place. With that said, it's worth noting that Minecraft Dungeons does have a number of exclusive mobs not present in Mojang's main sandbox game, like the mole and hedgehog. Could Blub be destined for this life, too?

For now, we'll just have to wait and see what comes of this, if anything – who knows, it could even be a case of a placeholder listing for something else gone wrong, but I sincerely hope that's not the case. Fans have already been producing concepts of what Blub might look like, with my personal favorite being this blue bunny, but I can't help but think back to Pokemon Black and White's starter silhouette reveal and wonder if folks are filling in the blanks in a similar, completely wrong (albeit creative) way.

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