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Minecraft Live 2021: Vote for the copper golem!

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Mojang wants players to build the next Minecraft mob — literally out of copper.

On October 13, 2021, Mojang dropped its final mob vote reveal video ahead of Minecraft Live, introducing the copper golem as the third and last candidate players will choose from this year. Built entirely from the shiny copper blocks introduced in the Caves & Cliffs update, the golem is pitched as a player-constructed companion rather than a creature that simply spawns in the wild. The reveal, accompanied by an article from Sofia Dankis, lays out exactly how the golem behaves and what it would bring to survival worlds if it wins.

• The copper golem is the third and final mob vote candidate revealed for 2021, joining the previously announced Glare and Allay.
• Like every other copper block in the game, the golem oxidizes over time and eventually freezes solid into an inert decorative statue.
• If selected, the golem introduces copper buttons to Minecraft and wanders around randomly pressing them, opening the door to randomized redstone circuits.

A Mob Players Build Themselves

The copper golem isn’t dropped into the world fully formed — it’s assembled by the player using copper, the same shiny material Mojang added during the Caves & Cliffs update. That distinction matters. Where the Glare and the Allay are creatures the game generates on its own, the golem is presented as a DIY project, something closer to a snow golem or iron golem in spirit but built from a resource players have to mine, smelt, and place themselves.

That construction angle is also the golem’s biggest selling point heading into the vote. Copper has been in the game since Caves & Cliffs launched, but outside of blocks, lightning rods, and a few decorative uses, it hasn’t had a dedicated mob to show it off. The golem gives that material an actual gameplay identity.

Oxidation Turns It Into a Statue

The golem doesn’t stay shiny forever. Mojang confirmed it oxidizes exactly like any other copper block in Minecraft, gradually darkening and weathering until it eventually locks up entirely, freezing into a static, decorative statue. At that point, it stops moving and stops interacting with the world — it becomes a permanent fixture rather than a functioning companion, unless a player intervenes.

Just like all other copper structures, it oxidizes over time — and it also enjoys randomly pushing copper buttons.

Copper Buttons and Randomized Redstone

The golem’s headline mechanic is its erratic behavior around a brand-new block: the copper button. If the golem wins the vote, copper buttons enter the game alongside it, and the golem will wander the map pushing any nearby button at random. For redstone builders, that’s not just a quirky animation — it’s a genuinely new tool, since it introduces an element of randomness that redstone circuits have never really had access to before. Builders who’ve spent time chasing precise timing in the vein of the mechanics covered in 100 Hours In Minecraft Hardcore: Episode 1 now have a creature that deliberately injects chaos into that system.

The Vote Itself

The decision comes down to a live vote on Twitter during the Minecraft Live broadcast on October 16, 2021, starting at noon EDT. Players will pick one of three: the copper golem, the darkness-detecting Glare, or the item-collecting Allay. Only one gets added to the game — the other two candidates will sit out this cycle entirely, the same fate that’s befallen mob vote runners-up in years past. Fans weighing in on the choice have plenty of company across the internet discussing trailers and reveals for other games, the kind of hype cycle also seen around releases like Destiny 2: The Witch Queen.

Three days out from the broadcast, the copper golem has the clearest built-in hook of the trio: it’s the only candidate players actually construct themselves, and the only one that ties directly into an existing block players already mine every day. Whether that’s enough to beat out the Allay’s item-fetching utility or the Glare’s darkness detection gets decided live, on Twitter, at noon EDT on October 16.