Woobles Crocheted Creeper

My grandson is into the video game Minecraft and wanted a character from the game, a Creeper, crocheted for him. Woobles are amigurumi crochet kits that comes with exquisite step by step video instructions for a wide variety of figures. My daughter sent me a kit for the figure Isaiah wanted. I began crocheting it, faithfully followed along on the video, using the soft yarn provided. The yarn has great quality as it has a good weight to it and does not split. With the help of my iPad, a blocky green critter began to take form.

The facial features, eyes and mouth, are provided and attach with a snap-on safety ring and cone attachment method. I hesitated before doing this step. Once snapped on, the pieces cannot be removed — hence the concept of safety. I watched the video several times; the placing and affixing was no biggie. My hesitancy was merely my initial lack of confidence. Once I forged ahead, my Creeper with two eyes and a mouth came to be. I think his mouth is more of a a mustache... but what do I know?

Next up was crocheting the four legs. These are itty bitty parts, only five rounds but I kept losing count and having to start over again. I think I made seven legs before succeeding in producing four legs. And just like with the eyes, I paused before attaching the legs. The instructions were clear, so clear and detailed, that I did feel a teensy-weensy bit overwhelmed.

But what is a Creeper without legs? Those legs were the final step and I finished him off. Here is the completed Creeper. This is going to the same grandson who loved the Wooble Axolotl (post for 1/22/24).

While crocheting this project I did learn some interesting facts about Creepers and also some video game terminology. Per a Wikipedia Creeper explanation:

The character model that later became the creeper was first created on August 20, 2009, as a result of a coding error when creating the pig mob in the early pre-alpha stages of Minecraft's development. The game's creator, Markus Persson, accidentally mixed up the dimensions of the model, swapping the length and height. Instead of deleting the result, Persson instead stated "I'll keep it for a creepy creature", and later added a green texture based on the in-game leaves texture to the model, gave it aggressive AI, and turned it into a hostile mob.

I also learned that Minecraft is a sandbox video game. What is that? Per Wikipedia's sandbox explanation:

A sandbox game is a video game with a gameplay element that provides players a great degree of creativity to interact with, usually without any predetermined goal, or with a goal that the players set for themselves. Such games may mostly or totally lack any objective, and are sometimes referred to as non-games or software toys. ... The term "sandbox" derives from the nature of a sandbox that lets people create nearly anything they want within it.

I really did sew on all four legs. Here is proof. I used a pair of hinged mirrors from my quilting tools to show several views of the Creeper at once.

Let's hope my grandson does not want an entire mob of Creepers. One was fun to crochet; it did not take that long. But I'd rather get back to my sewing. The mirror view gave me an idea. Maybe I should send him a pair of hinged mirrors like mine so he can create his own mob of Creepers. 💚

Further terminology update:
I just learned that the term mob in Minecraft does not necessarily mean a large violent group. Instead it stands for a "mobile non-player character". Specifically

Creepers are hostile mobs (mobile non-player characters) that spawn in dark places. Instead of attacking the player directly, they creep up on the player and explode, destroying blocks in the surrounding area and potentially hurting or killing the player if they are within the blast radius.

So in retrospect, one Creeper is enough as long as it is in blasting distance. Live and learn...