Talk:Mobs/@comment-4501235-20111127191659/@comment-4583259-20111127200334

Like you point out, although the creator of this wiki might have "borrowed" the name Mob from Minecraft, it is much older. Wikipedia says it dates back to 1978 (see and ). I personally remember it being "Movable Object Block", part of the Atari 2600 player-missile graphics terminology, but I cannot find any proof of that so I'm probably thinking of the Amiga or some other early graphics system.

I added turrets to this page because they have all the properties of mobs from a combat point of view: they will shoot at you if you shoot at them, and they shoot at other mobs. The only really unique things are that you can create them (but you can also create friendly astronauts, so that's not unique) and they don't move horizontally (but a penned-in giraffe also doesn't move horizontally).

If you would like to create an "Entity" page, go ahead. I don't know what the page should be called because "entity" probably is Minecraft-specific.

Wherever you put the information, it should link to this page and this page should link to it. Some of the information should be repeated too, like we're already doing with crafting recipes and such.