Barako, the Sun Chief Vs. Umvuthi, the Sunbird Comparison

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[lolabyrd]

Umvuthi is cool and all but Barako is absolutely fantastic. I absolutely loved the Zelda esque nature of the Barakoa's designs, they were so comical and stylized and definitely fit the asethetics of Minecraft much better. They were all around just awesome mobs

[pilsudskygm]

Imagine if twitter starts complaining about this bird boss next because it's "animal cruelty" lol

[IAmkurt]

R.I.P Barako, The Sun Chief 2016 - 2024

[IsaiahJones-rwpc]

Thinking the barakoa are racist representations of Africans is technically racist in of itself. It implies that anything that uses tribal/tiki aesthetics and designs automatically resembles black people and/or indigenous tribes as well as many racial stereotypes and connotations that surround and represent them in a negative light. It's also worth pointing out that many people have already drawn connections between the Abavuthana and the Aztecs, particularly their similar appearances and thematic attributes. If we're going by the same logic here, then the Abavuthana would be just as if not more offensive than the barakoa for directly paralleling a tribe that actually existed (and technically still does exist today due to their descendants) with monstrous and Sun based designs that could be interpreted as representations of said tribe.

[RetroMagnus]

It pisses me off to no end that we lost the barako and barakoa for generic birdmen simply because of a few idiots on Twitter who don't even know what the definition of racism is.

[lolabyrd]

If you genuinely think the barako and barakoa are "racist" because they use tribal asethetics that says more about you than the barakoa or the creator of the mod itself.

[ashuraomega]

I don't understand the argument for the barakoas being racist. Their designs and inspiration have nothing to do with any depictions of African tribes or their cultures. The barakoas are just goblinoid creatures that are located in a tribal setting, it's not fair to immediately assume that they are meant to be representations of Africans. Just because they may vaguely resemble something that might appear to be a stereotype doesn't mean they themselves are meant to perpetuate or represent said stereotype. By that logic characters like knuckles the echidna from the sonic the hedgehog series should also be classified as racist since his character design has dreads that are reminiscent of a black person, furthermore knuckles is the last of his kind who were a tribe of indigenous echidnas that were located on a remote island that possesed weapons such as spears and dressed up as what you would perceive stereotypical African tribes to look like (facial paint, gold necklaces, tiki/ caveman esque attires, feathered clothing, Pygmy skin tones, ect ect). Should we throw that character, his people, and by extension many other characters across fiction away simply because they will offend a small minority of people online who don't even know anything about the backgrounds of said characters? Any sane person would automatically say no. Obviously everyone is entitled to their own opinions when it comes to this kind of stuff but it's clear as day that when you look at this situation through more objective lenses, the arguments for the barako and barakoas resembling any racial connotations lacks any real critical thought and falls apart once you start to assess them for what they truly are, which is just weirdos online getting offended over nothing.

[slime-studios]

Ngl even though I loved the old design of the sun god, I actually really enjoy the new one, it looks amazingly textured and animated. Also here’s a timestamp to when the video stops being about barakoa:
8:18

[jacejackson]

Barako and the barakoanas had so much personality.

The new one just had better animations.

[starjones]

I find it funny how people take issue with the Barakoa looking similar to African tribes but not how the Umvuthi and Abavuthana are literally the spitting image of those old bird and mosquito masks/attires the native Americans used to wear to gain superpowers lmfao

[Notmuchcanadian]

I think they should bring back barako and barakoa and just make umvuthi a seperate boss barako and barakoa has more persenality while umvuthi has better animation they should bring back barako and barakoa rip barako and barakoa

[maximoomega]

To play Devil's advocate with the reasoning for why the Barakoa were removed Mowzie (the creator of Mowzie's Mobs) realized the concept of the Barakoa were not inherently racist, but drew similarities to certain depictions of African and indigenous tribes in media which people have used in offensive ways that harm the image of indigenous people. He decided that if there were even a small percentage of people who weren't comfortable playing his mod for this fact then he could not in good conscious continue to use content that would upset people and drive them away from enjoying his mod regardless of their reasonings for not liking said content. So he decided to just bite the bullet and reshape the Barakoa into something hopefully everyone could enjoy without feeling offended in any way. It basically all just boils down to not wanting to offend people. Granted it's still stupid but Mowzie had a somewhat justifiable reason for replacing the Barakoa. I don't blame him personally, moreso i blame the people who decided that the Barakoa had to be compared to such negative stereotypes in the first place. *Cough* Twitter *cough cough*

[unversedclub]

Someone should create a mod with the Baraka so the two sun blessed ones could fight for the tittle of the "Sun King" or something

[jasonbird]

Saying the barakoa are "racist" is like saying villagers are racist since they slightly resemble bad caricatures of jewish people with their abnormally large noses. Are we gonna remove them from the game too and blast Mojang on Twitter for using "racist stereotypes"?

[mpgaming]

I feel like they should’ve kept the barakos in my opinion, their iconic to the mod. I feel like I feel like as a fun idea is to make them as an entirely separate tribe, that may be spawns in the jungle or the savanna biome and make them use the poison blow dart.
Then make the Umvuthi spawn in either the savanna or desert biome, make them have their own status effect like possibly fire weakness(a status effect that makes you take more damage when standing in fire) or shoot darts that set enemies on fire. And if they keep both of them maybe change a little bit of what they do to make them not too similar to each other.

[jasminejones]

If the barako and barakoa are "racist" because they use tribal asethetics then the Umvuthi and Abavuthana are just as if not more racist due to their direct design and thematic similarities to the real life tribe known as the Aztecs

[mandy]

In what way was the original design racist? It's literally a unique design not representing any human tribe but rather some fictional sun tribe. Id get it if the name was the actual name of some tribe but that's not it either....

[TRADEMAN]

I just noticed that's the umvuthi has the darkest dungeon Stress symbol thing

[GatoDominguez]

Y no seria mejor que el Barako clasico y el pajaro este esten en el mismo mod como tribus enemigas?, tipo Aldeanos con Saqueadores °<°

[IlyaGame]

надеюсь кто-нибудь когда-нибудь сделает ресурс пак, возвращающий старую модельку Барако