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Minecraft coming to Nintendo Wii U

Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:21:00 +0000

Hello!

I bring exciting news!

That’s a surprise, eh?* Anyway, now it’s 100% official. Minecraft is launching on Nintendo’s Wii U console on December 17th. It’ll cost $29:99 or equivalent, will be available to download on the eShop, and comes bundled with six of our most popular add-on packs. There’s even a Festive mash-up included just in time for the holidays.

We’ll be adding more content packs to Wii U Edition in the near future (Wa-hoo!), and updating the core game with free updates, just like our other platforms. As a quick reminder: all DLC packs are optional. You can have significant amounts of fun playing Minecraft without spending extra cash.

Minecraft: Wii U Edition will also feature off-TV play, so you can continue playing on the Gamepad when other people want to use the TV for less fun things like movies or other video games.

We’ll have more to share on Minecraft: Wii U Edition closer to its release. Looking forward to welcoming you to the world of Minecraft, Nintendo fans!

Owen - @bopogamel

*Minecraft: Wii U Edition will have an ESRB rating of E10 and a PEGI rating of 7 for “fantasy violence.”

Minecraft snapshot 15w49a

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 15:06:00 +0000

Update: A new snapshot, Minecraft 15w49b, is now available and should be a little bit more stable than the previous one.

Older 15w49a release notes:

Two weeks already since we released our previous snapshot? About time to make another one. We are so busy with fixing bugs in the game that we barely find time to finish anything els…

[add description here]

Notable changes:

Fixed a lot of bugs (again)
Improved doors
Pathfinding is now approximately 1.97% smarter
Balancing tweaks
…

Issues solved in this snapshot:

[Issue MC-729] - Zombies only fight back against players
[Issue MC-1973] - Items placed into a beacon are lost upon reloading a world
[Issue MC-3626] - Signs, Sugar Cane, Vines, Two-block Plants and Cobwebs cause glitchy mob behavior
[Issue MC-7519] - Clearing Nausea Potion Effect will stop it but show portal tint
[Issue MC-8017] - False Cobweb Behavior
[Issue MC-9074] - Command selector syntax does not recognize decimals
[Issue MC-10818] - Skeleton/Wither Skeleton leg texture experiences Z-fighting
[Issue MC-18272] - Health Boost and Absorption Effects have the same Icon
[Issue MC-20431] - Player is floating above the saddle of a donkey
[Issue MC-33863] - Villagers rarely can turn to Baby Zombie Villagers / Chicken Jockey
[Issue MC-38307] - Lightning strike area-effect destroys item frames, paintings, and armor stands
[Issue MC-39098] - Endermen can pick up blocks behind walls
[Issue MC-46034] - Lava flows towards gaps even if they can’t be reached
[Issue MC-48570] - Server-Side Resource Packs do not show up in Resource Pack list
[Issue MC-50468] - Skeleton AI ignoring helmet - skeleton still stays in shadow
[Issue MC-50559] - Rain Texture is Upside Down
[Issue MC-55942] - Nether wart, wheat, carrot, and potato hitboxes reflect only first stage
[Issue MC-62552] - FallingSand shows alternate block textures while falling
[Issue MC-63129] - Baby Zombies named “Dinnerbone” can now fly
[Issue MC-69328] - /playsound not tab-completing sounds
[Issue MC-69834] - Metal ring misplaced at tripwire hook / does not move
[Issue MC-70306] - Can’t put Flower Pot on Piston
[Issue MC-70327] - Blaze fireballs damage other blazes
[Issue MC-72156] - Tamed wolves attack when a wild wolf is hurt.
[Issue MC-72368] - Cactus can be placed under water, but doesn’t break
[Issue MC-73370] - Trapped chests are in “Decoration Blocks”
[Issue MC-73884] - Projectiles get destroyed at contact with non solid blocks
[Issue MC-75471] - Ocelots and Rabbits run from you in creative mode
[Issue MC-76045] - Clicking on non-existing link target or deleted screenshot gives error
[Issue MC-76975] - Pick block doesn’t work on the dragon egg
[Issue MC-77224] - Tp with relative x rotation above 90 affects y rotation
[Issue MC-77758] - Guardian beam turns green at the end of charging
[Issue MC-80148] - Custom Model Lighting Irregularities (Top & Bottom Faces)/each cuboid part of a model renders smooth lighting as if it were a full block
[Issue MC-80597] - Lit Furnace still obtainable using the /give command
[Issue MC-81693] - Multiple items have missing (transparent) pixels
[Issue MC-81725] - Shift+F3 menu remains on server disconnect
[Issue MC-82452] - Server Resource Packs Not Staying Persistent
[Issue MC-83105] - Offhand items render while drawing bow
[Issue MC-83107] - Shulkers deflect arrows from the side but not the top, arrows glitchy when shot at the edge
[Issue MC-83174] - Zombies, Zombie Pigmen, Ghasts, Guardians, Slimes, Magma Cubes, Wither Skeletons, Spiders, Cave Spiders, Silverfishes and Endermites do not attack when hit by other mobs
[Issue MC-83193] - Punching cake eats it
[Issue MC-83271] - Bosses are unaffected by the potions / “new arrows”
[Issue MC-83599] - Arrow/Item in offhand still displayed while drawing bow in first person view
[Issue MC-83824] - infinite arrows with effect (infinity enchantment works with potion tipped arrows)
[Issue MC-83850] - Squid and ghasts are unaffected by levitation
[Issue MC-83896] - Shulkers can teleport into other shulkers
[Issue MC-83930] - End City spawns even without Generate Structures
[Issue MC-85117] - Shulkers teleport even when they’re already dead
[Issue MC-85256] - Cauldrons are filled with water while snowing in biomes where it only snows above a certain height
[Issue MC-85527] - Shulkers opening into blocks
[Issue MC-85756] - Blocks/items on mobs’ heads turn red when the mob takes damage
[Issue MC-85963] - Melon and glistering melon textures have different rotations
[Issue MC-86305] - AreaEffectCloud can be pushed by pistons
[Issue MC-86385] - Leading zeroes omitted on dyed leather armor colour
[Issue MC-86836] - Enderdragon can teleport through end_gateway
[Issue MC-86951] - Drop item scoreboard objective increases with /give
[Issue MC-86992] - Shulker floating 1/16 above ground
[Issue MC-87093] - Zombie / Skeleton / Zombie Pigman arm animation glitch if they can’t reach you.
[Issue MC-87143] - Setblock signs with text put “null” on empty lines by reloading the world
[Issue MC-87219] - Floating Mob Heads above baby zombies that wear them
[Issue MC-87242] - Librarian zombie villager robe texture is sometimes white instead of transparent
[Issue MC-87383] - shulker hitbox height
[Issue MC-87568] - Slimes with levitation moving
[Issue MC-87573] - Spawned Slimes move always South (+Z) first
[Issue MC-88401] - Arrow blocked by shield can get stuck above player
[Issue MC-88465] - Shield still have metadata
[Issue MC-88569] - Armor slots inconsistency
[Issue MC-89181] - AreaEffectCloud does not work with some particles/crashes with others
[Issue MC-89399] - If an end portal generates with 12 eyes in it, it is impossible to use it.
[Issue MC-90095] - elytra does goes invisible with player if potion is used.
[Issue MC-90417] - Enderdragon can be passenger on boats
[Issue MC-90549] - Taking damage while gliding pushes you upwards
[Issue MC-90587] - Frost Walker does not work on transparent blocks
[Issue MC-90601] - Pick block frosted ice warning
[Issue MC-90606] - Too small damage while hitting walls with Elytra
[Issue MC-91061] - Loot table exceptions are not caught
[Issue MC-91177] - Rain puts out fires less often
[Issue MC-91264] - Right clicking a hoe or a shovel on grass or dirt plays the wrong sound
[Issue MC-91528] - End crystal replacing blocks with fire/able to place end crystal inside blocks including bedrock (End dimension only)
[Issue MC-91533] - Container minecarts with invalid loot table cannot be removed from world
[Issue MC-91543] - Multiple (unlimited) number of Ender Crystals placeable on one block at the same time
[Issue MC-91666] - Exploding Creepers drop gunpowder when they set off an End Crystal
[Issue MC-91756] - Beam target of ender crystals on obsidian pillars does not update when ender dragon spawn sequence is stopped
[Issue MC-91807] - Use /kill @e[type=EnderCrystal] instruction, rebirth ceremony continued execution
[Issue MC-92140] - End Dragon Fight fails due to level.dat issue
[Issue MC-92202] - Villagers stand outside opening and closing doors instead of entering
[Issue MC-92225] - Buggy AI for skeletons riding horses
[Issue MC-92309] - “Block Broken” closed caption is inaccurate
[Issue MC-92344] - Beams from end crystals move towards wrong direction when spawning Ender Dragon
[Issue MC-92415] - mob pathing issue
[Issue MC-92451] - Ender Crystal Beam Detaching
[Issue MC-92548] - Can’t place certain blocks on marker armor stand
[Issue MC-92697] - Activator Rails and Powered Rails powering each other
[Issue MC-92784] - Some subtitles are unrelated to the sound
[Issue MC-92849] - mob kills due to knock back from a sweep attack fail to reward EXP
[Issue MC-92972] - Villagers won’t go outisde
[Issue MC-92983] - Slimes are incorrectly offset from actual position
[Issue MC-93107] - Shulkers still produce sound even when Silent:1b
[Issue MC-93118] - Some of the new textures weigh too much
[Issue MC-93167] - Some textures (Easy to confirm with Netherack in the Nether) jump and change rotation as you move closer or farther from them
[Issue MC-93289] - Level-up sound originates at position in world, not at player position

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!

To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the dropdown at the bottom left corner of the launcher. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (See the “new profile” dialog).

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 3 now available

Mon, 23 Nov 2015 13:28:00 +0000

Hello!

You know about Minecraft: Story Mode by now, right? Telltale Games’ narrative-driven video game set in the world of Minecraft? It’s fun for all the family, including pets (especially if they’re pigs).

Sorry, I’m confusing the core message of this post. Let’s get back on track.

The third episode of Minecraft: Story Mode - The Last Place You Look is rolling out on all platforms today!

To celebrate, the good folks at Telltale have created a new trailer to show off some choice moments from this slice of the adventure. As you can see from the footage, stuff is getting real!

Have fun playing Episode 3, everyone! And have a great week.

Owen - @bopogamel

Biome Settlers Pack 1 now available for download

Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:31:00 +0000

Hey!

In case yesterday’s update wasn’t enough, we have even more news for players of Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Minecraft: Windows 10 Beta Edition.

Over the past few weeks we’ve been working on a new type of skin pack, designed from the ground-up to fit with the world of Minecraft. Biome Settlers Pack 1 is the first in a series of packs to explore the idea. It’s now available to download right now!

When designing these skins, we took inspiration from the different ways you play Minecraft, as well as the resources and mobs that exist in each biome.

This pack includes skins for Forest, Tundra, and Desert settlers. It’s available to download now for $1.99/£1.49 or equivalent and contains 24 new looks. As usual, a few of the skins are available for everyone, so check out the pack even if you don’t want to pay.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Owen - @bopogamel

Pocket and Windows 10 get redstone! Bunnies! Doors!

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:13:00 +0000

Hello!

I bring exciting news to Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta players. Version 0.13.0 is here!

This is a huge update which includes a little thing called REDSTONE. I don’t like using unnecessary capitals but REDSTONE is a big deal, so it deserves to be shouted about.

Redstone is a mysterious power in Minecraft that works a bit like electricity in the real world. Though this is the first iteration of redstone for Pocket and Windows 10 Editions, it still gives you the chance to create intricate devices including powered rollercoasters and automated doors. As we continue to update the game with more redstone components you’ll get to create even more complicated things. It’s an exciting time for engineers.

We’re also introducing bunnies (hooray for cute), desert temples (watch out for traps), and even more wooden doors (because you seem to really like doors).

Here’s the full changelog.

New Features

Redstone Circuits: Redstone Wire, Torch, Lamp, Levers, Buttons, Pressure plates, Tripwires, Trapped Chests and Detector Rails. Craft them all!
Cute, fluffy, crop-eating, bunnies
Desert temples
New types of wooden doors

Removed Features

Stonecutter (RIP)
Herobrine (RIP)

Tweaks

Redstone can be used to control doors, trapdoors, TNT and rails
Faster boats with improved handling
Increased item tooltip visibility time in Windows 10 Edition Beta
Stack count labels now use a bigger and more readable font
Slimes and Ghasts now actually spawn!
Hunger restored by food items now match the PC version
Flowers created by using Bone Meal on Grass now depend on the biome
Skeletons now run away from Wolves
Obsidian now breaks in 6.5 seconds rather than 3
Minecarts now stack on top of each other
Boats now stack
Beetroot soup now stacks
Fixed Curved Rail and Redstone behaviour
Improved Slime spawning
Block lag should be significantly reduced. Everything should feel more responsive now
Updated door textures all over the place
Even more Ghast and Slime spawning

Bug fixes

Mobs no longer suffocate in carpets (because that was kinda cruel)
Held items now look better in first-person mode
Loads of other bug fixes that are too boring to go into here

Whether you’re off to explore the mysteries of the desert or taking your first steps into the wonders of redstone engineering, I hope you have a jolly old time.

Owen - @bopogamel

Minecraft snapshot 15w47c

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 14:57:00 +0000

Snapshot 15w47c is now available. In your launcher. Right there. Yes, where it said 15w47b yesterday.

Snapshot 15w47b is now available and fixes some issues that made yesterdays snapshot seem haunted.

15w47a release notes:

Snapshot. Time. Again. Yay!

Our issue tracker is now the home page in our browsers and we are going to keep it that way until Minecraft 1.9 is ready for release. We want to say “thank you” to everyone who’s reporting issues and voting on them. And of course we also want to thank our moderators helping us to focus on the important tickets, they are doing an awesome job to keep the issues under control.

Due to some complaints that we were too focused on fixing bugs and not adding more features for 1.9, this weeks snapshot will focus on solving issues instead.

Notable changes:

~~_Fixed a lot of bugs_~~
Solved a lot of issues
Better support for transparency in skins
Reverted a change to redstone blocks that caused some issues with redstone contraptions in the previous snapshot
Prepared the game for the upcoming holidays
Changed something in the bacon block
Balancing tweaks

Issues solved in this snapshot:

[Issue MC-1777] - Placing a painting “behind” a button makes button unclickable
[Issue MC-1973] - Items placed into a beacon are lost upon destroying it or reloading a world
[Issue MC-2844] - Doors have no placement sound.
[Issue MC-5927] - Daylight Sensor outputting signal when encased
[Issue MC-7519] - Clearing Nausea Potion Effect will stop it but show portal tint
[Issue MC-9089] - Suicide from potions gives player a point in playerKillCount
[Issue MC-12959] - TNT mesh rotated wrongly placed vs primed
[Issue MC-33384] - Noteblocks and jukeboxes play the wrong walk, place and break sounds
[Issue MC-42150] - On Christmas trapped chests don’t have texture of presents
[Issue MC-46772] - Skin hat layer translucency only works in the end dimension
[Issue MC-59777] - Endermen lose ability to dodge melee attacks after being hit
[Issue MC-65240] - Banner pole texture mis-aligned
[Issue MC-65699] - Armor Stand Duplication
[Issue MC-67017] - The small cube in slime blocks isn’t displayed in inventory and when dropped
[Issue MC-84625] - Mobs don’t navigate correctly in contact with Chorus Plants
[Issue MC-89141] - Shulker spawn instant position is crooked (not aligned to block grid)
[Issue MC-89882] - Shulkers Don’t Drop Experience
[Issue MC-92202] - Villagers stand outside opening and closing doors instead of entering
[Issue MC-92443] - Typo in soundevent name “enttiy.zombie.infect”
[Issue MC-92556] - Mobs bouncing and spinning on grass
[Issue MC-92559] - Splash potions are broken / All thrown potions are water potions
[Issue MC-92562] - Redstone blocks emit power through blocks
[Issue MC-92595] - Redstone blocks don’t update adjacent blocks’ power state correctly
[Issue MC-92866] - Purpur Slab variant displays “DEFAULT” in capital letters

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft meets Hour of Code

Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:12:00 +0000

Hello!

We’re proud to announce that Minecraft is part of this year’s Hour of Code campaign.

Hour of Code is focused on introducing basic programming skills in a simple, accessible way. It feels like a great fit for Minecraft, so we’ve been working with Microsoft to create a themed set of challenges.

The Minecraft Hour of Code takes about 3,600 seconds to complete and will introduce you to programming logic like Repeat Loops and If Statements. If you don’t know what those things are, play through this thing and find out!

The tutorial is designed for ages over six and up, and you get to play as either Steve or Alex. It’s completely free, and doesn’t require you to download or install anything.

Check it out here: www.code.org/mc There’s a high chance you might learn something!

Owen - @bopogamel

Minecraft snapshot 15w46a

Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:26:00 +0000

Here it is, this week’s snapshot, going by the fancy name “15w46a” is now available. There are still a lot of bugs open on our bugtracker that need to be taken care of before we can release version 1.9 of Minecraft, but with each of these snapshots we are getting a little bit closer to that point.

Now is also a good time to look into the changes between 1.8 and 1.9 if you are creating resource packs or custom maps with command blocks.

Notable changes:

Fixed a lot of bugs
Updated version number
Less strict about entities behavior, but more strict about the colors they use
Made up at least one notable change to make the list look longer

Bugs fixed in this snapshot:

[Bug MC-128] - 3rd person view reverts to 1st person view if head inside a block
[Bug MC-415] - Leaves replace transparent blocks
[Bug MC-1701] - Flying through a Portal in Creative turns off “fly mode” on the other side
[Bug MC-1752] - Breaking Doors moves the other part of the door sometimes
[Bug MC-1846] - First-person perspective parallax problem
[Bug MC-2255] - Redstone wire uses different criteria for connecting visually and logically
[Bug MC-2844] - Doors have no placement sound.
[Bug MC-3430] - Detector rails do not power adjacent powered rails upward on slope
[Bug MC-3634] - Blocks incorrectly able to be placed on end portal frame
[Bug MC-3776] - IPv6 Does Not Work
[Bug MC-3867] - Mob inside mob spawner “stutters” if no player is in spawn range or spawner is outside worldborder
[Bug MC-4839] - Sprinting Stops After Certain Distance/Time
[Bug MC-5927] - Daylight Sensor outputting signal when encased
[Bug MC-5951] - Comparator side input does not recognize all types of redstone power sources
[Bug MC-7519] - Clearing Nausea Potion Effect will stop it but show portal tint
[Bug MC-11149] - Redstone hitbox not allowing block below to be hit
[Bug MC-11519] - Epilepsy trigger from collecting a lot of EXP
[Bug MC-12959] - TNT mesh rotated wrongly placed vs primed
[Bug MC-13818] - Unable to see Horse Health in Creative
[Bug MC-19243] - Breath icon misplaced with Absorption
[Bug MC-35665] - Glass panes don’t join up correctly with ice blocks
[Bug MC-38422] - Blocks drop XP with doTileDrops set to false
[Bug MC-47636] - Boats appear to be sunken in water
[Bug MC-49370] - mobGriefing false snowman snow placing
[Bug MC-54109] - Wolfs collar is orange insted of red
[Bug MC-57569] - Wither Moves During Shield Generation / Wither attacking before initial explosion
[Bug MC-59777] - Endermen lose ability to dodge melee attacks after being hit
[Bug MC-62041] - Untamed horses continue consuming food after reaching 100% tameability
[Bug MC-62118] - Iron bars model issues
[Bug MC-64139] - Cannot place banner or sign on snow layer level 1
[Bug MC-64492] - Changes to mob spawning algorithm
[Bug MC-65214] - Guardians are spawned in random places
[Bug MC-65240] - Banner pole texture mis-aligned
[Bug MC-78635] - Stopping a server after save-off causes unexpected data loss
[Bug MC-80807] - NBT data for SmallFireballs is incomplete
[Bug MC-84306] - Glowing aura doesn’t work if team color is set to reset
[Bug MC-92137] - Stairs’ UV Mapping is upside-down
[Bug MC-92144] - Hopper: java.lang.ClassCastException: ahw cannot be cast to ahn
[Bug MC-92167] - “Realms Notifications” option in options menu
[Bug MC-92443] - Typo in soundevent name “enttiy.zombie.infect”

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Realms map round-up

Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:00:00 +0000

Hello again Minecrafters!

Whether you’re looking for a spawn area for a new survival map, an adventure to go on with your friends, or a quick mini-game, we’ve got you covered. With a few clicks, these new maps pop right into your Realm. Here’s what we’ve added recently:

CastleRise: Brothers’ Feud by Kanoc

In CastleRise, your goal is simple: each team has a castle, and while protecting your prince, you must attack the enemy’s. There’s a build phase where you can buy and place structures such as walls, siege factories, and moats. When the build phase is over, it’s time to attack! I’ve been playing this map non-stop recently, and it’s quickly become one of my favorite mini-games.

Skylight by Springstof

Skylight is a fun survival spawn that starts you and your friends in the middle of a dig site, just below the surface. The map provides the basics - you just have to get the mining operation going!

The Dropper by Bigre

Of all of the maps released in Minecraft so far, few can claim to be as recognized or as downloaded as The Dropper. The premise is simple: jump from a great height, fall to the bottom, and avoid hitting things on your way down. The original gameplay is preserved here; minor updates have been made so that you can play it on your Realm.

SunBurn Reforged by Wire Segal and TheDestruc7i0n

SunBurn is a minigame that’s easy to hop into and play a few quick rounds. Gather your friends, punch some blaze powerups, and run around the play area, taking care to not stay in one spot too long. If you stop moving, the ground beneath you will turn darker until it finally disappears. The last one standing wins!

Monster’s Portal by Matdog and Vilder50

I don’t often see tower defense games submitted to Realms, so I jumped at the chance to play this game. Monsters attack your portal in waves throughout eight levels. To stop them, you’ll have to place combat items that attack the monsters as they stroll by. Find all of the maps’ secrets to unlock the bonus level!

UHC Blox by gerrybrano

UHC stands for Ultra Hardcore, and it’s a team or free-for-all battle. You have to craft, survive, and you don’t regenerate health! The map comes with three large play areas and tons of customization such as teams, which items you can use, or how long until the level starts shrinking.

Lucid Nightmare by Farenheit

Occasionally, we’ll add single-player content that we think is exceptionally good. As a Realms owner, if none of your friends are online, it’s easy to swap to another world slot, then switch back to your original world later.

This dark, single-player adventure map has an eerie feel and unique game mechanics that’ll leave you longing for a torch. Explore the game world while awake and asleep for two totally different experiences.

The Heist by Cubehamster, Wubbi, and Samasaurus6

One of the most polished and impressive Minecraft maps to date, The Heist is a single-player stealth adventure that plays like a standalone game. A custom resource pack adds voiced narrative, language support, robots, nifty gadgets and more!

But, I don’t have a Realm!

If you don’t have a Realm, you can either get one from the Realms website or download the original map from the creator’s site. If you have a favorite map that you’d like to see featured on Realms, drop me a line on Twitter or visit the Realms community on Reddit and send us the details.

Have fun!

Watch the Pocket Edition devs go on a spooky journey

Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:33:00 +0000

Hello!

Unless you’ve been hiding under a cobblestone block for the past few weeks, you’ll be aware that redstone is coming to Minecraft: Pocket Edition and the Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta in the near future. Redstone is a bit like Minecraft’s version of electrical circuitry. Though you can already make amazing builds in Minecraft: Pocket Edition and for Windows 10, redstone will provide opportunity to create actual devices, like rollercoasters, automated doors, and mob grinders. Players of the Java version of Minecraft have been using redstone for a long time now, and they’ve made things that even the cleverest of clever brains at Mojang couldn’t have predicted.

To show off just a few of the things that are possible with redstone, Shoghi and Daniel have taken on a spooky map created by our friends in Redmond, and recorded the results for your viewing pleasure. Watch the video below. Please be nice in the comments.

Have a great weekend, people!

Owen - @bopogamel