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Be a bear, or duel a dragon!

Sat, 05 Nov 2016 02:30:00 +0100

Surprise! If you’re a Realms subscriber on the PC edition of Minecraft, you’ve got some new content today. Releasing a bunch of Halloween experiences last week caused some build-up in the launch tubes, and so we already have four snazzy, new maps for you to dig into.

Let’s get started!

A Giant Quest by Team Wooloo

When a dragon shows up to extort your village for gold, there’s only one thing you can do: get huge and wreck everything! A Giant Quest is a short single-player adventure that plays with your sense of scale in some surprising ways, then afterward, allows you to create your own village in that same world.

Bear Buds by Mithey and Blueloving

Continuing Mithey’s trend of animal-related maps, we’ve got Bear Buds! You’re a polar bear with a dwarven shield and a flaming ax, off to find your dad. We don’t ask too many questions. If you like adventure gameplay mixed with puzzles and bears, you’re going to love this map!

Color Run by Team Cryus

This fast-paced minigame is best with a large group of friends. Get everyone together and stand on the proper color, or else you fall to your doom!

Sad Panda Adventures 2 by Mithey and Blueloving

Mithey has two maps this week, and this one is a sequel to a recently-released adventure! Inspired by a particular monster-catching photography game, this on-rails shooter has players riding pandas through five ghast-infested levels.

The more the bear-ier

These adventure maps and this minigame can be downloaded right now through Minecraft Realms for PC, or directly through their creators. If you or your friends don’t already have a Realm, you can find out loads more at minecraft.net/realms. If you have fun with these, let the creators know all about it!

Until next time!

Marc - @Marc_IRL

Bug fix update for Pocket / Win 10

Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Hello everybody!

We’ve rolled out an update called 0.16.1 for all you Pocket and Win 10 players of Minecraft. Please go to your favourite app store to download the update. It fixes quite some bugs and will make your gaming experience smoother.

Changelog below!

Tweaks:

Fixed spacing so there’s now enough room for some longer localized text.
Performance improvements.

Bug fixes:

Fixed a crash caused by some splash potions generated through slash commands.
You can now delete a world & save a resource pack if the path has UTF-8 characters.
Fixed updating player inventory slots.
Fixed Realm crash when placing an item frame.
Fixed game crash when renaming a map.
Creepers explode when attacked by snow golems now.
Fixed inventory slots are now kept in the .mcworld save file (Education Edition only).
Fixed a crash when creating a new world.
Fixed crashes caused by fire arrows.
Fixed crash on iOS devices when game is resumed.

Have a nice weekend!

xoxox

Daniel - @kappische

Minecraft snapshot 16w44a

Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:00:00 +0100

Zis is ze nouveau snapsot !

An zis snapsot inclutz…

Notable changes:

You might observer changes.

Bugs fixed in 16w44a:

[Bug MC-2334] - Sneaking on shorter than full blocks (chests, enchantment table…) will make you fall nonetheless
[Bug MC-36360] - No player sound when “Friendly Creatures” are turned off
[Bug MC-73494] - Translation for white wool and white carpet is incorrect (US)
[Bug MC-86818] - Lingering and Splash Potions show invalid name in statistics
[Bug MC-87364] - Missing error message for failed scoreboard players tag
[Bug MC-87989] - Wrong line when casting fishing rod in third person view
[Bug MC-89174] - /enchant with any invalid ID displays message “There is no such enchantment with ID 0”
[Bug MC-92105] - Splash and lingering potion ignore Ambient and ShowParticles tag
[Bug MC-98922] - Fishing hook / bobber cannot kill itself after 1200 ticks and bounces on land
[Bug MC-99353] - Elytra becomes transparent when wearing enchanted armor
[Bug MC-102888] - Stray overlay turns dark blue when wearing enchanted armor
[Bug MC-105966] - Snapshot incompatible with realms message is missing
[Bug MC-106040] - Command Feedback From “/testforblock” the Wrong Way Around
[Bug MC-106062] - Language pre-selection is set to “English (US)” even with different choice
[Bug MC-106586] - Snowballs Duplicate When Thrown
[Bug MC-107172] - Hitbox of Marker “true” Armor Stands lets their names now appear above them
[Bug MC-107189] - Elytra still has big model with small mobs/armor stands
[Bug MC-107321] - Marker armor stands can be set on fire
[Bug MC-107494] - Cannot summon Vex with empty right hand
[Bug MC-107550] - Curse of vanishing listed in “Miscellaneous” tab
[Bug MC-107555] - /debug command missing decimal places
[Bug MC-107558] - Illager spawn locations keep original block
[Bug MC-107601] - /enchant command doesn’t allow to put “Curse of Binding” on skulls or pumpkins
[Bug MC-107623] - Observer Instant wire
[Bug MC-107631] - Smooth Andesite in Woodland Mansion is sometimes replaced by default worldgen blocks
[Bug MC-107639] - Shulker Box can’t be read by comparators if placed by dispensers until block update
[Bug MC-107697] - Llama’s spinning
[Bug MC-107796] - When open the shulker box make the shulker glitches back and forth
[Bug MC-107822] - Curse of binding cannot be applied to Elytra in Survival Mode.
[Bug MC-107872] - Random cobblestone walls spawn next to Mansions
[Bug MC-107882] - Comparator not updating when Shulker Box behind block is broken
[Bug MC-107977] - Item not shown in hand when middle click dragging
[Bug MC-108008] - Hitbox of Marker:1 Armor Stands lets Passengers appear now ABOVE them
[Bug MC-108034] - Wrong armor_stand hitbox and hitbox update
[Bug MC-108054] - Observer rotates when being udpated, moved and then reloaded
[Bug MC-108076] - cartographer villager unlocking exploration map causes HUGE lag
[Bug MC-108109] - Fire doesnt dissapear after death
[Bug MC-108128] - Chaining too many observer blocks crashes the game
[Bug MC-108159] - Duplicate structure file of woodland mansion room
[Bug MC-108168] - Shulker box isn’t rotated correctly with structure block
[Bug MC-108222] - Incorrect value is written for unlimitedTracking tag in map data
[Bug MC-108317] - Inconsistent capitalization “Note block” in subtitles
[Bug MC-108321] - Text does not appear in the action bar while chat is set to hidden
[Bug MC-108373] - area effect clouds created by exploding creeper ignore ShowParticles and Ambient tag
[Bug MC-108496] - Moving a powered fence gate with a piston doesn’t properly update the fence gate
[Bug MC-108521] - Animals have trouble jumping up 1 block when led
[Bug MC-108560] - Inconsistent dropper/dispenser behavior from observer signal
[Bug MC-108616] - “Local Brewery” achievement icon is an Uncraftable Potion
[Bug MC-108697] - Observers send out a 2 redstone tick pulse opposed to 1
[Bug MC-108731] - maxEntityCramming counts passengers and ridden entities as separated entities instead of one combined
[Bug MC-108865] - Fangs cannot be summoned on transparent blocks
[Bug MC-108877] - “Local Brewery” achievement can be obtained improperly
[Bug MC-108945] - The totem of undying appears on relog.
[Bug MC-108952] - Evocation Illagers run away from the player or villagers even when on the same team
[Bug MC-109020] - Weird behavior with taged & markered armor stands.
[Bug MC-109021] - Bursting lingering water bottle produces an effect cloud
[Bug MC-109058] - Shulker bullet, small fireball, wither skull and fireball cannot hurt/hit vex
[Bug MC-109078] - Entities become transparent when armor stand with elytra is rendered
[Bug MC-109086] - Piston Extension have missing model textures for Structure Void
[Bug MC-109150] - Player phases inside block pushed by piston when sneaking.
[Bug MC-109240] - Zombies picking up multiple items but only dropping one
[Bug MC-109255] - Fishing line has unlimited distance
[Bug MC-109256] - Casting fishing rod while looking straight down freezes server
[Bug MC-109269] - Player cannot cast a fishing rod while directly looking up
[Bug MC-109276] - Hopper clock spam empty lines in game output
[Bug MC-109277] - Fishing rod bobber has incorrect nbt values
[Bug MC-109290] - Fishing rod bobber floating in the air(Lost the gravity), when the mob died
[Bug MC-109306] - Shulker boxes lose their “Lock” tag when mined.

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!

Watch our Halloween stream! Creepy Add-Ons abound!

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:00:00 +0100

Ghosts and ghoulies, zombies and freaks - Halloween is the night that they shudder from the shadows to work mischief upon the living! Our own Twitch channel was possessed by numerous sinister spooklets for a two-hour long livestream, summoned forth by the utterance of such ancient and terrible names as Marc, Jason, Helen and Mike.

After performing the dark and diabolical rites to get the microphone working, they proceeded to play through a special House of Horrors map, haunted by creepy custom mobs - all made using Add-Ons!

Watch the team encounter these ghastly and grim creations on our Twitch channel or download the map and Add-Ons for yourself! Get everything you need right here. Just click the import button in-game (next to Create New World), locate the House of Horrors file, and it should set everything up for you. Spookily simple.

Cheerio!

Marsh - @marshdavies

Minecraft: Education Edition has launched!

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:21:00 +0100

Hey!

It’s been a long time coming! We announced it, created an Early Access version, and now… Minecraft: Education Edition has officially launched!

Oh, and don’t worry if you don’t understand these words because Minecraft: Education Edition is available in 11 languages and a whopping 50 countries!

Minecraft: Education Edition includes all kinds of cool features that make it fun and easy for educators to create and teach lessons through Minecraft. There’s even a dedicated Classroom Mode companion app that displays a map view, world management settings and more.

Just like all the editions of Minecraft, Education Edition will be updated regularly and improved on by a talented community of creators. Only this time, those creators are educators with great insight into how to invigorate their students, make them extremely smart, and set them up for a fulfilling, productive lives. I might be getting a bit carried away here but, yes, Minecraft: Education Edition is a great thing.

The official website already includes a bunch of tutorials, lesson plans, starter worlds and more, all created by talented users. It’ll also introduce you to the mentor’s program which connects Education Edition beginners with friendly veterans, all eager to share their timeless knowledge.

The complete version of Minecraft: Education Edition is now available to purchase for $5 per user, per year, or through a Microsoft education volume licensing discount. Learn more at education.minecraft.net!

Good luck expanding brains, teacher-folk!

Owen - @bopogamel

Haunted holidays and creepy candies

Sat, 29 Oct 2016 20:46:00 +0200

With Halloween just around the corner, we asked community mapmakers if they were working on anything particularly Halloween-ish, and they replied with a resounding, “Yes!” This is the biggest Realms map release so far, with seven total upcoming experiences. Read on to find out more about each map!

Herobrine’s Mansion by Hypixel and Xiantis

Originally published three years ago, Herobrine’s Mansion was one of the first adventure maps to make extensive use of command blocks. Players face off against the devious Herobrine, but you can only reach him once you defeat his minions. Now, with some updated mechanics and a fresh coat of paint, this faithful recreation of Herobrine’s Mansion is ready for you and your friends!

The Dornenstein Estate by Mangelware, DIDschl, and Saophai

The Dornenstein Estate is simply one of the best-scripted maps we’ve seen so far. While taking a short, spooky journey through this mansion, you’ll need to find several relics to progress. Tricks abound throughout the house as sights, sounds, and freaky experiences make you wonder what is real and what’s not.

Forgotten Hamlet by Theticman and ChildOfStars

While we’re winding down on accepting new survival spawns for now (this marks the 30th one!), Forgotten Hamlet couldn’t be passed up. It fit the theme of our Halloween release, was markedly different from other maps on Realms, and it even has a trailer! We like this map a lot and hope that you’ll enjoy it as well.

Trick or Treat by CommandRedstone, BREEZ90, gilly330, and Pebble

What would Halloween be without some trick-or-treating? This minigame puts you and your costumed friends into a haunted neighborhood, searching for candy. You’ll need to frantically run from house to house, obtaining goodies from villagers, all while dodging others who want to take your loot!

Unsighted Shadow by MineMakers Team

You play as a journalist, investigating a seemingly-empty building at night. Armed with your flashlight, camera, and a grappling hook, you’ve got to figure out what happened here, then escape what you find inside…

Pumpkin Party by Plagiatus, dragonmaster95, and Tomhelduf

Grab your friends and join us at the pumpkin party! There’s no dress code, though costumes are suggested. Try on the wither suit and more! Once you’ve suited up, you’ll cycle randomly through five exciting minigames. Have fun!

Monster Kids by Moesh

Some folks know that Moesh has been working behind the scenes with me for a while now, helping to make Realms content bigger and better. For Halloween, he’s created the answer to a question we found ourselves pondering: “Do monsters go trick-or-treating too!?” Players compete to gather the most candies by descending into the dark depths of their natural cave habitat. Get the most candy, and you win! Masterfully making members manage munchies, Moesh’s map is a marvel of monster mechanics.

The more the scarier

Celebrating Halloween, Monster Kids will be available to you on Monday. The remaining six maps can be downloaded from Realms for PC right now; just load up Minecraft, click on Realms, and reset a world slot to one of these new experiences. If you or a friend don’t already have a Realm, you can find out more at minecraft.net/realms. If you enjoy these maps, take a moment to let the creators or myself know; we’d love to hear from you.

Until next time!

Marc - @Marc_IRL

Minecraft snapshot 16w43a

Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:55:00 +0200

Snapshot time! Bugs bugs and more bugs, all fixed!

And this snapshot includes…

Notable changes:

Fishing has recieved a major overhaul!
Vexes can now follow you between dimensions and move in water
Broken tools will remain broken

Bugs fixed in 16w43a:

[Bug MC-1040] - Tools with unbreaking enchantment break, disappear from slot then reappear
[Bug MC-2920] - Wrong Fishing Line Calculation
[Bug MC-6579] - Fishing line does not follow rod when Fov is changed
[Bug MC-11877] - Fishing bobber floats a block above water
[Bug MC-47508] - Ridden entities disappear on relogin
[Bug MC-55851] - Leads not rendering when spawned (attached to mob/fencepost) via command block/structure block
[Bug MC-79996] - Blocks like crops and rails are solid to Fishing Rods.
[Bug MC-80500] - Snow layer placed against the side of another snow layer are placed one block too far out, only when there’s a block where snow would go normally
[Bug MC-87988] - Fishing rod sometimes cannot reel in entities
[Bug MC-93286] - fishing rod can’t pull mob
[Bug MC-94169] - Fishing Rod Bobber collision error and into the block
[Bug MC-94502] - Pasting numbers in customized world generation text fields does not enable “Defaults” button
[Bug MC-95450] - Some mobs have missing Loot Tables
[Bug MC-95944] - Fished items doesn’t reach player
[Bug MC-96205] - boat still does rowing animation while pressing a and d
[Bug MC-98922] - Fishing hook / bobber cannot kill itself after 1200 ticks and bounces on land
[Bug MC-98995] - Birch Forest M Biome Generation off
[Bug MC-99427] - Fishing bobber sticks to entity sometimes only visually
[Bug MC-100964] - Resseting demo mode dialog cannot be canceled by button
[Bug MC-103100] - Fishing Rods not always pulling in items
[Bug MC-103313] - Hitbox of baby mobs / slime / magma cube / llama are offset for some seconds
[Bug MC-104663] - Fishing particle glitch
[Bug MC-106082] - Attempting to pull ignited TNT with a Fishing Rod at long distances rarely works
[Bug MC-106892] - Dragon breath particles aren’t reduced on lower particle settings
[Bug MC-107149] - maxEntityCramming death message states “suffocated in a wall”
[Bug MC-107515] - Vex cannot teleport through nether / end portal
[Bug MC-107818] - Mansion generates with a 4 section room missing
[Bug MC-107844] - Vex has one accidental red dot on its left arm
[Bug MC-107846] - Evocation Fangs hurt illagers after reload
[Bug MC-108095] - Llama caravans refuse to pathfind down hills and around obstacles.
[Bug MC-108238] - Teleporting away from leashed entity causes leash knot to be near 0 0 0 client side
[Bug MC-108797] - Vex cannot move in water
[Bug MC-108897] - Blocks given redstone power do not power nearby redstone until the wire is updated

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!

Halloweek begins as Spooky Bundle haunts consoles!

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:27:00 +0200

Yeah, I know: Halloweek isn’t actually a word. But hopefully this horrifying misuse of language is unsettling enough to get you in the mood for a week of creepy fun!

We’re kicking things off with the launch of the Spooky Bundle for Console Edition today: no tricks here, just three seasonal treats all rolled into one - the Halloween Mash-up, the Halloween Battle Map and the Campfire Tales Skin Pack. Check out the chilling trailer above and witness a trio of grisly delights, guaranteed to haunt your dreams FOREVER*!

*maybe

The Halloween Mash-Up features a custom-built world for you to haunt, replete with a uniquely terrifying texture pack. You can get into the spirit of things by donning one of our Campfire Tales skins: from mythical monsters to horrible hauntings and other strange sightings, this supernatural skin pack is the ideal way to frighten friends this Halloween. And if your desire for devilry is not yet sated, try out the wicked new map for the Battle Mini Game - and give your friends a real nightmare!

Creeping onto Console in the shadow of this uncanny pack is Battle Map Pack 4, featuring three magnificent new maps. Slink through the deserted snowbound science base of Dig, slog it out amid the over-sized furniture of Shrunk and hoedown before you showdown in the dusty Frontier.

We’re also launching the Builder’s Pack today: a superb starter pack for anyone interested in becoming a master of construction on Console Edition. It bundles together six impressive packs: Biome Settlers Skin Pack 1, Candy Texture Pack, Cartoon Texture Pack, Pattern Texture Pack, Plastic Texture Pack and Greek Mythology Mash-up. Cor!

AND YET…

This isn’t the end of the sinister surprises! We’ll be hosting a special livestream on Halloween itself in which our devs unleash the terrifying new mobs they’ve created with 0.16’s Add-Ons support! You’ll be able to download them for yourself, too!

And do you remember the spooky yarns we put out on Twitter? Watch out for our Campfire Tales unholy resurrection in video form - as narrated by Logdotzip!

CheeriooOOooOOoo!

Marsh - @marshdavies

Add-Ons are here! Watch our cool tutorial vids!

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:00:00 +0200

The mighty 0.16 update has landed on Pocket and Windows 10 (read all about it here!) bringing with it our first implementation of Add-Ons! They’re a new way for you to customise your Minecraft world, allowing you to poke around in the guts of the game and tweak the way mobs look and behave.

Want to create an army of chicken-riding, explosive witches? Who doesn’t? And now you can.

But… But how?!

Luckily we have smart dudes Jason Major and Jared Greiner on hand to show you the ropes, or, more accurately, the json files. They sat down to play through the Alien Invasion Add-On we teased at E3 earlier this year, to show you some of the cool things you can do by messing about with mobs:

And, for those who want to have a crack at making an Add-On themselves, Jared and Jason also made this tutorial video, showing in detail how they melded a skeleton with a rabbit to create a loyal ally, to help defend against the extraterrestrial menace:

We’ve made the Alien Invasion Add-On available for you to download from our special Add-Ons page. You can find loads more info on how Add-Ons work and what you need to do to install them. We also asked the excellent Sethbling to make an Add-On for us, in collaboration with Mindcrack and Blockworks. It’s pretty darn cool: a massive siege battle in which you can take part, joining either the ravenous horde of mobs or the stout defenders of the keep. Get a glimpse of it in this short teaser video, or download it from the Add-Ons page and see for yourself - you can even share it with friends over Realms!

Add-Ons are a work in progress, our first step towards bringing higher levels of customisation to all our platforms - so they’re likely to change and evolve over time. Let us know what you think!

Cheerio!

Marsh - @marshdavies

Add-Ons! Sponges! Pocket / Win 10 gets the Boss Update

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:00:00 +0200

Wet sponges - I’ve recently discovered that babies like to suck on them, which is kinda gross to be honest. But let’s not worry about that for now. Minecraft: Pocket Edition and the Windows 10 Edition beta are being updated to 0.16 today, bringing loads of new features, most of which are not in the slightest bit soggy.

First: Add-Ons. These are kind of a big deal. Add-Ons allow anyone to change the way a Minecraft world works. You could, for example, change chickens’ behavior so you can ride them or make creepers even more explodey than they already are. You could take all of your memories, program them into a villager, then study its behaviour to help determine what you should do next with your life. Not sure about that actually, but Add-Ons are most definitely cool.

They could change the way you play Minecraft forever. And you can even share them with friends and family over Realms. Check out our dedicated page for more info and to see exciting examples of possible creations. And if you do end up dabbling in Add-Ons provide us with feedback so we can make them even better!

This update also brings the ability to upload and download your worlds to Minecraft Realms. That opens up a wealth of options. You can take your offline worlds and start sharing them with friends, download a Realm for those times you don’t have an internet connection, or use Realms to make regular backups of your offline worlds.

As if all that wasn’t enough, this update also brings life to a whole new part of your Minecraft worlds. Until now, Pocket and Windows 10 players haven’t had a reason to explore the depths but this update brings Ocean Monuments and their underwater inhabitants - Guardians and Elder Guardians - along with all kinds of water-themed goodness including sea lanterns, prismarine, and more. Go deep and explore!

OK! Enough blabbering! Here’s the full changelog!

[UPDATE: this list originally included entries for F3 support and coordinates, but these didn’t make it into this release after all. Soz.]

New Features

Ocean Monuments
Guardians and Elder Guardians
Prismarine, dark prismarine & prismarine bricks
Prismarine shard & prismarine crystal
Sea lantern
The Wither!
Nether star
Beacon
Wet & dry sponges
Slash commands (with a handy auto complete feature). Enable cheats for a world in the options screen for access, but note that Xbox Live achievements will be disabled when you’re using ‘em!
Custom key bindings! Hooray for lefties!
A new Creative inventory search feature
Add-On section for world settings
You can change game modes in Realms (note that doing this will restart the realm)
Ability to upload & download worlds in Realms
Ability to promote players as operators in Realms

Tweaks

UI improvements!
Performance improvements!
Tweaks to various mob action/behavior triggers, including fixing creeper explosions
Elder guardian de-buff visuals fixed (feedback from Android beta)
Fishing rods & arrows will fire in more than just one direction
Lots of tweaks to water textures to make underwater more fun
Tweaks to Realms settings
Visual tweaks to sun, moon & stars when rendering in VR immersive mode
Ridiculous numbers of bug fixes!

Enjoy 0.16, crafters. Dig deep and craft with all your might!

Owen - @bopogamel