Yeay! If you’re in Europe, you can download Minecraft for Playstation 4 right now. It’ll be available in the US very soon. Here are some questions and answers to celebrate!

I’ve bought Minecraft for my Playstation 3 but now I want it on my Playstation 4. Help me!

• If you’ve bought Playstation 3 Edition digitally, or played online with the the disc version, you can upgrade to Playstation 4 Edition for just $4.99. Log into the PSN store to upgrade.
• You can import your existing Playstation 3 worlds to Playstation 4 Edition. To do that you’ll need to load up Playstation 3 Edition, upload your world to the Magical Minecraft Cloud Land (not the official name), then re-download it from inside Playstation 4 Edition.
• You can’t play cross-platform between Playstation 3 and Playstation 4. Sad but true.

I’ve never played Minecraft on my Playstation 3. What Kreeper plox? Why are dig?

• Minecraft for Playstation 4 will cost $19:99 from the PSN store.
• It’s a friendly and fun game that’s very popular with cool people across the world.
• It features sheep, other animals, blocks, and tools. You can build cool stuff. You can go on adventures with friends. It’s really pretty if you catch it at the right time. You probably know this by now, considering you’re on the Mojang blog.
• Playstation 4 Edition features bigger worlds and an improved draw distance than the Playstation 3 version. If this doesn’t mean anything to you, don’t worry. Just load up Minecraft and have fun.

What about Vita Edition? I want to play on my Vita.

• Minecraft: Playstation Vita Edition should be with us in a few weeks. As soon as we have a more accurate date we’ll let you know. Sorry for the delay. If you already own Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition you get it for free.

What about the Xbox One Version? When it that out? I’m extremely angry about this.

• Don’t be angry. Minecraft: Xbox One Edition will be out this Friday. Then you can play it until your fingers drop off. Sorry for the delay, but releasing a game for multiple consoles around the world during the same week is really hard.

That’s it for now! Enjoy Minecraft, and be nice to each other on the internet, yeah?

Owen – @bopogamel and the Mojangers

The 1.8 update is now published to the launcher! Your game should be updated automatically.

See this post for a list of changes and features: Pre-release info

Get the cross-platform server jar here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8/minecraft_server.1.8.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft Team

Pre-release 1.8-pre3 is now available and fixes the following issues:

• [Bug MC-61844] – Creepers target Iron Golems, causing terrain damage without interaction of a player
• [Bug MC-62066] – String duplication glitch
• [Bug MC-66511] – Creeper's new Attack Golem AI takes priority over Avoid Ocelot/Cat
• [Bug MC-69052] – Hang up when move out of 30,000,000
• [Bug MC-69638] – Combined minecart explosions duplicating destroyed armor stands' items and creating ghost items

Pre-release 1.8-pre2 is now available and fixes the following issues:

• [Bug MC-46082] – Crashes when populating a chunk with empty (void) columns
• [Bug MC-57926] – Thrown splash potions have the colour of water
• [Bug MC-64521] – Inverted Daylight Sensor doesn't drop anything when mined
• [Bug MC-67626] – Item frames do not work outside 524289 x -524288 coordinates
• [Bug MC-68718] – Placing Redstone dust on certain other objects destroy the object
• [Bug MC-68726] – Skin is using wrong model
• [Bug MC-68740] – Cannot Summon Fireball/WitherSkull With/Without Direction (Unable To Summon Object)
• [Bug MC-68748] – Crash: Command "Summon SmallFireball" on Mobs!

Hello!

It’s time for us to pre-release the next major Minecraft update, the Bountiful Update! This will bring Minecraft to version 1.8, and should be officially be published in the launcher on Tuesday, September 2. This is the update that to date has taken the longest time to create (over 300 days), and is the result of many, many changes.

These changes consist of both new features, and large game structure changes such as replacing the hard-coded “block renderer” with a system that is able to read block shapes from data files, or performance enhancements such as multi-threading the client-side chunk rendering. We hope you will enjoy it!

Here’s a list of the major changes in the game:

• Added Granite, Andesite, and Diorite stone blocks, with smooth versions
• Added Slime Block
• Added Iron Trapdoor
• Added Prismarine and Sea Lantern blocks
• Added the Ocean Monument
• Added Red Sandstone
• Added Banners
• Added Armor Stands
• Added Coarse Dirt (dirt where grass won’t grow)
• Added Guardian mobs, with item drops
• Added Endermite mob
• Added Rabbits, with item drops
• Added Mutton and Cooked Mutton
• Villagers will harvest crops and plant new ones
• Mossy Cobblestone and Mossy Stone Bricks are now craftable
• Chiseled Stone Bricks are now craftable
• Doors and fences now come in all wood type variants
• Sponge block has regained its water-absorbing ability and becomes wet
• Added a spectator game mode (game mode 3)
• Added one new achievement
• Added “Customized” world type
• Added hidden “Debug Mode” world type
• Worlds can now have a world barrier
• Added @e target selector for Command Blocks
• Added /blockdata command
• Added /clone command
• Added /execute command
• Added /fill command
• Added /particle command
• Added /testforblocks command
• Added /title command
• Added /trigger command
• Added /worldborder command
• Added /stats command
• Containers can be locked in custom maps by using the “Lock” data tag
• Added logAdminCommands, showDeathMessages, reducedDebugInfo, sendCommandFeedback, and randomTickSpeed game rules
• Added three new statistics
• Player skins can now have double layers across the whole model, and left/right arms/legs can be edited independently
• Added a new player model with smaller arms, and a new player skin called Alex?
• Added options for configuring what pieces of the skin that are visible
• Blocks can now have custom visual variations in the resource packs
• Minecraft Realms now has an activity chart, so you can see who has been online
• Minecraft Realms now lets you upload your maps
• Difficulty setting is saved per world, and can be locked if wanted
• Enchanting has been redone, now costs lapis lazuli in addition to enchantment levels
• Villager trading has been rebalanced
• Anvil repairing has been rebalanced
• Considerable faster client-side performance
• Max render distance has been increased to 32 chunks (512 blocks)
• Adventure mode now prevents you from destroying blocks, unless your items have the CanDestroy data tag
• Resource packs can now also define the shape of blocks and items, and not just their textures
• Scoreboards have been given a lot of new features
• Tweaked the F3 debug screen
• Block ID numbers (such as 1 for stone), are being replaced by ID names (such as minecraft:stone)
• Server list has been improved
• A few minor changes to village and temple generation
• Mob heads for players now show both skin layers
• Buttons can now be placed on the ceiling
• Lots and lots of other changes
• LOTS AND LOTS of other changes
• Removed Herobrine

The pre-release is available if you have activated development versions in the launcher.

Sincerely, the Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

@jeb_
@Dinnerbone
@_grum
@SeargeDP
@TheMogMiner
@danfrisk
@mamirm
@DMarby
@xlson

PS. If you need the default Steve? skin (oh, I wonder why…), you can download it here: steve.png

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8-pre3/minecraft_server.1.8-pre3.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

Hey everyone!

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about MINECON lately, because before this time last year everyone knew the date and location and ticket info for MINECON 2013. While we don’t have a set date for the next MINECON just yet, I wanted to let everyone know that it won’t be until some time in 2015. I’m shooting to have it in the spring in London!

While we’d love to do MINECON every year and it’s the only event we do as a company, we want to make sure we can give it the attention it needs, and that means that springtime next year will work best!

As soon as I have confirmed information it’ll be out there. We always announce as soon as we confirm with the venue and have a signed contract, but never before, because we want to make sure we can follow through with the event and we never want people to start planning to attend something that might not happen. So watch out for information in the coming months!

Vu – @vubui

Update: Snapshot 14w34d has been released to fix the following bugs:

• [Bug MC-2292] – OS X: Ctrl modifier key instead of Cmd
• [Bug MC-3716] – Ender Pearls and Beds
• [Bug MC-4329] – Parts of enchanted Leather Armor when held don't Shimmer
• [Bug MC-5215] – MobSpawner "MaximumNearbyEntity" Tag only has maximum range of 4 above and 4 below
• [Bug MC-9164] – Chickens will not follow Melon seeds, Pumpkin seeds, or Nether Wart
• [Bug MC-29711] – "Sprinting" While flying
• [Bug MC-48270] – Slimes appear for 1/2 a second in Peacefull
• [Bug MC-55045] – Race condition in linux fullscreen toggle
• [Bug MC-55172] – Mobs do not spawn at the heights 16, 32, 48, 64, 80… (Multiples of 16)
• [Bug MC-61601] – Bone meal used up when applying to fully grown crops
• [Bug MC-68232] – Some items are missing pixels in 3D models

Update: Snapshot 14w34c has been released to fix the following crashes:

• [Bug MC-44610] – Speeding up baby animal growth does not consume growth/breeding item
• [Bug MC-48011] – Ender dragon experience drops are not affected by doMobLoot gamerule
• [Bug MC-48577] – Item and XP drops are sucked towards the player's feet instead of their chest/torso
• [Bug MC-51123] – Endermites spawn from thrown ender pearls even when doMobSpawning gamerule is false
• [Bug MC-57247] – Creative Inventory screen causes fps drop
• [Bug MC-57525] – Sponge absorbing bug
• [Bug MC-65815] – Baby villagers display blocks on their head in the wrong location
• [Bug MC-67659] – XPOrbs attracted to spectators
• [Bug MC-67830] – Ladder, torch and redstone torch texture are darker.
• [Bug MC-68034] – clone, fill, setblock leaving behind ghost entities

Update: Snapshot 14w34b has been released to fix the following crashes:

• [Bug MC-67915] – written_book item page text not backwards compatible with v1.7 saves
• [Bug MC-67974] – Crash when reaching y=254
• [Bug MC-67976] – Cannot place armor stands
• [Bug MC-67981] – Furnace Inventory is not being updated correctly / Furnace is generally unusable
• [Bug MC-67983] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Ticking block entity

With some luck, this week may be the last week of 1.8 snapshots! We’re hoping to do a pre-release this Thursday if there are no major issues remaining in the snapshots by then. Please help us out by searching for issues on the bug tracker and voting up the ones that affect you!

Notable changes:

• Features fixed.
• Bugs bettered.
• Optimizations overworked.
• Game grown.
• Humanity happened.

Bugs fixed:

• [Bug MC-36812] – Chat Opacity Option is not working
• [Bug MC-50875] – "Can't see up thru clouds" effect starting 1 block too high
• [Bug MC-51298] – Sign / Banner darkens when displaying tooltips (tellraw hover text, inventory, Player UUID in chat)
• [Bug MC-51610] – Item frame causing duplication when loading map (causing / caused by stack overflow)
• [Bug MC-61676] – Tab list expands too far and is unreadable
• [Bug MC-61946] – Rabbits sometimes have the name "entity.KillerBunny.name"
• [Bug MC-62166] – Breaking / placing / changing blocks has a delay to disappear / appear
• [Bug MC-62958] – Massive Visual Glitching with VBO turned off and Chunk distance over 16
• [Bug MC-67127] – Armor stands fall down through slabs when I'm not around
• [Bug MC-67854] – CustomNames on Spiders, Endermen and Ender Dragons are displayed incorrectly
• [Bug MC-67872] – Furnace progress reset on left/right-click drag
• [Bug MC-67890] – Heads On Tab Menu
• [Bug MC-67896] – armor stand dropped down a few level on it's own
• [Bug MC-67916] – Sign doesn't update with clone within tellraw sign
• [Bug MC-67923] – clone and fill sometimes leave behind ghost tile entities
• [Bug MC-67940] – Border of reset button in custom world option as incorrect limits
• [Bug MC-67941] – Potion particles goes wrong
• [Bug MC-67947] – Podzol does not change into dirt when sapling grows into tree

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w34d/minecraft_server.14w34d.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

The 14w33c snapshot fixes the holes in the world.

The 14w33b snapshot is now available and fixed the following issues:

• [Bug MC-4490] – Fishing Rod not Attached in 3rd Person While Crouching
• [Bug MC-50321] – Fishing line not connected to the rod in third person view
• [Bug MC-64456] – Fishing Rod Bug in 3rd Person
• [Bug MC-65112] – Grass Block shows a damage value of 0 when tooltips are enabled
• [Bug MC-65521] – Armor Stands consume whole stack of Items in Survival
• [Bug MC-65533] – Efficiency enchantment does not work on shovels and axes
• [Bug MC-66970] – Major texture disortion for Redstone, Stairs, Cobblestone Walls, Fences and Fence Gates
• [Bug MC-66983] – Game crashes when placing a torch or redstone torch on the bottom of a block
• [Bug MC-67141] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
• [Bug MC-67142] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

It’s snapshot time. After last weeks snapshot, which did not include any changes at all, we decided to make this weeks snapshot a little bit more interesting. So we added tons of new features, all of them disguised as bugfixes.

Bugs fixed:

• [Bug MC-29408] – Tab support is not possible with player names when using the '/playsound' command
• [Bug MC-57714] – Placing torches on other torches
• [Bug MC-61245] – Upside down stairs have hitbox of regular stairs / regular stairs have wrong hitbox
• [Bug MC-63319] – Heads Dropped from Charged Creeper Explosion Ignore Gamerules
• [Bug MC-65522] – Tool-tip for regular sandstone slab is incorrect
• [Bug MC-65790] – If you place block on two-block-tall plants,it will destroy them.
• [Bug MC-65909] – Skulls too small in item frames
• [Bug MC-66163] – Using Pick Block on a colored door returns a regular door
• [Bug MC-66166] – Breaking colored doors turns them into regular doors
• [Bug MC-66169] – Old oak doors still called 'Wooden Door' instead of 'Oak Door'
• [Bug MC-66227] – Helmets can't be taken off of armor stands while flying above them in creative mode
• [Bug MC-66246] – Skull on small Armor Stand are offset
• [Bug MC-66347] – Beds make incorrect sounds
• [Bug MC-66350] – Selecting "Hardcore" prior creating a debug world yields a "hardcore debug world"
• [Bug MC-66413] – Baby Bunnie's Name Tags
• [Bug MC-66532] – /entitydata tab autocomplete keeps entering player's name
• [Bug MC-66543] – Fence gates lock closed, and will not open from pressure plate activation.
• [Bug MC-66674] – Summoning a FallingSand entity with {Block:"leaves"} crashes the client
• [Bug MC-66685] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
• [Bug MC-66687] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException
• [Bug MC-66722] – Hopper: java.lang.ClassCastException
• [Bug MC-66791] – Iron Golems do not target creepers
• [Bug MC-66816] – Crash: /give @p skull 1 3 {SkullOwner:<playername>} [SMP]
• [Bug MC-66819] – Hopper: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
• [Bug MC-66822] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException
• [Bug MC-66824] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
• [Bug MC-66835] – /execute coordinates don't work
• [Bug MC-66915] – Only smoothstone should make stone slabs.

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w33c/minecraft_server.14w33c.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

Update: Snapshot 14w32d fixes the problem with joining dedicated server. It should not crash anymore.

Update: Snapshot 14w32c has been released to fix issues with rendering block entities like chests and collision handling near walls.

Here is a list of fixed bugs:

• [Bug MC-64425] – Can't place blocks on TNT
• [Bug MC-64513] – Cannot go upstairs if there is a carpet above a step
• [Bug MC-65230] – Collision bug when player is moving up a slope adjacent to a 3-high wall
• [Bug MC-65521] – Armor Stands consume armor in Creative / whole stack of Items
• [Bug MC-65874] – Existing/Old chests are invisible
• [Bug MC-65876] – Jungle Planks craft Spruce Fences/Gates
• [Bug MC-65935] – /entitydata doesn't change the pose tag on armor stands until you relog

Update: Snapshot 14w32b has been released to fix the following bugs:

• [Bug MC-586] – Beacon light does not travel through water
• [Bug MC-34815] – Hearts do not blink when regenerating (Cause identified in code)
• [Bug MC-59533] – Beacon beam shows but effect is not applied and can't be edited
• [Bug MC-59889] – Crash when seeing mobappearance particles
• [Bug MC-63174] – Heads Face Wrong Way in Item Frames
• [Bug MC-64024] – Crash report (Batching chunks java.util.ConcurrentModificationException)
• [Bug MC-64188] – execute with relative coordinates commands are forced to the center of the X and Z axis of the block the target is in, not the target itself
• [Bug MC-64536] – Entities darken when items in frames are rendered
• [Bug MC-65512] – Pick Block on Double Red Sandstone Slab crashes the game.
• [Bug MC-65524] – Unable to pick block on armor stand

This weeks snapshot contains absolutely nothing. Not a single thing. No bugs fixed, no features creeped. Nuhuh. No sir.

Notable changes:

• Beacon light changes as it goes through glass.
• Added red sandstone.
• Added an armour stand.
• Fixed many bugs.
• Erased all knowledge of The Event.

Bugs fixed:

• [Bug MC-2911] – Gamerule commands allow parameters other than true/false
• [Bug MC-2930] – Heart bar doesn't show how much damage is dealt to the player
• [Bug MC-3664] – Golden Carrot Creative Misplacement
• [Bug MC-3718] – Textures and Effects are off when far away from the center of the map
• [Bug MC-3818] – Playing stacked music discs in jukebox will duplicate them
• [Bug MC-3884] – No splash sound when items dropped in water
• [Bug MC-29431] – Search function returns some extra potion results
• [Bug MC-48760] – Redundant code
• [Bug MC-50848] – Enderprearl thrown before death teleports after respawn
• [Bug MC-58961] – Back button overlaps kick message
• [Bug MC-61565] – Spectator mode description
• [Bug MC-64260] – Death by lightning bolt claims players go up in flames
• [Bug MC-64409] – item names are in brackets
• [Bug MC-55228] – Sandstone spawning in Mesa Biome at cave entrances

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w32d/minecraft_server.14w32d.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

We’re starting to wind down our development cycle, and as such we’re now focusing on bug fixing for a smooth release. This weeks snapshot comes with a bunch of fixed bugs, some more optimization and only minimal featurecreep.

Notable changes:

• Experimental: Mob pathfinding is threaded.
• Rabbits have sounds!
• Bunch-o-optimizations!
• Bunch-o-fixes!
• The surface of the sun is no longer incorrectly made of cheese.

• [ MC-267] – Potion effect status doesn't show If the inventory was open when it was cast upon the player.
• [ MC-1831] – Incorrect Fire Charge Noise
• [ MC-2053] – Inconsistent door texture
• [ MC-2071] – Pausing the Game or opening any GUI in a nether portal does not work
• [ MC-3100] – Stone stairs are named incorrectly. They should be called cobblestone stairs.
• [ MC-5206] – Renamed items' name isn't shown in italic or coloured on item switching
• [ MC-5585] – The Ender Dragon is not affected by the Sharpness and Power enchantment
• [ MC-5927] – Daylight Sensor outputting signal when encased
• [ MC-5991] – Hoppers use wood sounds for placing / breaking
• [ MC-6773] – Renaming a slime or Magma cube, Once it splits it no longer has its custom name.
• [ MC-7807] – Thrown eggs look like snowballs when hitting something
• [ MC-9275] – TNT is not ignited when right-clicked by a fire charge
• [ MC-9664] – Blaze / Ghast fireballs can make fire with MobGriefing off
• [ MC-9806] – no name color when using /say
• [ MC-11651] – UTF-8 domaine name support
• [ MC-15084] – Leads not dropping when a leashed mob is killed
• [ MC-15707] – Wild and Hostile Wolves can be leashed
• [ MC-19702] – Wither armor has wrong texture
• [ MC-24778] – Opening and closing sound bug
• [ MC-29518] – "stat.damageTaken" and "stat.damageDealt" track # of hits vs # of hp damage
• [ MC-29559] – 2 block tall grass/fern does not produce seeds when broken
• [ MC-30589] – Item frame only drops item upon explosion
• [ MC-33015] – Fire Block Breaking Sound
• [ MC-33558] – Agro tags don't work with Neutral Mobs that have New AI
• [ MC-35617] – Cactus has incorrect inventory image
• [ MC-36639] – Zoomed out maps do not properly align.
• [ MC-37661] – dataTag parsing/escaping issue
• [ MC-43010] – Non-standard texture resolutions cause rendering errors with mipmap
• [ MC-44413] – Villagers no longer trade xp bottles with you
• [ MC-44597] – Unable to play unkown soundEvent: minecraft:mob:witch.idle
• [ MC-44859] – Breaking A Slime Block Sounds Like Stone
• [ MC-46051] – Item Frame Block/Item Entities Are Lit Incorrectly
• [ MC-46460] – Spectators show burning effect in lava
• [ MC-46470] – Flying through water in spectator mode plays the splashing sound
• [ MC-46579] – Items are too high up on the arm in 3rd person mode while sneaking
• [ MC-47878] – Spreadplayers not working with Entities
• [ MC-48372] – Crash when using /clone on complex structure(command block and pulser)
• [ MC-48538] – Monsters can spawn on Barriers
• [ MC-48666] – Cobwebs Are Affected By Block Lighting In Full Sky Lighting
• [ MC-49305] – Server Scoreboard "36>16" Bug
• [ MC-49580] – Swimming in water causes held items to "darken"
• [ MC-50176] – Asterisk as Name for Score Chat Component Not Effective as Translatable Argument
• [ MC-50572] – Upward facing droppers/dispensers only shoot items west
• [ MC-51655] – Ladders don't break faster with an axe
• [ MC-51754] – Fully grown Cocoa beans only drop 1 item when wood log they're attached to is retracted
• [ MC-53215] – TNT destruction nerfed
• [ MC-53430] – when /gamerule randomTickSpeed is typed in gives wrong tab completion
• [ MC-55191] – /clone, /fill, and /setblock do not set blocks outside world border
• [ MC-55253] – The new {selector:"@…"} tellraw feature fails on failing selectors!
• [ MC-57159] – 2d rendered objects (Tall Grass, Plants, Fire, etc) are darker on one side
• [ MC-57524] – Nether portals don't generate or generate unlit
• [ MC-57861] – Projectiles going north or south appear sideways
• [ MC-57884] – Coarse dirt & Podzol turns to regular dirt after tree grows on it
• [ MC-58322] – Connecting to server that uses resource pack displays "Texture pack"
• [ MC-58363] – Witch Huts / Witch Traps spawn other mobs
• [ MC-58524] – Using Shears on double fern results in pink and black box in inventory. When placing said box on dirt, you get dead grass (i.e. desert)
• [ MC-58838] – Breaking an active jukebox doesn't destroy the block
• [ MC-58985] – Blocks pushed by Pistons above Y=256 are deleted
• [ MC-59043] – Using "Pick Block" on Lapis Lazuli Ore creates missing texture
• [ MC-59472] – Item Frames Drop as an Item When Not Supported by Block Even When Game Rules Say Not to
• [ MC-59602] – Hoppers can't take water bucket out of furnace
• [ MC-59845] – Rabbits do not take damage from falling
• [ MC-60306] – Rabbit foot in incorrect creative tab
• [ MC-60331] – pie chart debug menu doesnt dissapear in F1 mode
• [ MC-62166] – Breaking / placing / changing blocks has a delay to disappear / appear
• [ MC-62972] – Hoppers doesn't taking empty bucket from furnace
• [ MC-63157] – Fishing Rod / Carrot on a Stick not held correctly / Line not attached to pole
• [ MC-63492] – Guardians deal damage when hit with TNT
• [ MC-63506] – Hopper: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1
• [ MC-63507] – Clicking 'Snooper Settings' crashes Minecraft
• [ MC-63592] – replaceitem not working twice
• [ MC-63595] – Endermen get angry when hit in creative
• [ MC-63735] – natural worldborder 14w30b (30000000 block)
• [ MC-63785] – comparator_unlit has invalid cullface
• [ MC-64287] – Incorrect display for Failed to Login screen
• [ MC-64362] – Anvil durability is restored when Anvil is broken and placed back down

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w31a/minecraft_server.14w31a.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

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Hey everyone!

We just released MCPE 0.9.5, another bugfix version for 0.9. This time, it may or may not be the last, but we hope so!

We found and squashed many nasty bugs still hiding in the very fabric on the game, so 0.9 should be now quite stable. Here are the bugs we fixed:

update: on Android, we released another version of 0.9.5 (0.9.5b? 0.9.5 bis? 0.9.5.2? whatever) which fixed a new crash and a few additional bugs. For iOS/Amazon users, this should change nothing!

- (Android) fixed a really nasty bunch of problems caused by locking the device like freezing, crashing, corrupting the world and more
- (Android) fixed a bad graphics corruption issue (missing chunks, corrupted chunks and animals) that happened when switching away from the game
- fixed chunks not loading in multiplayer when the client device is slower than the server
- fixed a crash when loading flat worlds after updating from 0.9.0/2
- fixed a possible server crash when a player disconnects from a multiplayer world
- fixed a possible crash or corruption when playing in multiplayer as a client
- Fixed Bryce Mesa biome, now they actually spawn!
- fixed fountains’ water in strongholds
- fixed some small artifacts items held in hand (torches, etc) and clouds
- (Fire TV) fixed missing textures

And we made a few tweaks, too:

- Players that have been placed at extreme heights by the respawn bugs are now placed back at y=130
- (Android) the game doesn’t waste battery power and really stops rendering now when in the background
- not getting stuck anymore in the “Looking for Server” screen if the server is full
- animals are never despawned, again

We’ve just uploaded this version to every store, so it should be out on Google Play soon and on Apple, Amazon and Samsung stores soon-ish!

Jens – @jeb_, Johan – @jbernhardsson, and Tommaso – @_tomcc

Update: We’ve released snapshot 14w30c to fix some more crashes, world holes, other bugs and more optimizations.

It’s apparently my birthday today, so you get a present! That’s how birthdays work inside Minecraft.
Todays snapshot is heavily focused on more optimizing, with a pinch of bug fixing and a sprinkle of feature creeping. I think you’ll like it!

Notable changes:

• Added Banners! But I’m not going to tell you how they work :)
• Made Creeper, Skeleton and Zombie Heads available in survival. How? Don’t ask me!
• Major optimizations to client rendering. It’s magical!
• Lots of fun bugs fixed. Lighting should behave a little nicer now!
• Crafting cuddles now requires one extra hug in the recipe.

• [Bug MC-7508] – lighting error due to Chunk.heightMap ignoring block at the top level of an ExtendedBlockStorage instance (off by 1 error)
• [Bug MC-32514] – The well in a desert village is made out of the wrong material/cobblestone
• [Bug MC-58790] – Sign with give / replaceitem doesn't update player inventory
• [Bug MC-60301] – Broken resource packs: Game Crashes when i try to load 14w27a/b
• [Bug MC-60552] – Flower pots with metadata placed in 1.7 will not render in 1.8 snapshots / metadata not removed
• [Bug MC-62127] – Turning off VSync crashes the game
• [Bug MC-62138] – "#PLAYER" Appears on Sidebar
• [Bug MC-62170] – Carpet has incorrect height?
• [Bug MC-62180] – /testfor @p doesn't consider x,y,z anymore
• [Bug MC-62223] – Crash in Video Settings menue
• [Bug MC-62240] – command selector parameters dx dy dz don't work
• [Bug MC-62267] – Game crashes when trying to enable VSync
• [Bug MC-62342] – Slabs can not be placed in adventure mode with tag CanPlaceOn.
• [Bug MC-62349] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Saving entity NBT
• [Bug MC-62379] – Spawners (Dungeons, Strongholds, etc…) can spawn mobs outside of worldborder
• [Bug MC-62419] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property bcy{name=half, clazz=class ats, values=[upper, lower]} as it does not exist in bch{block=minec
• [Bug MC-62493] – "/worldborder get" can display invalid size using "/worldborder add"
• [Bug MC-62499] – /replaceitem block has incorrect syntax
• [Bug MC-62504] – /kill adds 214748364 / 0xCCCCCCC to "Damage Taken" statistics
• [Bug MC-62507] – Overlapping Dungeons Don't Spawn Correctly
• [Bug MC-62655] – Cubic player selector always finds player if there are more than 31 Entities around
• [Bug MC-62736] – ReplaceItem command not updated when the command was executed with a sign
• [Bug MC-62789] – Chunks containing paintings may be wiped and regenerated upon load

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w30c/minecraft_server.14w30c.jar

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Hello!

We just released a new Pocket Edition version to Google Play, 0.9.3!
This version fixes some last nasty bugs that we introduced in 0.92:

- fixed several crashes that prevented from playing in multiplayer
- fixed a nasty bug that on death might hang the game and/or spawn you really up in the sky
- on Android, you can get more than 3 levels of view distance again
- the game now handles when a world is corrupted and not repairable showing an error screen
- Creepers don’t spam weird sounds anymore
- mobs won’t spawn anymore in peaceful, and existing ones will be removed
- correctly despawning entities on clients
- fixed soft shading on wool tiles
- possibly fixed other lock-ups and crashes

We are going to wait and see how it works before submitting it to App store and Amazon store but we hope to do that tomorrow. Most of the issues should now be fixed but please report things if they break!

Jens – @jeb_, Johan – @jbernhardsson, and Tommasso – @_tomcc

Update: We can never be sure if bending space around time is the right approach until we get feedback from you on the 14w29b snapshot that bends time around space instead. We do that by using the newly implemented threaded render batch system. That’s a lot a fancy sounding words, so if you don’t know what that means, it should improve performance even more. Or crash horribly. But without your feedback, we’ll never know which one is true.

So here it is, the 14w29b update…

Fixed in this snapshot:

• [Bug MC-62116] – Players loses CommandStats{} after Death
• [Bug MC-62134] – #players are taking up space on the sidebar display

— 14w29a update notes —

This snapshot contains a lot of optimizations specifically targeting render performance. If your system supports it, you can select VBO in the video setting. This enables Vertex Buffer Objects and should increase your fps by 5% to 10% on average. We are especially interested on feedback on performance related issues with this snapshot.

Last week we compressed time and space, that did not work too well for the snapshot. So this week we will try something else and bend space around time. Apart from these highly experimental changes, we also did this:

• [Bug MC-71] – Mobs don't spawn next to water streams if the x and z coordinates are negative
• [Bug MC-267] – Potion effect status doesn't show If the inventory was open when it was cast upon the player.
• [Bug MC-393] – Starvation prevents sleeping in bed on peaceful.
• [Bug MC-404] – Viewing a map while invisible still shows both hands holding it
• [Bug MC-455] – Standing on exact X.0 Z.0 coordinates prevents breaking/placing block in North West
• [Bug MC-486] – Zombies and Skeletons don't burn on slabs
• [Bug MC-506] – You can make smooth sandstone into smooth sandstone
• [Bug MC-665] – Minecarts and TNT are not moved by water currents
• [Bug MC-676] – Signs and chests do not display cracking animation
• [Bug MC-49041] – Teleporting with rotation might twist your head
• [Bug MC-53033] – Unable to disable nameTagVisilibity for someone in spectator mode
• [Bug MC-57516] – CanPickUpLoot and CustomNameVisible not Working
• [Bug MC-59052] – Cannot add fake players or named entities to scoreboard teams
• [Bug MC-59602] – Hoppers/Dropper can't take water bucket out of furnace
• [Bug MC-59634] – You get the message "Your game mode has beed updated" even when sendCommandFeedback = false
• [Bug MC-59946] – Iron trapdoors appear on the opposite side of where they are placed when open (east/west orientation)
• [Bug MC-60279] – Detector rails render as unpowered, even when powered
• [Bug MC-61033] – Particle command don't work
• [Bug MC-61451] – Frame-rate drop in 14w28b
• [Bug MC-61453] – /title command writing errors on the server log
• [Bug MC-61505] – Mob Spawners count min/max spawn delay with a rate of 10 instead of 1
• [Bug MC-61519] – Chests that should be oriented east/west are oriented north in desert temples
• [Bug MC-61577] – CommandStats are not used when a command sign is right-clicked by non-OPs
• [Bug MC-61586] – Client freezes for ~1 second in multiplayer when opacity of a block changes next to unloaded chunk
• [Bug MC-61666] – cannot setblock or fill ender chests
• [Bug MC-61711] – Sidebar Scoreboard shows the lowest scores and not the best when hitting the limit of the sidebar

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w29b/minecraft_server.14w29b.jar

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Hello!

We just uploaded Minecraft pocket edition 0.9.2 to Amazon, Appstore and Google Play. We even skipped the 0.9.1 version on Appstore since it had not been released yet. This new version fixes a lot of issues with 0.9.1.

Bug Fixes

• biomes were not set correctly causing multiple crashes all around the game
• fixed the grass color and added code to fix existing corrupted worlds
• fixed a crash happening when killing a parent with kids
• worlds don’t stop loading anymore when encountering a Stronghold
• fixed a crash in the Furnace Screen
• tiles are not be randomly immune to explosions anymore
• fixed a possible crash in the chunk streaming engine
• the game saves events happening before shutting it down more reliably
• Creepers don’t explode after dying/too fast anymore
• spiders don’t get stuck on ceilings anymore
• mycelium spreads correctly
• fixed the armor screen rendering, it won’t show items that have been worn already
• entities (and the player) will not enter unloaded chunks anymore, preventing jittering

Tweaks

• the game spawns way less mobs, and despawns older mobs
• increased the health of all mobs to PC values
• low-end devices get a warning when trying to create an infinite world
• the game will try to fix corrupted levels before giving up now
• fixed the size of the progress indicator when hitting a block

Bug fixed in 0.9.1 (Apple users will receive these fixes in 0.9.2)

- Fixed a huge memory leak affecting all devices
- saving chunks correctly when only block brightness changes
- fixed a crash when tapping empty slots in the crafting grid
- fixed monster eggs not spawning mobs when difficulty is set to Peaceful
- entities on fire don’t crash the game anymore
- fixed a potential game lock-up when quitting a world
- single core devices will now show the loading screen too
- reduced RAM consumption by some ~10 mb
- fixed a potential crash with Mob Spawners
- fixed a random crash in the movement code
- mob spawners save the mob type they have been configured to spawn
- fixed a crash on application shutdown

We hope to get them out to you as soon as possible. :)

Jens – @jeb_, Johan – @jbernhardsson, and Tommasso – @_tomcc

Update: Snapshot 14w28b has been released to fix lots of bugs and adds a few more optimizations. Fixed:

• [Bug MC-9473] – Unnecessary delay of "Done" button in the resource pack selection menu
• [Bug MC-31365] – /summon and /setblock cannot specify chests, furnaces, dispensers, rails and droppers orientation
• [Bug MC-56599] – On the /help menu it shows /clear <player>. But just "/clear" works so it should be /clear [player]
• [Bug MC-57831] – Monsters Spawning Inside Blocks / Spawner ignoring light levels
• [Bug MC-57973] – Dark Oak / Acacia Leaves missing texture
• [Bug MC-58102] – Brewing stands look empty on relogging until you open them
• [Bug MC-58444] – Item Frames Use Oak Wood Texture
• [Bug MC-59258] – Breaking grass or tall grass can drop seeds with a missing texture
• [Bug MC-59327] – Breaking bottom block / replacing top block of double-tall plants yields double-tall plant item
• [Bug MC-59602] – Hoppers/Dropper can't put empty bucket in furnace / can't take water bucket out of furnace
• [Bug MC-59852] – Certain slabs have incorrect names
• [Bug MC-59872] – dark oak leaves have no name
• [Bug MC-59946] – Trapdoors appear on the opposite side of where they are placed when open.
• [Bug MC-60009] – Red mushroom block variants reversed/misnamed
• [Bug MC-60151] – Redstone repeaters are inverted
• [Bug MC-60814] – Giant mushroom has right texture in inventory & drop, but not when placed
• [Bug MC-61029] – Snow layers have incorrect hitboxes
• [Bug MC-61031] – GUI and blocks turn white when changing mipmap levels
• [Bug MC-61043] – Ladders take up full block, cannot climb
• [Bug MC-61058] – Tripwire stays activated, even after entities have moved away from activation zone.
• [Bug MC-61059] – Growing crops give error about unknown property on Farmland
• [Bug MC-61066] – Ladders accidentally get Facing from a block that is not a ladder.
• [Bug MC-61080] – Hostile mobs despawn when changed to spectator mode
• [Bug MC-61082] – Placing wooden slabs crash the game
• [Bug MC-61083] – Client crashes when entering the Nether
• [Bug MC-61091] – Minecraft starts flickering after some time
• [Bug MC-61093] – Game Crash When Right Clicking With Empty Bucket
• [Bug MC-61107] – crash with f3 on tripwire
• [Bug MC-61112] – When a sign clickEvent is used to give items, the items don't show up until the world is reloaded
• [Bug MC-61116] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property bcl{name=level, clazz=class java.lang.Integer, values=[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 1
• [Bug MC-61122] – fire_nsewu has a mis-placed face
• [Bug MC-61125] – Tripwire not attaches to hooks visually, F3 crash
• [Bug MC-61128] – Connection lost when connecting to server
• [Bug MC-61140] – Slabs can't be placed next to slabs
• [Bug MC-61148] – Invalid age set on Cocoa during generation
• [Bug MC-61155] – Water texture bug
• [Bug MC-61156] – Chunk distance sorter violating contact
• [Bug MC-61163] – Clone move does not update redstone
• [Bug MC-61167] – All the symbols on an Enchanting Table are blocks
• [Bug MC-61216] – /setblock gives an unknown error when a block does not have 0 as a damage value
• [Bug MC-61247] – Dropped Items Going Into the Ground
• [Bug MC-61315] – soundEvent with no name – [Client thread/WARN]: Unable to play unknown soundEvent: minecraft:
• [Bug MC-61340] – Vines slow you in spectator mode
• [Bug MC-61344] – Mipmap Bugs with dragging the slider
• [Bug MC-61354] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property bci{name=extended, clazz=class java.lang.Boolean, values=[true, false]} as it does not exist!
• [Bug MC-61355] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property bci{name=north, clazz=class java.lang.Boolean, values=[true, false]} as it does not exist!
• [Bug MC-61357] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property bci{name=open, clazz=class java.lang.Boolean, values=[true, false]} as it does not exist!
• [Bug MC-61358] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property bci{name=occupied, clazz=class java.lang.Boolean, values=[true, false]} as it does not exist!
• [Bug MC-61359] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property bcj{name=half, clazz=class auu, values=[top, bottom]} as it does not exist!
• [Bug MC-61360] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property bcj{name=variant, clazz=class ati, values=[dirt, coarse_dirt, podzol]} as it does not exist!
• [Bug MC-61361] – Heads and skulls do not stay with the players face when shifting
• [Bug MC-61371] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot set property bck{name=facing, clazz=class ei, values=[down, up, north, south, west, east]} to null on block
• [Bug MC-61372] – Crash by moving half slabs with pistons
• [Bug MC-61409] – When an activated Tripwire Hook is deactivated, it keeps sending redstone pulse.

We’re starting to enter the last phase of our development cycle for 1.8, and so we’ll be focusing on finalizing features, fixing bugs and optimizing the game over the next few weeks as we draw a little closer to something we’d like to eventually consider releasable. Todays snapshot is one such example, bringing (hopefully) some big optimizations to the server and client, a few less bugs to worry about, and a handful of hugs in their place.

Notable Changes:

• Servers can now customise network compression in server.properties
• The new block model format for resource packs can be considered stable and ready to use.
• Enchantments and effects now accept names instead of arbitrary IDs.
• Alternative (random) block models specified by resource packs can now be disabled in Video Settings.
• Many optimizations to both the server (including singleplayer) and the client.
• Less bugs!
• Compressed space and time.

Fixed Bugs:

• [Bug MC-1532] – TNT Flashing Graphic when lit looks cut up and faded. / Z-fighting
• [Bug MC-2990] – Heads, beds, and doors can't be placed where there is thin snow
• [Bug MC-8858] – Rain goes through upside-down stairs
• [Bug MC-13633] – Horse's jump bar appears even when the horse isn't saddled yet
• [Bug MC-16608] – Text Color in Hopper and Brewing Stand GUI changes
• [Bug MC-18477] – Iron golems can see and attack invisible hostile mobs
• [Bug MC-23940] – If you sleep in a bed near a transparent block, you can get in the block
• [Bug MC-36718] – New fragmented sentences in translation
• [Bug MC-43984] – Normal players can use player selectors
• [Bug MC-46674] – Tools cant break Packed Ice faster
• [Bug MC-53022] – Mobs not being targeted by team selector
• [Bug MC-53166] – Horses do not convert their owner to UUID
• [Bug MC-55490] – Spawning Cows on Mooshrooms
• [Bug MC-55515] – sign.edit with §(color) changes the sign color
• [Bug MC-56251] – "/weather rain" executed when weather is clear sets the weather to thunder
• [Bug MC-56884] – Negative Color Crosshair when using resource pack
• [Bug MC-58067] – Smooth & Chiseled Sandstone & Chiseled Quartz has Incorrect Bottom Texture
• [Bug MC-60035] – Double slabs become seamless
• [Bug MC-60039] – Server logging broken
• [Bug MC-60093] – Blacksmith roof slabs oriented wrong
• [Bug MC-60126] – Pistons retract on placement as if they were powered
• [Bug MC-60150] – Fence Gates Placed Open
• [Bug MC-60151] – Redstone repeaters are inverted
• [Bug MC-60152] – Powered rail, detector rail, and activator rail are flipped when on an east/west slope
• [Bug MC-60153] – iron door and wood door
• [Bug MC-60156] – command blocks don't trigger when dispensed onto a redstone block
• [Bug MC-60208] – Pumpkin / Melon Seeds fully grown when planted
• [Bug MC-60297] – Command blocks not redstone updating when placed
• [Bug MC-60349] – TNT spawns ignited on Desert Temples
• [Bug MC-60483] – When placing fire on side of tnt it only renders on the side
• [Bug MC-61022] – Pumpkin stem with wrong texture

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w28b/minecraft_server.14w28b.jar

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Sorry for keeping you waiting, but it’s finally time! We’re super excited and really eager to see what you’ll build on the go! Minecraft: Pocket Edition 0.9.0 will be out on Thursday the 10th of July. Make sure you refresh your mobile store!

0.9.0 is our biggest update EVER!

• Infinite worlds!
• Caves!
• Loads of new blocks and items including Monster Eggs and huge mushroom blocks.
• Wolves! Tame a loyal companion.
• Loads of new flowers! So pretty.
• New mobs, including the spooky endermen and less spooky Mooshrooms.
• New biomes from the PC version, including mesas, jungles, swamps and extreme hills.
• Abandoned mineshafts, villages, and many other cool places to explore.
• A brand-new “interaction” button. Never accidentally punch a sheep again!
• New feature generation, including lakes, vines and monster rooms.
• Many bugs fixed, and possibly a few added.

Now it’s time to work on the next update. We promise it won’t take as long as this one!

Have a great weekend !

/Pocket Team  - @jbernhardsson, @_tomcc, @jeb_, @kappische

Hello!

You might have heard about Cobalt – a game about rolling around and shooting fools in slow-mo. It’s being developed by Oxeye Game Studio and published by Mojang. You can buy into the PC/Mac Alpha here or wait for the console release later this year.

Developers Daniel and Pontus are streaming Cobalt’s development so kind internet people like you can watch them craft their masterpiece. You might learn something about Cobalt, games, or something else entirely (doubtful).

Daniel’s stream
Pontus’ stream
Watch them both via the mega doublestream (thanks @janeator)

If you’d prefer to hear them talk watch the first episode of Radio Cobalt.  The presenter guy is super cool.

Thanks for reading!

Owen – @bopogamel, Daniel – @vraket, and Pontus – @kinten.

Update: 14w27b was released to fix some crashes and bugs.

I never trusted Hoppers. Always moving items around, silently, biding their time. And now look at what they’ve gone and done, we have hoppers all over the place! Hop. Hop. Hop.

Notable Changes:

• Bunnies!
• Bunnies bunnies bunnies.
• It’s a secret to everybody!
• More rewrites, optimizations & bug fixes.
• Improved debug world type.
• Recalibrated the quantum flux regulator.

Fixed Bugs:

• [Bug MC-15202] – Player can be pushed around by mobs while on horseback
• [Bug MC-16387] – Nether Fortresses are ignoring "Generate Structure" setting at world creation
• [Bug MC-26987] – Horse tries to breed with another horse that is not yet in Love mode
• [Bug MC-29558] – Double plants cannot be broken by placing a different block on the block it occupies
• [Bug MC-29803] – Statistics doesn't resize / Buttons missing after resize
• [Bug MC-30002] – Falling / Landing particles / particles applied to the player centered on the block rather than the player
• [Bug MC-36489] – Mooshrooms lose their name (from name tag) when sheared
• [Bug MC-37416] – when the disk is put in jukebox the name does not appear
• And many more that weren’t reported on the bug tracker!

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w27b/minecraft_server.14w27b.jar

Report bugs here:

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Update: Snapshot 14w26c has been released to fix broken block IDs, world generation in the nether and the end and some more bugs.
Update: Snapshot 14w26b has been released to fix some chunk loading issues.

If you are updating from 14w26a or 14w26b, your saved world has corrupted blocks and it will be heavily damaged once you open it in 14w26c. Please use a world backup that was saved with a pre-14w26 version.
Never use snapshots without first making backups of your saved worlds.

Wednesday is the new Thursday! We’ve decided that Thursday wasn’t very optimal for us to release snapshots on so we’ve moved the weekly snapshots to Wednesday instead. Adjust your schedules and order a new calendar!

Last weeks snapshot was quite volatile, we’ve been working hard this week on fixing bugs and adding new ones in their place. There may not be many cool features, but this weeks snapshot comes with some optimizations, bug fixes and even more rewrites bringing us closer to the plugin API!

Fixes in 14w26c:

• [Bug MC-4855] – Mob spawners miss a row on X and Z axis for the spawn range
• [Bug MC-5270] – Suffocation screen is buggy while standing in lava
• [Bug MC-7157] – Minecart with Furnace texture shows active furnace without powering it
• [Bug MC-8255] – TNT Does Not Make Fuse Sound When Dispensed Out Of Dispenser
• [Bug MC-15370] – Hay Bale: Horses Heal + Speed Growth Mismatch if crafted with 9 Wheat
• [Bug MC-29559] – 2 block tall grass/fern does not produce seeds when broken
• [Bug MC-34772] – Efficiency does not work on Packed Ice
• [Bug MC-46460] – Spectators show burning effect in lava
• [Bug MC-58920] – Redstone Torch breaks when receiving update
• [Bug MC-59043] – Using "Pick Block" on Lapis Lazuli Ore creates an untextured block
• And some bugs that were not reported in Jira

Notable Changes:

• Lots more internal rewrites.
• Many bug fixes and some performance optimizations.
• Added ‘/worldborder add’ command
• Added new world generator for debugging, useful for resourcepack makers (hold shift and cycle through “World Type” to select it. Spectator mode recommended, it may crash otherwise.)
• Blocks no longer talk about you behind your back.

Fixed Bugs:

• [Bug MC-5164] – Strenght and Weakness Potions do not work on agressive wolves
• [Bug MC-8987] – Flame-enchanted bows don't activate TNT minecarts!
• [Bug MC-22586] – spreadplayers command doesn't accept relative coords for x and z parameters
• [Bug MC-35431] – Tellraw commandblockoutput
• [Bug MC-46244] – Command block bug – New particle feature
• [Bug MC-46634] – Thunder Volume not affected by weather volume settings
• [Bug MC-46851] – Potion effect particles stay in spectator mode
• [Bug MC-51788] – Playsound doesn't work with relative coords
• [Bug MC-55589] – /particle doesn't work with some entities
• [Bug MC-55625] – /playsound relative to entity does not work
• [Bug MC-56294] – "Are you sure you want to open the following website?" buttons are offset
• [Bug MC-56862] – Guardian doesn't die on land and can swim in lava.
• [Bug MC-56877] – Snow Golem has a broken head
• [Bug MC-56884] – Negative Color Crosshair
• [Bug MC-56941] – Floating torch
• [Bug MC-57033] – Game crashes when new chunks are loaded
• [Bug MC-57057] – Guardian mob sound bug
• [Bug MC-57117] – Item frame backgrounds are black on server
• [Bug MC-57159] – Darker Grass, Mushrooms, Flowers, and Vines
• [Bug MC-57188] – Wearing Pumpkins on your head. Pumpkins are huge and upside down.
• [Bug MC-57256] – Placed anvil is rotated by 90°
• [Bug MC-57524] – Nether portals don't generate or generate unlit
• [Bug MC-57670] – The player no longer sinks into the first layer of stacked snow.
• [Bug MC-57685] – Water dungeons cannot be turned off using world customization
• [Bug MC-57822] – Cocoa Beans have wrong orientation
• [Bug MC-57829] – Lever on Slab is upside down
• [Bug MC-57841] – /give'ing written book with json data will show "Invalid Item" when hovered on in chat
• [Bug MC-57843] – Written book with json data not formatting right
• [Bug MC-57854] – Stained Glass Panes particles uncolored
• [Bug MC-57866] – Written books with JSON don't get created correctly (no color and styles)
• [Bug MC-57868] – stained glass pane are dropping white glass pane
• [Bug MC-57870] – /testforblocks broken
• [Bug MC-57882] – Empty line in creative inventory
• [Bug MC-57883] – The barrier blocks particles for being broken are purple and black checkered.
• [Bug MC-57916] – Iron Golems don't require air blocks to be besides their head when placing the head block
• [Bug MC-57917] – Drying a wet sponge in furnace with a STACK of buckets below will cause them to disappear and leave A SINGULAR water bucket
• [Bug MC-57966] – Block icons in statistics and flatland GUI rendering wrong
• [Bug MC-57986] – Stacked buckets bug
• [Bug MC-58025] – Losing my bukkets from sponge
• [Bug MC-58048] – Acacia and Dark Oak Logs mined with silk touch show the MissingTexture
• [Bug MC-58060] – Summoning FallingSand with TileID as Chest, Trapped Chest, Ender Chest, Lava and Water crashes game
• [Bug MC-58066] – Right-click with bow when no arrows in inventory
• [Bug MC-58136] – Pumpkin/Melon stems rendering incorrectly
• [Bug MC-58140] – Repeater will show Comparator texture when unpowered, delay:4 and locked
• [Bug MC-58191] – Can walk through snow layer (Block meta 7)
• [Bug MC-58196] – Fishing rod and carrot on a stick rendering incorrectly in 3rd person
• [Bug MC-58229] – Scores in written books don't work properly when on a server
• [Bug MC-58493] – BUD Creates Double Redstone Drops When Activated
• [Bug MC-58537] – Supplemental selectors in /scoreboard teams join & leave don't work with the @e selector
• [Bug MC-58637] – FallingSand – Only top side of block has a texture
• And many more that weren’t reported on the bug tracker!

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w26c/minecraft_server.14w26c.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

Hey all!

I just wanted to let you know that 1.7.10 will be released on Thursday and I hope you will enjoy the update. It’s mostly new features and fixes for Realms, but who knows what other things it may contain! Personally, I’m really excited about the world uploader. It let’s you bring local worlds to Realms so they can be enjoyed by your friends 24/7!

• World uploader – upload your local world to Realms (finally!)
• Command blocks! (finally!)
• Player activity monitor – when and for how long a player has been online (see who plays when you sleep!)
• Access to more server settings (yey!)
• Improvements in Realms UI (also yey!)
• Some bugfixes (why were they put in there in the first place?)
• And many more… (we just don’t want to look lazy, that is why that sentence is in there)

With love,

Realms team @dmarby, @danfrisk, @mamirm, and @xlson

In a double feature blog post, we’re happy to bring both a new 1.8 snapshot (14w25b) and another pre-release for 1.7.10!

1.7.10 pre-release 4

This pre-release allows you to finally upload your own worlds to Realms and adds an option to allow you to enable command-blocks on your own Realm. It also fixes some possible future-compatibility issues we discovered.

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 the pre-release, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “pre-releases”, check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots”, select “1.7.10-pre4″ and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the dropdown at the bottom left corner of the launcher.

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

Snapshot 14w25b

Update: Snapshot 14w25b has been released to fix the following bugs:

• [Bug MC-47513] – Black line at the horizon when using shaders
• [Bug MC-56852] – Placeholder texture showing for burning player instead of fire
• [Bug MC-56853] – F3 hovering over grass and log model: IDUNNOMYNAME:*C
• [Bug MC-56858] – Water and Lava textures messed up after changing resource pack
• [Bug MC-56865] – Stairs place the wrong way
• [Bug MC-56868] – Missing map texture
• [Bug MC-56880] – Thrown splash potions have missing texture
• [Bug MC-56887] – Jungle leaves have oak leaves texture
• [Bug MC-56893] – Crash When Placing Log
• [Bug MC-56898] – Missing texture for Enderman-handled block
• [Bug MC-56899] – Chickens constantly flap their wings
• [Bug MC-56905] – When placing a pumpkin, its face does not face the player.
• [Bug MC-56914] – Fast Graphics leaves texture
• [Bug MC-56921] – Repeater not rendering delay length correctly
• [Bug MC-56922] – Bed Doesn't Drop When Broken
• [Bug MC-56947] – Dragon egg item rendering incorrectly
• [Bug MC-56951] – Repeaters and comparators are placed in the wrong orientation
• [Bug MC-56952] – Trapdoor duplication
• [Bug MC-56957] – Dispenser and dropper direction issue
• [Bug MC-56981] – Acacia / Dark Oak Wood Log being dropped as Oak Wood with missing texture
• [Bug MC-56982] – Rendering bug with pistons
• [Bug MC-56984] – Floating Items Dropped on floor
• [Bug MC-56990] – Chiselled quartz block turns into regular quartz
• [Bug MC-57020] – Burning furnaces change orientation
• [Bug MC-57023] – wrong animation while breaking blocks in survival
• [Bug MC-57041] – Missing Barrier Texture
• [Bug MC-57045] – Comparators appear as powered when put into subtraction mode.
• [Bug MC-57075] – customitemnames dont get displayed in itemframes
• [Bug MC-57079] – Elder Guardian able to apply mining fatigue to someone in spectator mode
• [Bug MC-57102] – Grass all neatly lined up
• [Bug MC-57112] – Use damage splash potion to kill guardian crash the game
• [Bug MC-57121] – Superflat world customization visually replaces water ID with Air ID
• [Bug MC-57134] – Items in item frames facing wrong way
• [Bug MC-57178] – Vines are placed on opposite side
• [Bug MC-57234] – placing ladders causes a crash.
• [Bug MC-57312] – Minecraft default world generator crashes.
• [Bug MC-57374] – Stacked "Enchanted" Items Render Incorrectly
• [Bug MC-57385] – End portal frames must be placed in reverse to work correctly.
• [Bug MC-57415] – Scoreboard setdisplay won't show up in tab menu
• [Bug MC-57429] – Magma cubes rendering wrong
• [Bug MC-57555] – Blocks are held wrong
• [Bug MC-57574] – Mipmapping does not work in Inventory
• [Bug MC-57603] – Powered rail icon is powered

Hey, look, a snapshot! It has lots of cool new stuff. I’m not going to tell you what they are. Not even about the new sponge texture or the new hostile mob. Nope. Nuhuh. Won’t get any new information about the new underwater stuff from me! I will, however, tell you that this snapshot contains a few months worth of rewrites to some very important parts of the engine. It is very likely that this snapshot may be more unstable than usual, slower than usual, slightly more sentient than usual or just generally unusual. Please help us to fix all these issues by reporting anything you find to the bug tracker!

Notable Changes:

• Added a new hostile mob.
• Introduced Sponges to survival, with new behaviour and looks.
• Added ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■, ■■■■■■■■, ■■■■■■■■■■■■ and ■■■■■■.
• ???
• Bullet point.
• Rewrote how items are rendered.
• Rewrote how blocks are rendered.
• Rewrote how block data is handled.
• Rewrote history. Toby isn’t real.

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w25b/minecraft_server.14w25b.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

Hello!

Thanks for all the questions you’ve sent over regarding last week’s EULA post. It’s a lively topic.

A group of Mojangstas met this morning to discuss the most common questions we received over the weekend. The following post is the result of that discussion.

Though we’re happy to clarify, most of these points were mentioned in last week’s explanation of the EULA. Please give it a read before diving into this more detailed Q+A.

Are any servers exempt to the EULA?
No. It affects all servers and players equally.

Do server hosts have a grace period to implement changes to their servers?
Yes. All servers must comply with the EULA by August 1st, 2014.

Can I charge for access to my server?
Yes. How players join a server is up to you. Single entrance fees or subscriptions are both allowed.

How often am I allowed to charge players to access my server?
You can charge players as regularly as you like. You can even charge for timed access if you think it’s the best way to monetise your server.

What counts as a server? Are proxies one big server, or lots of smaller ones?
A server is something a user connects to with their client. The user is on a different server when they leave one and manually join another (in the multiplayer screen). Virtual servers and proxies make no difference; to the client it’s the same server.

Can I charge access to a specific part of my server, such as a minigame or world?
No, you cannot charge for any part of a server. Only the access. Once on a server, all players must have the same gameplay privileges. You may make a different server which features “premium” areas, and charge for access to that server instead, but the benefits cannot carry between servers.

So can I charge for my minigames or mods?
Yes, so long as all players on your server have access to the features.

Can I offer a limited trial period for all users?
Yes. So long as both trial and paying users have access to the same gameplay features during the trial, we’re cool with it.

Can I give paying users priority access to my server?
Yes, but you cannot restrict gameplay elements to specific users.

Does the EULA still apply for access to user-created mods?
Yes. It doesn’t make a difference who made the mods, or how they were implemented onto your server. All mods require Minecraft to run. You are not allowed to charge for Minecraft features which affect gameplay.

What do you mean by “hard currency” compared to “soft currency”?
Hard currency is real money or anything that can be converted into real money, including Bitcoins. Soft currency is available in-game only, and has no real-world value. The restrictions in the EULA only apply to hard currency; you may unlock things in-game with soft currency.

Can I sell “kits” for hard currency if I provide a balanced alternative for non-paying users?
If the “kits” contain gameplay-affecting features they are not allowed. Gameplay balance is not relevant to the EULA. If the items included in the kit are purely cosmetic, you can charge real money/hard currency.

My server features a currency that you can earn through gameplay, but which can also be bought for hard currency. Is that OK?
Soft currencies that are earned in-game are fine, but you cannot sell in-game currency for hard currency. Hybrid/dual currency systems are not allowed.

Can I sell boosters, which provide faster gold gain, XP, or other in-game resources for hard currency?
No – boosters, item generators, and all other features that affect gameplay are not allowed.

So how do I make real money from selling cosmetic items?
You can sell cosmetic items for hard currency directly or allow players to fund an “account” specific to your server. It’s up to the host of the server to decide how this works. Remember that capes are the exception to this rule – you are not allowed to give them away or sell them.

Can I sell ranks on my server?
Yes. Ranks are allowed so long as any perks gained are cosmetic. Coloured names, prefixes, special hats etc. are fine.

Can users purchase something that affects the entire server, such as a temporary XP boost?
Yes, but everyone who can access the server must be able to use the feature, regardless of whether they purchased it or not.

Can I award all players with a gameplay feature if I reach a donation goal within a time period?
Yes, so long as all players receive the benefit regardless of who donated then it’s OK.

Can I charge for access to server commands?
Yes, as long as their effects are purely cosmetic. Commands that affect gameplay, such as a command to fly, cannot be sold for hard currency.

If all players get access to a feature such as a plot of land, can I sell access to multiple plots for hard currency?
No – that would be a gameplay affecting change, so it’s not allowed. All player who access your server must have the same gameplay features offered to them. The same rule applies to items, such as potions.

How should servers deal with users who have already spent hard currency on features that affect gameplay?
Users may keep the perks they’ve paid for on the condition that the same perks are available to other players on the server (directly or purchasable using soft currency). It’s up to the server host to decide how to compensate users for previous transactions.

Phew. That was a long one. Thanks for reading everybody!

Owen – @bopogamel and the Mojangstas

Hello!

Let’s get one thing clear: we love it when Minecrafters host servers. Tiny or massive, running vanilla or modded Minecraft, we think they’re all great. Playing with friends in persistent worlds is awesome. Everyone knows that.

Over the past week there’s been lots of discussion about Minecraft servers and your right to monetise them. Legally, you are not allowed to make money from our products. There has been one exception to this rule so far – Minecraft videos. We’re about to make a second exception – Minecraft servers.

Hosting servers can be expensive. We want to give hosts a way to cover their costs. That said, we don’t want our players to be exploited or to have a frustrating time unless they pay. The following rules, which may be tweaked at a later date, have been created with these points in mind.

You are allowed to charge players to access your server
So long as the fee is the same for all players, you are allowed to charge for access to your server. You are not allowed to split your playerbase into paying, and non-paying users, nor can you restrict gameplay elements to different tiers of player.

Basically, if you’re charging for access to your server, you are selling a “ticket” and there can only be one type of ticket, regardless of how much people are willing to spend.

You are allowed to accept donations
You are allowed to accept donations from players. You can thank them publicly or in-game, but can’t give preferential treatment for donating. You are not allowed to restrict gameplay features in an attempt to make money.

You are allowed to provide in-game advertising or sponsorship opportunities
You are allowed to put adverts in your Minecraft worlds to help with costs. Used within reason, adverts and sponsorship can be appropriate ways to fund a server.

You are allowed to sell in-game items so long as they don’t affect gameplay
We don’t mind you selling items in game, but they must be purely cosmetic. Pets, hats, and particle effects are OK, but swords, invincibility potions, and man-eating pigs are not. We want all players to be presented with the same gameplay features, whether they decide to pay or not.

There is one exception to this rule – capes! We have a lot of fun making cool capes for extra-special members of our community and Minecon attendees. We’d like to keep them as exclusive as possible. So, yeah, no capes please, even if you’re giving them away for free.

You cannot charge real-world cash for in-game currency
We don’t mind in-game currencies which are earned through playing, but you are not allowed to sell them for real-world cash. Remember – if the stuff you sell affects gameplay, we’re not cool with it.

Don’t pretend to be us. Provide your customers with loads of info
If you do decide to monetise your server, you must clearly state that the purchase is not associated with Mojang, declare who the money is going to, and provide a purchase history and contact details. You should also check the legality of selling digital items in your specific region.

Thanks for reading!
As I hope you’ve noticed, these rules are making attempts to prevent Minecraft servers becoming “pay-to-win.” We hate the idea of server hosts restricting Minecraft’s features to players who have already bought our game! It seems really mean.

We’re hoping that these rules will give hosts opportunity to continue creating awesome Minecraft worlds, and for our players to enjoy them without being forced to spend.

I’m sure we’ll get loads of questions about this subject over the next few days. I’ll prepare a follow-up post once I’ve gathered your queries.

Have a good day!

Owen – @bopogamel, and your buddies at Mojang.

Hello!

The Pocket Edition team are a hard-working bunch. Their most recent snapshot is the biggest update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition so far! It really is massive.

If you’re on Android and like the idea of testing these features early, join this Google community, then sign up for the updates.

For those of you who aren’t on Android, this update will be released for all versions of Pocket Edition in the near future with significantly less bugs. Be patient, pocket crafters. It’s going to be great!

Read on for the huge list…

New features

• Unlimited worlds!
• New culling algorithm
• New culling of clouds
• Tile entities are saved differently
• New falling mechanics for gravel and sand
• New insta ticking of water and lava

New blocks

• Podzol
• Mycelium
• Huge mushroom blocks
• Cocoa
• End portal frame
• Double plants
• More stairs/slabs for new wood types
• New log types (savanna tree and dark oak)
• New leafs (savanna tree)
• Monster egg
• Stained clay
• Waterlily
• New flowers
• Red sand
• Hardened clay
• End stone
• Granite
• Diorite
• Andesite
• Emerald block
• Emerald ore
• New leveldb based saving format
• New entity handling
• New crafting screen
• Remade network code (mostly the same packages but new system).
• New interact button (to make the game easier for new players)

New mobs

• Slimes
• Endermen
• Wolves
• Mooshrooms
• Silverfish

New and updated biomes

• Deserts
• Extreme hills
• Forests
• Redwood taiga
• Roofed forests
• Frozen
• Jungle
• Savanna
• Mesa
• Mushroom island
• Taiga
• Deep ocean
• Swamps

New world feature generation

• Sand
• Boulders
• Ice patch
• Ice spike
• Spike
• Lake
• Double plants
• Ground bushes
• Fancy oaks
• Jungle tree
• Mega jungle tree
• Mega pine tree
• Savanna tree
• Swamp tree
• Huge mushroom
• Tallgrass
• Waterlily
• Vines
• Melons
• Pumpkin
• Dead bush
• Monster rooms
• Desert well
• Fallen logs
• Emerald ore

Tweaks to caves

• Lava at the bottom of caves
• Caves in desert and mesa
• Strongholds
• Villages
• Villagers
• Abandoned mine shafts
• Flat world generation
• Limited world generation
• “New” mob spawning
• Updated light generation
• Grass color for different biomes
• Foliage color for different biomes
• Water color for swamps

New AI

• Spiders
• New leaf rendering
• Added more spawn eggs in Creative Mode
• Added immersive mode for Android
• Added drip particles for water and lava
• Updated create world screen

Tweaks and bug fixes

• Correct name for stairs, slabs and spawn eggs
• Beds no longer gives full health in normal difficulty
• Smooth lighting added for:
• Beds
• Fences
• Walls
• Cobwebs
• Chests
• Leaves
• Smooth lighting removed for:
• Glowstone
• Glass
• Jack ‘o’ lanterns
• Improved performance of TNT
• Prettier clouds
• The fog is darker underground

Known Bugs

• The block highlight flickers (z-fights) when more than 10k blocks distant from spawn
• Changing the view distance while in a world might crash the game
• If players walk too far from each other in multiplayer, they can’t see each other

Known bugs requiring attention

• Multiplayer is a bit fragile. Please test it and report all issues to us!
• The LevelDB save format + upgrading of old maps. Please report any data corruption!
• Crashes in general – uncommon and random crashes might still happen

If you made it this far, thanks! We’re impressed with your dedication.

Owen – @bopogamel, Johan – @jbernhardsson, and Tommasso – @_tomcc

The perceptive among you might have noticed the intimidating camera flash on Minecraft.net, followed by punchy message from Reset The Net. Here’s an explanation of what’s going on…

I am extremely confused!
A year ago today it was revealed that the NSA (National Security Agency) and GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) were intercepting data from phone and internet networks, and poking around in information stored by US technology companies. That’s extremely uncool.

Why should I care?
The internet is a great thing, but the idea of companies operating closely with the government and giving away private data without consent is extremely worrying.

It’s a bit like someone accessing your Minecraft server, rummaging through your chests, and reading all your chat logs, but potentially more damaging (hard to believe – I know).

Should I click the massive “Click Here” button?
Yes! We’ve put that on Minecraft.net today for a reason. Click it now, or read on for more information, then click it!

Umm. I’m scared now.
There’s no need to be scared. But there is a way to protect yourself. That’s what the Reset The Net campaign is about. It’s a place where you can learn how to fight against a potentially sinister side of the internet. Visit Reset The Net or watch the video below for more information.

Thanks for reading everybody!

Owen – @bopogamel

Update 2014-06-10: A new pre-release (version 1.7.10-pre3) is now available. It contains some bugfixes.

Update 2014-06-04: A new pre-release (version 1.7.10-pre2) is now available. It contains some minor bugfixes for a crash related to being kicked from a server.

We just published a pre-release version of Minecraft 1.7.10 that contains updates for Realms. All Realms related modules were moved into a separate library.

How does this release affect you? If you are not playing on Realms, it does not change anything at all. The main advantage is that we don’t have to release new updates for Minecraft 1.7.x in the future, if we want to add new features to Realms.

Some of the new features in Realms are:
- player activity monitor
- access to more server settings
- improvements in Realms UI
- some bugfixes
- and many more…

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.7.10-pre3/minecraft_server.1.7.10-pre3.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Hello!

We’re finally able to share news about Minecraft on Xbox One, Playstation 4, and Playstation Vita.

Apologies for the delay, but putting Minecraft on new consoles is a serious business. People have been using phrases like “logistically-speaking,” “infinite terrain,” and “platform parity”  for months now.

We’ve decided that letting current players upgrade for a small fee is the best way to show our appreciation. If you’re a new crafter who’s looking to pick up Minecraft in the next few months – welcome!

We hope this post makes you happy!

Owen – @bopogamel

• Minecraft: Xbox One Edition will be released on Xbox Live Marketplace in August. It brings significantly bigger worlds and a greater draw distance than Xbox 360 Edition.
• It will include all the features from the most recent Xbox 360 title update.
• Minecraft: Xbox One Edition will cost $19.99.
• If you’ve bought Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition from Xbox Live Marketplace, or played online with the disc version, you will be able to upgrade to Xbox One Edition for $4.99.
• You will be able to upgrade for a minimum of a year after the release date.
• Players with Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition saves will be able to import their worlds to Xbox One. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to transfer saves from Xbox One to Xbox 360. We can make worlds bigger without too much stress, but shrinking them causes all kinds of problems.
• Cross platform play will not be possible between Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
• Many, but not all, of the DLC skins and texture packs you’ve purchased for Xbox 360 Edition will be available for use in Xbox One Edition. We’d like to say all your DLC would transfer, but some of the items are trapped in licensing deals that are too boring to get into here. We’ll have more on this soon.

• Minecraft: Playstation 3 + Vita Edition will be available on the PSN in August.
• It will include all the features from the most recent Playstation 3 version, including online play on Vita.
• This means everyone who has bought Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition from PSN will get it on Vita for free. Those fluent in Sony-speak might refer to the deal as “Cross-buy.”
• We are working closely with Sony Computer Entertainment to look into ways to enable upgrade from the Blu-ray disc version of Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition to Minecraft: Playstation 3 and Vita. We’ll have more info on this closer to release.
• Minecraft: Playstation 3 + Vita Edition will cost $19.99.
• It doesn’t matter if you buy for PS3 or Vita first, you own the game for both platforms.
• Saves are transferrable between the Playstation 3 and Vita versions of Minecraft. You will be able to craft at home on your Playstation 3, then continue on the bus/toilet with your Playstation Vita.
• All of the DLC you’ve purchased for Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition will work on Playstation 3 + Vita Edition.

• Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition will be released on the PSN in August. It brings significantly bigger worlds and a greater draw distance than Playstation 3 + Vita Edition.
• It will include all the features from the most recent Playstation 3 version.
• Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition will cost $19.99.
• If you’ve bought Playstation 3 Edition from the Playstation Network you will be able to upgrade for $4.99.
• You will be able to upgrade for a minimum of a year after the release date.
• We are working closely with Sony Computer Entertainment to look into ways to enable upgrade from the Blu-ray disc version of Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition to Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition. We’ll have more info on this closer to release.
• Players with Playstation 3 Edition or Playstation 3 + Vita Edition saves will be able to import their worlds to Playstation 4. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to transfer your saves from Playstation 4 to Playstation 3/Vita. There are technical reasons for this; we can make worlds bigger without too much stress, but shrinking them causes all kinds of problems.
• Cross-platform play will not be possible between Playstation 3 + Vita Edition and Playstation 4 Edition.
• Many, but not all, of the DLC skins and texture packs you’ve purchased for Playstation 3 Edition will be available for use in Playstation 4 Edition. We’d like to say all your DLC would transfer but some of the items are trapped in licensing deals that are too boring to get into here. We’ll have more on this soon.

Thanks for reading everybody!

Update: Snapshot 14w21b has been released to fix an item frame crash.

Small snapshot this week for some optimizations and bugfixes!

Notable changes:

• Bugfixing.
• Optimizations.
• Notability intensified.

Bugs fixed:

• [Bug MC-99] – Skins Sometimes Disappear After Death
• [Bug MC-30192] – stat.useItem.<Item#> glitching with scoreboard
• [Bug MC-30877] – Crops (Wheat/Carrots/Potatoes) not popping off in light level 0
• [Bug MC-48376] – Baby chicken hitbox taller than 1/2 block
• [Bug MC-48735] – Villager and farmer inventory gets corrupted causing farmers to no longer plant crops
• [Bug MC-48739] – Killing zombie villager aggravates zombie pigmen
• [Bug MC-50046] – Mobs not responsive after player death
• [Bug MC-50821] – Cats and dogs teleporting into transparent-solid blocks (redstone_bloc, glowstone, TNT), causing them to suffocate
• [Bug MC-51238] – Tamed Ocelots (cats) Run away from Player
• And many more that weren’t on the bug tracker! Did we mention you should report bugs to the bug tracker?

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w21b/minecraft_server.14w21b.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Hello!

We’re proud to announce that Minecraft Realms for PC and Mac is now available worldwide!

Realms is the easiest way for you to host a Minecraft world online. You and your friends can work on an awesome creation, adventure into the depths, or play one of our featured mini-games with just a few clicks.

The servers are always available, and can be restored to an earlier point if something goes wrong.  Realms is run by Mojang and simple to set up.

Realms is currently only available for the PC/Mac version of Minecraft, though we’re planning on releasing it on other formats in the future. For more information, check minecraft.net/realms

// The Minecraft Realms team @danfrisk, @mamirm, @xlson, and @dmarby

Update: Snapshot 14w20b has been released to fix mobs not spawning naturally.

This weeks snapshot brings many bugfixing, a little polishing and possibly even some hugs. Maybe. If you’ve been good.

Notable changes:

• Caves now generate in deserts & mesas.
• Added new /title command for ingame adventure-map chaptering.
• Made tab-list more consistent and a little prettier when using health display objective.
• Adjusting fly speed of spectator mode now works vertically too.
• If you’re stuck outside the world border, you can now walk freely to go back inside.
• Bunch of bugs fixed!
• Removed the 4th dimension from blocks. This will be a mistake and we were sorry for any inconvenience it will not cause you.

Bugs fixed:

• [Bug MC-8881] – Mobs treat any layered snow as non-solid
• [Bug MC-26203] – Scoreboard: player does not appear in sidebar after setting initial score to zero
• [Bug MC-44331] – Interacting with invalid villagers crashes the game
• [Bug MC-45303] – Surface dungeons generating without spawner, chests, and most of floor
• [Bug MC-46765] – Leaves, Block of Redstone, TNT and Glowstone cause suffocation damage
• [Bug MC-47052] – Wither destroying barrier block
• [Bug MC-48442] – Mob Dungeon spawning without floor / with broken chests / overwritten spawner
• [Bug MC-49577] – Slime spawning
• [Bug MC-50275] – Leads dont show knot on fence posts and cannot be right clicked
• [Bug MC-50323] – Chest not openable with item frame on, standing too close
• [Bug MC-50821] – Cats and dogs teleporting into leaves and rails, causing them to suffocate
• [Bug MC-50852] – "/scoreboard players reset * objective" clears sidebar for other scoreboard objectives
• [Bug MC-51776] – 32000 Command block character limit only works as a 16000 character limit within Minecraft
• [Bug MC-52881] – Knockback distance incorrect, depends on login order
• [Bug MC-53380] – Staying outside border makes you unable to move at all
• [Bug MC-53469] – Sliders have incorrect values causing world to never be created (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: n must be positive)
• [Bug MC-54164] – footstep, hugeexplosion and largeexplode particles don't appear
• [Bug MC-54381] – /scoreboard players operation – Doesn't work on a player that's not on a scoreboard, but also does work
• And many more that weren’t on the bug tracker! Did we mention you should report bugs to the bug tracker?

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w20b/minecraft_server.14w20b.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

This weeks snapshot is fairly small in the scheme of things as we’ve been focusing on optimizations and furthering spectator mode.

Notable changes:

• World border received a bunch of new options & improvements.
• Spectator mode has a preliminary interface for teleporting to other players. It’s far from complete though!
• Loose change.

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w19a/minecraft_server.14w19a.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Update: Snapshot 14w18b has been released to fix a crash and some bugs.

This is a very short week for most of us in Sweden, so you’ll get a snapshot early! Hurrah!

Notable changes:

• Pistons now interact with Slime Blocks in cooler ways! (Thanks to ZipKrowd for their contribution!)
• Bug fixes! Many bug fixes!
• The game has achieved sentience.

A small sample of bug fixes:

• [Bug MC-3631] – Creepers float one-eighth of a block above the ground.
• [Bug MC-34648] – Torch not placeable on stained glass
• [Bug MC-46776] – When only a Spectator stays near mobs, they don't despawn
• [Bug MC-47811] – The bottom texture of non-full blocks is flipped vertically
• [Bug MC-48954] – When you kill invisible horse variants, the screen will turn red/black
• [Bug MC-50073] – It is possible to change the missing block model
• [Bug MC-50239] – Pick block on hydrated farmland gives dirt block with invalid data value (missing texture)
• [Bug MC-50510] – Burning Furnace (Block 62) Has Wrong Inventory Image
• [Bug MC-50729] – Vines orienting improperly in inside corners
• [Bug MC-51379] – Rails render from below, but not correctly
• [Bug MC-51934] – Lapis-Lazuli Ore Pick Block
• [Bug MC-53370] – Any stone slabs ontop of one another creates a double stone block
• [Bug MC-53371] – Respawn button does not work if spawnpoint is outside of the worldborder
• [Bug MC-53375] – Sheep give other color when sheared
• [Bug MC-53381] – Player takes damage when world border is nearer than 179 blocks
• [Bug MC-53401] – redstone overlay gets tinted
• [Bug MC-53405] – Singleplayer menu: Only one click loads world
• [Bug MC-53412] – The worldborder stops the player one block further away from the center in South/East direction
• [Bug MC-53419] – Unable to create/load new heavily customized world
• [Bug MC-53434] – Can place blocks outside world border.
• [Bug MC-53442] – /worldborder missing string: commands.worldborder.setSlowly.success
• [Bug MC-53460] – Redstone Gives Off No Particles When Being Broken
• [Bug MC-53464] – Scrollbar in all lists act weird/unresponsively
• [Bug MC-53469] – Sliders have incorrect values causing world to never be created (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: n must be positive)
• [Bug MC-53493] – Minecraft Crashes when setting FixedBiome to Hell
• [Bug MC-53514] – Lava Oceans setting does not work in Customized world type
• [Bug MC-53570] – Barrier particles fight for attention
• [Bug MC-53580] – Crafting wool/clay/glass/dog collars results in the wrong color.
• [Bug MC-53616] – River Generation Dramatically Increased in Default World-Gen.
• [Bug MC-53918] – Double-clicking server in server list no longer does anything
• And a whole bunch more that weren’t on the bug tracker!

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w18b/minecraft_server.14w18b.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

It’s been a while since the last snapshot, hope you didn’t miss us too much. We’ve been working a whole bunch on lots of internal rewriting (for plugin API, to make things easier for ourselves and to make things run so much more smoothly) but a lot of that isn’t in this version as it’s fairly unstable.

Notable changes:

• New highly customisable terrain generation! (Create new world -> “World Type: Customized”)
• New customisable world borders! Check out the /worldborder command.
• Lots of bug fixes, performance gains and code cleaninguperizing.
• ???

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w17a/minecraft_server.14w17a.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Look up there. Brand-new footage of Minecraft: Pocket Edition 0.9.0 with extra special insight from the devs. Hooray!

And here’s our livestream recorded a few days ago. I took questions from reddit then put them to the devs LIVE on air. Apologies for the issues with sound quality.

This is all in celebration of us reaching 20 million sales last week. We’ve actually reached 21 million to-date, but that’s not as catchy a milestone, so let’s roll with the 20 million for now.

Owen – @bopogamel

Next Thursday, April 17 at 11:00 CET, most of the Minecraft team, parts of the Scrolls team, and a bunch of other Mojang peeps will head over to the Blockholm exhibition at the Museum of Architecture and Design here in Stockholm. We plan to stay until 12:30 or so.

Ask us questions! Maybe take a couple of pictures?

See you there!

Greetings!

This Monday, Minecraft: Pocket Edition developers Johan, Tommaso and Jens will star in a panel broadcast live from the Mojang office. What will they be discussing? That’s up to you.

We’re hoping to harness the collective power of our Pocket Edition players to submit questions to this reddit thread. Then we’ll pick the best ones and put them to the team live on air. We’re not sure of the exact time we’ll be streaming yet, but don’t worry if you miss the live show; the archived footage will be uploaded later on.

This is all in celebration of hitting over 20m sales of Pocket Edition just a few days ago. As I mentioned in the Xbox 360 Edition post, we’re extremely grateful to all players for your dedication and creativity. Without that, Minecraft wouldn’t be anywhere near as significant as it is today.

So yeah, head to the reddit thread and submit your questions! Then check back on Monday for the live stream/archived footage!

Have a good day,

Owen, Johan, Tomasso and Jens.

Two days ago a serious vulnerability (that’s been named “Heartbleed”) in the popular cryptographic software OpenSSL was made public. This weakness could potentially be exploited to steal information, such as login information, that normally would be protected by encryption. This software is used by roughly two thirds of the internet so a lot of services were or are at risk of being affected.

What did Mojang do?

As soon as we realized the severity of the exploit we decided to shut down all of our systems until a fix was available. This is why you were unable to log in yesterday. We then made sure that all of our services that use SSL no longer had this vulnerability before bringing them back online. We also updated all of our SSL certificates.

What should I do?

Change your Mojang/Minecraft account password

Since uses of the exploit leaves no traces, there’s no way for us to guarantee that your password hasn’t been compromised. Therefore, if you typed in your password into any of our games or websites during the last couple of days we strongly advice you to change it. Even if you haven’t logged in, it can still be a good idea the to change your password. One can never be too careful on the internet!

Change the password of your Mojang account

Change the password of your Minecraft account

Also see our help article on choosing a good password.

Change your other passwords

Remember that since many other parts of the internet was affected as well you should also change your password for any other services that you have logged in to recently.

Anything else that I need to know?

Legacy launcher discontinuned

Due to this incident we’ve been forced to discontinue support for the legacy Minecraft launcher (the one used before version 1.6). If you’re using a Minecraft version older than 1.6 you need to download the current launcher (version 1.3.11) from minecraft.net. The current launcher lets you play older versions of Minecraft as well so you can still play on your pre-1.6 servers.

For developers

Since the legacy launcher no longer works we are also retiring the old login.minecraft.net service. If you have created your own Minecraft authentication that uses this scheme you will need to migrate it to the new authentication scheme. The new authentication scheme is described in this community wiki for private use.

// Kris and the Mojang Web Force

Update: We have released version 1.7.9 with an important bugfix to fix some server crashes, and to resolve some skin related issues (including more crashes)

Version 1.7.9 is now officially released. This version contains some bugfixes, a few updates to make Realms even better than it already is and prepares Minecraft for the renaming feature that will eventually allow you to rename your player. The renaming feature will not be available right now, but this is an important step towards it. We have also changed the internal handling of player skins to make use of our new, improved skin servers.

Unfortunately the 1.7.6 and newer versions are not compatible with 1.7.5 (or earlier) servers. Please update your servers to 1.7.9, this is also an important step to prepare them for the upcoming 1.8 release. Servers should automatically update all player profiles to the new format, but please make sure that you are in the correct server mode (online mode/offline mode) when you start the 1.7.9 server for the first time, because profiles are not compatible between these two server modes.

Because this is important, let me repeat that last sentence:
Please make sure that you are in the correct server mode (online mode/offline mode) when you start the 1.7.9 server for the first time, because profiles are not compatible between these two server modes.

You can find more information about the 1.7.9 update in the frequently asked questions section of our previous post.

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.7.9/minecraft_server.1.7.9.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Hello!

As you might have heard, Scrolls is Mojang’s second game. It’s hardly anything like Minecraft, but still super fun to play… honest! I’ve just posted an update on Scrolls.com that explains some of our future plans for development. Why not check it out?

If you’re new to Scrolls, now is a great time to get involved. You can buy into the Alpha at Scrolls.com/buy.

Have a good day everyone!

Owen – @bopogamel

Hello!

As mentioned by the bigwigs at Microsoft, we’ve sold 12 million copies of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. Hoo! That’s loads! It might even be a record.

We’d like to offer our heartfelt thanks to all players on Microsoft’s console. Without your passion and creativity, Minecraft wouldn’t be anywhere near as significant as it is today. The same goes for anyone enjoying Minecraft on PC/Mac, Playstation 3, iOS and Android. You’re all equally nice.

Our porters at 4J also deserve a mention for their skills. Keep it up, dudes!

Owen and the Mojangstas

Update: The full release is now available, find out more here.

That’s a lot of numbers, but now Minecraft 1.7.6 pre-release 1 is available for testing! This is a huge step towards one of the most requested features since the birth of Minecraft; Name changes! This version provides complete support for identifying players through unique IDs and not by names, so that no matter what a player is called they will remain banned/whitelisted/oped/etc on servers. People have come to us with a lot of questions about this service so here’s a few FAQ about name-changes:

If I ban a player “Foo” and he changes name to “Bar”, will he stay banned?
Yes. Same for whitelisted players and oped players. They also keep their inventory, pets, statistics and everything they own on a server.

Can I steal somebody’s name? Can I call myself “Dinnerbone” too?
No. I am Dinnerbone and names are still unique. You cannot have the same name as another player, they will have to change their name for you to be able to take it.

How will this work with mods? What about my custom stuff on this one modded server?
Ask your mod maker/server owner. They should be able to support this system easily, but we aren’t responsible for mods or servers!

Can I already change my name? Where do I go? Will it cost? How often can I do it?
We will enable name changing when we feel that enough users are using 1.8 or higher, so that servers have time to switch to the new player formats. We do not have any details on how name changes will be performed or any restrictions that will be required to actually perform a name change. We want it to be easy and freely available, but we also don’t want people changing their name every 5 minutes!

So where do I change my name?
Read the previous answer!

I’m a server owner, what do I have to do when I update to 1.7.6?
Nothing, really. The server will update itself, but it’s entirely possible that it may require your input if it finds an issue (nonexistant players, for example). If your server fails to start then check the log, otherwise it’s ready to play!

Is this compatible with 1.7.5?
No, sorry. We had to change the protocol to support the new player formats.

I’m scared. I need a hug.
Aww, here you go little guy. *hug* Don’t worry, it’s not as scary as it sounds.

This pre-release also comes with a lot more Minecraft Realms improvements, crash fixes, optimizations and general bug fixes.

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Update: April fools :)

The long-nosed villagers introduced in Minecraft beta 1.9 have become sentient. They have taken over our skin servers and content delivery networks (CDN), so unfortunately you will not be able to change your skins until we fix the problem. We are desperately trying our best to pull the plugs, but we should prepare ourselves to serve under our new villager overlords. Singularity may be upon us.

// The Minecraft Team

Hello Minecrafters!

This has been way too long for us to present but it is finally here! TU 14 for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 will be out later today on Xbox 360 and tomorrow on PS3. I hope you will enjoy it. Make sure you hook up your console to the internet to enjoy the latest update ;)

Here is the full change log. I hope you will enjoy it and for you guys asking about the Xbox One and Playstation 4 edition: It is being worked on as we speak! I got no proper dates yet, but hopefully soon we can tell you!

New Items:

-Emerald
-Emerald Ore
-Block of Emerald
-Ender Chest
-Tripwire Hook
-Enchanted Golden Apple
-Anvil
-Flower Pot
-Cobblestone Walls
-Mossy Cobblestone Walls
-Wither Painting
-Potato
-Baked Potato
-Poisonous Potato
-Carrot
-Golden Carrot
-Carrot on a Stick
-Pumpkin Pie
-Night Vision Potion
-Invisibility Potion
-Nether Quartz
-Nether Quartz Ore
-Block of Quartz
-Quartz Slab
-Quartz Stair
-Chiseled Quartz Block
-Pillar Quartz Block
-Enchanted Book
-Carpet

Other Features:

- Added new recipes for Smooth Sandstone and Chiseled Sandstone.
- Added new Mobs – Zombie Villagers.
- Added new terrain generation features – Desert Temples, Desert Villages, and Jungle Temples.
- Added Trading with villagers.
- Added Anvil interface.
- Added sideways log placement.
- Changed placement of half blocks and other blocks on half blocks.
- Changed placement of upside down stairs and slabs.
- Wooden Buttons and Wooden Pressure Plates can be activated with Arrows.
- Can dye leather armor.
- Can dye wolf collars.
- Can control riding a pig with a Carrot on a Stick.
- Added different villager professions.
- Villagers spawned from a spawn egg will have a random profession.
- Furnaces can use wooden tools as a fuel.
- Ice and Glass panes can be collected with silk touch enchanted tools.
- Nether mobs can spawn in the Overworld from Portals.
- Creepers and Spiders are aggressive towards the last player that hit them.
- Mobs in Creative mode become neutral again after a short period.
- Remove knockback when drowning.
- Doors being broken by zombies show damage.
- Ice melts in the Nether.
- Cauldrons fill up when out in the rain.
- Pistons take twice as long to update.
- Pig drops Saddle when killed (if has one).
- Sky color in The End changed.
- String can be placed (for Tripwires).
- Rain drips through leaves.
- Levers can be placed on the bottom of blocks.
- TNT does variable damage depending on difficulty setting.
- Book recipe changed.
- Boats break Lily Pads, instead of Lily Pads breaking Boats.
- Pigs drop more Porkchops.
- Slimes spawn less in Superflat worlds.
- Creeper damage variable based on difficulty setting, more knockback.
- Fixed Endermen not opening their jaws.
- Added new Host Options for flying, invisibility and invulnerability for remote players.
- Added teleporting of players (using the player menu in-game).
- Furnace will return an empty bucket when fuelled by a bucket of lava.
- Updated Bonus Chest content with more items.
- Added new tutorials to the Tutorial World for new items and features.
- Updated the positions of the Music Disc Chests in the Tutorial World.
- Updated all texture packs and mash-up packs with new TU14 additions.
- Changed the gray wool texture for City to be more like a road surface

Fixes

-Fixed a crash with Maps in Item Frames which happened when players were in the Nether or The End
-Fixed Chest locks showing through walls at a distance
-Fixes a couple of crashes related to the player’s banned level list
-Some lighting fixes
-Fix to Blazes so they go on fire before shooting fire charges
-Fix to allow drinking milk in Creative mode
-Fix to allow split screen players to see Splash Potion particles
-Fix to stop the held item being replaced with the first item in the Quick Select on exiting The End.
-Fixed an issue with throwing an Ender Pearl while travelling to The Nether or The End
-Fixed the active time for Wooden and Stone Buttons.
-Fixed a crash with Dispensers and Fire Charges
-Fixed a crash with local profiles in the Help & Options menu
-Corrected the leaves obtained using silk touch on Jungle trees

Update: Snapshot 14w11b has been released to fix some crashes and bugs. Bug fixes:

• [Bug MC-50572] – Upward facing droppers/dispensers only shoot items west
• [Bug MC-50948] – Tripwire hook Texture Messed up
• [Bug MC-50950] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Ticking entity
• [Bug MC-50951] – Flickering world menu
• [Bug MC-50958] – Name and ID cannot both be blank
• [Bug MC-50964] – Endermite Spawn Egg has the wrong name
• [Bug MC-50975] – When ironbars are placed on a block, the lower part is black.
• [Bug MC-50984] – Dark Oak Sapling name is missing.
• [Bug MC-50996] – Existing player heads only show the default Steve head
• [Bug MC-51009] – No podzol in creative inventory
• [Bug MC-51014] – Hopper: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 7
• [Bug MC-51016] – EnderMites doesn't move
• [Bug MC-51045] – Brewing stand graphic shows different things depending on which angle you look at it
• (For resource pack makers) generic blocks now load models and not predefined block shapes

We are going to GDC this weekend, so there will be a pause in snapshots for a short while. But before we get on the plane, we wanted you to have the latest changes to play with.

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

Survival changes:

• Changed minecart physics
• Made furnace minecart actually useful
• Improved the general mob AI
• And some surprises, try to find them

Mapmaker changes:

• Fixed some minor bugs

Bugs fixed in this snapshot:

• [Bug MC-47585] – Derailed minecarts sink into the ground
• [Bug MC-47695] – Minecart hitbox is too tall
• [Bug MC-50413] – Custom UUIDLeast/UUIDMost pair yields error
• [Bug MC-50452] – Rails don't render from below
• [Bug MC-50838] – Entity UUID WitherSkull
• And many more that weren’t on the bug tracker so we couldn’t mark them as fixed! Did I mention please report bugs? Thanks.

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w11b/minecraft_server.14w11b.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Update: A ‘b’ and ‘c’ snapshot has been released to address various bugs and crashes. Changelog for ‘c’:

• [Bug MC-3151] – New Mob AI doesn't take world limit/Void into account for pathing
• [Bug MC-45346] – Cake's Hitbox is Off
• [Bug MC-46432] – Fences connects to Barrier block
• [Bug MC-47650] – Block drops appear in wrong location or behind walls
• [Bug MC-48831] – "Cross" and "Flower" Models Display Incorrectly
• [Bug MC-50219] – "Slightly Damaged Anvil" Faces the wrong way in Inventory
• [Bug MC-50221] – Exception on server start "Name and ID cannot both be blank" when started with online-mode=false
• [Bug MC-50276] – Planted Nether Wart appears as purple and black checkerbox .
• [Bug MC-50280] – Missing cauldron inner side
• [Bug MC-50288] – Player data cleared after switching to 14w10b
• [Bug MC-50296] – Cobblestone wall not stacking correctly / Missing Post / Floating Torch
• [Bug MC-50309] – Pressure Plates use the "pressed down" graphic for their inventory icon
• [Bug MC-50322] – Z-fighting in iron bars
• [Bug MC-50335] – Fences partialy lose texture when connected to stonebrick
• [Bug MC-50349] – Iron Bars are rendered wrong when connected
• [Bug MC-50351] – Double Sandstone Slab texture broken
• [Bug MC-50367] – Bad HitBoxes and Eyes positions.
• [Bug MC-50370] – Model Warning Console Spam When Switching Resource Packs
• [Bug MC-50373] – Cactus Rendered Too Bright
• [Bug MC-50396] – Can't model top and bottom half of doors separately
• [Bug MC-50432] – Tile Entities in a CLONE … REPLACE FORCE region are replaced by barrier blocks on the second clone operation

And previous changelog for ‘b’:

• [Bug MC-50219] – "Slightly Damaged Anvil" Faces the wrong way in Inventory
• [Bug MC-50220] – "Nether Brick Fence" is not rendered correctly in inventory
• [Bug MC-50221] – Crash report on a server
• [Bug MC-50222] – Dirt texture on Grass Blocks is green
• [Bug MC-50223] – 14w10a dedicated server crash at startup
• [Bug MC-50226] – Jukebox is missing the textures when disc is inside
• [Bug MC-50229] – Scoreboard team option deathMessageVisibility error message lists wrong options when ran without option parameter
• [Bug MC-50231] – Failed to load user/ip banlist
• [Bug MC-50232] – Wheat appears as purple and black checkerbox
• [Bug MC-50233] – Double Stone Slabs have the "missing texture" texture
• [Bug MC-50235] – End Portal Frame Texture Bug
• [Bug MC-50239] – Middle-clicking hydrated farmland gives me a weird 2D dirt block
• [Bug MC-50241] – Cannot add or set scores of offline or "fake" players
• [Bug MC-50242] – Powered Repeater
• [Bug MC-50246] – Bed Bug
• [Bug MC-50250] – texture of nether wart is broken
• [Bug MC-50254] – full snowlayer block has a missing model/texture
• [Bug MC-50256] – Powered repeater doesn't show edges of torch
• [Bug MC-50259] – Upward facing dispenser texture bug
• [Bug MC-50265] – The Nether Brick Fence fail texture in inventory
• [Bug MC-50267] – Hopper: java.lang.ClassCastException: atf cannot be cast to aoc
• [Bug MC-50270] – Hopper: java.lang.ClassCastException: atf cannot be cast to arj
• [Bug MC-50271] – When jukebox plays music disk, the texture disappears
• [Bug MC-50273] – Hopper: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1

Once again the majority of our time between this and the last snapshot has been spent on Plugin API related tasks (most notably inventory rewrite, block model format and block state concepting), and as such this is mostly a bugfix & mapmaker snapshot. Don’t worry, we have some cool survival plans soon!

This snapshot also has the (hopefully-)final step towards supporting name changes in Minecraft. All server files that are intended to refer to players will be automatically changed to go by UUIDs, and you do not need to do anything. However, this does mean that any third party tool will not work on these files, and will need to be updated to work with them.

Though names changes are technically supported in this snapshot, they will not be available until after 1.8 releases when we will be confident that the majority of active servers have updated to support UUIDs. We will be releasing a Minecraft 1.7.6 version soon to backport these UUID changes for normal servers.

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

Mapmaker changes:

• Fixed stat.useItem for many items
• Fixed bounding boxes of item frames and paintings, they can’t overlap anymore
• Fixed debug rendering of bounding boxes for many entities
• Added stat.crouchedOneCm and stat.sprintedOneCm
• Testing for scores now also works in @e entity selectors
• Fixed potential “infinite” recursion issue with the blockdata command in commandblocks
• New stat.timeSinceDeath
• Added scoreboard team property to disable death messages
• Command /scoreboard players can now filter by NBT data
• Players in creative mode can now damage entities even if they are flagged invulnerable
• Improved position handling of item frames and paintings
• Minor tweaks to the /clone command to make it more reliable

Bugs fixed in this snapshot:

• [Bug MC-2053] – Inconsistent door texture
• [Bug MC-3450] – While lying in bed nearby mobs will look above the player
• [Bug MC-11681] – Players' nameplates are too low while sleeping in beds
• [Bug MC-31047] – Use Item Stat Corresponds to Left-click, Not Right-click
• [Bug MC-44851] – Wither cant be killed with /kill while invulnerable
• [Bug MC-45375] – Improper Cake Texture
• [Bug MC-46207] – Phantom floating mobs are generated by any spawner (including natural dungeon spawners)
• [Bug MC-46223] – @a, @p, @e or @r doesn't include dead player
• [Bug MC-46428] – Armor Doesn't Hide for the player himself In Spectator
• [Bug MC-46430] – Spectator mode can throw item in every place, but can't take them
• [Bug MC-46596] – In spectator mode, mobs can still follow the player
• [Bug MC-47028] – @e selector does not accept scoreboard parameters in non-player entities.
• [Bug MC-47431] – Hand shifts to the side when crouching/sneaking
• [Bug MC-47571] – Fishing line casts below the Player
• [Bug MC-47646] – Player 2 blocks higher when sleeping in bed and noclip
• [Bug MC-47656] – Other Player's arms aren't moving when watching them mining/placing blocks
• [Bug MC-47696] – Block sounds are distorted if walking with left and right keys
• [Bug MC-47744] – Cannot disable experience from villager trades
• [Bug MC-48160] – Cannot hide potion effect tooltips using HideFlags
• [Bug MC-48372] – Crash when using /clone on complex structure(command block and pulser)
• [Bug MC-48476] – Falling sand doesn't display when summoned
• [Bug MC-48503] – Placing a Sign with NBT Tags doesn't apply the tags to sign
• [Bug MC-48512] – Vines no longer have a back face texture
• [Bug MC-48544] – Baby cow eye height is misplaced and causes them to suffocate in 1-high areas
• [Bug MC-49057] – command block T flip flop (command crash game)
• [Bug MC-49142] – /fill wrong comparator output
• [Bug MC-49305] – Server Scoreboard "36>16" Bug
• [Bug MC-49375] – Brewing Stand CTRL+Middle Click Copy Derp
• And many more that weren’t on the bug tracker so we couldn’t mark them as fixed! Did I mention please report bugs? Thanks.

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w10c/minecraft_server.14w10c.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

In epsidode four of Radio Cobalt, Daniel and Pontus explains the nuances of Cobalt tactics, and explains the difficulties of adding online multiplayer to a reaction-based game.

Radio Cobalt is a series of videos featuring Pontus and Daniel of Oxeye Game Studio. Watch, listen and learn about Cobalt – a game made by Oxeye and published by Mojang. It’s coming to PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3 this year. Buy into the PC/Mac Alpha too, if you fancy.

Cheers!

I’m heading out to Austin, Texas for the SXSW Gaming Expo. It is one of the only free events at SXSW and I will be doing a Minecraft talk on the Geek Stage in the convention area.

Details: Saturday, March 8th from 2:30-3:15pm at the Palmer Events Center

More information about the talk.

More information about the Gaming Expo.

Come dressed in Minecraft cosplay and you may just win an awesome prize!

After the talk I’ll be hanging around to say hello to anyone who comes by.

See you this Saturday!

- Lydia
@lydiawinters

Scrolls has just received its fourth major update. It’s called Rebellion and brings with it new gameplay mechanics, scrolls, trials and more! Check Scrolls.com for a more thorough list of changes.

If you’re new to Scrolls, now is a great time to get involved. You can buy into the Alpha at Scrolls.com/buy.

Have a good day everyone!
Owen – @bopogamel

Hey hey!

Suddenly, a new Minecraft update! Tomorrow morning (Wednesday February 26) we are going to update Minecraft to version 1.7.5. This is a relatively small update from 1.7.4, and brings the following…

• Minecraft Realms adds mini game support (as described in this YouTube clip)
• Several server-side performance improvements and bug fixes
• Preparations to bring Minecraft Realms to more countries!

Specifically, we aim to open Minecraft Realms to all Nordic countries (Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark) starting some time next week.

We are still working on snapshots for 1.8, but before 1.8 is out we already know there will be a 1.7.6 version too. Minecraft 1.7.6 will add support for the new skin system (which currently is in the 1.8 snapshots) and name changing (only the support for changing names, actually being able to change names may need to wait a little more). Minecraft 1.7.6 will be out some time after GDC in March.

// Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

They say the third episode is the hardest, but we made it! This time the topic is about the single-player experience of Cobalt!

Radio Cobalt is a series of videos featuring Pontus and Daniel of Oxeye Game Studio. Watch, listen and learn about Cobalt – a game made by Oxeye and published by Mojang. It’s coming to PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3 this year.  Buy into the PC/Mac Alpha too, if you fancy.

Cheers!

We’ve been working on major rewrites (inventories/menus/block models) for the upcoming API still, but here’s a bugfixy snapshot in the mean time!

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

Bugs fixed in this snapshot:

• [Bug MC-45114] – Superflat Customization still uses Block IDs
• [Bug MC-48386] – Iron Trapdoor has the name "tile.ironTrapdoor.name"
• [Bug MC-48395] – When swimming in water, you do not drown.
• [Bug MC-48399] – /execute not obeying the gamerule commandBlockOutput false rule
• [Bug MC-48408] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Handling packet
• [Bug MC-48411] – java.lang.NullPointerException: Exception in server tick loop
• [Bug MC-48414] – Nametag shown in inventory screen
• [Bug MC-48449] – Commands in the form /execute testforblock do not update comparators correctly
• [Bug MC-48464] – "/scoreboard players test playername" will not tab-complete the objective argument
• [Bug MC-48507] – testforblock command not working with execute command.
• [Bug MC-48509] – No way to hide Commands executed by Entities for OPs
• And many more that weren’t on the bug tracker so we couldn’t mark them as fixed! Did I mention please report bugs? Thanks.

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w08a/minecraft_server.14w08a.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Good afternoon!

We thought it would be good to give you a quick update on the status of Pocket Edition.

We’re working on restructuring a lot of code to allow significantly  bigger worlds in future updates. We’re also updating the AI, inventory, and a bunch of other things. Unfortunately we don’t have a release date yet, but so far, everything is going to plan.

Here’s a picture of an upcoming animal. Enjoy!

Another note for those of you who are involved in the beta testing phase of Pocket Realms: we’re pausing access to the service on the 1st of March. The Realms team is currently focused on the upcoming release of PC Realms. Once that’s done, we’ll be in a better place to work on Pocket Realms and make it as good as it possibly can be, which will be later this year. We’re not sure how long the service will be down for, but we’ll update you as soon as normal service resumes.

A big thanks to everyone who’s helped test out the service so far. Your current worlds will be saved, and you’ll be able to continue from where you left off once Pocket Realms is back online. :)

xoxo

/ Pocket Team - @_tommo, @jbernhardsson, @jeb_, @kappische, and from Realms - @mamirm

We’ve still been working hard on rewriting internal stuff (such as how blocks are rendered, or how the entire inventory system works) in preparation for the Plugin API. Meanwhile, have another smaller snapshot with a bunch of bug fixes and some more adventure map related stuffs!

Notable changes for everybody:

• Added iron trapdoors
• You can now share to lan for spectator mode only

Notable changes for mapmakers:

• A resourcepack can now be bundled with a map, put it in the map save directory and name it “resources.zip”
  • Example: ".minecraft/saves/TheMapWithTheThing/resources.zip"
• The commands /testfor, /testforblock and /clear can now test for partial matches of NBT lists
  • Example: /testfor @p {Inventory:[{Slot:6b,id:"minecraft:diamond_sword"}],SelectedItemSlot:6}
• Scoreboard objectives for fake players with a name starting with # will never show up on the sidebar
• New /scoreboard subcommands /scoreboard operation and /scoreboard test
• The command /scoreboard operation can apply arithmetic operation to scores (+ – * / %) and accumulate player scores
  • Example: /scoreboard players operation #teamscores redScore += @a[team=red] blueKills
• The command /scoreboard test can be used to test if a scoreboard value is between a min and a max value
  • Example: /scoreboard players test #global anObjective 12 19
• New command /execute to execute commands in the context and at the position of other entities or players
  • Example: /execute @e[type=Chicken] ~ ~ ~ fill ~-1 ~-1 ~-1 ~1 ~1 ~1 minecraft:glass
• New selector parameters for entity selectors to detect entity rotations with rxm – x rot min, rx – x rot max, rym – y rot min, ry . y rot max
  • Example: @a[rxm=-15,rx=15,rym=-45,ry=45]
• Players in team can now have a team based objective shown on the sidebar, depending on the team color
  • Example: /scoreboard objectives setdisplay team.yellow anotherObjective
• While debug overlay is on (press F3 to turn it on and off), looking at a block in the world will show the coordinates of that block
• BlockItem instances can now hold a custom NBT tag that is merged into a block entity when it’s placed
  • Example: /give @p command_block 1 0 {BlockEntityTag:{Command:"setblock ~ ~ ~ minecraft:diamond_block"}}
• In creative mode, players can create a copy of a BlockEntity in their hotbar, including all NBT data, with ctrl+[PICK_KEY] (usually ctrl+middle mouse button)
• The /tellraw command can now insert values from scoreboards into messages
  • Example: /tellraw @p {text:"Have ",extra:[{score:{name:"Searge",objective:"reward"}},{text:" diamonds"}]}
• New command /testforblocks to compare two areas of a map
  • Example: /testforblocks 100 64 100 107 69 107 0 64 0 masked
• Dispensers will place a commandblock instead of shooting it out
• Nametags for players in other teams can now be hidden with a team option
  • Example: /scoreboard teams option red nametagVisibility hideForOtherTeam

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

Bugs fixed in this snapshot:

• [Bug MC-36947] – /weather clear <time in seconds> doesn't clear weather for anywhere near the amount given
• [Bug MC-44489] – /kill @e doesn't kill ender dragons
• [Bug MC-45773] – Chest not spawning in Monster dungeons
• [Bug MC-46559] – Spectating a mob leaves you at two blocks tall view
• [Bug MC-46838] – testfor NBT parsing error
• [Bug MC-47520] – Standing under block with water / lava on top will apply blue / red filter.
• [Bug MC-47543] – Items stacked with Items that have PickupDelay set to 32767 can no longer be picked up
• [Bug MC-47545] – CanPlaceOn does not work with wooden doors
• [Bug MC-47555] – Cannot place boats
• [Bug MC-47596] – Items of the same type (IE, stone and stone) ignore datavalues and stack anyway
• [Bug MC-47598] – The color of sugar canes doesn't change depending on the biome
• [Bug MC-47636] – Boats appear to be sunken in water
• [Bug MC-47642] – Hopper: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 4
• [Bug MC-47653] – torch causing missing texture when placed on bottom side of block
• [Bug MC-47685] – Hopper: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3
• [Bug MC-47817] – Baby Zombie Pigman Running with Strange Speed
• [Bug MC-47821] – Ghasts do not despawn in Peaceful Mode
• [Bug MC-48043] – Held Blaze Rod not in hand
• And many more that weren’t on the bug tracker so we couldn’t mark them as fixed! Did I mention please report bugs? Thanks.

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w07a/minecraft_server.14w07a.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

It’s the most wonderful time of the week! A new episode of Radio Cobalt has been unleashed!

Episode 2 is mostly about multiplayer. Learn how Ridley Scott influenced Cobalt’s development, Daniel’s favourite way to kill Pontus, and see fresh footage of the tactical Team-Strike mode.

Radio Cobalt is a series of videos featuring Pontus and Daniel of Oxeye Game Studio. Watch, listen and learn about Cobalt – a game made by Oxeye and published by Mojang. It’s coming to PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3 this year.  Buy into the PC/Mac Alpha too, if you fancy.

Have a lovely day!

Owen – @bopogamel, Pontus – @Kinten, and Daniel – @vraket

Hello!

Something cool happened yesterday. The nice chaps at PC Gamer hosted a Battle Royale of competitive one-screen fighting games, and they opened proceedings by playing Cobalt – a game developed by Oxeye Game Studios and published by Mojang.

You can watch the showdown on their twitch channel (skip to around 12 minutes in to for the action). If it wets your appetite for Cobalt videos, check the first episode of  Radio Cobalt – a series of videos featuring developers Daniel and Pontus. Episode 2 will be out soon!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Owen – @bopogamel

Update: A ‘b’ snapshot has been released to fix some nasties. Changelog:

• [Bug MC-19886] – Plants don't cause an update when the block beneath is broken/light level changed
• [Bug MC-46579] – Tools and swords are to high up on the arm in 3rd person mode
• [Bug MC-47427] – Game crashes when breaking some blocks
• [Bug MC-47428] – Weird slimeblock texture
• [Bug MC-47429] – I don't get what happened, i was in my test world flying around and it crashed, for two times
• [Bug MC-47430] – When i click on a previous 1.8 snapshot world it crashes
• [Bug MC-47434] – Wrong dirt texture
• [Bug MC-47438] – Game crash while killing slimes
• [Bug MC-47440] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: n must be positive
• [Bug MC-47442] – Shadow in Inventory
• [Bug MC-47448] – Standing in minecarts
• [Bug MC-47457] – Mining blocks causes crash
• [Bug MC-47459] – Pistons not placing correctly
• [Bug MC-47464] – Block side shading not being applied in Fast with no smooth lighting
• [Bug MC-47466] – Crash "Tesselating block in world" with following world seed
• [Bug MC-47468] – Constant Crash back to MC Launcher Screen
• [Bug MC-47469] – Cactus in pot shows incorrect texture
• [Bug MC-47470] – Two tall flowers variants are not generating.
• [Bug MC-47471] – Weird visual flash bug when mining Glowstone / Block mine crash
• [Bug MC-47477] – Smooth Lighting OFF
• [Bug MC-47482] – Signs display Redstone Block particle when broken
• [Bug MC-47489] – Fishing rod does not cast
• [Bug MC-47492] – The Brightness.. or shading.. broken..
• [Bug MC-47505] – Slimes shadow
• [Bug MC-47542] – Capes doesn't display correctly when crouched

We’ve been rewriting a lot of internal stuff this week, so this snapshot may not be super fantastic featureful but trust me it’ll be worth it in the end.

Notable changes for survival:

• A lot of mob AI has changed. This should mean nothing, but may actually mean something. Don’t sit on slimes.

Notable changes for mapmakers:

• Added an optional hotkey to show outlines on players whilst spectating
• It’s now possible to spawn in ItemEntities that can’t be picked up (PickupDelay=32767)
• It’s now possible to spawn in ItemEntities that won’t expire (Age=-32768)
• Added an extra argument to /effect that will hide particles
• Statistics for items/blocks can now be referenced per name, instead of ID
• Added new objective criteria ‘trigger’, and a command /trigger to use with them (intended for tellraw links)
• Added the ability to reset a single score on a player through /scoreboard
• Added new objective criteria for team-specific kills (teamkill.red, killedByTeam.blue)
• Added the ability to iterate over every scoreboard player with * in /scoreboard commands
• Added data tag to items to allow placing of certain blocks against other blocks in adventure mode (/give @p stone 16 0 {CanPlaceOn:["minecraft:diamond_block"]})
• Added data tag to items to hide certain parts of the tooltip (HideFlags, bit field of 1/enchantments, 2/modifiers, 4/unbreakable, 8/candestroy, 16/canplace)

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

Bugs fixed in this snapshot:

• [Bug MC-19886] – Plants don't cause an update when the block beneath is broken/light level changed
• [Bug MC-39139] – walkOneCm stat doesn't accurately measure distance
• [Bug MC-44688] – /clear fails on strings containing spaces
• [Bug MC-46223] – @a, @p, @e or @r doesn't include dead player
• [Bug MC-46404] – Hearts, food, armor and crosshair are the wrong color (overlay) when holding certain items.
• [Bug MC-46424] – Chunks not loading for mob camera view
• [Bug MC-46427] – Breaking barriers create lava and water particles
• [Bug MC-46435] – Reticle (Now Hitbox) Appears on Tile Entities In Spectator Mode
• [Bug MC-46473] – Cannot open minecart with chest in spectator mode
• [Bug MC-46492] – Texture Issues With Invisible Slime
• [Bug MC-46535] – Can control minecarts in Spectator Mode
• [Bug MC-46550] – The head of the sheep is bugged
• [Bug MC-46560] – When certain mobs take damage, the red damage indicator is not displayed properly.
• [Bug MC-46579] – Tools and swords are to high up on the arm in 3rd person mode
• [Bug MC-46599] – Trapped chests display triple chests in spectator mode.
• [Bug MC-46694] – Item Frames, Knots and Paintings displaying void particle
• [Bug MC-46695] – "flyingSpeed" flood in the dev console when flying in gamemode 1 and 3
• [Bug MC-46711] – Spectating baby zombies has wrong eye level
• [Bug MC-46715] – Item Repair Duplicating Item
• [Bug MC-46751] – Cardinal direction in debug screen change with mouse while spectating a mob
• [Bug MC-46761] – Zombies and Zombie Pigmen do not show holding items
• [Bug MC-46838] – testfor NBT parsing error
• [Bug MC-46950] – Can see the item name when pressing hotbar shortcut key in spectator mode
• [Bug MC-47268] – Attempting to use a post-processing effect crashes on old Mac hardware
• And many more that weren’t on the bug tracker so we couldn’t mark them as fixed! Did I mention please report bugs? Thanks.

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w06b/minecraft_server.14w06b.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Hi guys,

PC/Mac users might have noticed some tweaks to the way Minecraft skins work. Now you can use 64 by 64 pixel skins, allowing for more creativity with your looks.

The changes caused some teething problems with 57digital’s Minecraft Skin Studio last week, but their most recent update has fixed the issues. Skin Studio now has full support for the new skins, automatic conversion of old skins to the new format, and lots of other convenient features.

You can download Minecraft Skin Studio at minecraftskinstudio.com. It’s available for iOS, Android, and Kindle.

Have fun!

Owen – @bopogamel

Look! It’s the first episode of Radio Cobalt!

Radio Cobalt is a series of videos featuring Pontus and Daniel of Oxeye Game Studio. Watch, listen and learn about Cobalt – a game made by Oxeye and published by Mojang. It’s coming to PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3 this year. 

We’ll be releasing more episodes over the next few weeks where we go into more depth on Cobalt’s features and the development process. We hope you enjoy them!

Owen – @bopogamel, Pontus – @Kinten, and Daniel – @vraket

Update: Snapshot 14w05b has been released to fix the following:

• [Bug MC-1607] – Ghost End Portal in The End / Missing layer with AMD/ATI graphics cards
• [Bug MC-45763] – Some blocks are facing the wrong way if placed in an Item Frame
• [Bug MC-45826] – Item frames pop off / rendered on wrong side of block when upgrading to 14w04b
• [Bug MC-46402] – Flying in Spectator Mode counts as Flying in Survival Mode and kicks you off the server
• [Bug MC-46416] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Unexpected error
• [Bug MC-46420] – Hopper: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 44339
• [Bug MC-46422] – Barrier have shadows
• [Bug MC-46427] – Breaking barriers create lava and water particles
• [Bug MC-46435] – Reticle Appears on Tile Entities In Spectator Mode
• [Bug MC-46442] – Hopper: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1
• [Bug MC-46444] – You can't pass through entities when you disconnect/reconnect while in spectator mode
• [Bug MC-46447] – Repairing Tools No Longer Works
• [Bug MC-46465] – Changing the language breaks the shader when looking through an entity's camera
• [Bug MC-46467] – Hopper: java.lang.RuntimeException: Already decorating
• [Bug MC-46472] – Spectator mode – speeding up/down works only first time
• [Bug MC-46485] – 'Flip' shader pack shows black screen
• [Bug MC-46489] – Summoning Barrier as FallingSand Entity crashes the game
• [Bug MC-46563] – When spectating mob in f5 mode, perspective effect remains.
• [Bug MC-46576] – Crash when inside a barrier block
• [Bug MC-46594] – Debug menu not updating shader description correctly

One day this piece of text will contain some really important information that could change the fate of Humanity, and nobody would know because nobody reads this text anyway. Oh, sorry, what was that? Snapshot? Oh right yes of course! Here we go:

Notable additions for survival:

• Book copying mechanics has been altered to differentiate the original & copies of books
• Activator rails can eject entities from Minecarts

Notable additions for mapmakers:

• Added a spectator gamemode (/gamemode spectator). Not 100% finished.
• Spectators cannot be seen by anybody but other spectators
• Spectators can view inventories/etc, but not modify them
• Spectators can go through any entity or block without interfering with it
• Spectators can click on entities to take their camera
• Spectators cannot use items, place blocks, destroy blocks or interact with blocks in any way
• Spectators are only slightly buggy maybe sometimes

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

Bugs fixed in this snapshot:

• [Bug MC-38944] – Joining Realms World "Cancel" Button Mis-Placed
• [Bug MC-44521] – @a, @e, and any UUID references work incorrectly after a player dies.
• [Bug MC-45050] – /fill … skull | Hitbox Bug
• [Bug MC-45159] – Blocks with tile entities don't get removed when you clone / fill an airblock to their position.
• [Bug MC-45453] – Items & Blocks placed in item frames are rendered incorrectly
• [Bug MC-45470] – Items don't render on the ground properly
• [Bug MC-45478] – Pre-snapshot14w04a villagers break crops but don't replant them
• [Bug MC-45492] – Transparent blocks are much darker
• [Bug MC-45554] – Two tall flowers variants are not generating.
• [Bug MC-45763] – Some blocks are facing the wrong way if placed in an Item Frame
• [Bug MC-45764] – Map will not show in item frame
• [Bug MC-45795] – Villagers can not place or pick up any crops
• [Bug MC-45847] – /summon Villager Farmer NBT tag canPickUpLoot will default to 0
• And many more that weren’t on the bug tracker so we couldn’t mark them as fixed! Did I mention please report bugs? Thanks.

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: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w05b/minecraft_server.14w05b.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Hello all!
Hope you are enjoying the picking and placing of blocks! Just wanted to let you know that Minecraft on PS3 recently sold over 1 million copies (that has to be some kind of record on PSN, no?). It is crazy considering the game was released just before Christmas last year. We are super grateful for the support and we are very thankful for your dedication and I hope you will like the future updates we have planned for you (more on that in a later blog post).

Enjoy your weekend!
xoxo

/Daniel – @kappische

Update: Snapshot 14w04b has been released to fix some bugs:

• [Bug MC-45082] – Skin Layers Appear to be Off when Travelling through Portals
• [Bug MC-45453] – Items & Blocks placed in item frames are rendered incorrectly
• [Bug MC-45470] – Items don't render on the ground properly
• [Bug MC-45482] – Killing a mob always gives you a rare loot (100% chance).
• [Bug MC-45496] – Server disconnects player when player takes damage from mob
• [Bug MC-45506] – Can not /setblock air on tile entities
• [Bug MC-45516] – Furnaces Stop Operating Between Launches
• [Bug MC-45528] – Grass under snow doesn't have the snowy texture
• [Bug MC-45552] – Item frames duplicate on (re)loading
• [Bug MC-45628] – Monster dungeons not spawning
• [Bug MC-45689] – Clock not showing in item frame

Snapshot. Snapshot snapshot snapshot. Snapshot’s snapshot. Snapshot snapshot snapshot snapshot. Snapshot? Snapshot!!

Notable additions for survival:

• Item frames can give off a signal detected by Comparators.
• Lots of changes to villager AI. Some of them now actually do stuff!
• Looting now gives 1% chance of rare loot per level
• Iron Golems/Zombie Pigmen now drop items on normal kills
• You can now spawn Iron Golems/Snow Golems/Withers with dispensers + pumpkin/skulls respectively
• Bushes can now catch fire
• Buttons can now be placed on ceiling/floors
• Seecret Changes
• Balancing tweaks!

Notable additions for mapmakers:

• New command /particle to show particle effects in the world. It can also be relative to entities. Example: /particle lava ~ ~1 ~ 1 1 1 0.5 2 @e[type=Chicken]
• Added the ability to filter block types in the /fill command, but only if it’s used to fill in replace mode with “normal” blocks. It does not work when filling with block entities. Syntax: /fill replace [filterBlockName] [filterData]
• Fixed most of the remaining issues with the /clone command, for example chest orientation.

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

Bugs fixed in this snapshot:

• [Bug MC-1253] – Ladder, Sign, Fence, Gate, Trapdoor causes block it is placed in to darken
• [Bug MC-2399] – Transparent blocks raise the light level of the block they're in visually by one
• [Bug MC-9582] – Whole-word selection behaves erratically in chat
• [Bug MC-16457] – Pumpkin texture flips when made into snowman
• [Bug MC-18284] – New AI mobs see through invisibility
• [Bug MC-18984] – Dead bushes and Saplings do not burn
• [Bug MC-24336] – Withers are harmed by the explosions of their Wither Skulls
• [Bug MC-25370] – Mouse is centered when going to previous menu with ESC
• [Bug MC-31081] – Stone monster eggs Spawn 2 Silverfish
• [Bug MC-31203] – Furnace Progress Remains After Changing Ingredient
• [Bug MC-32301] – Lava fizz sound plays whenever a flowing lava block destroys an air block
• [Bug MC-36847] – No Colon after Game Mode in World Options
• [Bug MC-37355] – server-icon.png alpha channel display
• [Bug MC-43984] – Normal players can use player selectors
• [Bug MC-44551] – Silverfish can infest Granite/Andesite/Diorite
• [Bug MC-44592] – Lava spreads further than it should
• [Bug MC-44805] – /difficulty doesn't update on singleplayer
• [Bug MC-44890] – Doors get added to the list of village doors over and over again
• [Bug MC-44893] – /kill Not Killing Invulnerable Entity
• [Bug MC-45011] – /clone doesnt clone TileEntity orientation
• [Bug MC-45056] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Loading entity NBT
• [Bug MC-45063] – Tripwire is invisible
• [Bug MC-45071] – The world freezes if an Enderman is being hit.
• [Bug MC-45082] – Skin Layers Appear to be Off when Travelling through Portals
• [Bug MC-45084] – Skin's Second Layers Invisible in First Person
• [Bug MC-45087] – Id for cooked fish is "minecraft:cooked_fished"
• [Bug MC-45172] – New skin layer jacket acts enchanted when enchanted pants equipped
• [Bug MC-45235] – Double Shift = Sprint
• [Bug MC-45448] – Problem with auto-completion of commands

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.

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w04b/minecraft_server.14w04b.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

 Hey guys,

You might remember this post from the end of last year. Basically, everyone who bought Scrolls before December 19th received a free Scrolls code to give to a buddy. Though lots of you have given your code away, there are still a few that haven’t been redeemed.

I mention this because the codes will only work for the next two weeks. After that they become a meaningless stream of letters and numbers, which is significantly less fun than playing Scrolls with a friend or loved one.

So do the right thing, eh? Log into your Mojang account and give the gift of Scrolls. It’s a very nice thing to do.

Have a great day!

Owen – @bopogamel

Update: 14w03b has been released to fix some bugs & crashes:

• [Bug MC-44990] – Iron Bars, Regular Glass Panes and Cauldrons aren't transparent.
• [Bug MC-44993] – Custom player heads are messed up
• [Bug MC-45004] – Placing clay pots crashes game
• [Bug MC-45014] – Realms invited player skins are messed up
• [Bug MC-45018] – Be killed makes your character lose his/her hat
• [Bug MC-45026] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Rendering screen

Snapshot time! We’ve fixed a whole bunch of bugs introduced in last weeks snapshots, introduced a few new commands and tweaked a few things that needed tweaking.

Notable additions for mapmakers:

• /tp now supports rotation arguments
• Player selectors (@p, @e, etc) now support cubic areas. For example: @e[x=0,y=0,z=0,dx=10,dy=10,dz=10] gets all entities between 0,0,0 and 10,10,10
• Added /clone command to copy large areas to other areas
• Added a /fill command to fill a large area with a block

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.

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w03b/minecraft_server.14w03b.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Update: A ‘c’ snapshot has been released to fix lots of crashes! Changes:

• [Bug MC-44331] – Interacting with invalid villagers crashes the game
• [Bug MC-44359] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Exception generating new chunk
• [Bug MC-44370] – Item Entity falling on Farmland destroys the Farmland
• [Bug MC-44371] – “/kill @e” does not kill arrows
• [Bug MC-44378] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Exception ticking world
• [Bug MC-44380] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Invalid Biome id
• [Bug MC-44383] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Getting biome
• [Bug MC-44389] – Leaves not changing colour depending on biome
• [Bug MC-44390] – @a doesn't work with all commands
• [Bug MC-44392] – Hopper: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 2, Size: 2
• [Bug MC-44400] – /clear does not respect "max count" when above 0
• [Bug MC-44409] – /blockdata with CommandBlocks not updating
• [Bug MC-44442] – Water/Lava Not Flowing "Smart"
• [Bug MC-44467] – Biome-specific terrain features being placed in the wrong area
• [Bug MC-44468] – Using @a with scoreboard assigns things per UUID not name

The first snapshot of Minecraft 1.8 has arrived! This update will be split into two primary focuses: Survival gameplay & improvements, and new fancy abilities for adventure maps! We’ve done a whole bunch of optimizing for both the client and server (with more to come!) and lots more work towards the Plugin API in the background. As this is the very first snapshot of 1.8, do remember to backup your worlds before trying it!

Big survival changes:

• 3 new stone types!
• Major Enchanting & Repairing changes!
• Mossy stone bricks recipe!
• Updated Villager trading!
• Doors stack!
• Slime blocks!
• Lots of other tweaks, changes, bug fixes and secret features!

Big Adventure Map changes:

• Adventure Mode no longer lets you place/destroy blocks.
• But that can change!
• Added Entity Selectors! Use @e in certain commands to target entities. You can limit it with [type=Chicken] or [type=!Skeleton]
• Added a /blockdata command!
• Added ‘Lock’ (String) NBT tag on most containers.
• Added an optional entity parameter to /kill (try: /kill @e[type=!Player]
• Added optional arguments to /clear for max item count (use 0 to not actually delete anything) & NBT data
• Lots of other tweaks, changes, bug fixes and secret features!

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.

Server files:

• Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w02c/minecraft_server.14w02c.jar
• Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w02c/minecraft_server.14w02c.exe

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition just got even more MARVELous! Sorry – it’s early.

35 Marvel Skins have just been added to Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, ranging from poster-boys Captain America, Hulk, and Iron Man to more obscure heroes including Ant Man who, I’ve recently discovered, can shrink to the size of an insect to solve crimes.

Here’s the full list: Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Nick Fury, A-Bomb, Abomination, AIM Agent, Ant-Man, Arnim Zola, Black Panther, Captain America (Bucky Barnes), Falcon, Giant-Man, Hydra Agent, Iron Man Mark 1, Iron Man Mark 7, Iron Man Mark 16, Iron Man Mark 41, Iron Man Mark 42, Iron Patriot, Wasp, Kang, Loki, Moon Knight, Red Hulk, Red Skull, Spider-Woman, Taskmaster, Vision, Maria Hill, Agent Coulson, Leader, Hercules, Hawkeye, and Black Widow.

You can download the Marvel Avengers Skin pack from Xbox Marketplace.

Have a nice day!

Owen – @bopogamel

A little while ago, we announced a festive competition from 57digital. They tasked you with creating a Christmassy skin with their excellent app, Minecraft Skin Studio.

As always, you guys rose to the challenge. I’ve highlighted our three winners below. All other entries are viewable here.

First place goes to Christmas Sweater Boy by I_will_conquer! They get a  a Playstation 3 and some signed swag!

Second place goes to Gingerbread Creeper by PatoXD! They get a $100 J!NX voucher and some signed swag.

Third place goes to Christmas Thief by Taco_Thief! They get a $50 J!NX voucher and some signed swag.

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who entered. We’ll be sending out the prizes as early as possible in the new year. Oh, and don’t forget you can download Minecraft Skin Studio for iOS, Android, or Amazon Kindle.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Owen – @bopogamel

Hi everyone,

You’ve probably heard of Minecraft Realms by now. It’s a paid service that lets you quickly create an online Minecraft world for you and friends to play in together. It’s simple to set-up, easy to manage, and configured from within the Minecraft client.

Your world is always online, even if you aren’t logged in. You can invite up to 20 friends to your Realm, and 10 can play at once. The whole thing is hosted on our servers and can be configured from inside Minecraft. It’s very jolly.

Minecraft Realms is currently available in Sweden for PC Minecraft only. Anyone who attended this year’s Minecon can also access Realms by redeeming the Realms pre-paid giftcard that came in their giftbag.

Realms subscriptions currently come with seven pre-made maps, including Blocks vs Zombies by SethBling, Dash of Doom by Dragnoz, and Spellbound Caves by Vechs. You can load them up, or create a completely random world if you prefer. Your Realm gets saved at regular intervals, so you can restore an earlier version if something goes wrong, or if someone burns down a creation you’ve spent months on. On that note, it’s easy to add and remove friends from your approved list. :)

If you’re based in Sweden, or one of the lucky few with access to Realms, you can log into your Minecraft account to start, or top-up, a subscription. Your world is currently saved for at least three months after your subscription runs out, so don’t worry if you forget to top up in time.

We’re currently offering three different package for Realms users. 30 days access costs €10, 90 days costs €26, and 180 days costs €46.

For more information, check out the official Realms website and FAQ.

Hope you found this post informative! Merry Christmas Minecrafters!

Owen and the Realms team : Leo, Daniel and Amir.

Season’s greetings!

Is there anything more special than giving the gift of Minecraft to a loved one?

Probably. But it’s pretty special nonetheless.

Lots of you buy Minecraft for your friends and family during Christmas, which is lovely. To make it a little bit more special, we’ve designed a gift card-type thing that you can print out. It’s much more festive than sending a numbers and letters in an email.

To print out your card, buy a gift code, then click the link when prompted. You’ll get a festive foldable card, along with a handy instruction sheet from the printer.

Have a lovely holiday season everyone!

Owen – @bopogamel

It’s the most Christmassy time of the year!

For that reason, everyone who’s bought Scrolls is about to receive an extra copy to give to a friend. I’ve posted details on Scrolls.com to explain exactly how you can send it out, so go there and give the gift of Scrolls. Very festive.

Merry Christmas from the whole Scrolls Team!

Owen - @bopogamel

Sony fans rejoice! Minecraft is finally available on Playstation 3!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeop!

It costs €18.99 / $19.99 / £12.99 and weighs in at a 103 MB (including a handy patch that will download when you first launch the game).

The PS3 version of Minecraft comes packed with cool stuff: split-screen support for up to four players, online multiplayer for up to eight, Creative mode, Survival mode, and a bundle of Trophies. It’s super fun. If you don’t believe me, get the trial and decide for yourself.

Watch the trailer above to see some pretty footage or, even better, stop reading this and start the download!

We’ll have more information on popular topics including cross buy, remote play and the Playstation 4 version of Minecraft in the new year, promise.

Merry Christmas/Nadolig Llawen everyone!

Owen – @bopogamel

Hey guys,

Christmas is just around the corner! In celebration, 57 digital are hosting a festive competition based around Minecraft skins.

Enter, and you’ll be in the running to win a PS3 or some Jinx Vouchers. We’re even throwing in a few pieces of signed merch to sweeten the deal.

All you need to do is design a super Christmassy skin with Minecraft Skin Studio, share it in the app before 5pm GMT on December 26th, then cross your fingers and hope people like it!

Here are some step by step instructions:

• Design a skin using Minecraft Skin Studio for iOS, Android, or Amazon Kindle.
• Press the Upload button and “Share and Upload Skin”
• Name your skin. Make sure you include #xmas in the title somewhere.
• Hit “Publish!
• Read the notification and be confident that your entry has been submitted successfully.

And here are the prizes:

• First prize – a Playstation 3 and some signed swag
• Second prize – a $100 J!NX voucher and some signed swag
• Third prize –  a $50 J!NX voucher and some signed swag

Even if you don’t submit a skin, you can still get involved with the judging process. Just hit the big button on the main menu of Minecraft Skin Studio and vote on your five favourites. You can tweak your choices at a later date if you change your mind.

For more information, visit 57digital’s handy  competition info website, guide to submitting, and terms and conditions page. Check out their other apps too, if you like, Minecraft: Papercraft Studio and Minecraft: Explorer.

Have an awesome day and a very Merry Christmas! I’ll be back soon with some very special news…

Owen – @bopogamel

Christmas is coming early, PS3 players!

We can now confirm that Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition will be available to download this Wednesday, December 18th from the Playstation Store (if you’re based in the EU). Expect it to cost about the same as the Xbox 360 version.

I’ve received a few questions about the launch of Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition from you guys, so here are some of the most common queries:

Does Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition feature everything from the other versions of Minecraft?
Minecraft: PlayStation 3 Edition comes with everything present in other console versions. They’re pretty-much identical to play, and will be developed in tandem from now on.

Will Minecraft: PlayStation 3 Edition feature DLC texture packs and skins?
Downloadable skins and texture packs will be available from PlayStation Store soon after release.

Will there be Sony-specific content?
Sony-specific skins and texture packs would be cool! Fingers crossed, eh?

Will Minecraft: PlayStation 3 Edition feature Remote Play/compatibility with the Vita/PS4 editions?
We don’t know yet, sorry. We’ll let you know as soon as we do.

Will there be a day-one patch for Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition?
Yes! We recommend you download it!

Does Herobrine feature in Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition?
Probably not.

That’s it for now. We hope you’re just as excited about playing Minecraft on PS3 as we are. Merry Christmas/Nadolig LLawen!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has sold 10 million copies! WOHOO! Thanks everybody for helping us out and supporting us this far! We want to celebrate this with you, so all DLC (except for mashups) are 50% off on Saturday 14th of December! :)

We’re very humbled  ^_^

Take care for now and have a very nice weekend!

/Daniel – @kappische

Since the first release of Minecraft – Pocket Edition, we’ve added a bunch of new thing and made massive improvements to the way things look.

GO GET on App Store, Google Play and Amazon

Get ready for the biggest update yet! We hope you enjoy it!

- Minecarts, rails, and powered rails!
- The view distance has been massively increased. Check the options menu for more!
- New textures and colours taken directly from the PC version
- New blocks: carpets, more wood types, hay bales, iron bars, and more
- New crops and food types, including beetroot, carrots, potatoes and pumpkins. Now you can cook new soups, pies, and more!
- A bunch of new items for Creative and Survival, including clocks and compasses
- More blocks and items to use in Creative Mode: including jungle wood, ice, bedrock, shears, dyes, and tall grass
- New AI: mobs are now more intelligent and you can even breed your own animals
- A new Creative Mode inventory with tabs
- New functionality and tweaks to existing blocks and items. Bonemeal lets you grow new cool stuff!
- Improved lighting and fog effects
- Loads of bugs fixed, and possibly some added. :)

/MCPE team

Update: We’ve release a new pre-release, 1.7.4, to fix some crashes that some people had encountered. We’ll be making this live Tuesday if nothing goes wrong.

It’s here! The pre-release is finally here! We’ll be expecting to push this live next week if we encounter no major issues. The most notable changes in 1.7.4 compared to 1.7.2 are as follows:

• Added integrated Twitch broadcasting! See below for details.
• Fixed render distances above 8 (may not work in multiplayer, servers have their own view distance they limit you to)
• Many bug fixes and optimizations!

At Minecon we announced our new partnership with Twitch to bring one-click broadcasting to Minecraft. It has been in the recent snapshots, and proven to be very stable and ready to go live.

Before you can start streaming, you will need to visit your Mojang account settings and link a Twitch account to your Mojang account. Then in the game you may check the quality settings in Options -> Broadcast Options, or just go ahead and start broadcasting at any time by hitting F6. This key can be configured in the Controls options.

This is only supported on Windows (Vista and higher) and Mac OS X Lion (10.7) and higher. If you cannot start broadcasting ingame for any reason, the game will tell you why and possibly how to fix it.

To get pre-releases, 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.

Server cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.7.4/minecraft_server.1.7.4.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Change of plan with the pre-release! We fixed some big bugs, namely large render distances now actually work (best seen on Singleplayer). Today we’re giving out a new snapshot to test this and other things, and if all goes well we’ll pre-release tomorrow (Friday!)

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.

Server cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w49a/minecraft_server.13w49a.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

We’ll be releasing Minecraft 1.7.3 next week, with a pre-release this Thursday. As such, have a small bug-fix snapshot!

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.

Server cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w48b/minecraft_server.13w48b.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Hello Pocket Edition fans!

Today, we’re launching a beta for Minecraft Pocket Edition that’s open to anyone* who’s bought the game through Google Play on an Android device. You’ll be able to help with testing and give feedback about new features in future versions of Pocket Edition.

To join the beta program, apply to the Minecraft PE Test Group and follow the instructions listed there. Your app will still be updated with the final version of Pocket Edition whether you’re in the beta or not, so don’t worry if you want to quit the beta later down the line.

While playing a beta release, it will not be compatible with current version of Pocket Edition. If you go from a beta version back to a final version, the world may be corrupted. Beta version worlds will always work with the final release.

We’re hoping to get the 0.8.0 version out before Christmas.

// The Minecraft Pocket Edition team.

*We may need to limit the number of testers at some point

At Minecon we announced our new partnership with Twitch to bring one-click broadcasting to Minecraft. After a little wait, we’re now ready to make this publicly testable! This is the very first snapshot to include this functionality and it may be a little buggy, and we’re not finished with all the features yet, but hopefully it’ll be enough for you to play with and give feedback on!

Before you can start streaming, you will need to visit your Mojang account settings and link a Twitch account to your Mojang account. Then in the game you may check the quality settings in Options -> Broadcast Options, or just go ahead and start broadcasting at any time by hitting F6. This key can be configured in the Controls options.

Currently this is only supported on Windows (Vista and higher) and Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) and higher. If you cannot start broadcasting ingame, go to the options screen and it will tell you why.

Along with the new twitch.tv broadcasting integration there is also a whole bunch of bug fixes. If you find any bugs that need fixing then as always please report them to the bug tracker!

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.

Server cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w47e/minecraft_server.13w47e.jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

For those of you who are missing MINECON, we have a live stream of some of the most amazing content from it. The opening and closing ceremonies, the biggest panels, footage from the con and interviews plus some world premiere videos from some of your favorite Minecraft talent.

You can see the stream on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/teammojang
or on our Twitch channel: http://www.twitch.tv/mojang

This is a schedule of SOME of the content we’ll be showing, US Eastern timezone:

Saturday, November 2nd
10:00AM EDT – Opening Ceremony
12:00PM EDT – Developing Mods
01:00PM EDT – Running A Server
02:00PM EDT – SparkleSlamaroo Extravaganza: Animators of Minecraft
03:00PM EDT – The Future of Minecraft
04:00PM EDT – The Creatures
05:00PM EDT – Costume Contest

Sunday, November 3rd
10:40AM EST – Redstone
11:40AM EST – Growing a Server Community
12:40PM EST – Life on YouTube with SkyDoesMinecraft, Captainsparklez, ihasCupquake, and AntVenom
01:40PM EST – Mindcrack
02:40PM EST – Interview with Notch
03:40PM EST – Bringing Modding to the Masses
05:00PM EST – Closing Ceremony

Don’t forget to change your clock on Saturday night!

Update: Pre-release 1.7.2 has been released to address some serious crashes, including the inability to start on some Linux computers.

It feels like we’ve been working on this for a year now, with more than half a million lines of code changed over 1,104 commits we’ve been working extremely hard on this update. We’re calling this one “The update that changed the world”, because it really has in two different ways; there’s over twice the amount of ingame biomes, and we’ve overhauled lots of the code preparing for the plugin API.

Here’s a list of cool things that may be coming your way on Friday, if the pre-release goes well!

• New world generation!
  • Double the amount of biomes, with new trees/flowers/blocks.
  • New “Amplified” world option.
  • Less ocean, more awesome.
• New blocks!
  • Two new types of wood.
  • Stained glass! With both blocks and panes.
  • Packed ice, red sand, podzol.
  • Lots of new flowers, including double-tall versions of current plants.
  • Portals can be bigger sizes!
• Fishing!
  • Added more type of fish.
  • Redone the fishing mechanics. Can now catch junk and treasure too.
  • Fishing rod enchantments!
• Maps!
  • Put them in an item frame and hang them on your wall. They’re extra big!
  • Lots of new colours for lots of blocks!
  • Now with less lag!
• Achievement & Statistics overhaul!
  • Now both world (or server) specific.
  • In multiplayer, it’s announced to everybody when you get an achievement.
    • You can move your mouse over this in the chat to see what it was!
  • Some new achievements and statistic types were added.
  • Zoomable achievements screen!
• Multiplayer enhancements!
  • Servers can now put a 64×64 image called “server-icon.png” in their folder, that you will see on your server list.
  •  You can see who’s online before joining a server; move your mouse over the player count!
  • Lots of hidden preparation for allowing name changes.
• Resource pack changes!
  • You can now have multiple selected.
  • They can completely re-do your sounds, adding new ones or changing current ones.
  • Servers can now recommend a resource pack for you to use.
• Chat & command improvements!
  • New commands to spawn mobs or blocks of any type.
  • Command block minecart!
  • Clickable links to achievements and items.
  • Click on somebody’s name in the chat to message them!
• Lots and lots of technical work!
  • Completely rewrote how the network (multiplayer) works.
  • Completely rewrote the sound manager.
  • New graphics options.
  • Basic shader support testing.
  • Many bugs fixed, including:
    • [MC-291] – Screenshots are treated as links in the console.
    • [MC-673] – Sky/lighting doesn’t get darker during a thunderstorm
    • [MC-715] – V-Sync in Window mode, settings not activated between sessions.
    • [MC-784] – Letters in Arabic Language not connected
    • [MC-881] – Boat inflicts fall damage if it runs aground in some fashion (Slabs, Mobs, Soul Sand)
    • [MC-944] – Armour with Protection on it seems to reduce against hunger damage
    • [MC-1018] – Black Lighting under overhangs
    • [MC-1105] – Villagers act like it is Raining when they are in the Desert, and it Rains elsewhere.
    • [MC-1379] – Transparent texture makes transparent texture behind invisible
    • [MC-2638] – Old AI mobs and Wolves don’t turn back to passive in Creative
    • [MC-2915] – Attempting to tp to an invalid coordinate returns “commands.generic.double.invalid”
    • [MC-3305] – Cyrillic font not displaying on signs and in chat (Russian language)
    • [MC-3871] – Cauldron water does not put out fire / damage blaze
    • [MC-3973] – Silk Touch, pre-lit Redstone Lamps
    • [MC-4150] – Baby Zombies do not drop any loot / xp
    • [MC-4482] – Saplings placed on Farmland are not affected by Bonemeal
    • [MC-4732] – Tools and weapons lose durability without doing damage
    • [MC-4921] – Sounds (eg. Mobs / Portals / Water) Don’t Immediately Fade
    • [MC-4973] – Zombie Pigman from Nether Portal still spawns even if doMobSpawning is false
    • [MC-5238] – 10 MB server texture pack limit too small
    • [MC-5305] – Arrows from a flame bow aren’t extinguished from rain
    • [MC-5550] – Night Time Doesn’t Immediately Allow Sleep
    • [MC-6820] – The generation of terrain surface layer produces local straight glitches (fix included)
    • [MC-7449] – Silverfish infected Stone Brick varients appears as normal stone brick.
    • [MC-8331] – Command block text disappears if too long
    • [MC-9271] – Opening a singleplayer world is counted as a multiplayer join in the statistics
    • [MC-9547] – Incorrect usage string for `/scoreboard teams empty`
    • [MC-9779] – Old versions of output-server.log and lock files remain on harddisk
    • [MC-10077] – Ajasent Obsidian Blocks prevent Nether portal appearing
    • [MC-10257] – when a pig gets struck by lightning it spawns without a sword
    • [MC-10984] – GS4 query listener fails to send player list when len(players) > 127
    • [MC-11027] – Axes accelarate the speed at which Slabs are broken
    • [MC-11280] – Sometimes Water flows out of newly generated Village Farms
    • [MC-11518] – RCON and Scoreboard Command Output Formatting
    • [MC-12450] – Missing usage string commands.scoreboard.players.list.usage
    • [MC-12452] – Scoreboard team join command fails on invalid team name
    • [MC-12454] – Scoreboard option seeFriendlyInvisibles not listed in usage
    • [MC-12541] – the letters for the ‘off’ setting on smooth lighting aren’t capitalised
    • [MC-12731] – Minecraft crashes if you click edit or delete on a LAN game
    • [MC-12769] – when typing /help with a number higher than 4, it produces the wrong message
    • [MC-12984] – getting a locked chest pushed into your head crashes the game
    • [MC-13565] – Fireworks sometimes don’t stack when they should
    • [MC-13661] – When re-sizing window before game loads internal view doesn’t resize
    • [MC-14521] – Boats cannot be steered by using the “left” and “right” keys
    • [MC-14865] – Carpets Are Not Flammable
    • [MC-15547] – Structures (witch huts, nether fortresses etc.) don’t get saved with the world file
    • [MC-15564] – Start up failure: “Cannot determine close requested state of uncreated window”
    • [MC-15688] – Axe breaks all slabs in adventure mode. No drops for stone.
    • [MC-16324] – Massive Amount of “[SEVERE] Reached end of stream” messages
    • [MC-16435] – Boats Still Break on Lily’s
    • [MC-16849] – Crash near pyramid
    • [MC-16910] – Packet250CustomPayload(dk)
    • [MC-17090] – Invalid teamcolors throw an NPE in the console
    • [MC-17831] – Crash selecting resource pack [13w24b]
    • [MC-18569] – Server resourcepacks not implemented yet
    • [MC-18672] – Textures disappearing after setting player walkSpeed to 0
    • [MC-19483] – sounds playing after leaving world
    • [MC-19604] – Cannot /playsound records
    • [MC-21870] – Screen goes blank when modifying walk speed
    • [MC-22927] – Animals running forever after being hit
    • [MC-26151] – Minecraft has advice on an error report that should be deleted.
    • [MC-26608] – /spreadplayers confirmation text is wrong
    • [MC-26660] – Constant minecart sound
    • [MC-27284] – /scoreboard teams option color: Tab doesnt list all options.
    • [MC-27904] – The Hindi, Malay and Norsk (Bokmål) language appear 2 times
    • [MC-28400] – Breeding animals gives xp even if doMobLoot gamerule is false
    • [MC-28405] – The saddle equip sound effect does not play when equipping a pig with a saddle.
    • [MC-28478] – Successful hit sound effect does not match the sound in the assets sound folder
    • [MC-28625] – The horse armor equip sound does not play when replacing others
    • [MC-28768] – Horse Breeding Doesn’t Produce Markings Correctly on Foal
    • [MC-29088] – Shearing sound does not play when shearing a mooshroom
    • [MC-29279] – Bug: the command block can be damaged by the explosion of Blue Wither Skulls
    • [MC-29321] – Jukeboxes play at the sound volume for effects until you change the music volume
    • [MC-29361] – Oceans are too big
    • [MC-29424] – Players appear offset for other clients after going through nether portals
    • [MC-31031] – Spawn eggs can be used on top of water, but not lava
    • [MC-31065] – Villages not generating? (snapshot 13w37b)
    • [MC-32250] – Typo on “Unable to Load Worlds” screen
    • [MC-32534] – piston extention givies tile.nill.name
    • [MC-32679] – Spawned in enderportals are not nameable

To help test the pre-release, 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.

Server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.7.2/minecraft_server.1.7.2.jar
(On windows, right click -> open with -> java)

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

It’s the national lets-pretend-its-thursday day! Let’s celebrate with a snapshot.

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.

Server files:

• Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w43a/minecraft_server.13w43a.jar
• Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w43a/minecraft_server.13w43a.exe

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Update: Snapshot 13w42b has been released to address some bugs. Server links are below, and changelog follows:

• [Bug MC-35614] – Non-ASCII characters render incorrectly
• [Bug MC-35615] – Damaged Enchanted Items don't have damage bars, but are damaged
• [Bug MC-35642] – Wobble shader broken
• [Bug MC-35653] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Ticking player
• [Bug MC-35655] – Game crashes when changing the player sound slider
• [Bug MC-35805] – Backspace while editing signs not working

To celebrate the upcoming pre-release, here’s a snapshot with extra bugs for added value!

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.

Server files:

• Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w42b/minecraft_server.13w42b.jar
• Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w42b/minecraft_server.13w42b.exe

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Next week marks the second major update for Scrolls. It brings a new mode, spectating tools, over 44 new Scrolls and more.

Check Scrolls.com for more details. Alternatively, watch the video below voiced by lead designer, Jakob Porser. He’s got a lovely voice.

Owen – @bopogamel

Update: Snapshot 13w41b has been released to fix the following bugs. You can grab the client in your launcher, or the server using the links below.

• Bug [MC-14865] – Carpets Are Not Flammable
• Bug [MC-29588] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException – Invalid Biome id
• Bug [MC-30811] – TellRaw – Tab Complete
• Bug [MC-32880] – Crash with falling blocks / when giving technical/invalid blocks
• Bug [MC-34641] – Pausing the game not working correctly
• Bug [MC-34642] – Typo "White Stained Glass Pane Pane"
• Bug [MC-34645] – Maximum render distance at 8 chunks
• Bug [MC-34647] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException / Crash when selecting Resourcepack
• Bug [MC-34650] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException / Collision of entities
• Bug [MC-34676] – Iron bars render oddly
• Bug [MC-34679] – Stained Glass Pane recipe only yields 6 panes as opposed to 16
• Bug [MC-34705] – NullPointerException thrown on server login

I could write a big changelog with all the new features, all the fixed bugs and all the reworked code… but I could also go spend that time making some more new features, fix some bugs and rework some code. Brb coding!

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.

Server files:

• Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w41b/minecraft_server.13w41b.jar
• Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w41b/minecraft_server.13w41b.exe

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

A few months back I had a casual conversation in the office kitchen talking about the insane amount of things going on at Mojang. I said something in the lines of “I wish I could clone myself”. I remember Tobias mumbling something like “I’ll look into that”.

Yesterday Tobias came back to me and said he had something to show me. Introducing Mojang’s new Vice President: Jonas Mårtensson!

Sometimes it’s just nice to be able to clone yourself… or hire your twin brother.

It’s that time again. Time to fill up some epic panels for MINECON 2013.

In past years we’ve had amazing panels about all different Minecraft topics by a variety of speakers. From children to adults, our panelists have included wonderful people from the community with all different backgrounds.

We are looking to find another incredibly interesting and diverse set of panels and speakers.

Think you have what it takes? Submit your idea here..

Panel submissions will close on Monday, October 7th at 11pm PST.

Thanks!

Lydia -@LydiaWinters

Update: Snapshot 13w39b has been released to address some stability issues and other bugs. Server links are below.

I’m a little snapshot, short and stout. Here is my screenshot and here is my [FATAL CORRUPTION IN CLASS SXQ CANNOT CONTINUE]

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.

Server files:

• Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w39b/minecraft_server.13w39b.jar
• Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w39b/minecraft_server.13w39b.exe

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Hey! There’s a post on Scrolls.com discussing what’s coming this October. Check it out, if you’re that way inclined.

Have a nice day!

Owen – @bopogamel

Update: Snapshot 13w38c has been released to fix numerous graphical issues, crashes and item frame issues. The client is available in your launcher, and the server links are below.

There’s a snapshot! It’s called 13w38a! What does it have? Well, that’s Super Secret :)

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.

Server files:

• Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w38c/minecraft_server.13w38c.jar
• Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w38c/minecraft_server.13w38c.exe

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Do you like pens and pencils and Minecraft skins? You’re in a for a massive treat. 57digital have recently released Minecraft Skin Scanner. It’s an app for iOS that lets you to draw a Minecraft skins irl before importing them into the app and uploading the results to use in-game. Watch the trailer for a more visual explanation.

Skin scanner costs $1.99/€1,79/£1.49, and is available from the app store now. Have fun!

Owen – @bopogamel

Hi!

Haven’t you heard? The Scrolls ESL Opening Cup is taking place this weekend. It’s the first tournament we’ve been directly involved in so we’re pretty excited.

You can see the first place prize* up there. To be in with a chance of winning Henrik’s piece of acrylic awesomeness, you’ll need to sign up. Good luck!

Owen – @bopogamel

*You don’t get Henrik. Just the painting. Sorry.

You might remember our Papercraft Competition from a little while ago. Creators of Minecraft Papercraft Studio (along with many other great apps), 57digital, laid down a challenge – to create an awesome diorama using their app.  It’s currently available for iOS and Android.

You guys rose to the challenge! We were overwhelmed by the crafting talent on show off in the creations. A bunch of Mojangstas, along with 57digital, have cast their votes and the winners have been decided! Read on for the results, and check out all the finalists here.

Third place goes to Cassie, Nath and Shane! They get a $50 Jinx gift card for their efforts. Awesome job guys! The underground Nether is sheer class.
 

Second place was awarded to Andy Nelson. He gets an iPod Touch 32gb (with apps) and a $50 Jinx gift card. Superb lighting effects and a great sense of motion impressed the Mojangstas.
 

First place goes to Bennie Whitcomb! He gets an iPad Mini, an Xbox 360 (with Minecraft!) and a $50 Jinx gift card. Awesome scale, outstanding attention to detail, and the sheer variety of crafting on display blew us away. Massive congratulations!

The kind dudes at 57 digital will be getting in contact with the winners soon. Thanks for entering!

Owen – @bopogamel

Update: Snapshot 13w37b has been released, along with a pre-release of 1.6.3. You can select these versions in your launcher, or download the server links below.

Hey! You! Did you hear about the new snapshot? No? Well, there’s a new snapshot! Huzzah! What got added? Stuff! What got fixed? Bugs! If you find any more silly bugs, please help us fix it by reporting it to our bug tracker.

We still strongly recommend that you don’t run the snapshots on an existing world if you don’t want to run into chunk errors. There is a known issue with world structures such as Nether Fortresses not transitioning to 1.7 from 1.6, but loading these areas in the new pre-release 1.6.3 and then going to snapshot 13w37b (or later) should fix this.

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. To get the pre-release, do the same but manually select “1.6.3″ from the version dropdown list.

Server files (For snapshot 13w37b):

• Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w37b/minecraft_server.13w37b.jar
• Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w37b/minecraft_server.13w37b.exe

Server files (For the 1.6.3 pre-release):

• Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.6.3/minecraft_server.1.6.3.jar
• Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.6.3/minecraft_server.1.6.3.exe

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

(English translation at the bottom.)

日本の皆様！9月の東京ゲームショーウを訪れるマインクラフトのデベロッパーに会いに来ませんか？
東京にいる間にファンの集いを２つさせて頂きます。Mojangの参加者は@lydiawinters @vubui @pgeuder @carlmanneh @jnkboyと@jeb_です。

Minecraft Asagaya Meetup
#MinecraftAsagaya
日時：９月１７日（火）、午後６時～９時
場所：麦酒工房・阿佐ヶ谷店　http://beerkobo.web.fc2.com/asagayaindex.html （JR阿佐ヶ谷駅の近く）
内容：マインクラフトのデベロッパーと一緒に飲んでご飯を食べましょう。写真撮って、マインクラフトを話しましょう。年齢制限２０歳。

予約は不要ですが、ご参加を予定してる方は、#MinecraftAsagayaのタグを付けてツイートして下さい。

Minecraft Tokyo Game Show Meetup
#MinecraftTGS
日時：９月２１日（土）、午後１時～３時
場所：幕張メッセの近く、幕張海浜公園の大きな時計　https://maps.google.se/maps?q=35.645381,140.042697&num=1&t=h&z=18
内容：マインクラフトのデベロッパーと写真を撮って、マインクラフトを話しましょう。

晴れを期待しておりますが、雨の場合はキャンセルをさせて頂きます。ご参加を予定してる方は、#MinecraftTGSのタグを付けてツイートして下さい。

English version:

Hey!

Living in Tokyo and wants to meet the developers? Now you have your chance as Mojang is going there the week during Tokyo Game Show!

While we are there, we are going to hold two Minecraft meetups, one for beer lovers (like us), and one for families going to Tokyo Game Show. Attending from Mojang are @jeb_, @LydiaWinters, @jnkboy, @vubui, @pgeuder and @carlmanneh.

Minecraft Asagaya Meetup
#MinecraftAsagaya
When: Tuesday, September 17, 18:00-21:00 JST
Where: Beer Kobo Asagaya, http://beerkobo.web.fc2.com/asagayaindex.html (Close to Asagaya JR station)
What: Eat and drink with Mojang. Have a chat or take pictures! You must be 20 years old.

You don’t need to book your place, but if you are planning to go send us a tweet with the tag #MinecraftAsagaya! :)

Minecraft Tokyo Game Show Meetup
#MinecraftTGS
When: Saturday, September 21, 13:00-15:00 JST
Where: In a park close to Makuhari Messe, by the giant flower clock located here: https://maps.google.se/maps?q=35.645381,140.042697&num=1&t=h&z=18
What: Meet the Minecraft developers and take pictures!

If the weather is horrible we may need to cancel this meetup, but we’re hoping for sunshine. Please let us know if you are coming by tweeting us with the tag #MinecraftTGS!

Hope to see you there!

Update: 13w36b has been released. Instructions to download the client & server are below. Fixed bugs:

• [Bug MC-2840] – Chat concurrency issues
• [Bug MC-29446] – Mesa biome spawn
• [Bug MC-29453] – Server Console: Debug Messages? TranslatableComponent
• [Bug MC-29462] – Enchantments are not displayed on item's tool tip / Enchantments do not work at all
• [Bug MC-29463] – Can't obtain achievement "Beginning?"
• [Bug MC-29469] – Unable to take screenshot in GUI
• [Bug MC-29478] – Attacks show enchanted particles without enchanted weapons
• [Bug MC-29479] – When Eating Pufferfish/Salmon/Clownfish the Normal Fish particles appear
• [Bug MC-29484] – Sound Not Saving
• [Bug MC-29497] – Vanilla 13w36a find suspicious class
• [Bug MC-29504] – Typo in /achievement give
• [Bug MC-29532] – Wrong item shows up on the 'Adventure Time' achievement
• [Bug MC-29548] – commands.summon.outOfWorld
• [Bug MC-29562] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException
• [Bug MC-29571] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException

It’s that time of the year again. Hold onto your hats because we have brand new bugs features for you to explore! Introducing the first snapshot of Minecraft 1.7: 13w36a. What’s new, you ask? I don’t know! You tell me! We’re keeping this one a secret for now, but please report anything that you think is not an intended feature to our bug tracker.

We strongly recommend that you don’t run the snapshots on an existing world if you want your landscape to stay pretty. You’ll get silly chunk borders and they don’t look pretty at all. I’d even go as far as to call them ugly.

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.

Server files:

• Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w36b/minecraft_server.13w36b.jar
• Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w36b/minecraft_server.13w36b.exe

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams

Massive congratulations to Edge magazine. The stellar publication has been around for 20 years! To celebrate, their 258th issue comes in 20 different flavours, and one of those flavours includes the earthly overtones of both Minecraft and Dungeons & Dragons. Junkboy drew it, and I worded it a few weeks ago. Click the image above to embiggen.

Be sure to visit Edge Online to check out the other 19 on offer. There are some awesome creations in there. Edge issue 258 has just gone on-sale.

Have a nice day!

Owen – @bopogamel

Hey hey!

I thought it was time I gave you an update on the world generator changes we’ve been working on. The last time we did any major changes to the generator was back in March 2012, when the jungle biome was added.

In case you don’t know what a “biome” is, it’s a climate zone used in the game to set what kind of surface the ground has (sand? grass?), whether it should rain or snow, what trees grow there, and sometimes also what kind of animals that are allowed to spawn there. The biome is also used to determine how hilly it should be, although this is a technical solution because biomes are generated before the elevation (the old generator created the elevation first, and decided on biomes based on elevation).

One reason why we rarely do changes to the world generator is because every little change off-sets the world seed and causes noticeable borders between new and old terrain. A lot of people don’t mind about these borders, but we still want to avoid creating them. So, in order to avoid needing to change the world generator again in the nearest future, we try to do as many changes now as possible.

There have been three main problems we have wanted to address:

• Too large oceans
• Too uneven/random biome placement
• Not enough variation

The solution to these problems have been,

• Tweaks to add more islands and checks to avoid huge oceans
• Biomes have been put into four main categories: snow-covered, cold, medium, and dry/warm. Biomes will avoid getting placed next to a biome that is too different to itself (sometimes this still happens, but it’s very rare now and not all over the place)
• We’ve added a whole bunch of new biomes…
• … and most biomes have uncommon/rare variations that you may run into
• We’ve also added a bunch of new terrain features, such as new flowers and trees

We’re not done yet, but here’s something to give you an idea of what has happened (click on the images for full resolution):

The scale of these maps is 16384×12288 blocks.

// The Minecraft Team

Hey!

Didn’t you get the memo? The forces of Decay have been unleashed upon the world!

In fact, it’s looking very lively over on Scrolls.com. You should probably check it out. Click the image above, or this highlighted text to see what I’m talking about.

You can buy Scrolls here. It’s super fun times!

Have a good day everyone!

Owen – @bopogamel

Sony fans rejoice! The rumours are true. Minecraft is indeed coming to PS3, PS4, and Vita. We’re delighted to spead the Minecraft love to a new family of consoles.

As previously confirmed, Minecraft is also coming to Xbox One. There’s no need to feel left out, no matter your choice of future console.

We’re not quite ready to share dates and details yet, but as soon as we are I’ll get them posted.

Have a good day everyone!

Owen – @bopogamel

Hey!

Just in-case you didn’t know, Scroll’s fourth faction – Decay – is shambling into game next week! It’s going to be horrific. Click the huge image for more info.

You can buy Scrolls at this handy link.

Have a nice day!

Owen – @bopogamel