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Minecraft snapshot 15w44b

Dinnerbone — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:32:25 +0000

Update: We’ve released a ‘b’ snapshot making End Crystals, End Rods and Tipped Arrows properly obtainable in Survival. In addition, it fixes numerous bugs and some crashes.

We’ve come a long way, but we’re finally approaching The End of the 1.9 snapshot series and are starting to work closer towards a full release.

We’ve now got almost all the features we wanted for 1.9 done and stable, with a few minor balancing and polishing tasks left to do. In the coming weeks we will focus more on performance, stability and bug fixing.

Notable changes:

Rebalanced loot found in generated chests (dungeons, for example)
Added new mechanic for respawning the Ender Dragon
New item: End Crystal. Currently drops from Skeletal Horses.
Re-rebalanced the golden apples.
Made the “buff bar” at the top of the screen properly respect hidden & ambient effects.
Made the new saturation -> food mechanic only apply when you’re not hungry
Fixed many bugs.
Bones and bone meals are now 50% cooler. No particliar reason why, they just are.

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/15w44b/minecraft_server.15w44b.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

We’re updating our legal documents

Owen — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:59:35 +0000

Hello!

We’re updating our EULAs, Brand and Asset Guidelines, and Website Account Terms today, as well as releasing some brand-new Commercial Use Guidelines. I know that’s an intimidating first sentence but you don’t need to panic. If you want to jump in at the deep end, view all of our legal documents at account.mojang.com/terms and minecraft.net/terms

The majority of the changes won’t affect most of you, but we think it’s worth trying to explain the reasons behind them. The changes go into effect on November 20.

How our Commercial Use Guidelines affect videos and streams
Though we’ve explained the ways you can make money from Minecraft in the past, our Commercial Use Guidelines represent the first time the rules have been laid out in a formal way, and in multiple languages.

Again, there’s nothing to worry about here – you can still monetize your servers and videos. The most significant change is that, if you decide to restrict your stream to paying users, the video must be made available for free 24 hours after the original broadcast date. Just like all user-created Minecraft videos, you’re free to monetize your work with ads, if you please.

We’re happy for you to make money for your hard work and to feature an exclusivity period for dedicated fans, but we don’t like the idea of permanently restricting Minecraft content to a select group of players. That’s not in the spirit of the game.

How the new Commercial Use Guidelines affect sales of hand-crafted Minecraft things
Minecraft inspires lots of people to create lots of cool things. Considering the nature of the game, it’s no surprise that people create bespoke, real-life items and want to share them with the world. We’re OK with you doing this, but for obvious reasons we need to include a few caveats: your designs must be unique, you can only make 20 versions of each individual item, and you can’t make over $5000 from sales each year.

There’s a lot more to this, so if you’re selling real-life items inspired by Minecraft we strongly recommend you check the full Commercial Use Guidelines.

Changes to the EULA and Terms of Use
We use EULAs and Terms of Use at Mojang. As you might have heard, Mojang is now owned by Microsoft, a U.S. company. For that reason, we needed to make some changes to abide by the law and Microsoft’s policies. To reiterate, these changes won’t affect the most of our community, but here’s an attempt at explaining what’s been changed and why.

First: indemnity. The old terms used to say that anyone who caused us legal trouble would have to pay us if the issues cost money to fix. Now, you don’t have to pay us. Instead, new terms say that we’re no longer responsible for any of your damages. This is Microsoft’s policy, and since we’re not in the habit of suing our customers, it seems like a good idea to us.

Next, arbitration and class action waiver. This change only applies to U.S. residents. Lawsuits can take a long time and can be expensive. Microsoft moved to an arbitration policy beginning in 2011, which makes potential issues simpler, faster, and less expensive to to resolve on an individual basis. That’s a very simplistic way of describing what an arbitration policy is so, if you’re interested, read Microsoft’s explanation.

Third-party owners complaining about stuff
The agreements now state where IP owners should send complaints if they find an IP infringement on our servers or websites. For example, if someone is linking to an illegal download link from in-game chat on a Realms server, they know who to call; it’s us. This doesn’t affect YouTube videos, third-party servers, or anything else you’ve created. Any complaints about those things will need to be sent elsewhere.

All of our legal documents, localised in most major languages, are available at account.mojang.com/terms and minecraft.net/terms

Thanks for reading, people! Be good! Follow the law! Eat your greens!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 2 now available

Owen — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:52:33 +0000

Hello!

It seems that lots of you are having a great time on Minecraft: Story Mode – a narrative-driven game developed by Telltale Games and set in the world of Minecraft. That makes us very happy!

Well, prepare yourselves for even more enjoyment because Episode 2 – Assembly Required is now available for download on all platforms. That was quick, eh? Watch the trailer up there for a taste of what’s to come.

For more on Minecraft: Story Mode, check out the official website. It’s packed with fun info and cool animations.

Have fun, narrativing, story-folk!

Owen – @bopogamel

Real-life Minecraft loot! Mine Chest now available

Owen — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:56:34 +0000

Hello!

According to a detailed study we haven’t actually performed, chances are you like Minecraft. That means you probably like Minecraft merchandise. Lovely, real-life Minecraft things to sit on your desk, or wear, or put in your pocket.

If that’s the case I bring good news! Mine Chest is now a thing.

Sign up for Mine Chest and a boxed bundle of Minecraft merch will get delivered to your door once a month. Each Mine Chest is themed around a specific aspect of Minecraft and no two will contain the same bits and bobs, which can range from t-shirts to collectable figurines.

Mine Chest costs $29.99 per month and can be ordered on a recurring three or six month plan. Read more about it, and place an order at www.minechest.com, if you like!

Have a jolly day!

Owen – @bopogamel

Cobalt delayed until February 2016 :(

Owen — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:52:42 +0000

Hi everyone,

You’re probably already familiar with Cobalt – a game published by Mojang and developed by Oxeye Game Studio. Watch the trailer below, if you like.

Unfortunately, despite what that trailer says, we’re not going to hit our planned release date of October 30th. Cobalt has been delayed until February, 2016.

We’ve been working on Cobalt for a long time and, though the game is feature complete, our current build is buggier than we’re comfortable with. We want every part of Cobalt – the campaign, challenges, and local and online multiplayer to live up to your expectations, no matter which platform you play it on. That’s going to require a bit more development time.

In honesty, we don’t need four months to fix the outstanding issues, but releasing a game on console is an especially complicated business. There are release windows, and certification things, and all kinds of boxes that need to be ticked before games can be released into the wild.

So yes, amend your calendars – February 2016! Cobalt’s new release date! It’s going to be a blast!

Thanks for your patience,
Mojang and Oxeye Games

Halloween skins coming to Pocket and Windows 10

Owen — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:00:03 +0000

The scariest time of the year is almost upon us! Aside from Minecon, Halloween is the only times that the average person will respect your need to roam the streets dressed as your favourite Minecraft mob. Sad but true.

In true Minecraft tradition, we’ve created a themed skin pack for Minecraft on Windows 10 and Minecraft: Pocket Edition to celebrate. But we’ve done something special this time around. This year’s pack is more about dressing up as your favourite mob – it’s kinda like your Minecraft avatar is about to head out for a trick or treating session, just like you might do on October 31st.

I think this is one of the most creative skin packs we’ve done so far. I hope you enjoy it too!

There are 15 skins in total, and it costs a $0.99 or equivalent. And, hey – even if you don’t download the whole thing everyone can download the Iron Golem and Zombie costumes for free.

Here’s the full list of skins included: Cow costume, Creeper costume, Enderman costume, Ghast costume, Iron Golem costume, Mooshroom Costume, Ocelot costume, Pig costume, Pink sheep costume, Rainbow sheep costume, Skeleton costume, Snow golem costume, Spider costume, Zombie costume.

Oh, and just in case any console players are reading this, don’t worry – you’re getting something equally special to celebrate halloween.

Have a great Halloween and a ghastly time on Minecraft, spooklets!

Owen – @bopogamel

Boo! Minecraft: Pocket Edition update is out!

Daniel Kaplan — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:09:13 +0000

Hello!

We’re super happy to present update 0.12.3 for Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta.

Here’s the tweaks:

[JIRA 9985] Tooltip position was incorrect and visibility time was too short
Sneaking (Crouching) animation is now visible from First Person View
Fixed so controller doesn’t lose its functionality on the death screen
Prevented Mojang logo from appearing sideways on iPhone 6+
Stopped so mining strength doesn’t passively grow, allowing one-hit breaks
Item from 1st slot of hotbar got duplicated when placed on different hotbar slot from inventory
Fixed so saving doesn’t corrupt Monster Rooms
Controller tooltip (“[X] Tab”) doesn’t overlap in the hotbar in Inventory Menu
Player couldn’t use controller’s D-pad to navigate through Inventory Menu

Have a great gaming weekend and if you manage to find some scary bugs, please report here:

Minecraft issue tracker

Minecraft snapshot 15w43c

Dinnerbone — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:58:57 +0000

Update: We’ve released snapshot 15w43c, to fix some bugs & improve the loot tables format.

Update: We’ve released snapshot 15w43b, to fix some crashes and introduce a new feature: subtitles! You can enable them in the sound options. Huge thanks to Ian Hamilton & Game Accessibility Guidelines for design feedback on this feature.

It’s getting colder and colder here in Stockholm, so we’ve built ourselves a little igloo to hold off the incoming frost.

I’d tell you more, but my fingers are freezing off.

Notable changes:

New structure in the world.
New “loot table” concept, allows you (or custom map creators) to change the loot inside randomly generated chests, or what mobs drop.
Improved debug menu.
Increased the amount of strongholds.
Realigned the ■■■■■■■
Some bug fixes & bug unfixes.

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w43c/minecraft_server.15w43c.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Halloween Mashup pack coming to console

Owen — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:59:21 +0000

Hi, everyone!

Minecraft is about to get spooky!

The good folks at 4J have created an entire mash-up pack dedicated to the eeriest time of the year. Not only does this Halloween pack include a whopping 43 skins, a creepy texture pack you can apply to your other Minecraft worlds, and ghostly music, it comes with an entire world that’s guaranteed to scare you senseless. Well, that’s not actually true, but it is kinda freaky. There’s even a rollercoaster that you and your friends can ride on as many times as you like for no additional charge. The ride doesn’t feature boring things like height restrictions or tickets, you’ll be happy to hear.

The Halloween Mashup pack is available on all console versions of Minecraft and costs $3.99. The skins on offer have something of an old-school Hhalloween vibe. Here are some examples: Grim Reaper, Bride of Frankenstein, Wicked Witch, Tree Face, Mad Doctor, Swamp Monster and, of course, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. As with all our packs, you’ll be able to download a few of them for free.

The Halloween Mashup pack is available this Friday, October 23rd on all console versions of Minecraft and costs $3.99, or the equivalent price in your region.

Oh, and just in case any Pocket Edition or Windows 10 Beta players are reading this, don’t worry – you’re getting something equally special to celebrate Halloween. Check the Mojang blog this Friday for more info.

Have a great Halloween and a ghastly time on Minecraft, spooklets!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft: Story Mode unleashed upon the world!

Owen — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:11:51 +0000

Hello!

It’s been a long time coming, but Episode one of Minecraft: Story Mode – The Order of the Stone – is now available on all platforms. Well, apart from Wii U – that version is coming later on.

However, Minecraft: Story Mode is available to download on PC, Mac, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Android, and iOS devices.

To celebrate, the good folks at Telltale have prepared the insightful launch trailer. I’ve embedded it up there for convenience.

So yes, download and enjoy! For more on Minecraft: Story Mode check out this informative website. It really is quite fancy.

Have a great day!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft snapshot 15w42a

Dinnerbone — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:29:50 +0000

Today is a very special day. Do you know why? No? Well then nevermind, it clearly isn’t important.

Oh, you’d like to know? Well, fine, I guess. It’s a snapshot day. There, happy now? You’ve gone and ruined all the surprise. I might as well just tell you exactly what’s in the snapshot then, and forgo any fun or mystery.

Notable changes:

Added two new “treasure” enchantments: “Frost Walker” and “Mending”.
Treasure enchantments cannot be created, only found.
“Frost Walker” enchant leaves a path of frost (new block) behind you, when walking across water.
“Mending” enchant allows items to stay durable, at a cost.
Improved speed & handling of boats.
Added new cost to using brewing stands.
Fixed a bunch of bugs.
Optimised a bunch of plugs.
Drank from a bunch of jugs.

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w42a/minecraft_server.15w42a.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft snapshot 15w41b

Dinnerbone — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:00:13 +0000

Update: We released a ‘b’ snapshot to fix a crash that affected some users on launch.

This week’s snapshot brings you the ability to smash out of the window of a high tower building, fly past the bad guys who are all shooting you with surprisingly bad accuracy, swoop down and land flawlessly into a strategically placed boat and then paddle away at moderately high speeds with the stolen prize pig in the back.

I’m not really sure what it all means, though.

Notable changes:

Fixed boats.
Added reward to End Cities.
Broke boats.
Improved cheat detection in multiplayer.
Fixed boats again.
Swoosh.
Splash.
Oink.

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w41b/minecraft_server.15w41b.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft: Story Mode is almost here!

Owen — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:14:19 +0000

Hello!

The first episode of Minecraft: Story Mode is almost here! It’ll be available to download on October 13th which is less than two weeks away!

Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic game series from Telltale Games. You play as Jesse who (in a first from the studio) can be a male or female hero, and embark on an exciting adventure to save the world while learning about a group of legends known as The Order of the Stone.

Telltale’s games are more about story and characters than building and crafting, but the world of Story Mode will be familiar to anyone who’s played Minecraft. We’ve been working closely with our buddies at Telltale to make it feel as authentic as possible so, whether you’re a veteran crafter or a casual builder, Story Mode will warm the cockles of your hearts.

Minecraft: Story Mode will be available to download on PC, Mac, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Android, and iOS devices. You’ll also be able to get it on disc at the end of October if you prefer. That version comes with the first episode, and will grant access to the other four as they become available. Minecraft: Story Mode will also be coming to Wii U at a later date.

Oh! One more thing: the first episode of Minecraft: Story Mode will premiere at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood CA. It’s going to be a super-exciting live let’s play-type thing, and we’d love for you to attend. If that sounds like your idea of a good time, email minecraftpremier@telltalegames.com and politely ask for a ticket. As you can imagine, seats are very limited so get on it immediately to be in with a chance.

Thanks for reading everyone!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft snapshot 15w40b

Dinnerbone — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:45:35 +0000

UPDATE: Version 15w40b is now available and it fixes the problem that it wasn’t possible to connect to servers.

This weeks snapshot brings some further changes to mob AI. We’ve sprayed every single cactus with animal repellant and hopefully this should keep your pets out of danger just a little bit longer.

I’ve also been working on boats, but that’s not ready yet!

Notable changes:

Lots of changes to mob pathfinding.
Changes to how health regenerates.
Some bug fixes.
Some optimisations.
Some hugs.
Some bugs.

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w40b/minecraft_server.15w40b.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft snapshot 15w39c

Dinnerbone — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 13:31:09 +0000

Update: We’ve released 15w39c. Redstone contraptions should visually update much faster again, and performance should be better on older computers.

Update: We’ve released 15w39b. Buckets am became Death, destroyer of blocks.

The Minecraft team are out for a company workshop, but I’ve decided to stay behind, hold the fort and man the guns. Ain’t no bugs getting past me!

This means I’m all alone. I can do anything I want. Creepers? They’re upside down now. Stairs? They’re sideways… and upside down. I added dirtbikes, removed blocks, and inverted the nether. And nobody can stop me!

Okay maybe not.

Notable changes:

Found a big cause of FPS loss from 1.8, and hopefully fixed it.
Made a funny joke in a changelog.
[Bug MC-51987] – Minecart/Activator Dismount Location is Inconsistent in Cardinal Directions
[Bug MC-52274] – Dismounting does not work to the South, South east, and South west, and is offset in negative quadrants
[Bug MC-65040] – Entities become invisible under certain conditions
[Bug MC-68403] – Entities become invisible after death & respawn
[Bug MC-84060] – Trapdoor placement is awkward
[Bug MC-86391] – Acacia Leaves and Black Oak Leaves pick block function links errors
[Bug MC-87658] – Shield patterns offset by 1 pixel
[Bug MC-88929] – Items lost when shift clicking in full container / inventory

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w39c/minecraft_server.15w39c.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 1 due this October!

Owen — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 20:34:02 +0000

Hello!

You probably remember us talking about Minecraft: Story Mode back in December. It’s a narrative driven adventure made by Telltale Games which takes place in the world of Minecraft. Read on, crafter, because we finally have a release date!

The first Episode of Minecraft: Story Mode will be released on Tuesday October 13th this year. It’ll be called “The Order of The Stone” and will almost definitely be the best thing to happen in the whole of that month.

One of my favourite things about Story Mode is that you get to choose which type of Jessie – the main character – you want to play as, regardless of gender or look. That’s the first time any Telltale game has let you do that; it’s great that we can represent our playerbase so well.

Minecraft: Story Mode will be available on Xbox consoles, PlayStation consoles, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android-based devices. Wii U and Playstation Vita versions are also in the works, but they’ll release a bit later on.

Check out Telltale’s post for more info, and have a great day!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft snapshot 15w38b

Dinnerbone — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:25:24 +0000

UPDATE: Snapshot 15w38b is now available with the following bug fixes (and more):

[Bug MC-65040] – Entities become invisible under certain conditions
[Bug MC-86048] – Entities are disappearing again
[Bug MC-88832] – White Banner + Shield = Black Shield
[Bug MC-88833] – Pistons don't move/bounce entities
[Bug MC-88837] – Item Duplication / Corrupt Player NBT
[Bug MC-88843] – Items don't move up when stuck in block
[Bug MC-88863] – Cobblestone Walls collision box messed up
[Bug MC-88870] – Flowers hitboxes are too big

Clonk. Clunk. Chunk. Clonk.

(These are the sounds of skeletons, just before they shoot you.)

Notable changes:

Clonk. Clunk. Neigh!
More optimisations!
More bug fixes!
Further improvements to general mob AI.
Taught skeletons how to multitask.
Made all pet (ocelot & wolves) deaths be announced to their owners, not just named ones.
Thunder & Lightning is 0.02% more scary.
Clank. Clonk. Twang. Thud.

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w38b/minecraft_server.15w38b.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft snapshot 15w37a

Dinnerbone — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:57:25 +0000

This weeks snapshot is not late, we just decided that Thursday is basically Wednesday+1!

Notable changes:

Rebalanced weapon, tools again.
Rebalanced shields.
Hardcore mode no longer deletes your world on death; instead you may spectate it.
Added new gamerule to disable chunk generation for spectators.
Allowed the bow to be shot from off-hand.
Made chunk generation much smoother in both multiplayer and singleplayer.
Added new flatworld preset.
Lots of optimisations.
Many bug fixes.
Cuddling increases happiness by 35%.

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w37a/minecraft_server.15w37a.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Cross play on Win 10 and PE! The Nether! More!

Owen — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:29:56 +0000

Hey!

We hope you enjoyed Doki Doki Compatibility Quest: 3. It took up a lot of resources (all typos and bugs are intentional). Extra special thanks to Stephen Velema for letting us use his nostalgic tunes.

Doki Doki Compatibility Quest III was created in celebration of our latest update to Minecraft Pocket Edition and the Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta.

Patch 0.12.1 is packed with content, but one of the most exciting things is that you can now play cross-platform. That means a Windows 10 Edition Beta player can jump into their friend’s world, even if they’re playing on a phone or tablet.

One of our long-term goals for Minecraft is to bring our community closer, and give as many players as possible a chance to play together. This is a small step towards that goal.

Play locally
If you’re on the same network, just enable “Local Server Multiplayer” on the options screen. Available games will show up in the Play menu.

Play online
If you’re extra clever, it’s even possible to play with your friends across the world through the medium of the internet. Unfortunately, setting this up might only work if you have direct access to your router and familiarity with the often frustrating and slightly sad activity known as Port Forwarding. Attempt with caution, crafters.

Online play is something of a work in progress. That said, it’s pretty cool if you get it set up. Click Play, then New, then the funny little plus-sign-arrow-thing in the corner, and add the name and IP address of the server you want to join. Good luck!

What else is in the update?

The Nether and all its inhabitants. Fight Ghasts and make friends with Pigmen
Cross platform play for up to five players between Pocket Edition and Windows 10
Revamped touch controls, controller support, and a controller mapping screen
Enhanced Weather effects! Accumulating snow and more
Zombie Villagers can now have professions like farmers or butchers
Ocelots! Try taming one with a fish
Experience, Anvils, Brewing, and enchantments. Time to up your game, crafter
Golems. We recommend you approach with caution
Flower pots. We recommend you fill them with flowers
Sneaking and sprinting! Express yourself through movement!
Loads of bug fixes that are too boring to list here.
Lots, lots more!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft snapshot 15w36d

Dinnerbone — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:54:17 +0000

Update: Snapshot 15w36d has been released to fix some bugs and other smaller issues.

[Bug MC-83040] – Two Handed Map Bug: Offhand map doesn't update
[Bug MC-87871] – Iron Golem attacks peaceful mobs and player for no reason
[Bug MC-87878] – End Void does not deal damage to the player / Can't fall into the void
[Bug MC-87916] – Server warning: Tried to assign a mutable BlockPos to tick data
[Bug MC-87979] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Starting integrated server

Update: Snapshot 15w36c has been released to fix another crash.

Update: Snapshot 15w36b has been released to fix some crashing, some smaller tweaks to AI and armour calculations.

It’s wednesday again – really wednesday this time, not a phony monwednesday! This can only mean three things – but we only care about the second possibility… snapshot!

Notable changes:

Rebalanced armour.
Changed damage & protection enchantments to match new armour system.
Fixed a few AI bugs across lots of mobs.
Made endermen creepy again.
Vwooop.
More optimisations! Many optimisations!
Added player collision again.
Fishing rods can now catch entities properly again.
Added team-based options for collision.
The world may corrupt slightly less times now! Or slightly more, we’re not sure!
I like hugs!

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w36d/minecraft_server.15w36d.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft snapshot 15w35e

Dinnerbone — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:25:59 +0000

Update: We’ve released snapshot 15w35e to improve the internal block id hypermatrix.

Fixed potential world corruption

Update: We’ve released snapshot 15w35d to fix some crashes.

Fixed crashes

Update: We’ve released snapshot 15w35c to fix some issues with some blocks that refused to stay in their designated chunks.

[Bug MC-87078] – Using a sweep attack sends "lasdjfhlsdhjflsdij" to output log
[Bug MC-87194] – Oak and cobblestone stairs placed or generated (NPC villages) in 15w35b are invisible
[Bug MC-87196] – Generated or placed doors are half or complete invisible after relog
[Bug MC-87223] – Changing command block type crashes game (impulse, chain, or repeat)
[Bug MC-87524] – Repeating Conditional Command Blocks have very strange chaining properties.

Update: We’ve released snapshot 15w35b to loosen the new zombie clothes. They were so tight they couldn’t walk, poor things.

By order of the bone, today is officially declared a Wednesday.

Wednesday.

Have you ever noticed how weird that word is? Wednesday. Wednesday. It makes no sense!

Anyhows, we’re not going to be in the office much this week so we thought we’d bring you a snapshot today to fix some issues brought about by last weeks experimental changes. I also put some clothes on some zombies, as I couldn’t help but blush every time one of them walked past.

Notable changes:

Finished the magic trick in which we vanished chunks. They were hiding under the hat this whole time.
Fixed some old memory leaks in the client.
Put some clothes on the zombies. They may be post mortal, but that’s no reason to be indecent.
Slight rebalancing of tools & weapons.
Even more experimental performance enhancements. Guaranteed to break at least one heart.
Fixed some old memory leaks in the client. Sorry, did I say this already? I forgot.
Liked the command blocks? That wasn’t even their final form.

And these are some of the fixed bugs:

[Bug MC-45763] – Some blocks are facing the wrong way if placed in an Item Frame
[Bug MC-86925] – Running out of memory when exiting
[Bug MC-86937] – Empty Chunks duplicate one-another and cause weird behaviour
[Bug MC-87050] – (2 bugs in one) Glitch with adding attributes to items in 1.9

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w35e/minecraft_server.15w35e.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Realms map explosion and free weekend trials

Marc — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:12:27 +0000

Hello Minecrafters!

Minecraft Realms has just been upgraded!

Load a minigame or map which features a custom resource pack and you’ll be asked if you’d like to download the new assets. Some maps have been updated with the packs that they originally used, such as Color Cube and Bloxorz, but we’re even more excited about the new things that you’re going to come up with. Sound-based challenges, animated lightning swords, or a narrated museum tours. Go wild! And read on for the details.

To show off the feature, we’ve added an awesome ski resort adventure map from The VoxelBox: The Muk-Luk Lodge. It features a cast of original characters, plenty of wintry ambiance, and some sick sled jumps, making it a cool example of our new features. Read their travel brochure, or click the trailer below to find out what else awaits.

Though that’s one of our faves, there are a lot more maps worthy of your attention. Check out creations from our infinitely talented mapmakers.

Sharks vs. Steve by Twitchnitr0

Sharks vs. Steve is a map with a simple concept: fight off waves of gold, lapis, and LASER sharks! This map features a custom sound resource pack, so turn up volume to hear all of the pew pew. Play solo, or add friends for increased difficulty.

Point Runner by CitrioN and Xisuma

Point Runner is a fast-paced game that’ll give your fingers a good work out! You score by running over ore blocks, but they disappear as soon as you touch one! Point Runner features three different sets of maps and a ton of replayability.

Silent Ville by Springstof

Silent Ville gives you the chance to start a new survival world amidst detailed farm buildings and a plentiful amount of wheat. A bread-based diet may not be the healthiest, but it’ll sure help you survive your first few days. Stay safe!

Labyrinth by samasaurus6, buckingirl4, MineyCow

The video up there is great, but dive into this map with a few friends and you’ll soon realize why we’ve included this mind-bender! Your goal is to find the rooms that correspond with your key color, while avoiding traps that slow you down. While this goes on, everyone is shifting the map to their advantage.

Build-off Parkour by SlicedLime

Build-off Parkour fuses building and parkour challenges together to create a refreshingly original map concept. Each turn, you can choose to place three blocks or attempt to complete the parkour challenge. If you make it too easy, your opponent might complete it before you! If you make it too hard… good luck!

A Treemendous Spawn by The VoxelBox

A Treemendous Spawn is another way to start a new survival world, and features a treehouse and some other lovely flora. The VoxelBox’s build team teased that they will only submit pun-based Realms maps titles from now on, and it appears they’re making good on their promise.

Zomberman by Brutec

Zomberman is a Minecrafty spin on some classic explosive gameplay. Step 1: someone set us up the bomb. Step 2: Blow up anything that isn’t you! Switch the map to huge and invite seven friends for the ultimate challenge.

Desert Ruins by AKAMc

Desert Ruins starts your survival world in the midst of a number of sun-baked dwellings. We’re sure it used to be quite the vacation spot, but now it’s a bit of a fixer-upper. If you’re up for the challenge, load it up and restore some life to the lost civilization.

Bubble Shooter by SlicedLime

Bubble Shooter’s gameplay will be familiar to many, as it’s been a popular style of game for over 20 years. What’s most impressive is that this was done in Minecraft, with no mods! Line up your shot, shoot a colored block at two of the same color, and pop – they’ll disappear. The current high score at the office is 17,500.

We’ve also got a few maps that aren’t new to Realms, but that we haven’t gotten a chance to show off previously: Random Skies by Dragnoz, Spindlewood by The VoxelBox, Splatter by SethBling, and Solitaire by JesperTheEnd. Most of these maps are also available for anyone to download through the creator’s linked site.

36,000 free trials

To celebrate the new maps, we’re releasing 36,000 14-day trials into the wild! If you haven’t had a Realms subscription before, start Minecraft for PC, choose Minecraft Realms from the main menu, and if a trial link is shown, it’s yours to claim! A number of trials will be available each hour, so if you don’t see one, check back throughout the weekend.

We hope that you’ll love these features and maps as much as we do. If you have a favorite vanilla minigame or map that you’d like to see featured on Minecraft Realms, visit the Realms community on Reddit and drop us a trailer or map download.

Have fun!

Marc – @Marc_IRL

Minecraft snapshot 15w34d

Dinnerbone — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:13:28 +0000

Update: Snapshot 15w34d has been released to fix a memory allocation crash with the previous snapshot. Blame grum.

Update: Snapshot 15w34c has been released with even more changes to the melee combat mechanics, and some further (experimental) optimisations. Another reminder, nothing is final, we aren’t finished yet, and we are taking all feedback into account whilst designing the new gameplay. Take a backup before trying this snapshot, as it may break your world (in which case, you may yell at grum).

Update: Snapshot 15w34b has been released with further changes to the melee combat mechanics. Once again, please remember that the changes are absolutely not final nor balanced not even a little bit.

Zoooom!

That’s the sound of this update being pushed out really fast, due to some new speedy optimisations and speedy combat mechanics.

Todays snapshot makes a start on the melee combat changes, which are completely not final nor balanced at all in the absolute slightest not even a little bit really honestly seriously. We welcome all feedback, but please remember that nothing is yet balanced and the mechanics themselves are subject to change and redesign.

Here are some of the notable changes:

New “attack strength” combat mechanic.
Maps now start at a more useful zoom level.
New recipe for zooming in a map.
Lots of optimisations!
Improved command blocks.
Worsened Zombies’ arms getting tired.

And these are some of the fixed bugs:

[Bug MC-83471] – "CustomPotionEffects" Inoperable with Splash / lingering Potions
[Bug MC-85115] – Dragon Fireball doesn't have a name (entity.DragonFireball.name)
[Bug MC-85592] – Default log4j2.xml is suboptimal
[Bug MC-86137] – Crash when breaking heads
[Bug MC-86138] – Pick block on Mob (Dragon) Head / Structure block crashes the game
[Bug MC-86152] – Records lose their custom name when placed in a record player

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w34d/minecraft_server.15w34d.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft snapshot 15w33c

Dinnerbone — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:39:31 +0000

Update: Snapshot 15w33c has been released with more bug fixes and extra protection.

Bug fixes & notable changes:

Added Shields. Remember, things are not yet balanced nor finalized at all.
[Bug MC-10447] – Pick up framed enchanted items with "Pick Block (MOUSE 3)" don't give you the enchanted item
[Bug MC-68399] – Pressing the '<' key takes screenshot on certain keyboard layouts
[Bug MC-73474] – Rail duplication Glitch
[Bug MC-82855] – Invisible Shulker shows white box until relog
[Bug MC-82986] – Stackable items of same id and meta value but different NBT tags will stack in creative menu
[Bug MC-83350] – Entities teleporting through a portal disappear instead of teleporting.
[Bug MC-83945] – Item counts can go negative when interacting with entities, allowing duplication
[Bug MC-84320] – Respawned Ender Dragon doesn't drop experience
[Bug MC-85500] – Syntax for '/scoreboard players' doesn't include 'tag' parameter
[Bug MC-85834] – Pick-Block on mobs gives you a blank spawn egg
[Bug MC-85865] – Can't put splash potions in brewing stands
[Bug MC-85925] – Problems while Loading NBT [AreaEffectCloud]
[Bug MC-85973] – Modifying the 'Age' tag of an 'AreaEffectCloud' entity will result in the 'Effects' tag being duplicated
[Bug MC-86007] – Both the Bottle and Dragon's Breath are Consumed When Making Lingering Potions
[Bug MC-86066] – Mob spawner spawns skeletons without bow
[Bug MC-86082] – Cannot summon an entity with a custom UUID
[Bug MC-86085] – Potions and Spawn Eggs still show data values in tooltips.

Update: Snapshot 15w33b has been released to fix some nasty bugs, as follows:

[Bug MC-85837] – Crash or chunk corruption on turning "text" into Components
[Bug MC-85839] – Crashing when summoning a mob
[Bug MC-85884] – Lingering potion shows incorrect time values

Roar! That’s dragon for “Greetings, human. I like your face. Here’s a snapshot“.

This week’s snapshot brings a whole new type of potion, some smaller changes to existing potions, more changes to the Dragon fight mechanics (there’s a reason to respawn her now, and I do not apologize for making it so much harder), and a bunch of optimisations/bug fixes.

I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that we have not yet balanced the new (or existing) features. Things will either be completely overpowered or hilariously underpowered, so keep that in mind when playing with any new stuff!

Here are some of the notable changes:

Added new ‘lingering’ class of potions.
Told the dragon that you all called her funny names, so now she’s extra angry.
Optimisations! Bug fixes!
Looking into End Gateways may cause slight headaches.
Recalibrated the quantum intake regulator.

Searge also requested that you all know the following. I suspect he’s moonlighting as a litter pick.

It will be noticed if you throw your trash everywhere
It will also be noticed if you pick it up and keep your world clean

And these are some of the fixed bugs:

[Bug MC-82945] – UUID error: Tried to add entity with duplicate UUID spam
[Bug MC-83350] – Entities teleporting through a portal disappear instead of teleporting.
[Bug MC-83731] – Using /kill on the Ender Dragon doesn't end the fight
[Bug MC-85288] – "Save World" and "Cancel" Button have been switched
[Bug MC-85382] – Attempting to use a spawn egg on a block thats out of range throws error
[Bug MC-85397] – Adult mobs spawned with mob eggs are "invalid", they can't be selected with @e
[Bug MC-85542] – Enderdragon can destroy end_portal and end_gateway blocks

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w33c/minecraft_server.15w33c.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta 0.12.0.1

Owen — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 08:07:25 +0000

UPDATE: this is actually changelog 0.12.0.1 not 0.12.1.0! Blame our silly number bot (who has now been recycled) for any confusion. The patch also includes x86/32-bit support, which wasn’t mentioned in our earlier post.

We’ve released a new version of Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta to improve functionality and fix some reported bugs & crashes.

Notable improvements & bug fixes

Other things

Added x86 / 32-bit support
Anvil UI works better- you can access the main UI while renaming/repairing & can place items in the second slot
Minecarts don’t disappear when you enter the nether
“Repopulation” achievement fixed
Squid able to be pulled with a fishing rod
Creative world saves can be imported to the Trial version
Nether brick slab now craftable
You can keep chatting with your friends when you get on a boat
Fixed spawning/respawning in the Nether & in flat worlds
Mining emerald ore fixed for correct pickaxe types
Custom skins tab fixed
Enchanted books now include enchantment names
Fixed scenario where writing signs would cause the game to crash
Fixed issues with furnaces & chests not working
Fixed crashes when players repeatedly entered & left the Nether
Audio file fixes
Fixed crashes for players with non-ASCII characters in names.
Fixed world progress saved game issue.

Report bugs here: Minecraft issue tracker.

And feedback here: Minecraft Windows 10 Beta Edition Feedback

Minecraft snapshot 15w32c

Searge — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 14:01:17 +0000

Update: Snapshot 15w32c has been released with the following changes and bugfixes:

Large optimisations to particles.
Increased range and count limit of particles.
Changed the beacon block to a bacon block in the End ships.
[Bug MC-2490] – TNT animation ends at 80 ticks, ignores fuse length changes.
[Bug MC-85242] – ArmorStands with "EntityTag" don't spawn

Update: Snapshot 15w32b has been released with the following changes and bugfixes:

Redesigned world select screen.
Another thing with values.
Potions are tasting much better now, especially the harmful ones.
[Bug MC-82925] – Potions in new snapshot turn into water bottles with no texture / missing texture
[Bug MC-82968] – Kicked from server when in certain area
[Bug MC-83448] – Dragon respawns in old world
[Bug MC-83894] – /replaceitem cannot place non-armor items into Armor Stands' head slot
[Bug MC-84035] – Enderdragon can't die unless perched on portal
[Bug MC-85110] – Crash on shooting ender dragon with an arrow
[Bug MC-85152] – Command block minecarts despawn after loading world.

Snapshot 15w32a:

Another week, another snapshot. We are currently focusing on getting all the new content that we have planned into the snapshots, but it will take a little time until we see it all there. This week we have spent some time laying down the ground work for better boss fight AI and upgrade paths between worlds, so we can do even cooler stuff in the following weeks’ snapshots.

Thanks to everyone who reported bugs for the snapshots last week. We were very eager to see how many problems are reported for the first snapshots in many months and we are positively surprised by the fact that we saw less problems than expected.

Here are some of the improvements since last week:

Improved Ender Dragon fight, now with more cowbell!
Better handling of using items in both the mainhand and offhand.
Some monsters have problems with their vision now, but we don’t have the time to code glasses for them.
Generic upgrade path for world saves, this is very technical internal stuff that you’ll only notice if it goes wrong, but it makes our lives easy.
Added a thing to the system with the values. Can’t be more specific, no spoilers.

And some bug fixes:

[Bug MC-48730] – Nametags still show while player is invisible and on team
[Bug MC-82833] – Shulker projectile follows player in spectator mode and creative mode
[Bug MC-84035] – Enderdragon can't die unless perched on portal
[Bug MC-84078] – When fishing rod is cast, all fishing rods look like it was cast out to sea too
[Bug MC-84253] – almost all potion and tipped arrows are black
[Bug MC-84584] – Placing End Rod on End Rod sends "hslsdjfksdlk" to output log twice

A note for everybody else: Back up your world before updating. Things will break, especially in such an early snapshot. Backup your world. Back it up. Do it now.

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

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w32c/minecraft_server.15w32c.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Watch the new Cobalt trailer! Over one minute of :D

Owen — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:48:26 +0000

As Gamescom enthusiasts might already know, we’ve just released a brand-new Cobalt trailer for your viewing pleasure! Watch it!

Cobalt is the brainchild of Oxeye Game Studio, which consists of Jens Bergensten, Daniel Brynolf, and Pontus Hammerberg.

As you can see from the trailer it’s dense with features, but Cobalt is mostly about playing as a cute robot with a passion for 2D battles packed with extreme slow-mo and combat rolls.

Cobalt will be released on Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Steam in October 2015, but you can play the remarkably-dated 2014 alpha version on PC and Mac right now. And hey – everyone who already owns Cobalt, or buys it for PC/Mac before October will get their Steam key for free!

Check out the official Cobalt site for more info, and enjoy the rest of Gamescom!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft snapshot 15w31c

Dinnerbone — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:43:58 +0000

Update: Snapshot 15w31c has been released containing all of the following wonderful new bugfixes. Grab the server here!

[Bug MC-2835] – Resizing the Minecraft window while dead grays out the Respawn/Exit to Menu buttons and several other screens
[Bug MC-67952] – XP Orbs have graphical bugs when looking straight down
[Bug MC-82821] – Levitation potion is named "potion.levitation"
[Bug MC-82824] – Picking up items doesnt stack them into the offhand slot.
[Bug MC-82828] – 1/4 of stairs get rendered incorrectly on one side while in hotbar
[Bug MC-82832] – End Portal Spawns position changes
[Bug MC-82870] – Chorus Plant Hitbox
[Bug MC-82901] – Slight player offset when on Grass Path Block
[Bug MC-82928] – Items being slightly pushed down in the screen.
[Bug MC-83004] – Player in the Inventory is not displaying correctly when not holding an item in the first slot!
[Bug MC-83068] – Fire floats above block
[Bug MC-83079] – Chest model in hand tilted awkwardly
[Bug MC-83163] – Purpur double slabs drop nothing when broken
[Bug MC-83239] – Respawned dragon doesn't have a health bar
[Bug MC-83448] – Dragon respawns in old world
[Bug MC-83702] – Subsequent dragons drop another egg when killed
[Bug MC-83883] – Using banner on cauldron creates another banner of last stage
[Bug MC-83894] – /replaceitem cannot place non-armor items into mobs' head slot
[Bug MC-83906] – Map in offhand shows arms when invisible
[Bug MC-83943] – When I use pick block on double purpur slab blocks it doesnt do anything.
[Bug MC-84000] – Holding enchanted armour gives same effects as wearing it
[Bug MC-84035] – Enderdragon can't die unless perched on portal
[Bug MC-84131] – Potion of water breathing missing and fire resistance (8:00) not working as expected
[Bug MC-84191] – Shulker looks weird when it rides on minecart
[Bug MC-84198] – Chorus Fruit can teleport you to the roof of the Nether

Update: Snapshot 15w31b has been released and contains the following (and probably some more) bugfixes:

[Bug MC-82808] – New arrow names
[Bug MC-82809] – Texture errors for Spectral Arrow
[Bug MC-82819] – Levitating for too long kicks the player
[Bug MC-82842] – Multiplayer whenever someone mines the body of another player shakes
[Bug MC-82859] – You get a stack of the new arrow upon picking it up on the ground
[Bug MC-82873] – Cannot get property on Rails
[Bug MC-82874] – When you do /kill with a left arm set it goes to a right arm
[Bug MC-82876] – Hide particles not working
[Bug MC-82880] – Cannot get property while planting cocoa beans.
[Bug MC-82896] – /clear doesn't clear slots other than main inventory
[Bug MC-82907] – Signed Book and Quil messed up result
[Bug MC-82938] – Enderman missplaced arm + head
[Bug MC-83041] – Armor slots in /replaceitem do not work as intended
[Bug MC-83143] – Glowing effect does not have team color around armor or held items
[Bug MC-83187] – Signs show opening and closing quotes on each line
[Bug MC-83313] – Failed to save chunk java.io.UTFDataFormatException: encoded string too long: 65541 bytes
[Bug MC-83460] – Tellraw is completely broken!
[Bug MC-83623] – Item models break when tools with durability use the Unbreakable tag.
[Bug MC-83709] – Scrolling in the "Miscellaneous" creative inventory tab skips one row
[Bug MC-83818] – [Resource Pack Bug] Crash when using cull faces with multipart blockstates
[Bug MC-83838] – ShulkerBullet NBT gets corrupted when (Owner,) Target and Pos position are equal

15w31a:

It’s time! It’s that time again! It’s finally here! It’s snapshot time! Snapshots!

A little later than I’d have liked, but we’re now ready to start public testing of Minecraft 1.9: The Combat Update. As you can expect from the name, the update is mostly about cuddling and farming plants.

I’m not going to tell you what’s new, but I will tell you what isn’t new… yet. These are the things you should not expect to find in this super-alpha-development-preview-test-build-thing:

Any balancing of any kind. Seriously, expect things to be hilariously overpowered or underpowered.
Melee combat changes. Melee combat will change, just not in this snapshot.
Shields. They tie into the melee combat changes.
The meaning of life. That’s also for another snapshot.
Hugs. You can find those over here instead.
Perfect respawn mechanics of the end. You can respawn the dragon right now by drawing a creeper face with clay, but it won’t respawn everything yet. That’s temporary.
Lots of new items/blocks which don’t exist yet. That’s why you’re respawning the dragon like above.
New potions or enchantments. There will be new ones, just not right now!
Subtitles support. It’s still planned for 1.9!
Proper offhand interaction support. Right now it doesn’t entirely work as expected, we have to go through every interaction and decide what should happen each time.
Lots of stuff, really. We have a lot of things planned for 1.9, and this is just the first snapshot. Gotta keep some surprises!

A note for resource pack authors: We have changed the format of resource packs slightly, and have support for versioning packs now. You can still use incompatible packs, it just needs extra confirmation from the user.

A note for everybody else: Back up your world before updating. Things will break, especially in such an early snapshot. Backup your world. Back it up. Do it now.

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

Remember, tweetlings! Twitter is for hugs, not bugs <3 Bugs go here: http://t.co/7YZRCgKNnP, hugs go here: https://t.co/kaHw9i0atj

— Nathan Adams (@Dinnerbone) July 29, 2015

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/15w31c/minecraft_server.15w31c.jar

Report bugs here:

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Get Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta for free!

Owen — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:09:26 +0000

Update: This is still rolling out, so don’t panic if you can’t see the button on your account page yet! Check back later!

Hello!

Windows 10 – Microsoft’s shiny new operating system – launches tomorrow. As announced at MINECON 2015 a few weeks ago it features a brand-new Edition of Minecraft. We’re calling it Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta.

If you’re one of the 20 million(ish) players who already own Minecraft for PC/Mac, you get the new version for free. Completely free!

To download your copy, first log into your Mojang account (My password is significantly more complex than those dots so don’t bother trying, criminal person).

Next, click the “Redeem” button on your account page, sign into your Microsoft account, and follow the instructions that follow. That’s it! You’ll be playing Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta in a jiffy.

Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta will be available to download in the Windows 10 Store.

Have fun with Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta, kind crafters! And enjoy fiddling about with your swanky new operating system!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft 1.8.8 Released

Dinnerbone — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:59:32 +0000

We have released a new version of Minecraft, 1.8.8, to improve some functionality of Realms and fix some reported bugs & crashes.

This version is fully compatible with all previous 1.8 versions, but it is still highly recommend to update to 1.8.8 as soon as possible for both players and servers.

Notable bugs fixed:

[Bug MC-80817] – Server may not start in some environments
[Bug MC-81018] – Potential server crashing exploit
[Bug MC-81405] – Client crashing exploit
[Bug MC-82629] – Lag exploit with banners

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Download server jar:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8.8/minecraft_server.1.8.8.jar

Greek Mythology mash-up pack arrives on console

Owen — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 21:24:22 +0000

What did the greeks ever do for us? They inspired another mash-up for Minecraft on console, that’s what.

Yes – now you can download 39 skins, a custom texture set, and a new UI, all inspired by Greek mythology of old. The pack gives you the chance to play as actual gods, including head honcho, Zeus, and fishy beardy man, Poseidon. Cool monsters like minotaurs and cyclopes also feature.

The pack also comes with greek-inspired music composed by Gareth Coker and an custom map of awesome scale for you to explore alone, or with your buddies.

The Greek Mash-up pack costs £3.29/$3.99 and is available on the Xbox marketplace and PSN right now!

Have fun, friendly crafter!

Owen – @bopogamel

We’ve chosen a director for the Minecraft movie!

Vu Bui — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:51:16 +0000

Hello there!

Some of you may have seen this guy hanging around MINECON in London a couple weeks ago. He’s Rob McElhenney, and he’s going to be directing the upcoming Minecraft movie.

– Vu (@vubui)

Announcing: Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta

Owen — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 11:01:19 +0000

Hello!

We have exciting news to share! A whole new version of Minecraft is on its way. This time, it’s for Windows 10 – Microsoft’s new swanky operating system that’s due for release on July 29th.

We’re calling it Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta.

Just like the first release of Minecraft all those years ago, this version will develop and evolve over time with the help of your feedback. That’s why it has “Beta” in the title – because it’s not quite finished, and will become even more fun over time. Just like the other versions of Minecraft, all future updates will be free. We spoil you. We really do.

If you’re one of the 20 million(!) players who have the PC edition of Minecraft (referred to by techy people as the Java version) you’ll be able to download Windows 10 Edition Beta from the Windows 10 store for free. Other players can get it for the paltry price of $10 during the beta period (the length of which is still being decided).

Minecraft is available on Windows, Mac, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4 and PS Vita, and now, Windows 10. Not every version of Minecraft is exactly the same, but they all feature two distinct game modes – Creative and Survival – that cater to different types of players. All versions of Minecraft support multiplayer.

You’ll recognise some Pocket Edition features in Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta, along with potpourri of cool extras. Here are some highlights:

Craft, create, and explore online with up to seven friends playing Windows 10 Edition Beta, through local multiplayer or with your Xbox Live friends online.
Play online and local multiplayer with other Pocket Edition players thanks to a free update, due to arrive soon after launch.
Multiple control schemes! Switch between controller, touch, and keyboard controls with little to no effort!
Record and share gameplay highlights with built-in GameDVR.
Help shape the future of Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta with our built player feedback mechanisms!
Chickens, zombies, pigs, boats, armed skeletons, potatoes, zombies, baby squids, enchantment tables, villagers, naked sheep, iron golems, potions, ghasts, pickaxes, carrots, and all the weird and wonderful goodness you’ve come to expect from Minecraft.

We hope you’re as excited as us for Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta. It’s gonna be cool!

Thanks for reading!

Owen

*Oh, and while we’re here, don’t forget to read the easy-to-understand legalese featured below…

The “Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition” beta will be available for download in the Windows 10 Store beginning July 29. Players who already have the PC edition of “Minecraft” will be able to download the Windows 10 beta version free. Others can download “Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition” at a discounted price of $10 throughout the beta period. Players who download “Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition” during the beta phase will still have the game when it comes out of beta, and receive all future updates to the game at no additional cost.

Watch the Minecraft livestream! UPDATE: We’re live!

Owen — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 17:57:03 +0000

Hey! In case you didn’t already know, MINECON 2015 is starting tomorrow. It’s taking place in London and is going to be super fun and extremely Minecrafty!

Unfortunately, we can’t fit every single Minecrafter into the venue, so we’re also streaming the show via the internet.

Go to twitch.tv/minecon to watch the stream from 10am GMT tomorrow. Don’t worry if that timing doesn’t work for you though – we’re replaying the stream at various times during the weekend so you can tune in whenever you like, and watch the most fun bits over and over!

Here’s the link again, in case you’ve already forgotten!

twitch.tv/event/minecon

Console Minecraft getting flatter, woodier, optionier!

Owen — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:32:01 +0000

Everyone loves free updates, right? They make games more fun and cost literally nothing. What wonderful things.

Excitingly, one of them is landing on Minecraft tomorrow. On July 1st, all console versions of Minecraft will be updated to version 1.17/TU25/CU14 , bringing a heap of exciting tweaks and additions. Here are a few highlights:

Offended by mountains and caverns? Worry not, strange crafter, because now you have the option to customise your super flat worlds so they’re only as vertical as you desire.
New blocks! Oak, Spruce, Birch, and Jungle wood types. Fences, Gates, and Doors! Create the log cabin of your dreams with 1.17/TU25/CU14 .
A heap of new game options! Change the game mode, difficulty, time, player spawn position, ambient cave sounds, and weather without leaving your game session. Very handy.
Classic crafting! Now console players get to craft items just like their PC buddies on Java Minecraft. Some players find this style of creation more satisfying. Check it out.
New stuff! Iron Trapdoors, Inverted Daylight Sensors, Book & Quills, and Stained Glass have arrived. Use them wisely, and for good, please.

Download and be merry, crafter folk!
Owen – @bopogamel

LittleBigPlanet meets Minecraft! Minecon capes!

Owen — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:31:26 +0000

Hello! I bring DLC news for console players. Read on for the info.

LittleBigPlanet meets Minecraft! (Playstation editions only)

Good news for LittleBigPlanet fans on Sony’s consoles! A brand-new mash-up pack featuring Sackboy, Sackgirl OddSock, Toggle, Swoop and many more, is on its way to Minecraft on PlayStation.

Mash up packs let you change the way Minecraft looks. This one lets you LittleBigPlanet-ify your Minecraft world with textures, characters and creatures from Media Molecule’s adorable platformer. It even comes with a pre-build landscape and some catchy tunes taken straight from the game. What more could a Little Big Minecrafter possibly want?

The LittleBigPlanet Mash-up pack will be available to download from July 1st. It’ll cost £3.29/€3.99.

The Minecon 2015 Skin Pack (All console editions)

Even more DLC news for y’all! To celebrate the awesomeness that is next week’s Minecon 2015, we’re releasing a free bundle of skins for both Sony and Microsoft consoles. This pack is extra-special because it features Alex and Steve wearing a selection of smart capes.

The Minecon 2015 Skin Pack will be available for just 15 days from the 1st of July onwards. Download it from Xbox Live Marketplace/PSN while it’s still hot. You’ve got nothing to lose but your bandwidth!

Have a great week, everyone!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft 1.8.7 Security Release

Dinnerbone — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 10:34:32 +0000

We have released a new version of Minecraft 1.8, 1.8.7, which is now available for download in your launcher. This release fixes a few reported security issues.

This version is fully compatible with all previous 1.8 versions, but it is still highly recommend to update to 1.8.7 as soon as possible for both players and servers.

Notable fixes:

[Bug MC-80749] – Resource packs do not get cleaned up
[Bug MC-80750] – Resource packs continue downloading after disconnect
[Bug MC-80875] – Specific unicode character pair crashes tr_TR clients
[Bug MC-81001] – Signs can cause crashes

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Download server jar:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8.7/minecraft_server.1.8.7.jar

We’re giving away 12,000 Realms trials this weekend!

Owen — Wed, 27 May 2015 14:44:57 +0000

Hello!

You might have already heard of Minecraft Realms. It’s our official way for you to play on a persistent Minecraft world with friends. That means that you and a bunch of buddies can play build, create, and explore in the same world, regardless of how many of you are available.

It’s my favourite way to play Minecraft – playing together with your favourite crafters feels really special, whether you’re building something awesome or gearing up to take down the Ender Dragon.

Realms currently gives you three separate worlds to play on per account – you can generate them from a random seed, upload your own map, or choose one of our funky presets to play on. Even better, your progress is regularly backed up, so you can load a previous save if the whole place burns down, gets flooded, or overrun by enthusiastic creepers. You can even see exactly who has been online and when thanks to our handy activity monitor. It’s super simple to setup and loads of fun!

All Realms accounts also get a special slot which is dedicated to our selection of minigames. There are lots of them already included in each subscription, and you get to switch between them as you please. Read more about them here.

Realms costs from €8/£6.40/$10.40 a month to play (it’s a bit cheaper if you subscribe for longer), and up to 10 crafters can play on any one Realm at a time. It’s currently only available for the PC version of Minecraft.

To celebrate the obvious coolness of Minecraft Realms we thought we’d give away 12,000 14 day trials this weekend. 500 will be available from within your Minecraft client each hour from 11 am UTC on Saturday until 11am on Sunday. To grab one, load up Minecraft and choose Minecraft Realms from the main menu. If you see a link offering you a free trial, click it and your trial will begin! There’s no catch whatsoever! Literally none!

Have fun playing together, y’all!

Owen – @bopogamel

Pocket Edition now has skins, chicken jockeys, more!

Owen — Tue, 26 May 2015 15:31:24 +0000

This update has now gone live! Have fun, Pocket Edition players!

Hello!

We’re bringing loads of new features to Minecraft: Pocket Edition. Skins! Fishing! Cool boats that support the transportation of wolves.

Skins? Sounds gross
Skins are the way you change the appearance of your Minecraft character. Instead of looking like Alex or Steve, you can roll with a different vibe, like a butcher, dog, or plumber. Skins are purely cosmetic – they don’t affect the way the game plays or give you any special abilities.

But… but… I don’t want to give you money!
That’s fine. There are a few ways to change your skin for free.

Upload a skin from the internet. Use a search engine or Minecraft skin website to find one, then upload it to Minecraft: Pocket Edition.
Create your own skin using the fantastic Minecraft: Skin Studio or your favourite piece of image editing software. Then upload it to Pocket Edition.
Use one of the free skins available in game.

I want to give you money!
Now we’re talking! Bundles of paid skins will also be available. Each pack will contain around 20 skins, and will cost $0.99/€0.79/£0.79. Our first two: City Folk and Town Folk have been designed by the talented, kind, and pixellated Army of Trolls. We’ll also give away a few free skins when each pack releases, just like on console.

I don’t want to change my skin!
That’s fine with us. We’re not going to push skins – free or paid – on our players, even though they’re super cool and you should probably get involved.

When is this happening?
We’re submitting our newest update to Pocket Edition this week. It’ll hit all versions of Pocket Edition once approved by our buddies at Apple, Android, and Windows Phone.

I don’t give a monkey’s about skins. Anything else?
Yes! The upcoming update brings loads more cool stuff. Here are some highlights from the changelog:

Multiple language support
Boats with space for two! Take your pet for a pleasant ride.
The ability to throw stuff from boats, including snowballs and eggs
Fishing! Now you can fish for fishies!
Squids!
Spider jockeys!
Cave Spiders!
Bats!
Adorable baby zombies!
Weird chicken jockeys!
Edible clownfish. Yum!
A fancy new World Edit screen so you can rename worlds, change game modes and do other things
Creative players can no longer be set on fire. Controversial
We’ve stopped cheeky chickens from walking on water
Animals can no longer breed without touching each other ooh err
Drinking milk now removes mob effects
Ridiculous amounts of bug fixes
More cool things that you should discover for yourself

That’s it for now, people.

Continue to have fun playing Pocket Edition, please. And have a nice day!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft 1.8.6 Security Release

Searge — Fri, 22 May 2015 11:55:58 +0000

We have released a new version of Minecraft 1.8, called 1.8.6, which is now available for download in your launcher. This release fixes a few reported security issues, in addition to some other bug fixes. This update fixes an issue that was not fixed completely in 1.8.5.

This version is fully compatible with all previous 1.8 versions, but it is still highly recommend to update to 1.8.6 as soon as possible.

Notable fixes in 1.8.6:

[Bug MC-75630] – Exploit with signs and command blocks

Notable fixes in 1.8.5:

[Bug MC-79632] – Phantom Custom Player in Scoreboard / UUIDs of non-player entities on scoreboards truncated after relog
[Bug MC-75630] – Exploit with signs and command blocks
[Bug MC-80478] – Better server validation for movement packets
[Bug MC-80479] – Invalid beacon effects are not validated
[Bug MC-80480] – Certain attribute values are not bound

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Download server jar:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8.6/minecraft_server.1.8.6.jar

Happy Birthday Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition!

Owen — Thu, 07 May 2015 08:36:57 +0000

Fire up your Xbox, load up Minecraft, then throw a freshly-baked cake at your television! It’s the most appropriate way to celebrate Minecraft: 360 Edition’s birth!¹It’s three years old! If console Minecraft was a human it would be gaining independence and learning how to use zips.

To celebrate this monumental occasion² we’re giving the 20 million players on Xbox 360 and Xbox One a heap of colourful skins. From today until the 17th of May three packs will be available to download for free. There’s a brand-new bundle featuring veteran Mojangstas and a few cheeky extras, our 2nd Birthday Skin Pack from last year, and our 1st Skin Pack from Minecraft’s first birthday.

Veteran 360 players might already have the older packs, but this is the first time any of them have been available on Xbox One. Be sure to snap them up, early(ish) adopters.

Big thanks to 4J Studios for doing such a great job on the console versions and massive thanks to you for playing our game, no matter your platform of choice.

Have a great day!
@bopogamel

¹Don’t actually throw anything anywhere. Cakes are for eatin’

²Saturday is its actual birthday but we’re celebrating today because reasons.

MINECON Panel Application

Vu Bui — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:12:10 +0000

Hello there!

It’s time to submit your MINECON panel application! Each MINECON we try to have the best panels anywhere, and that means it’s up to some of you to bring the awesome! A good panel will give attendees tons of information or inspiration. The BEST panels give a bunch of both!

You’ll need to shoot a video of yourself pitching your panel, talking about why the panel would be awesome at MINECON and why you’d be the best one to be on it. Upload it to Youtube as an unlisted video if you don’t want others to see it, and submit the link with the rest of the information about the panel, including the other people you want to be a part of it.

Submit your panel application here. All applications must be submitted by May 15, 2015.

All selected panelists will get free admittance to MINECON.

Good luck with those submissions!

-Vu (@vubui)

New skins! Achievements! Music!

Owen — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:08:39 +0000

Hi everyone!

I bring news of skins, achievements, and music! Let’s get on with it.

When most players begin their Minecraft adventure there aren’t many looks to choose from. In fact, you only get to play as our blue-shirted friend. Now, everyone loves Steve – he’s probably the most famous minecrafter in the world, and has excellent stubble.

But jolly old Steve doesn’t really represent the diversity of our playerbase. For that reason, we’re giving all players opportunity to play with an Alex skin instead. She brings thinner arms, redder hair, and a ponytail; she actually looks a bit like Jens from certain angles.

Players on all consoles will get the Alex skins for free this Wednesday.

Playstation people get The Simpsons!
Playstation players are getting another skin pack this week. The Simpsons, and a bunch of their their closest friends, enemies, and acquaintances are on the way. The bundle includes Principal Seymour Skinner, Groundskeeper Willie, everyone’s favourite… Dewey Largo (!) and a lot more. Download it from Wednesday, if you like.

The Simpsons skin pack is already available on Microsoft consoles.

Xbox 360 users get extra achievements and bonus tunes!

Achievements – some love ‘em, some are indifferent to them, some don’t even know they exist. I know Marc is really, really into them them; take from that what you will.

Until now, Minecraft: Xbox One Edition has included more achevements than 360 Edition. That’s a bit silly when you think about it. This update will add 30 new achievements to the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, boosting the potential gains to a smooth 1000 gamerscore. Hunt them down but don’t let them rule your playtime. And don’t forget to eat or go to the toilet.

We’re also bringing a bundle of new music tracks to Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. After this update there’ll be more of C418’s plinky plonky goodness in-game. Nice.

That’s it for now! Have a great week and thanks for playing Minecraft, y’all.

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft 1.8.4 Security Release

Dinnerbone — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:49:25 +0000

We have released a new version of Minecraft 1.8, called 1.8.4, which is now available for download in your launcher. This release fixes a few reported security issues, in addition to some other minor bug fixes & performance tweaks.

This version is fully compatible with all previous 1.8 versions, but it is still highly recommend to update to 1.8.4 as soon as possible.

Notable fixes:

[Bug MC-46771] – Pets follow spectator
[Bug MC-61758] – Vines no longer spread correctly in corners
[Bug MC-68642] – Certain characters cannot be typed on certain keyboard layouts ("AltGr" behaving like "Ctrl")
[Bug MC-73504] – Nether portals place players in front of the portal
[Bug MC-78495] – Duplicating items
[Bug MC-79079] – Malicious clients can force a server to freeze
[Bug MC-79612] – Malicious clients can force a server to go out memory
[Bug MC-78020] – User (formerly known as olduser) has joined shows multiple times

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Download server jar:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8.4/minecraft_server.1.8.4.jar

Minecraft Pocket Edition 0.11.0 Beta released

johan — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:09:39 +0000

Hey!

We have been hard at work these last few months working on the new Pocket Edition version. Now we have released a beta version for you guys who has bought the game through Google Play.

Please make a backup of your existing worlds. You can find a small tutorial in the links below.

In order to be able to test the new update you will need:
Join the Google+ community
Opt into the Minecraft Pocket Edition Beta
Android device that can run Minecraft Pocket Edition.
Minecraft: Pocket Edition Android purchase from Google Play Store.

The app will be automatically downloaded and installed on your device. It can take a few days after joining the beta (and after we release an updated version) before you get it, please be patient.

Have fun and report any bugs you find. Please check the Known Bugs section before you post.

If you want to go back to 0.10.x, just leave the Google+ group and wait a little while for the game to revert.

Links:

Minecraft: Pocket Edition – Play Store

Changelog

How to make a backup?

How to report a bug!

// The Minecraft Team

Planned maintenance Tuesday April 14

kris — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 14:02:54 +0000

Update: Maintenance completed. All systems are back online.

In order to perform some much needed updates to our databases we have decided to schedule a maintenance session. It will take place Tuesday April 14 from 08:00 to 12:00 CEST (UTC+2).

During the maintenance period you will not be able to log in to Minecraft, Scrolls, or Cobalt. You will also not be able to join Minecraft servers (including Minecraft Realms). Most of our websites will also be unavailable. This does not affect Minecraft: Pocket Edition or the console editions of Minecraft.

We’re of course sorry about any inconvenience this may cause you. Rest assured that we would not be doing this unless it was absolutely necessary.

/The Mojang Web Force

Minecraft snapshot 15w14a – The Love and Hugs Update

Dinnerbone — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 07:00:21 +0000

Update: April fools :)

It’s been a while, but we’re ready to announce the theme of the next update and finally give you guys the first peek at what we’ve been working on for the last few months! We’re pretty excited and I hope that you will be too. Let’s get to it!

Minecraft 1.10: The Love and Hugs Update

We thought long and hard about what the next update should be about. Over the last few years we’ve touched everything from survival to creative, monsters to blocks, overhauled the world itself and the way people play in it. It took us a while to come to a conclusion on where we should branch out next, but with some help of some recent public criticism we realized the true direction we should be taking with this truly inspirational game.

It is well known that Minecraft is played by all ages, we’ve met kids as young as 3 to adults in their 90s. As much as this continues to impress us, we’ve realized that this puts us in a special position with certain responsibilities that we should uphold. We are in a very unique position to make a difference to the world and we have decided to accept this new role in society. We’ve thought long and hard about this, but we finally feel happy to announce that we are now changing the general direction of the game Minecraft. Starting from the next update we will be focusing on the things that make life worth living, promoting healthy relationships with the environment and its inhabitants.

You may have been wondering why we’ve not released any snapshots in some time. This was done with the best intentions in mind, and we’ll try to explain why we made this choice. We realized that sharing snapshots was very unfair to those that didn’t want to get update spoilers by not using snapshots, so we then decided to cancel the snapshot release cycle. In later meetings we realized that this decision itself was unfair to those who did want to be spoiled, so we decided to bring them back. However, we then came to the conclusion that withholding snapshots was unfair to those who did want to see snapshots, and sharing snapshots was unfair to those who didn’t want to see snapshots, this put us in a very hurtful position in regards to our new Equality Policy. After a long debate, we came to the final conclusion which should make everybody equally happy/unhappy: We’ll release snapshots, but only after we’ve already added everything. This way, those who didn’t want to see snapshots will be upset because they will see snapshots, and those who want to see snapshots will be upset because they won’t see snapshots until it’s very late, and then those who didn’t want to see snapshots will be happy because those who did want to see snapshots will be unhappy, and then those that did want to see snapshots will be happy because those that didn’t want to see snapshots will be unhappy. Or something. We’re still discussing this, we’ll get back to you with our final findings.

Get the 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. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (See the “new profile” dialog).

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w14a/minecraft_server.15w14a.jar

Changelog

Gameplay

We have removed the ability to directly harm other creatures. You should be rewarded for helping, not hurting.
Removed Health and Hunger. We feel that these are not appropriate gameplay mechanics for a game about love, sharing and peacefulness.
Added a new “Love” meter. This fills up the more you help others, and others help you.
“Survival” mode has been renamed to “Existence”.

Animals

Bats are now 20% cuter. Squeek.
Chickens can now be ridden by any player less than two blocks tall.
Cows will now alert you to important events that you may have missed by means of an audible notification.
Pigs can no longer fly, but can now climb on walls.
Rabbits are fluffy.
Sheep will, if asked nicely, share their wool to keep you warm.
Squid changed, but we’re still trying to figure out how or why.

Monsters Inhabitants

“Monsters” are no longer named as such. The preferred term is “Inhabitants”, as they live in this world just like you or me.
Steve and Alex have realized that the inhabitants are not evil, and just want to hug and get along.
Creepers no longer explode. They have gotten over their nervous disposition and are much more friendly once you get to know them.
Skeletons have revealed themselves to be very efficient farmers, having a permanent source of bone meal on them at all times.
Blazes are actually pretty cool guys and will defend you from harm.
Guardians have put aside the initial misunderstanding, and now welcome you into their home with arms… erm… eyes… wide open.
Ghasts are no longer frightened so easily, and will offer you rides throughout the nether.
Slimes are now pretty fun to hang around with, sharing their secret jumping abilities to those that will listen.
Witches are super friendly and surprisingly knowledgable. They will help you by sharing their potions.
Zombies are extremely cuddly and love to hug.
The Wither has been replaced with his lovable pink counterpart, promoting vitality and nourishment to the environment around him.

Weather & Environment

Removed rain as it upset a lot of players.
Falling snow has a chance to make exposed chests mysteriously full of goodies at midnight.

Villagers & Villages

Trading has been rebalanced. We felt that the previous incarnation wasn’t very fair, and believe the new system is a step towards helping fix this.
Villagers will offer you help in picking up items or blocks, in exchange for a small fee for their services.
Iron Golems can appear as a manifestation of the village’s love for you.

Blocks

Lava has been replaced with liquid cheese. It’s delicious and much safer!
TNT has been replaced with a much friendlier block: A love bomb.

Items

As we no longer have a hunger system, food items now give Happiness instead of Saturation.
Carrot on a Stick has been removed. It was just cruel to pigs and we are very sorry for this.

Combat

Bows no longer require arrows.
Shooting things makes them fall in love with the first thing they see.
Removed combat.

World generation & terrain

Dungeons have been replaced with homes, offering a much more inviting and comfortable experience for everybody.
All caves have been checked by the Minecraft Safety Committee to ensure a safer experience for players.
Desert temples no longer contain TNT traps, and come with a nice, safe way to access the bottom floor.
Some cliff edges may be lined with fences to avoid accidents by the unwary traveller.
Jungle temples are no longer trapped, containing instead a new rare Golden Creeper to reward exploration.

Potions

Some potions such as Strength or Harming have been removed, as we no longer have a place for them in the game.
Added four (4) new potions:
- Love Potion
- Happiness Potion
- Potion of Sharing
- Potion of Caring
- Fun Potion

Transportation

Horses can no longer be ridden as this was deemed unfair to the horses.
- In compensation to the horses, they can now ride on your shoulders.
Minecarts now have a fluffy pink interior.
Added obsidian boats which are impossible to break.
Improved regular wooden boats.
Added dirt bikes.
Ender pearls no longer transport you to the target, but instead the target to you.

Weather & Environment

Added rain back as it soothed a lot of players.
Falling snow has a chance to make exposed chests mysteriously full of goodies at midnight.

Game Settings

Not everybody had the same experience playing Minecraft under different configurations, so we decided to remove all the graphical settings.
You may now only have one world, in order to reduce fragmentation and to treat all worlds as equals.
Some resource packs were prettier than others, giving some players an unfair advantage in the amount of fun they were having. This has been fixed.

MINECON 2015 tickets announcement!

Vu Bui — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:26:19 +0000

Hello!

I know it’s taken a bit of time to get everything ready, but we are now able to announce ticket sales for MINECON 2015 which will be in London on July 4-5 at the London ExCeL Convention Center! We’ll be selling tickets online at minecon.mojang.com on Friday March 27th and Saturday March 28th. As always, if you attend MINECON you’ll also get a fancy new cape! There’s a lot of information below but please read it if you plan on purchasing tickets, it’s all important.

Here’s how it will work:

– Tickets will be £129 each
– Tickets will only be sold at minecon.mojang.com, and they will be sold through Eventbrite
– 5,000 tickets will go on sale at 6pm GMT (that’s London time) on Friday, March 27, 2015
– 5,000 additional tickets will go on sale at 12pm noon GMT on Saturday, March 28, 2015
– You will be able to purchase up to 6 tickets on one order
– You will need the name of EACH person you are buying a ticket for at the time you purchase tickets, you’ll need to enter these details to complete your order.
– Tickets cannot be resold and are non-transferrable, the person whose name is on the ticket at the time of purchase is the person who will be admitted to MINECON
– When you book your ticket you will also be able to book a hotel afterwards, we have hotel rooms blocked off and you will get our discounted rates
– Any child aged 3 and under will be admitted for free. Children aged 14 or under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian and both the child and adult need to purchase a ticket. Young people 15 years and over are allowed to attend the event alone as long as they have a ticket.

Some frequently asked questions:

Q. What will there be to do/see/enjoy at MINECON?
A. We will have tons of panels, lots of exhibitors showing off cool things they are doing with Minecraft, and a bunch of interactive attractions during the event. Saturday night there will also be a party for everyone who attends MINECON. For some ideas of what happens at MINECON see the YouTube videos from our last one.

Q. Will there be a costume contest this year?
A. Absolutely! We love having people show off their creativity when it comes to their Minecraft costumes. There will be prizes and accolades for the best of the best. Here is a video of our costume contest from the last MINECON.

Q. Can I sell my ticket to someone else if I can’t attend?
A. Nope! You can request a refund and those tickets we will resell at a later date! This will keep it as fair as possible.

Q. How can I volunteer to be a MINECON Agent?
A. Each year our MINECON Agents help make MINECON possible, it’s a huge event and couldn’t happen without them! If you want to volunteer, head over and fill out this form. If you’re chosen you will not need to purchase a MINECON ticket!

Q. Can I buy a MINECON ticket just to get the fancy cape?
A. We want all tickets to go to people who will come and enjoy the event, so only people who come to MINECON will get their cape. When you arrive, we scan your ticket, and only scanned tickets will get a cape.

Q. I’m taking my daughter/son/nephew/neighbor to MINECON but I’m an adult and don’t play Minecraft, do I need a ticket for myself as well?
A. Yes you do! We have players of all ages and we have events and things to do for everyone (even a bunch of cool panels for parents of Minecrafters) so all attendees will need to purchase a ticket.

Q. I have an awesome idea for a panel!
A. Well that’s not a question, but soon you’ll be able to submit panel ideas, and maybe yours will be chosen!

Q. What if I miss out on tickets or can’t make it all the way to London?
A. Worry not! We will have an amazing live stream that will run during the entire convention. We’ll be streaming the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as some of the coolest panels! Information on the live stream will be announced before the event. Afterwards, all the panels will be uploaded to our YouTube channel, as well as some videos we make capturing some of the fun of the event.

There will be more information at minecon.mojang.com before tickets go on sale, so if you have a question you didn’t see answered here you can tweet at me and I’ll try to include it on the site.

Thanks!
-Vu (@vubui)

Scrolls just got a massive patch! Extra fun included

Owen — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 15:59:20 +0000

Hey!

I thought it was worth mentioning that Scrolls has just received a massive patch. All kinds of things have been improved, added, and tweaked. It’s more fun than it’s ever been before!

Gary has written a great post outlining all the changes over at Scrolls.com. Give it a read, eh?

Oh, and if you haven’t bought Scrolls yet, click here to download the demo. It’s a happy bundle of fun.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft 1.8.3 is now available

Searge — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:59:11 +0000

Update: due to a serious bug in the Minecraft 1.8.2 server, we released an update to Minecraft 1.8.3
It’s now available through the Minecraft launcher.

Finally, after many weeks of development and seven pre-releases, Minecraft 1.8.2 is ready for release. It is now available in the Minecraft launcher and the server can be downloaded from the Minecraft website download page.

Only minor changes were made since pre-release 7 which was available since Monday. Version 1.8.2 is also fully compatible with all previous server versions (1.8 and 1.8.1), but we recommend to update to 1.8.2 as soon as possible to benefit from all bug fixes and improvements we made in the game.

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft 1.8.2-pre7 – Almost there, just one more…

Searge — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:38:43 +0000

The longest running series of pre-releases is airing its final episode today.

We are getting close to the release of Minecraft 1.8.2, here is just one more snapshot to make sure we did not break anything with our latest bugfixes and performance tweaks. If everything goes as planned, version 1.8.2 will be released on Thursday, 19th of February 2015.

These issues were solved in this pre-release:

[Bug MC-0] – Not enough hugs given since the holidays ended
[Bug MC-141] – "/spawnpoint" command fails directly on Pressure Plates, Cobwebs, Signs, Open Fence Gates
[Bug MC-3416] – Player location marker invisible on map (wrong Z-Order). One-line fix included.
[Bug MC-13057] – Multiplayer "back to title screen" button incorrect
[Bug MC-47832] – Certain entities can't be selected by type
[Bug MC-57691] – Water generates above sea level as part of ocean monument generation
[Bug MC-63370] – Baby Cows are Milkable
[Bug MC-66090] – TNT is no longer colliding with a block placed above it when the TNT is triggered
[Bug MC-67150] – Ocean Monument cuts unnaturally into ocean floor
[Bug MC-72574] – /stats command doesn't work on players who aren't op
[Bug MC-77047] – Fullscreen Mouse Out-Of-Bounds Behavior
[Bug MC-77055] – Non-ASCII characters rendered wrong (Unicode issue)
[Bug MC-77174] – Wither Skull Dupe Glitch
[Bug MC-77432] – Enchanted fishing rods make enchanted carrot on a sticks

To get pre-releases, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “pre-releases” 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).

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8.2-pre7/minecraft_server.1.8.2-pre7.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

MINECON 2015 announced!

Vu Bui — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:46:23 +0000

It’s time again to announce the next MINECON!

If you like Minecraft, and you like people who like Minecraft, you’ll probably like MINECON. It’s THE place to see all the cool Mojangstas you fancy, meet people who love Minecraft maybe even as much as you do, and attend panels and events full of YouTube creators and a ton of other talented folks!

This summer we are heading to London, UK to hang out with 10,000 of our closest friends (hint: that’s you!). As usual there will be panels, contests, tournaments, events and a soon-to-be-announced show-of-some-sort for our Saturday night bash.

WHEN: July 4-5, 2015

WHERE: ExCeL London Exhibition and Conference Centre

WHO: You, hopefully!

Since you’re bound to have more questions, I’ll ask myself some in this handy Q&A:

How do I get tickets?
Ticket sales will happen in February, exact date and time will be announced in the next two weeks. You’ll head to minecon.mojang.com to purchase them, but they will go fast! To accommodate different people’s schedules, they will be released in two batches on the same day, different times, 5,000 tickets in each batch. When you buy your ticket you’ll also get access to our discounted hotel pricing, so don’t go booking a hotel room just yet!

How do I become a volunteer (aka MINECON Agent)?
So you want to be a part of the event? We will be taking volunteer submissions next week. You’ll fill out an online form and we will get back to you before tickets go on sale. Watch mojang.com for more details.

I have a great idea for a panel, how can I make it happen?
Our community submitted panels have been some of the best panels we’ve had! Panel submissions will begin in early March. You’ll need to fill out an online form about the panel, who would be best on it, and submit a video of yourself describing the panel and why it should be at MINECON.

I want to exhibit at MINECON. How do I get a booth?
Each year we have a nice selection of awesome exhibitors, and you could be one of them! You can contact us via minecon@mojang.com for exhibition booth requests.

More details and information will be coming in the next couple weeks, keep watching mojang.com for all the answers you seek!

Thanks for reading!
Vu – @vubui

The Humble Card Game bundle just got even better!

Owen — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:43:26 +0000

Hey! Remember the Humble Card Game Bundle we mentioned last week? It just got even better! Now, if you pay over the average you get the two snazzy Scrolls avatar heads you can see up there, along with a bunch of other cool stuff.

Not too shabby. For more info, check out the Scrolls Humble Bundle FAQ.

Thanks for reading!

Owen – @bopogamel

Let’s talk about Minecraft servers…

Owen — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:30:32 +0000

Hey!

Most of you are familiar with the way Minecraft servers work, but lots of you aren’t. We’d like to fix that.

Put simply, servers give Minecraft players the opportunity to play together online.

There are many different types of servers, and we love almost all of them
Apart from Minecraft Realms (which is another way for players to enjoy a persistent world with friends), no servers are owned or run by us. They are independent and set up by many different types of people for many different reasons. Some are set up by fans of the game so they can play with their friends and family, some are created to make money, some are weird social experiments that we don’t really understand.

Many third-party Minecraft servers give our players innovative and interesting ways to play. And we’re thankful that they exist. Without them, Minecraft wouldn’t be as successful or diverse as it is today.

We’re not responsible for the way servers are operated
Having freedom to create awesome things and express yourself without boundaries is one of the things that makes Minecraft so great, but it can lead to content that some may deem inappropriate, or in people doing things we’re not too keen on. We’re not responsible for the content on third party servers.

These sites and servers are not run or governed by us and so long as they abide to our EULA and terms of use, we don’t have control over them. It’s a bit like YouTube – a video might be about Minecraft, but we don’t agree with everything that’s said in every upload. We’ve watched enough of them to understand how silly that would be.

We’re also not responsible for the way these servers take payments or store users’ credentials online. Just like making a purchase anywhere on the internet, it’s extremely important that you trust whoever you’re dealing with (in this case, a server host) before you hand over personal details or credit card information.

The internet can be a crazy place
It’s the responsibility of individual users or (in many cases) their parents / guardians, to track what Minecraft content is appropriate for specific users. That said, unmodded Minecraft for PC/Mac, the console versions, and Minecraft: Realms are our responsibility. We do our best to provide a safe, secure experience and keep things as fun as possible.

Thanks for reading, everybody.

Owen – @bopogamel

Let’s talk about password security

Owen — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:43:54 +0000

Have you been hacked? What’s going on, Moj?
No! We haven’t been hacked. A bunch of bad people have tricked some of our users into disclosing their account information. We’ve emailed everyone affected, and reset all compromised passwords. If you haven’t received an email from us, you don’t need to worry.

No-one has gained access to the Mojang mainframe. Even if they did, we store your passwords in a super encrypted format. Honestly, you don’t need to panic.

So how did they get the info? You were hacked, weren’t you?
No – we weren’t hacked. The bad people got their hands on other people’s passwords by using an evil technique called “phishing.” That basically means they pretend to be Mojang and fool people into entering their private details onto fake websites.

What can I learn from this?
You should never, ever, enter your Mojang account details on websites that aren’t owned by us. It’s good practice to use different passwords for each of your internet logins too. That way, if someone does get hold of one password, they won’t get access to your other stuff.

I’d still like to reset my Mojang password. Just to be safe
Fair enough. You sound like a sensible one. Here’s a link: minecraft.net/resetpassword. If you have any other support issues, help.mojang.com is your friend.

Thanks for reading.
Owen – @bopogamel

Hey, you! Buy The Humble Card Game Bundle!

Owen — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:00:21 +0000

Do you like digital card games? What about real-life, physical ones? T Shirts? Secret stuff? I bet you do.

For that reason, you should obviously buy the Humble Card Game Bundle. It’s a very clever thing; you get different amounts of stuff depending on how much money you’re willing to pony up. You also get to choose exactly where your money goes. Hand it over to one of a few different charities, the games developers, or the good folks at Humble Bundle.

Here’s an explanation of what you get for your cash. If it seems confusing, that’s because it is! Sorry.

Free (available without purchase)

Card City Nights (Digital + Print and Play)
Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space (Print and Play)

Pay What You Want

Scrolls Full Version
SolForge (Dinosaur Starter Deck)
Star Realms Full Version
Talisman: Digital Edition + 2 Character Pack DLCs

Beat the Average

Magic 2015: Duels of the Planeswalkers (Special Edition (??)) + Garruk’s Revenge
Dominion Online (Seaside Complete)
SolForge (2 Starter Decks + 1300 Gold)

Pay At Least $12

Card Hunter (Basic Edition [IAP Item])
Dominion Online (Intrigue Complete + Prosperity Complete)
Scrolls (2 Exclusive Avatars + 2 Debut Pre-Constructed Decks)

Pay At Least $35

Exclusive card game / Humble Bundle-themed t-shirt (by The Yetee)
Star Realms (Physical) + Exclusive Alternate Art Card

Go forth and purchase, crafters!

You’ve bought Pocket Edition many, many times

Owen — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:56:00 +0000

Everyone likes big numbers, right? I know I do. Here’s a stonker: 30,000,000! You good people have bought Minecraft: Pocket Edition over 30 million times. Thanks!

To celebrate the sales milestone, we’re planning a question and answer session with the devs. It will be broadcast LIVE on the internet. And you get to supply the questions.

EDIT: you can watch it below! Yes, the footage looks like it was streamed from a worn-out VHS and edited by a chump. Why? Because it was! We’re cool like that.

Hit this reddit thread and submit your query. We’ll pick the top-voted/least offensive ones and put them to the devs LIVE on air later this week. It’s going to be great. Get involved!

Owen – @bopogamel and the Pocket Edition team

Announcing Minecraft name changes

kris — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:12:19 +0000

Yes, it’s true! In the near future you will be able to change your Minecraft in-game name.

When? When! When?!
We plan to make name changing available on February 4th.

What do I need to do this? Will it cost money?
The only thing you need is a Mojang account. If you currently sign in to Minecraft with an email address, you’re all good! Otherwise, you can migrate your old Minecraft account here. There are no other requirements, and it doesn’t cost any money.

It sounds good! Where can I do it?
Just head on over to your Mojang account page! Once the feature is made available you’ll see a “change” link next to your Minecraft name.

Can I steal somebody’s name? Can I call myself “Dinnerbone” too?
No. There is already somebody called Dinnerbone and names are still unique. You can’t have the same name as another player; they will have to change their name for you to be able to take it. 37 days after they change their name, the old one will become available.

What about all those unpaid usernames from so many years ago?
We will be freeing up all those old unpaid usernames when the new name changing feature is released. If you have an old unpaid name that you’d like to keep, there’s still time to buy it! Read this help article to learn how.

Can I change the capitalisation of my name?
Yes, you can!

Does this mean that I can pick a new name every day?
No. After changing your name you have to wait 30 days before you can do it again.

What if I change my name and then realise that I don’t like it? Can I change back to my old name?
Yes, you can. You still have to wait the 30 days though.

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.

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

Can I have a hug?
*hugs*

Win an Xbox One with Minecraft Skin Studio Encore

Owen — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 08:00:56 +0000

Hello again!

I just posted about Minecraft Skin Studio Encore, but I have even more exciting news to share. Design a festive skin using the app and you’ll be in with a chance of winning an Xbox One!

Here’s how the competition will work:

Submit a festive skin to Minecraft: Skin Studio Encore between December 22nd and January 5th. Include #xmas in the title!
Don’t forget to include #xmas in the title of your skin. That part is super important!
The more festive the skin, the better! Santas, Snowmen, Elves, Mince Pies, the lot.
All users can “Like” their favourite festive skin. Whoever gets the most likes by the 5th of January wins.
The winner of the competition gets an Xbox One and Minecraft: Xbox One Edition! Nice!
Terms & conditions and the full entry details will be available in-app.

Good luck everyone! Get creative and have a great holiday season!

Minecraft Seeds Pro has been updated! On-sale now!

Owen — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 07:30:48 +0000

Minecraft Seeds Pro – the best seed-sharing app ever developed – has just received a massive update. Even better, it’s $1.99 instead of $2.99 from today (it’s Christmas Eve in case you didn’t know), until the 29th of December!

Here’s what comes with the latest update:

Group PM, stay in touch with ALL your Minecraft friends directly through private messaging in the app! Follow your friends and let them follow you and you can PM each other directly and instantly directly from the app, without exchanging numbers or anything! Up to 10 users can PM in the same group!
Browse through thousands of awesome seeds and creations posted by other users! Get featured with your own!
Share your creations, post your favourite seeds and discuss cool forum topics with other Minecrafters. Connect and play with other players!
Get followed / follower others to stay updated on new awesome content posted by other users.
Customise your avatar and profile to your liking!
Much much more :)

The sale will be at 30% going from $2.99 to $1.99 – it’ll start the 24th of December and continue to the 29th.

Happy holidays everyone!

Minecraft Skin Studio Encore now available!

Owen — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:27:24 +0000

To celebrate two years of skin sharing, Minecraft Skin Studio has been completely redesigned!

Since the release of Skin Studio over 900,000 skins have been created, almost 3,000,000 comments written, and over 2,500,000 likes cast. Not too shabby. A lot has changed in Minecraft since then too, so rather than patch the older version, the good people at 57digital have remade their app from the ground up.

Skin Studio Encore now features:

A completely new user interface and easier to use editing system
Full support for both Steve & Alex
3D Previews everywhere – including while editing your skin!
Uses the new Minecraft API for importing a skin by username
Loads of advanced tools (including the much requested copy & paste!)
Over 900,000 community skins
The ability to submit your own creation to the community or download & modify!
Upload your skin to minecraft.net and change your skin for PC/Mac.

A trial version of Skin Studio is also available. Skin Studio Lite gives you the chance to design a full Minecraft Skin, but with slightly limited tools. It’s also worth pointing out that Skin Studio Pro users get the Encore upgrade for free! Just go to the updates tab on the app store.

Don’t forget about 57digital’s other apps too! Minecraft Papercraft Studio and Minecraft Skin Scanner are also pretty cool!

Happy Holidays everyone!

Play Info Quest II. You might learn something…

Owen — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:59:30 +0000

CLICK THROUGH TO PLAY INFO QUEST II

Minecraft 1.8.2-pre6 – Updated Christmas Gift Edition

Searge — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:42:58 +0000

Update: Version 1.8.2-pre6 was just released, it contains fixes for the following issues and some other bugs that were introduced in pre5:

[Bug MC-77018] – Day light doesn't affect water and particles
[Bug MC-77021] – Beacon shows additional glitchy beam

Update: Version 1.8.2-pre5 was just released, it contains some performance tweaks, a bonus hug and fixes the following issues:

[Bug MC-1973] – Items placed into a beacon are lost upon destroying it or reloading a world
[Bug MC-4405] – Beacons work inconsistently in the Nether
[Bug MC-48219] – Keyboard input causes mouse look to stutter or jerk (Fixed in LWJGL 2.9.3)
[Bug MC-48969] – Tellraw crashes if clickEvent is an URL without "http://"
[Bug MC-49704] – Mooshroom udder texture does not display correctly
[Bug MC-50769] – Mooshrooms incorrectly display custom mushroom models
[Bug MC-67727] – Beacons in Nether need clear path to "sky"
[Bug MC-73406] – Beacon stops working at a certain height
[Bug MC-75083] – Single Player: Can't select any of the previous created worlds in Java 8 (Fixed by installing Java 7) (Windows 8)
[Bug MC-76493] – Able to hit a block behind out of range entity.
[Bug MC-76611] – villages.dat stores player names instead of UUIDs
[Bug MC-76614] – Preexisting vines on east and west sides of blocks are rendered at the wrong face of the block (floating)
[Bug MC-76650] – Glass Pane image flipped
[Bug MC-76691] – Huge Mushrooms Generate Incorrectly
[Bug MC-76716] – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Updating screen events
[Bug MC-76747] – Various particles near world border rendered incorrectly.
[Bug MC-76778] – Hoppers grab items from minecarts, that aren't standing directly above them
[Bug MC-76946] – Changing owner of Enderpearl doesn't work.

Update: Version 1.8.2-pre4 was just released and fixes the following issues:

[Bug MC-40275] – Credit screen/End Poem music not playing correctly
[Bug MC-51804] – Corner fences / cobblestone wall with a block next to them turn black (Smooth lighting off)
[Bug MC-71163] – Bed can overlap when placed on grass
[Bug MC-76562] – Hoppers don't work

Update: Version 1.8.2-pre3 fixes the following issue:

[MC-76556] – Creepers, Blazes, Pigs, Ocelots and Rabbits take damage every 0.5 seconds

Update: Version 1.8.2-pre2 has been released with some more performance tweaks and the following bug fixes:

[MC-417] – Arrows first bounce back then appear at correct location
[MC-3885] – Arrows shot into the underside of a block appear black
[MC-8578] – Hopper sometimes doesn't suck items above when they are overlaying
[MC-41881] – Hopper minecart acts like it is in a different position
[MC-59549] – Graphical Arrow Glitch in Position
[MC-70104] – Arrow visual glitch (fake arrow)
[MC-73866] – Game crash when an item is thrown into a nether portal.
[MC-74580] – Marker Tag doesn't make hitbox small anymore
[MC-76239] – Minecraft Realms main menu button's text between quotation marks

The download link at the end of this post is updated to link to the 1.8.2-pre2 server and we also refilled the free hugs jar – first come, first serve.

Just in time before the holidays, we have the pre-release for 1.8.2 ready. There are some bug fixes and performance tweaks we wanted to get out to you before most of us leave for vacation during the Christmas holidays.

As always, there are some bugs fixed:

[Bug MC-51573] – Hostile mobs continue to follow/attack you in spectator mode
[Bug MC-65697] – Explosion force on entities is directionally biased
[Bug MC-66089] – Explosion physics changed, range of some TNT cannons greatly reduced

Aside from bug fixes and performance increases this update includes cookies, milk and of course lots of hugs. Don’t open your gifts before Christmas!

The Minecraft team and everybody else at Mojang wish you happy holidays and a great transition into the new year!

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8.2-pre6/minecraft_server.1.8.2-pre6.jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Scrolls released on PC, Mac, and Android tablets!

Owen — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:32:02 +0000

Scrolls – Mojang’s second game – has just been released on PC, Mac, and Android tablet.

Scrolls costs $5 but you can play the demo version for free! Wander over to scrolls.com and download it!

Scrolls is hardly anything like Minecraft, but it’s still super fun to play. Watch the trailer below to get an idea of how the game works.

See you on the battlefield, Mojang fan. You are great!

Owen – @bopogamel, and the Scrolls team.

Pocket Edition comes to Windows phones

Owen — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:59:11 +0000

Hello!

Windows phones just got significantly cooler. Now you can play Minecraft: Pocket Edition on the darn things! Hooray for Minecraft! Hooray for Windows phones! Hooray for portable gaming devices. Hooray for direct download links!

Just in case you’re not sure what a Windows phone is, I’ve included a handy reference image below.

Minecraft: Pocket Edition for Windows phones costs a reasonable £4.99/$6.99, and includes all the features that come with the iOS and Android versions.

Download and be merry, kind crafter folk.

Owen – @bopogamel

The Games Against Ebola Game jam is underway!

Owen — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:18:30 +0000

Hello, friends.

You’ve probably heard of ebola by now. It’s a terrible disease that’s claimed over 5000 lives in a recent epidemic in West Africa. We’ve known about it for over 40 years, but it’s still considered a serious illness with no known cure.

Despite that, 50% of ebola sufferers do survive, and potential vaccines are currently being tested. Good hospital care and emergency shipments to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone are vital during this time of need. But they don’t come cheap.

That’s where we can help out! A crew of Mojangstas, along with a few other game developers are participating in a game jam that runs from now until 11AM PST/8PM CET on Saturday. Even better, every smidgen of cash raised goes straight to Direct Relief’s ebola fund. The theme of the jam will be “healing,” for reasons that you can probably work out yourself.

How to donate

All you need to do is donate on humblebundle. By doing that, you’ll get access to every game developed during the Games Against Ebola jam, and help save lives in the process. It’s a massive win-win.

Watch the games being developed

You can also spectate live progress on the development of the games.

Watch the main channel here. It will cycle through the following Mojanger’s feeds: Kappische, Dinnerbone, seargedp, krisjelbring and jbernhardsson.

TL;DR

Ebola is a terrible disease that is causing many deaths in West Africa.
Money is needed to put a stop to it.
Donate to Games Against Ebola to help those in need and get a handful of games to play this Saturday.
100% of your donations go to Direct Relief.

Thanks for reading, everybody.

Owen – @bopogamel

Realms is packed with awesome maps

Owen — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:08:37 +0000

Minecraft Realms is getting even more exciting! We’ve packed it to the brim with fresh mini-games, maps to spark an epic adventure, and intricate custom spawns.

Realms gives you and your friends a persistent Minecraft world. It doesn’t matter if the host is online or what time of day it is; Realms worlds are always available for building, adventuring, and crafting. You can start from a random seed, or choose one of our pre-installed maps. You can even switch between the two and save/restore your progress when convenient.

We thought it would be good to give you a rundown of the pre-made maps currently included in Realms. Thanks to all the fantastic community members for creating these masterpieces. You are all talented and generous and lovely.

Learn more about Realms by visiting our website or checking out the subreddit.

Bloxorz by JesperTheEnd

Bloxorz is an homage to popular Flash game… erm… Bloxorz. It’s a puzzler that rewards forward planning and good brainwork. Check out some cool footage of the game in the video above but bear in mind that the level editor is not available in the Realms version. That said, all 33 levels from the original are, so don’t stress too much.

Color Cube by Musclecraft (MaxSizeIs)

Color cube is a tactical minigame that’s all about claiming territory. Players paint the level their own color by running around one of nine available maps, and doing their best not to fall off the ever-changing landscape. There are even powerups to help spice up the gameplay. Play it with a bunch of friends for maximum fun.

Diamond Defender by Xisuma & Eease

Diamond Defender is another innovative minigame. This one tasks players with surviving a terrifying ten waves of creeper attacks while protecting your stash of precious diamonds. Not one for the faint of heart but a bundle of creeper-based mayhem.

Diversity 2 by QMagnet

Diversity 2 is a Complete the Monument-style minigame. That means that players need to find or earn specific blocks to “complete” the map. The extra cool thing about Diversity 2 is that those blocks are earned through completing a bunch of challenges in specific zones. You should definitely check this one out; Marc Watson – the adorable and much-loved guy from Minecraft support – lists this as one of his favourite maps of all time!

Knockback Madness by AKAMC

Knockback Madness is a chaotic mixture of player versus player combat and vertigo-inducing parkour. Players use their Minecraft combat skills to take out the other players using deadly weapons while avoiding their enemies’ advances. Competitive stuff for fans of intense combat!

Missile Wars by SethBling & Cubehamster

Missile Wars is a conveniently descriptive title for this cracking minigame. Players launch TNT and Slime Block missiles at each other’s bases while trying to defend their own by defusing opponents’ missiles with skilled marksmanship. You can even ride your own warhead across the map! Awesome stuff.

Pizzaspleef by SethBling

Pizzaspleef is Seth Bling’s innovative take on the classic Minecraft mini-game, Spleef. The objective is to be the last players standing on a giant pizza. Players earn bonuses such as super speed or jump boosts by mining each of the toppings . It’s a deliciously chaotic quest for glory!

Raider’s Refuge by Blockworks

Raiders Refuge is an exciting survivial map in Realms. Start your game here and you’ll spawn in a majestic settlement sitting on a rugged coastline. It’s perfect for playing out pirate fantasies before venturing into the unknown.

Spellbound Caves by Vechs

Spellbound Caves is a Complete the Monument map by Vechs – one of the pioneers of the genre. It’s one part of his Super Hostile series which is notorious for it’s challenging nature. I’m sure you’ve got the skills required though – you look like a hardy crafter.

Winter Stronghold by Blockworks

Winter Stronghold is our second survival map. Instead of beginning your adventure in a random spawn, players start in this prebuild stronghold complete with all its wintery charm. Gather supplies, plan your journey, then head into the wild.

That’s it for now! Hope you enjoyed this rundown. Visit our Realms site for more.

Have a great weekend everyone,

Owen – @bopogamel

Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 5

Dinnerbone — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:06:14 +0000

Update: We have released 1.8.1-pre5 to fix even more issues:

[Bug MC-58132] – Spectator Mode Layer glitch
[Bug MC-64484] – Fire charge plays no sound due to incorrect sound file reference
[Bug MC-64653] – /execute particle Leaves a False Particle Trail to 0,0,0
[Bug MC-71436] – Screen goes black when "highlighting" players in spectator mode

Old Update: We have released 1.8.1-pre4 to fix even more issues:

[Bug MC-349] – Villagers ignore data tags in trading
[Bug MC-954] – Air Blocks floating in Water
[Bug MC-1237] – Anvil GUI truncating long item names and showing garbage at the end
[Bug MC-37586] – Ghost Players in Multiplayer / Item Duplication
[Bug MC-61587] – Summon Rotation
[Bug MC-63070] – Chunks do not render behind the player in F5 or changed FOV until moving the mouse
[Bug MC-72688] – Execute Detect gives false positive when in different dimension
+ many optimizations!

Old Update: We have released 1.8.1-pre3 to fix even more issues:

[Bug MC-1279] – Slow (Choppy) Rotating Beacon Block
[Bug MC-12013] – Experience Orbs invisible for one second right after spawning
[Bug MC-46670] – Withers trapped in a barrier box attacks barriers, killing it
[Bug MC-55661] – Animals don't teleport to Player when target is air block
[Bug MC-58908] – /help for /worldborder not updated.
[Bug MC-61610] – Bedrock at Y0 has wood log in it at x0 y0 z0.
[Bug MC-67437] – Lightning gives AI to Witches and Zombie Pigman that were originally Pigs and Villagers that had NoAI set to 1
[Bug MC-71973] – Tab list headers and footers stay even when rejoining a diferent server
[Bug MC-72806] – When using /stop server executes the shutdown sequence twice (and hangs if players are online)
[Bug MC-73123] – Entity's Lose Scoreboard Scores when in unloaded Chunk

Old Update: We have released 1.8.1-pre2 to fix a few more issues:

[Bug MC-69562] – Can't play LAN whilst offline
[Bug MC-73025] – Falling blocks do not animate
[Bug MC-73026] – Unable to hit the ender dragon

We’ve been keeping a close eye on the 1.8 release and have put together a small update that should fix a lot of issues that people have reported to us. This update is compatible with 1.8 servers, but even though it’s not strictly required to update to 1.8.1 we’d strongly recommend that you do for all the performance and stability gains it gives you.

Bug fixes:

[Bug MC-3] – Player facing changes when passing through nether portals.
[Bug MC-1607] – Ghost End Portal in The End / Missing layer with AMD/ATI graphics cards
[Bug MC-2545] – Persistant Chunk error / Corrupted world / Wrong location spam
[Bug MC-6594] – Non-living entities (boats, minecarts, fallingsand, item frames, paintings) drop items even if doTileDrops is set to false
[Bug MC-37782] – Items held by witches are too small and held wrongly
[Bug MC-38385] – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: bad Base64 input character at 4036: 5 (decimal)
[Bug MC-44542] – Tools with CanDestroy set to allow the breaking of certain blocks don't display proper block name on the tooltip (English (US) language only)
[Bug MC-45537] – Cannot place buttons under stairs or slabs, or ontop of upside down stairs or slabs
[Bug MC-46579] – Items are too high up on the arm in 3rd person mode while sneaking
[Bug MC-46809] – /say Not Showing Villager Entity Data if 'CustomName' Provided
[Bug MC-47683] – Black particles when breaking a block / Torch particles dark
[Bug MC-47987] – Entering a mobs view in spectator mode does not change if world is changed
[Bug MC-48011] – Ender dragon experience drops are not affected by doMobLoot gamerule
[Bug MC-48130] – /fill replace command not filling when clicking tab
[Bug MC-49126] – Glowstone crystal formations are missing their bottom layers
[Bug MC-49538] – Achievement "Overpowered" Has Misleading Icon
[Bug MC-53718] – Chicken Jockey riding inside chicken
[Bug MC-54551] – Resizing window while in Customized World Settings snaps back to Customized Settings page 1
[Bug MC-54707] – Command: setblock minecraft:sign produces a confusing error message
[Bug MC-56574] – Tellraw open_url isn't showing url
[Bug MC-58307] – Air bubbles appear after drowning and still dead
[Bug MC-59216] – Unable to build iron golem and snow golem with jack o'lantern
[Bug MC-59360] – Levers Pop Off Non-Solid Blocks
[Bug MC-61535] – Horse breeding: Foal looks just like an adult horse
[Bug MC-61844] – Creepers target Iron Golems, causing terrain damage without interaction of a player
[Bug MC-62140] – 2 block tall flowers generated in previous version removes the 2nd block
[Bug MC-62758] – Tall flowers drop two items when block below is broken
[Bug MC-63010] – Placing a Banner and breaking it in Survival causes them to not stack (as they have NBT data)
[Bug MC-63466] – Ctrl+Pick Block gives a steve head instead of a head with the owner's skin
[Bug MC-64082] – Enchantment options for individual players are reset after death. KeepInventory does not have any affect.
[Bug MC-64427] – /worldborder, /scoreboard and /debug with invalid arguments don't print an error message
[Bug MC-64455] – Item with CanDestroy / CanPlaceOn have missing translations for ALL languages
[Bug MC-64598] – Creative search tab text becomes offset.
[Bug MC-64773] – /particle autocompletion
[Bug MC-64846] – Cannot extend Potion of Leaping to eight minutes using redstone in a brewing stand.
[Bug MC-65276] – bow when held is upside down
[Bug MC-65603] – Ender Dragon does not obey NoAI tag
[Bug MC-65834] – Snow layers placed against the side of a block are placed one block too far out
[Bug MC-65945] – Enderman blocks look weird when invisible
[Bug MC-66324] – /clone has incomplete syntax
[Bug MC-66658] – /kill does not tab autocomplete with a player's name
[Bug MC-66786] – Incorrect death message for dispensed harming potions
[Bug MC-66861] – when press tab on /entitydata, players pop up
[Bug MC-66922] – argument in /effect does not show clear in help syntax
[Bug MC-68160] – Placing a coloured banner on a cactus drops a black banner
[Bug MC-68247] – Beacon Beam disappears while looking upwards from it
[Bug MC-68400] – Creative Inventory vert. scrollbar changes without scrolling
[Bug MC-68654] – Tab Complete – /effect and /enchant
[Bug MC-68745] – /resourcepacks/ folder is not automatically created when initially starting the game
[Bug MC-68891] – Mobs think daylight sensor is a full block, causing them to jump while trying to get off it
[Bug MC-69266] – Snow layer placing behavior buggy and inconsistent
[Bug MC-69323] – Certain commands do not allow tab completing coordinate arguments
[Bug MC-69823] – /debug help text wrong
[Bug MC-69983] – Multiplayer Settings named wrongly
[Bug MC-69984] – The "Defaults" popup on the customized world generation options screen doesn't disable hovering over stuff behind it
[Bug MC-69989] – Debug worlds generate one column twice
[Bug MC-70054] – Rabbits don't follow players holding golden carrots or dandelions
[Bug MC-70111] – When a thrown enderpearl is in the air, it disappears after relogging.
[Bug MC-70305] – "Sprint" is in the wrong category in Controls screen
[Bug MC-70308] – Bottom outline is missing in the Controls screen buttons
[Bug MC-70338] – Hopper: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space – creating debug image whilst stitching textures
[Bug MC-70359] – Block breaking remains when eating/blocking with a sword
[Bug MC-70431] – Minecraft 1.8 skin bug!
[Bug MC-70472] – Crash when trying to connect to a server with more than 63 characters address
[Bug MC-70565] – when opening a chest in modded servers Minecraft crashes continuously
[Bug MC-70675] – End credits make no mention of Ryan Holtz (TheMogMiner) or Michael Stoyke (Searge)
[Bug MC-71777] – /achievement take taking too many achievements
[Bug MC-71981] – Uploading a hardcore world to Realms retains auto-ban
[Bug MC-72530] – Signs don’t respect the rules
[Bug MC-72583] – doTileDrops affects item frames
[Bug MC-72868] – Mobs glitch through the ground under certain conditions
[Bug MC-72869] – The 'Defaults' button on the Customized world screen does not disable itself after use
[Bug MC-72871] – Resizing the game makes buttons on "Defaults" popup on Customized world GUI disappear

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

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8.1-pre5/minecraft_server.1.8.1-pre5.jar

Report bugs here:

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Minecraft PS Vita is out tomorrow!

Daniel Kaplan — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:57:26 +0000

(n.b. the picture is a montage)

Hi everybody!

We have some great news to share! Minecraft for PSVita is coming tomorrow and we hope you’ll enjoy it. It has been a lot of work with 4J and Sony to make this happen and we’re thrilled to see what you guys will build on the go!

Remember that if you have already bought Minecraft for PS3 you’ll get the Vita version for free! You can also transfer worlds between the PS3 and PSVita! And if you want to buy the PS4 version after that, it will only cost you 4,99 smackeroonies! Here is also a longer article from Sony about the various purchase options:

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/10/10/minecraft-ps-vita-edition-launches-playstation-store-next-week/

xoxo

/Daniel – @kappische

Cobalt Game Jam #1 is happening this weekend!

Owen — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:07:07 +0000

Creating video games is creative, fun, and cool. Loads of awesome people are doing it right now. And you can be one of those awesome people! To celebrate, the friendly folk at Oxeye Game Studio are hosting a Cobalt Game Jam this weekend.

That basically means that a bunch of folk have agreed to make a game within a set time limit. Some participants are streaming their progress too; it’s a great way to get instant feedback and stay motivated.

The Oxeye Game Jam is a casual affair. There’s no pressure or cost, but there is an extremely high chance of fun and increased knowledge. The jam finishes this Sunday at 12:00 CET.

If you’re interested in taking part, or would like to watch the current participants cook up their creations, visit the Cobalt channel on Espernet, check out Daniels post on the Oxeye Blog, and watch and inspire these good folk as they craft their own masterpieces:

Have a great weekend everyone!

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

Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft

Owen — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:59:12 +0000

Yes, the deal is real. Mojang is being bought by Microsoft.

It was reassuring to see how many of your opinions mirrored those of the Mojangstas when we heard the news. Change is scary, and this is a big change for all of us. It’s going to be good though. Everything is going to be OK. <3

Please remember that the future of Minecraft and you – the community – are extremely important to everyone involved. If you take one thing away from this post, let it be that.

We can only share so much information right now, but we’ve decided that being as honest as possible is the best approach. We’re still working a lot of this stuff out. Mega-deals are serious business.

Why did you sell Minecraft?
Minecraft has grown from a simple game to a project of monumental significance. Though we’re massively proud of what Minecraft has become, it was never Notch’s intention for it to get this big.

As you might already know, Notch is the creator of Minecraft and the majority shareholder at Mojang. He’s decided that he doesn’t want the responsibility of owning a company of such global significance. Over the past few years he’s made attempts to work on smaller projects, but the pressure of owning Minecraft became too much for him to handle. The only option was to sell Mojang. He’ll continue to do cool stuff though. Don’t worry about that.

There are only a handful of potential buyers with the resources to grow Minecraft on a scale that it deserves. We’ve worked closely with Microsoft since 2012, and have been impressed by their continued dedication to our game and its development. We’re confident that Minecraft will continue to grow in an awesome way.

Minecraft means many different things to millions of people across the world, and to each and every Mojangsta. We feel that this is the best way for everyone – you guys included – to benefit.

What about the other editions of Minecraft? Will they stop being developed?
There’s no reason for the development, sales, and support of the PC/Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Vita, iOS, and Android versions of Minecraft to stop. Of course, Microsoft can’t make decisions for other companies or predict the choices that they might make in the future.

We’re extremely proud of all editions and the awesome things you have achieved through playing together.

Is the game going to change? Will we still be able to make videos, mods, awesome builds, and all the cool stuff we’ve created over the past few years?
Minecraft will continue to evolve, just like it has since the start of development. We don’t know specific plans for Minecraft’s future yet, but we do know that everyone involved wants the community to grow and become even more amazing than it’s ever been. Stopping players making cool stuff is not in anyone’s interests.

What about the Mojang staff? What’s happening to you guys?
Though it’s too early to confirm which of us will continue working on Minecraft or other projects, we predict that the vast majority (if not all) Mojangstas will continue to work at Mojang for the time being.

The founders: Notch, Carl, and Jakob are leaving. We don’t know what they’re planning. It won’t be Minecraft-related but it will probably be cool.

What’s happening to the other Mojang projects, like Scrolls?
We don’t know yet. We’ll share any news as soon as we do.

Will you still be able to tweet about features and interact with the community on a personal level, just like you’ve done over the years?
Yes! That’s not going to change.

How much money was the company bought for?
Microsoft acquired Mojang for a smooth 2.5 BILLION dollars.

Thanks for reading everybody.

Owen – @bopogamel, Lydia – @lydiawinters, and the Mojangstas.

Minecraft: Xbox One Edition now available hoo!

Owen — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:40:35 +0000

Yeay! Minecraft for Xbox One is available to download from Xbox Marketplace! Here are some questions and answers to celebrate.

I’ve bought Minecraft for my Xbox 360 but now I want it on my Xbox One. Help me!

If you’ve bought Xbox 360 digitally, or played online with the the disc version, you can upgrade to Xbox One Edition for just $4.99. Log into the Xbox Marketplace to upgrade.
You can import your existing Xbox 360 world to Xbox One Edition. To do that, load up Xbox 360 Edition, upload your world to the Excellent Xbone Extra Cool Cloud (not the official name), then re-download it from inside Xbox One Edition.
All of your existing Xbox 360 DLC will work on Xbox One Edition.
You can’t play cross-platform between Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Sad but true.

I’ve never played Minecraft on my Xbox 360. I am exotic tree puncher? Where is gunz?

Minecraft for Xbox One will cost $19:99 from the Xbox Marketplace.
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, and I posted this information a few days ago when discussing other versions.
Xbox One Edition features bigger worlds and an improved draw distance than Xbox 360 Edition. If this doesn’t mean anything to you, don’t worry. Just load up Minecraft and have fun.

I hate Xboxes! Where’s the Sony love? I am angry about this.

Don’t be angry. I’ve already talked about the Playstation 4/Vita Editions in a separate post.

It’s been a busy week! Have fun playing Minecraft and be nice to each other on the internet please.

Owen – @bopogamel and the Mojangers

Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition now available woo!

Owen — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:08:33 +0000

Yeay! Minecraft for Playstation 4 is available to download from PSN! 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.
All your existing Playstation 3 Edition DLC will work on 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 please.

Owen – @bopogamel and the Mojangers

Minecraft 1.8 – The Bountiful Update

Jens Bergensten — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:38:39 +0000

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

Minecraft 1.8 Pre-release 3 – The Bountiful Update

Jens Bergensten — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:47:11 +0000

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!

MINECON 2015

Vu Bui — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:59:43 +0000

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

Minecraft snapshot 14w34d

Dinnerbone — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:18:25 +0000

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!

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!

Minecraft snapshot 14w33c

Searge — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:17:38 +0000

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:} [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!

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

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Minecraft snapshot 14w32d

Dinnerbone — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:05:46 +0000

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!

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

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Minecraft snapshot 14w31a

Dinnerbone — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:57:05 +0000

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!

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

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Pocket Edition 0.9.5 submitted to every store

tommo — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:14:28 +0000

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

Minecraft snapshot 14w30c

Dinnerbone — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:27:09 +0000

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!

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

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Pocket Edition 0.9.3 submitted to Google Play

johan — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:59:57 +0000

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

Minecraft snapshot 14w29b

Searge — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:48:37 +0000

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!

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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Pocket Edition 0.9.2 submitted for review

johan — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:28:17 +0000

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

Minecraft snapshot 14w28b

Dinnerbone — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:47:44 +0000

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 . 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!

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

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft: Pocket Edition 0.9.0 coming July 10th!

Daniel Kaplan — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 19:14:35 +0000

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

Watch Oxeye make Cobalt in REAL-TIME

Owen — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:59:34 +0000

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.

Minecraft snapshot 14w27b

Dinnerbone — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:12:01 +0000

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!

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:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Minecraft snapshot 14w26c

Dinnerbone — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:11:27 +0000

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!

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!

Minecraft 1.7.10 on Thursday! More Realms!

Daniel Kaplan — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:04:40 +0000

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

Minecraft snapshot 14w25b & 1.7.10 pre-release

Dinnerbone — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:17:19 +0000

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!

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!

Let’s talk server monetisation – the follow-up Q+A

Owen — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:45:42 +0000

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

Let’s talk server monetisation!

Owen — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:03:40 +0000

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.

Pocket Edition 0.9.0 Snapshot. Biggest update ever!

Owen — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:19:22 +0000

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

What’s up with Minecraft.net today?

Owen — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:46:17 +0000

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

Minecraft 1.7.10 pre-release

Searge — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:00:22 +0000

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…

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

Minecraft on Xbox One, PS4, and PS Vita soon!

Owen — Thu, 22 May 2014 15:00:40 +0000

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!

Minecraft snapshot 14w21b

Dinnerbone — Thu, 22 May 2014 14:47:08 +0000

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. 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!

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

Minecraft Realms is now available worldwide!

Owen — Mon, 19 May 2014 14:28:50 +0000

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

Mojang

Minecraft snapshot 15w44b

We’re updating our legal documents

Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 2 now available

Real-life Minecraft loot! Mine Chest now available

Cobalt delayed until February 2016 :(

Halloween skins coming to Pocket and Windows 10

Boo! Minecraft: Pocket Edition update is out!

Minecraft snapshot 15w43c

Halloween Mashup pack coming to console

Minecraft: Story Mode unleashed upon the world!

Minecraft snapshot 15w42a

Minecraft snapshot 15w41b

Minecraft: Story Mode is almost here!

Minecraft snapshot 15w40b

Minecraft snapshot 15w39c

Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 1 due this October!

Minecraft snapshot 15w38b

Minecraft snapshot 15w37a

Cross play on Win 10 and PE! The Nether! More!

Minecraft snapshot 15w36d

Minecraft snapshot 15w35e

Realms map explosion and free weekend trials

Minecraft snapshot 15w34d

Minecraft snapshot 15w33c

Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta 0.12.0.1

Minecraft snapshot 15w32c

Watch the new Cobalt trailer! Over one minute of :D

Minecraft snapshot 15w31c

Get Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta for free!

Minecraft 1.8.8 Released

Greek Mythology mash-up pack arrives on console

We’ve chosen a director for the Minecraft movie!

Announcing: Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta

Watch the Minecraft livestream! UPDATE: We’re live!

twitch.tv/event/minecon

Console Minecraft getting flatter, woodier, optionier!

LittleBigPlanet meets Minecraft! Minecon capes!

Minecraft 1.8.7 Security Release

We’re giving away 12,000 Realms trials this weekend!

Pocket Edition now has skins, chicken jockeys, more!

Minecraft 1.8.6 Security Release

Happy Birthday Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition!

1Don’t actually throw anything anywhere. Cakes are for eatin’

2Saturday is its actual birthday but we’re celebrating today because reasons.

MINECON Panel Application

New skins! Achievements! Music!

Minecraft 1.8.4 Security Release

Minecraft Pocket Edition 0.11.0 Beta released

Planned maintenance Tuesday April 14

Minecraft snapshot 15w14a – The Love and Hugs Update

Minecraft 1.10: The Love and Hugs Update

Get the snapshot

Changelog

Gameplay

Animals

Monsters Inhabitants

Weather & Environment

Villagers & Villages

Blocks

Items

Combat

World generation & terrain

Potions

Transportation

Weather & Environment

Game Settings

MINECON 2015 tickets announcement!

Scrolls just got a massive patch! Extra fun included

Minecraft 1.8.3 is now available

Minecraft 1.8.2-pre7 – Almost there, just one more…

MINECON 2015 announced!

The Humble Card Game bundle just got even better!

Let’s talk about Minecraft servers…

Let’s talk about password security

Hey, you! Buy The Humble Card Game Bundle!

You’ve bought Pocket Edition many, many times

Announcing Minecraft name changes

Win an Xbox One with Minecraft Skin Studio Encore

Minecraft Seeds Pro has been updated! On-sale now!

¹Don’t actually throw anything anywhere. Cakes are for eatin’

²Saturday is its actual birthday but we’re celebrating today because reasons.