Pokémon Go players have a long list of rewards to look forward to once they level up. It’s going to take a lot of experience to get there, though — thousands of points’ worth. In our guide below, we’ll show you exactly how much experience you need to reach each level and what gifts await you.
Pokémon Go encourages players to get out there and gain experience so that they can level up. But instead of leveling up their Pokémon, trainers themselves are the ones who reap the benefits of powering up. For every level you gain in Pokémon Go, you’ll earn a set of items. Sometimes, you’ll unlock new items to purchase or pick up at various PokéStops around the world.
Fans have already uncovered how much experience you’ll need to earn (from battling gyms, visiting PokéStops, evolving Pokémon and other methods) in order to reach up to level 30. These are discovered through both data dumps, which include other files said to be culled from the game, and our hands-on playtime with the game. We’ve collected our findings for you here in the following chart.
Make sure to check in on this page so you can gauge your item stock, and use these incentives to get yourself outside and get some experience with Pokémon Go.
Minecraft on consoles will be getting a large, free update and a premium Chinese Mythology Mash-Up pack on Oct. 4, Mojang announced this weekend at Minecon 2016.
The update will add seven new building blocks, new terrain generation features (including fossils buried underground), polar bears in snowy biomes, banners (pictured below) and a new plant, beetroots, which can be crafted into a soup with restorative properties.
The Chinese Mythology Mash-Up Pack (trailer above), for $4.99, adds 41 new skins, plus an intricately crafted world based on the lore of the Far East. It also includes a map for the Battle Mini Game that Minecraft released back in June, and will feature ancient cities to explore and more than a few dragons.
Both launch on Xbox One, and Wii U in North America, on Oct. 4, and on all other consoles and in all other regions the day after.
For those new to Minecraft who want to add some color to it, we recommend checking our list of 5 easiest dyes to make in Minecraft.
If you didn’t live under a rock for the past couple of years, then you are certainly familiar with Minecraft video game. Released on November 18th, 2011, Minecraft is a sandbox game that allows the player to build constructions, explore, fight, craft items and much more. With over 106 million copies sold, as of June 2016, Minecraft is the best-selling PC game to date and the second best-selling video game ever, right after Tetris. This game is also available for other gaming systems and mobile phones. For those looking for mobile games with extensive story line should rather look into our list of 7 Android games with best story lines.
Now let’s talk about dyes in Minecraft since that’s why you are here. In the world of Minecraft, dyes are items used for the coloring of some mobs, leather armor, hardened clay, wool, the patterns on glass and banners. Dyes are produced by crafting or combining other dyes to make a new one. The dyes obtained by crafting are called primary, and dyes obtained by combining primary dyes (or some other items) are called secondary. It’s that simple. However, getting the preferred color isn’t a piece of cake, since some items for crafting dyes are not so easy to find.
The question is – how we managed to get our list of 5 easiest dyes to make in Minecraft? Well, first, we decided to count only primary dyes, since secondary dyes require obtaining primary first; hence, they are a lot harder to make. Then, we took three elements into consideration: the number of items needed for crafting, how easy is to find these items and finally in how many different ways dye can be made. Let’s take a look at our list, shall we?
5. Ink Sac
This is the darkest dye in Minecraft. It can be obtained in two ways. The first way is by killing squids, which drop one to three Ink Sacs upon their death. Squids spawn in water between sea level and layers 46. The other way to get Ink Sac is by fishing, where they are obtained as “junk item”. Ink Sac in combination with Bone Meal gives Gray and Light Gray Dye.
4. Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli is equivalent to the color blue. It can be obtained by mining or natural generation. Lapis Lazuli occurs in 17% chest minecarts in abandoned mineshafts. Other ways to get Lapis Lazuli include crafting Lapis Lazuli Block and smelting Lapis Lazuli Ore with any fuel. It is used to create Purple Dye, Magenta Dye, Cyan Dye and Light Blue Dye.
3. Bone Meal
The third entry on our list of 5 easiest dyes to make in Minecraft is obtained by crafting bones and bone blocks. Each bone placed in the crafting table gives you 3 Bone Meals and each bone block gives you 9 Bone Meals. Bones can be acquired from the skeletons that drop up to 2 bones after death. They are also found in 29.0% of desert temple chests, 72.2% of jungle temple chests and 57.8% of dungeon chests. Bone blocks are acquired by mining. Bone Meal is used in crafting Gray and Light Gray Dye, Lime Dye, Magenta Dye, Pink Dye, Light Blue Dye.
2. Dandelion Yellow
To make Dandelion Yellow you will only need Dandelion or Sunflower. Each of these flowers gives one Dandelion Yellow Dye when placed into the crafting table. Dandelion is widespread and can be found in Plains, Sunflower Plains, Forest, Flower Forest and any other biome in Minecraft. Sunflower only appears in Sunflower Plains. Dandelion Yellow combined with Rose Red gives Orange Dye.
1. Rose Red
Last dye on our list of 5 easiest dyes to make in Minecraft can be created by using 4 different kinds of flowers. Poppy, Red Tulip, Rose Bush or Beetroot placed in the crafting table will each give you a Rose Red Dye. They are all very easy to find. Poppy is found in Plains, Sunflower Plains, Forest, Flower Forest and any other biome in Minecraft. Red Tulip can be found in Plains, Sunflower Plains, and Flower Forest while Rose Bush appears in Forest and Flower Forest. You can get Beetroot by harvesting a fully grown crop block. Rose Ted is used in making Orange Dye, PurpleDye, Magenta Dye, Pink Dye and Cocoa Beans.
Minecon is almost here. The Minecraft-themed convention will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in California this weekend, on September 24 and 25. Minecon will be a haven for Minecraft fans and a source of new Minecraft announcements. For iOS and Android players (and Windows 10 players), it means we’ll finally get to learn more about the upcoming Boss Update.
As announced near the end of August, the Boss Update is coming soon to Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition. While it’s properly called Update 0.16, they refer to it as the Boss Update because bosses are included among the new features it will add.
The Boss Update’s new enemies include the underwater Elder Guardian and the three-headed Wither. It also adds Slash commands, ocean monuments, new blocks, beacons, and more. Some aspects of this update have already been made available to players participating in the beta test on Android.
The full release of the update hasn’t been dated yet. Its announcement said it would be coming “soon-ish,” and we know it will be sometime after Minecon, but nothing more concrete has been stated about it yet.
At the end of the announcement, Mojang promised more details about the Boss Update would be provided at Minecon. Well, Minecon is almost here! We should have a better idea of what the Boss Update has in store—and when it will be released—this weekend during the convention.
If you’ve been playing Minecraft: Pocket Edition (or the Windows 10 Edition), are you looking forward to this new update? And for Android players, if you participated in the beta, share your impressions of the update in the comments.
Update 0.16, or the Boss Update, will be a major update for the Pocket Edition and Windows 10 Edition of Minecraft. What other updates do you hope to see in the future?
Minecraft is now available across a wide variety of devices. Since then, the console versions have been slowly catching up to the PC version as new features are added. However, it hasn’t caught up yet, and it’s been a while since it had a major update.
Although the previous update for the console version of Minecraft came this month (September 15 for the Wii U version and September 9 for all others), all it did was fix bugs and remove the ability to kick players out during mini-games.
The last console update before that came at the end of August and added a new mini game, new Battle Maps, and achievements, along with fixing bugs. (It also added the vote-to-kick option that was removed in the September update.) In fact, although there have been some skin packs, the majority of console Minecraft updates lately have been focused on mini games and bug fixes, without a lot of other content.
Some players enjoy the mini games, while others do not. There are really two ways to look at it. You could take it to mean the developers are focusing their efforts on mini games instead of other Minecraft gameplay elements players might want more (which contributes to why they dislike the mini game updates). On the other hand, you could look at it from the perspective of the developers not having major Minecraft content ready yet, but adding the mini games in order to give players new things to do.
Either way, it’s been a while since Minecraft received an important console update, so fans can look to the future and speculate on what might be added next.
What Minecraft features are you still hoping to see added to the console versions of the game? Which PC elements have yet to make the jump?
We don’t know when the next Minecraft update will come for consoles, but we’ll let you know if we learn anything new.
We go hands on with Square Enix’s answer to Minecraft, Dragon Quest Builders
Specifications
Available formats: PS4, PS3, PS Vita
The comparisons with Minecraft are inevitable. With its blocky, voxel-based landscape and reliance on crafting to make your way in the world, Dragon Quest Builders unashamedly draws on the same driving mechanisms as Mojang’s mega-hit.
And yet, for all Minecraft’s might and popularity, it’s Dragon Quest Builders that has me itching to play more. It begins in much the same way, asking players to dig deep and build their way out of a pit, before constructing a simple two-block-high house out of mud. However, Builders’ foundations go a little deeper, with the focus being on creating communities for its dozens of NPC characters that roam the dark, gloomy land of Alefgard.
It’s a simple addition to Mojang’s tried-and-tested formula, but one that helps give its minute-to-minute crafting a much-needed girder of purpose; it adds a welcome sense of structure to Minecraft’s sometimes terrifying blank canvas. Rather than leaving players to simply fend for themselves and go forth into the unknown, DQ Builders pins its progression on a string of villager mission requests, asking players to build more complex pieces of furniture in order to grow their towns and increase the resident population.
You’ll start small, first building a simple bedroom, before progressing to a workstation, kitchen and additional, decorated rooms. Eventually, though, you’ll progress onto more advanced projects and create further outposts across the world.
Of course, having played only the first three hours of Dragon Quest Builders, it’s hard to tell exactly what lies beyond the game’s rather more prescriptive set of early tutorials. However, the more quests you complete and the bigger your town becomes, the more people will flock to your newly developed digs to ply you with quests, so you should have plenty to keep you entertained over the course of its run-time.
It helps that Dragon Quest Builders keeps things simple, too, as players are automatically notified what they can make (or to use the in-game parlance, “learn new recipes”) as soon as they discover a new material. Of course, some might say this takes the fun out of the experimental nature of crafting, but for me, it only strengthens DQ Builders’ commitment to making the game more accessible. I provides an easy way to keep on top of your ever-growing inventory and spiralling list of objectives.
For starters, there’s less guesswork involved, and it provides an immediate indication of whether you’re on the right track. This enables you to carefully focus your efforts, rather than simply going out and gathering every last mineral you see and hoping for the best. You’ll still need a workstation to see the rest of the necessary ingredients, but it really doesn’t take much to set up shop and get crafting.
The only thing DQ Builders doesn’t quite improve on is Minecraft’s combat. While the cast of creatures draws extensively from Dragon Quest’s lauded bestiary, defeating them and claiming their prized materials still boils down to crudely beating them with sticks – or, eventually, whacking them with a hammer.
It’s entirely lacking in that classic turn-based combat for which the series is known, but then switching to a dedicated battle screen every time you encounter an enemy would severely hamper the game’s overall pace, so I can understand the need to keep battles taking place in real-time. It remains to be seen how Builders handles larger enemies, but for now, it certainly helps make short work of the general rank and file.
There isn’t long to go now before the game’s final release. Coming to PS4, PS3 and the PS Vita on 14 October (all with cross-play compatibility, I might add), Dragon Quest Builders looks like it could finally be a worthy contender to Minecraft’s crown, offering a more mature, structured take on gaming’s unstoppable behemoth.
I’ll have to wait and see how the combat fares later on in the game, but for now, Dragon Quest Builders is definitely one to watch for would-be Minecraft players.
