by Stone Marshall | Jan 27, 2015 | Awesome Book News, Minecraft News |
Dayshot: It also doesn’t have a world download, which is criminal. Instead, it has a rather well-put-together video.
The map was built by PlanetMinecrafter RubicCubeMan. If you look at his submissions page, none of his builds have a download attached, except for that one unicorn, which is a darn shame seeing how good this guy’s building style is. I’d love to check these out up close. Anyway, here’s the Alice in Minecraft video:
Really cool. And the screenshots:
Dayshot showcases some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find.
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by Stone Marshall | Jan 26, 2015 | Minecraft News |
Minecraft developer Mojang revealed on Wednesday how the usernames and passwords of 1,800 accounts were recently stolen. The studio reassured gamers that it wasn’t hacked and instead blamed the theft on a phishing attack. Essentially, these Minecraft gamers were tricked into providing their usernames and passwords when directed to fake Mojang/Minecraft websites.
“If you haven’t received an email from us, you don’t need to worry. No one has gained access to the Mojang mainframe,” Mojang reported. “Even if they did, we store your passwords in a super encrypted format. Honestly, you don’t need to panic.”
Mojang didn’t go into detail about the phishing attack, but instead requested that Minecraft players use a unique password when logging into their account. That way, if Mojang does get hacked in the future, the crooks won’t have access to other online accounts used by Minecraft gamers such as email and banking.
Microsoft, which purchased Mojang for $2.5 billion back in September 2014, indicated on Wednesday that there was no sign of foul play on the server side. However, the company admitted that it quickly reset the passwords of the affected Minecraft accounts after the published list of account info surfaced.
Mojang and Microsoft provided instructions on how to create a great password right here, noting that a good password should be easy to remember but difficult for hackers. Avoid using obvious phrases like a pet’s name or a birthday. Passwords should also not only include a long line of numbers and letters, but at least one capital letter.
“You need to pick a really strong password, something that not even the most powerful computer can crack within a reasonable amount of time,” Mojang stated.
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by Stone Marshall | Jan 26, 2015 | Minecraft News |
Mojang has advised Minecraft players to change their passwords and make it a stronger one for security reasons following the leak of more than 1,800 Minecraft users’ e-mails and passwords.
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Responding to the hacking rumours, Mojang said in its official website, “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.”
It further clarified that no one was able to get access to “Mojang mainframe”. The company, while asking players not to panic, revealed that it stores the passwords in “a super encrypted format”.
Microsoft, which had acquired the Minecraft franchise some time back, also came out with a similar statement. “We can confirm that no Mojang.net service was compromised and that normal industry procedures for dealing with situations like this were put in place to reset passwords for the small number of affected accounts,” said a Microsoft spokesperson, CNET reported.
News of the leak was reported earlier this week by Heise, a German news website. The leak contained e-mail addresses and their passwords from Minecraft users. Post this, many wondered if Mojang.net was compromised by hackers. However, investigation that followed the incident have revealed that it was the result of phishing attacks or malware.
“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,” said a Mojang post.
Mojang further advised players to use different password for each of their internet logins. When users have an identical password for all their accounts, hackers can easily break into all of them if they reciver the password of just one.
Minecraft is a phenomenon in the gaming industry, with more than 16,645,000 people having bought the game, Daily Mail reports.
Title Update 20 Released
Last Week, Mojang released the full patch notes for Title Update 20 that consists of new additions and makes some changes to Minecraft. The update fixes bugs and many other issues in PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Below are the full patch notes of Title Update 20 for Minecraft (Minecraft Forum):
- Fix for various Redstone issues.
- Fixed a crash when breaking an Item Frame containing a map.
- Fixed a crash when a Dispenser is dispensing water or lava when the Dispenser is blocked.
- Fix for placing a boat on harmful surfaces causing the game to crash.
- Updates to horse and other animal de-spawning to take into account Saddles, Saddle bags, Leads, Armor and Nametags.
- Fix for Stonebrick stairs recipe.
- Fix for issue where player is able to stay alive with zero hearts in their Healthbar.
- Fixed an issue in the Host Options menu in Adventure mode causing options to be set wrongly.
- Fix for issue where animals don’t stop running after being hit.
- Fix for issue where destroying planted Pumpkin and Melon Seeds drops an incorrect number of seeds.
- Librarian villagers now have a small probability of offering nametags for sale.
- Add a rare probability of spawning Skeletons/Wither Skeletons in the nether.
- Brought forward change so that Witches naturally spawn, rarely, anywhere that’s dark.
- Fix for issue where Wither Skeletons stop spawning in the Nether when the difficulty is set to Easy from Peaceful.
- Changed Minecart riding behaviour back so that the player turns with the Minecart.
- If mob griefing is turned off, sheep shouldn’t change grass blocks when they eat them.
- Fix for TNT cart exploding despite ‘TNT Explodes’ option being turned off.
- Fix to Noteblock fall-off distance so they can be heard further away.
- Fix for player legs not being rotated correctly when riding.
- Fix for Wolf heal tooltip.
- Fixed improper tooltip displayed when Player is holding a Lead and aiming at an aggressive mob.
- Fix for Potion of Weakness effect description having incorrect values.
- Fix for issue where Creepers hover off the floor.
- Fixed issue where Name Tags do not appear to work correctly on the Wither, Iron Golem and Wither Skeleton.
- Fix for player nametags not being colored.
- City Texture Pack – Daylight sensor changed to look more like a solar panel.
- Fix for issue where a horse wasn’t rendering while riding it.
- Fixed Save Transfer issue.
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by Stone Marshall | Jan 25, 2015 | Minecraft News |
If for some reason you play Minecraft to slay dragons, then you’ll be interested to know that slaying the Ender Dragon is about to change. According to a Tweet by Mojang developer Nathan Adams, the forthcoming 1.9 update will turn the current Ender Dragon into one more closely resembling the console versions. That’s not as bad as it sounds, as the console Ender Dragon actually boasts more moves than the PC version.
Adams also assured current players that they’ll be able to spawn the new Ender Dragon without starting a new game.
Bringing the PC Ender Dragon up to speed with his console brethren is not the only change coming to the endgame beast, though Adams refused to specify any other details. He also hinted that patch 1.9 will introduce other, much more significant changes. “Don’t worry,” he wrote. “This isn’t all I’m doing for 1.9. Not by far, but I’ll save the best for later.”
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by Stone Marshall | Jan 25, 2015 | Minecraft News |
The End in Minecraft is going to be overhauled for PC, at least bringing it up to snuff with the Ender Dragon console gamers face off against, but they’ll be “taking it a step further,” teases Nathan Adams.
He wouldn’t go into detail on these extra changes, and also allay fears that 1.9 was all about the flying beast. “…this isn’t all I’m doing for 1.9… not by far,” Adams continued.
Microsoft now owns Mojang and Minecraft, but it seems they’re playing it smart and letting the developer get on with what they do best. If you’ve already slain the mighty dragon then not to worry because “I’ll let you kill him again in his new form without resetting The End,” added Adams.
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by Stone Marshall | Jan 24, 2015 | Minecraft News |
It was only a matter of time before more competitors jumped feet first into the live-stream gaming pool. Paris based streaming video site Dailymotion has announced that it will make a major push into the space with Dailymotion Games. The new streaming service will target both amateur gamers and professional content creators who are currently sharing their gameplay on other platforms. Dailymotion Games will also seek to tap into the increasingly lucrative world of professional e-sports and competitive gaming.
The game streaming market has been dominated by Twitch, the live-streaming service that was acquired by Amazon last year for an estimated $970 million. That deal proved to be the final word on the rapid growth of both streaming and competitive gaming. Since the Twitch deal proved the value of streaming audiences, a number of competitors have have attempted to jump into the field and snatch Twitch’s crown. E-sports giant Major League Gaming made waves when they lured YouTube’s biggest gaming name, PewDiePie, to their streaming platform MLG.TV. More recently Valve, the company behind indie gaming market Steam, launched a beta version of its own streaming platform.
While MLG and Steam bring experience with gaming and gamer culture to the table in their bids to unseat Twitch, Dailymotion is uniquely situated to support creators in a different way. Prior to its recent foray into live-streaming, Dailymotion has been a leader in the hosting and streaming of user generated video content. Like YouTube, Dailymotion hosts its own community of video content creators and could easily offer those same advantages to gamers. While Twitch has historically operated as an unofficial companion to YouTube, Dailymotion has the ability to host live and pre-recorded content all in one place, an advantage that is likely to appeal to gaming content creators who are tired of jumping from platform to platform to reach their audience.
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