Mojang, the team behind one of the world’s most popular games, Minecraft, has just announced a new update is now available for those who play on smaller screens.
Minecraft Pocket Edition has been updated with a bran new Campfire Tales skin pack, which contains 16 Halloween-themed skins. Each of the skin included in the pack is spooky enough even for the most fearless Minecraft player.
The skins include well-known characters like the Headless Haunter, the vengeful Lumbering Jack, the obsessive Sea-Swallowed Captain, the hasty confectioner Crisp, the cursed Well Wisher, Rancid Anne, The Sham, Ol’ Diggy, and the Risen Rose.
Although these skins are available for free, Android users might have been asked for money while trying to get them via the Google Play store. If that’s the case with you, then you should use the code MINECON2016 to reduce its cost to zero. It’s also worth mentioning that these skins won’t be available for too long, so make sure to get them as soon as possible.
Aside from the Campfire Tales skin pack, the new update also adds some tweaks like a small fix to smart turning (VR only). It also addresses an issue with mirror textures and fixes a bug with the capes that were clipping through armor.
Lots of other small and major bug fixes have been implemented in the update as well, so make sure to download the latest version. Here is the fill changelog for both Windows 10 and Pocket Edition versions of Minecraft:
– Fixed crash when rendering leads in VR. (VR only); – Using the B button to quit the game (when using a controller) now works. (Win 10 only); – Fixed top of cursor flickering in VR. (VR only); – Mouse clicks no longer cause keyboard input to stop. (VR only); – Fixed issue where Minecraft would not shut down completely when launching another app in the Oculus store. (Win 10 Oculus only); – Added in bug fixes for VR that were previously in the 0.16 betas.
Released yesterday on Xbox and Wii U, Minecraft update 1.36 is now available to download in North America, Europe, and Japan for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita.
Adding new blocks, items, enchantments, banners, DLC support, and more, here’s the full list of patch notes for the new Minecraft update on PlayStation: Trending Articles
PS4 PlayStation Store Price Drops: Ratchet & Clank,… Add new blocks – End Bricks, Beetroot, Grass Path, Frosted Ice, Magma, Nether Wart Block, Red Nether Brick, and Bone Block. Added new items – Beetroot, Beetroot Seeds, and Beetroot Soup. Added new enchantments – FrostWalker and Mending. Added new terrain generation features – Fossils and Igloos (in newly generated worlds). Add new mob – Polar Bear. Add Banners. Added Chinese Mythology Mash-Up Pack. Added sounds for Polar Bear, Witch, Squid, Snowman, Armor Stand, Cow, Horse, Item Frames, Leash Knots and Paintings. Updated all Texture and Mash-up Packs with new items & blocks.
As for the Chinese Mythology Mash-Up pack, it’s priced at $4.99/£3.99 and carries this description:
Journey through epic terrain and find enlightenment in the land of dragons with this Mash-up Pack inspired by the myths and legends of China. Minecrafters get to explore a Chinese Mythology-themed world, with glorious Textures, legendary Skins and enchanting Music. The Pack also includes a themed Battle map exclusive to this Mash-up!
Expect the DLC to be up on the North American PlayStation Store later today, shortly after the update goes live.
After much hinting, foreshadowing, and teasing, the newest Minecraft snapshot is out, showing us at long last what the much vaunted ‘exploration update’ has in store.
The most exciting addition for this most recent update is the ‘shulker box’, an item built out of the newly added shulker husks, that finally upgrades your storage capabilities. You can stuff the box full of whatever you want, and it keeps its inventory, even if you destroy the block, letting you use it as a sort of backpack. Players have wanted something like this for ages. Even if you’re not a survival player, it has its uses as a decorative block or as a way to upgrade your storage system, so this is a very exciting change.
The other big addition is the Woodland Mansion, which is a procedurally generated dungeon that appears very rarely in wooded areas. The mansion is filled with tough new mobs that cast spells, summon baddies, and attack you with weapons, making it very much an ‘end-game’ destination (though if you’re lucky enough to find one early it can give you a serious head start on your build.)
Woodland Mansion shows that Mojang is getting more comfortable with their procedural generation—the mansion is a lot more detailed and complex than earlier structures—which means that we could be getting explorable dungeons or structures for every biome eventually (and not just igloos).
As a part of the Woodland Mansion addition, you can also now buy exploration maps from the new cartographer villager. These maps show you the location of the closest Ocean Monument or Woodland Mansion, allowing you to set up an expedition with an actual goal besides aimless wandering. This is more exciting because of what it might eventually allow, but it’s still another tool in the explorer’s toolbox.
For tinkerers, Mojang has finally added an Observer block (which has been in Pocket Edition for a while), a redstone contraption that updates based on the status of the block it is observing. While this might not sound thrilling to everyone, it’s opened up a whole new world of automated builds, including flying machines, transporters, and farms.
In general, it’s not as great of a change as it might seem because the block has been around for a while. But the best redstone contraptions are still on Java, and this addition adds another powerful tool for players who can already built immensely complicated and interesting machines in game.
Other additions include llamas, cursed items, ways to escape from The End, and a useful console command. Exploration players will no doubt be happy, and there should be something for everyone to enjoy, but the big question is whether or not Mojang can continue to deliver updates with this level of content in a reasonable amount of time. In terms of exploration and progression, Minecraft is still pretty features-light when compared to games like Terraria and Starbound, so if Mojang wants to compete in that arena there’s still a lot of work to do.
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Mojang is preparing to launch Minecraft‘s 1.11 update, which will add llamas, mansions filled with Illagers, and treasure maps, among many other changes.
Mojang is hard at work, as ever, on the upcoming 1.11 update for the original PC version of Minecraft. Debuting what the team has been working at over the weekend during Minecon, Mojang’s “Exploration Update” adds several significant pieces of content including llamas, mansions, and maps. Larger system-based gameplay additions like enchanting and experience are absent, but Mojang is hoping to make up for that with pure content.
Here’s a short list of the major additions coming in Minecraft‘s 1.11 update:
Woodland Mansion – Giant end-game dungeons that spawn in in Dark Oak Forests. Treasure Map – Leads to hidden structures like monuments and dungeons. Shulker Shell and Shulker Box – Shells dropped from Shulkers can be turned into boxes which keep their inventory when broken. Cartographer Villager – Trades maps. Illagers – Melee “Vindicators” and caster “Evoker” Illagers populate the new Woodland Mansion dungeons. Vex – Flying enemy type that is spawned by Evoker-type Illagers. Llama – Animal that can be saddled, tamed, leashed and equipped with a small 6-slot inventory. Observer Block – Observes block updates and outputs a redstone signal.
This is just a shortlist of changes from Minecraft‘s 1.11 patch featuring content shown during Minecon and does not represent the final list of changes Mojang will likely be releasing soon. As for when the patch itself will be released, Mojang says 1.11’s snapshot will be available as soon as Wednesday of this week, and an official change-log will accompany the snapshot’s release.
Minecraft 1.11 to Add Llamas, Mansions and Maps – Sheep
While the initial reveal of patch 1.11 was met positively, as no Minecraft fan would ever be disappointed by new content, some criticism has since followed. 1.11 has been known as the “Exploration” update for some time and many fans built up certain expectations regarding that title. While maps may encourage players to get out and explore more, some fans fear 1.11 won’t meet its obligation in creating new, exciting content worth looking for. The Woodland Dungeon is interesting for end-game players, but it’s not a new biome filled with interesting new blocks and units.
Patch 1.12, the “Fanon” update, is coming in 2017 and could deliver some of the content that those disappointed in 1.11 would like to see. It will include new types of trees, a new metal in steel, and a village generation in snowy biomes, as well as female villagers. Mojang has promised to deliver smaller, faster Minecraft updates so fans constantly have something new to try out — and to avoid the lengthy update hiatuses that plagued the game for some time.
The original Java version of Minecraft is currently exclusively available on PC, with update 1.11 planned to release on Wednesday later this week. The staggeringly popular “Pocket” version of Minecraft, available on consoles, mobile platforms, and through Windows 10, should eventually receive the 1.11 update, but it may be some time before that happens.
So you’re thinking about getting a brand new Xbox One S console? If you’re a Minecraft player, we think you’ll be happy to meet the Xbox One S Minecraft Favorites Bundle. It has all you need to build, survive and explore with the latest Xbox hardware. We’ve included over 230 character skins, 3 texture packs and 7 Mash-up packs alongside the Minecraft: Xbox One Edition game so you can let your survival and creative skills run wild. If you play Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, this is the perfect bundle to make the upgrade to Xbox One S. You can transfer your existing Xbox 360 worlds over to the Xbox One Edition, and enjoy building new ones that are up to 16 times bigger.
What exactly is inside this colorful and lively box you ask? The Xbox One S Minecraft Favorites Bundle includes:
Xbox One S console (500 GB) with built-in 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player, and 4K video streaming plus HDR for video and gaming – so you can experience richer, more luminous colors
New Xbox One S wireless controller with expanded range and Bluetooth support for Windows 10 PCs
Minecraft: Xbox One Edition download code, with enhanced performance and 16X bigger worlds compared to the Xbox 360 Edition
Minecraft: Xbox One Edition Favorites Pack download code, which features the Festive Mash-up Pack, Halo Mash-up, Fantasy Texture Pack, Natural Texture Pack, City Texture Pack, Battle & Beasts Skin Pack and Battle & Beasts 2 Skin Pack
Minecraft: Xbox One Edition Builder’s Pack download code, which includes Biome Settlers Skin Pack, Cartoon Texture Pack, Candy Texture Pack, Plastic Texture Pack, Pattern Texture Pack and the Greek Mythology Mash-up
Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta download code
14 day Xbox Live Gold trial membership
The bundle is available now at participating retailers in the United States and Canada, including Microsoft Stores and microsoftstore.com, for $299.99 USD or local equivalent, with the following markets becoming available shortly thereafter:
October 11, 2016: United Kingdom, Western Europe & Central Europe
November 1, 2016: Australia & New Zealand
Coming Soon: Asia & Latin America
Whether you’re crafting weapons to fend off dangerous mobs or placing blocks to build the grandest of castles, we’re looking forward to offering you an outstanding experience on Xbox
Developer Mojang will be making some changes in how redstone works in its popular sandbox game Minecraft for Windows 10 and Pocket edition gamers.
For those of you who don’t play Minecraft, redstone (not to be confused with the Windows 10 update that has the code name “Redstone”) is a special substance in the game’s world that can transmit power. PC and Mac users also have another way to use redstone called quasi-connectivity, and it’s actually a bug that, in Mojang’s own words, has turned into a feature.
In the PC edition of Minecraft, pistons can receive redstone power from a distance of two blocks when they are placed in a very specific diagonal position, rather than from a block right next to it. But blocks only get updated when something affects adjacent blocks. It means that you can power a piston and then remove the power without the piston detecting it! It puts the piston in this state where it actually needs to be deactivated, but doesn’t know yet. Clever minecrafters exploit that to build elaborate trigger mechanisms known as Block Update Detectors: when something happens to a block next to a piston – like a block being placed or destroyed, gravel falling, fire igniting, rails re-orientating or even cake being eaten – the piston will “wake up”, notice that it isn’t powered any more, retract and trigger something else.
The Windows 10 and Pocket versions of Minecraft did not add this “feature” but Mojang decided to create an Observer block that basically does the same thing:
It checks for changes in the environment and, if triggered, switches between emitting a strong signal and an unpowered state – but without relying on a bug to do so. We’ve tested this with lots and lots of different builds, and we can’t wait to see what you lot do with it. We’ve also added some other cool stuff: pistons can now push chests and many other things!
PC and Mac users will still have this redstone bug in place; Mojang does not intend to “fix” it.
