Just before year 2016 comes to an end, good news keep coming, especially for Minecraft fans. Players are treated from the latest update to the latest version of Minecraft. If you’re a fan, you will be jacked up by what you’ll read below.
Minecraft Console Update
Microsoft has started rolling out the Minecraft 1.10 for console with new additional features such as new blocks, mobs and items including some changes to the content of the end game. The free update also includes new downloadable contents that are perfect gifts to avid Minecraft players — a sure way to keep players’ interest in the game.
Meanwhile, if players wanted more than the free update can offer, they can at any time purchase the new downloadable content, “Fallout” mashup pack for $6 which already include 44 skins or the Merry Bundle for $7, GameSpot reported.
Minecraft Pocket Edition Update
Just after the update for console, Microsoft also rolled out an update for the pocket edition of Minecraft where players can add music which can be downloaded in the store. The update also features the option to delete add on for the unwanted add ons, Mobipicker reported. The other features include the following:
A message appears after dying or the bed was destroyed (“Your home bed was missing or obstructed”)
“100% dragon free” or “It’s alpha” splash messages removed
Get one item with full durability after taking two damaged items and putting them in crafting grid or anvil
Faster transfer of items between containers
Animation for throwing items
Wearing helmets can prevent endermen from attacking
Make huge mushrooms from regular mushrooms
Beetroot and beetroot soup in the creative inventory
Aside from the update, players who own Apple TV receives good news. According to Neurogadget, the experience in using the console or PC will just be the same when playing “Minecraft” using the Apple TV with 7 DLC. In a press release, Mojang revealed that the DLC will include “The Holiday 2015,” “Natural,” “Cartoon,” “Town Folk,” “Festive 2016 Mashups,” and the “City Skin Folks Skin Pack” and is now available in iTunes which costs around $20. However, it will not support the “Minecraft Realms” or Xbox Live for now.
Two chemists, a materials scientist and a game developer (all professors), have created a Minecraft expansion designed to sneakily teach chemistry and engineering concepts. They used the mod as part of a college course and found preliminary results that suggest it works reasonably well.
The goal, the group writes in Nature Chemistry, was to create an educational game that didn’t feel like work, but rather would “excite [students] so much that they would consume it without needing to be assigned it.” The Polycraft World expansion had two central guiding principles: “the science we add must be accurate, and it must add something fun to the game.”
Much like vanilla Minecraft, Polycraft World requires players to combine materials to generate items, but it adds in accurate chemical processes to get there. “If you combine the right reactants (in a chemically balanced way) you will get a new material such as Kevlar,” the researchers explain. They wanted to create a strong natural incentive to learn the practical concepts by allowing players to generate items like jetpacks and flamethrowers. Polycraft World uses an online wiki to teach users how to play, as in vanilla Minecraft.
Chemist Christina Thompson took the mod for a test drive with a group of 26 students. As a non-graded part of a class called “Video Games and Learning,” students were asked to play Polycraft World up to a certain point. At no point were they taught anything scientific, and they were never asked to learn anything from the game.
After 11 weeks, the students were given a pop quiz on polymer science. Around half of the students were able to draw a substantial part of the crude oil distillation process, and the majority were able to identify easy-to-make polymers used in the game. A small group of students was even able to identify more advanced polymers.
As the researchers note, the sample size here is small enough that it’s not much more than anecdotal evidence, but it’s still encouraging. These students, they point out, “learned the real-world processes required to get benzene from crude oil because they wanted to make jetpacks in a video game.” One thing not clear from this exercise is whether the students would have enjoyed the game enough to get to their assigned stage without being asked to.
The researchers think that gaming holds huge promise as an educational tool, especially as remote education becomes more popular. The medium of games itself is particularly well-designed for education, they argue. Not only do games allow people to progress at their own pace and fail in a constructive way, but they are pretty much the definition of intense focus and motivation: “Humans have collectively spent more than 1.75 billion hours of their time playing … Minecraft, which if measured linearly would predate the birth of Homo Sapiens.”
Still, although there have been successful educational games—think Oregon Trail and Kerbal Space Program—Polycraft World was the first real stab at using games to replace a traditional educational course. And it relies on software that’s useful for teaching. Minecraft has the advantage of logging data that would allow a hypothetical teacher to keep track of how people are doing, recording how many attempts a student needs to create a particular polymer or how fast they’re progressing through the game.
Right now, digital tools that resemble games in some way are quite widely used in education, but most of these tools aren’t intended to be fun in their own right (or they try, but don’t cut it). Educational games that genuinely create motivation to progress could be a powerful and valuable tool. Even though that’s a far-off possibility, there’s a more immediate opportunity, the researchers suggest: partnerships between academia and game developers could enrich existing games, like Civilization, to be more robustly accurate and educational.
The latest updates to Minecraft spark the interest of the players. With the Minecraft 1.10 for consoles now available, significant changes to endgame content will be experienced, other than the new mobs, blocks, and items.
Mojang, Minecraft developer launched Minecraft 1.10 in order to delight all gamers with a huge update to the sandbox video game. This new full changelog is something that the video gamers will really enjoy. For over the years, both the game’s creator and the huge community that formed around it witnessed the evolution of Minecrafttogether. This made it possible for the building adventure title to spread across multiple platforms and to cater to multiple generations.
According to the release notes, new End Cities and End Ships have made their way to The End. This adds more life to the game and gives players a lot more to play around with once they’ve exhausted the game’s final area.
Another addition to the game is Elytra, a chestplate-slot item that gives the player wings. While equipped, players can glide from high ledges until they reach the ground, controlling their rate of descent by looking up or down. This allows players to get an aerial perspective on what they build and/or what others build around them. However, Elytra cannot be crafted, only found in the end.
A Mojang spokesperson said that they have been working in the depths of their bunker complex. Minecraft artists and builders have been busy blasting its glorious overworld into an irradiated wasteland fit for “Fallout” fans to wander.
Other updates also include new blocks, new mobs, new items, and an updated crafting interface. Only bad news is that the Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Windows 10 Edition will not be a free download for users.
With all these sort of updates, players are surely kept interested in the sandbox video game. Stay tuned here at Mobile & Apps for updates.
Minecraft Full Version is expected to come to the Apple TV. It should be noted that the Windows 10 and Pocket editions of Minecraft reportedly adds endgame content in the beta. Furthermore, the tvOS release of Minecraft reportedly adds seven pieces of downloadable content.
New DLCs Featured In The Apple TV Minecraft
It has further been noted by developer Mojang that the Apple TV Edition of Minecraft may also pack the Holiday 2015. Additionally, City Folk and Town Folk skin packs may also be included as in-game content. Moreover, Plastic, Cartoon, Festive 2016 and Natural mash-up packs is also said to be included.
Note that the Minecraft DLC additions may only be available for a limited number of purchasers. Previously, Apple TV was also noted with the Story Mode in Minecraft with a narrative from Telltale Games. Moreover, Minecraft was also noted to launch on the device in June.
On the contrary, the Apple TV Edition of Minecraft reportedly does not support both the Xbox Live log-ins as well as Minecraft Realms. In the meantime, Mojang further revealed that Minecraft may be updated soon to support both features. Currently, the pocket and Windows 10 editions of Minecraft have been noted running on version 1.0 complete with the aforementioned updates.
Minecraft 1.10 Patch Notes Released
In other news, Minecraft updates have reportedly been released for the home console versions. Apparently, it is believed that the Minecraft 1.10 with new mobs, blocks and items may make the console game more comparable to the PC version. Note that the release notes have also been published.
Minecraft will reportedly pack new End Ships and End Cities to The End. Moreover, players are expected to receive the chestplate slot item Elytra that reportedly gives players wings. Note that this item may equip players the ability to glide from high ledges and control the rate of descent by looking down or up. Learn more about Minecraft 1.10 here:
With Christmas round the corner and to spice the gaming experience, Minecraft has launched its all new version of the Minecraft 1.10 update. So if you have been recently feeling a bit outwardly because of the PC/Mac and Pocket/Windows 10 current updates, there is no need to worry as Minecraft has released its all new console editions with the Minecraft 1.10 update.
The Minecraft 1.10 recent update which has termed as the new exploration, is now live and active for all the game freaks. The best thing about this new update that it is available for free download and usage. It can be downloaded and played with the current versions of Windows 10 and Mac personal computers.
Everything You Need to Know About the Minecraft 1.10 Update
There are several great features available by the launching of this update. The salient features introduced by the launch of the Minecraft 1.10 update include a new range of maps, items, characters, exciting quests, enemies and so much more. When the Macs and the Windows 10 users would download the latest version of the Minecraft 1.10 updated version, they will immediately encounter a new Cartographer.
This Cartographer would offer a lot of maps for accessing the treasure which will be offered when you would exchange some emeralds. Every emerald which has been exchanged has a value or worth for the maps which will help the player in the discovery of new treasure maps and a completely new world to be discovered by the players.
New Minecraft Update
The new update of the Minecraft games also offers to its players an adventure-filled journey for the treasure hunt which involves the entry of new creatures, guardians, and even magical creatures. Some of the recent updates or changes to the game plan with the recent Minecraft 1.10 update include:
Fixation of several bugs
Addition of polar bear
Addition of new husks and stray animals
An option for enabling auto-jump
Several improvements in the inbuilt commands
Customized maps with exciting structural blocks
Bone blocks resembling underground structured fossils
Addition of magma block
Addition of Red Nether bricks and Nether Wart blocks
The mushrooms can be made even larger
The chance provided to the users to win lonely trees situated in the plains
Herobrine has been removed
Better paths have been generated by the villages between the buildings
The user can even find the abandoned mineshafts which are filled with gold
More versions of the villages are available which are based on the biomes they are constructed in
The players can saddle the wildest animals to provide protection to their caravan train and provide security from the monsters.
With the new update of the Minecraft 1.10 version, the users are given a grand opportunity to discover themselves in the most adventurous and fun-filled way. The players just need to be brave and begin their quest to find the hidden treasures to achieve success in the game plan.
The highly pixelated world of “Minecraft” has been a global hit among kids and adults alike and had mashed up with other game franchises over the years. This Holiday season will be no different as the five-year-old game will be crossing paths with an equally famed title – Bethesda’s “Fallout.”
The new downloadable content has been revealed to fans about a week ago and has gone live since yesterday. Just like the previous penchant, the new game segment has brought in loads of new skins and items taken from the “Fallout” universe, Gamespot learned. Some of the new skins include the likes of “Fallout’s” renowned mascot, Vault Boy, Nick Valentine, Jangles the moon monkey, Paladin Cross, robo-sleuth, Tinker Tom, and even the super-powered mutant, Fawkes.
Nuked landmarks in the “Fallout” lore has also graced the game which include the Tenpenny Tower and the Capitol building. These well-known beacons won’t be complete without it being infested with oversized web crawlers, two-headed bovine mutations, gruesome-looking anomalies, and slender ghouls.
Making the “Minecraft-Fallout” experience complete is the playlist that went along the newly released game expansion. The soundtrack has stashed in popular tunes in recent and previous “Fallout” titles that will make sandbox gameplay all worthwhile during the Holidays.
The new DLC comes with a price tag of $6 and is now available on all major gaming platforms including legacy consoles such as Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
PC players, on the other hand, will not be left out as Minecraft’s website also released the 1.11.1 patch that brought forth some nifty stuff within the game. Such items include a rocket equipped elytra glider, a so-called “sweeping edge” enchantment for bladed weapons, iron nuggets, and a tweak in the game’s attack indicator where players are now being signaled on when to strike.
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