Minecraft Pocket Edition 0.14.0 Download Available on Google Play Store
The mobile edition of the famous game was released in August 2011, for the Xperia PLAY on Google Play and its price was $6.99. In October, the game arrived on iOS and in November, it was added to the iOS App Store. A year later, in September, Mojang has released it on the Amazon Appstore and in April 2014, the Amazon Fire TV owners were able to play it as well. Eventually, the Pocket Edition reached the Windows Phone devices in December 2014 and the version for Windows 10, also known as Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta, was brought in July 2015. Today we’ll talk about the new update of Minecraft Pocket Edition, 0.14.0, which can be downloaded from the Play Store and played on Android devices.
A week ago, it was confirmed that the Minecraft Overworld update will be available for Windows 10 and the Pocket Edition, and now, the Minecraft Pocket Edition 0.14.0 can be found on the Play Store. This update allows the gamers to dress up as a witch, to play with new components and enjoy cauldron-powered Redstone comparators. Also, witches will assist the players in creating potions, dyes for the armor, and to generate power.
The update brings also slime blocks, red sandstone and 15 new redstone specialist skins for Redstone engineering, mining, rail-riding and TNT-ing; wearable pumpkins (a little bit too late or early for Halloween); improved chicken jockey mobs (baby zombies will have a 15 percent chance to want to be a jockey); item frames to display the coolest loot; dispensers; droppers; hoppers; trapped chests; more Minecart types etc.
These are some of the features that haven’t been included in the desktop version, but they passed the stable version for Android. The players have been waiting for them since the end of January and now they’re finally able to enjoy them, as well as the new features.
At this year’sNew York Toy Fairthere was a fresh take on how drones could offer a more positive contribution.
The first new trend was to combine the high-tech flying gadget with popular brands. Even Barbie got a look in, with her Starlight Adventure R/C drone.
Standing in hover boarding pose, as she is in the movie, this uses a hidden quadcopter to magically fly Barbie around the house. It sounds a little odd, but is actually a lot of fun.
After some practice, and a few crashes we were able to take Barbie to places she’d never been before.
Along similar lines is the Minecraft Ghast drone. This takes the floating ghost character from Minecraft games as inspiration for a hovering toy.
The controller is styled in Minecraft bricks and looks great. Again a bit of practice is required but once mastered the drone Ghast offers hours of entertainment – well, until the battery runs out at least.
The second toy-drone trend was to up the tech quotient. Adding more technology into the mix is the Skylanders Viper Hover Racer. This makes the flying of the drone easy with child friendly features.
Best of all is an auto take-off and hover mode that lets kids practice more easily. The drone can then be used in a series of video-game inspired missions with progress displayed on a smartphone app.
By placing special beacons around the room (or out in the garden) you can create a virtual track to race around. The app records your fastest time and lets you upgrade the performance of the drone between missions.
There is a co-operative two player mode where one person taps the screen to take down virtual missiles while the other player completes the mission.
Of the three, Hover Racer looks best placed to revolutionise the drone toy market. Provided it delivers on the prototype’s promise it could well be the must-have toy later this year.
Certainly there is a lot of investment in drones as toys, both in making the tech work better and combining it with big brands.
Update:Mojang has pushed the release date for Minecraft 1.9 to Monday, February 29.
Original report:Minecraft’s 1.9 update will launch on Thursday, February 25, Mojang has announced.
The update is also now in pre-release, giving dedicated players the ability to test it ahead of launch and give some feedback to Mojang.
Whilst you’ll have to wait for the complete patch notes, here’s a snippet of what to expect:
Notable changes:
Bugs fixed
Increased durability of shields
Some crystals in the end are protected by cages again
Added 34.7% more hype for Minecraft 1.9
Bugs fixed:
[Bug MC-96863] – Marker ArmorStand Should Not Have Passenger Offset
[Bug MC-97217] – Weird placement of player while riding an entity after swimming with elytra
[Bug MC-97235] – Resource pack in minecraft world save file not working
[Bug MC-97251] – Rail Duplication Glitch
If you wish to try the patch pre-release follow these instructions: “To get snapshots (or, in this case, the pre-release), 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).”
Sandbox games are games in which the player explores an open-ended world and they can do whatever they want to do with a few key note rules set in place. Other than those key note rules, the player can do whatever they want to, whether it would involve building structures or adventuring around the world to kill monsters. There is one game that I have been playing a lot recently that is a true sandbox game that is played by many, whether they are young or a little bit older.
I’m talking about Minecraft: the game that is all about building blocks to create the world that you want to live in and to do what satisfies you in the world. The block world allows the player to build structures and then they can earn items needed to create weapons, get food, and fight off monsters. The only limits of playing Minecraft is your imagination because it’s like anything that you can think of, you can create in the game with tools that you have and the blocks of the world that surround you everywhere you go.
I started to have an interest in Minecraft after I was watching some YouTubers play the game and it really seemed that the things they were doing in the game were fun. They were creating structures and they were using weapons that they had in their inventory to fight off some of the creatures that they were running into. Each video that they had in their Minecraft let’s play series was different because they were going on different missions that they chose to go on. This game isn’t just for the adults who choose to play it either for their YouTube channel or for fun, it’s also played by young kids, whether they are boys or girls. I first saw my younger cousin take an interest in the game by playing the game and also buying some of the merchandise, whether it would be wearing a Minecraft shirt or playing with Minecraft toy sets. I then saw my neighbor’s daughter that I used to babysit during the summer play it on her iPad; when I gave it a try for about 10 minutes, I didn’t know what I was doing and it was just confusing.
I convinced myself and my parents to let me get the game on my computer to play because it was during Christmas break and I needed to find something new to do. The first few minutes, I had to check the Minecraft Wiki page to see how to start building the basic tools because I was a noob (a person new to the world of Minecraft and had no idea how to start playing it). Expand over to a few days later, I started playing it more often as I explored the world that I was in, gathering up supplies, hunting animals and killing monsters that were in my way. I started liking the concept of the game as I played it more and I wanted to see what else I could do because my imagination was still running wild and the possibilities were still endless.
Another discovery that I have made while playing this game is that there is a multiplayer option and players can choose to go on a certain server that they know of to ask for permission to be a part of it. I remember watching a series of videos on a person’s YouTube channel that they had created a server for people to join on and it seemed like the people on the server were having fun, just playing Minecraft together. That acted as a inspiration for me to keep getting better and learning on how the game really is so I can become a part of the server that these people are a part of.
As I continue to discover the unknown things about Minecraft, I learn more about the game itself and it makes me more excited about what’s yet to come for the world of Minecraft. Having the open ended world and having a limited number of rules, it gives players the real chance to make up their rules and let them decide what they want to do in the game. There are a lot of people who play this game and it just keeps getting more exciting for those who lay it as updates are made to it almost all the time.
With more and more people choosing to be a part of the community of Minecraft players, the gaming company, Mojang, works continuously to make the game even more fun for other people. There are updates being made, which could mean more possibilities as to what players could do in the world of Minecraft that they are exploring. there’s a good chance that this game is going to be around for a long time because there are also toys and other video games that are based off Minecraft. It keeps becoming popular amongst people of various ages and I think it’ll continue to grow as the years keep passing by with new features for players to discover.
In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg took the decision to acquire the Oculus VR, which made Minecraft’s creator Markus Persson to cancel the development of the Oculus Rift version of this game. But when Microsoft acquired Mojang, the Redmond company has decided to continue work on the virtual reality version of Minecraft. Facebook was represented at the MWC 2016 event, where Zuckerberg had a short appearance during Samsung’s press conference, helping the company to showcase its latest Gear VR. With this occasion, Zuckerberg has confirmed that the Mincraft game will arrive to the Oculus Rift platform.
During Samsung’s press conference, Zuckerberg has explained what the purpose of his appearance was. He said that “VR is the next platform, where anyone can create and experience anything they want. For right now, it’s mostly used for gaming. That’s quickly evolving. That’s why Facebook is investing so much in VR, so we can deliver these new social experiences. VR is going to be the next social platform. And that’s why we’re working with Samsung.” At this event, it was revealed that Facebook will team up with Samsung in order to make the Gear VR headset load virtual videos faster using dynamic streaming, a feature which allow the user to view the area of a video at the highest resolution, even if the video will be loaded with multiple resolutions.
As for Minecraft, the game is currently supported by devices running on Microsoft Windows OS, X Linux, Raspberry Pi, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and it can be played as well on consoles such as Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, 4 and Vita, and Wii U.
This game is about building constructions using textured cubes in a 3D world, exploring maps, gathering resources, crafting and combating. There are multiple gameplay modes and in the survival mode, the player will build a world and protect it, while in the creative mode, the players are able to fly and they have unlimited resources to build whatever he wants.
You know what’s popular in Japan?Minecraft. You know what else is popular?Dragon Quest.Dragon Quest Buildersis what happens when you mix the two.
Broken down to its essence,Dragon Quest BuildersisMinecraft, but with direction. InMinecraftyou are basically dropped into a world and sent off to do whatever you want. InDragon Quest Buildersyou are tasked with building a settlement and drawing various NPCs to it, eventually forming a new town and purifying the land. You do this by doing various quests for your fledgling settlement’s inhabitants.
These quests range from the mundane (e.g., cook food) to the epic (e.g., steal two fire-breathing demon statues from a cult deep within a pyramid). However, most are simply to go out, collect materials, and build specific items for the settlement.
There are generally two kinds of roadblocks when it comes to progression in the game. The first comes in the form of major monster assaults on your settlement. At first, these are easily defended against by you alone, though some of your fellow settlers will be sure to join in. But as time goes on, you’ll need to turn your outer walls to stone to prevent them from being broken down, lay out metal spikes around your perimeter, and build a heavy gate with accompanying booby traps.
The other hurdle you’ll need to overcome from time to time is leveling up your settlement. Each object you create is worth a certain number of experience points for the settlement, and while objects typically can be placed anywhere, certain objects placed together in the same room can make that room into a specific type of room, netting bonus points.
For example, six beds, an “inn” sign, and a torch inside a room turns it into a hotel. A stone crafting table, storage box, and torch makes a rock-working room. Of course, the more quests you do and areas you unlock, the more objects you can create, and more types of rooms you can build. You can also find blueprints for specific types of rooms hidden throughout the world.
The world inDragon Quest Buildersis segmented into different islands. Each is filled with different terrain, monsters, plants, and minerals, each of which unlocks via a magic portal as you progress through the quests. The various islands have plenty to explore. In fact, if you’re doing only quests and nothing else, there’s actually a lot to miss, including world boss monsters in the far corners of the world.
After you have completed all the quests for your settlement, you have one final, epic boss battle at the gates of your settlement. The battle involves a mixture of fighting the boss, killing the lesser monsters it summons, and defending your settlement as well as yourself.
Upon beating all the quests in the first world, you unlock a second one where you start in a new location from scratch again. You do this a total of four times to beat the game. Also, after you beat the first world, you also unlock the free roam mode, which basically turns the game into aMinecraftclone where you make your own adventure.
Other than the directed nature of the game, the biggest difference betweenMinecraftandDragon Quest Buildersis actually the camera angle. WhileMinecraftis designed as a first-person affair (so all you have to do is look where you want to place an item),Dragon Quest Buildersis third-person, making the entire building aspect a bit more difficult.
Looking above and below your character is accomplished by using the shoulder buttons (one for looking up, the other for looking down). While looking up and down, your character strafes instead of turning in the direction you move, which is immensely helpful when building. (Pressing both shoulder buttons allows you to strafe and place blocks in front of you.)
While placing blocks is a bit awkward, it isn’t the only odd thing about the third-person camera. As the it usually floats high above your character, it freaks out when indoors, unsure where to go. Mining deep in a mountain has similar problems, leaving you unable to see. Ceilings are such an impediment, you’re better off never building any in your settlement.
The game’s pre-built indoor areas all have ridiculously high ceilings to combat the camera issues. So, if you plan to build any multi-story buildings inDragon Quest Builders, better make that second story freakishly high if you want to be able to see when inside.
Dragon Quest Buildersis exactly what you’d expect. It is a retooledMinecraftwith aDragon Questcoat of paint. I personally enjoyed the quests and direction the game gave me, as well as the fact that free-build mode was unlocked after the first world instead of after beating the whole game. If it weren’t for the problematic third-person camera, there wouldn’t be anything to complain about in this title. Still, even with that issue, if you likeDragon QuestandMinecraft—or wishMinecraftwere a bit more goal oriented—Dragon Quest Buildersis certainly worth a try.
Dragon Quest Builderswas released on January 28, 2016 for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita. There is currently no word on a Western release.
