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“Minecraft: Pocket Edition” beta v.0.13.0 along with the Redstone Circuits update is now available for android smartphones.
“It’s worth mentioning that all of these features are coming to ‘Minecraft: Pocket Edition’ and the ‘Minecraft Windows 10 Edition’ beta in the near future,” according to Mojang’s statement reported in Tech Times.
Mojang, the Minecraft game developer strongly suggests that players need to secure a backup of their existing worlds. There are three requirements a player needs to have to join the test; first, a player must have an android device capable of running the “Minecraft: Pocket Edition.”
Once the player clicked the “become a tester” button on the application, the game will be installed automatically into the phone and will take several days to show up on the device.
The “Minecraft: Pocket Edition” along with the Redstone Circuit update includes the Redstone wire, levers, buttons, pressure plates, torch, lamp, tripwires, trapped chests and detector rails. There are also new wooden doors and a “cute fluffy crop-eating bunnies.” The Stonecutter feature is gone from the game, according to Mojang.
There are several modification within the game including a game tutorial for both reporting a bug and how to make an existing world back-up. The Redstone can be used to control trapdoors, doors, TNT and rails, also longer item tooltip visibility time, stack count labels has a bigger and more readable font and ghast and slimes have the ability to respawn in the game and a lot more listed in their website, vie the reads in Mojang.
The game developer offered their blog forum for the players to get updates about the game and future announcements for the “Minecraft: Pocket Edition,” according to Tech Times.
Yes, finally! After all this time, we finally got the feature most of us have wanted to see in Minecraft: Pocket Edition [$6.99] for months now; the stonecutter is finally history! Okay, there’s also another relatively-important feature in 0.13 beta, Redstone Circuits! The truth is that usable redstone has been on the top of almost every MCPE player’s list since the game first came out on mobile, so I’m glad to see that we are almost there. According to the changelog, we are getting redstone wire, redstone torch, redstone lamp, levers, buttons, pressure plates, tripwires, trapped chests, and detector rails. As you can see from the changelog, we aren’t getting pistons, repeaters, and other advanced blocks, yet. According to the developers, those should be coming later on.
I’m not surprised at this omission because pistons have been known to be tricky little things to get right, so I’d rather get some redstone stuff now. In addition to redstone, we are getting cute crop-eating bunnies, new wooden doors, faster boats with different handling (finally!), slimes and ghasts now actually spawn, hunger restored by food items now matches the PC version, skeletons will run away from wolves, and a few more tweaks here and there. As is always the case, the beta is only out on Android at the moment, but recent updates have seen limited beta period, so I’m hoping it will hit iOS soon. If you want to join the beta, go here.
Everyone loves free updates, right? They make games more fun and cost literally nothing. What wonderful things.
Excitingly, one of them is landing on Minecraft this week. On the first of July, all console versions of Minecraft will be updated to a new version, bringing a heap of exciting tweaks and additions.
Here are a few highlights: -Offended by mountains and caverns? Worry not, strange crafter, because now you have the option to customize your super-flat worlds so they’re only as vertical as you desire. -New blocks! Oak, Spruce, Birch and Jungle wood types. Fences, Gates and Doors! Create the log cabin of your dreams. -A heap of new game options! Change the game mode, difficulty, time, player spawn position, ambient cave sounds, and weather without leaving your game session. Very handy. -Classic crafting! Now console players get to craft items just like their PC buddies on Java Minecraft. Some players find this style of creation more satisfying. Check it out. -New stuff! Iron Trapdoors, Inverted Daylight Sensors, Book & Quills, and Stained Glass have arrived. Use them wisely, and for good, please.
The Minecon 2015 Skin Pack Even more DLC news for y’all! To celebrate the awesomeness that is this week’s Minecon 2015, we’re releasing a free bundle of skins for consoles. This pack is extra-special because it features Alex and Steve wearing a selection of smart Minecon capes.
The Minecon 2015 Skin Pack will be available for just 15 days from the 1st of July onward. Download it from the Xbox Games Store while it’s still hot. You’ve got nothing to lose but your bandwidth!
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Minecraftis a very popular game. Star Wars is a very popular series of movies. It was really only a matter of time, then, before the two properties were combined into one guaranteed moneymaker. With two packs of Star Wars skins having already been released for Minecraft: Console Editions, there is now a third pack in the mix that includes characters from the oft-maligned prequels.
The new pack is available on all consoles for the microtransactional price of $2.99. For that small amount of coin, buyers get a bevy of characters both popular and obscure, ranging from series stalwarts such as Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi to more hilariously named characters such as Poggle the Lesser and Kit Fisto.
One notable character from the prequels seems to be absent, though: Jar Jar Binks, the embodiment of everything Star Wars fans lamented about episodes I through III. Was he left out to avoid controversy, or just because the programmers couldn’t figure out how render his floppy ears as pixelated blocks? Either way, Star Wars fans won’t have blocky Jar Jar to kick around.
The full list of characters who did make the cut is below:
Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master
Qui-Gon Jinn
Queen Amidala, Naboo Throne Room
Senator Padmé Amidala, Geonosis
Mace Windu
Darth Maul
Senator Palpatine
Count Dooku
General Grievous
Jango Fett
Watto
Boss Nass
Aayla Secura
Clone Commander Cody
Clone Trooper, Phase I
Security Battle Droid
Zam Wesell
Ki-Adi-Mundi
Lama Su
Kit Fisto
Mas Amedda
Captain Panaka
Plo Koon
Poggle the Lesser
Captain Typho
Nute Gunray
Padmé Amidala, Pilot Disguise
Queen Amidala, Battle Dress
Padmé Amidala, Peasant Disguise
Bail Organa
Adi Gallia
MagnaGuard
Clone Commander Gree
Kashyyyk Trooper
Tion Medon
Asajj Ventress
Savage Opress
Ahsoka Tano
Clone Captain Rex
Hondo Ohnaka
Cad Bane
Mother Talzin
Wat Tambor
Shaak Ti
C-3PO on Battle Droid
Battle Droid on C-3PO
Commander Battle Droid
Infantry Battle Droid
Pilot Battle Droid
Beru Whitesun Lars
Owen Lars
It’s worth noting that these skin packs are for the console versions of the game only. Players of the PC or mobile versions are out of luck, although PC players only have to do a Google search for “Minecraft Star Wars mod” to find all sorts of fun ways to bring the movies to their game of choice. Maybe some of those mods even include Jar Jar Binks, for those who might want to put him in a cage on a remote island surrounded by zombies or something like that.
Is the $2.99 a solid investment or another attempt to milk Minecraft players for all they’re worth? Maybe a little of both, depending on how much you want Pilot Battle Droids patrolling the hallways of your blocky castle, while Queen Amidala awaits you on a bed made of chickens. One’s imagination is the only limitation when it comes to the silly things one can do with licensed characters in Minecraft.
The Minecraft Star WarsPrequel Skin Pack is available now for all console versions of the game.
