Category: Minecraft News

We’re currently battling winter here in the office, but we managed to sneak out this small snapshot a little later than usual.

A full changelog for the Snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Added underwater ruins!
• Added new coral blocks!
• Phantoms no longer spawn in the end
• Phantoms despawn in the daytime
• Optimized particle rendering slightly

UNDERWATER RUINS

We’ve ruined the game. Again.

• Come in many different shapes and sizes!
• Cold ruins can be found in cold, frozen, ocean biomes – regardless of depth
• Warm ruins can be found in warm, lukewarm, and deep lukewarm biomes
• Can generate alone or in a big ruined village
• You can also sometimes find them slightly underground or slightly above sealevel
• They can contain mysterious treasures! So mysterious that we haven’t even added the real treasure yet.
• A few more things to come in a future snapshot…

CORAL

Pretty blocks! Or should they be mobs? I’m not entirely sure.

• Comes in 5 colors: blue, pink, purple, red, yellow
• Requires water to stay alive
• If it dies, it dies. Sorry.
• Currently only obtainable in the creative inventory
• World generation to come in a future snapshot…

FIXED BUGS IN 18W09A

• MC-118324 – One of magenta dye recipes is unlocked via getting Ink Sac
• MC-118416 – Recipe for bowl not unlocked until bowl or mushrooms are obtained
• MC-126111 – Furnaces don’t award recipes or experience when output is taken after a reload
• MC-126150 – Furnaces don’t account for multiple recipes with the same output when giving experience and smelting recipes

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

This week’s snapshot is mostly to help prepare for a really cool snapshot coming your way soon. That’s right – it’s a snapshot snapshot!

A full changelog for this snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

• The game shouldn’t crash when joining multiplayer!
• Split the ocean into 10 different biomes!
• Added underwater caves & ravines
• Added a clickable link to the /locate command output

OCEAN BIOMES

We didn’t want to stop at seven seas.

• Oceans are now split into 5 temperatures: frozen, cold, normal, lukewarm, warm
• Each ocean has a deep variant, like before
• World generation should stay the same, but old chunks will only have normal oceans
• We’ll be using these for something real soon!

UNDERWATER CAVES & RAVINES

They look so cool. Sea for yourself!

• Caves under the ocean are 50% more humid
• Ravines will appear in all oceans
• Some ocean ravines cut deep, exposing lava to the seas

FIXED BUGS IN 18W08A

• MC-122000 – Items get deleted when the inventory is overflowed by using the recipe book to return items from a crafting table.
• MC-124299 – /give command: Items on ground for a long time not able to pick up
• MC-124948 – /enchant can be used by non-ops
• MC-125451 – Crash when logging into multiplayer without logging into singleplayer first

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

Minecraft News

• The first Update Aquatic snapshot, 18W07A, was released this week, bringing with it our experience of Turtles, Phantoms, Tridents, a new swimming ability and much more.
• That’s not all though! Dinnerbone tweets, “p.s. this isn’t everything aquatic. There’s at least one or two more things to come in future snapshots. Maybe three.”.
• The Minecraft: Java Edition development team give a behind the scenes look into the Update Aquatic. Learn about turtle behaviour and the dangers of The Phantom — “[…] Jens stresses just how dangerous a risk that is. “They are really nasty to fight, really hard to hit – they fly up and then swoop down again. They sound really scary too. Samuel Åberg did some really scary sound effects for them”.
• Minecraft (Bedrock) is coming to the Nintendo Switch, and this week Mojang shared a preview of the game on their livestream. You can catch up on that livestream below!

Watch Terrific Tuesdays: Bedrock on Switch SNEAK PEEK! from Minecraft on www.twitch.tv

Today is Valentines Day! We couldn’t think of any better way to show our love for you than to give you a snapshot
full of new things. <3

The full changelog can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Added Phantoms (MineCon voted mob!)
• Added Turtles
• Added new swimming ability (sprint underwater!)
• Added bubble columns
• Added ability to strip logs
• Added new trident weapon
• Squids now shoot ink to defend themselves
• Added new kelp and sea grass blocks
• Items in water now float to the top
• Added new prismarine stairs and slabs

PHANTOMS

You look tired. When’s the last time you got a decent night’s rest? Bad things happen to those who don’t sleep… they start to hallucinate, and see what’s really there.

• Spawns in the overworld and the end
• Attacks players who haven’t slept in a while
• Drops leather, but this may change

TURTLES

The turtle moves.

• Spawns on warm beaches, but this is temporary
• Will lay eggs in their home beach
• You can craft pieces of their old shell into one big shell
  • And wear it on your head!
  • Or craft it into a potion!
  • Turtles are known for their strength, not their speed
• Please be kind to turtles. They hold up the world.

KELP AND SEAGRASS

The green in the blue!

• Seagrass generates in all oceans, but this is temporary
• Kelp doesn’t generate in deep oceans, but this is temporary
• Kelp can be smelted to get dry kelp
  • A tasty snack for the ocean adventurer!
  • Or a convenient way to fuel more smelting
  • Or just store it away into a dried kelp block

BUBBLE COLUMNS

Blub blub blub blub.

• Doesn’t generate anywhere currently
• Occurs when a magma block is in water
• Watch out, you’ll get sucked under!
• A good way to breath without cheating game mechanics

STRIPPED LOGS

Go ahead, axe us a question.

• You can strip logs by using an axe on them (right-click)
• Stripped logs act like regular logs in furnaces, crafting, etc
• They look neat!

TRIDENTS

Some say that throwing your only weapon away is a bad idea. We disagree.

• Right click to throw the trident
• Left click to melee
• Currently unobtainable in survival, that will change
• Super overpowered, we’ll balance them later
• Has 4 available enchantments
  • Loyalty: Your trident will come back to you. Spoil-sport.
  • Impaling: Very useful against creatures of the sea.
  • Riptide: Gotta go fast.
  • Channeling: We’re not sure. It’s pretty spooky.
• UI icon is not yet implemented

FIXED BUGS

• MC-11208 – The big tree generator handles tree height variable incorrectly
• MC-124890 – Can’t insert charcoal into furnace
• MC-124897 – “Balloon oak” tree variant generates upside down, with often only stumps visible on the surface
• MC-124902 – Furnace recipes work in crafting interfaces and interfere with crafting recipes
• MC-124903 – Random crash in snow biomes: java.lang.NullPointerException: Exception ticking world
• MC-124913 – Horses, rabbit, parrot, llamas and sheep generate with default color / variant only
• MC-124916 – Chorus plant generation broken
• MC-124930 – The game crashes when pressing “show craftable” in the furnace recipe book.
• MC-124952 – Large oak trees fail to generate in all biomes with the new generator
• MC-125016 – Debug world does not generate
• MC-125047 – World generator not fully cleaned before making new world

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

Todays snapshot brings in a complete rewrite of how world generation works behind the scenes, so that we can do some really cool things with it in the future & speed it up dramatically. It may be quite unstable in this first snapshot though, so as always: do not open worlds you care about in a snapshot without having a backup first. We can almost guarantee that any world opened in this snapshot will not work in the full 1.13 release.

A full changelog can be found on Minecraft.net:

CHANGES IN 18W06A

• Re-added /enchant command
• Added a recipe book for the furnace
• Rewrote the world generation system
• Added command suggestions for entity selectors
• Allow whitespaces in entity selectors & blockstate arguments
• Added new item & block tags

WORLD GENERATION

We’ve spent the last few years (yes, years) rewriting the world generator completely from the ground up, and this snapshot finally has the first version that we have some kind of confidence in. It may not be much faster at first, but that’s because we’re playing it safe and want to just achieve “it works” before “it’s fast”. It might still be unstable, too, so watch out for that. It’s the very first snapshot with it in, after all!

FURNACE RECIPE BOOK

Now there’s a recipe book for the furnace! Exactly like the existing crafting recipe books, you can unlock recipes as you play through the game and they will automatically appear in your recipe book for smelting. Mapmakers can customize the recipes with data packs, which allows them to add or completely change furnace recipes. “Fuel”, the items that can be burned in a furnace, is not included in this and is still somewhat hardcoded currently.

CUSTOMIZED WORLDS

… don’t work in this snapshot. Sorry. We have plans to re-add them in a much more extendible way, but unfortunately we were not able to have that ready yet. You will be unable to open any world of type “customized” in this snapshot, it will tell you to revert to an old version to play in those worlds.

/ENCHANT VS /MODIFYITEM

It’s back how it was. We have shelved the /modifyitem idea that was supposed to replace /enchant and we will look into that again in a future update.

FIXED BUGS

• MC-77488 – TAB player list sorts player names based on ASCII values instead of alphabetically
• MC-121641 – Impossible selector combinations don’t fail to build
• MC-121644 – Recipe book tab sound plays twice
• […………….] x 10

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

Minecraft News

Last month, following the work of Jasper on the new Minecraft textures, Mojang released the first preview pack of the new Minecraft textures, and today a follow-up release is now available, including changes made based on players feedback!

Late last year, we released a new texture pack for the Java Edition of Minecraft, so we could get your feedback!

We were always adamant that these changes wouldn’t be implemented into Java Edition properly until we got your feedback – and now enough of you have screamed about the glass block for us to release an updated pack! This is Version 2 and you can click this line of text here to download it now!

What do you think? Does glass look more gorgeous than ever before? Has Netherack never looked better? Has the new gold block made your eyes wish they’d never been born? Let us know!

Here’s how you can install it in Minecraft Java!

1. Click this line of snazzy [blue] text to download the texture pack. Easy! You’ll now have a .zip file.
2. Copy that .zip file.
3. Open Minecraft: Java Edition
4. On the main menu, select Options and then Resource Packs.
5. Select Open Resource Pack Folder.
6. This will open that folder. Now just paste the .zip file you copied earlier into this folder.
7. Once it’s finished pasting, close the folder and go back to Minecraft.
8. Under Resource Packs, you’ll see a list of Available Resource Packs. Your new texture pack should now be on this list! Select it and you’re done!

Still not working? Try this link for step-by-step instructions for different devices.

There are a couple of ways to get feedback on these textures to us. First, you can click this green text to be taken to our feedback site. We’ve also set up a Reddit post where you can leave feedback. Remember, the texture pack is designed to work in 1.12.

We just moved into a new office this week, so we don’t have very much to show you in a new snapshot. That said, have a new snapshot anyway! It has some bug fixes so that’s always fun.

Following the news last week that the Update Aquatic has been merged into Minecraft 1.13, Dinnerbone tweets:

Don’t expect any Update Aquatic features this week. We want to get all the technical changes out before we start snapshotting new content again.

A full changelog can be found on Minecraft.net:

• Added new command /bossbar
• Added really basic entity selector suggestions in the command UI (@eetc)
• Updated translations from crowdin
• Fixed bug MC-4923 – Flint and steel and fire charges can place fire at invalid positions
• Fixed bug MC-5037 – Riding a pig / horse with a cape causes it to not behave as expected
• Fixed bug [………….] x 9

This command allows you to create a custom boss bar, change how it looks, and choose who to show it to.

To create a bossbar called foo:bar, use /bossbar create foo:bar "Name of my boss bar".

[…]

Bossbars persist across restarts and leaving/rejoining the world. If a player is added to a boss bar and reconnects, they will be re-added to the bossbar unless a new set .. players is ran without them in it.

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

Helen Chiang, the new head of Minecraft, has revealed that the number of Minecraft users has reached a record high! There are now 74 million active users each month, and copies of the game have been purchased a colossal 114 million times. Chiang looks forward with the hope of continuing to ‘build the community that we have’; which is being set in motion through some of the following updates…

 

• February will bring a new Chemistry Update to Minecraft: Education Edition, which provides both educators and those interested in learning with ‘a fun, accessible way to explore chemistry within the immersive world of Minecraft. Make pigs fly with helium balloons, create underwater TNT or see what elements make up a grass block.’ This will be available worldwide, ‘for all users of Minecraft: Education Edition’ in February.

• Jasper shares on Twitter that the new version of the BETA-Pack will be revealed ‘very soon…’ 

• In addition, Jasper shares previews of the new diamond texture, as well as progress on the gems, and a comment about emeralds.

  

• As you may have read in the Forum post, ‘UPDATE AQUATIC BECOMES MINECRAFT 1.13’, Mojang have shared a change on the plan for the forthcoming Minecraft: Java Edition 1.13 update and the Update Aquatic (Minecraft 1.14). If you haven’t seen this post, Mojang stated:

  “We’re going to hold back the official launch of 1.13 and merge that release with all the features we’d planned for the Update Aquatic. […] we were planning on releasing the rather technical 1.13 update, which includes equally exciting-sounding things like a new world format, a new command parser, data packs and the elusive rewrite of world generation. […] However, because our world generation overhaul is taking a little longer to get ready, we’re going to hold back the big 1.13 release and put it out at the same time as the Update Aquatic. In fact, the Update Aquatic will become 1.13!”

  There’s not all bad news though! As a consequence of this change, you will be playing the Update Aquatic sooner than previously planned… “As a result, however, this means we can actually start snapshotting Update Aquatic features much earlier than previously planned! Lucky you! So, get ready to take a dip… soon… ish!”

• Furthermore, Dinnerbone updates on twitter that: “There will not be a snapshot today. As I said in last weeks snapshot blog post, we’re moving offices and aren’t in a very good position to do snapshots for a little while. maybe next week, but not guaranteed.”.  Here’s what the old office looked like:

  

Forum Updates

• Finally, due to required maintenance, the Minecraft Forum will be in read-only mode on Monday at 9pm Central time (3am UTC) for 4 hours.

• The “Monster Hunter: World’ was released yesterday! Check out the wiki on Gamepedia.

Mojang have shared a change on the plan for the forthcoming Minecraft: Java Edition 1.13 update and the Update Aquatic (Minecraft 1.14).

We’re going to hold back the official launch of 1.13 and merge that release with all the features we’d planned for the Update Aquatic. […] we were planning on releasing the rather technical 1.13 update, which includes equally exciting-sounding things like a new world format, a new command parser, data packs and the elusive rewrite of world generation. […]  However, because our world generation overhaul is taking a little longer to get ready, we’re going to hold back the big 1.13 release and put it out at the same time as the Update Aquatic. In fact, the Update Aquatic will become 1.13!

There’s not all bad news though, as a consequence of this change you will be playing the Update Aquatic sooner than previously planned:

As a result, however, this means we can actually start snapshotting Update Aquatic features much earlier than previously planned! Lucky you! So, get ready to take a dip… soon… ish!

You can expect the first Update Aquatic snapshot in the coming weeks, Dinnerbone tweets…

There will not be a snapshot today. As I said in last weeks snapshot blog post, we’re moving offices and aren’t in a very good position to do snapshots for a little while. *maybe* next week, but not guaranteed.

— Nathan Adams (@Dinnerbone) January 24, 2018