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Minecraft Earth will shut down and be removed from stores in June

Minecraft Earth will shut down and be removed from stores on June 30. The augmented reality title tasks you with getting creative while exploring your surroundings in an entirely new way. That said, with it being a location-based experience, it was always going to struggle in a time such as this.

“Minecraft Earth was designed around free movement and collaborative play – two things that have become near impossible in the current global situation,” says a blog post released today. As a result, the team has decided to “re-allocate” its resources into other areas that “provide value to the Minecraft community” by shutting down Minecraft Earth.

The news comes as a surprise given the game’s passionate following and the fact that it launched just over a year ago. Still, the Minecraft Earth team is working to ensure that these final few months will be enjoyable for those remaining players.

With today’s Minecraft Earth update, the game has removed real-money transactions, reduced the price of in-game currency, reduced time requirements for crafting and smelting, and granted everyone who logs in prior to its closure a special set of character creator items.

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All players with paid ruby balances will be granted Minecoins. These can be used on the Minecraft Marketplace to unlock texture packs, skins, maps, and more. Beyond that, anyone who’s ever spent a penny on Minecraft Earth will receive a free copy of Minecraft’s Bedrock version. More info on what the team is calling the game’s ‘sunset’ process can be seen here.

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New Minecraft Earth features out now

Summary

  • Minecraft Earth introduces Player Journal and updated Challenges today
  • Additional new features added recently include Adventure Crystals and Buildplate Link Sharing

It’s been nearly six months since the first tappables were tapped and buildplates were built in Minecraft Earth with our initial early access release. We’ve used these six months to test, build, and collect feedback from our players to shape an experience that continues to evolve and change.

Today, we’re excited to share some of the new tools and features that we’ve been working on:

  • Player Journal, released today, provides a way to collect and track different mobs and blocks collected and gain rewards for unique items. You could also say that this provides a way to earn bragging rights amongst your friends!
  • Today we also released an update to Challenges, giving them a makeover and introducing new challenge Seasons. Pick your path through the Season map to complete challenges and unlock rewards! You can even unlock new character creator clothing to wear in vanilla Minecraft. Challenges can now also be refreshed through randomized tappables for players to collect.  
  • Adventure Crystals, released on March 25, give players an easy way to experience Adventures (which were previously tied to a physical location) in their home, their backyard, or wherever they are. Players collect these through tappables and can spawn them anywhere and anytime to play and gain rewards. Common Crystals are given as daily rewards, but you need to find chests inside adventures to discover crystals and adventures of higher rarity!
  • Buildplate Link Sharing, released on April 14, allows players to share their Minecraft Earth creations with friends simply by sending them a link they generate in-game or on social media. But worry not – links shared are a copy of the original world, so your little brother isn’t actually able to destroy your masterpiece.

The Minecraft Earth team and I also want to take a moment to acknowledge the current global COVID-19 situation. We have been adapting the game accordingly over the last few weeks by increasing tappable spawn rate and density, introducing Adventure Crystals and removing location-based dependencies, and trying to find ways to help empower Minecraft Earth players to continue to build, craft, Adventure, and mine from the safety of their own homes.

Minecraft Earth is poised to continue growing as we regularly develop new tools, experiences and features. So much of this growth is due to the valuable community feedback we’ve received thus far, so we’d like to say “thank you” and stay tuned – there’s much more to come in the months ahead.

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Minecraft Earth interactive pop-ups will continue over the next 2 weekends in New York City, London and Sydney parks

Summary

  • Last week, we unveiled the Mobs in the Park pop-up experience in New York City, Sydney and London
  • Since kicking off early access on Oct. 17, the global community has placed 240.4 million blocks, collected 76 million tappables and started 6.8 million crafting and smelting sessions
  • The Mobs in the Park will continue over the next two weekends from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. local time, as well as a special appearance on Black Friday in New York City

Last week in celebration of Minecraft Earth’s early access
rollout, we unveiled the Mobs in the Park pop-up experience in three locations around
the world – Hudson Yards in New York City, Campbell’s Cove in Sydney and the
Queen’s Walk in London – granting players exclusive in-game access to the
holiday-themed Jolly Llama mob. The community’s response to Mobs in the Park has
been humbling over the first weekend, and we can’t wait to see even more reactions
leading into the next two weekends.

The fun doesn’t stop with Mobs in the Park as Minecraft Earth
continues to gain momentum and roll out to more countries worldwide. Last week
the game released in the U.S., earlier this week it became available to players
in Western Europe and Japan, and the goal is for the game to be worldwide by
the end of the year.

Since kicking off early access on Oct. 17, the global community has
placed 240.4 million blocks, collected 76 million tappables and
started 6.8 million crafting and smelting sessions! We’re so proud of
how the community has embraced the game in early access rollout and look
forward to bringing even more exciting experiences to players everywhere in the
coming weeks.

Minecraft Earth’s Mobs in the Park will continue over the next two weekends, so players interested in receiving the Jolly Llama for themselves can visit the interactive pop-ups from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. local time during the weekends of November 23-24 and November 30-December 1, or during a special appearance at Hudson Yards in New York City on Black Friday, November 29. Only at these locations will players be able to get first access to the holiday-inspired Jolly Llama before it’s available broadly in December.

For more information on Mobs in the Park and what’s next
with early access rollout, visit Xbox
Wire and Minecraft.net.

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See Minecraft Earth in action

Over the years, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference has showcased plenty of creativity and innovative new technology. But has it ever played host to muddy pigs, chickens raining from the sky, or a very tiny Lydia Winters? The answer, of course, is a resounding “muddy-what-now?”, which is why we’re so excited about this year’s WWDC!

So what exactly happened today? We gave you the first-ever look at Minecraft Earth in action! This brand new mobile game, bringing the world of Minecraft into our own universe through the almost-magic of augmented reality, was announced on May 17. Since then, speculation about how it actually works has been running wild in the community. How can you interact with your builds? Will the game feature the fan-favourite, coarse dirt block? And if my real-life out-of-control dog runs right into my beautiful new Minecraft house, will it collapse?