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Update: Minecraft 1.9.4 removes the incorrect snapshot warning when you load a world from a previous version in Minecraft 1.9.3.This update fixes some reported issues and improves overall performance of the game. We also found some ways to reduce the memory usage, especially on servers.Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!Notable changes:Improved memory usage of the pathfinder Performance of the chunk cache improved Use less memory for biome caching Several tweaks to the AI Tweaks to the Realms Added /stopsound command Removed herob…. (ok, this is getting old, I know)Report bugs here:Minecraft issue tracker!Continue reading...

Minecraft: Wii U Edition has been available for some time and, though it’s a remarkably good video game, it’s not felt especially Nintendo-ey. That’s about to change!As you can see from the spiffy trailer up there, a free Mario Mash Up pack is on its way to Minecraft: Wii U Edition. It features a Mario-themed world, 16 original super-tunes from Mario 64, a specific Mario-themed texture pack, and a heap of skins featuring your favourite Mario-buddies. In fact, there are over 40 characters to play as. Of course, the two plumber guys and the princesses are included but we’ve even packed in some of the cheekier folk like Kamek, one of the Hammer Bros and that pernicious plant, Petey Pirahna. It’s a delightful mix, all in all.Did I...

Minecraft on Xbox turns four today! To celebrate those four wonderful years we’re going to be giving away a special birthday skinpack for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition and Minecraft: Xbox One Edition.The pack, which features Alex and Steve sporting snazzy mob-themed tees, will be freely available all week long, starting today! And, as if that wasn’t enough, we’re also putting all the previous birthday skin packs up for grabs at the same time, too. So go get ‘em, slip into something suitable for this special occasion, and stuff yourself full of cake!Cheerio!Marsh - @marshdaviesContinue reading...

Hello!You might not know this, but we have some of the hottest data analysts in the world working at Mojang. And they’ve been crunching the numbers. After months of hard graft, they’ve managed to calculate precisely which add-on packs have sold most on the Xbox One console.Armed with this hot data, we’ve decided to bundle the top seven packs with Minecraft: Xbox One Edition and sell the resulting package for $29.99 (or equivalent) in stores across the world. We have named this bundle the “Minecraft: Xbox One Edition Favorites Pack.”The Minecraft: Xbox One Edition Favorites pack will be available in-stores on June 7th in Australia and New Zealand, and on June 21st in the rest of the world. It includes:Minecraft: Xbox One Edition...

Have you heard? We’re working on bringing Realms to Pocket Edition and Windows 10! If you missed that news, you may also have missed that we’ve been running a free alpha to test how Realms works on Android.Well over 700,000 of you signed up to help us kick its tyres since we launched last month. To those people: thank you so much! It’s been incredible to see the enthusiasm and support you’ve shown for the game. You guys are rad.To the people who haven’t yet tried the alpha: it’s okay, we think you’re pretty rad too. But if you want to be even radder, you have until tomorrow to sign up. Then you’ll have the entire weekend to muck around and make awesome stuff before we shut down the alpha on Monday.Get crackin’!Cheerio!Marsh -...

First we assumed one pre-release for Minecraft 1.9.3 would be all we need to ensure a stable update. And then we had to release a second pre-release the next week to fix the remaining issues. And, because the third time’s a charm, here is the third Minecraft 1.9.3 pre-release.If everything works out as planned, we will release the update to Minecraft 1.9.3 early next week. Of course I shouldn’t have mentioned that, because now I’m just asking for something else to come up and delay it.Notable changes:Changed some changes that we made in 1.9.3 pre-release 2 Fixed a potential crash with spreading water or lava Added 0.17% more cowbellPlease report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a...

Hello!We’ve launched the new Minecraft.net! Minecraft.net 2.0, if you will.The new site has all the features you might be used to, but it’s prettier and faster. It also scales better on phones, tablets, and neon-lit-ugly-rigs with their monster monitors. Remember that, like everything Mojang, we’re going to be iterating upon this thing for the foreseeable future.Though we’re very happy to launch Minecraft.net 2.0, it’s worth mentioning that Minecraft.net 3.0 is already in the works! That site will focus on exciting things happening in our community and provide deeper insight into the future of Minecraft and our developers. Our plan is to make Minecraft.net into a place that every player would like to visit once in a while, no...

Get your goggles ready! You can now play Minecraft on Gear VR-compatible Samsung phones - the Galaxy S7 or S7 edge, Note5, S6 and S6 edge. It works by slotting your Samsung phone into the Gear VR headset and displaying one whole Minecraft world to each of your eyes! A marvel of modern science.Our virtual reality edition of Minecraft for the Oculus Rift is still on its way, but to make things simple, we’ve released a separate version on the Oculus Store just for use with the Gear VR. It has all the features of Pocket Edition, costs the same and has cross-platform play with regular Pocket and Windows 10 editions.If you have the Samsung S6 or the snazzy new S7, the screen resolution is pretty fabulous - so you won’t be easily...

Here it is, the second pre-release of Minecraft 1.9.3. The first pre-release last week had some stability issues, but they should now all be solved.Notable changes:The server is now more stable The client is now more stable Introduced a new bug Made sure the new bug “should never happen” Everything is now more stableBugs fixed in 1.9.3-pre2:[Bug MC-87907] - Endermen don’t become aggressive when players look at their head/feet [Bug MC-101150] - Notch skin appear black [Bug MC-101155] - game crashes when opening my redstone world or joining the server [Bug MC-101282] - Crash after playing for 1 or 2 hoursPlease report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!To...

We’re here with another batch of hot content for you to play on Realms for PC (we have to say “for PC” now, because we launched this awesome thing recently). Let’s get right to it!We are the Rangers by Dragnoz, Samasaurus6, and BlockworksEvery so often, a Minecraft map comes along and raises the bar for all of the others. The creators of We are the Rangers have created an open world adventure, complete with quests, a fast travel system, and, using resource packs, tons of new animals. Learn about wildlife conservation, bring poachers to justice, and immerse yourself in the sounds of the savanna.G.A.T.O.S. by Team WoolooNo, this map isn’t a Spanish map involving cats (though that sounds like an interesting idea). G.A.T.O.S...

Surprise! We’ve launched a new game on Steam! It’s made entirely by multi-talented Mojangsta, Henrik Pettersson, and you can get it right now for free!It’s Crown and Council, a fast-paced strategy game about conquering land and obliterating rival monarchs. Click adjacent land tiles to subdue them with your army, earning gold to fund further expeditions, defensive forts, naval attacks, universities and more. Muscle your opposition off the map! There can be only one ruler in these lands!It’s simple to play, but not quite so easy to win: do you spend all your cash on universities, hoping to survive long enough that your book-learnin’ makes you unstoppable in the late game? Or do yo go for a quick land-grab, hoping to put enough boots...

Here it is, the first (and hopefully only) pre-release of Minecraft 1.9.3.Notable changes:Performance should be improved for most players Some players may experience the same performance as before Very few players should have worse performance Nobody should have no performanceBugs fixed in 1.9.3-pre1:[Bug MC-82464] - Colored 'dead' skin template parts cause in-game issues [Bug MC-89760] - Skin's jacket parts do not show up under specific conditions [Bug MC-95973] - Adult Horse/Donkey Pathfinding Issue: 1 block elevations treated as "non-traversable" terrain [Bug MC-100410] - Currupting world by teleporting to y=(-)InfinityWait a moment… I think I have a deja vu here. Didn’t we have exactly the same blog post last week...

Hello future (and past) MINECONners!We have excellent news for you all: tickets are going on sale on May 6 and May 7! We’re selling them in two batches to give people in different time-zones a fair chance - you can check out the countdown to each sale time at https://minecon.minecraft.net.MINECON 2016 will take place on September 24-25 at Anaheim Convention Center in sun-soaked Southern California, US. It’s going to be the biggest MINECON yet, with 12,000 attendees! And, as always, each of them will receive a swish new cape just for coming along.Now onto the details! There’s a lot of info here, but if you plan on purchasing tickets, it’s pretty important you read it:Tickets will be $160 each (3 years old and under are free)...

Earlier this year, we announced Minecraft: Education Edition, a new version of Minecraft designed to help kids learn real good and make better brain-words about stuff. We’re pleased to say a Beta program will launch this May, involving over 100 schools from 30 countries all around the world. Then, in June, we’ll launch an early access program for teachers to download and try for free. Those lucky things!Since 2011, we’ve been working with profs, boffins and other cleverclogs to bring classroom subjects to life using Minecraft - and not just essential topics like ocelot domestication and Nether portal design, but useful things like geometry, coding, architecture, ancient history and electrical engineering. The new Education Edition...

Cobalt is both a cosmically huge side-scrolling singleplayer adventure and an intensely competitive multiplayer arena. It’s awesome. Oxeye Game Studio made it, we published it and the PC version is free for to you to play until Monday 18th April!Download it right now and enjoy the thrill of blasting robots with super slo-mo trick-shots, uncover the secrets of a distant colony, pit your skills against co-op challenges or ruin your friends to rule the leaderboards!If you like what you see, you can buy the game at 33%-off the usual price. That offer lasts until Monday too, so you have the weekend to explore Cobalt’s crazy-cool robot-sploding antics before you decide to open your wallet.You can get Cobalt for PC on Steam, and for Xbox...

Hi everyone,We get lots of requests here at Mojang. And, though we don’t share your love of toilets and guns, we do agree that Minecraft Realms is a great thing that should be spread across the world, and to all editions of Minecraft.For that reason, I’m happy to announce that we’re working on Realms for Minecraft: Pocket Edition and the Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta.What is Minecraft Realms?Minecraft Realms is the easiest way to play Minecraft together with your friends and family. Realms worlds are always online and can only be accessed by an approved group of people. Though it’s nice to have some alone time, there’s something really special about creating and adventuring as a group. Realms makes that really easy to do...

While we have started working on it, there won’t be any snapshots for Minecraft 1.10 for at least another 2-3 weeks. This snapshot is for Minecraft 1.9.x and will eventually lead to a 1.9.3 pre-release.TL;DR: this snapshot is for 1.9.x and not for 1.10Notable changes:Introduces some new bugs Fixed some existing bugs Removed the new bugs againBugs fixed in 16w15a:[Bug MC-94438] - Server: Massive Lag in any versions 15w49a and laterWait a moment… I think I have a deja vu here. Didn’t we have exactly the same blog post last week?Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call...

While we have started working on it, there won’t be any snapshots for Minecraft 1.10 for at least another 2-3 weeks. This snapshot is for Minecraft 1.9.x and will eventually lead to a 1.9.3 pre-release.TL;DR: this snapshot is for 1.9.x and not for 1.10Notable changes:Introduces some new bugs Fixed some existing bugs Removed the new bugs againBugs fixed in 16w14a:[Bug MC-100382] - Pathfinding Memory LeakPlease report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!To get snapshots, 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...

To celebrate the dramatic conclusion of Story Mode’s first season, we’re releasing a skin pack so you can strut your stuff in the shape of Jesse, Olivia, Axel, Petra and many other characters from Telltale’s adventure series. There are 27 different skins in total and they’re all free for the first week on iOS, Xbox, Xbox One, Playstation (mostly), PC, Mac or Windows 10!Hatch dastardly plots as the beardy schemer Ivor, leave a trail of explosive destruction as the roguish Magnus, or get a gang together and see if you can survive the whirring cogs of Soren’s mob-grinder in this Story Mode-themed arena map. That’s free, too!After the first week, the skin pack will cost $2.99, but, as with any skin pack we release, some of the skins...

Woho! It’s already time for a pre-release of the next Minecraft version: 1.RV, The Trendy Update! This must have been the speediest update we’ve ever been able to push out, only a few days after 1.9.2.With the Trendy Update we thought; why should we bring Minecraft to modern technology when we can bring technology to Minecraft? It’s time to get in line with the times and make Minecraft a game that feels it belongs in 2016. There has never been so much fuss about gadgets and wearables as in recent months, and trends are meant to inspire innovation. Not has there been a single IT exhibition without the flood of digital bracelets, miniature monitors attached to your glasses, and motion tracking devices. All to make our lives more...

Update: Minecraft 1.9.2 is now available and fixed the issue that some players could not connect to some servers or their realms.1.9.1 notes:Woooosh. That’s the sound of the elytra and the main feature of the 1.9.1 release of Minecraft. The second notable change is a new property (toughness) for armor that “makes diamond armor useful again”.Apart from these awesome additions, we also fixed some reported bugs and improved the performance and memory usage of servers a bit. Command blocks in custom maps should also behave much better now, especially with long sequences that are executed every tick.Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!Notable changes...

The adventure didn’t end with the Wither Storm, you know. Jesse and his chums now find themselves on a new journey to Sky City - mysterious, beautiful and very, very keen on rules. (Well, except gravity.)And you can join Jesse and the gang in Story Mode Episode 5 right now!Check out the trailer above for a glimpse of the high drama that awaits or just hammer the download button on your platform of choice. Story Mode’s Season Pass is available on PC/Mac, Windows 10, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and handheld devices. Check the Apple Store for iOS editions, and Google Play or Amazon for the Android version.And don’t forget there are three new Story Mode episodes in the works, too! Good gosh. Check out Owen’s...

You’ve recovered from the Wither Storm finale by now, right? Not that anything devastatingly significant happened or anything… let’s carry on with… the… post. ;(I’m happy to announce that Episode 5 of Minecraft: Story Mode will be available to download on PC/Mac, Windows 10, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and iOS and Android-based devices from March 29th!Jessie and buddies are off to a rather special land known as Sky City. It’s an awe-inspiring, intriguing place to say the least. But does that beauty come at a price? There are only two ways to find out…Play Episode 5 (Recommended. Super fun.) Watch someone else play Episode 5 on YouTube (Significantly less fun unless you’ve already played it in which case it...

If you hadn’t heard, Cobalt is a game about slow-motion robo-blasting, published by Mojang and released on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Steam for PC. It was already awesome but those busy bees at Oxeye Game Studio have nonetheless launched a massive update to the PC version, adding a slick new tutorial, online Survival mode and all manner of wonderful tweaks, from fine-tuned jet-shoes to better brain-racing controls.Don’t take my word for it, though: watch the video below to see some of the cool things Oxeye have cooked up.Alternatively, why not have a poke at the demo we launched yesterday? It includes the new tutorial and all that fresh patch goodness.And there’s lots more - you can read the full patch notes here. There are so many...

Hello!You know about Cobalt by now right? A game published by Mojang and released on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Steam for PC? Here’s a trailer to remind you how awesome it is.Xbox users have had the trial version of Cobalt for some time, but now there’s a demo for PC Steam users too. It includes all arcade modes, the extended tutorial, and even online play. Download it!Even more excitingly, there’s a 13 character code hidden in the tutorial, and we’re giving a free copy of the game to the first players to find it. Email the secret code to Pontus (kinten@gmail.com) and if you’re one of the first 15 to get in contact, he’ll respond with some friendly life-lessons, advice on how to be a cool dude, and a copy of the full game.There is...

Elytra sounds are now ready, so we bundled them with a few bug fixes and decided to make a Minecraft 1.9.1 pre-release available for everyone to test these changes.Most of us are going to San Francisco next week to attend GDC, so we will release Minecraft 1.9.1 in two weeks.Notable changes:Added Elytra sound effects Improved AI Improved entity selectors Tweaked cooldown mechanics to be less confusing Applied paper patch 0078 Loot tables now also work in dispensers and droppers Hoppers can now pull items out of blocked chests Increased limit for “executed command blocks per tick”Bugs fixed:[Bug MC-56162] - Worldborder damage 0 [Bug MC-96219] - Block Duplication Bug with Pistons (ghost blocks) [Bug MC-98327] - Elytra texture...

Hello!It’s that time of year again, time to mark off your calendars and start making plans. MINECON is coming! That means thousands of you will come together for fun (and this time even some sun) and to celebrate the Minecraft community.As usual, we will have a weekend event and as usual, we will be live streaming the entire time, so even if you can’t come in person, you can still enjoy the Minecrafty goodness from the lovely comfort of home.Details will be coming soon right here on the blog including pricing, ticket sales dates, and more!Vu (@vubui)Continue reading...

The arrow struck the shield with a impactful “thud!”. Steve peeked around the shield’s edge and saw the arrow was wrapped in a note! Steve excitedly pulled it loose to see what it said…“You’re happy you had that shield, aren’t you?”And yes, Steve was pretty happy.Minecraft has been updated to 1.9! It contains a lot of changes. Most remarkably, the combat mechanics have been updated to make fighting more interesting and offer more map-making options. Here’s a almost complete list of the new and changed features:Added shields Attacking now has a “cool-down” delay, making it more important to time your attacks You can now hold items in both hands (default quick key to swap items is ‘F’) Swords have a special sweep attack Axes...

Hello blue faces!As you probably know, we’re working with the fine gentlemen at Oxeye Game Studio on Cobalt. They’re a super small sweet team of 2.2 people (it’s Daniel, Pontus and our Jens) and they’ve been listening to you guys and updated the game accordingly. Thanks to your feedback the game is still very much evolving! If there’s something you’d like to say to the devs they’re on twitter (linked above), Steam Community and at cobaltvault.noWhat’s new in Cobalt?First thing first, a nasty bug affecting online play on the Xbox One has been found and fixed. A patch will be rolled out very soon, and it includes a whole bunch of other improvements as well. You can see all Steam update news here...

Hey hey!We’re happy to let you know that the first update of the year for Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Windows 10 Beta Edition is now out! So what cool things are there? Let’s take a closer look!Like previously talked about we got some nice additions for you Redstone builders and adventurers. Repeaters, maps and item frames among other things will help you in your building adventure and assist you making greater things, but be aware of the witches that may lure you into wrong paths…We got a new skin pack out as well! Since we want you to build great things, we also want you to look great while doing so. These Redstone Specialists skins are inspired by the builds we’ve seen you create and I think they look great. We hope you’ll...