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In a double feature blog post, we’re happy to bring both a new 1.8 snapshot (14w25a) and another pre-release for 1.7.10!1.7.10 pre-release 4This pre-release allows you to finally upload your own worlds to Realms and adds an option to allow you to enable command-blocks on your own Realm. It also fixes some possible future-compatibility issues we discovered.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 the pre-release, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “pre-releases”, check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots”, select “1.7.10-pre4″ and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the...

Hello!Thanks for all the questions you’ve sent over regarding last week’s EULA post. It’s a lively topic.A group of Mojangstas met this morning to discuss the most common questions we received over the weekend. The following post is the result of that discussion.Though we’re happy to clarify, most of these points were mentioned in last week’s explanation of the EULA. Please give it a read before diving into this more detailed Q+A.Are any servers exempt to the EULA? No. It affects all servers and players equally.Do server hosts have a grace period to implement changes to their servers? Yes. All servers must comply with the EULA by August 1st, 2014.Can I charge for access to my server? Yes. How players join a server is up...

Hello!Let’s get one thing clear: we love it when Minecrafters host servers. Tiny or massive, running vanilla Minecraft or loads of mods, we think they’re all great. Playing with friends in persistent worlds is awesome. Everyone knows that.Over the past week there’s been lots of discussion about Minecraft servers and your right to monetise them. Legally, you are not allowed to make money from our products. There has been one exception to this rule so far – Minecraft videos. We’re about to make a second exception – Minecraft servers.Hosting servers can be expensive. We want to give hosts a way to cover their costs. That said, we don’t want our players to be exploited or to have a frustrating time unless they pay. The following...

Hello!The Pocket Edition team are a hard-working bunch. Their most recent snapshot is the biggest update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition so far! It really is massive.If you’re on Android and like the idea of testing these features early, join this Google community, then sign up for the updates.For those of you who aren’t on Android, this update will be released for all versions of Pocket Edition in the near future with significantly less bugs. Be patient, pocket crafters. It’s going to be great!Read on for the huge list…New featuresUnlimited worlds! New culling algorithm New culling of clouds Tile entities are saved differently New falling mechanics for gravel and sand New insta ticking of water and lavaNew blocksPodzol...

The perceptive among you might have noticed the intimidating camera flash on Minecraft.net, followed by punchy message from Reset The Net. Here’s an explanation of what’s going on…I am extremely confused! A year ago today it was revealed that the NSA (National Security Agency) and GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) were intercepting data from phone and internet networks, and poking around in information stored by US technology companies. That’s extremely uncool.Should I click the massive “Click Here” button? Yes! We’ve put that on Minecraft.net today for a reason. Click it now, or read on for more information, then click it!Why should I care? The internet is a great thing, but the idea of companies operating closely...

We just published a pre-release version of Minecraft 1.7.10 that contains updates for Realms. All Realms related modules were moved into a separate library.How does this release affect you? If you are not playing on Realms, it does not change anything at all. The main advantage is that we don’t have to release new updates for Minecraft 1.7.x in the future, if we want to add new features to Realms.Some of the new features in Realms are: - player activity monitor - access to more server settings - improvements in Realms UI - some bugfixes - and many more…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...

Hello!We’re finally able to share news about Minecraft on Xbox One, Playstation 4, and Playstation Vita.Apologies for the delay, but putting Minecraft on new consoles is a serious business. People have been using phrases like “logistically-speaking,” “infinite terrain,” and “platform parity” for months now.We’ve decided that letting current players upgrade for a small fee is the best way to show our appreciation. If you’re a new crafter who’s looking to pick up Minecraft in the next few months – welcome!We hope this post makes you happy!Owen – @bopogamelMinecraft: Xbox One Edition will be released on Xbox Live Marketplace in August. It brings significantly bigger worlds and a greater draw distance than Xbox 360 Edition...

Small snapshot this week for some optimizations and bugfixes!Notable changes:Bugfixing. Optimizations. Notability intensified.Bugs fixed:[Bug MC-99] – Skins Sometimes Disappear After Death [Bug MC-30192] – stat.useItem.<Item#> glitching with scoreboard [Bug MC-30877] – Crops (Wheat/Carrots/Potatoes) not popping off in light level 0 [Bug MC-48376] – Baby chicken hitbox taller than 1/2 block [Bug MC-48735] – Villager and farmer inventory gets corrupted causing farmers to no longer plant crops [Bug MC-48739] – Killing zombie villager aggravates zombie pigmen [Bug MC-50046] – Mobs not responsive after player death [Bug MC-50821] – Cats and dogs teleporting into transparent-solid blocks (redstone_bloc, glowstone, TNT), causing...

Hello!We’re proud to announce that Minecraft Realms for PC and Mac is now available worldwide!Realms is the easiest way for you to host a Minecraft world online. You and your friends can work on an awesome creation, adventure into the depths, or play one of our featured mini-games with just a few clicks.The servers are always available, and can be restored to an earlier point if something goes wrong. Realms is run by Mojang and simple to set up.Realms is currently only available for the PC/Mac version of Minecraft, though we’re planning on releasing it on other formats in the future. For more information, check minecraft.net/realms// The Minecraft Realms team @danfrisk, @mamirm, @xlson, and @dmarbyContinue reading...

Update: Snapshot 14w20b has been released to fix mobs not spawning naturally.This weeks snapshot brings many bugfixing, a little polishing and possibly even some hugs. Maybe. If you’ve been good.Notable changes:Caves now generate in deserts & mesas. Added new /title command for ingame adventure-map chaptering. Made tab-list more consistent and a little prettier when using health display objective. Adjusting fly speed of spectator mode now works vertically too. If you’re stuck outside the world border, you can now walk freely to go back inside. Bunch of bugs fixed! Removed the 4th dimension from blocks. This will be a mistake and we were sorry for any inconvenience it will not cause you.Bugs fixed:[Bug MC-8881] – Mobs treat...

Hi!We have released Minecraft Realms in more countries!Realms is the easiest way for you to host a Minecraft world online. You and your friends can work on an awesome creation, adventure into the depths, or play one of our featured mini-games with just a few clicks.The servers are always available, and can be restored to an earlier point if something goes wrong. Realms is run by Mojang and simple to set up.Realms is currently only available for the PC/Mac version of Minecraft, though we’re planning on releasing it on other formats in the future. For more information, check minecraft.net/realms// The Minecraft Realms team @danfrisk, @mamirm, @xlson, @dmarbyContinue reading...

This weeks snapshot is fairly small in the scheme of things as we’ve been focusing on optimizations and furthering spectator mode.Notable changes:World border received a bunch of new options & improvements. Spectator mode has a preliminary interface for teleporting to other players. It’s far from complete though! Loose change.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 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...

This is a very short week for most of us in Sweden, so you’ll get a snapshot early! Hurrah!Notable changes:Pistons now interact with Slime Blocks in cooler ways! (Thanks to ZipKrowd for their contribution!) Bug fixes! Many bug fixes! The game has achieved sentience.A small sample of bug fixes:[Bug MC-3631] – Creepers float one-eighth of a block above the ground. [Bug MC-34648] – Torch not placeable on stained glass [Bug MC-46776] – When only a Spectator stays near mobs, they don't despawn [Bug MC-47811] – The bottom texture of non-full blocks is flipped vertically [Bug MC-48954] – When you kill invisible horse variants, the screen will turn red/black [Bug MC-50073] – It is possible to change the missing block model [Bug...

It’s been a while since the last snapshot, hope you didn’t miss us too much. We’ve been working a whole bunch on lots of internal rewriting (for plugin API, to make things easier for ourselves and to make things run so much more smoothly) but a lot of that isn’t in this version as it’s fairly unstable.Notable changes:New highly customisable terrain generation! (Create new world -> “World Type: Customized”) New customisable world borders! Check out the /worldborder command. Lots of bug fixes, performance gains and code cleaninguperizing. ???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...

Hello!We’ve just unleashed Minecraft Realms in North America!Realms is the easiest way for you to host a Minecraft world online. You and your friends can work on an awesome creation, adventure into the depths, or play one of our featured mini-games with just a few clicks.The servers are always available, and can be restored to an earlier point if something goes wrong. Realms is run by Mojang and simple to set up.Realms is currently only available for the PC version of Minecraft, though we’re planning on releasing it on other formats in the future. For more information, check minecraft.net/realmsMinecraft Realms is currently available in Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Greece...

Happy Monday everyone.Today’s the day of the Pocket Edition panel! As I mentioned last week, the Minecraft: Pocket Edition developers will be taking questions from this reddit thread and answering them LIVE on air. There’s still time to submit your questions, so over there and get inquisitive.It’s all in celebration of us reaching 20 million sales last week. We’ve actually reached 21 million to-date, but that’s not as catchy a milestone, so let’s roll with the 20 million for now.See you at 17:00 CEST – click the time to see when that is in your timezone.Owen – @bopogamelContinue reading...

Greetings!This Monday, Minecraft: Pocket Edition developers Johan, Tommaso and Jens will star in a panel broadcast live from the Mojang office. What will they be discussing? That’s up to you.We’re hoping to harness the collective power of our Pocket Edition players to submit questions to this reddit thread. Then we’ll pick the best ones and put them to the team live on air. We’re not sure of the exact time we’ll be streaming yet, but don’t worry if you miss the live show; the archived footage will be uploaded later on.This is all in celebration of hitting over 20m sales of Pocket Edition just a few days ago. As I mentioned in the Xbox 360 Edition post, we’re extremely grateful to all players for your dedication and creativity...

Two days ago a serious vulnerability (that’s been named “Heartbleed”) in the popular cryptographic software OpenSSL was made public. This weakness could potentially be exploited to steal information, such as login information, that normally would be protected by encryption. This software is used by roughly two thirds of the internet so a lot of services were or are at risk of being affected.What did Mojang do?As soon as we realized the severity of the exploit we decided to shut down all of our systems until a fix was available. This is why you were unable to log in yesterday. We then made sure that all of our services that use SSL no longer had this vulnerability before bringing them back online. We also updated all of our SSL...

Version 1.7.6 is now officially released. This version contains some bugfixes, a few updates to make Realms even better than it already is and prepares Minecraft for the renaming feature that will eventually allow you to rename your player. The renaming feature will not be available right now, but this is an important step towards it. We have also changed the internal handling of player skins to make use of our new, improved skin servers.Unfortunately the 1.7.6 version is not compatible with 1.7.5 (or earlier) servers. Please update your servers to 1.7.6, this is also an important step to prepare them for the upcoming 1.8 release. Servers should automatically update all player profiles to the new format, but please make sure that you...

Hello!As mentioned by the bigwigs at Microsoft, we’ve sold 12 million copies of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. Hoo! That’s loads! It might even be a record.We’d like to offer our heartfelt thanks to all players on Microsoft’s console. Without your passion and creativity, Minecraft wouldn’t be anywhere near as significant as it is today. The same goes for anyone enjoying Minecraft on PC/Mac, Playstation 3, iOS and Android. You’re all equally nice.Our porters at 4J also deserve a mention for their skills. Keep it up, dudes!Owen and the MojangstasContinue reading...

That’s a lot of numbers, but now Minecraft 1.7.6 pre-release 1 is available for testing! This is a huge step towards one of the most requested features since the birth of Minecraft; Name changes! This version provides complete support for identifying players through unique IDs and not by names, so that no matter what a player is called they will remain banned/whitelisted/oped/etc on servers. People have come to us with a lot of questions about this service so here’s a few FAQ about name-changes:If I ban a player “Foo” and he changes name to “Bar”, will he stay banned? Yes. Same for whitelisted players and oped players. They also keep their inventory, pets, statistics and everything they own on a server.Can I steal somebody’s name...

The long-nosed villagers introduced in Minecraft beta 1.9 have become sentient. They have taken over our skin servers and content delivery networks (CDN), so unfortunately you will not be able to change your skins until we fix the problem. We are desperately trying our best to pull the plugs, but we should prepare ourselves to serve under our new villager overlords. Singularity may be upon us.// The Minecraft TeamContinue reading...

Hello Minecrafters!This has been way too long for us to present but it is finally here! TU 14 for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 will be out later today on Xbox 360 and tomorrow on PS3. I hope you will enjoy it. Make sure you hook up your console to the internet to enjoy the latest update ;)Here is the full change log. I hope you will enjoy it and for you guys asking about the Xbox One and Playstation 4 edition: It is being worked on as we speak! I got no proper dates yet, but hopefully soon we can tell you!New Items:-Emerald -Emerald Ore -Block of Emerald -Ender Chest -Tripwire Hook -Enchanted Golden Apple -Anvil -Flower Pot -Cobblestone Walls -Mossy Cobblestone Walls -Wither Painting -Potato -Baked Potato -Poisonous Potato...

We are going to GDC this weekend, so there will be a pause in snapshots for a short while. But before we get on the plane, we wanted you to have the latest changes to play with.Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!Survival changes:Changed minecart physics Made furnace minecart actually useful Improved the general mob AI And some surprises, try to find themMapmaker changes:Fixed some minor bugsBugs fixed in this snapshot:[Bug MC-47585] – Derailed minecarts sink into the ground [Bug MC-47695] – Minecart hitbox is too tall [Bug MC-50413] – Custom UUIDLeast/UUIDMost pair yields error [Bug MC-50452] – Rails don't render from below [Bug MC-50838] –...

Once again the majority of our time between this and the last snapshot has been spent on Plugin API related tasks (most notably inventory rewrite, block model format and block state concepting), and as such this is mostly a bugfix & mapmaker snapshot. Don’t worry, we have some cool survival plans soon!This snapshot also has the (hopefully-)final step towards supporting name changes in Minecraft. All server files that are intended to refer to players will be automatically changed to go by UUIDs, and you do not need to do anything. However, this does mean that any third party tool will not work on these files, and will need to be updated to work with them.Though names changes are technically supported in this snapshot, they will not...

In epsidode four of Radio Cobalt, Daniel and Pontus explains the nuances of Cobalt tactics, and explains the difficulties of adding online multiplayer to a reaction-based game.Radio Cobalt is a series of videos featuring Pontus and Daniel of Oxeye Game Studio. Watch, listen and learn about Cobalt – a game made by Oxeye and published by Mojang. It’s coming to PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3 this year. Buy into the PC/Mac Alpha too, if you fancy.Cheers!Continue reading...

I’m heading out to Austin, Texas for the SXSW Gaming Expo. It is one of the only free events at SXSW and I will be doing a Minecraft talk on the Geek Stage in the convention area.Details: Saturday, March 8th from 2:30-3:15pm at the Palmer Events CenterMore information about the talk.More information about the Gaming Expo.Come dressed in Minecraft cosplay and you may just win an awesome prize!After the talk I’ll be hanging around to say hello to anyone who comes by.See you this Saturday!- Lydia @lydiawintersContinue reading...

Scrolls has just received its fourth major update. It’s called Rebellion and brings with it new gameplay mechanics, scrolls, trials and more! Check Scrolls.com for a more thorough list of changes.If you’re new to Scrolls, now is a great time to get involved. You can buy into the Alpha at Scrolls.com/buy.Have a good day everyone! Owen – @bopogamelContinue reading...

Hey hey!Suddenly, a new Minecraft update! Tomorrow morning (Wednesday February 26) we are going to update Minecraft to version 1.7.5. This is a relatively small update from 1.7.4, and brings the following…Minecraft Realms adds mini game support (as described in this YouTube clip) Several server-side performance improvements and bug fixes Preparations to bring Minecraft Realms to more countries!Specifically, we aim to open Minecraft Realms to all Nordic countries (Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark) starting some time next week.We are still working on snapshots for 1.8, but before 1.8 is out we already know there will be a 1.7.6 version too. Minecraft 1.7.6 will add support for the new skin system (which currently is in the...

They say the third episode is the hardest, but we made it! This time the topic is about the single-player experience of Cobalt!Radio Cobalt is a series of videos featuring Pontus and Daniel of Oxeye Game Studio. Watch, listen and learn about Cobalt – a game made by Oxeye and published by Mojang. It’s coming to PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3 this year. Buy into the PC/Mac Alpha too, if you fancy.Cheers!Continue reading...