Hi guys,
PC/Mac users might have noticed some tweaks to the way Minecraft skins work. Now you can use 64 by 64 pixel skins, allowing for more creativity with your looks.
The changes caused some teething problems with 57digital’s Minecraft Skin Studio last week, but their most recent update has fixed the issues. Skin Studio now has full support for the new skins, automatic conversion of old skins to the new format, and lots of other convenient features.
You can download Minecraft Skin Studio at www.minecraftskinstudio.com. It’s available for iOS, Android, and Kindle.
Have fun!
Owen – @bopogamel
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Look! It’s the first episode of Radio 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.
We’ll be releasing more episodes over the next few weeks where we go into more depth on Cobalt’s features and the development process. We hope you enjoy them!
Owen – @bopogamel, Pontus – @Kinten, and Daniel – @vraket
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One day this piece of text will contain some really important information that could change the fate of Humanity, and nobody would know because nobody reads this text anyway. Oh, sorry, what was that? Snapshot? Oh right yes of course! Here we go:
Notable additions for survival:
Book copying mechanics has been altered to differentiate the original & copies of books
Activator rails can eject entities from Minecarts
Notable additions for mapmakers:
Added a spectator gamemode (/gamemode spectator). Not 100% finished.
Spectators cannot be seen by anybody but other spectators
Spectators can view inventories/etc, but not modify them
Spectators can go through any entity or block without interfering with it
Spectators can click on...
Hello all!
Hope you are enjoying the picking and placing of blocks! Just wanted to let you know that Minecraft on PS3 recently sold over 1 million copies (that has to be some kind of record on PSN, no?). It is crazy considering the game was released just before Christmas last year. We are super grateful for the support and we are very thankful for your dedication and I hope you will like the future updates we have planned for you (more on that in a later blog post).
Enjoy your weekend!
xoxo
/Daniel – @kappische
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Snapshot. Snapshot snapshot snapshot. Snapshot’s snapshot. Snapshot snapshot snapshot snapshot. Snapshot? Snapshot!!
Notable additions for survival:
Item frames can give off a signal detected by Comparators.
Lots of changes to villager AI. Some of them now actually do stuff!
Looting now gives 1% chance of rare loot per level
Iron Golems/Zombie Pigmen now drop items on normal kills
You can now spawn Iron Golems/Snow Golems/Withers with dispensers + pumpkin/skulls respectively
Bushes can now catch fire
Buttons can now be placed on ceiling/floors
Seecret Changes
Balancing tweaks!
Notable additions for mapmakers:
New command /particle to show particle effects in the world. It can also be relative to entities. Example: /particle lava...
Hey guys,
You might remember this post from the end of last year. Basically, everyone who bought Scrolls before December 19th received a free Scrolls code to give to a buddy. Though lots of you have given your code away, there are still a few that haven’t been redeemed.
I mention this because the codes will only work for the next two weeks. After that they become a meaningless stream of letters and numbers, which is significantly less fun than playing Scrolls with a friend or loved one.
So do the right thing, eh? Log into your Mojang account and give the gift of Scrolls. It’s a very nice thing to do.
Have a great day!
Owen – @bopogamel
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Snapshot time! We’ve fixed a whole bunch of bugs introduced in last weeks snapshots, introduced a few new commands and tweaked a few things that needed tweaking.
Notable additions for mapmakers:
/tp now supports rotation arguments
Player selectors (@p, @e, etc) now support cubic areas. For example: @e[x=0,y=0,z=0,dx=10,dy=10,dz=10] gets all entities between 0,0,0 and 10,10,10
Added /clone command to copy large areas to other areas
Added a /fill command to fill a large area with a block
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...
Update: A ‘b’ snapshot has been released to fix lots of crashes!
The first snapshot of Minecraft 1.8 has arrived! This update will be split into two primary focuses: Survival gameplay & improvements, and new fancy abilities for adventure maps! We’ve done a whole bunch of optimizing for both the client and server (with more to come!) and lots more work towards the Plugin API in the background. As this is the very first snapshot of 1.8, do remember to backup your worlds before trying it!
Big survival changes:
3 new stone types!
Major Enchanting & Repairing changes!
Mossy stone bricks recipe!
Updated Villager trading!
Doors stack!
Slime blocks!
Lots of other tweaks, changes, bug fixes and secret features!
Big Adventure Map changes...
Season’s greetings!
Is there anything more special than giving the gift of Minecraft to a loved one?
Probably. But it’s pretty special nonetheless.
Lots of you buy Minecraft for your friends and family during Christmas, which is lovely. To make it a little bit more special, we’ve designed a gift card-type thing that you can print out. It’s much more festive than sending a numbers and letters in an email.
To print out your card, buy a gift code, then click the link when prompted. You’ll get a festive foldable card, along with a handy instruction sheet from the printer.
Have a lovely holiday season everyone!
Owen – @bopogamel
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Hi everyone,
You’ve probably heard of Minecraft Realms by now. It’s a paid service that lets you quickly create an online Minecraft world for you and friends to play in together. It’s simple to set-up, easy to manage, and configured from within the Minecraft client.
Your world is always online, even if you aren’t logged in. You can invite up to 20 friends to your Realm, and 10 can play at once. The whole thing is hosted on our servers and can be configured from inside Minecraft. It’s very jolly.
Minecraft Realms is currently available in Sweden for PC Minecraft only. Anyone who attended this year’s Minecon can also access Realms by redeeming the Realms pre-paid giftcard that came in their giftbag.
Realms subscriptions currently...
It’s the most Christmassy time of the year!
For that reason, everyone who’s bought Scrolls is about to receive an extra copy to give to a friend. I’ve posted details on Scrolls.com to explain exactly how you can send it out, so go there and give the gift of Scrolls. Very festive.
Merry Christmas from the whole Scrolls Team!
Owen - @bopogamel
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It’s here! The pre-release is finally here! We’ll be expecting to push this live next week if we encounter no major issues. The most notable changes in 1.7.3 compared to 1.7.2 are as follows:
Added integrated Twitch broadcasting! See below for details.
Fixed render distances above 8 (may not work in multiplayer, servers have their own view distance they limit you to)
Many bug fixes and optimizations!
At Minecon we announced our new partnership with Twitch to bring one-click broadcasting to Minecraft. It has been in the recent snapshots, and proven to be very stable and ready to go live.
Before you can start streaming, you will need to visit your Mojang account settings and link a Twitch account to your Mojang account. Then in the...
Change of plan with the pre-release! We fixed some big bugs, namely large render distances now actually work (best seen on Singleplayer). Today we’re giving out a new snapshot to test this and other things, and if all goes well we’ll pre-release tomorrow (Friday!)
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.
Server cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w49a/minecraft_server.13w49a.jar
Report bugs here:
Minecraft issue tracker!
// The Minecraft and Minecraft...
We’ll be releasing Minecraft 1.7.3 next week, with a pre-release this Thursday. As such, have a small bug-fix snapshot!
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.
Server cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w48a/minecraft_server.13w48a.jar
Report bugs here:
Minecraft issue tracker!
// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams
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At Minecon we announced our new partnership with Twitch to bring one-click broadcasting to Minecraft. After a little wait, we’re now ready to make this publicly testable! This is the very first snapshot to include this functionality and it may be a little buggy, and we’re not finished with all the features yet, but hopefully it’ll be enough for you to play with and give feedback on!
Before you can start streaming, you will need to visit your Mojang account settings and link a Twitch account to your Mojang account. Then in the game you may check the quality settings in Options -> Broadcast Options, or just go ahead and start broadcasting at any time by hitting F6. This key can be configured in the Controls options.
Currently this is...
It feels like we’ve been working on this for a year now, with more than half a million lines of code changed over 1,104 commits we’ve been working extremely hard on this update. We’re calling this one “The update that changed the world”, because it really has in two different ways; there’s over twice the amount of ingame biomes, and we’ve overhauled lots of the code preparing for the plugin API.
Here’s a list of cool things that may be coming your way on Friday, if the pre-release goes well!
New world generation!
Double the amount of biomes, with new trees/flowers/blocks.
New “Amplified” world option.
Less ocean, more awesome.
New blocks!
Two new types of wood.
Stained glass! With both blocks and panes.
Packed ice, red sand...
It’s the national lets-pretend-its-thursday day! Let’s celebrate with a snapshot.
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.
Server files:
Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w43a/minecraft_server.13w43a.jar
Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w43a/minecraft_server.13w43a.exe
Report bugs here:
Minecraft issue tracker!
// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams
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To celebrate the upcoming pre-release, here’s a snapshot with extra bugs for added value!
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.
Server files:
Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w42a/minecraft_server.13w42a.jar
Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w42a/minecraft_server.13w42a.exe
Report bugs here:
Minecraft issue tracker!
// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams
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I could write a big changelog with all the new features, all the fixed bugs and all the reworked code… but I could also go spend that time making some more new features, fix some bugs and rework some code. Brb coding!
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.
Server files:
Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w41a/minecraft_server.13w41a.jar
Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w41a/minecraft_server.13w41a.exe
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It’s that time again. Time to fill up some epic panels for MINECON 2013.
In past years we’ve had amazing panels about all different Minecraft topics by a variety of speakers. From children to adults, our panelists have included wonderful people from the community with all different backgrounds.
We are looking to find another incredibly interesting and diverse set of panels and speakers.
Think you have what it takes? Submit your idea here..
Panel submissions will close on Monday, October 7th at 11pm PST.
Thanks!
Lydia -@LydiaWinters
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I’m a little snapshot, short and stout. Here is my screenshot and here is my [FATAL CORRUPTION IN CLASS SXQ CANNOT CONTINUE]
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.
Server files:
Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w39a/minecraft_server.13w39a.jar
Windows EXE: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w39a/minecraft_server.13w39a.exe
Report bugs here:
Minecraft issue tracker!
// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams
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Update: Snapshot 13w37b has been released, along with a pre-release of 1.6.3. You can select these versions in your launcher, or download the server links below.
Hey! You! Did you hear about the new snapshot? No? Well, there’s a new snapshot! Huzzah! What got added? Stuff! What got fixed? Bugs! If you find any more silly bugs, please help us fix it by reporting it to our bug tracker.
We still strongly recommend that you don’t run the snapshots on an existing world if you don’t want to run into chunk errors. There is a known issue with world structures such as Nether Fortresses not transitioning to 1.7 from 1.6, but loading these areas in the new pre-release 1.6.3 and then going to snapshot 13w37b (or later) should fix this.
To get...
Hi!
Haven’t you heard? The Scrolls ESL Opening Cup is taking place this weekend. It’s the first tournament we’ve been directly involved in so we’re pretty excited.
You can see the first place prize* up there. To be in with a chance of winning Henrik’s piece of acrylic awesomeness, you’ll need to sign up. Good luck!
Owen – @bopogamel
*You don’t get Henrik. Just the painting. Sorry.
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Do you like pens and pencils and Minecraft skins? You’re in a for a massive treat. 57digital have recently released Minecraft Skin Scanner. It’s an app for iOS that lets you to draw a Minecraft skins irl before importing them into the app and uploading the results to use in-game. Watch the trailer for a more visual explanation.
Skin scanner costs $1.99/€1,79/£1.49, and is available from the app store now. Have fun!
Owen – @bopogamel
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Update: Snapshot 13w38c has been released to fix numerous graphical issues, crashes and item frame issues. The client is available in your launcher, and the server links are below.
There’s a snapshot! It’s called 13w38a! What does it have? Well, that’s Super Secret :)
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.
Server files:
Cross-platform jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/13w38c/minecraft_server.13w38c.jar
Windows EXE...
It’s that time of the year again. Hold onto your hats because we have brand new bugs features for you to explore! Introducing the first snapshot of Minecraft 1.7: 13w36a. What’s new, you ask? I don’t know! You tell me! We’re keeping this one a secret for now, but please report anything that you think is not an intended feature to our bug tracker.
We strongly recommend that you don’t run the snapshots on an existing world if you want your landscape to stay pretty. You’ll get silly chunk borders and they don’t look pretty at all. I’d even go as far as to call them ugly.
To get the snapshot, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and...
Massive congratulations to Edge magazine. The stellar publication has been around for 20 years! To celebrate, their 258th issue comes in 20 different flavours, and one of those flavours includes the earthly overtones of both Minecraft and Dungeons & Dragons. Junkboy drew it, and I worded it a few weeks ago. Click the image above to embiggen.
Be sure to visit Edge Online to check out the other 19 on offer. There are some awesome creations in there. Edge issue 258 has just gone on-sale.
Have a nice day!
Owen – @bopogamel
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Hey hey!
I thought it was time I gave you an update on the world generator changes we’ve been working on. The last time we did any major changes to the generator was back in March 2012, when the jungle biome was added.
In case you don’t know what a “biome” is, it’s a climate zone used in the game to set what kind of surface the ground has (sand? grass?), whether it should rain or snow, what trees grow there, and sometimes also what kind of animals that are allowed to spawn there. The biome is also used to determine how hilly it should be, although this is a technical solution because biomes are generated before the elevation (the old generator created the elevation first, and decided on biomes based on elevation).
One reason why we...
Hey!
Didn’t you get the memo? The forces of Decay have been unleashed upon the world!
In fact, it’s looking very lively over on Scrolls.com. You should probably check it out. Click the image above, or this highlighted text to see what I’m talking about.
You can buy Scrolls here. It’s super fun times!
Have a good day everyone!
Owen – @bopogamel
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