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It is time to stop waiting and start playing. A pre-release of Minecraft 1.9 is now available. We are very excited to enter the final stage before the new version is released.First the answer to the most asked question: We are currently planning to release the final version of Minecraft 1.9...

A snapshot on a Monday? How is that possible? We could just pretend it’s Wednesday, or explain what’s going on. So, here we go:It’s actually Wednesday, so all is good……just kidding. It’s not Wednesday and here’s the real reason:As we get closer to the first pre-release for Minecraft 1.9...

Some bugs in the game are more annoying than others. So we decided to take care of some of the bugs that were good candidates for winning a “most popular bugs” contest. We are very sorry for closing tickets with a large fan base. These issues will be missed, but we are relatively sure that their...

Yet another week has passed, lots of bugs have been inspected, turned around and hopefully fixed. We’re inching ever closer to 1.9 and our focus is on stability, performance and the remaining polish.This week’s snapshot is all about boats! We did another iteration on them so please have a swim...

Here is a new snapshot. We made it. For you. So that you can see what we’ve been working on most recently and tell us what you think about it. Nothing in it is final, everything could change before Minecraft 1.9 is relased, but most things won’t.Some things that were broken in the previous...

A new year has started and it’s time to celebrate it with a new Minecraft snapshot. The list of things we want to finish before the 1.9 release is getting shorter, more bugs are getting fixed, fewer new bugs are getting introduced.Thanks to everyone who is reporting bugs, testing the snapshots...

Update: Snapshot 15w51b is now available and fixes a crash in the AI and pathfinding code.The snapshots decided to take a vacation to celebrate christmas, but we could convince them of one last appearance before they disappear for the rest of the year. But no worries, the developers are also...

Two weeks already since we released our previous snapshot? About time to make another one. We are so busy with fixing bugs in the game that we barely find time to finish anything els…[add description here]Notable changes:Fixed a lot of bugs (again) Improved doors Pathfinding is now...

Snapshot. Time. Again. Yay!Our bug tracker is now the home page in our browsers and we are going to keep it that way until Minecraft 1.9 is ready for release. We want to say “thank you” to everyone who’s reporting bugs and voting on them. And of course we also want to thank our moderators...

Here it is, this weeks snapshot, going by the fancy name “15w46a” is now available. There are still a lot of bug open on our bugtracker that need to be taken care of before we can release version 1.9 of Minecraft, but with each of these snapshots we are getting a little bit closer to that point...

We’re getting closer to a release version of Minecraft 1.9 and this is another snapshot on our way to get there. In the coming weeks we will focus more on performance, stability and bug fixing.If you want us to look into certain bugs with higher priority, vote for the most annoying bugs on our...

Update: We’ve released 15w39b. Buckets am became Death, destroyer of blocks.The Minecraft team are out for a company workshop, but I’ve decided to stay behind, hold the fort and man the guns. Ain’t no bugs getting past me!This means I’m all alone. I can do anything I want. Creepers? They’re...

Update: We’ve released snapshot 15w35b to loosen the new zombie clothes. They were so tight they couldn’t walk, poor things.By order of the bone, today is officially declared a Wednesday.Wednesday.Have you ever noticed how weird that word is? Wednesday. Wednesday. It makes no sense...

Zoooom!That’s the sound of this update being pushed out really fast, due to some new speedy optimisations and speedy combat mechanics.Todays snapshot makes a start on the melee combat changes, which are completely not final nor balanced at all in the absolute slightest not even a little bit...

Update: Snapshot 15w33b has been released to fix some nasty bugs, as follows:[Bug MC-85837] – Crash or chunk corruption on turning "text" into Components [Bug MC-85839] – Crashing when summoning a mob [Bug MC-85884] – Lingering potion shows incorrect time valuesRoar! That’s dragon for...

Another week, another snapshot. We are currently focusing on getting all the new content that we have planned into the snapshots, but it will take a little time until we see it all there. This week we have spent some time laying down the ground work for better boss fight AI and upgrade paths...

We will release a new version of Minecraft, 1.8.8, to improve some functionality of Realms and fix some reported bugs & crashes. It is currently available for testing in the launcher if you enable snapshots, and will be released fully tomorrow (Tuesday) if all goes well.This version is fully...

We have released a new version of Minecraft 1.8, 1.8.7, which is now available for download in your launcher. This release fixes a few reported security issues.This version is fully compatible with all previous 1.8 versions, but it is still highly recommend to update to 1.8.7 as soon as...

We have released a new version of Minecraft 1.8, called 1.8.5, which is now available for download in your launcher. This release fixes a few reported security issues, in addition to some other bug fixes.This version is fully compatible with all previous 1.8 versions, but it is still highly...

We have released a new version of Minecraft 1.8, called 1.8.4, which is now available for download in your launcher. This release fixes a few reported security issues, in addition to some other minor bug fixes & performance tweaks.This version is fully compatible with all previous 1.8...