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Hi everyone,You’re probably already familiar with Cobalt – a game published by Mojang and developed by Oxeye Game Studio. Watch the trailer below, if you like.Unfortunately, despite what that trailer says, we’re not going to hit our planned release date of October 30th. Cobalt has been...

Hello!We’re super happy to present update 0.12.3 for Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta.Here’s the tweaks:[JIRA 9985] Tooltip position was incorrect and visibility time was too short Sneaking (Crouching) animation is now visible from First Person View Fixed...

It’s getting colder and colder here in Stockholm, so we’ve built ourselves a little igloo to hold off the incoming frost.I’d tell you more, but my fingers are freezing off.Notable changes:New structure in the world. New “loot table” concept, allows you (or custom map creators) to change...

Today is a very special day. Do you know why? No? Well then nevermind, it clearly isn’t important.Oh, you’d like to know? Well, fine, I guess. It’s a snapshot day. There, happy now? You’ve gone and ruined all the surprise. I might as well just tell you exactly what’s in the snapshot then, and...

Update: We released a ‘b’ snapshot to fix a crash that affected some users on launch.This week’s snapshot brings you the ability to smash out of the window of a high tower building, fly past the bad guys who are all shooting you with surprisingly bad accuracy, swoop down and land flawlessly...

UPDATE: Version 15w40b is now available and it fixes the problem that it wasn’t possible to connect to servers.This weeks snapshot brings some further changes to mob AI. We’ve sprayed every single cactus with animal repellant and hopefully this should keep your pets out of danger just a little...

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...

Clonk. Clunk. Chunk. Clonk.(These are the sounds of skeletons, just before they shoot you.)Notable changes:Clonk. Clunk. Neigh! More optimisations! More bug fixes! Further improvements to general mob AI. Taught skeletons how to multitask. Made all pet (ocelot & wolves) deaths be announced...

This weeks snapshot is not late, we just decided that Thursday is basically Wednesday+1!Notable changes:Rebalanced weapon, tools again. Rebalanced shields. Hardcore mode no longer deletes your world on death; instead you may spectate it. Added new gamerule to disable chunk generation for...

It’s wednesday again – really wednesday this time, not a phony monwednesday! This can only mean three things – but we only care about the second possibility… snapshot!Notable changes:Rebalanced armour. Changed damage & protection enchantments to match new armour system. Fixed a few AI bugs...

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...

Hello!I know it’s taken a bit of time to get everything ready, but we are now able to announce ticket sales for MINECON 2015 which will be in London on July 4-5! We’ll be selling tickets online at minecon.mojang.com on Friday March 27th and Saturday March 28th at the London ExCel Convention...

The longest running series of pre-releases is airing its final episode today.We are getting close to the release of Minecraft 1.8.2, here is just one more snapshot to make sure we did not break anything with our latest bugfixes and performance tweaks. If everything goes as planned, version...